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OBITUAEIES, AMERICAN. 



a member of numerous scientific societies, and 

 a Fellow of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, of which organiza- 

 tion he was elected Yice-President of the Sec- 

 tion of Chemistry for 1885, and at that time 

 presented a valuable address on "Chemistry 

 in the Service of the Public Health." The 

 subject of water-analysis was one to which he 

 paid special attention, and was regarded as 

 one of the first authorities in this country in 

 that line of investigation. He published nu- 

 merous papers on the water-supplies of Bos- 

 ton, Cambridge, New Bedford, Springfield, 

 and Winchester, Mass.; New London, Conn.; 

 and Yonkers, N. Y. Among his researches 

 that deserve special mention are those devoted 

 to the ventilation of railway-trains, and par- 

 ticularly the effects of the atmosphere of smok- 

 ing-cars, undertaken at the request of the Mas- 

 sachusetts State Board of Health. He was de- 

 voted to the interests of the Institute of Tech- 

 nology, and compiled a list of the " Publications 

 of its Officers, Students, and Alumni," in which 

 may be found a complete list of his own papers 

 down to 1882. At the time of his death he 

 had in active preparation an index to the liter- 

 ature of carbon monoxide, and also, with Prof. 

 Lewis M. Norton, a " Dictionary of Chemical 

 Synonyms." He also prepared the following 

 text-books : " An Elementary Manual of Chem- 

 istry," abridged from Eliot and Storer's man- 

 ual, with the co-operation of the authors (New 

 York, 1872) ; a " Compendious Manual of 

 Qualitative Analysis," by Charles W. Eliot and 

 Frank H. Storer (1872), this and subsequent 

 editions being of his revision: "Water-Sup- 

 ply, mainly from a Chemical and Sanitary 

 Standpoint" (1883); and, with L. M. Norton, 

 "Laboratory Experiments in General Chem- 

 istry" (printed privately, Boston, 1884). 



Noyes, John H., an American religious enthu- 

 siast, born in Brattleboro', Vt., in 1811 ; died at 

 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Can., April 13, 1886. He 

 was educated in Andover and New Haven, and 

 while pursuing his theological studies was 

 brought under the influence of revivalist 

 preachers. This event and his own reading 

 of the Bible led him to believe that all exist- 

 ing forms of religious worship were wrong, 

 and from this belief he soon passed to an- 

 other, that it was his mission to found a new 

 and the true religion. He began preaching 

 his theories in 1834, and gathering about him 

 a number of adherents he gave to them the name 

 of " Perfectionists." During the next twelve 

 years he confined his labors mainly to Put- 

 ney, Vt., and then, having adopted some^of 

 the principles of Fourierism, he induced his 

 followers to attempt the experiment of com- 

 munal living. The result was, that the indig- 

 nation of the citizens was raised so strongly 

 against them that, rather than renounce their 

 belief, they sought an abiding-place elsewhere. 

 In 1848 they established themselves at Oneida, 

 Madison County, N. Y., and have since been 

 known as the Oneida Community. Various at- 



tempts to maintain branch communities have 

 failed, and by the merging of these interests 

 into the common property of the parent es- 

 tablishment, that has acquired considerable 

 material strength. 



Onderdonk, Horatio G., an American lawyer, 

 born in Manhasset, Long Island, N. Y., Aug. 

 14, 1808; died there, April 6, 1886. He was 

 educated at Christ Church Academy and at 

 Eutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., re- 

 ceiving his degree from the latter in 1839. In 

 1833 he successfully led a movement to pre- 

 vent the removal of the county court-house 

 from his native town, and from that time he 

 was one of the most prominent and influential 

 men in Queens County. He was elected jus- 

 tice of the peace in 1833, and was county judge 

 in 1835-'40. He had the largest professional 

 business in Queens County. 



O'Reilly, Henry, an American journalist, born 

 in Carrickmacross, Ulster, Ireland, Feb. 6, 

 1806 ; died in Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 17, 1886. 

 He came to America with his father in 1816, 

 and learned the printer's trade on the New 

 York " Columbian." In 1826 he became edi- 

 tor of the Rochester "Daily Advertiser," and 

 was thus employed for four years. For over 

 half a century Mr. O'Reilly had been promi- 

 nently identified with matters of large public 

 interest, such as the development of the tele- 

 graph system of the United States, the recon- 

 struction and enlargement of the Erie Canal, 

 and the improvement of the common-school 

 system of New York State. He was a re- 

 markably practical man, and much respect was 

 accorded his judgment in matters of public 

 concern. He was the author of " Sketches of 

 Rochester, with Notices of Western New York," 

 an entertaining description of pioneer life in 

 the Genesee valley, with illustrations (Roches- 

 ter, 1838), and several pamphlets on the Anti- 

 masonic troubles. 



Osborn, Austin MeMn, an American lawyer, 

 born in Windham, Greene County, N. Y., Dec. 

 2, 1835; died in Catskill, N. Y., Oct. 31, 1886. 

 He was educated at Rensselaerville Academy, 

 read law with Danforth K. Olney, of Catskill, 

 and was admitted to the bar in 1856. As a 

 Democrat he was elected District Attorney of 

 Greene County in November, 1865, and held 

 the office three years. On the death of Coun- 

 ty Judge Olney, Jan. 11, 1870, Mr. Osborn 

 was appointed to fill the vacancy, serving one 

 year. The election of Judge Theodore Miller 

 to the Court of Appeals in 1875 created a va- 

 cancy on the bench of the Supreme Court, 

 which was filled by the appointment of Judge 

 Osborn, who in the same year was elected for 

 the full term of fourteen years. His term 

 would not have expired until Dec. 31, 1889. 

 Judge Osborn was popular both with bar and 

 people, being esteemed a learned and upright 

 jurist, and on the day of his funeral all the 

 places of business in Catskill were closed. 



Owens, John Edward, an American actor, bora 

 in Aigburth Vale, Liverpool, England, in 1823 ; 



