Renwick, James – Reynolds, William H
Renwick, James
architect, was born Nov. 3, 1818, in New York city. He designed St. Bartholomew's church and the Church of the Covenant of New York city.
Repplier, Agnes
essayist, author, was born in 1855 in Pennsylvania. She is a popular essayist of Philadelphia; and the author of Books and Men; Points of View; In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Miniature; and Varia.
Re Qua, Harriet W
missionary, poet, was born in Arcade, N. Y. She is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Stones for the Temple; and Ziona, the Bride of the King.
Requa, Isaac Lawrence
mining engineer, was born Nov. 22, 1828, in Tarrytown, N. Y. He was for twenty years chairman of the republican state committee, and was tendered the nomination for governor, which he felt obliged to decline.
He is president of the Central Pacific railroad, the Eureka and Palisade railway, and the Oakland bank of savings in Oakland, Cal.
Requier, Augustus Julian
lawyer, author, was born May 27, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. He was a lawyer of Mobile prior to the civil war, and subsequently of New York city. He was the author of The Old Sanctuary, a romance; Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; and The Spanish Exile. He died March 19, 1887, in New York city.
Reuling, George
physician, educator, inventor, author, was born Nov. 11, 1839, in Germany. He has invented a microtome for microscopical sections, and a ring-shaped silver-sling for the extraction of cataract within the capsule. He has written on Detachment of the Choroid after Extraction of Cataract; Extraction of Cataract within the Capsule; and Destruction of a Cyst of the Iris by Galvano- Cautery.
Reveal, William O
farmer, public official, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Broad Ripple, Ind. He is a successful farmer near Indianapolis, Ind.; has been county commissioner; and is a fluent speaker on agricultural and political topics.
Revels, Hiram R
clergyman, United States senator, was born Sept. 1, 1822, in Fayetteville, N. C. He settled at Natchez, Miss.; was chosen a member of the city council; and was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1870 to 1871.
Revere, Joseph Warren
soldier, author, was born May 17, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was an officer in the federal army during the civil war; and the author of Keel and Saddle; and Retrospect of Forty Years' Military Service (1872).
He died April 20, 1880, in Hoboken, N. J.
Revere, Paul
patriot, engraver, was born Jan. 1, 1735, in Boston, Mass. He was one of the noted Boston tea party, and is famous for his midnight-ride through the county of Middlesex, to give notice of the intended attack of Gen. Gage.
The town of North Chelsea, Mass., was named Revere in his honor in 1871. He died May 10, 1818, in Boston, Mass.
Revere, Paul Joseph
soldier, was born Sept. 10, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for bravery at Gettysburg, where he received a fatal wound in the second day's battle. He died July 4, 1863, in Westminster, Md.
Rexdale, Robert
(pseud.), journalist, author, poet, was born in 1859 in Maine. He was a journalist and poet of Portland, Maine; and the author of Drifting Songs and Sketches; Saved by the Sword, a novel; and The Cuban Liberated.
Rexford, Eben Eugene
poet, author, was born July 16, 1848, in Johnsburg, N. Y. He is a popular poet and song writer of Shiocton, Wis., whose poem Silver Threads Among the Gold has been set to music and widely sung. He is the author of Brother and Lover; Grandmother's Garden; and John Fielding and His Enemy.
Reyburn, John Edgar
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 7, 1845, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He was educated by private tutor and at Saunders institute, West Philadelphia; studied law and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1870. He was a member of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania, sessions of 1871, 1874, 1875, and 1876; and was elected a member of the senate of Pennsylvania for a term of four years from 1876; and re-elected in 1880. He was elected president pro tempore for the session of 1883; and was re-elected senator in 1884, and again elected in 1888 for a term of four years. He was elected as a republican to fill the unexpired term of Hon. William D. Kelley in the fifty-first congress in 1890, and was elected to the fiftysecond and fifty-third congresses and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Reynolds, Charles Butler
educator, was born in South East, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools and graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan university. He has filled important positions; for sixteen years was superintendent of city schools of Clinton, Mo.; and is now principal and superintendent of city schools in Kansas City, Mo.
Reynolds, Daniel H
soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 14, 1832, in Centreburg, Ohio. In 1861 he was elected captain of a company for service in the confederate army, and was promoted brigadier-general in 1864. He was state senator in Arkansas in 1866-67.
Reynolds, Elmer Robert
ethnologist, author, was born July 30, 1846, in Dansville, N. Y. He is an ethnologist in the United States civil service from 1877; and the author of A Scientific Visit to the Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of the Choptank Indians; and Aboriginal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Columbia.
Reynolds, Frances
journalist, poet, was born Dec. 4, 1853, in Mt. Carmel, Ill.
Since the death of her husband she has been the editor and owner of The Gazette of Mariposa, Cal. She is also the author of a volume of poems.
Reynolds, Gideon
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1851.
Reynolds, J. Mason
poet. He was a journalist of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and the author of a volume of poems.
Reynolds, James B
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1823 to 1825.
Reynolds, John
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Feb. 26, 1789, in Montgomery county, Pa. He was a justice of the supreme court of Illinois in 1818. He was a member of the legislature from 1826-30, 1846-48, 1852-54; and served during the last term as speaker. He was governor of Illinois from 1830 to 1834; commanded the Illinois volunteers during the Black Hawk war in 1832; and was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1837, and from 1839 to 1843. He published Pioneer History of Illinois; Glance at the Crystal Palace, and Sketches of Travel; My Life and Times; and at one time conducted the Belleville Eagle, a daily paper. He died May 8, 1865, in Belleville, Ill.
Reynolds, John H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 21, 1819, in Morean, N. Y. In 1853 he was appointed postmaster at Albany, N. Y.; and in 1858 was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-sixth congress. He was subsequently appointed a judge of the court of appeals of New York; and also a commissioner of appeals. He died Sept. 24, 1875, in Kinderhook.
Reynolds, John Parker
agriculturist, journalist, was born March 1, 1820, in Lebanon, Ohio. In 1868 he removed to Chicago, and the next year he became first editor of the National Live Stock Journal.
Reynolds, Joseph
state legislator, congressman, was born in New York.
He was a representative in congress from that state from 1835 to 1837; and also served in the assembly of that state in 1819.
Reynolds, Joseph Smith
soldier, lawyer, was born Dec. 3, 1839, in New Lenox, Ill. He took part in seventeen battles, was wounded three times, and for gallant and meritorious service was promoted to a captaincy, subsequently to colonel; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He has been elected as representative and senator to the Illinois legislature, and was a commissioner from Illinois to the universal exposition at Vienna in 1873.
Reynolds, Robert J
legislator, governor, was born March 17, 1838, in Smyrna, Del. In 1868 he was elected to the Delaware general assembly; was elected state treasurer in 1869, and reelected to the same office in 1871. He was chairman of the democratic state central committee; and chairman of the state committee in numerous campaigns. On Jan. 20, 1891, he was inaugurated governor of Delaware; and for four years filled that office with distinction. Governor Reynolds has been in politics for over thirty years, and has never lost a political battle. Since 1861 he has principally been engaged in farming near Petersburg, Del.; has extensive peach orchards, and is a successful farmer and fruit grower.
Reynolds, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born March 12, 1796, in Bracken county, Ky. He settled in Illinois; was elected a representative in the legislature and made speaker; and was attorney-general of the state.
He was judge of the supreme court. In 1828 he moved to Missouri, where he was a member of the state legislature; president judge of a court of justice; and was governor of Missouri from 1840 to 1844.
He died Feb. 9, 1844, in Jefferson City, Mo.
Reynolds, William
soldier, was Lorn Dec. 18, 1815, in Lancaster, Pa. In 1873 he was appointed rear-admiral in the United States navy. He died Nov. 5, 1879, in Washington.
Reynolds, William H
farmer, legislator, was born in Polk county, Fla. He is a successful farmer of Lakeland, Fla.; was elected to the Florida state senate, and was made president of that body. He has been a presidential elector; and is now state comptroller of Florida.