BIO: John Bartow Olmsted; New York State
surname: Olmsted

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     John Bartow Olmsted was born in Le Roy, Genesee county, New York,
January 28, 1854; educated at the Le Roy Academy, was graduated at Phillips
Exeter Academy in 1872 and from Harvard College in 1876. He also took lectures
at Heidelberg University in 1880 and was admitted to practice at the bar in
the State of New York in 1879 and was made attorney of the Buffalo Pitts
Company in 1885 and filled that position until his appointment on the Public
Service Commission in April, 1908. He was also a trustee and secretary of the
Buffalo Pitts Company at the time of his appointment on the Public Service
Commission. In politics he is an independent Republican and has been President
of the Municipal League of Buffalo and trustee of the Buffalo Seminary, of the
Elmwood School, and councilor of the University of Buffalo. He was alos for
three years a member of the Civil Service Commission in the city of Buffalo.
He is a member of the Saturn Club of Buffalo and the Fort Orange Club of
Albany.