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clined a professorship of chemistry at Middlebury college iti 1816. He was professor of mathe- matics and natural philosophy at the University of Vermont, 1819-31, and at Amherst college, 1821-25, and professor of natural philosophy at the University of Georgia, 1825-26. After residing for some years at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., he re- moved in 184:1 to Circleville, Ohio, where his son, Edson B., was elected a representative in con- gress, serving 1849-55, and wliere his brother Jo- seph resided and served in the state legislature, 1824-26 and 1841-42, as a state senator, 1827-31, and as a Henry Clay elector, 1844. Gamaliel S. Olds is the author of : An Inaugural Oration (1806); The Substance of Several Sermons on Episcopacy and Presbyterian Parity (1818); Statement of Facts Relative to the Appointment to the Office of Professor of Chemistry in Middlebury College (1818). He"aiedinCircleville,Ohio, June 13, 1848.

OLIN, Abraham Baldwin, jurist, was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., Sept. 1, 1812 ; son of Gideon and Lydia (Myers) Pope Olin. He was graduated at Williams college, 1835, and was admitted to the bar in 1838. He was married in December, 1838, to Martlia, daugliter of the Hon. Keyes Danforth of Williamstown, Mass. He settled in practice in Troy, N.Y., and was recorder of that city for three years. He was a Republican representa- tive in the 35th, 36th and 37th congresses, 1857- 63, and was appointed judge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia by Pi'esident Lincoln in 1863, holding the office until his death. He received the degree LL.D. from Williams, 1865. He died in Washington, D.C., July 7, 1879.

OLIN, Gideon, representative, was born in East Greenwich, R.I., Oct. 22, 1743: son of John and Susannah (Pierce) Olin, and grandson of John (who came from Wales about 1678), and Susannah (Spencer) Olin, and of Jeremiah Pierce. He was educated in Rhode Island and settled in Shaftsbury, Bennington county, Vt., in 1776. He was a delegate to the Windsor convention of June 4, 1777 ; was made major of the 2d Vermont regiment in 1778, and served on the frontier dur- ing the Revolution. He represented Shaftsbury in the state legislature, and was speaker of the house, 1788-93 ; was assistant judge of the Bennington county court, 1781-98 and 1800-02, and one of the councillors of state, 1793-98. He was a delegate to the constitutional conventions of 1791 and 1793 ; was a representative in the Stli and 9tli con- gresses, 1803-07, and was chief- justice of the Ben- nington county court, 1807-11. He was a founder of tlie University of Vermont, and one of the firmest friends and supporters of the state gov- ernment befoi-e the state conventions of 1791 and 1793. He was married, Dec. 10, 1768, to Patience Dwinnell, and secondly to Mrs. Lydia (Myers) Pope. He died in Shaftsbury, Vt., Jan. 21, 1823.

OLIN, Henry, justice, was born in Shaftsbury, Vt., May 6, 1768 ; son of Justin and Sarah (Dwin- nell) Olin ; grandson of John and Susanna (Pierce) Olin, and a descendant of John Olin, probably of Huguenot descent, who came from Wales to America about 1678, and to East Green- wich, R.I., about 1700. Henry Olin received a common school education ; was married in 1788 to Lois Ricliardson, and became a resident of Leicester in 1788. He represented his town in the state legislature, 1799-1825, except while serv- ing on the governor's council, 1820-21 ; was as- sistant judge of the county court, 1801-09, and chief judge, 1809-24. He was a delegate to the state constitutional conventions of 1814, 1822 and 1828. In 1824 he was elected a representative in the 18th congress to fill the unexpired term of Charles Rich, who died, Oct. 15, 1824, and served, 1824-25. He was lieutenant-governor of Ver- mont, 1828-31. He died in Salisbury, Vt., in August, 1837.

OLIN, Julia Matilda, author, was born in New York city, Dec. 14, 1814 ; daughter of Judge James and Janet (Tillotson) Lynch ; granddaugh- of Dominick Lynch and of Tliomas Tillotson ; great-granddaughter of Robert R. Livingston (q.v.) (1718-1775), and a descendant of Col. Henry Beekman. She was married, Oct. 18, 1843, to the Rev. Dr. Stephen Olin (q.v.). She was a com- municant of the Protestant Episcopal church up to the time of her marriage, when she united with the Methodist church, and until her death was actively associated with its Sunday-school and missionary work. She was elected secretary of the New York Female Bible society in 1854 ; was the founder of Hillside chapel, Rhinebeck, N.Y., 1855, and upon the organization of the New York branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society in 1869, was chosen its first president. She edited her husband's sermons, sketches, lec- tures and addresses under the title of Tlie Worhs of Stephen Olin (1853), and his Greece and the Golden Horn (1854). She is the author of: Words of the Wise (1851) ; A String of Pearls (1855); Four Days in July (1855); Hillside Flowers (1856) ; A Wi7iter at Woodlawn (1856) ; Ti^at Norman Saw in the West (1859) ; Hawk Hollow Stories (1863) ; The Perfect Sight, or Seven Hues of Christian Character (1865) ; Questiotis on Lessons (1865) ; Questions on the Natural His- tory of the Bible (1865) ; Biographical Sketches of Christian Women (1865) ; a series of books for Sunday-school instruction (1849. 1851, 1861), and many contributions to the Methodist Quarterly Review and other denominational publications. The Rev. Edward Brenton Othernian, her pastor at Hillside chapel, published a memorial volume as a tribute to Mrs. Olin in 1881. She died in New York city. May 1, 1879.