"Portrait and Biographical Record of Hunterdon and Warren counties, New Jersey"
Chapman Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1898
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HARRY C. C. OSMUN is a wide-awake, progressive and popular young businessman of
Hackettstown, Warren County. He is always welcomed in the best society of this place,
and by his unfailing courtesy, kindliness and
cheery manner has won for himself a host of sincere friends. It was in 188S that he started in his
present undertaking, the management of a coal
and fuel yard, and the sale of grain and feed in
connection with the other. In this venture he
has been quite successful and is constantly adding
to his list of regular customers.
In tracing the ancestry of the above it appears
that his great-grandfather, Ziba Osmun, settled on
the old homestead, now known as the Funace
farm, in Mansfield Township, near Hackettstown,
over a century ago. He was a farmer throughout life and was as quite successful, as he left a large
and valuable tract of land to his heirs at his death.
It is supposed, though not positively known, that
he was a native of England. The grandfather of
our subject, William, was born on the old farm,
and during his eighty-four years made his dwelling-place there. For a great many years he was
an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and active
in every good work.
Joseph, father of H. C. C. Osmun, was born at
the ancestral home, and in early manhood was in
the produce business in Hackettstown. Later he
was successfully occupied in the management of
a wholesale grocery in Newark, N. J., for several
years. The last years of his commercial career
he was in the produce business once more. He
died when about sixty-six years of age. In politics he was a stanch Republican. For years an
active member of the Presbyterian Church, he
held the office of elder in the same for about
twenty years. His wife bore the maiden name of
Mary S. Coleman. She was a native of Morris
County, N. J. , and lived to be sixty-eight years
of age. She was greatly interested in the progress
of religious work and was actively concerned in
missionary endeavors. Of the ten children born
of the marriage of our subject's parents, he alone
survives. With the exception of one brother,
Frank, who died at about twenty years of age,
all of the brothers and sisters died in infancy or
early childhood.
The birth of Harry C. C. Osmun occurred in
his present place of residence in this town September 24, 1863. His public-school education
was supplemented by a course in the Newark
(N. J.) Business College, after leaving which institution he was employed as a clerk for a year in
a dry-goods house of this place. Desiring then
to embark in financial enterprise upon his own
account he entered into partnership with Charles
Weber, being a silent member of the firm of Osmun & Weber for the succeeding four years.
At the expiration of that period he withdrew,
selling out his interest in the business (jewelry
and stationery) and invested his available funds
in his present enterprise. The summer of 1895
he traveled through Europe on his bicycle and
had a most enjoyable trip. In local politics he
has been quite active and in national affairs gives
his stalwart support to the Republican party.
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