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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Chase S. Osborn |
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Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan , United States |
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January 22, 1860
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| Died | April 12, 1949
(89 years)
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| Info | Chase S. Osborn was born in a log cabin in Huntington County, Idiana, on January 22, 1860. He became a newspaperman in Milwakee, Wisconsin, and moved to Sault Ste. Marie in 1887, when he perchased the Sault News. Although he acquired interests in about thirty different newspapers across the country, Sault Ste. Marie remained his home.
Osborn was much more than a newspaperman, however. "Hunter, woodsman, naturalist, mining prospector, scientist, world traveler, statesman, political, author, orator"�Chase Osborn was all of these and more. One of Osborn's passions, the study of iron ore, made him a wealthy man. For many years, he spent his summers tramping the northwoods of Canada, searching for iron ore deposits. His winters were spent traveling with his wife, Lillian, exploring "all places in the world�where iron ore[was] produced in commercial quantities." In 1900, his explorations proved succesful. He discovered what he named "Moose Mountain" in Canada. By 1902, iron ore was being extracted from this iron range.
Osborn loved the outdoor life, the study of nature, and all areas of science. Over his lifetime, he became an amateur naturalist of some merit, making contributions to numerous fields within botany and zoology. In 1915, while summering at his cabin on Duck Island in the St. Mary's River, he discovered the source of the firefly's light. The full story of his chance finding was told in an article in the April 8,1916, edition of the Saturday Evening Post.
Osborn published his first book, The Andean Land, in 1909. By then, he had already been contributing material to a number of publications in America and abroad as a foreign correspondent. In 1919, he published his autobiography, The Iron Hunter, and followed that, over the next thirty years, with eleven more books. Schoolcraft - Longfellow � Hiawatha , published in 1942, is considered to be his most outstanding work.
Chase S. Osborn died at his winter cabin in Poulan, Georgia, on April 12, 1949. It has been said of him that "He was a friend of the great, highly placed, the powerful, the wealthy, whose company he kept and whom he counseled and advised,�"and"He could have live[d] in a palace, but he prefer[red] the cabin." He had the traveled the world and "had boldly taken all knowledge for his province," but at the last, his life ended where it began, in a log cabin. His body was returned to Michigan, where services were held in Lansing and Sault Ste. Marie. His grave site is on Duck Island on the St. Mary's River.
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