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vestigated the methods of industrial education. He was married, Jan. 26, 1854, to Virginia C, daughter of Milton Moore of Missouri. She died in 1860. He was married secondly in 1864, to Mrs. Charlotte H. Mauross, daughter of Chauucy Royce of Connecticut. After her death in 1874, he was married thirdly to Evelyn M., daughter of Jolin B. Walton of Massachusetts. She was his assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and subsequently became professor of chemistry in the H. Sophie Newcomb college, Tulane university, New Orleans, La. He con- tributed to the American Journal of Science, the Proceedings of the American Institute of Mechan- ical Engineers, and other scientific and educa- tional periodicals, and is the author of Plantarum Ordinum Indicator (1881).

O'REGAN, Anthony, R.C. bishop, was born at Lavalleyroe, near Cloufad, diocese of Tuam, Ireland, in 1809. He attended Maynooth college, 1826-34; was ordained sub-deacon, 1832, deacon, 1833, priest in November, 1834. He was professor in the archiepiscopal college of St. Jarlith's, at Tuam, 1834-44, and president of the college, 1844- 49. At the invitation of Archbishop P. R. Ken- riek of St. Louis he came to America in 1849, and was superior and professor of theology and sacred scrii^tures in the Theological Seminary, of St. Louis, at Carondelet, Mo., 1849-54. In 1854 he was appointed the third bishop of Chicago, 111. He declined the appointment and returned the documents to Rome, but they were again sent to him and he was consecrated in the Cathedral of St. Louis, July 25, 1854, by Archbishop Kenrick assisted by Bishops Van de Velde, Henni and Lovas. The diocese of Chicago was established Nov. 28, 1843, and in 1854 had but few churches and priests and no religious insti- tutions. His administration extended also over the diocese of Quincy. until it was transfer- red to Alton, Jan. 9, 1857. He prudently purchased lands upon which the ecclesiastical structures of the diocese were afterward built, and intro- duced the Jesuit and Redemptorist fathers into the diocese; but his administration was not successful, owing to a jealousy between

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the Irish and French Catholics, who were at the time about equally divided in the diocese. In 1856 he went to Rome and petitioned the pope to accept his resignation which was granted, May 3, 1858. He received the titular see of "Dora," June 25, 1858, and resided at Michael's Grove, Brompton, London, England, until his death. He left his theological library to the diocese of Chicago on his resignation, and at his death $10,000 to the Roman Catholic Mis- sionary College of All Hallows, Dublin, to be used for educating young priests for the dioceses of Chicago and Alton, and $2,500 towards the erection of a hospital in Chicago, 111. He died in London, England, Nov. 13, 1866.

O'REILLY, Bernard, R.C. bishop, was born in the townland of Cunnareen, parisli of Columb- kill, county Longford, Ireland, in March, 1803. He left Ireland for America, Jan. 11, 1825; pre- pared for the priesthood in the Seminarie de Theologie, Montreal, Canada, and at St. Mary's college, Baltimore, Md., and was ordained priest in New York city, Oct. 13, 1831. His first mission was in St. James's church, Brooklyn, where in 1832 he was twice stricken with the cholera while attending the sick and dying. He was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's churcli in Rochester, N.Y., in December, 1832. the parish extending from Auburn to Niagara Falls. In 1847 he was ap- pointed by Bishop Timon vicar-general of the diocese of Buffalo, where he was president of the Seminary of Our Lady of Angels, and director of the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity. He answered several attacks made on the hospital by the Rev. John C. Lord, D.D., a Presbyterian clergyman, and his articles: "Catholicity the Friend of Civil and Religious Lib- erty; " " Presbyter- ianism the Enemy of Civil and Religious Liberty," and "The Catholic Church, the Church of Christ," closed the discussion. He was appointed the second bishop of Hart= ford. Conn., to suc= ceed Bishop Tyler, who died June 18, 1849, was conse- crated in St. Patrick's church, Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 10, 1850, by Bishop Tinion, assisted by Bishops McCloskey and Fitzpatrick, and was in- stalled in St. Joseph's cathedral. Nov 17, 1850. He built new cliurches and educational and char- itable institutions, introduced the Sisters of Mercv into the diocese and made rapid progress in spite of

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