Otterson, James, a Presbyterian minister, was bom in New York City Oct. II, 1791. He graduated at Co- lumbia College, New York ; studied theology with Dr. J. M. Mason ; was ordained by the Associate Presbytery of New York, and installed as the successor to Dr. Proudfit, pastor of the Church of Broadalbin, Fulton
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County, N. Y., in 1821. About the year 1827 he was called to the united pastorate of the Reformed Dutch churches of Hempstead and Oyster Bay, on Long Island, N. Y. ; in 1834 lie succeeded Dr. Van Vranken as pastor of the Church in Freehold, N. J. ; he next took charge of the Church at the White House, in Hunterdon Countv, N. J. ; in 1845 he was called to the Cliurch in Johnstown, N. J.; his last charge was in Wihiiington, Del., which he relinquished in 18G3, and retired to the house of liis son, a prominent member of the bar at I'hiladelphia, Pa. He died Sept. 17, 1867. Mr. Otter- son possessed a clear, analytical mind, which showed the effect of early culture. He was a good scholar, a sound and able theologian, and a very instructive and edifving preacher. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 18G8, p. 133. (J. L. S.)
Ottilia, St. See Odilia, St.
Ottini, Felice, a Roman painter, who, according to Pascoli, was a pupil of Giaciuto Brandi. He possessed excellent talents, a tine taste, and was employed almost in his youth to decorate the chapel of P. P. di Gesu e Maria at Rome. He died young, in 1695.
Ottini, Pasquale (sometimes called Pasqualotte), an Italian painter of note, was born at Yerona in 1570. He studied with Felice Riccio, called Brusasorci, whose manner he imitated so happily that he was employed to finish some works left incomplete by his master at his death. Lanzi says " he was a good artist in regard to forms, and of no common expression, particularly in the works he conducted after having seen Raphael's. Of this we have a striking example in his Murder of the Innocents, at S. Stefano, and his picture of St. Nicolo, with other saints, at S. Giorgio, in the best style of Ve- netian coloring. In other instances his coloring is some- what languid — a defect most probably from time and un- favorable situation." He was in high repute in his na- tive city, and the learned Alessandro Carli, in his his- tory of Verona, says that he approached nearer to Paul Veronese than any other artist of that city. He died of the great plague in 1630. He is said to have execu- ted some beautiful etchings. Bartsch has given a de- scription of only one known print by him, which he commends in the highest terms. It represents the burial of Christ, and is signed Pasq. Otlii, Vers. ino. — Spoouer, Biog. Hist, of the Fine A rts, s. v.
Otto OF Bamberg. See Otho of Bamberg.
Otto OF Freising. See Otho of Freising.
Otto OF Passau (some have it of Nassau), for a time teacher in the Franciscan convent of Basle, was there connected with the Pietistic sect of the Friends of God (q. v.). He is principally known as the author of a book of edification for the use of the laity, entitled Die Vieruiulzicanzig Allen v. der Goldene Thron (1386). It consists of directions for leading a Christian life, and insists particularly on its subjective aspects. It was first printed at Augsburg in 1480, and lately under the title of Die Krone der Aeltesten (Regensb. 1836). It was translated into Dutch (Utrecht, 1480, and often reprint- ed). See I'feiffer, Deutsche Mystiker des lAteii Jahrh. (Stuttg. 1845) ; Aschbach, Kirchen-Lexikon, iv, 408, 409 ; Herzog, Real-Enajkhp. x, 741. (.J. N. P.)
Ouch (only in the plur. X\Sl1fq'':i,mishhetsoth' , text- ures, e. g. brocade, as Psa. xlv. 14 ; hence settinr/s), bezels, in which gems are set; hence the sockets for fastening the precious stones in the shoulder -pieces of the high- priest's ephod (Exod. xxviii, 11, 14, 25; xxxix, 13, 16). Sec EriioD.
Oude or Oudh (Sanscrit, Atjodha, i. c. "invinci- ble"), a province of British India, separated on the north from Nepaul liy the lower ranges of the Himalayas, whence it gradually slojtes to the Ganges, which forms its boundary on the south and south-west, is situated in lat. 25° 34'-29^ 6' N., long. 79° 45'-83° 11' E., and has au area of 27,890 square miles, or rather less than
that of Scotland, with a population in 1872 of 11,220,747. It is one great plain, the slope of which from north-west to south-east indicates also the direction of the principal rivers. These are the Gumti, the Ghagra (Ghogra), and the Rapti, which swarm with alligators. The northern part, on the edge of the Himalayas, is not very well known. It forms a portion of the Terai, a vast un- healthy tract stretching along the borders of Nepaul, and covered with impassable forests. The climate is cool and pleasant from November to March ; during the next four months it is hot and sultry, after which fol- lows the long rainy season, but in general it is consid- ered the healthiest along the wliole valley of the Ganges. The soil is light, and, except small nodules of chalk and oolite called kankars, there is hardly a loose stone to be seen. Formerly it was more copiously watered than it is now, the clearing of the jungles having greatly de- creased the moisture of the land. The cliief crops are wheat, barley, gram, masure, mustard, rice (of the finest quality), millet, maize, joar, bajra, various kinds of pulse and oil-seeds, sugar-cane, tobacco, indigo, hemp, and cotton. In 1872 there were 12,673 square miles of cultivated lands in Oude, and 5588 additional capable of cultivation. The manufacturing industry is not much developed ; soda, saltpetre, and salt are the only articles of which more is produced than is requisite for home consumption. Gunpowder, and all kinds of military weapons, guns, swords, spears, shields, and bows of bam- boo, or Lucknow steel, are, however, also made, besides some wooUen goods, paper, etc. The principal towns are Lucknow, Fyzabad, Oude, or Ayodha, Roy Bareily, and Shahabad.