Oliver, William M
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in Springfield, N. Y. He was for a long time first judge of the court of common pleas; was a state senator and lieutenant-governor in 1830, and a representative from New York in the twenty-seventh congress.
OLLENDORP, CHRISTIAN GEORGE ANDREAS, missionary, author, was born March 8, 1721, in Saxony. He was a Moravian missionary; and the author of a work entitled History of the Missions of the Brethren on the Caribbean Islands, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John. He died March 9, 1787.
OLMSTED, ALEXANDER FISHER, educator, author, was born Dec. 20, 1822, in Chapel Hill, N. C. He was a professor of chemistry in the university of North Carolina who published Elements of Chemistry. He died May 5, 1853, in New Haven, Conn.