The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-10
A VETERAN SAILOR
OF FORTUNE DEAD
Career of Late Captain Os-
born, an American Adj
venturer, Remarkable.
palladium Specially

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NEW YORK, May 1O.-Captain
Bradley s. Osbon has died in the post
graduate hospital, Second avenue and
Twentieth street, where he had been
for sixteen days following a general
breakdown in health With him at the
time of death was his wife, Eliza Bal
four, whom he married forty-seven
years ago.
Bradley SiIlick Osbon was usually
spoken of &C Captain Osbon, although
he laid claim to most naval titles, in
GLIDING that of admiral.
According to the accounts of his life
presented by who's Who" and less
sober publications, he was born at
Rye, N. Y, on August Is, 1928, and
went to sea when he was ten years
old. who's Who" says that 1t was to
sea that the captain went, other pub
locations intimate that the first ad-
venture was on the Erie Canal. But no
matter, the captains recollections
touched nothing that they did not gild.
Whaier and Pirate Sunk.
He had brief experience in the
United States navy while still boy,
and then shipped in whaler which
visited the Antarctic and later touched
Honolulu. Young Osbon jumped the
whaler at this port and in various
ships adventured until he joined the
brigantine Swallow in HongKong and
signed for a voyage to the Arctic after
whales again. On their way, according
to one of the captains stories, the
Swallow fell in with a Chinese pirate
junk which gave battle and was worst
ed in one of Captain Osbon's most
thrilling narratives.
There were more adventures in
the Arctic and then, when back in
Hong-Kong again, the captain joined
ed more thrilling encounters with Chi
nese pirates, and Osbon. who had en-
listed as a seaman, may be seen in
the uniform of a commander of a
squadron. Then Osbon tired of foreign
service and was making his way back
to the United States when he fell in
with a strong man" who was doing
music hall turns as the american
Sampson" Osbon turned clown and
assisted the strong man in his turn
In Argentine Revolution.
He got back to the United States
finally in 1852 and pretty soon he was
seafaring again. One of his voyages
landed him in Buenos Aires just as a
revolution broke out. OF course Capt
Osbon took hand. He joined the Ar.
gentine navy and was assigned to the
sloop Vingto- Cinquo de Mayo with the
rank of commander. His narratives OF
this episode in his busy life include
stories of narrow escape from being
shot as spy and of bringing to New
York $250,000 in gold for an admiral
who sold his fleet to the ruling au
thorities. Osbon said that he got not a
cent for himself since he wasn't then
an admiral.
He tried his hand at newspaper
work for time and then when the
civil war came joined the United
States navy. AS signal officer to Capt
John Faunce, of the Harriet Lane, he
took part in the expedition sent tc
the relief of Fort Sumpter Later, &C
cording to who's Who" he served
under DUPONT, Farragut and Worden.
In Mexican Navy.
When Mexico revolted against Maxi
milan, Captain Osbon on the part Of
the revolutionary party undertook tc
build up a navy. He managed to gel
away from Philadelphia in ship pur
chased by the Mexicans, hoisted the
Mexican flag when he reached deer
water and became Admiral Osbon
That was an off year for Osbon and he
SAVIOR hffn-very little fighting.
His adventures after that were most
ly commercial. Among others related
by him was an interview with Ma
poleon III, which resulted in the cap
tain's selling a pneumatic telegraph