A dictionary of American authors

Part 46

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=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._

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=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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=Packard, Alpheus Spring.= _Me._, 1839- ----. A naturalist of eminence, professor of geology and zoölogy in Brown University from 1878. Zoölogy; Life Histories of Animals, or Comparative Embryology; Guide to the Study of Insects; Half-Hours with Insects; Our Common Insects; Entomology for Beginners; A Naturalist on the Labrador Coast; Observations on the Glacial Phenomena of Labrador and Maine. _Est. Ho._

=Packard, Frederick Adolphus.= _Ms._, 1794-1867. A Philadelphia writer, editor for nearly forty years of the publications of the American Sunday School Union. The Teacher Taught; Life of Robert Owen; Visit to European Hospitals; The Teacher Teaching; Union Bible Dictionary, include his most important writings.

=Packard, John Hooker.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. Son of F. A. Packard, _supra_. A surgeon of Philadelphia, surgeon to the Pennsylvania Hospital from 1884. Manual of Minor Surgery; Lectures on Inflammation; Handbook of Operative Surgery; Sea Air and Sea Bathing. _Lip._

=Packard, Lewis Richard.= _Pa._, 1836-1884. Son of F. A. Packard, _supra_. An educator who was professor of Greek at Yale University from 1866, and author of Studies in Greek Thought.

=Packard, Silas Sadler.= _Ms._, 1826-1898. An educator who founded a business college in New York city. Bryant and Stratton’s Bookkeeping Series; Complete Course of Business Training; Commercial Arithmetic; New Manual of Bookkeeping.

=Paddock, Benjamin Henry.= _Ct._, 1828-1891. The fifth Protestant Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts, 1873-1891. Ten Years in the Episcopate; The First Century of the Diocese of Massachusetts; The Pastoral Relation; The Foundation of Religious Belief. _Ap._

=Paddock, Mrs. Cornelia.= 18-- - ----. In the Toils; The Fate of Madame la Tour, a Tale of Great Salt Lake. _Fo._

=Page, Charles Edward.= _Me._, 1840- ----. A physician of Boston. How to Treat the Baby; Natural Cure of Consumption; Horses: their Feed and Feet; Pneumonia and Typhoid Fever.

=Page, Charles Grafton.= _Ms._, 1812-1868. An examiner in the Patent Office at Washington from 1840, who published Psychomancy, Spirit Rappings, and Table Tippings Exposed.

=Page, David Perkins.= _N. H._, 1810-1845. A once prominent educator of Albany whose Theory and Practice of Teaching was long popular.

=Page, Emily Rebecca.= _Vt._, 1834-1862. A verse-writer of Vermont whose work, which enjoyed local fame, is included in the volume, Lily of the Valley.

=Page, Richard Channing Moore.= _Va._, 1841-1898. A physician of New York city, but during the Civil War a Confederate officer. Genealogy of the Page Family of Virginia; Sketch of Page’s Battery, Lee’s Army; Chart of Physical Diagnosis.

=Page, Thomas Jefferson.= _Va._, 1808-1899. A naval officer in the service of the Southern Confederacy, 1861-62. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay.