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LEE SLATER. United States Senator from North Carolina. Born 1854, and graduated from Trinity College, ge, N. C., in 1874. For a few years, while studying law, he was private secretary to the governor of the state, and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1883 and between that date and 1900 served four terms. In 1900 he was president of the Democratic State Convention and in 1903 United States Senator. Hewlectected in 1909 and 1915.
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Overture
in introductory symphony for instruments, chiefly used as an introduction to important musical compositions, as operas, oratorios, etc. Its principal themes are often taken from the work it precedes. In Presbyterianism, a petition or proposal from a Presbytery, or an individual, to the highest court, which is the General Assembly or the Synod, that a new law be created, an old one amended or repealed, ed, or a measure carried into effect. The term was borrowed from the Huguenots.
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Oviparous
in zoölogy, a term, applied to birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects, whose mode of reproduction is by the exclusion of the germ in the form and condition of an egg, the development of which takes place out of the body, either with or without incubation.
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Ovule
in botany, a rudimentary seed which requires to be fertilized by pollen before it develops.
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Ovum
in physiology, the germ produced within the ovary, and capable of developing into a new individual. In archæology, ornaments in the form of eggs, curved on the contour of the ovolo, or quarter-round, and separated from each other by anchors or arrow heads.
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Owen
2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) ROBERT DALE, an American diplomatist, son of Robert; born in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 7, 1801; was educated in Switzerland; removed to the United States in 1825; was Representative to Congress from Indiana ( 1847); and minister to Naples ( 1858). During the Civil War he a prominent advocate of negro emancipation. Among his works are: "Moral Physiology" (1831); "Footfalls on the Boundary of Another World" (1860); "Beyond the Breakers" (1870), a novel; "Threading My Way" (1874). He died in Lake George, N. Y., June 17, 1877.
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Owen (II)
ROBERT LATHAM, United States Senator from Oklahoma, born in Lynchburg, Va., in 1856. He graduated from the Washington and Lee University in 1877. After several years of teaching he studied law and was admitted to practice in 1880. He acted as United States Indian agent for the Five Civilized Tribes from 1885 to 1889. He was elected United States Senator in 1907 and was re-elected in 1913. In the Senate he acted as chairman of the Committee of Banking and Currency in the 65th Congress. OWEN MEREDITH. See LYTTON, EDWARD ROBERT.
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Owen (ROBERT an English social)
ROBERT, an English social Montgomeryshire, Wales, March 14, Coverance reformer and author; born in Newton, 1771. He early turned his attention to social questions, publishing in 1813 "New Views of Society; or, Essays upon pers. the Formation of the Human Character, and Book of the New Moral World." He attempted to found communist societies in England, also in New Harmony, Ind., and in later Mexico. In his later years he became a believer in Spiritualism. His followers bore the name of Owenites, and were among the founders of the English Chartist movement. He died Nov. 19, 1858.
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Owen Sound
a town in Ontario, Canada, 34 miles W. by N. of Collingwood, at the head of a long bay of the same name off Georgian Bay. It has a dry dock, 300 feet long, 55 feet wide, and 12 feet deep on sill at high water.
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Owen Stanley Range
a portion of a range of lofty mountains in the E. part of British Guinea. Mount Owen Stanley is a peak 13,130 feet high.
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Owen's Lake
a lake in Inyo co., Cal., crossed in extreme W. by 118° W., 160 miles N. by E. of Los Angeles; its water is strongly impregnated with salt and carbonate of soda; it has no visible outlet; receives Owen's river; length about 16 miles, breadth, 10 miles.
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Owen's River
a river of California, which flows into Owen's lake. It is 175 miles long.
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Owen, Robert Dale
Robert Dale (1800-1877), a Scottish-American reformer. He was the son of Robert Owen, and was born at Glasgow. In 1825 he came to America to superintend affairs at New Harmony . Later, he attempted to establish a community near Memphis for free negroes. For a time he was the editor and publisher of a socialist paper in New York , called the Free Enquirer. In 1835 he was elected to the legislature of Indiana, and eight years later he was sent to Congress as a Democrat. He took a prominent part in the founding of the Smithsonian Institution and in the settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute. He was minister to Naples in 1855. He became a prominent Abolitionist. His later days were spent in advocacy of Spiritualism, the subject of several works, including Footprints on the Boundary of Another World, etc. An Autobiography gives an interesting account of his early life. See Communism 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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Owen, Sir Richard
Sir Richard (1804-1892), a noted English zoologist. He was educated as a surgeon and held important positions in various London institutions of surgery. In 1856 he was placed in charge of the natural history collections of the British Museum . He is to be credited with their arrangement in the new quarters at South Kensington. He wrote a number of authoritative works, as History of British Fossil Mammals and Birds, Fossil Remains of Extinct Mammals of Australia, and Extinct Wingless Birds of New Zealand . It is said that he could give a shrewd guess at the size and form of a quadruped from seeing a single tooth. His knowledge of anatomy was such that, when a bone from New Zealand was brought to him, he was able to say it was a bone from the leg of a bird of the ostrich kind, only larger. He even ventured to sketch this bird, then unknown to science. Subsequent discoveries of bones confirmed his shrewd inference. His life is of interest. See Dinornis ; British Museum
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