Dr. Reeves M. Osborne Source:A History of Mansfield School District,1994 & Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929. Submitted by Deborah Musgrove Dr. Reeves M. Osborne, born Feb. 1846 in Tennessee, had a drug store in Mansfield, Arkansas in 1887, but for some reason, moved in 1888 to Huntington, Arkansas. (above from Deborah Musgrove). He died 25 Jun 1924 in Memphis, TN of a cerebral hemorrhage according to Directory of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929. He also had practiced medicine in Johnson Co., Ar. In 1864 he is found on the Whitfield Co., Ga. "1864 Census for Re-Organizing the Georgia Militia" and states he was born in Johnson Co, Tn. In 1870 he is found in Militia District 627, Whitfield, Georgia as a "student at medicine" living with his parents Dr. John K. and Eleanor Kinnaman Osborne. In 1880 he is found living in Johnson Co., Ar, a widower with 2 children and his mother is also there being a widow. Reeves M. married Johnanna Perry in Johnson County, Ar on 24 Dec 1874. On Oct. 6, 1881 he married Mary Ida Atkins age 20 in Knoxville, Johnson, Arkansas. They were the parents of 5 daughters. In 1900 they were living in Yell Co., Ar. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Below submitted by Lynn Goodspeed bio below the newspaper clippings Jan 30, 1915 Southwest American Jan 31, 1915 Southwest American Apr 19, 1918 Southwest American June 24, 1924 Southwest American Source: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. 1889 Dr. Reeves M. Osborne was born in Johnson County, Tenn. in 1846, and is the eldest of three children born to Dr. John K. and Ellen K. Osborne, natives of Virginia and North Carolina, respectively. The parents were married in North Carolina, and lived in Tennessee until about 1853 when they removed to Whitfield, Ga. In 1874 they went to Johnson County, Ark., where the father died the same year and the mother still lives. Dr. Osborne was a graduate of the Philadelphia Medical College , and for over twenty-two years was a practicing physician. During the late war he served about three years as surgeon of a North Georgia regiment the Confederate army. He was a member of high standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church, to which his wife belongs. The grandfather of our subject George Osborne served as a colonel in the Mexican War, and lived in Virginia his entire life. Reeves M. Osborne is a self-educated man, who paid for his schooling by clerking and teaching. When but eighteen he joined Company A, of a Georgia engineer corps and served until the close of the war, surrendering in North Carolina. He operated the most of his eighteen months' service in Tennessee and Georgia, occupying the office of sergeant. In 1869 he began to study medicine with his father and Dr. Hunt, of Georgia , and in 1870–71 attended the medical department of what is now Vanderbilt University , of Nashville. Graduating in 1871, be attended a course of lectures the same year at the Atlanta (Ga.) Eclectic Medical College. He has now practiced his profession successfully in Arkansas over seventeen years, having come to Johnson County in 1872. In April 1887, he left that county to go to Hackett City, and from there he went to Mansfield, where he engaged in the drug business with Dr. Jackson. In 1888 he came to Huntington, where he is already well and favorably known. He is a subscriber and constant reader of the best medical journals of the day, and even when at college he prepared notes and formulas from the most eminent and popular writers. He was married in Johnson County in 1874 to Johanna Perry, who died in 1878, leaving two children . In 1882 he married Ida, daughter of John M. Adkins, formerly of Tennessee, in which State Mrs. Osborne was born. This marriage has resulted in three children. Mrs. Osborne has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since her youth, and Mr. Osborne worships at the same church. In politics he is a Democrat, and he belongs to the Masonic fraternity.