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Reeves, Marion Calhoun Le- Gare
author, was born about 1854, in Charleston, S. C. He is a novelist of Washington, and the author of Ingemisco; Randolph Honor; Sea Drift; A Little Maid of Arcadie; Wearithorne; and with Emily Read, Old Martin Boscawen's Jest; and Pilot Fortune.
Reeves, Reuben A
jurist, was born Aug. 9, 1821, in Todd county, Ky. In 1885 he was appointed one of the supreme judges in New Mexico.
Reeves, Walter
educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1848, near Brownsville, Pa. He removed to Illinois in 1856; in childhood lived on a farm; became a teacher and then a lawyer; was admitted to the bar of the state of Illinois in 1875; and was admitted to the bar of the supreme court of the United States in 1885. He was elected to the fifty-fourth, and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress. In politics he is a republican. He devoted himself to internal improvements of the country and especially of the state of Illinois. The construction and completion of the Illinois and Mississippi canal, and the improvement of the Chicago river at a total expenditure of about six and a half millions of dollars by the general government were part the results of his efforts.
Rehan, Ada
actress, was born April 22, 1859, in Ireland. She first appeared in Newark, in the play Across the Continent. Subsequently she acted at Mrs. Drew's theater in Philadelphia. She became famous, as early as 1880, in the character of Thelka, in The Passing Regiment. Her versatility of dramatic talent is wonderful.
Rehn, Frank Knox Morton
artist, was born April 12, 1848, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was awarded in 1882 the first prize for marine painting at the St.
Louis exposition; in 1885 the first prize at the water color exhibition of the American Art association, and in 1886 a gold medal at the Prize fund exhibition. His paintings include Looking Down on the Sea from the Rocks at Magnolia, Mass.; A Missing Vessel; Close of a Summer Day; and Evening, Gloucester Harbor.
Reich, Jacques
artist, was born Aug. 10, 1852, in Hungary. In 1885 he came to New York and made all the pen and ink portraits for Scribner's Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings, as well as numerous others for periodicals. He drew the portraits for Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia for 1886, 1887, and 1888. Early in 1886 he began to execute the sixteen hundred portraits for this work, to which task he gave almost exclusive attention till it was completed in December, 1888.
Reichel, William Cornelius
clergyman, educator, author, was born May 9, 1742, in Salem, N. C. He was a Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pa., among whose writings are Moravianism in New York and Connecticut; Memorials of the Moravian Church; and A Red Rose from the Olden Time. He died April 18, 1825, in Prussia.
Reichert, Edward Tyson
physician, educator, author, was born in 1855, in Pennsylvania. He is a Philadelphia physician and educator, professor of physiology in the university of Pennsylvania from 1886, and was the author of A Text- Book of Physiology.
Reid, David Boswell
chemist, author, was born in 1805, in Scotland. He was a chemist who came to America in 1856, and was director of the medical inspection of the United States sanitary commission. He was the author of Introduction to the Study of Chemistry; Rudiments of Chemistry of Daily Line; and Ventilation for American Dwellings.
He died April 5, 1863, in Washington, D. C.
Reid, David Settle
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born April 19, 1813, in Rockingham county, N. C. He was elected to the North Carolina state legislature in 1835, and served continuously until 1842. In 1843 he was elected a representative in congress from North Carolina; and was re-elected in 1845. In 1850 he was elected governor of North Carolina; and was re-elected in 1852, serving until 1855, when he was elected a senator in congress for four years.
Reid, George L
author, poet. He is a writer of Menasha, Wis., and the author of volume of poems entitled The Heather Bell. a
Reid, Hugh Thompson
soldier, lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 1811, in Union county, Ind. In 1840-42 he was prosecuting attorney for Lee, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson and Van Buren counties, Iowa, holding high rank as a land lawyer. He was president for four years of the Des Moines Valley railroad. He entered the volunteer service as colonel of the fifteenth Iowa infantry in 1861; and was appointed brigadier-general in 1863. He died Aug. 21, 1874, in Keokuk, Iowa.
Reid, James
college president, was born in Canada. In 1890 he was elected president of the college of Montana, which position he still holds.
Reid, James Madison
railroad president, was born April 10, 1849, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He is president of the Ursina and North Fork railway at Connellsville, Ga.
Reid, James Wesley
lawyer, congressman, was born June 11, 1849, in Wentworth, N. C. He was elected county treasurer of Rockingham county, N. C., in 1874; and was continuously re-elected until November, 1884. He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the forty-ninth congress; and in January, 1855, at a special election, was elected to the forty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy.
Reid, John Morrison
clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1820, in New York city. He is a methodist clergyman and editor of religious journals who secured the library of Von Ranke for Syracuse university. He is the author of Missions of the Methodist Church; and Doomed Religions.
Reid, John W
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 14, 1821, in Lynchburg, Va. He settled in Jackson county; served two sessions in the Missouri legislature; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress. He was expelled from the house in December, 1861.
Reid, Mrs. Mary J
poet. She is a writer of Alameda, Cal., and her poems have appeared in the leading magazines and journals of California.
Reid, Robert
artist, was born July 29, 1863, in Stockbridge, Mass. He has attained a world wide reputation as a successful artist of New York.
Reid, Robert Raymond
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born in 1789 in Beaufort District, S. C. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1818 to 1823, and was elected mayor of Augusta on his retirement from congress. He was also a judge of the superior court of Georgia, and in 1832 was appointed district judge for eastern Florida. He was appointed governor of the territory of Florida from 1839 to 1841. He died July 1, 1841, near Tallahassee, Fla.
Reid, Samuel Chester
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 21, 1818, in New York: city. He is a lawyer of New Orleans, and the author of The United States Bankrupt Law of 1841; and The Battle of Chickamauga.
Reid, Whitelaw
journalist, author, was born Oct. 27, 1837, in Xenia, Ohio.
He early began to edit papers with great success, and his abilities as a war correspondent, during the civil war, gave him great distinction. In 1869 he became managing editor of the New York Tribune. He was the author of After the War, a Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools of Journalism; and Newspaper Tendencies.
Reid, William James
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 17, 1834, in South Argyle, N. Y. He is a united presbyterian clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889, and the author of Lectures on the Revelation; and United Presbyterianism.
Reid, William S
college president, was born April 21, 1778, in Chester county, Pa. In 1806 he was elected president of Hampden-Sidney college. He died June 23, 1853.
Reid, William Thomas
soldier, educator, was born Nov. 8, 1842, in Jacksonville, Ill. He received his education at Harvard college. During the war he served as a soldier in the union army, with the rank of sergeant, and was mustered out with recommendation as major. He has been headmaster of the high school of Newport, R. I.; headmaster's assistant of the Boston Latin school; superintendent Brookline schools; headmaster boys' high school of San Francisco; headmaster of the Belmont school, and president of the university of California. His administration was characterized by a wisely conservative devotion to high educational ideals; and after four years of tireless industry, he resigned to carry out a long-cherished plan of founding a school which should do for the Pacific coast what Rugby has done for England. In pursuance of this plan, he opened the Belmont school of Belmont, Cal., in 1885, of which he is still the head.
Reilly, James B
lawyer, congress-- man, was born Aug. 12, 1854, in Schuyl-- kill county, Pa. He was elected district attorney in 1871, and served in that office until 1875. In 1874 he was elected a rep-- resentative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; was re-elected to the forty-fifth congress. He also served in the fifty-first, fifty-second and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Reilly, James W
soldier, was born about 1842. He was made brigadier-general of volunteers in 1864. In 1866 he was assistant ordnance officer in the arsenal in Washington, D. C., and he was afterward assistant officer at Watervliet arsenal, N.
Y.
Reilly, John
manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1836, in Abnerville, Pa. He was president of the bcard of city commissioners of Altoona in 1867 and 1868; was president of the Bell's Gap Railroad company during 1872 and 1873; and was also connected with the manufacturing and mining interests of the state. In 1874 he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Reilly, Wilson
lawyer, congress- In 1857 he was elected a representative in congress from Pennsylvania, man.