AMBROSE OSTRANDER.

Mr. Ostrander, mentioned above, was a man far above the average. In his early years, while living in New York, he taught school and prepared himself for the ministry of the Methodist Church. He also taught in Michigan and Missouri, and, although his health failed and he was obliged to engage in mercantile lines, he kept his church career always in mind, and when he came to Wiota in 1879 had been appointed a local minister of the M. E. Church.