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BIOGRAPHICAL AND PORTRAIT CYCLOPEDIA

receiving his education in the public schools of his district. At the age of sixteen years he was employed as a clerk in the store of the old Cambria Furnace company, in West Taylor township. This position he held for five years, and at the end of this period of faithful and efficient service, was promoted to the position of book-keeper in the office of the above firm, and continued in that position until 1860, when the Cambria Furnace company discontinued business. After leaving the employ of that company, Mr. Galbraith located on a farm in West Taylor township, and in connection with his agricultural pursuits, is at the present time engaged in the lumber business.     He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and in politics is an adherent of the Republican party. He takes an active interest in local affairs; he has been township supervisor, has served as school director, and has served in other positions of trust in his township. In 1848 he wedded Miss Mary Bryan, a daughter of Adam Bryan, of West Taylor township, who was formerly manager of the Cambria furnace. Their marriage has been blessed in the birth of nine children, six of whom are living: Nancy E., the wife of William Adams, of Coopersdale, this county; Calvin M., Harvey M., Mary, the wife of James Adams, of Coopersdale; William D., and Emma D., the wife of Frank Ulery, of West Taylor township. Those deceased are: John, Bryan, and Alice, who was the wife of John Hunt, of Jackson township, this county. GEORGE W. OSBORN, a citizen of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, and a gardener by occupation, is a son of George W. and Margaret (Murphy) Osborn. Augues 6, 1843, in a little log house, corner of Main and Market

streets, Johnstown, he was born, and there, too, he was married, his wife being Miss Phoebe Myers, a daughter of Abraham Myers. Mr. Osborn attended the public schools in his early boyhood, but did not acquire very much book-knowledge on account of a failure of his eye-sight. However, he entered a store, and in making his own way gained an education that was as valuable to him as the same about of book-lore would have been, perhaps more so. He was twenty-one years in this store, and then he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad company as a ticket-agent. Later he was transferred to the freight department, where he remained until he became assistant agent with R. T. Given, agent. He now discharged the duties of a brakeman for the Pennsylvania Railroad company. He was a faithful workman on the Pennsylvania railroad, but after having served this company for a number of years he married and moved to Bedford county, returning in 1888, after thirteen years' residence there, he located in Johnstown and working for the Johnson company, and at gardening.     Mr. Osborn has had various occupations, and in all has proven himself a laborer eminently worthy of his hire. In this respect, as in others, he shows the temper and quality of the Irish race to which he belongs.     His grandfather was a native of the "Old Country" and came to America, settling first in Lancaster county, later in Westmoreland, about one and a half miles from Latrobe, in Unity township, where he died. The grandfather was a farmer by occupation and emigrated to this country on account of being a home-ruler.     The father of our subject was born and reared to manhood in Westmoreland county. Then he came to Johnstown and ran a boat

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