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 ODELL

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1901-1903. He lectured extensively on Christian art, Greek art and the Wagner operas. He became an author of international reputation in learned circles ; was widely known as preacher, lecturer and writer of classic English, and as an authority on libraries and the care of books, and translated the first Cuneiform inscription published in America. He is the author of : Lyric and Dramatic Poetry (1883) ; Babylonian Inscriptions of Nebu- chadnezzer (1885) ; Garruccis Christian Art (1885); Three Holy Lives (1888); Practice of Humility (1890); Life of St. Aloysius (1891); Jesuit Missions in America (1893); Reading and the Mind (1897); Rhetoric and Oratory (1898); Facts about Book- worms (1898) ; Sacred Scenes and Mysteries (1898) ; Autobiography of St. Ignatius (1900); Christ the Man of God (1900), and of dramas, music and poems.

ODELL, Benjamin Barker, governor of New York, was born in Newburgh, N.Y., Jan. 14, 1854; son of Mayor Benjamin Barker and Ophelia (Bookstaver) Odell : grandson of Isaac and Mary Ann (Barker) Odell and of Hiram and Catherine (Kinebark) Booksta- ver ; great-grandson ^^^^^ of Col. William (1763-

I ^M 1856) and Johanna

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public schools of Newburgh, Bethany college in West Vir- ginia, 1873, and Col- umbia college. New York city, 1873-75, but was not gradu- ated. He entered business life in New- burgh in 1875, became vice-president of the Odell ice company, and president of an electric lighting enterprise, and was also interested in the banking business. He was defeated for supervisor and for state senator wlien quite young ; represented the seventeenth New York district on the Republican state committee, 1884-96, and was cliairinan of the state executive committee, 1898-1900. He was elected Republican representative from the seventeenth New York district in the 54th and 55th congi-esses, 1895-99, and was chairman of the committee on accounts in the 55th congress. He declined renomination to the 56th congress, 1898, proposed and sup- ported Theodore Roosevelt for governor of New York in 1898, and when Roosevelt was nominated for vice-president in 1900, became the Republican candidate for governor. He was elected by a plurality of 111,136, and was re-elected in 1903. VIII. — 8

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He was married, first, in 1877, to Estelle Crist of Newburgh, N.Y., who died in 1888; and secondly, in 1891, to Mrs. Linda (Crist) Trapha- gan, widow of Rensselaer Traphagan and sister of his former wife.

ODELL, Jacob, soldier, was born in Green- burg, N.Y., July 35, 1756; son of Abraham and Rebecca (Dyckman) Odell ; grandson of Johannes and Johannah (Vermilye) Odell, and a descendant in the sixth generation of William Odell of Con- cord, Mass., 1639, Fairfield, Conn., 1644. Jacob Odell served during the war of the Revolution in Col. Samuel Drake's regiment. On the return of peace he was commissioned brigadier-general of New York state militia by Maj.-Gen. Morris, and commanded the first brigade of horse artillery. He married Ann, widow of Abraham Brevoort, and daughter of David and Mary (Van Vleckeren) Devoor. He lived at Yonkers, N. Y., was member of the state assembly, 1813-13, a Monroe presiden- tial elector in 1831, and a Jackson elector in 1839. He died at Yonkers, N.Y., in 1845.

ODELL, Jonathan, patriot, was born in Tarry- town, N.Y., Dec. 36, 1730 ; son of Johannes, Jr., and Johannah (Vermilye) Odell ; grandson of John and Johanna (Turner) Odell ; great-grand- son of William, Jr. (1634-1700) and (Vowles)

Odell, and great-grandson of William Odell, who came from England to Concord, Mass., 1639, and to Fairfield, Conn., 1644. Jonathan Odell owned a large estate in the town of Greenburg, N.Y., and the stone house in whicii he lived was still standing in 1903. He served in Col. Samuel Drake's regiment, Westchester county militia, and in Col. Lewis Dubois's N.Y. state levies, and was for a time held a prisoner in the Old Sugar House prison, New York city. He married Margaret, daughter of Jacob and Jannetie (Kiersen) Dj^ckman, and had six sons and five daughters. His son. Col. John Odell (1756-1835), was an officer in Col. Morris Graham's regiment in the American Revolution, and commissioned lieutenant-colonel of militia by Gov. John Jay ; another son, Abraham Odell (1760-1830), was lieutenant in Col. Van Bergen's regiment, and a member of the state assembly, 1801-05, 1807-10, and another son, William Odell (1703-1856), served in Van Bergen's regiment and became colonel of Westchester militia. Jonathan Odell died in Tarrytown. N.Y., Sept. 33, 1818.

ODELL, Moses Fowler, representative, was born in Tarrytown, N.Y''., Feb. 34, 1818 ; .son of William Dyckman and Susanna (Fowler) Odell, and grandson of William and Johanna (Willsea) Odell. He attended the public school, and engaged in mercantile pursuits until 1845. when he was appointed an entry clerk in the New York custom house. He was assistant collector of customs for New York, 1855-57, and public appraiser,