Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell

Lawyer / entrepreneur

Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell (1833–1917) was an entrepreneur from Manistee, Michigan.He served as the town's first and only attorney in the later part of the nineteenth century.

He was a Michigan State Representative for one term; he also served several terms as prosecuting attorney for Manistee County, and one term as county treasurer.

Ramsdell developed several of the town's commercial enterprises, including a hardware store, the town's first downtown river bridge, the town's first newspaper, the town's first school house, the Ramsdell building, the Ramsdell Theatre, the First National Bank, the Manistee Water Works, and several commercial blocks in downtown Manistee.