Osincup, Lynn C.

CHAMBERLIN

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Date: 11/22/2009 at 18:52:26

Lynn C. Osincup, a manufacturing pharmacist of Waverly, who since 1913 has had charge of the plant owned by the Ca Phenin Cehmical Company and organized by his father in 1896, was born in Vestal Center, New York, March 22, 1888. He is a son of Dr. Frank A. and Alma M. (Chamberlin) Osincup, both natives of that community, the former born August 1, 1862 and the latter June 14, 1863. The father received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons and in 1894 came to Waverly, where he took up the practice of his profession. He was very succssful at it but his health became impaired after a few years and he turned his attention to the manufacture of remedies in which he had become interested. He formed the Ca Phenin Chemical Company in 1896, establishing his business in a brick hotel building on West Bremer street and he continued active in the management of this enterprise until 1912, when he resumed the practice of medicine.

Lynn C. Osincup was still a child when his parents came to Waverly and he acquired his education in the public schools of this city. He has been engaged in the pharmaceutical manufacturing business since he was ten years of age, at which time he became associated with his father, and his energy and activity have been a helpful factor in the development of the business controlled by the Ca Phenin Chemical Company. This concern manufactures a complete line of medicines in tablet form, a number of which were originated by the father of the subject of this review. Ca Phenin was originated by Dr. Osincup during his practice. During the illness in order to occupy his mind he gave his time to perfecting other remedies and his company now manufactures many different varieties. Ca Phenin is for use in fevers and for all kinds of pain and has proved a most efficacious medicine. Its sale has steadily increased in the course of years and the company now manufactures large quantities, having a four-story plant equipped to produce about ten million tablets a year. In the beginning Dr. Osincup ran one machine and this was installed in a small room. The company now occupies an entire building and uses electric power and modern machinery. Lynn C. Osincup has had entire charge of the business since 1913 and has conducted it successfully along modern and progressive lines, proving himself an energetic, resourceful and capable business man. He makes cleanliness in his plant his special aim and not only conforms to all the provisions of the Food and Drugs Act but guarantees his medicines to be made of the purest and finest drugs obtainable. His medicines have a wide sale, for their excellence is easily recognized, and the business has grown through the seventeen years of its existence, having reached gratifying proportions at the present time.

On the 29th June, 1911, Mr. Osincup married Miss Elsie M. Conklin, of Sac City, Iowa, a daughter of John R. Conklin. Mr. and Mrs. Osincup are members of the Baptist church and both are very fond of music, Mr. Osincup being organist and his wife a member of the choir. She was also for some time a member of a quartette with her three sisters and they filled a number of engagements in chautauquas and gained an enviable reputation. Mrs. Osincup is well known in social circles of Waverly and has made her beautiful home at No. 216 South Aspen street an attractive meeting place for her many friends. Her husband is one of the representative and progressive business men of Waverly although he is still a young man, and will undoubtedly be carried forward by the force of his ability and energy into still more important relations with commercial interest of the city.

History of Bremer County, Iowa Vol. II 1914