England in 1635, and in 1653 succeeded John Cotton as teacher of the
church at Boston. He wrote much, and was a strenuous advocate of
religious persecution. Among his writings are, The Heart of New England
Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation; Life of Mr. John
Cotton. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Longfellow’s New
England Tragedies._
=Norton, John.= _Ms._, 1651-1716. Nephew of J. Norton, _supra_. A
Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church at Hingham, 1678-1716,
who is remembered for his Elegy on Anne Bradstreet, a poem of some
force and merit. _See Tyler’s American Literature._
=Norton, John Nicholas.= _N. Y._, 1820-1881. Brother of G. H. Norton,
_supra_. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville, among whose many works
are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, Bowen, Freeman, Provost, Stewart,
Wilson, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons for Families; The King’s
Ferry-Boat; Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop
Cranmer. _Wh._
=Norton, Mrs. Minerva [Brace].= _N. Y._, 1837- ----. An educator of
Beloit, Wisconsin. In and Around Berlin; Service in the King’s Gardens.
_Mg._
=Norton, Sidney Augustus.= _O._, 1835- ----. A scientist who has
been professor of chemistry in Ohio University from 1873. Elements
of Natural Philosophy; Elements of Physics; Elements of Inorganic
Chemistry; Organic Chemistry.
=Norton, William Augustus.= _N. Y._, 1810-1883. A professor of civil
engineering in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, from 1852.
Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; First Book of Natural Philosophy and
Astronomy.
=Nott, Eliphalet.= _Ct._, 1773-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of note,
president of Union College, 1804-66. Counsels to Young Men; Lectures on
Temperance. _See Memoir by Van Santvoord, 1876._
=Nott, Josiah Clark.= _S. C._, 1804-1873. A physician of Mobile, who
wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, and was co-author with
Gliddon of the once famous Types of Mankind, and of Indigenous Races of
the Earth. _Lip._
=Nourse, James Duncan.= _Ky._, 1817-1854. A journalist of St. Louis.
The Forest Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of the Mississippi;
God in History.
=Nourse, Joseph Everett.= _D. C._, 1819-1899. Cousin of J. D. Nourse,
_supra_. A professor in the Naval Academy, 1850-81. The Maritime
Canal of Suez; Astronomical and Meteorological Observations; American
Explorations in the Ice Zones. _Lo._
=Noyes, Arthur Ames.= _Ms._, 1866- ----. A professor of chemistry in
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published a treatise
on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.
=Noyes, Charles Henry.= “Charles Quiet.” _Mch._, 1849-1898. A lawyer
and verse-writer of Warren, Pennsylvania, who has published Studies in
Verse. _Lip._
=Noyes, George Rapall.= _Ms._, 1798-1868. A Unitarian clergyman eminent
as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University
from 1840. He published translations with notes of the Psalms, Job,
Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs; and a translation
of the New Testament. _A. U. A._
=Noyes, Henry Drury.= _N. Y._, 1832-1900. An ophthalmologist of New
York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; Text-Book on Diseases of
the Eye.
=Noyes, James.= _E._, 1608-1656. A Puritan clergyman of Newbury,
Massachusetts, pastor of the church there, 1635-56. The Temple
Measured; Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State.
=Noyes, James Oscar.= _N. Y._, 1829-1872. A physician and journalist of
New Orleans. Roumania; The Gypsies: their History, Origin, and Manner
of Life.
=Noyes, John Humphrey.= _Vt._, 1811-1886. A noted religionist who
founded the Oneida Community, and other associations of socialists. The
Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith;
History of American Socialisms; House Talks. _Lip._
=Nuttall= [nŭt´al], =Thomas.= _E._, 1786-1859. A noted ornithologist
and botanist, of English birth, whose life was mainly spent in the
United States, but who returned to England in 1842. The Genera of North
American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The North American Sylva;
Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832 and
1834); Geological Sketch of the Valley of the Mississippi; A Popular
Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America, being a new
edition of the Manual of Ornithology revised and annotated by Montague
Chamberlain. _See Popular Science Monthly, March, 1895._ _Lit._
=Nye, Bill.= _See Nye, Edgar._
=Nye, Edgar Wilson.= _Me._, 1850-1896. A humourous journalist whose
writing, though very popular, is ephemeral in its nature and of little
or no literary value. Bill Nye and the Boomerang; Forty Liars, and
Other Lies; Baled Hay; Bill Nye’s Blossom Rock; Remarks; Bill Nye’s
Thinks; The Cadi, a comedy; Comic History of the United States; A Guest
at the Ludlow, and Other Stories; Comic History of England. _Lip._
=Nystrom, John William.= 18-- -1885. An engineer in the United States
navy. Treatise on Parabolic Construction of Ships; Technological
Education; The Force of Falling Bodies; Treatise on the Elements of
Mechanics; New Treatise on Steam Engineering; Pocket Book of Mechanics
and Engineering; Principles of Dynamics; Treatise on Screw Propellers.
_Bai. Lip._
O
=Oakes, Urian.= _E._, 1631-1681. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of
the church in Cambridge, and president of Harvard College, 1675-81. He
is chiefly remembered for his Elegy upon the Death of Thomas Shepard, a
notable poem in six-lined stanzas, but his sermons, in point of style,
are the best which were written in America during the colonial period.
_See Tyler’s American Literature._
=Oakey, Alexander F.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. An architect of Buffalo.
Building a Home; Home Grounds; The Art of Life and the Life of Art.
_Ap. Har._
=Oakey, Emily Sullivan.= _N. Y._, 1829-1883. An educator of Albany.
Dialogues and Conversations; At the Foot of Parnassus, a collection of
verse.
=Ober, Frederick Albion.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A writer of Beverly,
Massachusetts, well known as a traveller. Camps in the Caribbees; Young
Folks’ History of Mexico; The Silver City; Travels in Mexico; Mexican
Resources and Guide to Mexico; Montezuma’s Gold Mines; The Knockabout
Club in the Antilles; The Knockabout Club in the Everglades; In the
Wake of Columbus; Josephine, Empress of the French. _Est. Le. Lo. Mer._
=Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxon.= _Pa._, 1868- ----. Son of Mrs. Oberholtzer,
_infra_. A Philadelphia journalist. The Referendum in America, a
Discussion of Law-Making by Popular Vote.
=Oberholtzer, Mrs. Sara Louisa [Vickers].= _Pa._, 1841- ----. A
verse-writer of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Violet Lee, and Other Poems;
Come for Arbutus; Hope’s Heart Bells, a novel; Daisies of Verse;
Souvenirs of Occasions. _Lip._
=O’Brien, Fitz James.= _I._, 1828-1862. A brilliant but erratic
journalist of New York city. Poems and Stories; The Diamond Lens, and
Other Stories. _See Memoir by W. Winter, infra._ _Scr._
=O’Brien, John.= _I._, 1841-1879. A Roman Catholic clergyman and
educator, professor of ecclesiastical history and sacred theology
in Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmittsburg, Maryland, from 1877. He
published, in 1879, A History of the Mass and its Ceremonies in the
Eastern and Western Churches, which has since passed through fourteen
editions. It is non-controversial in character, and is clear and
forcible in its style.
=O’Callaghan, Edmund Bailey.= _I._, 1797-1880. An historical writer of
Albany, and subsequently of New York city. History of New Netherlands;
Jesuit Relations; Documentary History of New York. He edited many
volumes of State and colonial records.
=O’Connell, Jeremiah Joseph.= _I._, 1821- ----. A Roman Catholic
priest of the Benedictine order in North Carolina. Catholicity in the
Carolinas and Georgia; Conferences on the Blessed Trinity.
=O’Connor, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1841- ----. A journalist of Rochester, New
York, whose collected Poems appeared in 1895. _Put._
=O’Connor, William Douglas.= _Ms._, 1832-1889. A clerk in the civil
service at Washington. Harrington, a novel; The Good Gray Poet, a
defence of Walt Whitman; The Ghost; Three Tales; Hamlet’s Note-Book.
_Hou._
=O’Conor, John Francis Xavier.= _N. Y._, 1852- ----. A Roman Catholic
clergyman of the Society of Jesus, a professor in Boston College.
Something Real; Lyric and Dramatic Poetry; Reading and the Mind.
=Odenheimer, William Henry.= _Pa._, 1817-1879. The third Protestant
Episcopal bishop of New Jersey, 1859-74, becoming bishop of Northern
New Jersey in the latter year. Origin of the Prayer-Book; Essay on
Canon Law; The Sacred Scriptures the Imperial Record of the Glory of
the Holy Trinity; Jerusalem and its Vicinity; The Devout Churchman’s
Companion; The True Catholic no Romanist; Thoughts on Immersion; Bishop
White’s Opinions; Sermons, with Memoir. _Dut._
=Odiorne, Thomas.= _N. H._, 1769-1851. An iron manufacturer of
Malden, Massachusetts. The Progress of Refinement, a Poem; Fame and
Miscellanies.
=O’Donnell, Daniel Kane.= _Pa._, 1838-1871. A Philadelphia journalist
who published The Song of Iron and the Song of Slaves, with Other Poems.
=O’Donnell, Jessie Fremont.= _N. Y._, 1860- ----. A writer of Lowville,
New York. Heart Lyrics; Horseback Sketches.
=Officier, Morris.= _O._, 1823-1874. A Lutheran missionary. Plea for
a Lutheran Mission in Africa; Western Africa a Mission Field; African
Bible Pictures.
=O’Hara, Theodore.= _Ky._, 1820-1867. An officer in the United States
army during the Mexican War, and subsequently in the Confederate
army. He is remembered for his poem, The Bivouac of the Dead, stanzas
from which have been inscribed on tablets in several of the national
cemeteries.
=Olin, Mrs. Julia Matilda [Lynch].= _N. Y._, 1814-1879. Wife of S.
Olin, _infra_. Words of the Wise; Four Days in July; Curious and Useful
Questions on the Bible; The Perfect Light, comprise her most important
writings.
=Olin, Stephen.= _Vt._, 1797-1851. A Methodist clergyman and educator,
president of Wesleyan University from 1842. Travels in Egypt, Arabia
Petræa, and the Holy Land; Greece and the Golden Horn; College Life,
its Theory and Practice; Youthful Piety. _See Life and Letters, 1857._
_Meth. Har._
=Oliver, Benjamin Lynde.= _Ms._, 1788-1843. A lawyer of Boston. Hints
on the Pursuit of Happiness; Rights of an American Citizen; Law
Summary; Practical Conveyancing; Forms of Practice; Forms of Chancery.
_Lit._
=Oliver, Mrs. Grace Atkinson [Little] [Ellis].= _Ms._, 1844-1899. A
littérateur of Salem, Massachusetts. Lives of Mrs. Barbauld, Maria
Edgeworth, Theodore Parker, Dean Stanley. She edited Tales of Maria
Edgeworth; Essays of Mrs. Barbauld; Tales and Poems of Ann and Jane
Taylor.
=Oliver, Mrs. Martha [Capps].= _Il._, 1845- ----. A writer of
Jacksonville, Illinois. Her writings in verse for juvenile readers
comprise, The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; The Far West.
=Oliver, Peter.= _N. H._, 1822-1855. Nephew of B. L. Oliver, _supra_.
A lawyer of Boston whose Puritan Commonwealth, an historical review
of the Puritan government of Massachusetts, presents a not altogether
favourable picture of the period under discussion. _Lit._
=Olmsted= [ŭm´sted or ŏm´sted], =Alexander Fisher.= _N. C._, 1822-1853.
Son of D. Olmsted, _infra_. A professor of chemistry in the University
of North Carolina who published Elements of Chemistry.
=Olmsted, Denison.= _Ct._, 1791-1859. A scientist who was professor of
natural philosophy at Yale College from 1825. Letters on Astronomy;
Compendium of Natural Philosophy; Students’ Commonplace Book;
Introduction to Natural Philosophy.
=Olmsted, Francis Allyn.= _N. C._, 1819-1844. Son of D. Olmsted,
_supra_. A physician who published Incidents of a Whaling Voyage.
=Olmsted, Frederick Law.= _Ct._, 1822-1903. A celebrated landscape
architect of Boston. He designed the Central Park of New York city and
the park systems of Boston, Buffalo, and many other American cities.
Walks and Talks of an American Farmer; A Journey in the Seaboard Slave
States; A Journey through Texas; A Journey in the Back Country.
=Olney, Jesse.= _Ct._, 1798-1872. A noted educator of Connecticut. The
National Preceptor; Geography and Atlas (1828), a standard work for a
generation; History of the United States.
=Olssen, William Whittingham.= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. An Episcopal
clergyman and educator, professor of mathematics in St. Stephen’s
College, Annandale, New York, from 1871. Personality, Human and Divine;
Revelation, Universal and Special.
=Olsson= [ōl´sŭn], =Olof.= _Sn._, 1841-1900. A Lutheran clergyman,
president of Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, from 1891. At
the Cross; Greetings from Afar, a volume of travel; The Christian Hope.
=Onderdonk, Henry.= _L. I._, 1804-1886. Nephew of H. U. Onderdonk,
_infra_. An educator of Long Island, principal of Union Hall Academy,
1832-1865. Queens County in Olden Times; Annals of Hempstead,
1643-1832; Long Island and New York in Olden Times.
=Onderdonk, Henry Ustick.= _N. Y._, 1789-1858. The second Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Pennsylvania. Episcopacy Tested by Scripture,
republished as Episcopacy Examined and Re-Examined; Essay on
Regeneration; Sermons and Charges; Family Devotions.
=O’Neall, John Belton.= _S. C._, 1793-1863. A South Carolina jurist.
Digest of the Negro Law; Annals of Newberry District; Bench and Bar of
South Carolina.
=Opdyke, George.= _N. J._, 1805-1880. A banker of New York city, and
mayor of that city, 1862-63. Treatise on Political Economy; Report on
the Currency; Official Documents and Addresses.
=Optic, Oliver.= _See Adams, W. T._
=O’Reilly, Henry.= _I._, 1800-1886. A journalist of Rochester, New
York. Sketches of Rochester; American Political Anti-Masonry.
=O’Reilly, John Boyle.= _I._, 1844-1890. A noted journalist of Boston,
editor of The Pilot. In his youth he was concerned in a Fenian outbreak
in Ireland, and banished to Australia. Escaping thence he came to
America in 1869 and settled in Boston, where his talents speedily
secured recognition. Much of his work in verse is ephemeral, but his
best lines have the ring of true poetry. Songs, Legends, and Ballads;
Moondyne; The Statues in the Block, and Other Poems; Songs of the
Southern Seas; In Bohemia. In prose he published, Stories and Sketches;
The Ethics of Boxing. _See Life by J. J. Boche, infra; Dictionary of
National Biography, vol. 42._
=O’Reilly, Miles.= _See Halpine._
=Orme, Mary.= _See Nichols, Mrs._
=Ormond, Alexander Thomas.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. Stuart professor of
mental science and logic at Princeton University from 1883. Basal
Concepts in Philosophy. _Scr._
=Orne, Mrs. Caroline [Chaplin].= _Ms._, 18-- -1882. Niece of J.
Chaplin, 1st, _supra_. A once popular magazinist, who was the author of
more than two hundred and fifty stories.
=Orne, Caroline Frances.= _Ms._, 1818- ----. A Cambridge writer of
verse, and also of stories for children. Her life has all been passed
in Cambridge, her native place. A Day in the Woodlands; Lucy’s Party,
and Other Tales; Sweet Auburn and Mount Auburn, with Other Poems;
Morning Songs of American Freedom.
=Orton, Edward.= _N. Y._, 1829-1899. The State geologist of Ohio from
1883. Economic Geology of Ohio; Petroleum and Inflammable Gas. _Clke._
=Orton, James.= _N. Y._, 1830-1877. A Congregational clergyman, well
known as a naturalist, who was professor of natural history at Vassar
College, 1869-1877. Comparative Zoölogy; The Andes and the Amazon;
Underground Treasures; Liberal Education of Women. _Bai. Har._
=Orton, James Rockwood.= _N. Y._, 1800-1867. A littérateur of New York
city. Poetical Sketches; Arnold, and Other Poems; Camp Fires of the Red
Men; Confidential Experiences of a Spiritualist. _Mac._
=Osborn, Henry Fairfield.= _Ct._, 1857- ----. A professor of biology
at Columbia College. From the Greeks to Darwin, an outline of the
evolution idea. _Mac._
=Osborn, Henry Stafford.= _Pa._, 1823-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman
and educator, professor in Miami University, Ohio, 1871-73. Palestine
Past and Present; Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land; Scientific
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel in the United States; Manual of Bible
Geography; Ancient Egypt in the Light of Recent Discoveries; Little
Pilgrims in the Holy Land; New Descriptive Geography of Palestine; The
Prospector’s Field Book and Guide; A Practical Manual of Minerals,
Mines, and Mining. _Bai. Clke._
=Osborn, John.= _Ms._, 1713-1753. A physician of Middletown,
Connecticut, whose Whaling Song was long popular among sailors.
=Osborn, Laughton.= _N. Y._, 1809-1878. An artist and littérateur of
New York city. Confessions of a Poet; Sixty Years of the Life of Jeremy
Levis; The Vision of Rubeta; Arthur Carryl; Handbook of Oil Painting;
Travels by Sea and Land, and a number of comedies and tragedies,
include the most of his writing.
=Osborn, Selleck.= _Ct._, 1783-1826. A journalist, once popular as a
poet, who published Poems, Moral, Sentimental, and Satirical.
=Osborne, [Samuel] Duffield.= _L. I._, 1858- ----. A littérateur of New
York city. The Spell of Ashtaroth; The Robe of Nessus. _Scr._
=Oscanyan, Hatchik.= _Ty._, 1818- ----. An Armenian writer of New York
city who took the name of Christopher. Acaby, a satirical romance;
Veronica, a novel; Bedig, a work for young readers; The Sultan and His
People, once a very popular work.
=Osgood, Mrs. Frances Sargent [Locke].= _Ms._, 1811-1850. A
verse-writer whose poems were for a time extremely popular. She was the
wife of an artist, and lived some years in London. The Casket of Fate;
A Wreath of Wild Flowers from New England; The Happy Release, a play
written for Sheridan Knowles; Poems. _See Life by Griswold; Allibone’s
Dictionary._
=Osgood, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1748-1813. A statesman who was a member of the
Continental Congress, 1780-84, and naval officer of the port of New
York, 1803-13. Letter on Episcopacy; Remarks on Daniel and Revelation;
Theology and Metaphysics.
=Osgood, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1812-1880. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor of
the Church of the Messiah in New York city, 1849-69. In 1870 he entered
the Episcopal ministry, but assumed no parochial duties. Studies in
Christian Biography; God with Men; Mile-Stones in our Life Journey;
The Hearthstone; Student Life; The Gospel Among the Animals; American
Leaves; The New Hampshire Book (with C. J. Fox). His published orations
upon patriotic events, notable men, and historic themes, are numerous.
_Har._
=Osler, William.= _Ont._, 1849- ----. A physician, professor in Johns
Hopkins University from 1889. Clinical Notes on Small-Pox; Histology
Notes for Students; Cerebral Palsies of Children; Principles and
Practice of Medicine; Diagnosis of Abdominal Tumors. _Ap._
=Osmun, Thomas Embley.= “Alfred Ayres.” _O._, 1826-1902. An author of
New York city. The Verbalist; The Orthoepist; an annotated edition of
Cobbett’s Grammar; The Mentor; Acting and Actors; The Essentials of
Elocution. _Ap. Fu._
=Ossoli= [ŏs´o-lee], =Sarah Margaret [Fuller], Marchioness d’.= _Ms._,
1810-1850. A once famous writer of Boston whose personality was more
than anything she ever wrote, and who is little more than a name to the
present generation. She was a gifted woman, and as a teacher in Boston,
editor of The Dial, and literary critic for The New York Tribune, was a
prominent figure. In 1845 she went to Italy, and there was married to
the Marquis d’Ossoli. Woman in the Nineteenth Century; Art, Literature,
and the Drama; At Home and Abroad; A Summer on the Lakes. _See Memoir
by Emerson, W. H. Channing, and J. F. Clarke; Lives by Higginson, Mrs.
J. W. Howe; Galaxy Magazine, May, 1878; Lowell’s Fable for Critics._
=Oswald, Felix Leopold.= _Bm._, 1845- ----. A naturalist of Tennessee.
Physical Education; Summerland Sketches; Zoölogical Sketches; Household
Remedies; The Secret of the East, or the Origin of the Christian
Religion; Days and Nights in the Tropics; The Bible of Nature; The
Poison Problem. _Ap. Lip. Lo._
=Otis, Mrs. Eliza Henderson [Bordman].= _Ms._, 1796-1873.
Daughter-in-law of H. G. Otis, _infra_. A philanthropist and social
leader in Boston who wrote The Barclays of Boston, a novel.
=Otis, Elwell Stephen.= _Md._, 1838- ----. A United States army
officer. The Indian Question.
=Otis, Fessenden Nott.= _N. Y._, 1825-1900. A physician of New York
city. Lessons in Drawing; Tropical Journeyings; History of the Panama
Railroad; Stricture of the Male Urethra; Clinical Lessons on Syphilis;
Physiology of Syphilitic Infection.
=Otis, George Alexander.= _Ms._, 1830-1881. A surgeon who was curator
of the Army Medical Museum at Washington. Report of Surgical Cases
Treated in the United States Army, 1867-71; Amputation at the Hip Joint.
=Otis, Harrison Gray.= _Ms._, 1765-1848. Nephew of J. Otis, _infra_.
A prominent citizen of Boston famous for his eloquence. Letters in
Defence of the Hartford Convention; Orations and Addresses.
=Otis, James.= _Ms._, 1725-1783. A celebrated orator and politician,
and one of the most active advocates of American independence. He
was an impetuous, vehement speaker, and seldom failed to carry his
hearers with him. Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Approved;
Vindication of the British Colonies; Considerations on Behalf of the
Colonists; A Vindication of the Rights of the House of Representatives
of Massachusetts Bay. _See Life by Tudor._
=Otis, James.= _See Kaler._
=Ott, Isaac.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A physician who has published Cocaine,
Veratria, and Gelseminum; Action of Medicines; Physiology and Pathology
of the Nervous System.
=Otts, John Martin Philip.= _S. C._, 1838-1901. A Presbyterian minister
of Talladega, Alabama. Nicodemus with Jesus; Light and Life for a Dead
World; The Southern Pen and Pulpit; Inter-denominational Literature;
The Gospel of Honesty; Laconisms; The Fifth Gospel; Unsettled
Questions; At Mother’s Knee. _Rev._
=Overman, Frederick.= _G._, _c._ 1810-1852. A mining engineer of
Philadelphia. The Manufacture of Iron; The Manufacture of Steel;
Political Mineralogy; Moulder’s and Founder’s Pocket Guide; Mechanics
for the Millwright, etc.; Treatise on Metallurgy. _Ap. Bai._
=Owen, Catherine.= _See Nitsch, Mrs._
=Owen, David Dale.= _S._, 1807-1860. Brother of R. D. Owen, _infra_.
The State geologist of Indiana. Report of a Geological Survey of
Kentucky; Geological Survey of Wisconsin; Report of a Geological
Reconnoissance.
=Owen, John Jason.= _N. Y._, 1803-1869. A Presbyterian clergyman and
educator of New York city. Commentary on the Gospels; Acts of the
Apostles in Greek, with Lexicon; and text-book editions of Xenophon,
Thucydides, and Homer.
=Owen, Richard.= _S._, 1810-1890. Brother of R. D. Owen, _infra_,
and of D. D. Owen, _supra_. A geologist of New Harmony, Indiana. He
succeeded his brother David as State geologist in 1860, and was author
of a Key to the Geology of the Globe.
=Owen, Robert Dale.= _S._, 1801-1877. A prominent writer of New
Harmony, Indiana, the son of Robert Owen, the noted Scottish socialist.
He was active in political life, and was an ardent advocate of
Spiritualism. Outlines of the System of Education at New Lanark; Moral
Physiology; Popular Traits; Pocahontas, a drama; Hints on Public
Architecture; The Wrong of Slavery and the Right of Freedom; Footfalls
on the Boundary of Another World; Beyond the Breakers, a novel;
Threading my Way; Debatable Land between this World and the Next.
_See Woollen’s Biographical Sketches of Early Indiana; Dictionary of
National Biography, vol. 42._ _Lip._
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