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Oliver, Addison

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1833 in Washington county, Pa. He settled in western Iowa in 1857; was elected to the Iowa house of representatives in 1863; and to the Iowa senate in 1865. He was elected judge of the fourth judicial circuit in 1868, and twice re-elected to the same office, which he continued to hold until elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses.

Oliver, Alice May

educator, poet, was born in Lakeland, Minn. She is known as the Prairie Poet, and resides in Luverne, Minn. She is a successful school teacher and the author of a volume of poems entitled Fragments of Thought.

Oliver, Andrew

lawyer, jurist, author, was born Nov. 13, 1731, in Boston, Mass. He represented Salem in the general court in 1766; and before the revolution was judge of the Essex county court of common pleas. He published an Essay on Comets, in which he maintained that they were habitable worlds. He died in December, 1799, in Salem, Mass.

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Oliver, Andrew

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Springfield, N.

He was appointed to succeed his father as first judge of the court of common pleas of New York in 1843, which position he held until the adoption of the new state constitution. In 1846 he was elected judge of the Surrogate and county courts. In 1852 he was elected a representative to the thirty-third congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-fourth con. gress.

Oliver, Benjamin Lynde

lawyer, author, was born in 1788, in Marblehead, Mass. He was a lawyer of Boston, and the author of Hints on the Pursuit of Happiness; Rights of an American Citizen; Law Summary; Practical Conveyancing; Forms of Practice; and Forms of Chancery. He died in 1843. In

Oliver, James Edward

educator, author, mathematician, was born July 27, 1829, in Portland, Maine. In 1871 he became assistant professor of mathematics at Cornell, and two years later he was given full possession of the chair. He has published A Treatise on Trigonometry.

OLIVER, MRS. MARTHA (CAPPS), author, poet, was born in 1845 in Illinois. She is a writer of Jacksonville, Ill. Her writings in poetry for juvenile readers comprise, The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; and The Far West. con-

Oliver, Mordecai

lawyer, gressman, was born Oct. 22, 1819, in Anderson county, Ky. He was elected circuit attorney for the fifth judicial circuit of Missouri in 1848. In 1852 he was elected a member of the thirty-third congress, and re-elected to the thirty-fourth congress.

Oliver, Paul Ambrose

soldier, manufacturer, inventor, was born July 18, 1830, on shipboard in the English channel.

In 1870 he established a powder factory near Wilkesbarre, Pa., where he has since been engaged in the manufacture of explosives, using for that purpose machinery of his own invention. He has invented a bayonet-fastening and a screw-headed key. a

Oliver, Peter

lawyer, jurist, was born March 26, 1713, in Boston. Mass. He was made a justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts in 1756, and in 1771 became chief justice. He was also one of the mandamus councillors. He died Oct. 13, 1791, in England.

Oliver, Peter

lawyer, author, was born in 1822 in Hanover, N. H. He was a lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Commonwealth, an historical review of the Puritan government of Massachusetts, presents a not altogether favorable picture of the period under discussion. He died in 1855 at sea.

Oliver, Robert

soldier, was born in 1738 in Boston, Mass. For some time he acted as adjutant-general of the northern army, and excelled as a disciplinarian. In 1782 he received the brevet of colonel.

He was one of the first settlers of Marietta, Ohio, in 1788, was chosen a representative in the territorial legislature in 1798, became a member of the council in 1799.

He died in May, 1810, in Marietta, Ohio.