Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Isabel Stewart OSBOURNE
The following is submitted by Laura Stewart Civey of Leesburg, Florida :
Isobel Stewart Osbourne was born September 18, 1858 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, and died June 26, 1953 in Serena Carpenteria, California. She was the daughter of Samuel C. and Frances Matilda Van De Grift Osbourne. She married Joseph Dwight Strong, an artist, on August 9, 1879 in Monterey, Monterey County California. Her second husband was Edward Salisbury Field, Jr. They were married Aug. 29, 1914 in Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California. He was a playwright and many of his short stories were published by the "Saturday Evening Post".
Isobel was a writer and artist. Her autobiography "This Life I've Loved" is very informative on her family history. (I obtained a copy through a rare book dealer in California) She is listed in "Womans' Who's Who of America" 1914 - 15 p. 792. Her second husband struck oil and "Belle" ended her life as a millionairess.
She designed the Hawaiian flag, the Royal Seals, and the star of the Royal Order of Oceania in Hawaii. She is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Her obituary can be found in the New York Times June 28, 1953 issue.
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From Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
Born in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of artist Fanny Osbourne and the stepdaughter of Robert Louis Stevenson. She studied painting under her mother and Virgil Williams in San Francisco at the San Francisco School of Design. In 1875, she and her mother went to Europe for further study, and they lived briefly in Antwerp, Belgium; spent two years in Grez, France; and then lived in Monterey.
In 1879, Isobel married artist Joseph Strong, and the newlyweds went to Hawaii for several years, and then in 1890, joined Fanny and her new husband, Robert Louis Stevenson, in Samoa. But Isobel and Joseph had an unhappy marriage and divorced in the mid 1890s, and then in 1914, she married her mother's secretary, Edward Field. Under the name Isobel Field, she wrote the book "This Life I've Loved".
Isobel Osbourne died in Santa Barbara on June 16, 1953 in Santa Barbara, California, where she spent her last years.
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