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Francis Conrad Osborn Sr. (December 10, 1856 – May 25, 1927) was a teacher, businessman and inventor. He held about 50 patents for cash register designs, springless scales, and other devices.

Early life and education

Son of Ozias and Mary C. (Herbener) Osborn, he was born and raised in Bridgeport, New York. He was educated in local schools and Cazenovia Seminary. Osborn taught in public schools of Fayetteville, New York in 1880-1882 before enrolling at Syracuse University, where he graduated with honors in 1885. He was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity.

Career

After working for several years for Ginn & Co., he settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1889 to work on a design for a cash register. In 1891 he married Laura A. Freele. They had three children.

Osborn organized several companies in Detroit, including: the Osborn Cash Register Co., Ltd. in 1896, which he sold out to the National Cash Register Co. in 1900; the Standard Computing Scale Co., Ltd. in 1889, which produced devices he designed; the Perfection Hand Stamp Company in 1900, which produced cancellation devices used in post offices in the US and Canada; and the F.C. Osborn Co., which produced machinery for making cardboard tubing and scales.

Some patents applied for and issued

All patents in the United States, except where noted:

References

General sources

Notes

  1. Catalogue of Delta Upsilon, 1917. Delta Upsilon Fraternity
  2. "Incorporations in Michigan," Chicago Inter Ocean, 15 January 1900, p. 11
  3. ^ "The 1901-02 Perfection Machine Cancellations" Postal History Society of Canada
  4. The Inland Printer, Vol. 49, 1912, p. 744
  5. The Delta Upsilon Quarterly, Vol. 30, Issue 2, 1912, p. ii (advertisement)
  6. The Canadian Patent Office Record, Vol. 28, 1901
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