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O'Connor, James

educator, college president, bishop, was born Sept. 10, 1823 , in Ireland. He was made president of St. of St.

Michael's seminary of Glenwood in 1857.

He was transferred to the seminary at Overbrook in 1863, where, while acting as director, he filled the chairs of philosophy, moral theology, and ecclesiastical history. He was nominated vicar-apostolic of Nebraska, and consecrated bishop of Dibona in partibus infidelium in 1876.

He died May 27, 1890, in Omaha, Neb.

O'Connor, Joseph

journalist, poet, was born in 1841 in New York. He is . He is a journalist of Rochester, N. Y., whose collected Poems appeared in 1895.

O'Connor, M. P

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 29, 1831, in Beaufort, S. C. He was a representative in the legislature of South Carolina from 1858 to 1865; and was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat. He died April 26, 1881.

O'Connor, Thomas William

educator, state senator, was born July 4, 1868, in White county, Ind. He is a successful educator; has filled numerous public offices of trust; and is now serving a term of four years as a member of the Indiana state senate.

O'Connor, William Douglas

author, was born Jan. 2, 1833, in Boston, Mass. He was a clerk in the civil service at Washington, and the author of Harrington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet, a defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; Three Tales; and Hamlet's Note Book.

He died May 9, 1889, in Washington, D. C.

O'Conor, Thomas

journalist, author, was born Sept. 1, 1770, in Ireland. He established in 1812 the Shamrock, and the Globe, founded in 1815 in New York city.

He also published several pamphlets on Irish or Roman catnolic questions, and volumes entitled Selections from Several Literary Works. He died Feb. 9, 1855, in New York city.

Odell, Jacob

soldier, was born July 25, 1756, in Greenburg, N. Y. He was a brigadier-general in the continental army during the war of the revolution, and afterward a member of the New York state assembly, representing Westchester county in 1812-13; and a member of the presidential electoral college in 1820 and 1828. He died in 1846, in Yonkers, N. Y.

Odell, Benjamin B

business man, congressman, was born Jan. 14, 1854, in Newburg, N. Y. He was elected from New York to the fifty-fourth, and reelected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

O'Dell, Joseph C

farmer, clergyman, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 10, 1850, in Reynolds county, Mo. He is a successful farmer and a noted clergyman of Ruble, Mo. He has served two terms as county judge; and has been a member of the Missouri state legislature.

Odell, Moses Fowler

congressman, was born Feb. 24, 1818, in Tarrytown, N. Y. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress. In 1865 he was appointed naval agent for the port of New York. He died June 13, 1866, in New York city.

Odin, John Mary

archbishop, was born Feb. 25, 1801, in France. In 1822 he was sent on a mission to Missouri; taught in Missouri and Texas; and was an energetic promoter of emigration. He became an archbishop in Texas of the Roman catholic church. He died May 25, 1870, in France.

Odiorne, Thomas

manufacturer, author, was born April 26, 1769, in Exeter, N. H. He was an iron manufacturer of Malden, Mass., and the author of The Progress of Refinement, a Poem; and Fame and Miscellanies. He died May 18, May 18, 1851, in Malden, Mass.