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George L.
Ohrstrom Jr.
Sportsman and
conservationist
The Plains
A modest giant of Virginia and national horse sports in our times, conservation leader and philanthropist George L. Ohrstrom Jr. died at his home near The Plains on Oct. 6. He was 78.
He had been the driving force behind building the new, internationally recognized National Sporting Library in Middleburg, and a founder of the nonprofit Great Meadow field events center near The Plains. /
Over the past half-centuiy, Mr. Ohrstrom and the late Paul Mellon set the leadership pace in gathering and preserving classic books and art of the sporting world, and protecting open space in Virginia for future generations.
Born June 9, 1927, in Bronxville, N.Y., Mr. Ohrstrom was the second of three children of George L. Ohrstrom Sr., and Emma Riggs Ohrstrom. He was raised in Greenwich, Conn.
Mr. Ohrstrom graduated in 1945 from St. Paul's School in New Hampshire and after two years in the U S. Marine Corps, graduated from Princeton University in 1950.
After working at the U. S. State Department and in the intelligence services, he began his business career in New York with Lehman Brothers. Joining his father's G.L. Ohrstrom & Co. in 1960, he was the firm's chairman until his death. The company is one of the original private equity firms which started and built three New York Stock Exchange companies, Dover Corporation, Carlisle Companies and Roper Industries.
An active lifelong sportsman, he rowed bow on the Princeton crew that finished third in the 1948 Olympic trials. As a passionate lover of foxhunting, he rode in amateur steeplechase races, became president of the Orange County Hunt, and in recent years founded the Bath County Hounds near Hot Springs, Va.
Mr. Ohrstrom raced multiple stakes winners in the United States and Europe, including France’s champion 3 Year Old Filly, Comtesse De Loir, and grade 1 Stakes winner Mossflower. He had a special passion for timber racing, and bred and raced Appolinax, among many notable winners, in the jump-racing sport.
As an active and generous conservationist and philanthropist, he established the George L. Ohrstrom Jr., Foundation and led construction of a library at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., which was dedicated in his honor in 1991.
As a founding benefactor of the Piedmont Environmental Council, he was an early supporter of the use of conservation easements to pr ^serve open space. As chairman of The National Sporting Library, the country's only scholarly reposi
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