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Outlaw, George C

state senator, congressman, was born in Bertie county, N. C. He was a member of the house of commons in 1796; and in the North Carolina state senate a number of years thereafter. He was a representative in congress during the years 1824 and 1825. He died Aug. 15, 1836.

Ovall, John

journalist, clergyman, lecturer, was born Jan. 28, 1863, in Sweden. He is a successful pastor of the Scandinavian methodist episcopal church; has organized churches and secured church properties at Port Lavaca, Victoria, Jasmine, Ganado, Louise, El Campo and Galveston, Texas. In Galveston he also organized the Galveston Port society, of which he is chaplain. He founded and edited the Gospel Herald, and now fills a pastorate in Georgetown, Texas.

Overall, John Wilford

journalist, author, poet, was born Sept. 25, 1822, in Shenandoah Valley, Va. He has been editorially connected with the press of Mobile, Richmond, Galveston and St.

Louis; and from 1876 with the press of New York, principally as literary editor of the Mercury. He is the author of Catechism of the Constitution of the United States; and a number of meritorious poems.

Overman, Frederick

civil engineer, author, was born about 1810 in Germany. He was a mining engineer of Philadelphia; and the author of The Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of Steel; Political Mineralogy; Moulder's and Founder's Pocket Guide; Mechanics for the Millwright, etc.; and Treatise on Metallurgy. He died in 1852 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Overman, Lee S

lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 3, 1854, in Salisbury, N. C.

He is a successful lawyer of his native city; was a member of the house of representatives of North Carolina in 1883, 1885, 1887 and in 1893, and was speaker of the house during the latter term. He has been president of the North Carolina Railroad company; and in 1897 was the democratic nominee for United States senator.

Overmyer, John

legislator. This able lawyer has served as a member of the Indiana state legislature, and was elected speaker of the house.

Overstreet, James

congressman, was born in Barnwell, S. C. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1822. He died in 1822.

Overstreet, Jesse

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1859, in Johnson county, Ind. He was admitted to the bar in 1886; and is a successful lawyer of Indianapolis, Ind. He was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Overton, Edward

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1836, in Towanda, Pa. He served in the union army from 1861 to 1864, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a republican.

Overton, Walter H

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Louisiana from 1829 to 1831.

Owen, Abraham

soldier, jurist, legislator, was born in 1769 in Prince Edward county, Va. He was surveyor of Shelby county in 1796, subsequently a magistrate, and colonel of the first militia regiment raised in Kentucky. He was in the legislature in 1798, a member of the state constitutional convention the next year, and state senator in 1810. He died Nov. 7, 1811, in Tippecanoe county, Ind.

Owen, Alfred

clergyman, college president, was born July 20, 1829, in China, Maine. He has filled pastorates in various cities and for several years was president of the Denison university of Granville, Ohio. He is now president of the Roger Williams university of Nashville, Tenn.