Background
James H. Osmer was born in Tenterden, Kent, England.
United States representative lawyer politician
James H. Osmer was born in Tenterden, Kent, England.
He attended private schools, Bellefonte Academy in Centre County, Pennsylvania, Mount Pleasant College in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania and Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
He studied law at Elmira, New New York He was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of New York at Cortland, New York, in 1858 and practiced at Horseheads, New York, near Elmira, until 1865, when he moved to Franklin, Pennsylvania, where he was admitted to the bar and practiced. He was a delegate to the 1876 Republican National Convention.
He was a delegate to several State conventions.
Osmer was elected as a Republican to the Forty-sixth Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1880.
He continued the practice of his profession in Franklin until his death in 1912, aged 80. He was interred in Franklin Cemetery.