Ebenezer Jolls Ormsbee

Background

Ormsbee, Ebenezer Jolls was born on June 8, 1834 in Shoreham, Vermont, United States. Son of of John Mason and Polly (Willson) O.

Education

Educational public schools, Vermont Scientific and Literature Institution (Brandon) and Green Mountain Academy, Woodstock, Vermont. Honorary Master of Arts, Middlebury, 1875, Dartmouth, 1884. Doctor of Laws, Norwich University, 1893.

Career

Admitted to bar, 1861. Second lieutenant Company G, 1st Vermont Infantry, and captain Company G, 12th Vermont Infantry, 1861-1863. Assistant United States internal revenue collector, District of Vermont, 1868-1872.

State's attorney, Rutland Company, Vermont, 1870-1874.

Member General Assembly, 1872, Senate, 1878. Trustee Vermont Reform School, 1880-1884.

Lieutenant governor of Vermont, 1884-1888. Governor, 1886-1888; commissioner to Pi-Ute Indians, 1891.

United States land commissioner of Samoa, 1891-1893.

Achievements

• Ebenezer Jolls Ormsbee has been listed as a noteworthy governor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member General Assembly, 1872, Senate, 1878.

Connections

Married Jennie L. Briggs, August 27, 1862. Married second, Mistress.

Spouse:

Mistress

Spouse:

Jennie L. Briggs