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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (O'NEILL PAEDEE.) 



engineer of the Council Bluffs and St. Joseph Kail- 

 road. He was employed as contractor for transferring 

 freight over the Missouri river between Council 

 Bluffs and Omaha from 1867 till 1873, and was engaged 

 in the elevator-insurance business in Chicago from 

 1873 till 1881. In the latter year he removed to Bos- 

 ton, and became President of the Atlantic and Pacific 

 Kailroad Company, which office he held till 1889, 

 when, on account of failing health, he was obliged to 

 retire. Mr. Nutt served on the staff of Gov. Kirkwood, 

 of Iowa, with the rank of colonel, during the greater 

 part of the civil war. 



O'Neill, John A,, expert steel-plate engraver, died 

 in Washington, D. C., June 17, 1892. He was a 

 member of the Board of Freeholders of Hudson 

 County, N. J., in 1869, 1870, and 1873, and subse- 

 quently director of the board, and member of the 

 Legislature in 1872 ; was appointed by the Legislature 

 commissioner of wharves and piers for Passaic river, 

 and was elected Mayor of Hoboken in 1880, after a 

 bitter contest with the local ring, which expected to 

 make much money and political capital out of the 

 erection of the new City Hall, which was to be begun 

 during that mayoralty term. He had much trouble 

 with the ring contractors, but thwarted them, and was 

 sustained in liis action by the leading lawyers in his 

 State. In April, 1885, he was appointed chief of the 

 engraving division of the Government Bureau of En- 

 graving and Printing, and because of his ability as 

 an expert steel engraver and as an executive he was 

 retained in the office by the Harrison administration. 

 He selected the picture of Martha Washington for the 

 one-dollar silver certificates, against a protest based 

 on the fact that she would be the first woman that 

 ever graced the face of a paper note. 



O'Eeilly, Patrick Thomas, clergyman, born in Kill, 

 County Cavan, Ireland, Dec. 25. 1833 ; died in Spring- 

 field, Mass., May 28, 1892. He received his early 

 education in his native town, came to the United 

 States in 1847, studied at St. Charles College, Ellicott 

 City, and St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Md., and 

 was ordained a priest in the Eoman Catholic Church 

 in Boston, Aug. 15, 1857. After serving two parishes 

 in that city he held a pastorate in Worcester from 

 1864 till 1870, when he was chosen the first Koman 

 Catholic bishop of the diocese of Springfield, and 

 was consecrated Sept. 25. In 1890 the twentieth 

 anniversary of his episcopate was celebrated at his 

 cathedral, when he received many and costly presents. 

 Under his administration the new diocese increased 

 from 43 priests to 178 ; from 2 parochial schools to 26, 

 including 3 high schools ; and from a Eoman Catholic 

 population of 80,000 to 170,000. Bishop O'Eeilly con- 

 secrated 4 churches, dedicated 40 others, and con- 

 firmed 70,000 people. 



Osgood, James Bipley, publisher, born in Fryeburg, 

 Me., in 1836 ; died in London, England, May 18, 1892. 

 He was graduated at Bowdoin College, and soon after- 

 ward became a clerk in the Boston publishing house 

 of Ticknor & Fields, where he rapidly advanced till 

 he became a partner. In 1869 the firm of Ticknor & 

 Fields was succeeded by that of Fields, Osgood & 

 Co., and that in 1871 by James E. Osgood & Co. In 

 1878 the business was consolidated with the house 

 of Hurd & Houghton, under the title Houghton, 

 Osgood & Co. In 1880 Mr. Osgood retired, and re- 

 established the old firm of James E. Osgood & Co., 

 which continued to do business in Boston till 1885, 

 when Mr. Osgood retired. He then accepted an offer 

 from Harper & Brothers to ^become their London 

 agent, and represented them in that city till 1890, 

 when he established the London house of Osgood, 

 Mcllvaine & Co., which continued the Harpers' 

 agency, and engaged in publication on its own ac- 

 count. The different firms jf which Mr. Osgood had 

 been a member were widely known as publishers of 

 " The Atlantic Monthly " and " Every Saturday," and 

 the works of Lowell, Longfellow, Emerson, Haw- 

 thorne, Holmes, Whittier, Mrs. Stowe, and other 

 American authors. A memoir of Mr. Osgood, by 

 Mrs. A. V. S. Anthony, is announced. 



Overheiser, John d, educator, born in New York cit, 

 in 1834; died there, May 1, 1892. He was graduated 

 at Eochester University in 1854, and became an in- 

 structor in Latin in the Polytechnic Institute of 

 Brooklyn, which he left to establish a private school 

 for preparing young men for college. He was con- 

 sidered one of the most accomplished Latin and 

 Greek scholars in the United States, and for more 

 than thirty years was a member of the Greek Club 

 of New York. He was a trustee of the Baptist City 

 Missions and Tract Society, chairman of its building 

 committee, Vice-President of the New York State Bap- 

 tist Convention, and trustee of the Lelaiid University 

 for Colored People in Louisiana, and of the Eutgers 

 Female College in New York city. 



Packer, Harriet L,, philanthropist, born in Vermont, 

 in 1820 ; died in Brooklyn, N.T., Jan. 26, 1892. She 

 was the daughter of Eev. Benjamin Putnam, a well- 

 known Baptist clergyman, and widow of William S. 

 Packer, of Brooklyn, to whom she was married in 

 1842, and who died in 1850. Mr. Packer was one of 

 the founders and original trustees of the Brooklyn 

 Female Academy, in which his wife became deeply 

 interested. The academy was destroyed by fire in 

 January, 1853, and Mrs. Packer contributed $65,000, 

 the entire cost of its rebuilding, and also founded 

 many free scholarships in the institution. In recog- 

 nition of her generosity, the name of the academy 

 was changed to Packer Institute, and as such it has 

 become one of the most noted institutions for the 

 higher education of women in the United States, hav- 

 ing on its rolls at the time of its founder's death the 

 names of 900 students. Mrs. Packer was closely con- 

 nected with a large number of charitable institutions. 

 She was one of the incorporators, and for some years 

 President, of the Brooklyn Society for the Aid of 

 Friendless Women and Children. 



Page, George Shepard. capitalist, born in Eeadfield, 

 Me., in 1838; died in Morris Plains, N. J., March 26, 

 1892. He began his business career in Chelsea, Mass., 

 where he was associated with his father in the coal- 

 tar trade. In 1862 he removed to New York city, and 

 afterward made a large fortune by various invest- 

 ments. He was one of the best known men in field 

 sports and fishing circles in the country ; was Presi- 

 dent of the Chatham, N. J., Fish and Game Protective 

 Association, which controlled over 10,000 acres of land 

 along Passaic river ; had an estate of several hundred 

 acres at Stanley, N. J., and was the founder of the 

 Quassac Sportsman's Club, whose headquarters are on 

 Eangeley Lakes, in Maine. Mr. Page was also a 

 founder of the American Fish Culturists' Association, 

 which was organized Dec. 20, 1870, and it was through 

 his personal exertions and the influence of this asso- 

 ciation that Congress created the United States Fish 

 Commission. 



Pardee, Ario, manufacturer, born in Nassau, N. Y., 

 Nov. 15, 1810 ; died on Indian river, Florida, March 

 26, 1892. In early life he became acquainted with 

 Asa Packer, and with him was engaged in the devel- 

 opment of the coal-mining, manufacturing, and rail- 

 road interests of the Lehigh valley. He became a 

 practical civil engineer, laid out and superintended 

 the construction of some of the first railroads in 

 Pennsylvania, founded the present city of Hazelton 

 on the Buck mountain in 1836, and began operating 

 the great anthracite coal mines in that section in 1839. 

 He further secured control of seven or eight other val- 

 uable mines, and the output of all under his control 

 was about 1,250,000 tons a year. From coal mining he 

 extended his financial operations till he acquired con- 

 trol of the Stanhope, N. J., furnaces. He laid out the 

 town of Hazelton, Ohio, in the richest cannel-coal field 

 in that State ; invested heavily in North Carolina tim- 

 ber property ; operated mills of various kinds in dif- 

 ferent places , and established a prosperous banking 

 house. He was, till within a few years, the largest 

 individual operator in the Lehigh coal fields, and 

 his wealth was estimated at from $30,000,000 to 

 $60,000,000. He gave more than $500,000 to Lafay- 

 ette College for the erection of Pardee Hall ; was the 



