Miami-Allen County OhArchives Obituaries.....Orr, William P. May 23, 1912
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Lima News, May 24, 1912
 
Piqua, Ohio., May 24.—After an illness of 14 weeks General WILLIAM P. ORR, 78 
years old, died last night at his home of exhaustion.  He was taken critically 
ill last February and much of the time since he has been either delirious or 
unconscious.  The funeral will be held on Sunday.

General ORR, during his long and active life, was widely known in business and 
political circles.  As a Republican he was active in state and national 
politics many years.  He served as Quartermaster General on the military staff 
of the late Governor ASA BUSHNELL, the period of his service including the 
Spanish War.

In 1900 he was a McKinley Elector and in 1908 a delegate to the Republican 
National Convention, representing the Seventh District in 1890 and 1892, but 
was unsuccessful each time.  He was appointed a member of the first Board of 
Trustees of the Ohio Soldiers’ Home, serving continuously until the board was 
abolished in 1911.  His military service in the Civil War was with the One 
Hundred and Fifty-second Ohio Volunteer Infantry as Captain.

After the Civil War he was active in the Ohio National Guard, serving as 
Lieutenant Colonel.  He was philanthropic in a quiet and unostentatious way.  
Last year he presented a $10,000 Nurse’s Home of the Piqua Memorial Hospital 
as a memorial to his deceased wife.  Two sons survive him, A. M. ORR and LOUIS 
ORR.

General ORR was well and favorably known in Lima and during the life time of 
his late wife he was a frequent visitor here.  Mrs. ORR was born and raised in 
this city, being a daughter of JOHN and CATHERINE MEILY and a sister of GEORGE 
H. MEILY, Mrs. A. E. Freeman and Mrs. I. S. MOTTER of this city  The latter 
three survive.   Mrs. ORR was also a sister of the late Mrs. CATHERINE OLIVIA 
BRICE, wife of Senator CALVIN S. BRICE, deceased and of the late RINGOLD W. 
MEILY, deceased.

The number of the Lima relatives will attend the funeral of General ORR at 
Piqua, on Sunday.



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NOTE:  His wife was Francis Meily.

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