Olden, Charles Smith – Ollendorp, Christian George Andreas
Olden, Charles Smith
merchant, manufacturer, state senator, governor, was born Feb. 19, 1799, in Princeton, N. J.
Between the years 1844 and 1850 he was twice elected to the state senate, and in 1859 was elected governor of New Jersey.
He died April 7, 1876, in Princeton, N. J.
Oldham, Herbert
musician, composer, was born March 1, 1853, in Ireland. He is the author of a number of compositions for the voice, pianoforte and the *organ.
Oldham, Williamson S
lawyer, orator, author, was born June 19, 1813, in Franklin county, Tenn. This brilliant orator and author was a member of the Texas-Arkansas house of representatives in 1841, and was elected speaker of that body. During 1844-48 he was judge of the supreme court of Arkansas. He was a member of the secession convention of Texas, and a senator from that state in the confederate states senate during 1861- 65. He is the author of a Digest of the Laws of Texas, published in 1858.
Olds, Edson B
state senator, congressman, was born in Vermont. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1849 to 1855. He was elected a member of the assembly of Ohio, having previously served six years in the state legislature, and been speaker of the senate. He died Jan. 24, 1869, in Lancaster, Ohio.
Olds, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, was born April 15, 1832, in Circleville, Ohio.
In 1868 he was elected judge of the judicial district of Ohio, resigning in 1873.
Olin, Abraham B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1808 in Shaftsbury, Vt. He was for three years recorder of the city of Troy, N. Y. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from New York. He was re-elected to the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh congresses; and in 1863 was appointed a judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. He died July 7, 1879, in Washington, D. C.
Olin, Gideon
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born about 1750 in Rhode Island. He was a member of the Vermont state legislature and speaker of the house; a judge of the county court, and a representative in congress from 1803 to 1807. He died Aug. 6, 1822, in Shaftsbury, Vt.
Olin, Henry
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1767 in Rhode Island. He was elected to the general assembly of Rhode Island in 1799, and, excepting four years, continued to serve in that capacity until 1825. He was an associate judge of the Addison county court from 1801 to 1806; and was chief judge of said court in 1807, and from 1810 to 1824. He was chosen a representative in congress to fill a vacancy in 1824. and was also, at one time, lieutenant-governor of the state. He died in 1837 in Salisbury, Vt.
Olin, Mrs. Julia Matilda
(LYNCH), author, was born Dec. 14, 1814, in New York city. She was the author of Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; Curious and Useful Questions on the Bible; and The Perfect Light. She died May 1, 1879, in New York city. a
Olin, Stephen
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born March 2, 1797, in Leicester, Vt. He was meinodist clergyman and educator; president of Wesleyan university in 1842, and the author of Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petræa, and the Holy Land; Greece and the Golden Horn; College Life, Its Theory and Practice; and Youthful Piety.
He died Aug. 16, 1851, in Middletown, Conn.
Oliphant, E. P
lawyer, jurist, was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed from that state an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Washington, residing at Whatcomb.
Oliphant, Lawrence
author, was born in 1829 in Ceylon. He is the author of a number of works, and, with his wife, wrote the peculiar and almost incomprehensible book, entitled Sympneumata. He died Dec. 23, 1888, in England.
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, David Dykins
surveyor, lumberman, was born Aug. 8, 1814, in Green county, N. Y. He taught school and continued his studies at the same time. He subsequently taught in Pontiac, Mich., and became a land surveyor. 1844 he began a mercantile career, and five years later purchased the first saw mill erected in Alpena county. For ten years he was on the board of supervisors, and in 1857 was elected county surveyor, which position he filled for twelve years.
He was also judge of probate. He is the author of Water, Its Formation and Effect Geologically Considered; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Oliver, Fitch Edward
physician, journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1819, in Cambridge, Mass. In 1860 he assumed the editorship of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in Massachusetts. He was one of the translators of Chomel's Treatise on General Pathology, and published the Lynde Diaries.
Oliver, Mrs. Grace Atkinson
(LITTLE) (ELLIS), littérateur, author, poet, was born Sept. 24, 1844, in Boston, Mass. She is a littérateur of Salem, Mass., and the author of Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, Maria Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She has edited Tales of Maria Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; and Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane Taylor.
Oliver, James
inventor, was born Aug. 28, 1823, in Scotland. He moved to South Bend in 1855 and began to manufacture plows. He met with some losses, much hard work, and many discouragements, but finally invented the chilled plow, which has since made his fortune.
The little old shop of 1855 has now béen succeeded by a plant owned by the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, covering fifty-eight acres, twenty-five of them under roof, and the Oliver chilled plows are sold in every part of the world.
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.
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.