Rose, U. M – Ross, John Wesley
Rose, U. M
lawyer, legislator, was born March 5, 1834, in Marion county, Ky.
He is a successful lawyer of Little Rock, Ark., and during 1860-65 was chancellor of the state of Arkansas.
Rose, William G
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 23, 1829, in Mercer county, Pa. This prominent lawyer of Cleveland, Ohio, served his city as mayor for two terms; and was candidate for lieutenantgovernor of Ohio in 1883. Before moving to Ohio he served as a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature.
Rosecrans, William Starke
soldier, civil engineer, manufacturer, congressman, was born Sept. 6, 1819, in Kingston, Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1842. He was appointed aid to General McClellan in Ohio; was appointed colonel and chief engineer of Ohio; and was commissioned colonel of Ohio volunteers, and brigadier-general United States army. In 1864 he commanded the department of Missouri; was made brevet major-general United States army in 1865; and resigned in 1867. He was minister to Mexico in 1868, but was recalled in a few months. He was elected a representative from California to the fortyseventh and forty-eighth congresses.. In 1885 he was appointed register of the treasury at Washington. He died in 1898.
Roselius, Christian
journalist, lawyer, was born Aug. 10, 1803, in Germany. In 1831 he was appointed attorney-general of Louisiana. He was for many years dean of the university of Louisiana; and for the last twenty-three years of his life was professor of civil law in that institution. He died Sept. 5, 1873, in New Orleans, La.
Rosenberg, David H
clergyman, physician, surgeon, was born May 19, 1837, in Montgomery county, Pa. For twentyfive years he has been a minister in the evangelical church; and is now a doctor of medicine at Mascotte, Fla.
Rosenfeld, Maurice Bernhard
musician, composer, was born Dec. 31, 1865, in Austria. He is a teacher in the Chicago Musical college; and the composer of numerous pieces for piano, violin and string instruments.
Rosengarten, Joseph George
lawyer, author, was born July 14, 1835, in Philadelphia. He is a lawyer of Philadelphia; and the author of The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States.
Rosenkrans, S. Alice
poet. She has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press; and some of her poems have appeared in standard works.
Rosenow, Max Gustav George
engraver, artist, was born Aug. 17, 1864, in Germany. He received his education at the Bohn school of Berlin, Germany; studied art under Professor Bühler; and has attained success as a lithographer, engraver, and script designer. He is the senior member of Rosenow and Company, new process engravers, Chicago, Ill. He has designed numerous book covers for the foremost publishing houses of the west; and designed the cover for this volume of Herringshaw's American Biography.
Rosenthal, Lewis
journalist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1856, in Baltimore, Md. He is a journalist who has published America and France; and the Influence of the United States on France in the Eighteenth Century.
Rosenthal, Max
artist, was born Nov. 23, 1833, in Russia. He made the chomo-lithographic plates for what is believed to be the first fully illustrated book by this process in the United States, Wild Scenes and Wild Hunters. After 1884 he turned his attention to etching, and he has since executed one hundred and fifty portraits of eminent Americans and British officers, together with numerous large plates, among which are Storm Approaches; Doris, the Shepherd's Maiden; and Marguerite.
Rosenthal, Toby Edward
artist, was born March 15, 1848, in New Haven, Conn. His more important works are Love's Last Offering; Spring's Joy and Sorrow; Morning Prayers in Bach's Family, which was bought by the Saxon government, and is now in the museum of Leipsic; Elaine; Young Monk in Refectory; and Forbidden Longings.
Ross, Abel Hastings
clergyman, author, was born April 28, 1831, in Winchendon, Mass. Since 1872 he has been a lecturer on church polity in the Oberlin Theological seminary of Ohio. He is the author of a number of valuable papers on religious topics, and various books and pamphlets.
Ross, Alexander Coffman
merchant, composer, inventor, was born May 31, 1812, in Zanesville, Ohio. From a boy he was interested in scientific inventions, and he is said to have produced the first daguerreotype ever made in this country.
He was one of the most enterprising business men in Zanesville, and accumulated a large property. He died Feb. 25, 1883, in Zanesville, Ohio.
Ross, Charles Alexander
educator, public official, was born May 16, 1863, in Presque Isle, Maine. He received his education in the St. John's English and Classical school, and for many years was engaged in educational work. He is prominent in the public affairs of Washington, and since 1894 has been clerk of Whitman county, state of Washington.
Ross, Clinton
author, was born in 1861 in New York. He is a novelist of New York city; and the author of The Silent Workman; The Countess Bettina; The Speculator; Adventures of Three Worthies; Improbable Tales; Two Soldiers and a Politician; The Puppet; The Scarlet Coat; Battle Tales; Bobbie Mc- Duff; The Meddling Hussy; and Zuleika.
Ross, David
congressman, was born about 1750 in Maryland. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1786 to 1787.
Ross, Edmund Gibson
journalist, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1826, in Ashland, Ohio. He learned the art of printing at Huron, Ohio. He became editor of the Kansas Tribune, at that time the only free-state paper in the territory, all others having been destroyed. He entered the union army as a private soldier, and was promoted to the rank of major in the war for the suppression of the rebellion. He was appointed to the United States senate as a republican to fill a vacancy and served during 1866-71.
Ross, Frank Ward
physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born July 10, 1859, in Horseheads. N. Y. He has been president of the Elmira Academy of Medicine; professor of X-ray and medico-legal electricity in the National college of Electro-therapeutics; and was formerly lecturer on electro-therapeutics at Niagara university. He is a successful scientist and medical electrician; and has contributed many papers and given many lectures to medical and scientific bodies. the
Ross, Frederick Augustus
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 25, 1796, in Cobham, Va. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Huntsville, Ala.; and the author of Slavery as Ordained of God. died April 13, 1883, in Huntsville, Ala.
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Ross, George
signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1730 in New Castle, Del. In 1768 he was elected to the colonial legislature; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777; and was one of the signers of the declaration of independence. In 1779 he was appointed judge of the court of admiralty for Pennsylvania. He died in July, 1779, in Lancaster, Pa.
Ross, Henry Howard
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Essex county, N. Y. For fifty years he was a representative in congress from New York from 1825 to 1827; and was county judge of Essex county in 1847 and 1848. He was a presidential elector in 1848, heading the state ticket, and officiating as president of the electoral college. He died Sept. 14, 1862, in Essex, N. Y.
Ross, James
educator, author. He published a Greek Grammar in Latin; translated the Shorter Catechism into Latin; and wrote a number of poems in Latin. He died in September, 1786.
Ross, James
lawyer, United States senator, was born July 12, 1762, in York county, Pa. He was a senator in congress from Pennsylvania from 1794 to 1803. He died Nov. 27, 1847, in Allegheny City, Pa.
Ross, John
merchant, was born Jan. 29, 1726, in Ross, Scotland. In 1775 he was appointed muster-master of the Pennsylvania navy. In 1776 he was employed by the committee of commerce of congress to purchase clothes, arms, and powder for the use of the army. He died in March, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ross, John
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1811, and again from 1815 to 1818, having resigned.
Ross, John Wesley
lawyer, public official, was born June 23, 1841, in Lewistown, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in private schools; attended the Lewistown, Ill., seminary until 1856; the Illinois college in 1856-62; and the Harvard Law school in 1864-65. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Georgetown university in 1885.
He was postmaster of Washington, D. C., in 1888-90; was appointed by President Harrison commissioner of the District of Columbia in September, 1890, receiving the reappointment to the same position by President Cleveland, and again by President McKinley; and is president of the board of commissioners. For two terms he was president of the board of trustees of the public schools of Washington, D. C.; and is one of the foremost lawyers of that city.