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Orton, Edward

geologist, college president, was born March 9, 1829, in Deposit, N. Y. During 1873-81 he was president of the Ohio State university, and still holds the chair of geology in that institution. Since 1869. he has been state geologist of Ohio and in 1896 was elected president of the Geological society of America. He is the author of Economic Geology of Ohio; and Petroleum and Inflammable Gas.

Orton, James

educator, clergyman author, was born April 21, 1830, in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He was a congregational clergyman, well known as a naturalist, who was professor of natural history at Vassar college in 1869-77, and the author of Comparative Zoölogy; The Andes and the Amazon; Underground Treasures; and Liberal Education of Women. He died Sept. 25, 1877, in Peru.

Orton, Jason Rockwood

author, poet, was born in 1806 in Hamilton, N. Y.

He was a littérateur of New York city, and the author of Poetical Sketches; Arnold, and Other Poems; Camp Fires of the Red Men; and Confidential Experiences of a Spiritualist. He died Feb. 13, 1867, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Orton, William

was born June 14, 1826, in Cuba, N. Y. He was appointed from that state in 1865 commissioner of internal revenue in the United States treasury, but only held the office one year. He afterward became president of the Western Union Telegraph company in New York city.

Orum, Julia Anna

educator, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 28, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has been principal in the Philadelphia School of Elocution; principal in Mt. Lake Park Summer school of Voice Education; and instructor of voice training in the Woman's college of Baltimore. She is a successful Shakespearian reader and lecturer; is the author of a work entitled Voice Education, and is a constant contributor to the best periodical publications.

Orwig, Samuel H

lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 18, 1836, in Mifflinburg, Pa.

He was admitted to the bar in 1860; and was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1864-65, declining re-election.

Osborn, Henry Fairfield

educator, author, was born in 1857 in Connecticut. He is a professor of biology at Columbia college, and the author of From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the evolution idea.

Osborn, John

soldier, physician, author, was born March 17, 1741, in Middletown, Conn. He attained note as a chemist, and is said to have had the most valuable medical library in the state. Before the revolution he published a translation of Condamine's Treatise on Inoculation, with an original appendix. He died in June, 1825, in Middletown, Conn.

Osborn, John Churchill

physician, educator, poet, was born in September, 1766, in Middletown, Conn. In 1808 he was appointed professor of the institutes of medicine in Columbia, which office he resigned in 1813 to accept the chair of obstetrics in the New York college of physicians and surgeons. He was a connoisseur in poetry, belles-lettres, and painting. Joel Barlow submitted the poem of The Vision of Columbus to him for revision. He died March 5, 1819, in the Island of St. Croix.

Osborn, Laughton

artist, was born in 1809 in New York city. He was an artist and writer of New York city, and the author of Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of Oil Painting; and Travels by Sea and Land. He died Dec. 12, 1878, in New York city.

Osborn, Selleck

journalist, poet, was born in 1783 in Trumbull, Conn. He was a journalist, once popular as a poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and Satirical. He died. Oct. 1, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa.