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Ohio, July 5. lS65-Aug. G. 1866; was promoted lieuteiJiiiit-colonel, 1st artillery, Dec. 11, 1865, and brigadier-general, U.S.A., July 26, 1866. He commanded the Department of the Arkansas, Aug. 29, 1866 to March 11, 1867; was mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 1, 1866, and was placed in command of tiie 4th military district, including Arkansas and Mississippi, March 26, 1867. He was retired from the army in January, 1881, and accepted an appointment of engineer in the construction of a Mexican rail- road. On his way to New York from Vera Cruz he was seized with yellow fever, and taken ashore at Havana, Cuba, where he died, July 22, 1883.

ORD, George, naturalist, was born in Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1781. He made a study of natural iiistory and early devoted himself to ornithology. He accompanied Alexander Wilson in his scien- tific explorations, and was a co-executor of his will in 1813. He completed the eighth volume of American Ornithologij (1814), and is the author of the concluding volume of that work, for which he wrote a sketch of Wilson's life. He pre- pared a new edition of the last three volumes in 1825. and published in a separate volume Life of Alexander Wilson {\S2>i). He assisted in the prep- aration of dictionaries, contributed to scientific journals, and is the author of memoirs of Thomas Sarj (1834), and of Charles A. Lesueur (1849). He was a member of the Linnaean society of London; a vice-president of the American Phil- osophical society and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1851-58. He left more than $16,000 to the Pennsylvania hospi- tal, for the benefit of the insane, and also bequeathed his scientific librarj- to the College of Pliysicians and Surgeons, Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia. Pa., Jan 24, 1866.

ORDWAY, Alfred, painter, was born in Rox- bury, Mass., March 9, 1821; sou of Thomas and Jerusha (Currier)

Ordway; grandson of Dr. Samuel Ord- way; and a descend- ant of James and Ann (Emery) Ord- way. Alfred Ordway attended the public schools of Lowell, IMass.. and began the study of art at an early age. He open- ed a studio in Bos- ton, Ma.ss., in 1845, where he was one of the founders of the Boston Art club in 1854. its first secretary and treasurer, its president in 1859. and its coiTesponding secretary in 1866.

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He was also curator of the annual exhibition of paintings at the Boston Athenaeum, 1856-63. He resided in New York city, 1866-67, where he was ofticially connected with the National Acad- emy of Design, and he also spent a short time in Virginia. He was one of the founders of the Paint and Clay club, wiiicii organization gave him a banquet in March, 1896, on the occasion of his seventy-sixth birthday. His specialty was portraiture, but during the latter part of his life he devoted himself to landscape painting and was a frequent exhibitor in Boston. He was married March 19, 1860, to Annie Hill of Boston, Mass. He died at Melrose Highlands, Mass., Nov. 17, 1897.

ORDWAY, John Morse, chemist, was born in Amesbury, Mass., April 23, 1823; son of Samuel and Sally (Morse) Ordwaj", and a descendant of James Ordway, a native of Wales, whoemigrated from England to America in 1648, and settled in Newbury, IMass., where he married Ann Emery. John served an apprenticeship with a chemist, 1836-39, was graduated at Dartmouth college A.B. 1844, A.M. 1847, and then engaged in the stud}- of medicine. He was manager of chemi- cal works in Lowell, Mass., 1840-47; superintend- ent of the Roxbury Color and Chemical company at Roxbury, Mass., 1847-51, and 1854-58, and principal of Grand River college, at Edinburg, Mo., 1851-54. He was chemist at the Hughesdale Chemical works, Johnston, R.I., 1858-60; chemist, manager and superintendent of the Man- chester Print works, Manchester, N.H., 1860-66; superintendent of the Bayside Alkali works, South Boston, Mass., 1866-74, and chemist to tiie Hughesdale Chemical works at Johnston, R.I,, 1866-69, spending alternate days at the two places. He was professor of industrial chemistry and metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1869-84; chairman of the faculty 1877-82, and performed most of the duties of president there, while continuing his regular work. He was also an instructor of biology in Boston university, 1876-80. He was professor of applied chemistry and director of the manual training department of Tulane university. New Orleans, La., 1884-97, organized and instructed the class in biology, 1886-90, and was an instructor in engineering, 1891-97. He became professor of biology in Newcomb college for women, a branch of Tulane university, on its organization in 1886, and held it from that year. He was elected a member of various scientific societies, and was chairman of the chemical section of the .American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1880. His investigations were principally in the direction of original researches in various branches of industrial chemistry for private cor- porations. In 1882 lie visited Europe and in-