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martial for his failure to pursue the Pretender's retreating forces at Carlisle. He resigned his char- ter of Georgia to the British government in 1752; withdrew from Parliament in 1754, and was com- missioned general of his majesty's forces in 1760. He was placed on half pay in February, 1765, and in 1775, being the senior officer to Sir Wil- liam Howe, was offered the command of the British army in America, which he declined, be- cause authority to assure justice to the colonies was denied him. He was one of the first to pay his respects to John Adams, U.S. minister, and his family in London in 1783. He published: An Account of the St. Augustine Camjxdgn (1743). His New and Accurate Account of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia and his letters to the trustees of the colony are printed in the " Collec- tions " of the Georgia Historical society. He died at Cranham Hall, England, July 1, 1785.

O'GORMAN, James Michael, R.C. bishop, was born at Clauna, near Nenagh, county Tipperary, Ireland, in October, 1804; son of James and Alicia O'Gorman. He was baptized with the christian name Miles, and was educated for the priesthood, entering the Trappist order in 1838. He received the habit at Mt. Melleray, Ireland, Nov. 1, 1839; professed, March 25, 1841, and was ordained priest in January, 1843, in the Trappist cloister at Mount Melleray, Ireland, by Bishop Foran of Waterford, Ireland. Appointed to found a monastery of the Trappist order in the United States, he establislied New Melleray near Dubuque, la., and was made its prior. He was elected titular bishop of " Raphana? " and vicar apostolic of Nebraska, Jan. 18, 1859; the election was confirmed, April 15, 1859, and he was con- secrated in the cathedral of St. Louis, May 8, 1859, by Archbishop P. R. Kenrick, assisted by Bishops Miege and Juncker. He had only three priests when lie entered upon the adminis- tration of his diocese, but several were sent to his assistance, and churches and schools were built. He established a hospital and an asylum, and founded academies, all of which were con- trolled by the Sisters of Mercy and the Benedictine Nuns. He also labored among the Indians and established several missions. He died in Omaha, Neb., July 4, 1874.

O'QORMAN, Thomas, R.C. bishop, was born in Boston, Mass., May 1, 1843; son of John and Margaret (O'Keefe) O'Gorman; grandson of James O'Gorman, and a descendant of the Leinster branch of the O'Gormans, originallj^ of county Clare, Ireland. He removed to Chicago, 111., with his parents, and was prepared for college in that city and in St. Paul, Minn., 1850-53. He took his theological course in France, 1853-65, and was ordained at St. Paul, Minn., on Nov. 5, 1865. He was rector of St. John's church.

Rochester, Minn., 1867-78; joined the Paulist community in New York city, remaining there. 1878-82, and was rector of Immaculate Conception, Faribault, Minn., 1882-85. He was first president of the College of St. Thomas at Merriam Park, St. Paul, Minn., and professor of dogmatic theology in the same, 1886-90, and professor of modern church history in the Catholic university at Washington, D.C., 1890-95. He was appointed bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Dec. 29, 1895, as successor to Bishop Marty, transferred to St. Cloud in 1894, and was consecrated at Wash- ington, D.C, April 19, 1896, by Cardinal Satolli, assisted by Bishop Marty and Bishop Keane, rector of the Catholic university. He received the degree D.D. direct from the Iiands of Pope Leo XIII in 1893. He is the author of: .4 History of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

O'HAGAN, Joseph Bernard, educator, was born in parisli Clogher, county Tyrone, Ireland, Aug. 15, 1826; son of Terence and Susan (O'Kelly) O'Hagan; grandson of Edward and Sarah (Quinn) O'Hagan, and of John and Mary (O'Neil) O'Kelly, and a descendant of Sir Hugh O'Neil. He im- migrated to Digby, N.S., in 1844, and completed his classical course at St. Mary's college, Halifax, N.S. He was admitted to the seminary of the Eudist Fathers of Halifax, and in December, 1847, entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus. He was professor at Gonzaga college, Washing- ton, D.C, 1852-54, and professor of literature at Georgetown college, 1854-56. He completed liis theological studies in France, and was ordained at Liege, Belgium, in 1860. In the civil war he was attached to the Excelsior brigade. New York volunteers, as chaplain, 1861-63. He pursued a course of ascetical theology at Frederick, Md., 1863-64, and was made vice-president of George- town college in 1864, leaving the college to serve in the army of General Grant, operating against Richmond and Petersburg. After the surrender of Lee he returned to his professional duties, chiefly at St. Mary's, and at the Immaculate

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Conception church, Boston, Mass. In July, 1872, he succeeded to the presidency of Holy Cross college, Worcester, Mass., and in 1878, by order