15 Facts About Chase Osborn

Chase Salmon Osborn was an American politician, newspaper reporter and publisher, and explorer.

Chase Osborn served as the 27th governor of Michigan from 1911 to 1913.

Chase Osborn died there on April 11,1949, aged 89.

Chase Osborn was educated at Purdue University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, yet left before graduating.

In 1910, Osborn was elected the 27th Governor of Michigan and served from 1911 to 1913.

In 1912, Chase Osborn campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt for president to unseat the current President Taft.

Chase Osborn did not run for a second term and is to date the only governor of Michigan from the Upper Peninsula.

Chase Osborn supported Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, and urged participation in world affairs during the 1920s and 1930s despite the consensus of isolationism during those years.

Chase Osborn met Stellanova Brunt in 1924, and she took a job as his researcher and secretary.

In 1931, Chase and Lillian Osborn legally adopted 37-year-old Stellanova, and she changed her last name to Osborn.

Chase Osborn was a member of the Audubon Society, National Rifle Association of America, Sons of the American Revolution, Freemasons, Elks, Kiwanis, Knights of Pythias, Lions Club, Odd Fellows, Sigma Chi, and Sigma Delta Chi.

Chase Osborn used a wheelchair, and Stellanova became his full-time nurse.

Chase Osborn died two weeks later at Possum Poke, his residence in Poulan, Georgia.

Chase Osborn is interred at Duck Island, his Michigan residence on Sugar Island, near Sault Ste.

Chase Osborn wrote several other books and co-wrote some with his adopted daughter, Stellanova, who wrote several books herself.