Biography

12/05/1872 - 02/12/1938

OSTRANDER, Dr. William Alonzo, a Representative from McKean County, Pa.; born in Smethport, McKean County, Pa., December 5, 1872; graduated, Smethport Academy; graduated, Department of Pharmacy, University of Buffalo, 1895; M.D., Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel Medical College), 1899; major, Medical Corps, United States Army (1917-1919, World War I); printer, McKean County Miner (1886-1890); manager, drug store (1895-1897); physician; pharmacist; appointed, county physician, McKean County (1903-1912); member, McKean County Republican Committee; elected, council president, Smethport; elected, burgess, Smethport; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1914; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1916); county medical director, McKean County; vice-president, Grange National Bank of Smethport; died, February 12, 1938 in Kane, McKean County, Pennsylvania; interred, Rose Hill Cemetery, Smethport, McKean County, Pennsylvania.