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He designed and He died July 11,

built the Boston city hall. 1882, in Syracuse, N.Y.

Oilman, Arthur, educator, founder, author,

was born June is

an educator

He 22, 1837, in Alton, 111. of Cambridge; and the originator of Radcliffe college; and founder of the

Oilman school of

Cambridge, Mass. He is the author of First Steps in English Lit'erature; Seven Historic Ages; First Steps General History; in History of the American People; also Rome

from Times;

the

Earliest

Tales of the Pathfinders ; Short Stoiie^ iioav vhe Dictionary; The Saracens; Colonization of America; The Discovery of America; and The Making of the American Nation. He has also edited the Riverside Chaucer and other works.

Oilman, Arthur B., railroad president, was born June 18, 1856, in Haverhill, Mass. Since 1893 he has been president of the Phillips and Rangeley railroad at Haverhill, Mass. Oilman, Bradley, clergyman, author, was bom Jan. 22, 1857, in Boston, Mass. Since 1892 he has had charge of the congressional society of Springfield, Mass. He is the author of The Kingdom of Coins; Kibboo Ganey; The Drifting Island; The Musical Journey of Dorothy and Delia; and other

Works. Oilman, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins, lecturer, author, poet, was born July 3, 1860, in Hartford, Conn. She made a reputation as a story-writer, lecturer, and advocate of equality for women; and in 1896 visited Great Britain as a public speaker. She is the author of Women and Economies; In This Our World, in verse: and Human

Works. Caroline Howard, author, 8, 1794, in Boston, Mass. In 1830 ^he began the publication of The Rose-Bud in Cambridge, Mass. She was the author of Recollections of a Southern MaRecollections of a New England tron: Housekeeper; The Sibyl, or New Oracles from the Poets; Verses of a Lifetime; Poetry of Traveling in the United States; Ruth Raymond; and Stories and Poems. She died

Oilman,

poet,

Mrs.

was born

Oct.

Cambridge, Mass. Oilman, Chandler Eobbins, physician, educator, author, was born Sept. 6, 1802, in Marietta, Ohio. He was a physician of New York Citv: and professor from 1841 in the college of Phvsicians and Surgeons. He was the author of Legends of a Log Cabin; Life on the Lakes; Life of J. B. Beck; The Relations of the Medical to the Legal Profession and Tracts on Generation. He died Sept. 26, 1865, in Middletown, Conn. in

Oilman, Charles J., state legislator, congressman, was born in New Hampshire. He served in the New Hampshire state legislaHe removed to Maine; and ture in 1854. in 1857-59 he was a representative from Maine to the thirty-fifth congress. He died Feb. 5, 1901, in Maine. Oilman, Mrs. Charlotte Perkins, lecturer, author, poet, was born in 1860 in Hartford, Conn. She is a lecturer on social progress and reform. She is the author of Women and Economics; In This Our World; The Yellow Wallpaper; Concerning Children;

The Home and

Human Works.

Oilman, Daniel Coit, educator, college president, author, was born July 6, 1831, in NorHe was librarian and profeswich, Conn. sor in Yale college; and afterwards president of the university of California; and in 1875-1901 was president of Johns Hopkins university. He was the author of Life of James Monroe; Life of James D. Dana; and University Problems. He died in 1908 in Baltimore, Md. Oilman, Oorman Dummer, merchant, diplomat, -was bom May 29, 1822, in Hallowell, Maine. He has been proprietor of a store in the Hawaiian Islands; and a wholesale druggist in Boston, Mass. He has been Hawaiian consul and consul-general; and received decorations from the king and queen

Hawaiian Islands. John Taylor, soldier, congressman, governor, was born Dec. 19, 1753, in Exeter, N.H. He was a volunteer in the revolutionary army; a delegate from New Hampshire in 1780 to the Hartford convention; and in 1782-83 he was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress; and the latter year succeeded his father as treasurer of New Hampshire. He was the second governor of New Hampshire in 17941805 and 1814-16. He died Sept. 1, 1828, in of the

Oilman,

New

Hampshire. Oilman, Joseph, lawyer, jurist. He was judge of one of the United States territorial

courts sometime prior to 1884.

Oilman, Lawrence, critic, composer, author, was born July 5, 1878, in Flushing, N.Y. Since 1901 he has been musical critic on Harpers Weekly. He is the author of Phases of Modern Music; and A Dream of Death. Oilman, Mrs. Mary Rebecca Foster, author, was born in 1859 in Worcester, Mass. She is the wife of Rev. Bradley Oilman. She is the author of Life of St. Theresa, in Fa-

mous Women

series.

Oilman, Nicholas, soldier, congressman, United States senator, was bom Aug. 3, 1775, in Exeter, N.H. In 1786-88 he was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress. In 1789-97 he was a representative to the first, second, third and fourth congresses: and in 1805-15 he was United States senator. He died May 2, 1814. in Exeter, N.H.