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Father: John M. Ormsbee
Mother: Mary (Polly) Willson
Date of Birth: June 8, 1834
Place of Birth: Shoreham, Vt.
First Marriage: Aug. 27, 1862 Jennie Louisa Briggs at Brandon,
Vt.
Second Marriage: Sept. 27, 1867 Mrs. Frances B. (Wadhams) Davenport
at Westport, Essex County, N.Y
Date of Death: Apr. 3, 1924
Place of Death: Brandon, Vt.
Place of Burial: Pine Hill Cemetery
First Spouse: Jennie Louisa Briggs
Father: Ebenezer N. Briggs
Mother: Louisa W.
Date of Birth: Feb. 4, 1841
Date of Death: June 1, 1866
Place of Burial: Pine Hill Cemetery, Brandon, VT
Second Spouse: Mrs. Frances B. (Wadhams) Davenport
Widow of George D. Davenport, of Westport, N.Y.
Date of Birth: Nov. 2, 1838
Date of Death: Apr. 16, 1916
Place of Burial: Pine Hill Cemetery, Brandon, VT
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee was a Son of the American Revolution No. 2825
From: "Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography" by Prentice
Dodge, and "Men of Vermont" by Jacob G. Ullery.
"Ebenezer Jolls Ormsbee attended the public schools at Brandon,
Vt., his family having moved there in 1848. He was a Banker and
Lawyer. He served in the Civil War; 1878 Senator from Rutland
Co.; 1884-86 Lieut. Governor; 1886-1888 Governor of Vermont. His
picture hangs in the rotunda of the State Capitol at Montpelier,
Vt."
Ormsbee, Ebenezer Jolls (1834-1924) Born June 8, 1834. Lieutenant
Governor of Vermont, 1884-86; Governor of Vermont, 1886-88. Died
April 3, 1924.
1886-1888..........Ebenezer J. Ormsbee.............Republican
E. J. Ormsbee married Jennie L. Briggs in 1862, and they had a
son, Charles H., in 1864. Jennie died June 1, 1866, and in September
1867 Charles died from dysentery.
Vermont Historical Society Library
Ebenezer J. Ormsbee was born June 8, 1834, in Shoreham, Vermont,
one of eight children of John Mason and Polly Wilson Ormsbee.
The family moved to Rutland in 1845 and three years later to Brandon,
Vermont, which was to remain Ebenezer's home throughout his life.
He attended the local district school, the Baptist Seminary at
Brandon, and the Green Mountain Liberal Institute at South Woodstock,
Vermont. He taught school in Pittsford and Brandon from 1854 to
1861 while studying law. In March 1861 he was admitted to the
Rutland County Bar and soon thereafter enlisted in Company G of
the First Vermont Regiment for a period of four months. He then
worked with the provost marshal and recruiting service until he
re-enlisted in 1862 in Company G of the Twelfth Vermont Regiment.
He was mustered out July 14, 1863.
With his military service completed, Ormsbee began to practice
law in Brandon, forming partnerships with Anson A. Nicholson and
then Ebenezer N. Briggs. His public service activities began in
1868 with a four-year tenure as assistant U.S. internal revenue
assessor. From 1870 to 1874 he served as state's attorney for
Rutland County. He was elected a state legislator in 1872, senator
in 1878, lieutenant governor in 1884, and governor in 1886.
Ormsbee moved beyond state politics in July 1891 when President Benjamin Harrison appointed him to negotiate with the Piute Indians at the Pyramid Lake Reservation in Nevada to buy back a portion of their reservation. By October he had successfully negotiated an agreement. In November 1891 he was appointed U.S. land commissioner at Samoa to work settling land claims with the Samoans and land commissioners from Great Britain and Germany. Ormsbee stayed in Samoa until March 1893.
He returned to Brandon to practice law and to resume his civic activities as member of the school board, warden of St. Thomas Church, president of the Brandon Free Public Library, president of the Brandon Cemetery Association, and president of the Brandon National Bank. He was also a member of the local lodge of Masons and the C. J. Ormsbee Post No. 18 of the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).
E. J. Ormsbee married Jennie L. Briggs in 1862, and they had a son, Charles H., in 1864. Jennie died June 1, 1866, and in September 1867 Charles died from dysentery. E. J. Ormsbee then married Frances (Wadhams) Davenport, of Westport, New York. Frances was the daughter of William L. and Loretta Cole Wadhams of Wadhams Mills, New York. She was educated at private schools in Essex and Burlington, Vermont. She had married George D. Davenport of Salisbury, Vermont, in 1860, and spent time in Washington, D.C., and at the front lines while her husband fought in the Civil War. George Davenport died in 1864.
E. J. and Frances Ormsbee had no children of their own but
adopted Frances's brother's niece, Carrie Wyckoff.
Frances Ormsbee died April 18, 1916, having been in poor health
for over thirteen years. E. J. Ormsbee died April 3, 1924. Carrie
Wyckoff-Ormsbee died in 1936.
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