George W. Featherstonhaugh Jr. Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Forty-Eighth Session, December 11, 1900, Biographical Sketch of George W. Featherstonhaugh, p. 96.
  2. George W. Featherstonhaugh, Evening Wisconsin, April 6, 1895 (Wisconsin Historical Society).