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ried, Jan. IS, 1899, to Sophia Buckland White of BrookUne, Mass. He was elected vice-president of the American Park and Outdoor Art associa- tion in 1S98, and president of the American So- ciety of Landscape Architects in 1899. He be- came a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers ; an associate member of the Boston Society of Architects ; a member of the New England Association of Park Superintendents ; and a non-resident member of the Century asso- ciation, the Reform club and the National Arts club of New York city.

OLMSTED, Marlin Edgar, representative, was born in LTlysses, Potter county, Penn.; son of Henry and Evalena Theresa (Cushing) Olmsted ; grandson of Daniel and Lucy (Schofield) Olmsted, and of Lucas and Chloe (Wood) Cushing ; a de- scendant in the ninth generation from Richard Olmsted from Suffolk, England, an original pro- prietor of Hartford, Conn., and also from Mat- thew Cushing, who came from Hingham, Eng- land, in 1638, and commenced the settlement of Hingham, Mass. He was educated in the public schools and at the Coudersport academy ; was a corporation clerk, 1870-75 ; was admitted to the bar in 1878, at Harrisburg, Pa. ; became attorney for many of the principal railroad and other cor- porations of the state ; president and general counsel of the Beech Creek and the Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad companies ; was elected to represent Dauphin county in the proposed con- stitutional convention in 1891, and was a Republi- can representative from the fourteenth Pennsyl- vania district in 55th, 56tli, 57th and 58th con- gresses. 1897-1905.

OLNEY, Edward, mathematician, was born in Moreau, N. Y., July 34, 1827; son of Benjamin and Lucy (Emerson) Olney ; grandson of Stephen and Sarah (Irish) Olney, and a descendant of Thomas and Marie (Small) Olney. Thomas Olney, a native of Hertfordshire, England, immigrated to Salem, Mass., in the ship Planter, in 1635; settled at Manchester, near Salem, in 1636 ; was excluded from the colony in 1638. and was one of the thirteen proprietors of Providence, R.I. Ed- ward Olney removed to Michigan with his pa- rents, and by hard work and self-denial became a tliorough mathematical scholar. He was a teacher in the Union school, Perrysburg, Oliio, probably 1845-53 ; was professor of mathematics in Kalamazoo college, Michigan, 1853-63, and in the State University of Michigan, 1863-87. He was president of the Baptist state convention, 1875-79, and treasurer, 1879-87. He received the degree A.M. from Madison university in 1853 and that of LL.D. from Kalamazoo college in 1874. He was married. May 7, 1850, to Sarah E. Hun- tington. He is the author of Olney's Arithmetic. He died in Ann Arbor, Mich., Jan. 16, 1887.

OLNEY, George Washington, journalist, was born in Cliarleston, S.C. June 5, 1835 ; son of George Washington and Olive (Bartlett) Olney; grandson of Stephen Olney of North Providence, R.I., an officer of the army of the Revolution, and a descendant of Thomas Olney, one of the original settlers of Rhode Island with Roger Williams, and first colonial treasurer. He was educated in the private schools of Charleston and in the University grammar school. Providence, R.I., and was graduated from Harvard Law school in 1855. He was one of the publisliers of the New York Daily Day Book, 1858-61, and during the civil war was correspondent in the south for the Richmond Enquirer and the Charleston Courier, 1861-63. Returning to New York city, he was dramatic writer for the New York Herald in 1866 ; editorial writer for the New York World, 1868-76, and in 1873 engaged in insurance journalism as editor of the Spectator. He was managing editor of the Weekly Under- ivriter, 1878-99, and became editor-in-chief in 1899. He became editor of the World Almanac in 1870 ; was elected vice-president of the Under- writer Printing and Publishing Co., New York, in 1899 ; secretary of the Society of The Cincin- nati in the state of Rhode Island in 1897; a fellow of the Royal Statistical society of Great Britain in 1897, and a fellow of the American Statistical association in 1893. He is the author of several statistical works.

OLNEY, Richard, cabinet officer, w-as born in Oxford, Mass., Sept. 15, 1835; son of Wilson and Eliza (Butler) Olney ; descendant of Thomas Olney, who came to Salem, Mass., in 1635. from Hertfordshire, England, and was one of the founders of the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in 1637-8, and also of Andrew Sigourney, a French Huguenot, who was one of the first settlers of Oxford, Mass., in 1687. Richard Olney Avas graduated at Brown university in 1856, and at Harvard Law school in 1858. He was admitted to the bar in 1859. practiced law in Boston with Benjamin F. Thomas, 1859-78, and after the death of Judge Thomas in 1878. continued by himself. He was married. March 6, 1861, to Agnes Park, daughter of Judge Tlioraas. He was a Democratic repre- sentative in the Massachusetts legislature of 1874 ; served in the cabinet of President Cleveland as