Henry Meigs Oddie (1837 - 1898)

Born 27 Mar 1837 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States

Ancestors

Died 19 May 1898 at age 61 in East Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States

Biography

Henry was born in 1837. He passed away in 1898. Henry Meigs Oddie, senior partner in the Stock Exchange house of Turner, Manuel & Co., of 35 Wall Street, died on Thursday at his home, at East Orange, N. J. Mr. Oddie was born in Brooklyn in 1837. His father was Walter Meigs Oddie, an artist, who was a grandson of Judge Henry Meigs of New York, and a cousin of Admiral Richard Meade, United States Navy. Mr. Oddie went when yet a youth to Wall Street as bookkepper for Robinson, Cox & Co., and in 1868 he became a partner with Kenyon, Cox & Co. Five years later he was of the firm of Horace, Manuel & Co., and in 1880 he joined the firm of which he was a member at his death, buth which was reorganized when Mr. Manuel died two years ago. Mr. Oddie was a member of Hope Lodge, No. 124, F. and A. M., of Longfellow Chapter, Royal Arcanum; the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Society, and the East Orange Town Improvement Society, as well as of Grace Episcopal Church, Orange. He is survived by his widow, who was Miss Ellen G. Prout of Washington, and two sons and two daughters. The funeral will be from 77 Clinton Street, East Orange, this afternoon, and burial in Rosedale Cemetery.

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Sources

• Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/126167431/henry-meigs-oddie : accessed 23 July 2021), memorial page for Henry Meigs Oddie (27 Mar 1837–19 May 1898), Find A Grave: Memorial #126167431, citing Rosedale Cemetery, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey, USA ; Maintained by Saratoga (contributor 46965279).