in 1888 O'Donnell was married to Eleanora C. Pascault (1799–1870), a daughter of French-born merchant
Louis Pascault, Marquis de Poleon. Among her siblings were sisters Henriette (wife of French Gen.
Jean-Jacques Reubell, who came to Baltimore with
Jérôme Bonaparte), and Josephine (wife of
James Gallatin, eldest son of
Ambassador and
Secretary Albert Gallatin) Her brother, Louis Charles Pascault, was a Capt. in the Mexican War (who married Ann Goldsborough, a granddaughter of
Continental Congressman
Robert Goldsborough), Together, the O'Donnells were the parents of: • Emily O'Donnell (1818–1888), who married
U.S. Representative and
Mayor of Baltimore Solomon Hillen Jr. • Eleanora O'Donnell (1821–1897), who married the New York financier
Adrian Iselin. • Charles Oliver O'Donnell (1823–1877), who married Hellen Sophia Carroll (1834–1886), a descendant of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton and sister to Gov.
John Lee Carroll, in 1867. • Josephine O'Donnell, who married Thomas Sim Lee, a grandson of Gov.
Thomas Sim Lee, in 1843. • Christopher Columbus O'Donnell Jr., who married Caroline Jenkins. O'Donnell died on Mary 26, 1873, in Baltimore. In his will, he left his estate to his children and grandchildren, with specific bequests of $5,000 to the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, $5,000 to
St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, and $5,000 to the Roman Catholic Asylum for Widows.
Descendants Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of John Charles O'Donnell (1868–1914), who married Julia Edie (a granddaughter of
U.S. Representative John Rufus Edie) and lived in
Montreux, Switzerland. Through his daughter Eleanora, he was a grandfather of
Adrian Iselin Jr. (1846–1935), William Emil Iselin (1848–1937), Eleanora Iselin Kane (1849–1938),
Columbus O'Donnell Iselin (1851–1933),
Charles Oliver Iselin (1854–1932),
Papal Countess Georgine Iselin (1857–1954), and Emilie Eleanora Iselin Beresford (1860–1916). ==References==