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O'Donnell, Jessie Fremont

author, was born in New York. She is a writer of Lowville, N. Y., and the author of Heart Lyrics; and Horseback Sketches.

O'FERRALL, CHARLES TRIPLETT, lawyer, legislator, congressman, governor, was born Oct. 21, 1840, near Brucetown, Va. He received his education in the common schools, and Washington college, now known as the Washington and Lee university. In 1861 he enlisted in the cavalry service of the confederate state as a private; passed through all the grades from sergeant to colonel, and at the surrender of Lee was in command of all the confederate cavalry in the Shenandoah valley, and was eight times wounded. He located at Harrisonburgh, where he commenced the practice of his profession. He was a member of the general assembly of Virginia in 1871-73; judge of the county court of Rockingham county in 1874-80; and democratic state canvasser in 1880-83. In 1882 he was the democratic nominee for congress in the seventh district; and was elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses, and was re-elected to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat.