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June, 1873, to Mrs. Catharine C. Dusinbery, who died childless in 1886. He died in Penu Yan, N.Y.. March 6, 1889.

OLIVER, Grace Atkinson, author, was born in Boston, Mass., .Sept. ^4, 1844; daughter of James Lovell and Julia Augusta (Cook) Little. Her father was a prominent merchant of Boston, where she was educated. She was married in 1869 to John Harvard Ellis, a lawyer, who died in 1871, after which she engaged in literary work, contributing her first articles to Old and Neiv. She traveled in Europe, and spent a season in London in 1874; and in 1879 was married to Dr. Joseph Pearson Oliver, a Boston physician. She was a state trustee of the Dan vers lunatic asylum: a member of the Salem school board; president of the Salem Society for the Higher Education of Women; president of the Visiting Nurse associa- tion of Marblehead, Mass.; founder, vice-presi- dent and president of the Thought and Work club of Salem; a member of the New England Woman's club; of the Noi'th Shore club of Lynn, of the Essex Institute, Salem, and an associate member of the New England Woman's Press as- sociation. She is the author of: The Life and Works of An7ia L. Barhanld (1873); Life of Maria Edgeworth, written with the help of Miss Edgeworth's family (1882); Memoirs of Ann and Jane Taylor, with Selections from their Works (1383); Memoir of Dean Stanley (1885), and con- tributed to the '• Browning Concordance," edited by Dx W. J. Rolfe. She died at Marblehead, Mass.. May 21. 1899.

OLIVER, Henry Kemble, musician, was born in Beverly, Mass., Nov. 24, 1800; son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Kemble) Oliver; grandson of Nathaniel and Mercy (Wendell) Oliver, and of Tliomas and Hannah (Thomas) Kemble, and a descendant of Thomas Oliver of Lewes, Sussex, England, who with his wife and children settled in Boston, Mass., in 1633. At the age of ten Henry was boy soprano in Park Street cliurch, Boston. He was graduated at Dartmoutli in 1818. He was married, Aug. 30, 1825, to Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Chever) Cook of Salem, Mass, He taught school, 1819-44, served as colonel of state militia and adjutant-general of the state, 1844—48, and as commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston in 1846. He was a member of the board of examiners at West Point in 1847; superintendent of the Atlantic cotton mills at Lawrence, Mass., 1848-58; mayor of Lawrence in 1859, and treasurer of the common- wealth of Massachusetts, 1860-66. He removed to Salem, Mass.; was the first chief of the Mass- achusetts Bureau of the Statistics of Labor, 1869-73, and mayor of Salem, 1877-80. He was a professional church organist, 1819-85; organized and managed a Mozart association, 1826-27; a

glee club, 1832-52, and conducted a choir of 20,000 voices at the World's Peace Jubilee in Boston, June 25, 1872, in his c\\oxa\ Federal Street, set to his own words, Hail, Gentle Peace. He re- ceived the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from Har- vard in 1862, being placed among the graduates of the class of 1818, and the honorar}' degree of Mus.D. from Dartmouth in 1883. His musical compositions include the hymns: Federal Street; Harmony Grove; Morning; Walnut Grove; Elkton; Vesper; Hudson; Beacon Street; to- gether with motets, chants and a Te Deum. He prepared National Lyre in conjunction with Samuel P. Tuckerman (1849); Collections of Church Music (2 vols., 1860); Original Hymn- Tunes (1875), and is the author of: Lectures onthe Monitorial System, and Address at the Dedica- tion of the Broad Street School, Salem (1856). He died in Boston, Mass., Aug. 10, 1885.

OLIVER, John Morrison, soldier, was born in Penn Yan, N.Y.. Sept. 6, 1828; son of William Morrison (1792-1863) and Eleanor (Young) Oliver, and grandson of the Rev. Andrew Oliver, a native of Scotland, who settled in Londonderry, N.H., removed to Springfield, Otsego county, N.Y., about 1795, where he was pastor of the Associate Reformed church, and died there in 1833. William Morrison Oliver was judge of Yates county, state senator, president of the senate, 1830, chief judge of the court of errors, clerk of the su- preme court and representative in the 27th con- gress, 1841-43. John Morrison Oliver was educated at St. Paul's college. College Point, L.I., N.Y., of which the Rev. W. A. Muhlenberg was president, returned to Penn Yan and was married, Oct. 22, 1848, to Joanna, daughter of David Wagener, and granddaughter of Abraham Wagener. He re- moved to Monroe, Mich. , where he was a druggist, and served as recorder of the court. On April 17,1861, he enlisted as a private soldier; was made 1st lieutenant in the 1st Michigan in- fantry volunteers, and was the first to receive promotion in the regiment, being made captain of his company. Early in 1862 Governor Blair appointed him colonel of the loth Michigan vol- unteers, which regiment was ordered to the front and engaged in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, April 6-7, 1862. He was commended by General McCook for conspicuous bravery and efficient ser- vice. He commanded the 2d brigade in McKean's 6th division. Army of West Tennessee, at the battles of Corinth, luka and at Grand Junction; commanded his regiment in the 2d brigade, 1st division, 16th army coi-psinthe Vicksburg cam- paign from June 12 to July 4, 1863; commanded the 3d brigade, 4th division, 15th army corps, in the Atlanta campaign until August 4, 1863, when Ids brigade was absorbed by the 1st brigade and he returned to the command of liis regi-