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O'Brien, Frank P – O'Connell, Daniel J
O'Brien, Frank P
journalist, was born Feb. 29, 1844, in Ireland. In 1887 he was president and general manager of the Birmingham Herald. He is director of the Southern Press association; and is owner of one of the finest theaters in the south, which bears his name.
O'Brien, James
state senator, congressman, was born March 13, 1841, in Ireland. He settled in New York city; was elected an alderman in 1864; and reelected in 1866; and was elected sheriff in 1867. He was elected state senator in 1871; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth congress.
O'Brien, James William
merchant, poet, was born July 13, 1846, in Quebec, Canada. For many years he was a commercial traveler, and has a varied and adventurous career. He has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press, and several of his poems have been incorporated into Poets of America and other standard works.
O'Brien, Jeremiah
farmer, merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1768, in Machias, Maine. He served six years in the Maine legislature; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1823 to 1831. He died May 30, 1858, in Boston, Mass.
O'Brien, John
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1841 in Ireland. He was a Roman catholic clergyman and educator, and professor of ecclesiastical history and sacred theology in Mount St. Mary's college, Emmittsburg, Md., in 1877. He published, in 1879, A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the Eastern and Western Churches, which has since passed through fourteen editions.
He died in 1879.
O'Brien, Thomas Dillon
lawyer, was born Feb. 14, 1859, in La Point, Wis.
Since 1880 he has been actively engaged in the profession of law in St. Paul, Minn.; has been assistant city attorney of St. Paul, and county attorney of Ramsey county. He has been state president of the Catholic Total Abstinence societies of Minnesota; captain of the first battery artillery, Minnesota national guards; and a trustee of the state board of hospitals for insane.
O'Brien, William J
lawyer, congressman, was born May 28, 1836, in Baltimore, Md. He was elected from Maryland to the forty-tnird and forty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Ochiltree, Thomas P
soldier, congressman, was born in 1837 in Texas.
He was appointed United States marshal in his native state; and was for a time state commissioner of emigration, to visit Europe. He was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-eighth congress.
Ochiltree, William B
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1811 in North Carolina. In 1846 he was appointed the first district judge of Texas; in 1855-56 he was a representative in the legislature; and in 1861 was a member of the first confederate congress. He died in December, 1867, in Marshall, Texas.
Ochs, George Washington
journalist, was born Oct. 27, 1861, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1896 he became publisher and manager of the Chattanooga Daily Times. For three years he was president of the police commissioners. In 1893 he was elected mayor of his city and received the re-election two years later.
Ochtman, Leonard
artist, was born Oct. 21, 1854, in Holland. He has attained a national reputation as a successful artist; and has erected a studio in Connecticut, where he spends his summers.
O'Connell, Daniel J
poet. He is a writer of Owatonna, Minn.; and the the author of a number of poems.
O'CONNELL, JEREMIAH JOSEPH, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 21, 1821, in Ireland. He is a Roman catholic priest of the Benedictine order in North Carolina; and the author of Catholicity in the Carolinas and Georgia; and Conferences on the Blessed Trinity.