regiment at Shiloh, where he led an important
charge. He recruited the 125th Ohio volunteers
and was commissioned its colonel, Jan. 1, 1863,
serving in the movements against Chattanooga,
1863, at Chickamauga, where he lost one-third of
his regiment, and at Chattanooga, Nov. 25, 1863,
where he led his command, ademi-brigade, in the
storming of Missionary Ridge. He participated
in the Atlanta campaign, where he was the first
to reach the crest of Rocky Face Ridge ; received
a severe wound at Resaca, and in June, 1N64, led
three regiments in one of three unsuccessful
assaults on Kenesaw Mountain. He commanded
the 1st brigade, 2d division, 4th armj corps, from
August, 1864, and at Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30,
1864, and led his brigade without orders into a
gap caused by the Federal forces falling back,
thereby gaining a victory. In the battle of
Nashville he pursued the enemy to the Tennessee
river, and his brigade was prominent in repelling
Hood s invasion of Tennessee. He was promoted
brigadier-general of volunteers, and brevetted
major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, to
date from Nov. 30, 1864, for gallant and meritor
ious services at the battle of Franklin. He
commanded a division at New Orleans, La., until
January, 1866, when he resigned and entered the
wholesale dry goods business in New York city.
He is the author of : Notes on the Chickamauga
Campaign in Vol. III. " Battles and Leaders of
the Civil War," pp. 668-71 (1884). He died in
New York city, April 25, 1884.
OPPER, Frederick Burr, cartoonist, was born
in Madison, Ohio. Jan. 2. 1857 ; son of Lewis and
Aurelia (Burr) .Opper ; grandson of Ernest and
Anna (Hartman) Opper and of Charles and
Polly (Bestor) Burr, and a descendant of
Benjamin Burr, a native of England, who was an
original settler of Hartford, Conn., in 1635. His
father emigrated from Austria-Hungary and en
gaged in mercantile pursuits in Madison, Ohio.
Frederick was educated in the public schools of
Madison, and in 1871 entered the office of the
Madison Gazette to learn the printer s trade. He
removed to New York city in 1872, and became
a clerk in a mercantile house, devoting his
leisure to drawing humorous sketches for which
he obtained a ready market. He attended the
drawing class of the Cooper Union evening school
for one term and in 1876 left his clerical position
to illustrate for Wild Oats and other publications.
He was a member of the art staff of Frank
Leslie s publishing house. 1877-80, and a member
of the staff of Puck, 1880-99. becoming a stock
holder in the corporation. He was married in
1881 to Nellie Barnett. In May, 1899, he accepted
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an offer from the Xevv York Journal, to become
a cartoonist on the Journal, Chicago American
and San Francisco Examiner. Three collections
of his Puck drawings were published, entitled
Puck s Opper Book, The Funny World, and Just
for Fun : and a collection of his Journal cartoons
was published, entitled Willie and His Papa,
He also illustrated Bill Nt/e s History of the U.S.;
an edition of Mother Goose ; 3Ir. Doolei/ s Philo
sophy, and many other books, besides a collection
of his own verses and pictures entitled The
Folks in Funnyville.
ORCOTT, Samuel, author, was born in Albany
county. N.Y., April 12, 1824. He was educated
in Cazertovia academy, taught school and entered
the Methodist ministry. He was pastor of various
Methodist churches, the last being in New York
city ; became a member of the Congregational
church, and was pastor at Walcott, Conn., finally
retiring to devote himself to historical writing.
He is the author of : History of the Town of
Walcott (1874); History of Torrington, Conn.
(1878); History of Derby, Conn., with Dr. Am
brose Beardsley (1880); History of Nciv Milford
and Bridgewater, Conn. (1882); The Indians of
the Housatonic and Naitgatuck Valley (1883);
History of the Old Town Stratford, anil the, City
of Bridgeport (1884-86); Haicley Record (1890),
and Henry Tomlinson and his Descendants in
America (1891). He died in Bridgeport, Conn.,
Jan. 14, 1S93.
ORD, Edward Otho Cresap, soldier, was born
in Cumberland, Md., Oct. 18, 1818; son of Lieut.
James Ord, an officer in the war of 1812. He
was graduated from the U.S. Military academy
and promoted 3d lieutenant, 3d artillery, July 1,
1839. He served in the Florida war against the
Seminole Indians, 1839-42: was promoted 1st
lieutenant, July 1, 1841 ; was on garrison duty in
North Carolina and Maryland, 1842-45 ; served in
the war with Mexico, 1847-48 ; was in garrison
in California and Massachusetts, 1849-52, and
was promoted captain, Sept. 7, 1850. He served
on frontier duty in California and Oregon, 1852-
58 ; was in garrison at the artillery school for
practice, Fort Monroe, Va., in 1859, and served in
the expedition to suppress John Brown s raid at
Harper s Ferry, Va. , in 1859. He was commis
sioned brigadier-general. U.S. volunteers, Sept.
14, 1861, and commanded a brigade forming the
extreme right of the army of defence before
Washington, B.C., November,1861 -May, 1862 ; was
promoted major, 4th artillery, Nov. 21, 1861, and
was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallant and
meritorious services in the battle of Dranesville,
Va., Dec. 20, 1861. He was appointed major-
general, U.S. volunteers, May 2, 1862: com
manded a division under General McDowell in
the Shenandoah valley, opposing Jackson, May-
June, 1862 ; was in command of Corinth, Miss.,
June-August, 1862, and of the left wing of the
Army of the Mississippi during General Grant s
operations, August-September, 1862. He was
with General Grant at Burnsville, five miles
from luka during the battle of Sept, 19, 1862,
news of which did not reach them until the 20th,
when he hurried forward his wing, composed of
Davies, Ross and McArthur. He was in command
of the district of Jackson, Tenn., September-
October, 1862, but did not join in the battle of
Corinth until Oct. 5, when he came up to the
Federal army in pursuit of the fleeing Confed
erates at Hatchie, and assuming command, drove
back the head of the Confederate column. He
was severely wounded, and the entire army
escaped capture only through its superior knowl
edge of the country. He was brevetted colonel,
Sept. 19, 1862, for gallant and meritorious conduct
at the battle of luka, Miss. He was a member of
the military commission investigating General
Buell s campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee,
November, 1862-May, 1863 ; commanded the 13th
army corps. Army of the Tennessee, in the Vicks-
bvirg campaign, June 18 to Oct. 28, 1863, as suc
cessor to General McClernand, and served on the
staff of General Grant in the siege of Vicksburg,
Miss., June 18-July 4, 1863. He took part in the
capture of Jackson, Miss.. July 16, 1863, was sent
with the 13th corps and Herron s division to
report to Banks, and served with the Army of
Western Louisiana from August to October, 1863,
when he was placed on sick leave and Gen. C. C.
Washburn was given command of his corps.
He reported to General Grant in Virginia, and
on March 29, 1864, to General Sigel at Cumber-
land, who was ordered to supply 8000 infantry
and 1,500 cavalry picked men to operate against
Staunton, and with General Crooke directed the
campaign. He was ordered to the Army of the
James to take command of the 18th army corps,
relieving Gen. William F. Smith, July 9, 1864,
and he succeeded to the command of the 24th
army corps. He took part in the operations
before Richmond, and in the assault and capture
of Fort Harrison. Sept. 29, 1864, where he was
severely wounded. He succeeded Gen. B. F.
Butler in command of the Army of the James
and the department of North Carolina, Jan. 8,
1865. He engaged in the various operations of
the siege of Petersburg, Va., and in the pursuit
of the Confederate army, terminating in the
capitulation of General Lee at the Appomattox
court house, April 9, 1865. He was brevetted
brigadier-general, U.S.A., for gallant and meritor
ious services at the battle of the Hatchie. Miss.,
and major-general. U.S.A., for the same at the
assault of Fort Harrison, Va., March 13, 1865.
He was in command of the Department of the
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ORDWAY
Ohio, July 5, 1865-Aug. 6, 1866; was promoted
lieutenant-colonel, 1st artillery, Dec. 11, 1865,
and brigadier-general, U.S.A., July 26, 1866.
He commanded the Department of the Arkansas,
Aug. 29, 1866 to March 11, 1867; was mustered
out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866, and
was placed in command of the 4th military
district, including Arkansas and Mississippi,
March 26, 1867. He was retired from the army
in January, 1881, and accepted an appointment of
engineer in the construction of a Mexican rail
road. On his way to New York from Vera Cruz
he was seized with yellow fever, and taken ashore
at Havana. Cuba, where he died, July 22, 1883.
ORD, George, naturalist, was born in Philadel
phia, Pa., in 1781. He made a study of natural
history and early de% 7 oted himself to ornithology.
He accompanied Alexander Wilson in his scien
tific explorations, and was a co-executor of his
will in 1813. He completed the eighth volume of
American Ornithology (1814), and is the author
of the concluding volume of that work, for
which he wrote a sketch of Wilson s life. He pre
pared a new edition of the last three volumes in
1825, ami published in a separate volume Life of
Alexander Wilson (1828). He assisted in the prep
aration of dictionaries, contributed to scientific
journals, and is the author of memoirs of Thomas
Say (1834), and of Charles A. Lesueur (1849).
He was a member of the Linnasan society of
London ; a vice-president of the American Phil
osophical society and president of the Academy
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1851-58. He
left more than $16.000 to the Pennsylvania hospi
tal, for the benefit of the insane, and also
bequeathed his scientific library to the College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Philadelphia. He died
in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan 24, 1866.
ORDWAY, Alfred, painter, was born in Rox-
bury, Mass., March 9, 1821 : son of Thomas and
Jerusha (Currier)
Ordway ; grandson
of Dr. Samuel Ord
way ; and a descend
ant of James and
Ann (Emery) Ord
way. Alfred Ordway
attended the public
schools of Lowell,
Mass., and began the
study of art at an
early age. He open
ed a studio in Bos
ton, Mass., in 1845,
where ke was one of
the founders of the
Boston Art club in
1854, its first secretary and treasurer, its president
in 1859, and its corresponding secretary in 1866.
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He was also curator of the annual exhibition
of paintings at the Boston Athenaeum, 1856-63.
He resided in New York city, 1866-67, where he
was officially connected with the National Acad
emy of Design, and he also spent a short time in
Virginia. He was one of the founders of the
Paint and Clay club, which organization gave
him a banquet in March, 1896, on the occasion of
his seventy-sixth birthday. His specialty was
portraiture, but during the latter part of his life
he devoted himself to landscape painting and
was a frequent exhibitor in Boston. He was
married March 19, 1860, to Annie Hill of Boston,
Mass. He died at Melrose Highlands, Mass., Nov.
17, 1897.
ORDWAY, John Morse, chemist, was born in
Amesbury, Mass., April 23, 1823; son of Samuel
and Sally (Morse) Ordway, and a descendant of
James Ordway, a native of Wales, who emigrated
from England to America in 1648, and settled in
Newbury, Mass., where he married Ann Emery.
John served an apprenticeship with a chemist,
1836-39, was graduated at Dartmouth college
A.B. 1844, A.M. 1847, and then engaged in the
study of medicine. He was manager of chemi
cal works in Lowell, Mass., 1840-47 ; superintend
ent of the Roxbury Color and Chemical company
at Roxbury, Mass., 1847-51, and 1854-58, and
principal of Grand River college, at Edinburg,
Mo., 1851-54. He was chemist at the Hughesdale
Chemical works, Johnston, R.I., 1858-60;
chemist, manager and superintendent of the Man
chester Print works, Manchester, N.H., 1860-66;
superintendent of the Bayside Alkali works,
South Boston, Mass., 1866-74, and chemist to the
Hughesdale Chemical works at Johnston, R.I.,
1866-69, spending alternate days at the two
places. He was professor of industrial chemistry
and metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1869-84; chairman of the faculty
1877-82, and performed most of the duties of
president there, while continuing his regular
work. He was also an instructor f biology in
Boston university, 1876-80. He was professor of
applied chemistry and director of the manual
training department of Tulane university, New
Orleans, La., 1884-97, organized and instructed
the class in biology, 1886-90, and was an instructor
in engineering, 1891-97. He became professor of
biology in Newcomb college for women, a branch
of Tulane university, on its organization in 1886,
and held it from that year. He was elected a
member of various scientific societies, and was
chairman of the chemical section of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in
1880. His investigations were principally in the
direction of original researches in various
branches of industrial chemistry for private cor
porations. In 1882 he visited Europe and in-
O REGAN
O REILLY
vestigated the methods of industrial education.
He was married, Jan. 26, 1854, to Virginia C.,
daughter of Milton Moore of Missouri. She died
in 1860. He was married secondly in 1864, to
Mrs. Charlotte H. Mauross, daughter of Chauncy
Royce of Connecticut. After her death in 1874,
he was married thirdly to Evelyn M., daughter of
John B. Walton of Massachusetts. She was his
assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology and subsequently became professor .of
chemistry in the H. Sophie Newcomb college,
Tulane university, New Orleans, La. He con
tributed to the American Journal of Science, the
Proceedings of the American Institute of Mechan
ical Engineers, and other scientific and educa
tional periodicals, and is the author of Plantanim
Ordinum Indicator (1881).
O REGAN, Anthony, R.C. bishop, was born
-at Lavalleyroe, near Cloufad, diocese of Tuam,
Ireland, in 1809. He attended Maynooth college,
1826-34 ; was ordained sub-deacon, 1832, deacon,
1833, priest in November, 1834. He was professor
in the archiepiscopal college of St. Jarlith s, at
Tuam, 1834-44, and president of the college, 1844-
49. At the invitation of Archbishop P. R. Ken-
rick of St. Louis he came to America in 1849,
and was superior and professor of theology and
sacred scriptures in the Theological Seminary, of
St. Louis, at Carondelet, Mo., 1849-54. In 1854
he was appointed the third bishop of Chicago, 111.
He declined the appointment and returned the
documents to Rome, but they were again sent to
him and he was consecrated in the Cathedral of
St. Louis, July 25, 1854, by Archbishop Ken rick
assisted by Bishops Van de Velde,, Henni and
Lovas. The diocese of Chicago was established
Nov. 28, 1843,
and in 1854
had but few
churches and
priests and no
religious insti
tutions. His
administration
extended also
over the diocese
of Quincy. until
it was transfer-
j| red to Alton,
9 Jan. 9, 1857.
. He prudently
cf purchased lands
upon which the
ecclesiastical
structures of
the diocese were afterward built, and intro
duced the Jesuit and Redemptorist fathers
into the diocese ; but his administration was
not successful, owing to a jealousy between
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the Irish and French Catholics, who were at the
time about equally divided in the diocese. In
1856 he went to Rome and petitioned the pope
to accept his resignation which was granted,
May 3, 1858. He received the titular see of
" Dora," June 25, 1858, and resided at Michael s
Grove, Brompton, London, England, until his
death. He left his theological library to the
diocese of Chicago on his resignation, and at
his death $10,000 to the Roman Catholic Mis
sionary College of All Hallows, Dublin, to be
used for educating young priests for the dioceses
of Chicago and Alton, and $2,500 towards the
erection of a hospital in Chicago, 111. He died in
London, England, Nov. 13, 1866.
O REILLY, Bernard, R.C. bishop, was born in
the townland of Cunnareen, parish of Colunib-
kill. county Longford, Ireland, in March, 1803.
He left Ireland for America, Jan. 11, 1825; pre
pared for the priesthood in the Serninarie de
Theologie, Montreal, Canada, and at St. Mary s
college, Baltimore, Md., and was ordained priest
in New York city, Oct. 13, 1831. His first mission
was in St. James s church, Brooklyn, where in
1832 he was twice stricken with the cholera while
attending the sick and dying. He was appointed
pastor of St. Patrick s church in Rochester, N.Y.,
in December, 1832, the parish extending from
Auburn to Niagara Falls. In 1847 he was ap
pointed by Bishop Timon vicar-general of the
diocese of Buffalo, where he was president of the
Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, and director of
the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of. Charity.
He answered several attacks made on the hospital
by the Rev. John C. Lord, D.D., a Presbyterian
clergyman, and his
articles : "Catholicity
the Friend of Civil
and Religious Lib
erty ; " " Presby ter-
ianism the Enemy of
Civil and Religious
Liberty," and "The
Catholic Church, the
Church of Christ,"
closed the discussion.
He was appointed the .;
second bishop of Hart
ford, Conn., to suc
ceed Bishop Tyler,
who died June 18,
1849, was conse
crated in St. Patrick s church. Rochester, N.Y.,
Nov. 10, 1850, by Bishop Timon, assisted by
Bishops McCloskey and Fitzpatrick, and was in
stalled in St. Joseph s cathedral, Nov 17, 1850.
He built new churches and educational and char
itable institutions, introduced the Sisters of Mercy
into the diocese and made rapid progress in spite of
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O REILLY
violent opposition. In 1855 when St. Francis
Xavier s Convent of Mercy at Providence, R.I.,
was surrounded by a mob who threatened violence
to the inmates, Bishop O Reilly faced them, and
by his determined attitude caused the mob to
disperse without doing harm. He visited Europe
in December, 1855, to secure a colony of brothers
to take charge of his schools, and paid a last
visit to his parents in Ireland. He embarked for
the United States in the ship Pacific in January,
1856, and was never heard from again.
O REILLY, Bernard, prothonotary apostolic,
was born in the Parish of Cughall, near Westport,
county Mayo. Ireland, Sept. 29, 1820. He im
migrated to Canada in boyhood, was educated for
the priesthood in the Seminary of Quebec, and
was ordained priest Sept. 11, 1842, in the parish
church at Nicolet, Can., by Archbishop Joseph
Signay of Quebec. For several years lie was en
gaged in mission work in Canada, where he de
voted himself to the Irish families who immigra
ted there during the famine of 1843, and also to
promoting a plan for Irish colonization. He svent
to New York city, became professor of rhetoric
in St. John s college, Fordham, 1851. and after
studying in Europe, became an assistant in
St. Francis Xavier s church, Xe\v York city.
He was nominated domestic prelate of the papal
throne, Sept. 15, 1887, and prothonotary apostolic
of the archdiocese of New York, Sept. 29, 1892.
He traveled in Europe, and was selected by Pius
IX. to write the official life of Pope Leo XIII.
He is the author of Mirror of True Woman
hood (1816); Life of Pius IX. (1877): True Men
(1878); Key of Heaven (1878); Tite Tico Brides,
a novel (1879); Life of Leo XIII. (1887).
O REILLY, John Boyle, author, was born at
Dowth Castle, near Drogheda, count} Meath,
Ireland, June 28, 1844, son of William David and
Eliza (Boyle) O Reil
ly. He was educat
ed under his father,
p. noted mathemati
cian and master of
the Nettleville In
stitute at Dowth
Castle for thirty-five
years, and in 1855
entered the office of
the Argus in Drog
heda, where he learn
ed the printer s trade.
He also learned short
hand, and removing
to England served as
a reporter. Becoming
imbued with the revolutionary spirit then gaining
ground in Ireland, he joined in 1863 the 4th Hus
sars, known as the " Prince of Wales s Own," and
stationed in Dublin, Ireland, for the purpose of
stirring up rebellion among the large proportion of
Irishmen in that division of the English army.
When his connection with the Fenian Brotherhood
was discovered, he was arrested, tried for treason
June 26, 1866, and sentenced to be shot : but tins
sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and
finally to twenty years penal servitude in English
prisons. While at Dartmoor, from which he tried to
escape, he helped to raise a crude pile of stones
over the bodies of the French and American
prisoners who had met their fate fifty years
before. Pie was despatched to Australia with
other political prisoners in November, 1867. and
in 1868. tli rough a young Maori girl, sent a letter
to Father Patrick McCabe at Bunbury, West
Australia, who labored for his escape. The priest
arranged with Capt. Clifford, of the Gazelle of New
Bedford, Mass., who after repeated adventures
and escapes to save his passenger, had him trans
ferred to different vessels, until he was landed in
Philadelphia, Pa., by the Bombay in November,
1869. O Reilly was admitted to citizenship in
Philadelphia, removed to New York city, and
later to Boston. He lectured extensive!} on the
wrongs of Ireland. He resumed his journalistic
career in connection with the Boston Pilot in
1870, followed the Fenian raid into Canada for
that periodical, and in 1874 purchased the Pilot
with Archbishop Williams of Boston, and was
the manager and editor-in-chief until his death.
In 1877 he helped effect the rescue of six of his
former fellows deported as felons to Australia,
the effort costing him 825.000. He was elected
recording secretary of the Catholic Union of
Boston, from its beginning, and was a member
of its executive committee; a founder of the
Papyrus club, and a member of the St. Botolph
club. He was married, Aug. 15, 1872, to Mary
Agnes Smiley, daughter of John and Jane
(Smiley) Murphy of Chariest-own, Mass. She
was a writer of ability, and died, Nov. 22, 1897.
He received the degree LL.D. from the University
of Notre Dame in 1881, and from the University
of Georgetown. D.C., in 1889. He was poet at
the dedication of the Pilgrim monument at
Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 1, 1889. He contributed
to the American magazines, and to the magazine
of Oxford university, England, and is the author
of: Songs of the Southern Seas (1873); Songs,
Legends and Ballads (1878); Statues in the
Block (1881): In Bohemia (1886), and had in
preparation The Country with a Roof, an
allegory dealing with certain faults in the
American social system ; The Evolution of Straight
Weapons, and a work on the material resources
of Ireland. A monument was erected to his
memory in the Fenway, Boston. Mass., and
unveiled by his daughter, Blanid O Reilly, June
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ORMSBY
20. 1896. Busts of the poet were also placed in
the Catholic university of America at Washing
ton. D.C., and in the Boston public library,
where an alcove of Celtic literature was also
established to commemorate him. He died at
his summer residence, Hull, Mass., Aug. 10, 1890.
O REILLY, Patrick Thomas, R.C. bishop,
was born at Kill, county Caven, Ireland, Dec. 24,
1833, son of Philip and Mary O Reilly. He came
to the United States in 1847, where a wealthy
uncle in Boston, Mass., paid for his theological
education in St. Charles college, Ellicott City,
Md., 18.13-53, and in St. Mary s seminary, Balti
more, Md., 1853-57. He was ordained Aug. 15,
1857. by Bishop Bacon, of Portland. He was
pastor of St. John s church, Worcester, Mass.,
1857-02 ; organized and served St. Joseph s parish
in Boston, Mass., 1862-04, and was pastor of St.
John s church in Worcester, 1804-70. He was
elected bishop of the newly organized diocese of
Springfield. Mass., June 28, 1870, and was con
secrated at St. Michael s church (afterward
cathedral) Springfield, Mass., Sept. 25. 1870. by
Archbishop John McCloskey of New York, assisted
by Bishops Williams and Conroy. The twentieth
anniversary of his episcopate was celebrated in
his cathedral in 1890. He died in Springfield,
Mass., May 28, 1892.
ORM AN, James Bradley, governor of Colorado,
was born in Muscatine, Iowa, Nov. 4, 1849 ; son
of John and Sarah Josephine (Bradley) Orman.
He attended the common school, worked on his
father s farm and in 1869 engaged in business witli
his brother, William A. Or
man, as a contractor in rail