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552 established also the civil college of San Nicolas Obispo. He resigned, 29 March, 1849, and retired to the country, but was re-elected, 14 June, 1852, occupying the state executive till 24 Jan., 1853, when his repeat- ed resignation was accepted by the legislature with a unanimous vote of thanks for his emi- nent services. He retired to his coun- try-seat, Pomoea (anagram of Ocam- po), but, after the arrivalof Santa- An- na and his assump- tion of the dictator- ship, Ocampo was arrested in June, 1853, transported to Vera Cruz, and imprisoned in the fortress of San Juan de Ulua until a vessel was ready to take him as an exile to the United States. When the revolution of Ayutla had triumphed, Ocampo was appointed by President Alvarez {q. v) chief of his cabinet and secretary of state in Octo- ber, 1855, but resigned very soon, as he was op- posed to the policy of the secretary of war, Comonfort. He occupied a seat in congress, and took part in the discussion of the constitution of 1857. After the fall of Comonfort he was appointed by Juarez {q. V.) secretary of state and acting secretary of war in January, 1858, and accompanied him to Vera Cruz, where he continued in the state department till August, 1859, taking part in the promulgation of the famous reform laws of 12 July, 1859. In January, 1860, he was again appointed secretary of state, but soon he disagreed with Juarez regarding the decree of amnesty, and, together with Gonzalez Ortega, La Llave, and Lafuente, he resigned, retiring to his farm, Pomoea. He was singled out for vengeance by the reactionary party, and iTi the last days of May a party under command of Lindoro Cajigas appeared at Pomoea. Mistaking a friend of Ocampo's for the owner of the estate, they took him prisoner, and he remained silent to save his friend, when Ocampo appeared, and gave himself up. He was taken on foot as a captive to Tepeji del Rio, delivered to Zuloaga and Marquez (q. v.), and shot by order of the latter, notwithstanding the entreaties of many influential persons at the capital, including the French minister.

OCCOM, Samson, Indian preacher, b. in Mohe- gan, New London eo.. Conn., about 1723 ; d. in New Stockbridge, N. Y., 14 July, 1792. He was con- verted to Christianity about 1740, and at once ex- pressed a desire to become the religious teacher of his tribe. He was four years an inmate of the school of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, of Lebanon, Conn., and in 1748 he taught in New London, but soon went to Montauk, on Long Island, where he was first teacher and then preacher among the Indians for the next ten years, having been licensed by the Windam, Conn., association. On 30 Aug., 1759, he was ordained by the presbytery of Suft'otk, and he maintained his connection with the Presby- terian church to the close of his career. In 1761 he went on a mission to the Oneida Indians under the direction of a society in Scotland for propagat- ing Christian knowledge, and in 1766 he accom- panied Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker to England to procure funds for an Indian charitv-school. From 16 Feb., 1766, till 22 July, 1767, he preached be- tween three and four hundred sermons, and, being the first Indian preacher that had visited Great Britain, he everywhere drew crowds of curious listeners. Nor were his labors without pecuniary result. George III. subscribed £200 and Lord Dart- mouth (q. V.) fifty guineas, while his total receipts amounted to more than £10,000. On his return to this country he remained for a time in Mohegan, but removed in 1786 with some of the New England and Long Island Indians to what was known as the Brotherton tract in Oneida county, N. Y. He subsequently resided among the Stockbridge In- dians, where he received a tract of land. His funeral was attended by over six hundred of his race. He was the author of several hymns, among them the one beginning " Awaked by Sinai's awful sound," and published a sermon that he delivered at the execution of Moses Paul, an Indian (New Haven, 1772). He also wrote an account of the manners and customs of the Montauk Indians, which has been printed in the " Collections " of the Massachusetts historical soeiety (first series, vol. x.).

OCHOA Y ACUNA, Antonio. Mexican poet, b. in Huichapam, 27 April, 1783 : d. in Queretaro, 4 Aug., 1833. He studied in his native town and afterward in the College of San Ildefonso and the University of Mexico. He soon gave proofs of his love for poetry, and on 17 May, 1806, his first satiri- cal work appeared in the " Diario de Mexico." In 1811 he was admitted to the Arcadia Mexicana, a society of poets, and he continued to write under the name of " Pastor Antimio." In the same year he wrote a tragedy entitled " Don Alfonso " for the Mexican theatre. He was ordained priest in 1816, and in 1817 appointed provisional parish priest of Pueblito (Queretaro). In 1820 he obtained the parish of Espiritu Santo. He translated many works from the French, Italian, and Latin, and wrote a comedy, " Amor por apoderado," which ap- peared in 1831 on the boards. His works, under the name of " Poesias de un Mexicano," have been issued in this country (New York, 1820).

OCHTERLONY, Sir David, bart., British soldier, b. in Boston. Mass., 12 Feb., 1758; d. in Meerut, India, 15 July, 1825. He was the eldest son of David Ochterlony, a New England loyalist, and was of Scotch descent, his paternal great-grandfather, Alexander, having been laird of Pitf orthy, in Angus- shire. After completing his education he was sent to India at the age of eighteen, and entered the British army as a cadet. He was promoted lieu- tenant in 1778, lieutenant-colonel in 1803, and deputy adjutant-general at the battle of Delhi, im- mediately after which he was sent as envoy to the court of Shah Alum. He was made colonel, 1 Jan., 1812, and major-general, 4 June, 1814. For his skilful conduct in the Nepaulese war he was created knight commander of the Bath in April, 1815, and baronet in the following November. He subse- quently distinguished himself in the Mahratta and Pindarry war of 1817-'18.

O'CONNELL, Eugene, R. C. bishop, b. in County Meath, Ireland, about 1818. He was educated in the diocesan college at Navan, and pursued philosophical and theological studies in St. Patrick's college, Maynooth. He was ordained in 1842, appointed professor in Navan college, and subsequently in the missionary college of All Hallows. After some years he emigrated to the United States and labored as a missionary in California. There he was president of Santa Inez college, and after- ward of St. Thomas's theological seminary. He then returned to Ireland, where he learned in 1861 that he had been chosen vicar apostolic of the newly created vicariate of Marysville. He was