(8 Dec. 1880-17 June 1955), druggist. (Ernest Ostrom, Ernest B. Ostrom) Born at Martintown, GC. Parents: Isaac Brock Ostrom and his wife Margaret J. MacGregor. In 1900 Ernest Ostrom graduated from the Ontario College of Pharmacy. However, he had to wait for a year until he was of legal age to practise as a pharmacist. Thereafter he was a druggist in Alexandria, at first in association with his father. He was wounded in France in the First World War while serving as a gunner with the 11th Field Battery. After their father’s death in 1923, Ernest and his brother Clarence Ostrom together operated the Ostrom drug and jewellery store (known as Ostroms) which was on the Main Street side of Mill Square, Alexandria. It was said–the authority was probably Clarence, in conversation, but obituaries suggest the generalization may well have been exactly true–that Ernest had been a pallbearer at more funerals in St. Finnan’s Cathedral than any other man in Alexandria. On 7 Aug. 1930 Ernest Ostrom married Harriette Lancaster of Navan, Ont. (one child) He died at the Royal Victorian Hospital in Montreal. He belonged to the United Church.

Glengarry News 23 June 1955, The Alexandria Times 24 June 1955 (copy of latter in pr author’s collection). This issue GN also includes a tribute by Angus A. Mcdonald (GROVE) and an editorial of tribute (unsigned but certainly by Eugene A. Macdonald) * Ostrom 281 * becomes member of firm Brock Ostrom & Son, druggists and jewellers, GN 16 Jan. 1903 * on furlough, GN 4 Jan. 1918 * engaged to marry, GN 18 July 1930