Reily, George Wolf – Renwick, James
Reily, George Wolf
physician, banker, was born March 31, 1834, in Harrisburg, Pa. He received his education at the Harrisburg academy, Yale college, and the university of Pennsylvania. For many years he practiced his profession, which he devoted largely to charity among the needy of the city. In 1871 he was elected president of the Harrisburg National bank. He has been president of the Harrisburg Gas company, and a director in various business institutions. He died Feb. 8, 1892, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Reily, John
soldier, lawyer, was born April 12, 1752, in England. He was not a brilliant orator, but was a polished writer, and left several manuscripts. He published A Compendium for Pennsylvania Justices of the Peace, which was the first work of its character printed in this country. He died May 2, 1810, in Myerstown, Pa.
Reily, Luther
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839.
Reily, William Mcclellan
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 8, 1837, in York, Pa. He is a German reformed clergyman and educator of Allentown, Pa., president of the female college there from 1888. He is the author of The Artist and his Mission.
Reimensnyder, Junius Benja- Min
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1841, in Staunton, Va. He is a lutheran clergyman of New York city from 1880; and the author of Heavenward; Doom Eternal; Lutheran Literature: its Distinctive Traits; Work and Personality of Luther; Six Days of Creation; and Lutheran Manual.
Reinagle, Hugh
artist, was born about 1790 in Philadelphia, Pa. For many years he was engaged as a scene-painter in New York, and produced also a panorama of New York, which was exhibited in that city. He was one of the original thirty members of the National Academy of Design, and exhibited there, in 1831, a View of the Falls of Mount Ida. His Macdonough's Victory on Lake Champlain was engraved by Benjamin Tanner in 1810. He died May, 1834, in New Orleans, La.
Reinberger, Irving
lawyer, was born Jan. 31, 1860, in St. Louis, Mo. He received a liberal education; and is now one of the foremost lawyers of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. He has been assistant prosecuting attorney for the eleventh judicial circuit of Arkansas; and has filled various other public positions of trust.
Reinhart, Benjamin Franklin
artist, was born Aug. 29, 1829, in Waynesburg, Pa. Among his works, many of which have been engraved, are Cleopatra; Evangeline; Pocahontas; Katrina Van Tassel; Washington Receiving the News of Arnold's Treason; Consolation; After the Crucifixion; Nymphs of the Wood; Young Franklin and Sir William Keith; The Regatta; The Pride of the Village; Captain Kidd and the Governor; and Baby Mine. He died May 3, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Reinhart, Charles Stanley
artist, was born May 16, 1844, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is well known for his excellent work in black and white for book and magazine illustration. His works in oil include Clearing Up; Caught Napping; Reconnoitring; Rebuke; September Morning; Old Life Boats; Coast of Normandy; In a Garden; Mussel Fisherwoman; Flats at Villerville; Sunday; English Garden; and Washed Ashore.
Reinhart, Joseph W
railroad president, was born Sept. 17, 1851, in Pittsburg, Pa. As general auditor and vice-president of the company, he formulated, in 1889, the plan for financial reorganization of The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé railroad, and carried it out with such success that the company, recognizing his sagacity and foresight, advanced him through different stages to the presidency in 1893. He is now president of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fé, the St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado, the Atlantic and Pacific, the Colorado Midland, the Wichita and Western, the Southern California, the New Mexico and Arizona, and the Sonora railroads.
Relf, Samuel
journalist, was born March 22, 1776, in Virginia. He became connected with the National Gazette in Philadelphia, Pa., of which he was for many years the editor and its owner. He died Feb. 14, 1823, in Virginia.
Relfe, James H
congressman, was born in Virginia. He settled in Missouri; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.
Remey, George C
naval officer.
After the end of the civil war he was made a lieutenant commander, and later served in numerous posts of the navy on land and on sea. In 1885 he was made a captain, and in the same year was placed in command of the Charleston squadron of evolution. He is an able officer, and has handled the affairs of war at Key West to the entire satisfaction of the authorities.
Remington, Mrs. Alice M
poet, was born Nov. 6, 1852, in Brookville, Pa.
She is the author of a number of poems.
Remington, Frederic
author, artist, was born in 1861 in New York. He is a popular artist and illustrator, whose work in the main reflects the life of the far west. He is the author of Pony Tracks.
Remington, Henry Williams
merchant, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 9, 1823, in Lorain county, Ohio. He has been prosecuting attorney; chairman of town board of supervisors; a member of the Wisconsin state legislature; president of the Wisconsin Valley railroad; appraiser of school and university lands for the state of Wisconsin in 1851; and has been a successful lawyer, farmer, merchant and railroad builder. He has done much work in land surveying for the state of Wisconsin and for private individuals.
He is best known as a writer and speaker on political and judicial questions. In 1854 he set in motion at Madison, Wis., a movement which resulted in closing saloons on election and other public days in Wisconsin, which movement has since spread to other states.
Remington, Joseph Price
educator, author, was born March 26, 1847, in Philadelphia. He is a professor of pharmacy in the Philadelphia college of Pharmacy from 1874; and the author of The Practice of Pharmacy.
Remington, Philo
inventor, was born Oct. 31, 1816, in Litchfield, N. Y.
With his brothers, Samuel and Eliphalet, the firm of E. Remington and Sons was established, and for upward of twentyfive years he continued in charge of the mechanical department. In 1886 the Remingtons disposed of their type-writing-machine manufacturing business, and soon afterward the firm of E. Remington and Sons went into liquidation. Since then Mr. Remington has lived in retirement.
Philo Remington was for nearly twenty years president of the village of Ilion, and with his brother has given Syracuse university sums aggregating $250,000.
Remington, Stephen
missionary, author, was born May 16, 1803, in Bedford, N. Y. He was a baptist minister, but prior to 1845 a preacher of the methodist faith; and the author of Reasons for Becoming a Baptist; and A Defence of Restricted Communion. He died March 23, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Remsen, Ira
chemist, educator, author, was born Feb. 10, 1846, in New York city. He is an eminent chemist, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins university from 1876; and the author of Chemiical Experiments.
Rencher, Abraham
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in Wake county, N. C. He was elected to congress from North Carolina, where he served from 1829 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1.843. He was charge d' affaires to Portugal in 1843; and was appointed, by President Buchanan, governor of the territory of New Mexico.
Reno, Conrad
lawyer, author, was born in 1859 in Alabama. He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author of Employers' Liability Act.
Reno, Jesse Lee
soldier, was born June 20, 1823, in Wheeling, W. Va. In 1846 he graduated from West Point; served in the Mexican war; and received two brevets for gallantry. In 1861 he was commissioned a brigadiergeneral, and the following year became a major-general of volunteers. He led a brigade under Gen.
Burnside in the taking of Roanoke Island; repelled the confederates under General Lee; and was killed in action on the evening of Sept. 14, 1862.
Renwick, Edward Sabine
expert, was born Jan. 3, 1823, in New York city.
Since 1849 he has been engaged mainly as an expert in the trials of patent cases in the United States courts. In 1862, in connection with his brother, Henry B. Renwick, he devised methods for the repair of the steamer Great Eastern while afloat, and successfully accomplished it, replating a fracture in the bilge 82 feet long and about 10 feet broad at the widest place.
Renwick, James
scientist, educator, author, was born May 30, 1790, in England. He was a prominent scientist of New York city, and professor of natural and experimental philosophy and chemistry at Columbia college from 1820 to 1853. He was the author of Lives of Rittenhouse, Fulton, Count Rumford, in Sparks's American Biography; Outlines of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the Steam Engine; Elements of Mechanics; and Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clinton. He died Jan. 12, 1863, in New York.