James H. Ostrander
James H. Ostrander was a farmer from Waterloo, Wisconsin who served a single term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from a Jefferson County district comprising the Towns of Waterloo, Milford, Lake Mills and Oakland.
Early years in Wisconsin
[edit]Ostrander came to what was then Aztalan township in the Wisconsin Territory in 1842, settling in Section 18. He helped organize Waterloo as a separate town in 1845 or 1846, and served as its first superintendent of schools.[1]
Legislative service
[edit]At the time of his service in the Assembly, he was 55 years old, a native of New York state and had been in Wisconsin for 10 years. He was assigned to the standing committee on internal improvements.[2] He was a Whig.[3]
It is unclear what his relationship is to James W. Ostrander or to Jared F. Ostrander, who both also served in the Assembly from Jefferson County.
References
[edit]- ^ Daughters of the American Revolution. Wisconsin, Maunesha Chapter. History of Waterloo Waterloo, Wisconsin: The Chapter, 1915; p. 18, 19
- ^ Manual for the use of the assembly, of the state of Wisconsin, for the year 1853 Madison: Brown and Carpenter, Printers, 1853; pp. 70, 99, 109
- ^ State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. "Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848–1999 Archived 2017-05-10 at the Wayback Machine". Information Bulletin 99-1 (September 1999), p. 90.
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