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Judge Joseph Benson Oder

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Judge Joseph Benson Oder

Birth
Page County, Virginia, USA
Death
25 Aug 1918 (aged 77)
Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland, USA
Burial
Frostburg, Allegany County, Maryland, USA Add to Map
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Editor of Frostburg Mining Journal,
Member of Maryland House of Delegates,
Frostburg City Councilman,
Judge of Allegany Co Orphans Court.
Son of Henry Oder and Margaret J. Blakemore. Husband of Mary V. Husband of Margaret E. Churchill.
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Company B, 10th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. Enlisted 6 June 1861 in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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The Washington Post
26 August 1918; page 3
Judge Joseph B. Oder Dead.
Special to The Washington Post.
Frostburg, Md., Aug. 25. - Judge Joseph Benson Oder, of the Allegany county orphans' court and founder of the Frostburg Mining Journal, died here today. He was a native of Virginia and learned the printing trade. After serving with Stonewall Jackson throughout the civil war he taught school at Linden, Va., three years and subsequently became a clerk for three more. He came to Frostburg in 1871 and established the Mining Journal. He was elected to the Maryland house of delegates in 1877 as a Democrat and was defeated for the State senate in 1882. Judge Oder was a Mason and Knight of Pythias. He was twice married. Surviving are his wife and five children - Mrs. Annie B. Miller, Cumberland; Mrs. Oder Harrell, Detroit; Mrs. J. Marshall Price and Mrs. James J. Hitchins, Frostburg, and Arch Oder, Fort Benton, Mont.
Editor of Frostburg Mining Journal,
Member of Maryland House of Delegates,
Frostburg City Councilman,
Judge of Allegany Co Orphans Court.
Son of Henry Oder and Margaret J. Blakemore. Husband of Mary V. Husband of Margaret E. Churchill.
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Company B, 10th Regiment, Virginia Infantry. Enlisted 6 June 1861 in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
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The Washington Post
26 August 1918; page 3
Judge Joseph B. Oder Dead.
Special to The Washington Post.
Frostburg, Md., Aug. 25. - Judge Joseph Benson Oder, of the Allegany county orphans' court and founder of the Frostburg Mining Journal, died here today. He was a native of Virginia and learned the printing trade. After serving with Stonewall Jackson throughout the civil war he taught school at Linden, Va., three years and subsequently became a clerk for three more. He came to Frostburg in 1871 and established the Mining Journal. He was elected to the Maryland house of delegates in 1877 as a Democrat and was defeated for the State senate in 1882. Judge Oder was a Mason and Knight of Pythias. He was twice married. Surviving are his wife and five children - Mrs. Annie B. Miller, Cumberland; Mrs. Oder Harrell, Detroit; Mrs. J. Marshall Price and Mrs. James J. Hitchins, Frostburg, and Arch Oder, Fort Benton, Mont.

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10th Virginia Infantry
Stonewall Jackson Brigade

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Confederate Civil War Veteran



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