The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-03-31
PERSONAL.

Gen. Thos. 0. Osborne, of Chicago, died
March q, in Washington, of cerebral
hemorrhage, at the age of 20. He had
come to Washington from Chicago on a
brief vacation. Gen. Osborne was born in
Ohio in 1929, and entered the army in
Brigadier-General and brevet Major
General. He particularly distinguished
himself at the assault and capture of Fort
Gregg, the keypoint of the defenses of Pc
tersburg, April 2, 1865. He was at one
time Treasurer of Chicago, and a member
of the Illinois Senate, and was appointed
by President Grant Minister to the Ar
gentine Republic, which position he held
for Is years, becoming thoroughly identi-
fed with American interests in South
America. This led him to take an active
interest in the Pan-American Railroad,
and he was strong advocate of that en-
terprise. He received a concession from
Bolivia to build link Of the projected
road from Argentina through Bolivia to
Peru, and actually built a portion of it.
He was prominent member of the G.
A. r. and the Loyal Legion. and his flu
neral was under the auspices Of those
Orders.
Col. James w. r. Cline, Of Springfield,
o., who has just been appointed Command
ant of the Ohio Soldiers Home at San
dusky, served four years in the army, and
since then has been in close comradeship
with his comrades in the Grand Army of
the Republic. He is now Commander of
Mitchell Post, 45, of Springfield, o. He en-
listed first in August, 1861, in the 44th
Ohio, was made Drum Major, and took
part In all the services of his regiment in
West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
He reenlisted as a veteran in the Sth Ohio
Cav, and had his full share of the grand
campaign of 1864, from the New River
region to the Shenandoah Valley. He is
the youngest of five brothers who served
in the army, and has been q resident Of
Springfield, O., for 81 years, connected all
that time with the Gas Company, in which
he rose to be Director, Secretary and Gen
eral Manager. He cast his first vote for
Abraham Lincoln while he was in the field,
and has since been active in the Republican
party. He has held several important
municipal offices, and is very popular with
all who know him.
Chapman Freeman, who was q member
of Congress from Philadelphia from 1874
to 1873, died at his home near Philadelphia,
March %, aged "A. He was Assistant
Paymaster in the navy in 1864, attached
to the blockading squadrons, and was on
board the Iron Age at the time of her de-
struction.
There was an intensely pathetic ending
to the career of Gen. Horace I'll. Thomas,
who was recently ousted from his position
as Federal Appraiser at the Port of
Chicago. Gen. Thomas was loyal Ten
nesseean and became Adjutant of the Sth
Tenn. He was subsequently commissioned
Captain and Assistant Adjutant- General,
and under Gov. Browniow was Adjutant-
General of the State Of Tennessee. He
afterward went to Chicago, entered poll
tics, and became a member of the Legisla-
ture and was Speaker of the House. Pres
ident Mckinley appointed him Appraiser
Of the Port of Chicago. and he held the
position until recently. when his place was
wanted by politicians for another man, and
in spite Of his efforts to retain it he was
removed. He was left without means of
support and decided to amply for a PEN
sion. He failed very rapidly after being
turned out of Office. March II he went into
a lawyers Office to draw up his pension pa
pers, and fell dead at the desk. He was
20 years old