Primary Name: Osborne, Vivienne

Filed as: Osborne, Vivienne

Also known as: Vivienne Rustgard; Vivienne Stevens; Vivienne Morrison

Occupation / Association: Stenographer; Attorney General’s Office employee

Associated places: New Zealand; San Francisco, California; Juneau, Alaska; Nome, Alaska

Keywords: Vivienne Osborne, John Rustgard wife, Edward J Stevens Nome Alaska, Lorraine G Morrison Juneau, women stenographers Alaska, early Juneau families

Biography

Vivienne Osborne was born in New Zealand in November 1880, the daughter of John D’Arcy Osborne and Alice Jane Osborne. After her parents separated in 1892, Vivienne and her mother immigrated to the United States in 1887 and settled in San Francisco, California.

In 1903, she married John Rustgard, who later served as District Attorney of Juneau, Alaska. The couple eventually divorced.

Vivienne later married Edward J. Stevens, and the couple was living in Nome, Alaska, in 1910.

On February 18, 1927, she married Lorraine G. Morrison in Juneau, Alaska.

By 1930, she was working as a stenographer in the Attorney General’s Office in Juneau.

Vivienne Osborne died in Juneau, Alaska in September 1931 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Sources

1900 U.S. Federal Census, San Francisco

1910 U.S. Federal Census, Nome

1930 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau

New Zealand Birth Certificate

Alaska Daily Empire, February 19, 1927

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