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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (NicoLAR OUDIN.) 



for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the diocesan 

 Seminary of St. Jodard, at the Alix branch of the 

 great Seminary of Lyons, and in theology under the 

 Sulpicians in Lyons. In 1852 he came to the 

 United States to engage in missionary work, the same 

 year was ordained subdeacon, and in the following 

 year priest. His first assignment was to the Nacog- 

 doches Mission, in Texas, which then embraced all the 

 northwestern part of the State as far as Eed river. In 

 1864-'66 he labored in Liberty County; in 1866 was 

 made an assistant priest in San Antonio; and in 1868 

 was transferred to Laredo, where he erected a church 

 and completed a convent. Five years afterward he 

 was made pastor of the Church of San Fernando in 

 San Antonio. In 1875, on the creation of the diocese 

 of San Antonio, he was appointed vicar-general ; in 

 1880, on the death of the bishop, he was made admin- 

 istrator of the diocese ; and on May 8, 1881, he was 

 consecrared bishop. He attended the Third Plenary 

 Council of Baltimore in 1884. In 1891 the diocese 

 contained 51 priests, 53 churches, 12 chapels, 3 colleges 

 for boys, 3 academies for young ladies, 28 parochial 

 schools, 3 charitable institutions, and an estimated 

 Roman Catholic population of 50,000. 



Nicolar, Joseph, Indian chief, born on the Penobscot 

 reservation in Maine, about 1827 ; died on Indian 

 Island, Me., Feb. 14, 1894. He was a descendant of a 

 line of powerful chiefs, educated himself after reach- 

 ing manhood, and became the leader of the Old party 

 of the Penobscot tribe, which favored the retention 

 of the ancient tribal customs. Personally, he was 

 gentle, and had broad, progressive views. He had 

 represented his people in the State Legislature, and 

 done much to promote temperance and education 

 among them. Shortly before his death he published 

 " Life and Traditions of the Red Men." 



Noble, William Henry, military officer, born in New- 

 ton, Conn., Aug. 18, 1813 ; died in Bridgeport, Conn., 

 Jan. 18, 1894. He was graduated at Yale College in 

 1832, removed to Bridgeport in 1834, and was admit- 

 ted to the bar in 1836. He was chiefly instrumental 

 in obtaining the charter for the city of Bridgeport, and 

 that of the Housatonic Kailroad Company, of which 

 he was secretary for several years. In 1850 he was 

 defeated for Congress, and subsequently he was Clerk 

 of the Superior Court in Bridgeport for eight years. 

 Prior to the civil war he was interested with Phineas T. 

 Barnum in large real-estate transactions, the develop- 

 ment of Bridgeport and the laying out of East Bridge- 

 port, then principally owned by them. In 1862 he 

 went to the front as colonel of the 17th Connecticut 

 Volunteers. His regiment suffered severely at Chan- 

 cellors ville, where lie was twice wounded. He also 

 distinguished himself at Gettysburg. In 1864 he was 

 captured by guerrillas and held for six months. He 

 was made a brevet brigadier general in 1865. His 

 last public service was in the Legislature in 1884. 



OTarrell, Michael Joseph, clergyman, born in Limer- 

 ick, Ireland, Dec. 2, 1832; died in Trenton, N. J., 

 April 2, 1894. He was educated for the Eoman 

 Catholic priesthood, completing his studies at the 

 College of All Hallows and at the Seminary of St. 

 Sulpice, Paris. Returning to Ireland he was ordained 

 Aug. 18, 1855, and then joined the Community of St. 

 Sulpice. At the end of his novitiate he was appointed 

 Professor of Dogmatic Theology in the Seminary in 

 Paris, and after a year's service removed to Montreal, 

 Canada, where he was appointed a professor in the 

 Seminary of St. Sulpice and pastor of St. Patrick's 

 ( 'liurch. In 1869 he went to New York city as assistant 

 in St. Peter's Church, in 1872 was advanced to a 

 pastorate in Rondout, and in 1873 became pastor of St. 

 Peter's, the oldest Roman Catholic Church in New 

 York city. In 1881 the diocese o*' Newark was di- 

 vided, and 14 counties of New Jersey, embrac- 

 ing all the seaboard, were formed into the diocese of 

 Trenton, of which Dr. O'Farrell became the first 

 bishop. In the controversy between James Anthony 

 Froude and Father Thomas Burke, on the oppression 

 of Ireland by Enajand, the historical facts on which 

 Father Burke based his arguments are said to have 



been collected and prepared for him by Bishop O'Far- 

 rell. The bishop was a conspicuous 'member of the 

 Third Plenary Council at Baltimore. He bequeathed 

 $1,500 to St. Mary's Cathedral, Trenton; $2,000 to the 

 Home for the Aged, Beverly ; $5,000 to St. Fraud- 

 Hospital, Trenton; $3,000 to St. Mary's Orphan Asy- 

 lum, New Brunswick; $15,000 to the convent school, 

 Bordentown ; and the residue of his estate, after per- 

 sonal bequests, for the establishment of an orphan 

 asylum and industrial school at Hope well. The be- 

 quests aggregated $33,000, the proceeds of life insur- 

 ance policies^ 



Osborn, Henry Stafford, educator, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Aug. 17, 1823 ; died in New York city, Feb. 

 '2, 1894. He was graduated at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania in 1841, and at Union Theological Semi- 

 nary, New York city, in 1845. In the following year 

 he went to London, England, as a delegate to the 

 Father Mathew Temperance Convention, and then 

 studied at the University of Bonn, Germany, and at 

 the Polytechnic Institute of London. Between 1846 

 and 1859 he was stated supply or pastor of Presby- 

 terian churches in Hanover Courthouse, Richmond, 

 Liberty, and Salem, Va. In 1851, in consequence of 

 impaired health, he took a second trip abroad, and 

 made careful surveys of noted places in biblical his- 

 tory. During his last year in Virginia he also held the 

 chair of Natural Science in Roanpke College. In 

 1858 he accepted a pastorate in Belvidere, N. J., which 

 he held till 1866, when he was chosen Professor of 

 Mining and Metallurgy in Lafayette College, Easton, 

 Pa. lie remained there until 1870, and from 1871 till 

 1873 he held the similar chair in Miami University,. 

 Oxford, Ohio. He published several maps of the 

 Holy Land, in the preparation of which he had 

 spent many years. His other publications include 

 "Palestine Past and Present" (Philadelphia, 1855) ; 

 " Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land " (1856) : 

 u Pilgrims in the Holy Land " (1857) ; " Scientific 

 Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States " 

 (1870); "The New Descriptive Geography of Pales- 

 tine" (Oxford, Ohio, 1877); " Manual of Bible Geog- 

 raphy " and " Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent 

 Discoveries " (Cincinnati, 1885) ; " Chart of the Books 

 of the Bible " (2d edition, Oxford, Ohio, 1886) ; " The 

 Useful Minerals and Mining Architecture " (Philadel- 

 phia, 1887) ; and "Biblical History and Geography"' 

 (1888). He received the degree of LL. D. from La- 

 fayette College in 1864. 



Otis, John Lord, manufacturer, born in Lyme, Conn. r 

 July 15,1827; died in Tarpon Springs, Fla., March 

 14, 1894. He went to work in a cotton factory before 

 he was eight years old; studied mechanical and civil 

 engineering ; became superintendent of the Pacific 

 Manufacturing Company, in Manchester, Conn., in 

 1851 ; and afterward established the Otis Manufactur- 

 ing Company in South Manchester. In 1861 he en- 

 listed in the 10th Connecticut Volunteers, and was 

 commissioned 2d lieutenant; he was promoted 1st 

 lieutenant on Dec. 4, captain Dec. 12, major Nov. 21, 

 1862, and colonel, Feb. 18, 1863 ; was mustered out of 

 service, Nov. 23, 1864 ; and was brevetted brigadier 



neral of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for special gal- 



lantry at the crossing of James river, June 20, 1 

 and in the battles of Flusser's Mills and Deep river. 

 His regiment suffered severely during its service, 

 and he was wounded three times. After the war 

 he established a company in Northampton, Mass., for 

 the manufacture of emery wheels, and met with 

 large success. He was a State Representative in 1877, 

 and a State Senator in 1879 arid 1880. 



Ondin, Eugene Esperance, singer, born in New York 

 city, in 1858 ; died in London, England, Nov. 4,1894. 

 He was a son of Mrs. James T. Kilbreth by her first 

 husband, a professor in the College of the City of 

 New York ; showed much musical ability at an early 

 age ; became a soprano singer in the choir of the Rev. 

 Dr. Tyng's church ; and for twelve years was the sole- 

 baritone in thechoirof St. Stephen's Roman Catholic 

 Church. In 1879 he was admitted to the bar and 

 entered the office of Evarts, Southmayd & Choate T . 



