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geons. He was president of the medical board of 

 the Strangers' Hospital from 1871 till 1873, and 

 consulting surgeon to several other hospitals. In 

 1872 he was president of the American Dermato- 

 logical Society. He published Lessons in Drawing 

 (1849-'50); Tropical Journeyings (1850); History 

 of the Panama Kailroad and of the Pacific Mail 

 Steamship Company (New York, 1802) ; Stricture 

 of the Male Urethra (1878) ; Clinical Lectures on 

 the Physiology and Pathology and Treatment of 

 Syphilis ( 1881 ) ; Practical Clinical Lectures on 

 Syphilis and the Geni to-urinary Diseases (1883); 

 and Diseases of the Male Urethra (Detroit, 1887). 



Ott, Joseph, actor, born in Chelsea, Mass., in 

 1862; died in New York city, Nov. 19, 1900. He 

 made his first appearance in a company managed 

 by William Mestayer, playing a version of Le 

 Voyage en Suisse in the autumn of 1882. His 

 first prominent engagement was with Kate Castle- 

 ton in The Dazzler. He succeeded so well in ec- 

 centric comedy that in this play he subsequently 

 starred equally with Miss Castleton. In the season 

 of 1893-'94 he was a star in a plav of his own 

 called The Star Gazer. For the season of 1894-'9o 

 he was engaged for the leading part in Rice's 

 Excelsior, Jr. In 1898 he became a member of the 

 company at the New York (formerly Olympia), 

 New York city, and played the principal male 

 rQles in From Broadway to Tokio and in A Mil- 

 lion Dollars. His last appearance was in the 

 character of King Charles II in the burlesque of 

 Nell Gwyn, at the New York, Nov. 3, 1900. 



Ottendorfer, Oswald, journalist, born in 

 Zwittau, Moravia, Feb. 26, 1820; died in New 

 York city, Dec. 16, 1900. He spent his youth at 

 Briinn, and at the age of twenty entered the Uni- 

 versity of Vienna. It was intended that he 

 should enter the public service, and he was ma- 

 triculated in the faculty of jurisprudence. One 

 year later he was transferred to the University 

 of Prague, that he might learn the Czech lan- 

 guage. In 1848 he returned to Vienna, and took 

 an active part in the movement to overthrow the 

 Metternich Government. He joined a volunteer 

 corps, which in the first Schleswig-Hol stein war 

 participated in several engagements with the Dan- 

 ish forces. During the uprising in Vienna he was 

 a lieutenant in the battalion commanded by 

 Robert Blum, and with him was sentenced to 

 death. Blum was executed, but Ottendorfer 

 escaped, and the sentence remained on the books 

 twenty years, when it was removed by a general 

 pardon. He subsequently joined in the popular 

 revolution in Saxony and Baden, after the failure 

 of which lie fled to Switzerland in 1849, and to 

 the United States in 1850. He was employed in 

 the countingroom of the New York Staats-Zei- 

 tung, and after the death of Jacob Uhl, its pro- 

 prietor, in 1852, the management of the paper de- 

 volved upon the widow, and the services of Mr, 

 Ottendorfer became gradually more important. 

 He became editor in chief in 1858, and from that 

 time directed the policy of the paper. He married 

 Mrs. Uhl in 1859. In politics he was a reform 

 Democrat, and was active in all the anti-Tam- 

 many movements. He was an alderman from 

 1872 till 1874, and in the latter year was a can- 

 didate for mayor. His more important gifts were 

 $300,000 to build and endow an educational in- 

 stitution in his native town; the Ottendorfer 

 Free Library in Second Avenue, New York; the 

 Isabella Home for old men and chronic invalids: 

 and the woman's pavilion of the German Hos- 

 pital. 



Palmer, John McAuley, lawyer, born on Eagle 

 creek, Scott County, Kentucky, Sept. 13, 1817; 

 died in Springfield, 111., Sept. 25, 1900. His early 



education was gained in the common schools. In 

 1831 he removed with his father to Madison Coun- 

 ty, Illinois. In the spring of 1834' he entered Alton 

 College, but lack of money compelled him to leave 

 in the autumn of 1835. He worked for a time in 

 a cooper's shop, then became a clock peddler, and 

 finally, in the autumn of 1838, became teacher of 

 a school near Canton. While teaching he studied 

 law, and in December, 1839, was admitted to prac- 

 tice. In 1840 he entered politics, supporting Mar- 

 tin Van Buren for the presidency. In 1843 he was 

 elected probate judge of Macoupin County. In 

 1847 he was elected to the Illinois State constitu- 

 tional convention. In 1849 he was elected county 

 judge, which office he held till 1851, when he was 

 elected to the State Senate for four years. In 

 1854 he opposed the Nebraska bill, and. differing 

 from his party, he resigned, went before the people 

 on the new issue, and was again returned to the 

 Senate in 1855. In 1856 he was president of the 

 first Illinois Republican State convention. In 1 s;><i 

 he was defeated as a candidate for Congress, and 

 in 1860 was elector at large on the Republirun 

 ticket. He was a delegate to the Peace Congress 

 at Washington, in 1861, and favored the com- 

 promise measures adopted by the convention. 

 When the second call for troops was made, he 

 was elected colonel of the 14th Regiment, Illinois 

 Volunteers. Dec. 21. 1861, he was commissioned 

 brigadier general. Early in 1862 he took part in 

 the operations at New Madrid and Island No. 10. 

 He was also present at Corinth, and took part in 

 the operations against Gen. Bragg in the retreat 

 from Nashville. He commanded a division in the 

 battle of Chickamauga, and was promoted to the 

 command of the 14th Army Corps in October, 1863. 

 He was engaged in the operations about Chatta- 

 nooga, taking part in the battles of Lookout 

 Mountain and Missionary Ridge. For gallantry 

 at the battle of Stone River he was made major 

 general of volunteers. Aug. 4, 1864, he was re- 

 lieved of active field command at his own request. 

 From February, 1865, till May, 1866, he was in 

 command of the military department of Kentucky. 

 He then settled in Springfield, 111., and in 1868 

 was elected Governor of the State, serving four 

 years. In 1872 he left the Republican party, and 

 in 1877 was the Democratic candidate for United 

 States Senator; he was defeated, as he was also 

 twice thereafter; again nominated in 1890, he \v.i< 

 successful, and served till March 4, 1897. In I.S'.H; 

 he accepted the nomination for the presidency by 

 the gold Democrats, as a protest against the sur- 

 render of the Democratic party to the free-silver 

 element. In the campaign that began just befo 

 his death he declared in favor of the re-el 

 of President McKiniey. 



Park. Edwards Amasa. theologian, born in 

 Providence, R. I., Dec. 29, 1808; died in Andover. 

 Mass., June 4, 1900. He was graduated at Brown 

 University in 1826, and at Andover Theological, 

 Seminary' in 1831. Dec. 31. 1831, ho was ordained 

 pastor of the Congregational Church in lira in tire. 

 Mass. In May, 1835, he was appointed 1'roi 

 of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy in Amhci-t 

 College, where he remained till September. \*:M. 

 when he became Professor of Sacred Rhetoric ;t 

 Andover. From 1847 till 1881 he held the chair 

 of Christian Theology at Andover, and at the time 

 of his death was Professor Emeritus of Sacred 

 Rhetoric. Prof. Park contributed numerous es 

 to theological periodicals, and in l^U was one of 

 the founders of the Bibliotheca Sacra, of which 

 he was chief editor from 1851 till 1884. His pub 

 lished works include Discourses on Some Thcolojr 

 ical Doctrines as Related to the Religious Char; 

 ter (Andover, 1885). He edited Selections 



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