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O. H. Irish
Orsamus Hylas Irish (1830–1883) was an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who served as Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1878 to 1883.
==Biography==
O. H. Irish was born in 1830 and raised in New York City.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Profile from Bureau of Engraving and Printing )〕 He was educated in Erie, Pennsylvania.〔
In 1857, Irish moved to Nebraska, where later was the owner and editor of a newspaper in Nebraska City, Nebraska.〔 In 1861, he became Indian agent at the Omaha Reservation. Also in 1861 (October 9) he was appointed U.S. Postmaster in Black Bird County, Nebraska Territory. Irish was appointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Northwest in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1864, with offices in Salt Lake City.〔 He returned to Nebraska in 1866 as an internal revenue collector, later resuming his newspaper.〔 In 1869, Irish was appointed U.S. Consul in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony before the unification of Germany.〔 He was confirmed as U.S. Consul by the U.S. Senate on January 25, 1870. He returned to Nebraska in 1873, entering the nursery business, a business that failed in 1875 when his nursery was wiped out by grasshoppers.〔 He then moved to Washington, D.C. to practice law.〔
Active in the Republican Party, he was a delegate to at least one of the Republican Conventions that nominated Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. As chairman of a fund raising sub-committee (Departments of Treasury and Justice), Irish also participated in the planning activities for ceremonies surrounding the inauguration of James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States. He attended Garfield's inaugural ball on March 5, 1881.
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