Career
He represented Hastings West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Conservative member from 1886 to 1890. He was born in Belleville, Upper Canada in 1837, the son of Sylvester Ostrom, and educated at Albert College. He studied law with John Bell and Lewis Wallbridge, was called to the bar in 1869 and practiced in Belleville and later Trenton.
He ran unsuccessfully for the same seat in the provincial assembly in 1890.
