| Born in Indianapolis, IN on March 10, 1840. “Fanny” wed Sam Osbourne in 1857. In the 1860s she made the trip across the Isthmus of Panama to join her husband in a mining camp in Nevada. In 1866 the couple moved to San Francisco and three years later settled in East Oakland. When the San Francisco School of Design opened in 1874, she and her daughter, Isobel, were two of the first pupils. She advanced quickly under Virgil Williams' guidance and, while at that school, won a silver medal for h (showing 500 of 1832 characters). |
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