Ray, Joseph – Rayner, Isidor
Ray, Joseph
educator, mathematician, author, was born Nov. 25, 1807, in Virginia. He received his degree of M. D. from the Ohio Medical college; and was for a time surgeon in the Cincinnati hospital. During 1834-51 he held the chair of mathematics in Woodward college; and from about 1849 he was president of the board of directors of the Cincinnati House of Refuge. He published an eclectic series of arithmetics long popular in the western states. He died April 17, 1865, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ray, Joseph Warren
lawyer, congressman, was born May 25, 1849, in Greene county, Pa. He has practiced his profession since 1876 in Waynesburg, Pa.; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Ray, Ossian
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 13, 1835, in Hinesburg, Vt. He was a representative in the New Hampshire state legislature in 1868 and 1869. He was United States district attorney in 1879 and 1880. He was a member of the forty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses as a republican.
Ray, William
author, was born Dec. 8, 1771, in Salisbury, Conn. He was the author of Horrors of Slavery; and a book of poems. He died in 1827 in Auburn, N. Y.
Ray, William H
merchant, banker, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1812, in Dutchess county, N. Y. He was elected from Illinois to the forty-third congress.
Raymond, Andrew Van Vrank- En
clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 8, 1854, in Vischer's Ferry, N.
Y. This eminent clergyman was pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church of Albany, N. Y., for eight years; and since 1895 has been president of the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y.
Raymond, Annie Louise Cary
vocalist, was born Oct. 22, 1842, in Wayne, Maine. She is one of the most noted concert singers in the United States.
Raymond, Benjamin Wright
merchant, was born Oct. 23, 1801, in Rome, N. Y. In 1839 he was elected the third mayor of Chicago, and he was re-elected in 1842. He was one of the originators of the city of Lake Forest, a founder of Lake Forest university and president of its board of trustees; and was a member of the board of trustees of Beloit college and Rockford Female seminary. In 1864 he organized the Elgin National Watch company, and became its president. He died April 5, 1883, in Chicago, Ill.
Raymond, Charles W
lawyer, jurist, orator, was born in Dubuque, Iowa.
His father, William M. Raymond, was captain of company C, fifty-second Indiana volunteer infantry, and lost his life in the battle of Nashville. Charles W. Raymond was educated at the Grand Prairie seminary of Onarga, Ill., and at the Wabash college. He attained prominence at the Illinois bar at Watseka; and was vice-president of the State Bar association when Lyman Trumbull was president. In 1895-96 he was president of the Republican league of Illinois; and was chairman of the Illinois delegation of the National Republican league convention at Cleveland in 1895. In 1894 he was elected a judge; and in 1897 was tendered the position of United States civil service commissioner. He has delivered numerous public addresses throughout the United States on current subjects.
Raymond, George Lansing
educator, author, poet, was born Sept. 3, 1839, in Chicago, Ill. He is a professor of oratory at Princeton college from 1881. His writings in verse include Colony ballads; A Life in Song; Ballads of the Revolution, and Other Poems; Sketches in Song; and Pictures in Verse. He is the author of The Orator's Manual; Modern Fishers of Men, a novel; Poetry as a Representative Art; The Genesis of Art Form; Art in Theory; Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture as Representative Arts; Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music; and Ideals Made Real.
Raymond, Henry Jarvis
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Jan. 24, 1820, in Lima, N. Y. In 1849 he was elected to the New York state assembly; was re-elected and made speaker. In 1851 he established the New York Times. He was subsequently chosen lieutenant-governor of New York; and was again elected to the state legislature. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress. He was the author of Life of Lincoln; Political Lessons of the Revolution; History of the Administration of Lincoln; and Letters to Mr. Yancey. He died June 18, 1869, in New York city.
Raymond, James
lawyer, author, was born in 1796 in Connecticut. In 1844 he was elected a member of the Maryland house of delegates, and in 1847 he was appointed state's attorney. He published Digest of the Maryland Chancery Decision; and Political, a book in opposition to Knownothingism as a phase of politics in the state of Maryland. He died in January, 1858, in Westminster, Md.
Raymond, Jerome Hale
educator, college president, was born March 10, 1869, in Clinton, Iowa. He attended the public schools of Chicago, Ill.; the Northwestern academy of Evanston; received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. from the Northwestern university, and the degree of Ph. D. from the university of Chicago. He has been professor of history and political science in the Lawlecturer in sociology in rence university; the university of Chicago; professor of sociology in the university of Wisconsin; and since 1897 has been president of the West Virginia university. As an educator his work has been chiefly in university extension.
Raymond, John Baldwin
soldier, journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 5, 1844, in Lockport, N. Y. He served in the union army throughout the war of the rebellion, rising to the rank of captain. In 1877 he was appointed United States marshal for the territory of Dakota, and served five years, declining a reappointment. He was elected the delegate from Dakota to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. He died Dec. 27, 1885.
Raymond, Levi Beardsley
soldier, journalist, was born July 3, 1838, in Alleghany county, N. Y. For over twenty years he has been a member of the school board of Hampton, Iowa; was county superintendent of schools during 1867-69, and again in 1875-76. He is the editor and part owner of the Franklin County Recorder of Hampton, Iowa; has been postmaster; and since 1896 has been trustee of the Iowa Soldiers' home.
Raymond, Miner
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 29, 1811, in New York city.
He is a methodist clergyman of Illinois, theological professor in Garrett Biblical institute at Evanston, Ill., from 1864; and the author of Systematic Theology.
Raymond, Robert Raikes
journalist, educator, author, was born in 1819 in New York city. He edited the Syracuse Free Democrat in 1852, and the Evening Chronicle in 1853-54, and was professor of elocution and English in Brooklyn Polytechnic institute from 1857 till 1864. He published Gems from Tupper; Little Don Quixote, from the German; and Patriotic Speaker. He died Nov. 16, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Raymond, Rossiter Worthing- Ton
civil engineer, journalist, author, was born April 27, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a mining engineer of Brooklyn, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal from 1868. Among his technical and other writings are included, Mines and Mining of the Rocky Mountains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave Hearts, a novel; The Man in the Moon, and Other People; The Book of Job; Essays and a Metrical Paraphrase; The Merry-Go-Round; and Two Ghosts, and Other Tales. a
Raymond, Sarah E
educator, philanthropist, was born Oct. 20, 1842, in Big Grove, Ill. She was educated at the public high school and academy; by private tutors in various branches; and in 1866 graduated from three years' course in the Illinois State Normal university.
She has become one of the most distinguished educators in Illinois. In 1866-68 she was an instructor at the Fowler institute of Newark, Ill.; then for six years in the schools of Bloomington, Ill.; and in 1874 was elected secretary of the school board and superintendent of all the Bloomington city schools, which position. she held for eighteen years, resigning in August, 1892. She was the first woman. in the United States elected to the position of superintendent of city schools. She was president of the Central Illinois Teachers' association; president of the Women's State Teachers' association; president of the Bloomington Public library for ten years, and one of its directors for nineteen years; and for several years she was president of the Woman's Educational association of the Illinois Wesleyan university. Since 1892 she has resided in Boston, engaged in literary work.
Rayner, Isidor
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 11, 1850. In 1878 he was elected to the Maryland legislature for two years. In 1886 he was elected to the state senate from Baltimore City for four years; and was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-second congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.