Burnet County, TX - Bios: John A. Ramsdale

June 5, 2001



Submitted by:Bhold1@aol.com (Bettye H. Short)

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 JOHN A. RAMSDALE 

  



From the PERSONNEL OF THE TEXAS STATE GOVERNMENT 1885 by E. H. Loughery



J. A. Ramsdell was born August 23, 1824, in the state of NY*and was liberally 

educated in the free schools of the states. In 1854 he was superintendent of 

the free schools in Chenmung Co., NY. During the administration of Presidents 

Pierce and Buchanan he was postmaster in IL. Mr. Ramsdell came to Texas in 1867, 

living 3 years in Lampasas and then removed to Burnet Co. where he has been 

engaged in agriculture and stock raising. The generous soil has yielded him 

a good return and his herds have yearly increased with highly gratifying rapidity. 

He is a prominent member of the M. E. South Church and a Democrat, such as 

flourished in the days of long ago. He was elected to the 19 Legislature from the 

76th District -- Burnet and Lampasas Counties --by a vote of 2584 to 57 for his 

opponent.



Mr Ramsdell was a member of House Committees on State Affairs; Commerce and 

Manufacturing; Stock and Stock Raising: Public Buildings and Ground, and Chairman 

of the committee on the Substitution of granite for limestone. His action in the 

committee rooms and his record in the house, show him to have been an able, 

earnest and faithful representative of his people. (all census reports say born in VT)