Early Life and Career
Thomas Osborn was born near the rural village of Jersey in Licking County, Ohio. In 1854 he graduated from Ohio University at Athens. Osborn studied law under future Civil War general Lew Wallace and moved to Chicago, where he established a law practice in 1858.
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