Rayner, Kenneth – Read, Opie
Rayner, Kenneth
state legislator, congressman, author, was born in 1808 in Bertie county, N. C. In 1835 he was a member of the North Carolina house of commons, and the same year was a member of the convention to revise the state constitution. He served again in the local legislature in 1836 and 1838; and was a representative in congress from 1839 to 1845, and a presidential elector in 1848.
In 1846, for the third time, he went into the legislature. In 1866 he published the Life and Services of Andrew Johnson. In 1877 he was appointed solicitor of the treasury of the United States. He died Feb. 5, 1884, in Washington, D. C.
Raynolds, L. D
journalist, was born Sept. 24, 1847, in Ohio. He is now the editor and owner of the Chicago Express, the oldest reform paper in the United States.
Raynor, Arlington
lecturer, was born July 7, 1872, in New York city. He has attained prominence as a lecturer in New York city, where he is secretary for the Young Men's Christian association.
Rea, David
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1831, in Ripley county, Ind. He is a noted lawyer of Savannah, Mo.; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Rea, John
soldier, congressman, was born in 1755 in Pennsylvania. He served during the revolutionary war; was several times a member of the Pennsylvania state house of representatives, and was five times elected as a democrat to congress, serving from 1803 till 1815, except in 1811-13. He died Feb. 6, 1829, in Chambersburg, Pa.
Rea, John Patterson
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1840, in Chester county, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native county; attended the Hopewell academy; and graduated in 1867 in the classical course from the Ohio Wesleyan university. During the war he was second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain in the first regiment of the Ohio volunteer cavalry; was brevet major United States volunteer, and subsequently was captain company A, first regiment Minnesota national guard; and then brigadier-general. He has been judge of the probate court of Hennepin county, Minn.; district judge of the fourth judicial district of Minnesota; and in 1876-77 was editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. He is prominent in the business and political affairs of Minneapolis, Minn., and stands high in several fraternal orders.
REA, MRS. JULIE [FOSTER], singer, author, was born in 1814, in England.
She was an opera singer and dramatic critic of Philadelphia, and the author of The Ins and outs of Paris; Italy and the War of 1859; and Parisian Pickings. She died in 1866.
Read, Abner
naval officer, was born April 5, 1821, in Urbana, Ohio. He served with distinction in the civil war and attained the rank of commodore. He died July 12, 1863, in Baton Rouge, La.
Read, Almon H
state legislator, state senator, was born June 12, 1790, in Shelburne, Vt. He was frequently elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature; and also to the senate. In 1840 he was appointed treasurer of the state; and in 1841 was elected to fill a vacancy in the national house of representatives; and re-elected to the succeeding congress. He died June 3, 1844, in Montrose, Pa.
Read, Benjamin M
lawyer, legislator, was born September, 1854, in Las Cruces, N. M. He has been private secretary to Governors L. A. Sheldon and E. G. Ross. He has been a translator of the New Mexico laws; professor of English and Spanish; and in 1885 was admitted to the supreme court of New Mexico. In 1890-91 he was a member of the New Mexico legislature; has been vice-president for New Mexico of the National Republican league, and was a delegate to the conventions of the National Republican league in 1894 and in 1896. He has been pension agent; and since 1876 has been a delegate to nearly all the republican territorial conventions in New Mexico.
Read, Collinson
lawyer, author, was born in 1751, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He was appointed deputy register of wills for the county, and afterward practiced law in Philadelphia. He published a Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania; Abridgment of the Laws of Pennsylvania; American Pleader's Assistant; and Precedents in the Office of a Justice of the Peace.
He died March 1, 1815, in Reading, Pa.
Read, Daniel
composer, was born Nov. 16, 1757, in Attleborough, Mass. He published in 1791 The American Singing- Book, or a New and Easy Guide to the Art of Psalmody; and in 1793 Columbian Harmony, a collection of devotional music. Subsequently he published a New Collection of Psalm-Tunes, which came to be known as the Litchfield Collection, containing many tunes of his own composition (Dedham, 1805), Windham, Greenwich, Sherburne, Russia, Stafford, and others of Read's hymn-tunes are still in general use in American churches. He died in 1841, in New Haven, Conn.
Read, Daniel
educator, college president, was born June 24, 1805, in Marietta, Ohio. In 1856 he became professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wisconsin university, and in 1863 entered on the presidency of Missouri State university, Columbia, which office he filled until 1876.
He died Oct. 3, 1878, in Keokuk, Iowa.
Read, George
signer of declaration of independence, was born Sept. 17, 1733, in Cecil county, Md. He was made attorney-general of the three lower counties on the Delaware in 1763, and held the office until he was chosen a delegate to congress in 1775. In 1776 he was a signer of the declaration of independence. He was elected a member of the United States senate, serving from 1789 to 1793; and was then appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Delaware, in which office he remained until his death in 1798.
He died Sept. 21, 1798.
Read, George Campbell
naval officer, was born about 1787, in Ireland.
He was promoted commander in 1816, and captain in 1825; took charge of the East India squadron in 1840, and of the squadron on the coast of Africa in 1846.
He died Aug. 22, 1862, in Philadelphia.
Read, Hollis
missionary, author, was born Aug. 26, 1802, in Newfane, Vt.
He was a presbyterian foreign missionary, who after 1835 was settled over various New Jersey parishes. He was the author of Journal in India; The Hand of God in History, a very popular book at one time: The Palace of the Great King; India and Its People; The Coming Crisis of the World; The Negro Problem Solved; and The Devil in History. He died April 7, 1887, in Somerville, N. J.
Read, J
congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress in 1787 and 1788. con-
Read, Jacob
lawyer, jurist, gressman, state senator, was born 1752, in South Carolina. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1783 to 1786; and was elected a senator in congress from that state for the term from 1795 to 1802. In 1801 he was appointed judge of the United States district court of South Carolina. He died July 17, 1816, in Charleston, S. C.
Read, Jane Maria
author, was born in 1853, in Massachusetts. She is poet of Colebrook Springs, Mass., who has published Between the Centuries, and Other Poems.
Read, John
lawyer, state senator, was born July 7, 1769, in Newcastle, Del.
He was appointed in 1797 agent-general of the United States under Jay's treaty, and held that office until its expiration in 1809. He was also a member of the supreme and common councils of Philadelphia and of the Pennsylvania legis,ature, and in 1816 chairman of its celebrated committee of seventeen. He succeeded Nicholas Biddle in the Pennsylvania senate in 1816. He died July 13, 1854, in Trenton, N. J.
Read, John
lawyer, was born about 1673 in Mendon, Mass. He was an active member of the provincial house of representatives, and of the council during Governor William Shirley's administration. He contributed greatly to the reform of legal phraseology, being the first to reduce the antiquated forms and redundant phrases of deeds of conveyance to simpler and clearer language. He died Feb. 7, 1749, in Boston, Mass.
Read, John Meredith
lawyer, diplomat, author, was born Feb. 21, 1837, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Albany, N. Y., who was minister to Greece in 1873-79, and subsequently filled other important diplomatic positions. He was the author of An Historical Inquiry Concerning Hendrick Hudson. He died in 1896.
Read, Lazarus H
lawyer, jurist.
In 1853 he was appointed judge of the United States court for the territory of Utah.
Read, Matthew Canfield
lawyer, lecturer, was born Aug. 21, 1823, in Williamsfield, Ohio. During the war he was United States sanitary commissioner; has been collector of revenue; a member of the Ohio geological corps; and lecturer on biology and practical geology.
Read, Nathan
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 2, 1759, in Warren, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1800 to 1803. He removed to Hallowell, Maine, and was for many years judge of the court of common pleas. He died Jan. 20, 1849, near Belfast, Maine.
Read, Nell M
educator, poet, was born Aug. 4, 1873, in Carimona, Minn.
She has attained success in educational work, and still resides in her native state at Preston. She has contributed extensively to current literature, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Read, Opie
journalist, author, was born in 1852, in Tennessee. He is a journalist now living in Chicago, who edited The Arkansaw Traveler for some years, and whose studies of Arkansas life have been widely read. He is the author of My Young Master; An Arkansaw Planter; Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Kentucky Colonel; On the Suwannee River; Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The Captain's Romance; and The Jucklins, a novel.