George William Featherstonhaugh Jr. | |
Office: | Member of the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 1846 |
Term End: | 1848 |
Office1: | Delegate at the Wisconsin Constitutional Convention |
Term Start1: | 1847 |
Term End1: | 1848 |
Birth Date: | October 1814 |
Birth Place: | Albany, New York, U.S. |
Death Date: | June 10, 1900 |
Death Place: | Gurnee, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation: | Businessman, Territorial Legislator |
Parents: | George William Featherstonhaugh (father) |
George William Featherstonhaugh Jr. (October 1814June 10, 1900) was an American businessman and territorial legislator.
Born in Albany, New York, his father was the British-American geologist George William Featherstonhaugh. He settled in Calumet County, Wisconsin Territory and operated a flour mill and a store in Brothertown, Wisconsin. Featherstonehaugh served in the second Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1847–1848 and the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature in the Wisconsin Territorial House of Representatives from 1846 to 1848. He then lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and died in Gurnee, Illinois.[1] [2]