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Rains, Gabriel James

soldier, was born in June, 1803, in Craven county, N.

C. He served with distinction in the Mexican war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general in 1855. In 1861 he joined the confederate army, and died Sept. 6, 1881, in Aiken, S. C.

Ralph, Julian

journalist, author, was born in 1853 in New York. He is a popular journalist and litterateur, and the author of On Canada's Frontier; Dixie; Our Great West; Chicago and the World's Fair; People We Pass; and Alone in China, and Other Stories.

Ralston, Robert

merchant, was born in 1761, in Brandywine, Pa. He contributed largely to the establishment of the Widows' and Orphans' asylum, and the Mariner's church in Philadelphia, founded the Philadelphia Bible society, which was the first of the kind on this continent, and in 1819 became first president of the board of education of the presbyterian church. He died Aug. 11, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Ralston, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born in 1756 in Ireland. He was a presbyterian clergyman in what is now Monongahela City, Pa., from 1796 till his death, and the author of On Baptism; The Last Plagues; and The Currycomb.

He died Sept. 25, 1851, in Carroll, Pa.

Ralston, Thomas Neely

clergyman, journalist, author, was born March 21, 1806, in Bourbon county, Ky. He is a methodist clergyman and religious editor of Kentucky, and the author of Elements of Divinity; Evidences of Christianity; Ecce Unitas; and Bible Truths. RAMBAUT, MRS. MARY LUCINDA BONNEY, educator, was born June 8, 1816, in Hamilton, N. Y. She is a successful educator of Hamilton, N. Y.

Ramsay, Nathaniel

soldier, congressman, was born May 1, 1751, in Lancaster county, Pa. He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1785 to 1787. He died Oct. 23, 1817, in Baltimore, Ind.

Ramsay, Robert

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1841 to 1843.

RAMSAY, MRS. VIENNA G— (MOR- RELL), author, was born in 1817 in Maine. She is the author of Facts on Missions; Evenings with the Children; and A Legend of the White Hills, and Other Poems.

Ramseur, Stephen Dodson

soldier, was born May 31, 1837, in Lincolnton, N. C. In 1861 he entered the confederate service as captain of the light artillery. He attained the rank of majorgeneral. He died Oct. 20, 1864, in Winchester, Va.

Ramsey, George Junkin

educator, college president, was born June 28, 1858, in Rockbridge, Va. He has been professor of Latin and Greek in the Ogden college of Bowling Green, Ky.; and since 1884 has been president of the Silliman institute of Clinton, La. Since 1897 he has been president of the Southern Educational association.

Ramsey, William

surveyor, lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1779, in Sterrett's Gap, Pa. In 1803 he was appointed surveyor of his native county, an office held by his father during the revolution; and also held the offices of prothonotary, register, recorder, and clerk of the orphans' court. In 1826 he was elected a member of congress from Pennsylvania; and was re-elected in 1828 and 1830. He died in September, 1831, in Carlisle, Pa.

Ramsey, William S

lawyer, congressman, was born June 12, 1810, in Carlisle, Pa. He was elected a representative in congress in 1838; and was re-elected in 1840. He died Oct. 17, 1840, in Baltimore, Md.

Rand, Asa

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 6, 1783, in Rindge, N. H. He was a congregational clergyman in Maine and New York prominent as an opponent of slavery; and the author of Teachers' Manual in English Grammar; and The Slave-Catcher Caught in the Meshes of Eternal Law. He died Aug. 24, 1871, in Ashburnham, Mass.