There is a brief biography of Ostrom Stephen Lont in the History of Wabasha County: together with biographical matter, statistics, etc. . . . , Chicago, 1884: "Dr. Ostrom Stephen Lont [birth name Stephen Ostrom Lont] was born at Lebanon, Madison County, New York, in 1821. He dwelt there with his parents [John F. Lont (1796-1845) and Beulah Ostrom (b. 1799)] till eighteen years of age, where he received in the common schools the rudiments of an education. He early became imbued with the idea that the practice of medicine opened to a man wide opportunities for benevolence, and . . . he entered the office of Dr. V. H. Van Vleck, at Hamilton, New York, to perfect himself by combined study and practice for his chosen profession."

"Having no means he was compelled to pay his way while studying by waiting upon his preceptor, working in the harvest field, and performing any odd service that came to his hand. So closely did he apply himself that he was licensed to practice at the end of two years study, with Dr. Van Vleck. It is said that the Botanical Medical Society of New York issued his license, and when the Physio-Medical College of Cincinnati was founded by that society he received a diploma. He had at that time been practicing medicine four years, having begun when he was about twenty-three years old, at West Burlington, Otsego County. There he continued to practice until the late 1850's when he removed to Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota, a village located about 65 miles south southeast of Minneapolis, on the north branch of the Zumbro River, on the border of Wabasha and Goodhue Counties. Here he patented 160 acres in June of 1858 and went about practicing medicine in this area . . . ."

"For two or three years during the Civil War, Dr. Lont dwelt on a farm in Chester, Wabasha County, Minnesota, and with this exception his home has been in the village of Mazeppa since his arrival to Minnesota. He had a pleasant home on First street, facing the river, where he and his faithful helpmeet dwelt in contentment . . . . Their marriage occurred on Christmas day, 1850. Mrs. Lont was christened Melissa A., and is a sister of W. D. Angell, a Mazeppa druggist. She was supposed to have been from back east, from Otsego County, New York . . . . Mr. & Mrs. Lont adopted and reared to maturity an orphan boy, Willis A., born Rogers, who got employment in a mill at Prague, in Minnesota. The couple then furnished a home to Harry E. Jamieson, who probably remained with his foster-parents till their old age."

"Dr. Lont . . . . was a staunch temperance advocate and in theology he was a modern Spiritualist. In early life he denied and vehemently combated the idea that slavery was a divinely appointed institution. He is said to have helped organize the Liberty Party in New York State, and continued there to labor for freedom until the Republican Party succeeded it . . . . From 1861 to 1864 he served as supervisor in Chester, and was instrumental in relieving that town of a draft. He had been two years chairman of the Mazeppa town board, four years village justice, and served six years in the latter capacity at Chester and Mazeppa townships. He had been twice elected president of the Wabasha County Medical Society." Lont died in 1893.