They met on the island of Madeira when Jean Curtis Smith was on a round-the-world trip with her sister and brother-in-law . According to an account in the '' Passenger-Inquirer '' of Owensboro , Kentucky , " they were engaged to be married when they landed on American soil two months later . " Their honeymoon was interrupted " when his efforts to secure the 1908 Democratic National Convention for the West met with success and they were obliged to hurry to Denver , " where it was to be held . Mrs. Osborne was known as the " official hostess " for the convention
1908 Democratic National Convention
1908 Democratic National Convention
John Eugene Osborne