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Rollins, Mrs. Alice Marland
[WELLINGTON], author, poet, was born June 12, 1847, in Boston, Mass. She is a writer of New York city; and the author of My Welcome Beyond, and Other Poems; The Ring of Amethyst, and Other Poems; The Story of a Ranch; All Sorts of Children; The Three Tetons; From Palm to Glacier; and Uncle Tom's Tenement, a study of New York tenementhouse life. ROLLINS, MRS. CLARA [SHER- WOOD], author, was born in 1868 in Missouri. She is a Boston writer of short stories; and the author of A Burne Jones Head; and Threads of Life.
Rollins, Daniel G
lawyer, was born Oct. 18, 1842, in Great Falls, N. H.
He was assistant United States attorney for the southern district of New York in 1866-69; assistant district attorney of New York county in 1873-80; then district attorney till 1882, and then surrogate of the county till 1888.
Rollins, Edward Henry
merchant, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 3, 1824, in Rollinford, N. H. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature in 1855-57, serving as speaker during the last two years. He was elected a representative from New Hampshire to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth congresses.
He was elected secretary of the Union Pacific Railroad company in 1869, and treasurer in 1871. He resigned those positions when elected a United States senator from New Hampshire for the term of six years from March 4, 1877. His portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol. He died July 31, 1889, on the Isle of Shoals, N. H.
Rollins, Mrs. Ellen Chapman
[HOBBS], author, was born April 30, 1831, in Wakefield, N. H. She was a writer of Philadelphia; and the author of New England Bygones; and Old-Time Childlife. She died May 29, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rollins, Frank West
legislator, was born Feb. 24, 1860, in Concord, N. H.
He served with distinction in the New Hampshire state senate in 1895; and was made president of that body. He still resides in the place of his nativity; and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.
Rollins, James Sidney
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 19, 1812, in Richmond, Ky. In 1838 he was elected to the Missouri state legislature, and was re-elected in 1840 and 1842. In 1846 he was elected to the state senate, serving four years; and in 1854 was again elected to the legislature. In 1860 he was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-seventh congress; and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirtyeighth congress. He died Nov. 9, 1888, near Columbia, Mo.
Rollins, Nathaniel
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 29, 1832, in St. Albans, Maine. He received his education in the common schools and at Hartland academy. During the civil war he was a captain in the second regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry. In 1885 he was a member of the Colorado legislature; and has attained prominence in that state as an able lawyer of Leadville. In 1894 he was elected department commander, department of Colorado and Wyoming, Grand Army of the Republic. During his term of office the strike and serious riots of Cripple Creek occurred; he immediately issued a circular letter, which was instrumental in restraining old soldiers from taking sides with the lawless element; and his services called forth a letter of approval from General Nelson A.
Miles.
Romain, Armand
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 22, 1871, in New Orleans, La. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the public schools, he attended the Tulane university of Louisiana. He has attained success as an eminent lawyer of his native city; has been the republican candidate for congress; and in 1896 was elected to the state senate of Louisiana.
Roman, Alfred
soldier, lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1824 in St. James' Parish, La. In 1880 he was appointed judge of the criminal court of New Orleans for a term of eight years. He was the author of The Military Operations of General Beauregard. He died Sept. 20, 1892, in New Orleans, La.
Roman, Andrew Bienvenu
governor, was born March 5, 1795, in Opelousas. In 1818 he was a member of the Louisiana house of representatives; was several times re-elected; and for four years was speaker. He became parish judge, and entered upon his duties as governor in 1831; and was again elected to that office in 1838. He died Jan. 26, 1866, after having served Louisiana during years of sorrow and trial.
Roman, J. Dixon
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1847 to 1849; and was a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He died Jan. 19, 1867, in Maryland.
Romans, Bernard
engineer, author, was born about 1720 in Holland.
He served in the revolutionary war as engineer, and is the author of Concise Natural History of East and West Florida; and also a Map of the Seat of the War.
Romeis, Jacob
business man, congressman, was born Dec. 1, 1835, in Germany. In 1874 he was elected a member of the board of aldermen of Toledo, Ohio, and was re-elected in 1876. He was president of the board in 1877; and in 1879 was elected mayor of the city, and was re-elected in 1881 and 1883. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress; and reelected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Romero, Trinidad
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born June 15, 1835, in Santa Fe, N. M. He was a representative in the territorial legislature in 1863. He was elected probate judge of San Miguel county in 1867; and was elected a delegate from New Mexico to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.
Romeyn, James
clergyman, author, was born in 1797 in Greenbush, N. Y. He published The Crisis, a sermon; and a Plea for the Evangelical Press. He died Sept. 7, 1859, in New Brunswick.
Romeyn, James Van Campen
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 14, 1765, in Minisink, N. Y. In 1799-1834 he was pastor of the united congregations of the Dutch reformed church in Hackensack and Schraalenburgh, N. J. He published an Address to the Students of the Theological Seminary. He died June 27, 1840, in Hackensack, N. J.
Romeyn, Jeremiah
clergyman, linguist, was born Dec. 24, 1768, in Woodstock, N. Y. He was an eminent linguist, and from 1797 till his death was professor of Hebrew in the Dutch reformed church.
He died July 17, 1818, in Woodstock, N. Y.
ROMEYN, THEODORIC (called Dirck) (ro-miné), clergyman, was born June 12, 1744, in Hackensack, N. J. He was one of the founders of the academy that subsequently became Union college, and from 1797 till 1804 was professor of theology in the general synod of the reformed Dutch church. He died April 16, 1804, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Romeyn, Theodore Bayard
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 22, 1827, in Nassau, N. Y. He was pastor of the reformed Dutch church in Blawenburg, N. J., in 1850-65, and from the latter date until his death of the first reformed church at Hackensack. He published Historical Discourse; and The Adaptation of the Reformed Church in America to American Character. He died Aug. 29, 1885, in Hackensack, N. J.
Romney, Carolina Westcott
educator, inventor, was born in Clyde, N.
Y. She became a literary editor on the Chicago Times, and subsequently was its traveling correspondent. She has published newspapers of her own, and a morning daily in Durango, Col. As an inventor she received ten awards from the World's Columbian exposition of Chicago in 1893.
Ronayne, Maurice
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1828 in Ireland. He was a Roman catholic clergyman and educator of New York city; and professor of history at St. Francis Xavier's college from 1888. He is the author of Religion and Science; and God Knowable and Known.
Rondthaler, Edward
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 6, 1817, in York, Pa. In 1853-54 he was president of Nazareth Hall, Pennsylvania. He was the author of a Life of John Heckewelder. He died March 5, 1855, in Nazareth, Pa.
Rood, Ogden Nicholas
physicist, educator, author, was born Feb. 3, 1831, in Danbury, Conn. He is a physicist of note, professor of physics at Columbia college from 1863; and author of Modern Chromatics.
Roorbach, Orville Augustus
journalist, author, was born Jan. 20, 1803, in Red Hook, N. Y. He published Bibliotheca Americana from 1820 to 1861. He died June 21, 1861, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Roosa, Daniel Bennett St. John
physician, educator, author, was born April 4, 1838, in Bethel, N. Y. He is a prominent physician of New York city, and a professor at the university of the city of New York in 1863-82. He is the author of Treatise on the Ear; A Doctor's Suggestion; and On the Necessity of Wearing Glasses.
Roose, F. F
educator, author, was born July 3, 1855, in Moline, Ill. In 1884 he founded the Lincoln Business college, Nebraska; and in 1891 founded the Lincoln Normal university, the construction of which cost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For three years he was president and owner of the Omaha Business college. He was one of the founders of the Woodmen of the World; and he is now the supreme commander of the Fraternal Union of America.
Roosevelt, Hilborne Lewis
organ-builder, was born Dec. 21, 1849, in New York city. He established factories in New York city, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and built some of the largest organs in the United States, including that in Garden City cathedral, Long Island, and Grace church, New York city, each of which contains twenty miles of electric wire. He died Dec. 30, 1886, in New York city.