Osborn, Elijah (1806-1861)

Name:

Osborn, Elijah (1806-1861)

Born:

06/05/1806

Birthplace:

Loudon, NH

Died:

06/17/1861

Death Location:

Gonic, NH

Residence:

Loudon, NH
Rochester, NH 1839-1861
Farmington (Rochester), NH 1860 census

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Potter

Father:

Osborne, Elijah (1778-)

Mother:

Green, Margaret

Relations:

Brother (John S.), sons (James L. and John H.), and grandson (William) also redware potters.
Siblings:
Osborne, Mehitable (1801-1859; b. Orange, NH; m. Isaac Lowell, potter; res. Orange, NH; children)
Osborne, Margaret (m. _ Merrill)
Osborne, Jemima (m. _ Carr)
Osborne, Abigail (m. _ Rollings)
Osborne, Anna (1803-1866; m. Allen Sawyer 1828 Amesbury, MA; res. Weare, NH)
Osborne, Green (1808-1877; b., d. Pittsfield, NH; m1. Mary Gove of Gilford, NH; m2. Mehitable Barton; children)
Osborne, Jacob (c.1810; b. NH)
Osborne, John S. (c.1818; b. NH; res. Loudon, NH; potter 1850 census; farmer 1880 census; m. Jane Rachel; children)
Parents: Margaret Green and Elijah Osborn (1778-; b. Loudon, NH), married 1800, Amesbury, MA. Reside in Loudon, NH. On N.H. census records for 1810, 1820, 1840, and 1850.
Grandparents: Abigail Simpson (1750-1844; d. Loudon, NH) and Jacob Osborn Jr. (1750-1824; b. Danvers, MA; d. Loudon, NH), of Loudon, NH. They married 1775 in Amesbury, MA.
Great-grandparents: Andrew Simpson; Ann Purrington and Jacob Osborn Sr.

Spouse:

Mary Leah Lane (1804-), December 6, 1831.

Children:

Osborne, James L. (1833-1893; b. Rochester, NH; potter in Gonic and Rochester, NH, continued his father's business; m. Lydia Waldron; children)
Osborne, John Henry (1836-; b. Rochester, NH; potter in Gonic and Rochester, NH, continued his father's business until 1875, afterward listed as a farmer; m. Sarah J.; children)
Osborne, Leah Mariah (1839-; b. Rochester, NH)

Notes:

The American Annual Monitor for 1862; or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in America, for the Year 1861. No. 5. (New York: William Wood, 1862), 171.

Madeline Osborne Merrill, "The Osborne Family Potteries in New Hampshire," Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, May 1967, 516-520.

Frederick H. Norton and V. J. Duplin, Jr., "The Osborne Pottery at Gonic, New Hampshire," Antiques, XIX(February 1931), 123-124.

Lura Woodside Watkins, Early New England Potters and Their Wares. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1950), 130.