Ranney, Ambrose Loomis – Raub, Albert Newton
Ranney, Ambrose Loomis
physician, educator, author, was born in 1848.
He is a physician, professor of nervous diseases in the university of the city of New York; and the author of A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System; Practical Medical Anatomy; and Lectures on Nervous Diseases.
Ranney, Rufus Percival
lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Blandford, Mass. He was chosen by the Ohio legislature about the same time a judge of the supreme court, and in 1851 was elected by the people, under the new constitution, to the same office, which he held till 1857. In that year he was appointed United States district attorney for Ohio, and in 1859 was defeated as the democratic candidate for governor. In 1862 he was again elected a judge of the supreme court, but in 1864 resigned, and resumed practice in Cleveland.
Ranney, William
soldier, author, was born May 9, 1813, in Middletown, Conn. Among his works are Boone's First View of Kentucky; On the Wing; Washington on his Mission to the Indians; and Duck-Shooting, which is in the Corcoran gallery. He died Nov. 18, 1857, in West Hoboken, N. J.
Ransbottom, Claude
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born July 4, 1838, in Indianapolis, Ind. He attended the Yale college; and subsequently was admitted to the bar. He has served with distinction as judge of the forty-fourth judicial circuit of Indiana; and has been a member of the Indiana state legislature; and filled the high office of lieutenant-governor of Indiana. While a member of the state legislature he took an active part in the deliberations of that body, and was one of its most fluent speakers. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Indiana at Winamac; and contributes extensively to law literature.
Ransier, Alonzo Jacob
state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1836, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected to the South Carolina state legislature in 1868. He was elected a presidential elector in 1868; and lieutenant-governor in 1870. He was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died Aug. 17, 1882, in Charleston, S. C.
Ransom, Epaphroditus
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born in February in Shelburne Falls, Mass. He served a number of years in the Michigan legislature; and was judge of the supreme court. From 1847 to 1849 he was governor of the state. He was appointed receiver of the land office for one of the districts of Kansas, and died there before the expiration of his term. He died in November, 1859, in Fort Scott, Kan.
Ransom, Mathew Whitaker
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Oct. 8, 1826, in Warren county, N. C. He was elected attorney-general of North Carolina in 1852; was a member of the legislature in 1858- 60; and was a peace commissioner from the state to the congress of southern states at Montgomery, Ala., in 1861. He entered the confederate army; was lieutenantcolonel, brigadier-general, and major-general, and surrendered at Appomattox. He was elected to the United States senate in 1872 for the term ending in 1877, and was re-elected in 1876, 1883, and 1889.
Ransom, Robert
soldier, was born about 1830 in North Carolina. He was made colonel of the ninth North Carolina cavalry; became brigadier-general in 1862 and major-general in 1863 in the confederate service.
Ransom, Truman Bishop
soldier, educator, was born in 1802 in Woodstock, Vt. He was instructor in mathematics in the United States navy, did much to reorganize the Vermont militia, in which he was major-general in 1837-44, and in 1844 succeeded Captain Partridge as president of the university. He died Sept. 13, 1847, in the City of Mexico.
Ransom, Thomas Edward Green- Field
soldier, was born Nov. 29, 1834, in Norwich, Vt. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of major-general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious services. He died Oct. 20, 1864, near Rome, Ga.
Rantoul, Robert
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 13, 1805, in Beverly, Mass. He was elected to the Massachusetts state legislature in 1834; and in 1837 a member of the Massachusetts board of education. In 1838 he removed to Boston; in 1843 was appointed collector of that port; and in 1845 was appointed United States district attorney for Massachusetts.
In 1851 he succeeded Mr. Webster in the United States senate, but remained there only a short time. He was a representative in congress from 1851 to the time of his death. His writings have since been published in a large volume. He died Aug. 7, 1852, in Washington, D. C.
Rantoul, Robert Samuel
antiquarian, lawyer, state legislator, was born June 2, 1832, in Beverly, Mass. He settled in Beverly, which he represented in the legislature in 1858, and afterward removed to Salem, Mass. He was collector of Salem in 1865-69, and representative from that town in 1884-85. He has published many historical and genealogical papers in the collections of the Essex institute, of which he is a vice-president.
Raoul, William Greene
railroad president, was born July 4, 1843, in Livingston Parish, La. Since 1887 he has been president of the Mexican National railroad at New York city.
Rapallo, Charles Anthony
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in New York city. He became a successful practitioner, and was elected a judge of the New York court of appeals, taking his seat on the bench in 1870; and in 1884 he was elected for a second term of fourteen years by the united vote of both political parties. He died Dec. 28, 1887, in New York city.
Rapelje, Stewart
author, was born in 1842 in New York. He was a legal writer of New York city; and the author of Digest of Decisions of New York Courts to 1881; Digest of Federal Decisions and Statutes from the Earliest Period to 1880; Treatise on the Law of Witnesses; and Dictionary of American and English Decisions. He died in 1896.
Raphall, Morris Jacob
clergyman, author, was born in September, 1798, in Sweden. He was a Jewish clergyman once prominent in New York city; and the author of Post-Biblical History of the Jews; Literature of the Jews in Spain; Social Condition of the Jews; Festivals of the Lord; and The Path to Immortality.
He died June 23, 1868, in New York city.
Rapier, James T
Congressman, was born in 1840 in Florence, Ala. He was elected from Alabama to the forty-third congress; and re-elected to the fortyfourth congress.
Rarey, John S
author, was born in 1828 in Franklin county, Ohio. He was a famous horse-tamer who wrote a Treatise on Horse-Training that was very extensively circulated. He died Oct. 4, 1866, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Rariden, James
lawyer, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He became eminent as a lawyer; and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1841. He died in Cambridge City, Ind.
Rathbone, Estes George
banker, state senator, was born June 30, 1848, in Hebron, Pa. He is a successful banker of Hamilton, Ohio. For nine years he was special agent of the United States treasury; chief of special examiners of pension office for three years; state senator of Ohio for two years; chief postoffice inspector for two years; and fourth assistant postmaster general under President Harrison.
Rathbone, John Finley
soldier, manufacturer, was born Oct. 18, 1821, in Albany, N. Y. In 1845 he built a foundry in Albany that is now one of the largest establishments of the kind in the world.
He was appointed adjutant-general of New York, with the rank of major-general.
Rathbone, Justus Henry
founder, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Deerfield, N. Y. He was the founder of the Knights of Pythias. He died in 1890 in Lima, Ohio. congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.
Rathbun, George
congressman,
Ratliff, Joseph C
state legislator, was born July 6, 1827, near Richmond, Ind.
In 1875 he was chosen to represent Wayne county in the Indiana state legislature; and in 1876 he was appointed by the governor a trustee of the Purdue university, and was reappointed in 1877 for the term In 1870 he was elected of three years. president of the Wayne County Turnpike company.
Ratliff, Ryland
educator, botanist, was born in 1858 near Marion, Ind. Since 1886 he has been an instructor of natural science in Fairmount academy, Indiana. He has made a special study of botany and general biology.
Rau, Charles
archæologist, author, was born in 1826 in Belgium. He was an archæologist of distinction of Belgian birth who settled in the United States in 1848, and was curator of antiquities in the United States National museum in 1875- 87. He was the author of Early Man in Europe; and Prehistoric Fishing. He died July 25, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Raub, Albert Newton
educator, college president, author, was born March 28, 1840, in Lancaster county, Pa. After attending the State Normal school of Millersville, Pa., he began educational work. He has been superintendent of the Ashland public schools; superintendent of the Lock Haven public schools, Pennsylvania; principal of the State Normal school of Lock Haven, Pa.; and is now the president of the Delaware college of Newark. He is the author of twenty-six books, including text-books on grammar, reading, spelling, arithmetic, literature, and pedagogy. His lessons, etc., are especially commendable works, and the best of their kind.