Thomas Henry Osler (1834 - 1917)

Born 12 May 1834 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England

Husband of Mary Ann (Shedden) Osler — married 12 May 1863 in Saint Mary's Church, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 21 Mar 1917 at age 82 in Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States

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Biography

Thomas Henry, known as Henry, was born in the parish of St. Martin's in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England on November 7, 1834 to Francis Osler and Fanny Jackson. He was their sixth child out of a total of nine. He was christened in St. Martin's Church on April 17, 1839, when he was 4. His sisters Ann (born in 1832) and Dinah (born in 1837) were baptized the same day. ^[1]

Records: |1851 English Census: Age 17, clerk to a brass founder |1861 English Census: Age 27, "general factor" (person who makes things) |27 Jul 1864 Baptism record for son Robert William lists Henry as a button manufacturer.

Henry married Marianne Shedden in 1863, when he was 27 and she was 22. (See Osler Family History). Together they had seven children born between 1864 and 1881, of which five lived to adulthood and married.

Migration to US in 1866, then Chicago in 1868, and in 1871 to Niles, Michigan where he worked in horticulture and "got a position as landscapist with the Michigan Central Railway, maintaining the grounds of the railway stations between Chicago and Niles. They were showplaces in that era." But by 1876, Henry's family was experiencing hard times. ^[2]

After Henry's son Frank made his way to Pomona, California and became successful in plumbing, irrigation and related products needed by farmers in the emerging orange groves, Henry and Mary Ann left Michigan to live near Frank in the booming town of Pomona for the rest of their lives.

[Add 1890 and 1900 census record] He passed away on March 21,1917 at age 83 in Pomona.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/4981/images/40458_316930-00549?pId=2793754
2. ↑ Florence Osler Foote, Bessie Francis Osler Loucks and Ruth Penn Foote Wolstoncroft, compilers. Osler Family History. Privately printed, 1977.

• Florence Osler Foote, Bessie Francis Osler Loucks and Ruth Penn Foote Wolstoncroft, compilers. Osler Family History. Privately printed, 1977.
• Church and census records in Birmingham.