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Osage, Iowa

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Osage is a city in Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,451 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Mitchell CountyGR6.

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[edit] Geography

Location of Osage, Iowa

Osage is located at 43°17′5″N, 92°48′44″W (43.284618, -92.812129)GR1.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.4 km² (2.1 mi²), all land.

[edit] Demographics

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 3,451 people, 1,528 households, and 950 families residing in the city. The population density was 637.5/km² (1,650.8/mi²). There were 1,624 housing units at an average density of 300.0/km² (776.9/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 99.16% White, 0.17% African American, 0.09% Native American, 0.12% Asian, 0.17% from other races, and 0.29% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.72% of the population.

There were 1,528 households out of which 26.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.5% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.8% were non-families. 34.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 21.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.81.

In the city the population was spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 23.1% from 25 to 44, 19.0% from 45 to 64, and 28.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females there were 84.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.5 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,676, and the median income for a family was $39,856. Males had a median income of $31,488 versus $22,688 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,366. About 5.5% of families and 7.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 8.1% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.

[edit] Famous locals

  • Mike Johanns, the governor of Nebraska and appointed Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture, grew up in Osage.
Mike Johanns
Mike Johanns

Mike Johanns was sworn in as the 28th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 21, 2005. Secretary Johanns' strong agricultural roots stretch back to his childhood. He was born in Iowa and grew up doing chores on his family's dairy farm. As the son of a dairy farmer, he developed a deep respect for the land and the people who work it. He still describes himself as "a farmer's son with an intense passion for agriculture."

That passion showed during Johanns' tenure as Nebraska's 38th governor. During his six years in office, Johanns was a strong advocate for rural communities and farmers and ranchers. He enacted a Value-Added Agriculture Initiative, signed into law the "Agricultural Opportunities and Value-Added Partnership Act," supported the development of a hydroponic produce facility, and signed legislation that focused financial resources on providing transferable, non-refundable gas tax credits for the production of ethanol. He also led eight delegations of Nebraska government, business, and agriculture leaders on trade missions to foreign countries including Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil and Chile.

Johanns served as chairman of the Governors' Biotechnology Partnership and as the state government representative on the advisory committee to the Export-Import Bank of the United States. As a member of both the National Governors' Association and the Western Governors' Association, Johanns concentrated on issues important to agriculture, including drought relief, ethanol, and the 2002 Farm Bill.

Secretary Johanns is a graduate of St. Mary's University of Minnesota in Winona. He earned a law degree from Creighton University in Omaha and practiced law in O'Neill and Lincoln, Nebraska. Johanns served on the Lancaster County Board from 1983-1987, and on the Lincoln City Council 1989-1991. He was elected mayor of Lincoln in 1991. He was reelected in 1995, and successfully ran for governor three years later.

Secretary Johanns is married to Stephanie Johanns, a former Lancaster County Commissioner and State Senator. The couple has two children.


  • Hamlin Garland, American novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer, spent a portion of his childhood (1875-1881) on a farm outside Osage.
Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland

Hamlin was born in West Salem, Wisconsin on 14 September 1860. After moving with his family to a succession of homesteads in Iowa and South Dakota he went to Boston in 1884, determined to embark on a literary career. His first success was Main-Travelled Roads, a collection of short stories published in 1891. He moved to Chicago in 1893, lectured widely on literary topics, and agitated for a realistic American literature through a number of essays, some of which were revised into his 1894 manifesto, Crumbling Idols. In 1895 he published Rose of Dutcher's Coolly, a novel of a New Woman in which he sought to embody his literary creed. That year he began visiting the American West, making notes of cowboys and the glorious mountain scenery so unlike his native Wisconsin. He also began to study the American Indian, taking copious notes for later use in fiction. A number of his Indian stories were collected in The Book of the American Indian (1923).

He received a commission in 1896 from Samuel S. McClure to write a biography of Ulysses S. Grant which, after two years of exhaustive research, was serialized in McClure's Magazine before appearing in book form in 1898. That year he followed the Klondike gold rush in search of adventure and literary material; from that trek emerged The Trail of the Gold Seekers, a "record in prose and verse" of his experience. In 1899 he married Zulime Taft, the sister of the sculptor Laredo Taft. Over the next 15 years he published a series of romances of the mountain west, the most successful of which was The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop (1902), a novel of cattlemen and Indian conflict. In 1915 he moved to New York City to be closer to his publishers and literary life. In the mid-teens Garland was wearying of publishing fiction and turned to reminiscing about his early life. The result was A Son of the Middle Border, an autobiography-cum-history of westward expansion, which appeared serially before being brought out in book form in 1917, to nearly universal acclaim. Its success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1922. Two more volumes of his family history followed: Trail-Makers of the Middle Border (1926) and Back-Trailers from the Middle Border (1928). Garland had discovered his niche as a memoirist and cranked out 4 more volumes of his literary reminiscences, based on his daily diary: Roadside Meetings (1930), Companions on the Trail (1931), My Friendly Contemporaries (1932), and Afternoon Neighbors (1934).

In 1929 Garland moved to Hollywood, California where he spent his final years in a renewed interest in psychic phenomena, an enthusiasm of his early years in Boston. In Forty Years of Psychic Research (1936) he traced the history of his life-long interest. His last book, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939), is a record of his efforts to verify the legitimacy of a medium who, at the direction of spirits, led him to mysteriously-buried objects. On March 4, 1940, at age 79, after a life filled with successes and tempered with disappointments, having received many honors and a distinguished place in American literature, Hamlin Garland died.


  • Gerald "Germ" Leeman, Olympic Silver Medalist in wrestling, grew up in Osage.

As a High School wrestler Gerald was a 3X Iowa High School Wrestling State Champion for Osage High School, as well as a AAU Wrestling National Champion in 1940. In 1946, for Iowa State Teacher's College, he earned a D-1 National Championship and 'Outstanding Wrestler' honors. In 1948 he wrestled in the World Olympics (held in London), earning a Silver Medal at 125.5 pounds. Gerald was also known for his coaching savvy, leading Lehigh college for 18 years, and a compiled dual meed record of 161-38-4, and four top five finishes in the NCAA tournament.

Gerald was inducted into the Dan Gable International Wrestling Institute's Hall of Fame in 2005.


  • Mark Schwab, Is Osage's first and only four-time State High School wrestling champion.

As a high school wrestler, Schwab is Osage's first (and only)four-time state champion, compiling an amazing 106-1 record. He also was the first wrestler in the world to ever to win three Junior National Freestyle titles. Schwab also won a National Greco-Roman title. Schwab joined his older brother Mike at the University of Northern Iowa in 1986 and won more matches as a true freshman than anyone else in NCAA history, with a 49-9 overall record, and placed fifth at the NCAA Division I National Wrestling Championships. As a sophomore, Schwab was red-shirted to train for the 1988 Olympic Games. He broke onto the international scene with a third-place finish in what was touted as the toughest freestyle competition in the world in Tiblissi (USSR). Schwab wrestled in several USA vs. USSR duals during 1987-88 and was ranked No. 1 in the USA at 114.5 pounds. Schwab represented the U.S. in the World Cup competition in Ulan Bator (Mongolia) and earned a bronze medal.

Returning to the college scene, Schwab was still ranked No. 1 in the U.S. at 114.5 pounds and No. 1 in the college rankings at 118 pounds. After compiling a record of 17-1-1, Schwab was injured in a dual meet and required surgery, and he was later diagnosed with a severe staph infection that required a total of nine knee operations. He missed the remainder of the season and most of the next season before being cleared to wrestle again. Schwab climbed to the top of the polls and once again was crowned with All-America honors at 118 pounds. Schwab completed his college career with a record of 115-18.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in criminology from the University of Northern Iowa in 1990, Schwab coached at UNI from 1990-91 before moving to West Lafayette, Ind., and serving as an assistant coach at Purdue from 1991-93. He then joined J Robinson and the rest of the University of Minnesota coaching staff in the fall of 1995. Schwab earned his master’s degree in education from University of Minnesota in 2003. Besides working with the nationally-ranked Golden Gopher program, Schwab was a co-head coach with the Minnesota Storm club team in Minnesota. Along with assistant coach Joe Russell, Schwab coached the Minnesota Storm to three Espoir National Championships in 1996, 1997 and 1999. He was also an assistant coach for the United States Junior World team in Sydney, Australia, in 1999. In the summer of 2001, Schwab served as head coach of United States’ 2001 Junior World Freestyle Championships team. Schwab coached the team of 20-and-under wrestlers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Schwab now serves as Head Coach to the Buena Vista University Beavers in Storm Lake, Iowa.


  • Doug Schwab, NCAA D1 National Champion wrestler for the Iowa Hawkeyes, grew up in Osage.

Former Hawkeye wrestler Doug Schwab is in his first season as volunteer assistant coach with the University of Iowa Wrestling Team.

Prior to joining the Iowa staff, Schwab served two seasons (2005-06) as an assistant coach at Virginia Tech University under Tom Brands. During his tenure with the Hokies, the team won the 2005 regular season Atlantic Coast Conference title, set a school record for dual meet wins (16) and had a school-record five wrestlers qualify for the NCAA Championships. Virginia Tech also crowned five conference champions and two all-Americans, and senior heavyweight Mike Faust was named 2006 ACC Wrestler of the Year.

While at Virginia Tech, Schwab remained active in competitive wrestling. He won the 145.5-pound title at the 2003 Sunkist Kids International Open, earning Outstanding Wrestler honors in the freestyle event. In 2005 he won the 145-pound division of Real Pro Wrestling, earning Outstanding Wrestler honors as part of the champion Iowa Stalkers team.

Schwab was a three-time all-American and Big Ten champion for the Hawkeyes from 1998-2001. The Osage, IA, native won the 1999 NCAA title at 141 pounds and finished his collegiate career with 130 wins, which ranks 10th-best in school history.

Schwab was born August 3, 1977. He earned a B.S. in communication studies from the University of Iowa in 2001, and is working toward a master's degree in kinesiology/sport management at the University of Minnesota.

[edit] Sports

Wrestling Osage is known as one of the state's top wrestling schools. Osage has 50 individual state champions, good for fourth all-time in the state. At the Iowa State Wrestling Tournament, they have won three team championships ('40, '65, '81) and finished as the runner-up a state record 11 times ('41, '42, '44, '45, '46, '47, '83, '84, '85, '94, '02).

Since the creation of the State Dual Championships in 1987, Osage has made six appearances, winning the title four times ('89, '92, '01, and '06). Their four titles are second only to Des Moines Dowling (6) and are equaled by Davenport Assumption and Don Bosco.

For more Iowa High School wrestling statistics, see here: http://www.iahsaa.org/07_Wrest_Stat.pdf


Mens Basketball The 1995 Green Devil boys' basketball team won the 2-A Iowa state basketball title without much problem. In the three games at state, the boys closest game was by a margin of 18 points (Osage beat the B.J. Terrones led Gilbert Tigers 71-53 in the championship game). The starters of this Green Devil team were Kevin Balsley, Jace Bisgard, B.J. Fleming, John Fisk & Adam Doll. Although Matt Lunde, Jed Hemann & Nick Cockrum were reserves, they contributed heavily in the effort. This was Head Coach Keith Mayer's and Assistant Coach Mark Mohl's first state championship. In the 2005-06 season the Green Devils also made an appereance at state but lost in the first round.

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