Rauch, Friedrich Augustus – Ray, John
Rauch, Friedrich Augustus
psychologist, author, was born July 27, 1806, in Germany. He was a psychologist of Mercersburg, Pa., prominent among thinkers of the German reformed faith. He was the author of Psychology: a View of the Human Soul; and The Inner Life of the Christian. He died March 2, 1841, in Mercersburg, Pa.
Rauch, John Henry
physician, author, was born Sept. 4, 1828, in Lebanon, Pa. In 1857 he was professor of materia medica and medical botany in the Rush Medical college of Chicago, Ill.; and in 1859 filled the same chair in the Chicago College of Pharmacy, of which he was one of the organizers. His chief work as a writer is embodied in the reports of the Illinois state board of health in eight volumes.
Raue, Charles Godlove
physician, educator, author, was born May 11, 1820, in Saxony. From 1864 till 1871 he was professor of pathology and practice at the Homœopathic college of Pennsylvania, and at Hahnemann Medical college in Philadelphia. He is the author of Special Pathology and Diagnostics with Therapeutic Hints; and Annual Record of Homœopathic Literature.
Raum, Green Berry
soldier, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 11, 1829, in Golconda, Ill. In 1861 he participated in the war for the union as major of the fifty-sixth Illinois volunteers, and was promoted to the rank of brevet brigadier-general in 1864, and to the full rank of brigadier in 1865. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortieth congress as a republican. He was commissioner of internal revenue from 1876 to 1883; and subsequently United States commissioner of pensions.
He is the author of The Existing Conflict between Republican Government and Southern Oligarchy.
Ravenel, Henry William
botanist, author, was born May 19, 1814, in St.
John's Parish Berkeley, S. C. He was a botanist of Aiken, S. C., distinguished for his knowledge of fungi; and was the author of Fungi Caroliniani Exsiccati; and Fungi Americani Exsiccati. He died July 17, 1887, in Aiken, S. C.
Ravenel, St. Julien
chemist, surgeon, was born Dec. 15, 1819, in Charleston, S. C. He was surgeon-in-chief of the confederate hospital in Columbia, and was director of the confederate laboratory in that city for the preparation of medical supplies. At the close of the war he returned to Charleston, and in 1866 he discovered the value of the phosphate deposits in the vicinity of that city for agricultural purposes. He died March 16, 1882, in Charleston, S. C.
Ravenscroft, D. W
author, poet, was born in 1852 in California. Under the nom de plume of The Exile he has contributed upwards of a thousand poems to current literature. He is the author of The Spirit of Unrest; Idyls; and several novels.
Rawle, Francis
author, was born in 1660 in England. He was a Quaker colonist of Pennsylvania whose Ways and Means for the Inhabitants of Delaware to become Rich is said to have been the first book printed by Franklin. He died March 5, 1727, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rawle, Francis
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 7, 1846, in Mifflin county, Pa. In 1871 he was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia. He has published two revised editions of Bouvier's Law Dictionary, in which are given over seven hundred subjects not named in the original work.
Rawle, Henry
soldier, lawyer, manufacturer, iron master, was born Aug. 21, 1833, in Mifflin county, Pa. He engaged extensively in the coal and iron business in Erie, Pa., and established the Erie blast-furnace and Erie rolling-mill.
In 1874-76 he was mayor of Erie, and from 1870 till 1878 he was treasurer of Pennsylvania.
Rawle, William
lawyer, author, was born April 28, 1759, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a distinguished lawyer. of Philadelphia; and the author of View of the Constitution of the United States; and The Study of the Law. He died April 12, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rawle, William
lawyer, author, was born July 19, 1788, in Philadelphia, Pa. As reporter of the state supreme court, he published twenty-five volumes of reports. He died Aug. 9, 1858, in Montgomery county, N. Y.
Rawle, William Brooke
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 29, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia who has published The Right Flank at Gettysburg; and With Gregg in the Gettysburg Campaign.
Rawle, William Henry
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 31, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of Law of Covenants for Title: Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania in English Law; and Equity in Pennsylvania. He died April 19, 1889, in Philadelphia.
Rawles, Richard H
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1850, in Nausemond county, Va. He was a state senator in the Virginia legislature from the thirty-second senatorial district; and has been judge of the county and criminal court of his native county.
Rawles, William A
educator, author, was born Dec. 4, 1863, in Remington, Ind. He has filled the chair of American history and politics in various institutions, and since 1894 in the Indiana university. He is the author of Civil Government of Indiana, and other works.
Rawlins, John Aaron
soldier, secretary of war, was born Feb. 13, 1831, in East Galena, Ill. He was assistant adjutant-general; and after seeing much service in the field rose by degrees to the rank of major-general by brevet in 1865.
He served as chief of staff to the general commanding the armies. On the accession of General Grant to the presidency, he was appointed secretary of war. He died Sept. 9, 1869, in Washington, D. C.
Rawlins, Joseph L
lawyer, educator, congressman, United States senator, was born March 28, 1850, in Salt Lake county, Utah. He was professor in the university of Deseret in Salt Lake City, Utah, for two years. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as delegate on the democratic ticket; and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in 1897.
Rawson, Albert Leighton
author, was born Oct. 15, 1829, in Chester, Vt. He is a traveler of note who has published Histories of All Religions; Antiquities of the Orient; The Unseen World; and a number of dictionaries and vocabularies of Oriental tongues.
Rawson, Edward
author, was born April 16, 1615, in England. He was one of the first secretaries of the general court of Massachusetts colony. He died March 27, 1693, in Boston, Mass.
Ray, Anna Chapin
author, was born. in 1865 in Massachusetts. She is a writer of West Haven, Conn., whose tales for juvenile reading have been popular. She is the author of Cadets of Fleming Hall; Half a Dozen Boys; Half a Dozen Girls; In Blue Creek Cañon; Dick; and Margaret Davis Tutor.
Ray, Fabius Maximus
lawyer, educator, state legislator, author, was born in March, 1837, in East Windham, Maine.
In 1867 entertaining the project of abandoning the law, he entered the senior class of the Divinity school in Cambridge and graduated, but never received ordination, and in a year or two resumed the legal profession in Portland, which he continues in the firm of Ray and Dyer. He represented Westbrook in the Maine legislature of 1871-72. He published a volume of poems in 1873. He taught a school in Saccarappa in 1865 and in the winter of 1869-70, and has had several private pupils in modern languages and the classics.
Ray, George W
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1844, in Otselic, N. Y. He received his education at the Norwich academy, New York; and has attained eminence as one of the leading lawyers of the east at Norwich.
He served with distinction in congress, in the forty-eighth, fifty second, fiftythird, fifty - fourth, and fifty-fifth congresses. He is a member of the republican state committee; chairman of the republican county committee; and a member of the board of education of Norwich, N. Y.
Ray, Harry Palmer
journalist, author, was born July 2, 1866, in Phelps, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Coldwater, Mich., and subsequently attended the Chicago university and Union College of Law. For eighteen years he has been engaged in newspaper work; several years of which were with the Associated Press. He has contributed to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Republican, and Post- Dispatch; the Chicago Tribune, and the Cincinnati Enquirer. He is one of the leading turf writers in America; the editor of Whip and Spur of Philadelphia, Pa., and the author of several works of fiction.
Ray, Isaac
physician, author, was born Jan. 16, 1807, in Beverly, Mass. He was a physician of Philadelphia; and the author of Conversations on Animal Economy; Education in Relation to the Health of the Brain; Mental Hygiene; and Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. He died March 31, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ray, James Brown
governor, was born Feb. 19, 1794, in Jefferson county, Ky.
He was governor of Indiana from 1825 to 1831. He died Aug. 4, 1848, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ray, John
lawyer, state senator, was born Oct. 14, 1816, in Washington county, Mo. He removed to Monroe, La., and took high rank in his profession. He was elected in 1844 to the state house of representatives, and in 1850 to the state senate. In 1854 and again in 1859 he was nominated by the whigs for lieutenant-governor. He died March 4, 1888, in New Orleans. La.