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consin in 1857, was elected lieutenant-governor of the 

 State in 1859, and on the appointment of Gov. Ran- 

 dall as United States minister to Italy in 1860, suc- 

 ceeded to the executive chair for the unexpired term 

 of two years. During his incumbency he was active 

 in raising, equipping, and forwarding volunteers to 

 the national armies. In 1864 he removed to Brook- 

 lyn, where he resided until his death. After being a 

 weigher in the New York custom-house, he was har- 

 bor master four years and chief clerk in the seizure 

 department nine years. 



Noyes, Edward Follensbee, lawyer, born in Havcrhiil, 

 Mass., Oct. 3, 1832 ; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 4, 

 1890. He was apprenticed to the printer's trade when 

 fourteen years old, and was graduated at Dartmouth 

 College in 1857. He was graduated at the Cincinnati 



Dartmoor; was sent with 340 other convicts to the 

 penal colony in Western Australia, in Nnvi-uil.rr, 

 1867, and reached his destination Jan. 10, 1868. He 

 immediately began planning an escape, but did not 

 succeed till Feb. 18. 1869, and nine months after- 

 ward landed in Philadelphia, penniless and friend- 

 less. From Philadelphia he came to New York city, 



In 



1870 he secured employment on the Boston " Pilot," 

 and in 1874 became part owner and editor-in-chief ot 

 that paper, with which he was connected until his 

 death. He founded the Papyrus Club of Boston, and 

 became president of it. He was the poet at the dedi- 

 cation of the Pilgrim Monument at Plymouth, Aug. 

 1, 1889. His publications include: "Songs of South- 

 ern Seas" (1873); ," Songs, Legends, and Ballads" 



Law School in 1858, and entered on a successful prac-* (1878; ; " Moondyne " (1879 ) : " Statues in the Block 

 t.iofi. At the beinnnina" of the civil war he turned M881 ir u In "Rnfipmia ' nftSf^- >' Tl-m Pmintro ?< 



tice. At the beginning of the civil war he turned 

 his law office into a recruiting office, and on July 

 27, 1861. he was commissioned major of the 39th 

 Ohio Infantry. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel 

 July 8, 1862, took part in the battles of luka and 

 Corinth ; was promoted colonel Oct. 1, 1862 ; com- 



(1881 j; "In Bohemia'' (1886); "The Country with 

 a Koof " ; and " The Evolution of Straight Weapons." 

 Osgood, Charles, painter, born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 

 25, 1809 ; died there, Dec. 26, 1890. He received a 

 public-school education^ spent one year as a bank 

 clerk, and began studying painting when seventeen 



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manded his regiment in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, years old. In 1827 he removed to Boston, soon after- 



and Kenesaw Mountain ; received a wound that 

 caused the loss of a leg while leading an assault at 

 Ruff's Mills on July 4, 1864 ; was brevetted brigadier- 

 general March 13, 1865 ; and commanded Camp Den- 

 nison from his convalescence till April 22, 1865. He 

 then resigned from the army, became city solicitor of 

 Cincinnati, was elected probate judge of Hamilton 

 County as a Republican in 1866, was elected Governor 

 of Ohio in 1871, and was defeated for re-election in 

 1873. In 1877 he was appointed United States minister 

 to France. He made several official trips to Turkey 

 during her war with Russia, and was a special United 

 States commissioner to the Paris Exposition. He re- 

 signed his office in August, 1881, resumed practice in 

 Cincinnati, and in 1889 was elected judge of the Su- 

 perior Court of that city. 



O'Connor, James, clergyman, born in Queenstown, 

 Ireland, Sept. 10, 1823; died in Omaha, Neb., May 

 He was a younger brother of Michael 



ward to New York city, and within a few years re- 

 turned to his native city 2 where he passed the remain- 

 der of his life. He attained high rank as a portrait 

 painter, and many of his works are in the libraries of 

 the historical societies in Boston, Worcester, and Cam- 

 bridge, and the Peabody Institute, Essex Institute, 

 and the City Hall in Salem. 



Owen, Eichard, scientist, born near New Lanark, 

 Scotland, Jan. 6, 1810; died in New Harmony, Ind., 

 March 24, 1890. He was a son of Robert Owen, the 

 Scotch philanthropist, and a brother of Robert Dale 

 Owen, the scholar and statesman, and David Dale 

 Owen, the geologist. He received a scientific educa- 

 tion in his native country, making a special study of 

 chemistry and geology, and, on coming to the United 

 States, in 1828, settled in New Harmony, Ind., and 

 began teaching. Shortly afterward he engaged in 

 business in Cincinnati, then returned to New Har- 



27 1890. He was a younger brother of Michael mony and' conducted a stock farm till the beginning 

 O'Connor, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Pitts- of the Mexican War. He served during the war as a 



burg, and came to the United States in 1838. He was 

 educated in the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in 

 Philadelphia and in the Urban College in Rome, 

 Italy, and was ordained a priest in the Roman Catho- 

 lic Church, in Rome, in 1845. On his return to the 

 United States he was engaged in missionary labor in 

 the Pittsburg diocese for seven years, was appointed 



captain in the 16th United States Infantry, and after 

 its close was associated with his brother David in the 

 geological survey of Minnesota, himself exploring 

 the north shore of Lake Superior in 1849. The^same 

 year he was appointed Professor of Natural Sciences 

 m the Western Military Institute of Kentucky, and 

 held the office till 1858, when the institute had become 



superior of "si. Michael's Theological and Preparatory the University of Nashville. On leaving the univer- 

 Seminarv at Glenwood, near Pittsburg, in 1857, and, sity he made a geological survey of Indiana as nssist- 



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resigning this office, was appointed Director of the 

 Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo in 1863. While 

 holding the latter office he was also Professor of Phi- 

 losophy, Moral Theology, and Ecclesiastical History. 

 In 1863 he became pastor of St. Dominic's Church in 

 Holmesburg, Pa. ; in 1876 was elected vicar apostolic 

 of Nebraska and was consecrated titular Bishop of 

 Dibona on Aug. 20. In 1885, when Nebraska was 

 made the diocese of Omaha, he became its bishop. He 

 founded Creighton College, Omaha, in 1879, and at- 

 tended the Plenary Council in Baltimore in 1884. 



O'Beilly, John Boyle, journalist, born in Dowth Cas- 

 tle, County Meath, Ireland, June 28, 1844 ; died in 

 Hull, Mass., Aug. 10, 1890. He was a son of William 

 David O'Reilly, a noted mathematician and scholar, 

 who was master of the Nettleville Institute, at Douth 

 Castle, for thirty-five years. After being carefully 

 educated by his father, he learned tha printer's trade 

 in the office of the Drogheda "Argus," .and followed 

 it for several years in various English cities. At the 

 beginning of the revolutionary movement in 1863, he 

 returned to Ireland, and enlisted in the 10th Hussars 

 tor the purpose of spreading disaffection among the 



soldiers. On June 27, 1866, he was arrested, tried for gineering m tuo iuiu^ ^ '""""' ] 



and was the gold excitement, and m 1849 surveyed a -w agon 



ant State geologist. At the beginning of the civil 

 war he became lieutenant-colonel of the 15th Indiana 

 Volunteers, and he afterward raised the 60th Regi- 

 ment and was commissioned its colonel. He was 

 made a prisoner of war at Mumfordsville, and after a 

 brief imprisonment served with Gen. Sherman and 

 with Gen. Banks in the Red River expedition. In 

 1864 he resigned, from failing health, and the same 

 year was appointed Professor of Natural Sciences in 

 the University of Indiana, where he remained till 

 1879. He afterward made important researches in 

 meteorology and terrestrial magnetisou and published 

 valuable papers on those and allied subjects. He was 

 a member of many scientific organizations ; received 

 the decree of M. D. from Nashville Medical College 

 in 1858" and that of LL. D. from Wabash College in 

 1871. He died from drinking embalming fluid by 

 mistake for mineral water. 



Paine, William H,, civil engineer, born in Chester, 

 N. H. May 27, 1S28 ; died in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 

 31, 1890. He received an academical education, 

 studied civil engineering, became a land surveyor in 

 northern Wisconsin, introduced new methods of en- 



high treason, found guilty on five charge?, 

 sentenced to be shot, but the sentence was commuted 

 to twenty years' penal servitude. .He spent a year in 

 the prisons m Chatham, Portsmouth, Portland, and 



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road" across the Rocky mountains. In 1853 he sur- 

 veyed a route for a railroad across the Sierra Nevada 

 mountains from Sacramento to Utah, and he was after- 



