Ross, Lawrence Sullivan – Rourke, Patrick Henry
Ross, Lawrence Sullivan
soldier, governor, was born Sept. 27, 1838, in Bentonport, Iowa. He became colonel of the sixth Texas regiment of cavalry in the confederate army in 1862; and was made brigadier-general in 1863. In 1886 he became governor of Texas.
Ross, Leonard Fulton
soldier, lawyer, was born July 18, 1823, in Fulton county, Ill. He was chosen in 1861 colonel of the seventeenth Illinois regiment which he had raised; and was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in April 25, 1862. In 1867 he was appointed collector of internal revenue for the ninth district of Illinois. He has imported fine stock into this country, and has a large farm in Iowa.
Ross, Lewis W
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 8, 1812, in Seneca county, N. Y. In 1840 and 1844 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature; and was a presidential elector in 1848. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirtyninth and fortieth congresses as a democrat.
Ross, Miles
merchant, state legislator, congressman, was born April 30, 1828, in Raritan township, N. J. He was a representative to the New Jersey state legislature for two years. In 1874 he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Ross, Samuel
state senator, was born July 14, 1865, in Patchogue, N. Y., which is still his place of residence. He has served with distinction in the state senate; and filled numerous public positions of honor in his city, county and state.
Ross, Sobeiski
civil engineer, congressman, was born May 16, 1828, in Coudersport, Pa. He was engaged in settling land in the northern counties of Pennsylvania; and was elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.
Ross, Thomas
congressman, was born in 1825 in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1853.
Ross, Thomas R
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1789. He was a presentative from Ohio to the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth congresses.
He died June 28, 1869, in Lebanon, Ohio.
Ross, William H
governor, was born in Delaware. He was elected governor of that state in 1851, continuing in office until 1855.
Ross, William Wallace
educator, lawyer, was born Dec. 24, 1834, in Seville, Ohio. For thirty-three years he has been superintendent of the schools of Fremont, Ohio; has been president of the Ohio State Teachers' association; president of the Tri-State association of Ohio, Michigan and Indiana; and president of the Ohio state board of examiners.
Rosse, Irving C
neurologist, scientist, author, was born Oct. 20, 1842, in East New Market, Md. He received his education at the St. John's college of Annapolis; the United States Military academy of West Point; the university of Maryland; the New York university; and the principal clinics in Europe. He has been assistant surgeon in the United States army; surgeon to the revenue cutter bureau; surgeon of the Soldiers' home in Milwaukee; and United States examining surgeon for the District of Columbia. He was a juror to the Paris exposition; a member of the cholera commission to Europe in 1893; and professor of the diseases of the nervous system in the Georgetown university. He has done considerable literary work for medical journals upon popular scientific and geographical subjects; and is the author of The Cruise of the Corwin to Alaska and the North West Arctic Ocean; The First Landing on Wrangel Island; and various other works.
Rossell, William
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1761 in New Jersey. He was for many years a judge of the United States district court; and also a judge of the supreme court of New Jersey. He died June 20, 1840, in Mount Holly, N. J.
Rosser, Leonidas
clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1815, in Petersburg, Va. He was a methodist clergyman of Virginia; and the author of Baptism; Experimental Religion; Class Meetings; Recognition in Heaven; Open Communion; Initial Life; and Reply to Howell's Evils of Baptism. He died in 1892.
Rosser, Thomas Lafayette
soldier, was born Oct. 15, 1836, in Campbell county, Va. He was a brigadier-general and commanded a brigade during the civil war in the confederate cavalry in Hampton's division.
Rossiter, Clinton L
railroad president, was born Feb. 13, 1860, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1895 he became president of the Brooklyn Heights railroad at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rossiter, Thomas Prichard
artist, was born Sept. 29, 1817, in New Haven, Conn. He has painted a large number of historical and scriptural pictures, and also numerous portraits. He died May 17, 1871, in Cold Springs, N. Y.
Rossman, George P
lawyer, politician, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Plymouth, Wis. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Ashland. He has been district attorney for Ashland county; and city attorney of Ashland for three terms. He has been a chairman of the county committee, a member of the state central committee for Wisconsin; and a delegate to the state convention three times.
Rotch, Abbott Lawrence
meteorologist, author, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. He is a meteorologist who founded the Blue Hill meteorological observatory in Milton, Mass., in 1885, and who has published many valuable meteorological papers.
Roth, Theophilus B
educator, clergyman, journalist, was born Feb. 9, 1.853, in Prospect, Pa. In 1893 he became president of Thiel college of Greencastle, Pa. He is the founder and editor of the Young Lutheran, which has the largest circulation of all English Lutheran papers.
Rothermel, Peter Frederick
artist, was born July 18, 1817, in Nescopack, Pa. He was elected a member of the Pennsylvania academy, of which institution he had been director from 1847 to 1855. His best works are: De Soto Discovering the Mississippi; Embarkation of Columbus, in the Pennsylvania academy; Christian Martyrs in the Colisseum; a series of paintings illustrative of William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico.
Rothert, Henry W
merchant, legislator, was born Sept. 11, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been mayor of Keokuk, Iowa; and for two terms was a member of the state senate, and became lieutenant-governor of Iowa by succession as president of the senate. He has been register of the land office at Cheyenne, Wyo.; and is now superintendent of the Iowa School for the Deaf.
Rothrock, Joseph Trimble
educator, author, was born April 9, 1839, in McVeytown, Pa. He is a professor of botany in the university of Pennsylvania from 1877; and the author of Botany of the Wheeler Expedition; Vacation Cruisings; Flora of Alaska; and Revision of the North American Gaurineæ.
Rothwell, Gideon F
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1836 in Callaway county, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Roumfort, Augustus Louis
soldier, educator, state legislator, was born Dec. 10, 1796, in Paris, France. He was professor of mathematics at Mount Airy college at Germantown during 1818-26, and from that time till 1834 superintendent of a military school in that town. He was in the Pennsylvania legislature in 1843-44, and harbor-master of Philadelphia in 1845-48. He had been made captain of Pennsylvania militia in 1820, and in 1843 had risen to the rank of brigadiergeneral. He died Aug. 2, 1878, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Round, William Marshall Fitz
author, was born March 26, 1845, in Pawtucket, R. I. He is a writer active in prison reforms. His books for juvenile readers include Achsah; Child Marion Abroad; Torn and Mended; Hal; and Rosecroft.
Rounds, Sterling Parker
printer, was born June 27, 1828, in Berkshire, Vt. He migrated to Chicago in 1851; and soon afterward opened a printers' warehouse. In 1856 the business was extended by the addition of the printers' electrotype foundry, and the first number of Rounds' Printers' Cabinet, still in existence, was issued. He was appointed public printer in 1881; but he removed to Omaha in 1885 and was identified with the Republican till his death. He died Dec. 17, 1887, in Omaha, Neb.
Rouner, David Argyle
soldier, farmer, lawyer, legislator, was born April 20, 1842, in Sligo, Ky. He served as a soldier in the confederate army; was a member of the thirty-first and thirtysecond Missouri general assembly; and a member of the thirty-sixth and thirtyseventh state senate. He is the author of many of the revenue laws of Missouri.
Rouquette, Adrien Emmanuel
educator, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in New Orleans, La. He was a Roman catholic clergyman and educator of New Orleans, known as the Abbé Rouquette. He was the author of a volume entitled Wild Flowers. He died July 15, 1887, in New Orleans, La.
Rouquette, Francois Domin- Ique
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 2, 1810, in New Orleans, La. He is a lawyer who resided in France for the greater part of his life. He is the author of a work in French and English on the Choctaw Indians.
Rourke, Patrick Henry
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 28, 1854, in Norristown, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and attended the Northern Indiana Normal college of Valparaiso, Ind. In 1882 he was admitted to the bar in Chicago, Ill., and moved the same year to the territory of Dakota. He took up the practice of his profession at Lisbon, N. D.; has been city attorney; mayor of his city; district attorney; state's attorney; and in 1892 was the republican nominee for attorney-general. He served with distinction as state senator in the North Dakota state senate; and has been United States district attorney for the district of North Dakota.