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Osmun, Gilbert R – Otis, James

Osmun, Gilbert R

soldier, journalist, was born Oct. 8, 1845, in Newark, N. J. He became city editor of the Times of Port Huron, Mich., then of the Saginaw Republican; and for ten years was state editor of the Detroit Evening News.

He was private secretary to Gov. Alger until he assumed the duties of secretary of state.

Osmun, Thomas Embley

author, was born Feb. 26, 1826, in Summit county, Ohio. He is an author of New York city; and has written The Verbalist; The Orthoepist; an annotated edition of Cobbett's Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; and The Essentials of Elocution.

Ostrom, Ernest R

journalist, poet, was born April 1, 1868, near Victor, Iowa.

He is the editor and part owner of the Criterion of Danbury, Iowa; has contributed extensively to periodical literature; and some of his poems have appeared in standard collections.

Oswald, Felix Leopold

naturalist, author, was born in 1845 in Belgium.

He is a naturalist of Tennessee; and the author of Physical Education; Summerland Sketches; Zoölogical Sketches; Household Remedies; The Secret of the East, or the Origin of the Christian Religion; Days and Nights in the Tropics: The Bible of Nature; and The Poison Problem.

Otero, Mariano S

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1844, in Peralta, N. M. He was probate judge from 1871 to 1879; was nominated a delegate to the forty-fourth congress, but declined; and was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the forty-sixth congress as a republican.

Otero, Miguel A

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born June 21, 1829, in Valencia, N. M. He was elected to the New Mexico territorial legislature. For a time he held the office of attorney-general for the territory; and in 1855 was elected a delegate to congress from New Mexico. He died May 31, 1882.

Otis, Charles Eugene

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1847 in Prairieville, Mich. He moved to Minnesota in 1871; served one year as a member of the St. Paul board of education; and two terms as a member of the common council. In 1889 he was appointed judge to fill a vacancy; was elected to the same office in 1890, and re-elected in 1896.

Otis, Elisha Graves

inventor, was born Aug. 3, 1811, in Halifax, Vt. He put into practical operation a hoisting machine that embodied some novel features calculated to automatically prevent loss of life in case of the breaking of the lifting cable. In 1867 his sons organized a stock company to carry on the manufacture of his inventions, and its business now amounts to about $2,000,000 per annum. He died April 8, 1861, in Yonkers, N. Y.

Otis, Elwell Stephen

soldier, author, was born March 25, 1838, in Frederick City, Md. He is a United States army officer; and the author of The Indian Question.

Otis, Fessenden Nott

physician, author, was born May 6, 1825, in Ballston, N. Y. He is a physician of New York city; and the author of Lessons in Drawing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the Panama Railroad; Stricture of the Male Urethra; Clinical Lessons on Syphilis; and Physiology of Syphilitic Infection.

Otis, George Alexander

surgeon, author, was born Nov. 12, 1830, in Boston, Mass. He was a surgeon who was curator of the Army Medical museum at Washington; and the author of Report of Surgical Cases Treated in the United States Army, 1867-71; and Amputation at the Hip Joint. He died Feb. 23, 1881, in Washington, D. C.

Otis, James

soldier, orator, author, was born Feb. 5, 1725, in West Barnstable, Mass. He was a celebrated orator and politician, and one of the most active advocates of American independence. He was the author of Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved; Vindication of the British Colonies; Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists; and A Vindication of the Rights of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts Bay. He was killed by lightning May 23, 1783, in Andover, Mass.