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OGDEN, Rollo:
Editor; born at Sand Lake, N. Y., 1856; graduated from Williams College, 1877; subsequently studying theology at New York and Andover; 1891, appointed to the staff of New York Evening Post; Feb., 1903, became editor. Residence, Summit, N. J .; address 206 Broadway, New York.
O'GORMAN, James A .:
Jurist; born in New York, 1860; was a student in College of the City of New York; subsequently studying law at the university, graduating, 1882; admitted to bar the same year, and practiced law in New York. In 1893 became justice of the District Court, New York; 1900, justice of the Supreme Court. Address, 318 West 108th St., New York.
OLCOTT, Chauncey:
Actor; born in Buffalo, N. Y., July 21, 1859; educated in Buffalo schools. At age of nineteen became connected with a min- strel troup as a ballad singer; went to Europe at age of twenty-three, and re- turning, became manager and treasurer of the Standard Theatre, San Francisco. Soon after joined Denman Thompson in the "Old Homestead," then the Duff Opera Company, and a year later McCaull's Opera Company; after this he went to London and studied for two years, while there playing at the Prince of Wales and Criterion Theatres. He made his appear- ance as a star in the Fourteenth Street. Theatre, New York City, in 1893; his
greatest success has been in "Mavour- een," "The Irish Artist," and "Sweet Inniscarra." He is a member of the Dra- matic, Lambs and Players Clubs, of New York; and the Buffalo Club, of Buffalo. Address, Fruitvale, Cal., and Saratoga, N. Y.
OLCOTT, Frederic P .:
President Central Trust Company and Galveston, Houston & Henderson Railroad Company; director Bank of America, Con- tinental Insurance Company, and New York, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Company. Residence, Bernardsville, N. J .; office, 54 Wall St., New York.
OLCOTT, George M .:
Senior member of firm Dodge & Olcott, importers of drugs. He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Aug. 23, 1835; son of Charles M. and Maria C. Olcott; studied in private schools in Brooklyn and New York until 1851, when he left Columbia College Grammar School and began busi- ness life as a clerk with Osgood & Jen- nings, wholesale druggists, in New York. Three years later went with Dodge & Colvill, importers of drugs, etc., in which firm he was admitted to partnership in 1857, the name of the firm later changing to Dodge, Colvill & Olcott, and on the retirement of John Colvill, in 1862, to Dodge & Olcott, of which he is now senior member. He is also president of the Phenix Chemical Works, now closing up its affairs; vice-president of the Lloyds Plate Glass Insurance Company, and of the First National Bank of Ridgefield, Conn .; a director of the Market & Fulton National Bank of New York and of the Federal Insurance Company; trustee of the Franklin Trust Company of Brooklyn and of the Franklin Safe Deposit Com- pany, and was a trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank from 1882 until he resigned, 1895. Is a member of the Hamilton and Rembrandt Clubs, of Brooklyn, both of which he served for a number of years as president, and of the Brooklyn Insti- tute of Arts and Sciences, of which he was formerly a director; of the Board of Trade and Transportation, of which he is chairman of the arbitration commit- tee of the Drug Trade Section, and of the Down Town Association. Married Jennie Arnold, of Poughkeepsie, and has three children-Mrs. Cornelia, wife of Dr. J. Arthur Booth; Miss Mary Olcott and Dr. George N. Olcott, of Columbia University. Residence, 146 Remsen St., Brooklyn, and "Casagmo," Ridgefield, Conn .; office, 86 William St., New York.
OLCOTT, William M. K .:
Lawyer; born in New York, 1862; grad- uated from College of the City of New York, and after taking the law course at Columbia was admitted to the bar, 1883. Was member of the Board of Aldermen,
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1895-96; district attorney of New York County, 1896-98; judge of the City Court, 1898-99; is now practicing law in New York, and is director and secretary of Lawyers' Engineering & Surveying Com- pany. Residence, 58 West 84th St .; office, 170 Broadway, New York.
OLIVER, Robert Shaw:
Manufacturer and business man, now serving as Assistant Secretary of War. General Oliver served throughout the civil war as a volunteer, and later as an officer in the regular army. He has also served in the National Guard of New York, at- taining the rank of Brigadier-General Commanding. His principal interests are in the iron manufacturing business at Albany, though he has other large busi- ness connections. Address, Albany, N. Y., and Washington, D. C.
OLMSTEAD, Jerauld A .:
Major, U. S. Army; born in New York, July 28, 1846; appointed from New York. Cadet at U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1866; graduated, June 15, 1870; second lieutenant, Fourth Cavalry, June 15, 1870; transferred to Thirteenth Infantry, June 13, 1872; first lieutenant, July 1, 1872; transferred to Ninth Cavalry, Aug. 1, 1881; captain, April 14, 1884; retired with rank of major, Oct. 16, 1898. Address, Des Moines, Ia.
OLMSTED, Charles T .:
Protestant Episcopal bishop; born at Cohoes, N. Y., 1842; graduated from Trin- ity College, Hartford, Conn., 1855, and subsequently studied theology at St. Ste- phen's College, Annandale, N. Y .; was professor of mathematics at same, 1866- 68. Ordained to diaconate, 1867; priest- hood, 1868. Has been assistant of Trini- ty parish, New York; rector of Grace Church, Utica; vicar of St. Agnes Chapel, Trinity parish, New York; 1902, bishop co-adjutor, Central New York. Address, Utica, N. Y.
OLNEY, George W .:
Journalist and statistician; born in Charleston, S. C., June 5, 1835; son of George W. Olney. His preparatory edu- · cation was obtained in the schools of Charleston, and at the University Gram- mar School, Providence, R. I. He was graduated from Harvard with the degree of LL.B. in 1855, and entered journalism as one of the publishers of the New York Daily Day Book in 1858. He returned to the South at the breaking out of the civil war, and was the war correspondent of the Charleston Courier and of the Rich- mond Enquirer from 1861 to 1863. Was dramatic writer for the New York Herald in 1866. and editorial writer on the New York World from 1868 to 1876. He en- tered insurance journalism as editor of the Spectator in 1873. He was managing editor of the Weekly Underwriter from
1878 to 1899, and has been editor of the same since 1899. Is editor of the Almanac published by New York World, vice-presi- dent of the underwriters' Printing and Publishing Company, and secretary of the Society of the Cincinnati, fellow of the Royal Statistical Society of Great Britain, and of the American Statistical Associa- tion; member of the board of managers of the Society of American Authors. He is also the author of several statistical works. Address, 58 William St., New York.
OLYPHANT, Robert M .:
President and director of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Company; graduated from Columbia University in 1842; direc- tor of Adirondack, the Albany & Susque- hanna, and the Cherry Valley, Charon & Albany Railroad Companies. Is a mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, American Geographical Society, Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Academy of Design. Residence, 160 Mad- ison Ave .; office, 21 Cortlandt St., New York.
ONDERDONK, Andrew Joseph:
Lawyer; he was born at Manhasset, L. I., March 23, 1847, being descended from the early Dutch settlers of Man- hattan; eldest son of the late Horatio Gates Onderdonk, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, under the former Con- stitution of the State of New York. Grad- uate of Albany Law School; admitted to the Bar, May 4, 1868; married, Oct. 12, 1880, Annie Louise, eldest daughter of Samuel H. Frost, State Senator, of New York. Has been continuously engaged in this city in the practice of his profession; he has traveled extensively, and has been active in Democratic politics. On the death of his father he inherited a fortune and became head of the family. Member of Lawyers, Riding and Driving, Atlantic Yacht and Manhasset Yacht Clubs; New York . Genealogical, Long Island Histori- cal, St. Nicholas and Holland Societies of New York. Address, 171 Park Place, Brooklyn, N. Y.
O'NEILL. James:
Actor; born in Ireland, Oct. 14, 1847; came with his parents to the United States in 1850, settling in Buffalo, N. Y. Educated in the public schools; 1865, stud- ied under an actor playing in the Na- tional Theatre, Cincinnati; made his first appearance in "The Collen Bawn," at the National Theatre. In 1870 was playing leading parts in Baltimore; 1871, engaged as leading man at the Academy of Music, Cleveland, O .; 1874, formed the Hooley Comedy Company, Chicago; 1876, became leading man at the Union Square Theatre, New York City; went to Chicago in 1871 under management of A. M. Palmer; 1881, appeared at Booth's Theatre New York, in "Enoch Arden"; 1882, produced "An
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American King"; 1883, "Monte Cristo." Has also produced "When Greek Meets Greek," "The Dead Heart," and "Fonten- elle," besides reviving "Hamlet," "The Three Guardsmen," and "Virginius." Ad- dress, care Liebler & Co., New York.
O'NEIL, Joseph P .:
Captain, U. S. Army; was born in New York; appointed from Nebraska-civil life. Second lieutenant, Fourteenth U. S. In- fantry, Feb. 4, 1884; accepted, March 10, 1884; first lieutenant, Sixth Infantry, April 20, 1891; transferred to Twenty-fifth In- fantry, July 20, 1891; captain of Infantry, Sept. 16, 1898; assigned to Twenty-fifth Infantry, Jan. 1, 1899. Address, Fort Ni- obrara, Neb.
OPDYCKE, Leonard Eckstein:
Lawyer; born Warren, Ohio, Sept. 28, 1858; son of the late General Emerson and Lucy Wells (Stevens) Opdycke; was graduated from Harvard College in 1880, and from the Harvard Law School in 1883, receiving at the same time the degree of A. M .; was admitted to the bar in 1884. Is a member of the University, Century and Down Town Clubs; a direc- tor of the New York Juvenile Asylum and the secretary and a manager of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Translator, "Tales from the Ægean," 1894 (McClurg) ; "The Book of the Courtier." 1901, 1903 (Scribners). Address, 119 East 69th St., New York.
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OPDYKE, William S .:
Lawyer; born New York City, Oct. 6, 1836; son of George (Mayor, 1862-3) and Elizabeth (Stryker) Opdyke; graduated New York University, 1854; Albany Law School, 1859; has since practiced law in New York; partners, successively, Living- ston K. Miller William Peet, Benjamin H. Bristow, David Willcox, William W. Ladd, Jr., and others; New York council- man, 1864; member Assembly, 1873; mem- ber council New York University since 1883 and its secretary for four years; general counsel of Fourth National Bank and Delaware & Hudson Co. Married, Oct., 1863, Margaret E. Post, daughter of Alfred C. Post, M. D., LL.D., prominent surgeon of New York. Member Metropoli- tan, University, Reform and the National Arts Clubs. Address, "Gray Crags," Al- pine, N. J.
OPERTI, Albert (Jasper Ludwig Rocca- bigliera) :
Artist, sculptor, and illustrator; born in Turin, Italy, March 17, 1852; son of Giu- seppa Operti. He was educated in the high schools of Dublin, Ireland, and Glas- gow, Scotland; graduated from the Naval School at Portsmouth and entered the British Naval Marine service, resigning therefrom in 1868. He then began the
study of painting and sculpture. A few years later he came to this country and was engaged as caricaturist and scenic artist in New York Theatres. He made two voyages to the arctic regions with Lieutenant R. E. Peary, the arctic ex- plorer, and was the special correspondent of the New York Herald while on those explorations. He made for the New York Museum of Natural History the first casts of North Greenland Eskimos ever pro- duced. Among his more important his- torical paintings are "Farthest North," and "Rescue of the Greely Party" for the Navy Department at Washington; "The Schwatka Search," "Finding De Long in the Leana Delta," "Dr. Kane." and other pictures of less note. He was selected by the U. S. Government as its representa- tive artist at the World's Columbian Ex- position. He is a fellow of the American Geological Society, vice-president of the Arctic Club, and an honorary member of the Indian War Veterans of California. He has received a decoration from the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia; has written nu- merous articles for magazines. Of late years has given some attention to the in- vention of devices for public amusement. Address, 65 West 36th St., New York.
OPPER, Frederick Burr:
Illustrator; was born in Madison, Lake County, O. Left school at age of four- teen, working in a village store, then for a year on a village paper; came to New York, and after working in a store a short time began selling sketches to comic pa- pers. Member of art staff of Frank Les- lie's three years; member of art staff of Puck eighteen years, and a stockholder in the corporation; member of art staff of W. R. Hearst's newspapers since May, 1899. Besides cartoons and humorous so- cial pictures has illustrated Mark Twain, "Dooley," Bill Nye, Eugene Field, Mother Goose, etc., and a book of his own verses, "The Folks in Funnyland," published by R. H. Russell, New York. Member Play- ers' Club, New York. Residence, Intervale Farm, Stamford, Conn .; office, The Jour- nal, New York.
ORCUTT, Calvin B .:
Capitalist and shipbuilder; born in Wy- oming, N. Y., Sept. 5, 1847; educated at Middlebury Academy, Wyoming. Began business life in wholesale drug house in New York, later entering the banking house of Fisk & Hatch, where he gained valuable business knowledge. In 1878 was placed by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Company in charge of the marketing and shipment of its coal, and subsequently was put in charge of Mr. C. P. Hunting- ton's interests at Newport News, the Eastern terminal of the railway. Under his direction there was established at this point one of the finest shipbuilding plants in the world. Organized the First Nation- al Bank of Newport News, and the New-
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port News Light and Water Company. Is president of the Newport News Ship- building and Dry Dock Company; presi- dent of the Chesapeake Coal Agency Com- pany; president of the Newport News Light and Water Company; president of the Old Dominion Land Company, and di- rector of the First National Bank of New- port News. Mr. Olcutt was married, in 1872, to Harriet M. Willett, of South Granville, N. Y. He is a member of the Lawyers' Club, of New York City, the Congregational Club, and of the Thousand Island and Chippewa Yacht Clubs. Resi- dence, Elizabeth, N. J .; office, 1 Broadway, New York.
ORDWAY, Samuel H .:
Lawyer; born in New York City, June 8, 1860, of New England ancestry. Moved to Providence, R. I., with his parents, in 1866, and resided and was educated there, graduating from Brown University in 1880. Attended Harvard Law School, 1880-83, graduating latter year. Moved to New York City in 1883, and has resided there since that date; was admitted to the bar of New York in 1884, and has practiced profession since then in New York City, formerly as a member of the firm of Stickney Shepard, and more recently as a member of the firm of Stickney. Spen- cer & Ordway. Member of the University Club, Bar Association, Harvard Club and Brown Club, and is president of the latter. Married, May. 30, 1894, Frances Hunt Throop. of New York City. Address, 152 West 57th St., New York.
ORR, Alexander E .:
Retired merchant; born in Ireland, 1831; setled in New York City, 1851; in 1858 be- came a clerk in the firm of David Dows & Co., and three years later was admitted into partnership. Is a member of the Pro- duce Exchange, and has been its president several times, as well as president of the New York Chamber of Commerce; is a director of various financial corporations. Residence, 102 Remsen St., Brooklyn; of- fice, 102 Produce Exchange Building, New York.
ORR, Charles Alvin:
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United States pension agent; born in Holland, Erie County, N. Y., June 28, 1848; educated in the select and public schools of Holland. In 1862, at fourteen years of age, he offered himself as a vol- unteer in the Union army to serve during the civil war, but was rejected on account of his youth; tried three times to enlist, but it was not until Sept., 1864, when he was sixteen years of age, that he suc- ceeded. He entered the One Hundred and Eighty-seventh New York Volun- teers as a private, and served until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. With his regiment he took part in the engagement at Hatch- er's Run, Oct. 27, 1864, and for gallantry
in action was awarded the Congressional medal of honor. He also took part in the Weldon Railroad raid, Dec. 6 to 11, 1864; the second battle of Hatcher's Run, Feb. 5 to 7, 1865; the battle of Dabney's Mills, March 29, 1865, and Five Forks, April 1, 1865, and all the most important engage- ments which marked the overthrow of the Confederacy. At the close of the war he engaged in the lumber and milling bus- iness in Holland; has always been an ac- tive Republican; served as supervisor of the town of Holland on the Erie County Board; in 1876 was elected as member of the New York State Assembly, declining a renomination; for two years he acted as sergeant-at-arms of the Assembly, and on Jan. 1, 1880, he was appointed special dep- uty county clerk of Erie County, which position he held for six years; Nov., 1885, was elected county clerk, and was re- elected in 1888; Jan. 3, 1893, he was ap- pointed United States pension agent for Western New York by President Harri- son, but was displaced on the accession of President Cleveland. In 1895 he was appointed State examiner of Courts and Trust funds by State Comptroller James A. Roberts, and in 1898 he was restored to the office of United States pension agent by President Mckinley, which position he now holds; appointed by President Roose- velt a member of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Bath. Is also chairman of the executive committee of the Logan Veteran Legion and junior vice-commander of the Medal of Honor Legion. In 1886 he was elected senior vice-commander of the New York Department, G. A. R .; was for three terms chairman of the memorial and executive committee, G. A. R., of Buffalo, and has been a member from New York of the National Council of Administration, G. A. R. In 1901 he was elected department commander of N. Y. G. A. R .; is at pres- ent commander of Chapin Post No. 2, G. A. R., which office he has held for nine terms. He is a prominent member of the Masons, Odd Fellows, Royal . Arcanum, Foresters, Buffalo Press Club, Independ- ent Order of Red Men and Independent Club. Address, 220 Pioneer Ave., Buffalo, N. Y.
OSBON, Bradley Sillick:
Naval officer, journalist; born Rye, Westchester County, N. Y., Aug. 16, 1827; eldest son of Rev. Abiathar Mann Osbon, D. D., and Elizabeth Esmond Sillick; at- tended Normal School, Middletown, Conn., and Berkshire Academy, Sheffield, Mass. Began seafaring life in New York pilot boats; entered the U. S. Navy as ordinary seaman, serving in the U. S. S. North Carolina, Supply and Onkahye. After leaving the navy shipped in the whale- ship Junior, of New Bedford, Mass., and in her circumnavigated the globe, visiting nearly all of the groups of islands in the Pacific Ocean, spending a summer in the
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Arctic and Anarctic Oceans. Served as
supercargo and ice pilot on board the brig
Swallow, and being nipped in the ice win- tered at St. Lawrence Bay, in the Arctic Ocean. Went to China and entered the Anglo-Chinese navy and served as boat commander, and was engaged in destroy- ing the piratical junks that infested the waters near Hong Kong. Returned home after an absence of five years and eight months; served in the Argentine Navy as commander, under the late Commodore Coe, and participated in over twenty naval
engagements, most of them being hand to hand fights; served as fourth, third, second and chief officer in the steamers of the old California Steamer Line be- tween New York and Aspinwall (Colon), and was second officer of the Panama Railroad Company's steamer Guatemala, the first steamer to make the passage from New York to Panama without stop- ping for coal. Was on the Pacific coast for several years; in April, 1861, served as aide to Captain John Faunce on the U. S. S. Harriet Lane, one of the fleet sent to the relief of Fort Sumter, and wit- nessed the surrender of that fortification. Was volunteer aide to Flag Officer S. F. DuPont on the flag ship Wabash at the capture of Port Royal, S. C .; served as fleet signal officer to Flag Officer D. G. Farragut, on board the flag ship Hart- ford, at capture of forts below New Or- leans and the city; was specially com- mended by Farragut for gallant conduct. Aide to Commander John L. Worden, com- manding the iron clad Montauk, in the engagements on the Ogeechee River, S. C., and the destruction of the Confederate privateer Nashville; was slightly wounded by splinters on the Hartford, and severely injured by flying bolts while in the pilot house of the Montauk. At the close of the Civil War was recommended by Ad- miral Farragut to Major General Jose M. Carvajal for senior officer of the Mexican Navy with rank of admiral, which was ac- cepted and served for some time on the rivers and coast of Mexico. Served as captain, commodore, rear-admiral (two terms), of the National Association of Naval Veterans; was the founder of the United States Veteran Navy and its first commodore. Was commander of Naval Post No. 516, G. A. R., for two terms; chairman of the Associated Commanders and Quartermasters of the G. A. R. Posts of the City and County of New York; was the senior officer in command of the marine parade on the opening of the Har- lem Ship Canal. Served as superintend- ent of the Guanoco & La Brea Railroad in Venezuela, and superintendent of the New York & Bermudez Company's asphalt mines in the State of Bermudez, Venezu- ela; made a survey of the Chaguaramus sulphur mines at Carupano, Venezuela; also of the harbor and bay of Carupano, the chart of which was published by the U. S. Hydrographic Office, Washington, D. C. Served as acting volunteer naval
scout during the late Spanish-American war and was the first to discover the lo- cation of Admiral Cervera's fleet off the island of Curacoa and report it to the State Department; for this service was specially commended by the Secretary of the Navy. Was decorated by the govern- ment of Venezuela with the order of "The Bust of the Liberator" for distin- guished services. Is member of "The Survivors of Farragut's Fleet," "The Arctic Club." Author of "Osbon's Hand Book of the Navy." Compiler of "The Register of the U. S. Veteran Navy." Editor of The Nautical Gazette for seven- teen years; a voluminous contributor to the press upon maratime subjects. Lect- urer to the series of evening lectures in the public schools of New York. Address, 132 East 23d St., New York.
OSBORN, Erastus William:
Editorial writer; born Winthrop, Me., Oct. 24, 1860. Son of Thomas Alden and Maria Frances (Kelly) Osborn. Educated in public schools, Winthrop, Me., Ash- land, Mass., and Auburn, N. Y. Began newspaper work in Auburn, serving on Auburnian, Sunday Dispatch and Bulle- tin in succession. Joined Evening World staff, New York, Jan., 1888; dramatic edit- or, 1896-98. Editorial writer and literary editor The World since Jan. 6, 1901. Married at Auburn, N. Y., June 12, 1889, Ida Orlean Birdsall. Residence, 841 West End Ave., New York.
OSBORN, Henry Fairfield:
Zoologist and author; born Fairfield, Aug. 8, 1857; son William H. and Virginia R. (Sturges) Osborn; received his edu- cation at Lyon's Collegiate Institute, New York, and College of New Jersey, graduat- ing from latter place 1877. Subsequently accompanied first and second Princeton expeditions to the West; during winters of 1878-79 studied anatomy and histology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and at Bellevue Hospital Med- ical School; 1879-80 studied biology with Balfour and Huxley in England; during 1880 became assistant professor in biology at College of New Jersey; 1881-1890 pro- fessor of comparative anatomy; 1890 to date, Da Costa professor of biology, later of Zoology, at Columbia University; also curator of the department of vertebrate Palæontology; at the American Museum of Natural History, New York; 1891-1895 held office of dean of the faculty of pure science, Columbia; since latter year has devoted himself to writing and research and has discovered and restored numerous species of fossils. Author of "From the Greeks to Darwin" (1894), and of a very large number of scientific papers and ad- dresses. President of American Society of Naturalists, 1891; vice-president zo- ology section of American Society for the Advancement of Science, 1892; sec- ond vice-president New York Academy of
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