Background
Orsdel, Josiah Alexander Van was born on November 17, 1860 in New Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ralph and Margaret (Randolph) V.
Orsdel, Josiah Alexander Van was born on November 17, 1860 in New Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Ralph and Margaret (Randolph) V.
Grove City (Pennsylvania) Normal Academy (now college). Bachelor of Arts, Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, 1885. Doctor of Laws, 1912.
Studied law with Dana & Long, New Castle, Pennsylvania. Doctor of Laws, Grove City College, Pennsylvania, 1906.
Admitted to bar, 1890. Located at Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1891. Elected company and prosecuting attorney, Laramie Company, Wyoming, 1892.
Member House Republican, Wyoming, 1894. Appointed by governor chairman commission to revise, compile and codify laws of Wyoming, 1895. Attorney general of Wyoming, 1898-1905.
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming, April 15, 1905-February 1, 1906. Assistant attorney general of the United States, February 1, 1906-November 1907. Justice United States Court of Appeals of District of Columbia, since 1907.
Member S.A.R. (president general).
Married Kate Barnum, July 28, 1891.