Rockwood, Charles Greene – Roebling, John Augustus
Rockwood, Charles Greene
banker, was born July 19, 1814, in Boston, Mass. For the past forty years he has been cashier and then president of the National Newark Banking company of Newark, N. J.
Rockwood, Charles Greene
JR., mathematician, was born Jan. 11, 1843, in New York city. He has filled the chair of mathematics in Bowdoin college, Rutgers college, and since 1877 in the Princeton university.
Rockwood, George Gardner
journalist, photographer, author, was born April 12, 1832, in Troy, N. Y. He was managing editor of the Troy Daily Post, Troy, N. Y. He became interested in photography in 1855; was the first to make the carte de visite photograph in this country. He is the author of the scientific hoax, Brain Pictures, which appeared in a New York paper in 1887.
Roddey, Philip Dale
soldier, was born in 1818 in North Carolina. He organized a company of scouts early in 1861 for the confederate service, and subsequently a brigade, and was commissioned brigadier-general in 1863.
Rodenbough, Theophilus Fran- Cis
soldier, author, was born Nov. 5, 1838, in Easton, Pa. He is a federal army officer, assistant inspector-general of New York state in 1880-83; and the author of From Everglade to Canon with the Second United States Cavalry; Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute; and Uncle Sam's Medal of Honor.
Rodes, Robert Emmett
soldier, was born March 29, 1826, in Lynchburg, Va. He served in the confederate army during the civil war; attaining the rank of major-general. He died Sept. 19, 1864, in Winchester, Va.
Rodgers, Christopher Raymond Perry
naval officer, was born Nov. 14, 1819, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He served in the United States navy; and in 1874 was commissioned rear admiral. He died Jan. 8, 1892, in Washington, D. C.
Rodgers, George Washington
naval officer, was born Feb. 22, 1787, in Harford county, Md. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1804, was commissioned lieutenant in 1810. He was commissioned captain in 1825; and at his death was commodore commanding the Brazil squadron. He died May 21, 1832, in South America. was
Rodgers, John
naval officer, born Aug. 8, 1812, in Harford county, Md.
He served in the United States navy during the civil war, attaining the rank of rear admiral. He died May 5, 1882, in Washington, D. C.
Rodgers, Robert L
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born July 14, 1847, in Sandersville, Ga. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools; attended Washington institute in 1860; the Milledgeville academy in 1861-62; in 1863 he entered as a cadet in the Georgia Military institute; and in May, 1864, entered the confederate army and served until the close of the war.
During 1869-73 and 1892-94 he was a justice of the peace; in 1873-75 was master of Sandersville grange; and at the same time was district lecturer of the Patrons of Husbandry. In 1873-74 he was editor of The Sandersville Herald; in 1876 was county attorney; and during 1877-80 he was judge of the county court. In 1876- 78 he was captain of the Washington rifles; and since 1888 has been historian of Atlanta camp Confederate Veterans. He now practices law in Atlanta, Ga.; and is known as one of the foremost lawyers of the South.
Rodgers, Samuel Andrew
lawyer, jurist, was born March 5, 1830, in Knox county, Tenn. In 1878 he was elected from Loudon, Tenn., judge of the third judicial circuit court, and served for three successive terms of eight years each.
Rodman, Isaac Peace
soldier, manufacturer, state legislator, was born Aug. 18, 1822, in South Kingston, R. I.
He sat in both houses of the Rhode Island legislature for several terms. He was made lieutenant-colonel of the fourth Rhode Island volunteers in 1861, and soon afterward was commissioned as brigadiergeneral of volunteers. He died Sept. 30, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Md.
Rodman, Thomas Jefferson
soldier, inventor, author, was born July 30, 1815, in Salem, Ind. He was an army officer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He invented the method of hollow casting; and was the author of Report of Experiments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon Powder. He died June 7, 1871, in Rock Island, Ill.
Rodman, William
soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 7, 1757, in Bensalem, Pa. He was for many years in the legislature of his native state; and was a representative in congress from 1811 to 1813. He died July 27, 1824, in Bensalem, Pa.
Rodney, Cæsar
signer of the declaration of independence, was born Oct. 7, 1728, in Dover, Del. He was high sheriff, justice of the peace, and a judge in his native county; and in 1762 was elected to the state legislature, serving several years, and as speaker in 1769. He was a delegate to the New York congress in 1765; and was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1774 to 1778, and in 1783. He was a signer of the declaration of independence; was appointed judge of the supreme court of Delaware; also served for a time as general of militia; and was president of the state of Delaware. He died June 29, 1784, in Dover, Del.
Rodney, Cæsar Augustus
lawyer, jurist, congressman, author, United States senator, was born Jan. 4, 1772, in Dover, Del. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1803 to 1.805.
He was appointed attorney-general of the United States by President Jefferson. He was again a representative in congress from Delaware from 1819 to 1821; and was a senator of the United States from 1821 to 1823, in which year he was appointed United States minister to Buenos Ayres. He was the author of Reports on the Present State of the United Provinces of South America. He died June 10, 1824, in Buenos Ayres.
Rodney, Caleb
governor. nor. He was acting governor of Delaware in 1822 and 1823 to fill a vacancy.
Rodney, Daniel
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born in 1764 in Delaware. He was a presidential elector in 1809; and was governor of Delaware from 1814 to 1817. He was a representative in congress from the state of Delaware from 1822 to 1823; and was a senator in congress from 1826 to 1827. He died Sept. 2, 1846, in Delaware.
Rodney, George B
congressman, was born in Delaware. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1841 to 1845; and was a delegate in 1861 to the peace congress of Washington.
Rodney, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 4, 1744, in Sussex county, Del. He was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1781 to 1783, and from 1785 to 1787. In 1803 he was appointed United States judge for the territory of Mississippi. He died Jan. 2, 1811, in Rodney, Miss.
Roe, Alfred Seelye
educator, legislator, author, was born June 8, 1844, in Rose, N. Y. He served as a soldier during the civil war; and during 1892-97 was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. He is the author of several books and pamphlets on educational, military and historical subjects.
Roe, Azel Stevens
author, was born Aug. 16, 1798, in New York city.
He was a once popular novelist who was for many years a wine merchant of New York city. He was the author of True to the Last; A Long Look Ahead; Time and Tide; To Love and To Be Loved; James Montjoy; True Love Rewarded; How Could He Help It?; Looking Around; Woman Our Angel; and The Cloud in the Heart. He died Jan. 1, 1886, in East Windsor Hill, Conn.
Roe, Edward Payson
clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1838, in New Windsor, N. Y. He was a presbyterian clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, devoted himself to novel-writing. Barriers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near to Nature's Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A Knight of the Nineteenth Century: A Day of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl's Wooing; An Original Belle; Driven Back to Eden; Nature's Serial Story; The Earth Trembled; Miss Lou; Taken Alive, and Other Stories. He also published two horticultural books, The Home Acre; and Success with Small Fruits. He died July 19, 1888, in Cornwall, N. Y.
Roe, Edward Reynolds
author.
He is a novelist of Chicago; and the author of Brought to Bay; The Grey and the Blue; God Reigns: Lay Sermons; From the Beaten Path; and May and June.
Roe, Francis A
rear-admiral, was born Oct. 4, 1823, in Elmira, N. Y. He served in the navy during the Mexican and civil wars; was commander of several United States battleships, and fought a fleet of pirate war junks in China in 1853.
During his service in the United States navy he was promoted from midshipman to rear-admiral.
Roe, Harre Allan
poet, was born April 8, 1860, in Havana, Cuba. In 1873 he moved to Bloomington, Ill.; thence to Franklin Grove. His poems have appeared in the Detroit Free Press and other papers, and in several standard works.
Roe, J. E
author. He is the author of Bacon's Drama of the DeFoe Period, and other works.
Roebling, John Augustus
civil engineer, author, was born June 12, 1806, in Prussia. He was a civil engineer of note who built the suspension bridge across the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington, and was the designer of the Brooklyn bridge; and the author of Long and Short Span Railway Bridges. He died July 22, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.