Reynolds, William H – Rice, Benjamin Franklin
Reynolds, William H
legislator, was born Feb. 28, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He has served as assemblyman and senator in the New York state legislature.
Reynolds, William Morton
clergyman, author, was born March 4, 1812, in Fayette county, Pa. He was the author of Discourse on the Swedish Churches. He translated from the Swedish of Israel Acrelius, A History of New Sweden, with introduction and notes. He died Sept. 5, 1876, in Oak Park, Ill.
Rhea, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1803 to 1815, and from 1817 to 1823.
In 1816 he was appointed United States commissioner to treat with the Choctaws.
He died May 27, 1832.
Rhea, John S
lawyer, congressman, was born March 9, 1855, in Russellville, Ky. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Logan county, Ky., in 1878, and again elected in 1882. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democratic-populist.
Rhees, William Jones
author, was born March 13, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the chief clerk of the Smithsonian institution from 1852, who has published, among other works, The Smithsonian Institution; and James Smithson and His Bequest.
Rhett, Robert Barnwell
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 24, 1800, in Beaufort, S. C. In 1826 he was elected to the South Carolina state legislature; and in 1832 was elected attorney-general of South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from 1838 to 1849; and was a senator in congress during the years 1850, 1851, and a part of 1852. He died Sept. 14, 1876, in Saint James parish, La.
Rhind, Alexander Golden
naval officer, was born Oct. 31, 1821, in New York city. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; attaining the rank of rear-admiral.
Rhine, Alice Hyneman
author, was born Jan. 31, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a daughter of Leon Hyneman, and has gained a reputation as a writer of prose and verse for the periodical press. She has contributed numerous articles to the Popular Science Monthly, the North American Review, and the Forum, and has edited an illustrated work on Niagara.
Rhoads, James E
physician, college president, philanthropist. He was a religious teacher and the organizer of schools among the negroes of the south and the Indians. He was the first president of Bryn Mawr college, and filled that position during 1885-94. He died Jan. 2, 1895, in Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Rhoads, Thomas J. B
physician, surgeon, merchant, banker, poet, was born Sept. 26, 1837, in Berks county, Pa. He received a thorough education, and for many years was engaged in educational work. He prosecuted his studies and subsequently entered the Medical college of Philadelphia, from which institution he graduated in 1861.
In 1862 he was commissioned as assistant surgeon of the one hundred and sixty-ninth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry. Together with his brother, Reuben, he had charge of the forces at Fort Keys and the hospital on the point. In the spring of 1863 Dr. Rhoads moved with his regiment and remained with it as acting assistant surgeon until it was mustered out of the service. After the war he settled down to the practice of his profession at Boyertown, Pa. In 1883 he organized the Farmer's National bank of Boyertown, and has ever since been its president. He is also a successful merchant; takes an active part in public affairs; and contributes both prose and verse to current literature.
Rhodabeck, Jesse C
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 11, 1831, in Chester county, Pa. He received his education in Granville, Ohio; and is now a prominent lawyer of Council Bluffs, Iowa.
He served as a union soldier during the civil war, and was promoted to captain.
He has always taken an active part in public affairs; has been judge of the district court; and has filled with distinction various public offices of trust. He has also contributed literary articles on various topics to current literature.
Rhoderick, George Carlton
editor, poet, was born Feb. 19, 1861, in Middletown, Md. He is the local and news editor of The Valley Register of Middletown, Md., of which his father has been editor and proprietor for forty-four years, it having been established in 1844; correspondent for number of metropolitan dailies; and manager of the Western Union Telegraph office. For a many years he published a humorous publication; has written a number of meritorious poems, some of which have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Rhodes, Albert
author, was born Feb. 1, 1840, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is a writer who was successively United States consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, and Elberstadt, and since 1885 has been a resident of Paris. He is the author of Jerusalem as It Is; The French at Home; and Monsieur at Home.
Rhodes, James Ford
author, was born in 1848. He is a historian of Boston; and the author of History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850.
Rhodes, John Henry
soldier, lawyer, educator, was born Feb. 8, 1836, in Morrow county, Ohio. He served as a soldier during the civil war, and was mustered out in 1865 as lieutenant-colonel. During 1886-87 he was a member of the Ohio state legislature. He moved to Clyde, Ohio, in 1869, where he has been engaged in the practice of law since 1870.
Rhodes, Mosheim
clergyman, author, was born April 14, 1837, in Williamsburg, Pa. He is a Lutheran clergyman of St. Louis from 1874; and the author of Life Thoughts for Young Men; Life Thoughts for Young Women; Recognition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The Throne of Grace; and Expository Lectures on Philippians.
Rhodes, Robert Lewis
educator, business man, was born Nov. 4, 1837, in Hephzibah, Ga. For many years he was a school teacher; and during the civil war was a conductor for mail trains. For the past ten years he has been postmaster of his native village; where he is a successful farmer, real estate agent, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Rhodes, Samuel
congressman. He was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1774 to 1775.
Rhodes, William Henry
poet, was born July 16, 1822, in Bertie county, N. C. He was the author of The Indian Gallows, and Other Poems; and of volume called Caxton's Book. He died in 1852. a
Ribble, William
farmer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 10, 1819, in Montgomery county, Va. In 1843 he was elected justice of the peace, and some time afterward was appointed major of the Indiana state militia. He was elected to the Indiana legislature.
Ricaud, James Barroll
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 11, 1808, in Baltimore, Md.
He was a member of the house of delegates of Maryland in 1834; and of the state senate of Maryland from 1836 to 1844. He was a presidential elector in 1836 and 1844; and was a representative in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses. He was appointed judge of the circuit court. He died Jan. 26, 1866, in Chestertown, Md.
Rice, Alexander Hamilton
manufacturer, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 30, 1818, in Newton, Mass.
In 1853 he was elected to the common council of Boston, and became the president of that body; and was mayor of Boston in 1856 and 1857. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-sixth congress; and was reelected to the thirty-seventh, thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth congresses. was subsequently elected mayor of Boston; and was governor of Massachusetts from 1876 to 1879.
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Rice, Allen Thorndike
journalist, author, was born June 1, 1853, in Boston, Mass. He organized in 1879 and subsequently directed what is popularly known as the Charnay expedition, which was despatched under the joint auspices of the United States and France, to investigate systematically the remains of ancient civilization in Central America and Mexico. He edited Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln; and contributed to Ancient Cities of the New World. He died May 16, 1889, in New York city.
Rice, Alonzo E
lawyer, legislator, was born May 6, 1857, in Fayette county, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and attended the Central university of Pella, Iowa. In 1884 he was a surveyor in Holt county, Neb.; and during 1885-86 he served as a representative in the lower house of the Nebraska legislature. He is a successful lawyer of Centralia, Wash.; was city attorney in 1892; and during 1893-94 was prosecuting attorney for Lewis county.
Rice, Americus Vespucius
soldier, banker, congressman, was born Nov. 18, 1835, in Perryville, Ohio. He served in the war for the union from 1861 to 1865 entering as a private and coming out as a brigadier-general. In 1868 he became manager of a banking house in Ottawa, Ohio; and in 1874 was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth congress.
Rice, Benjamin Franklin
soldier, lawyer, United States senator, was born May 26, 1828, in East Otto, N. Y.
He was elected to the Kentucky state legislature in 1865; and was a presidential elector in 1856. After the war he settled in Little Rock, Ark., and organized the republican party in that state. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from Arkansas, for the term ending in 1873.