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Rankin, John – Raoul, William Greene

Rankin, John

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 4, 1793, in Dandridge, Tenn.

He was a presbyterian clergyman of Ripley, Ohio, famous as an abolitionist, and many times mobbed for his anti-slavery zeal. He was the author of Letters on American Slavery; and The Covenant of Grace. He died March 18, 1886, near Dandridge, Tenn.

Rankin, John Chambers

clergyman, author, was born May 18, 1816, in Guilford county, N. C. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Baskingridge, N. J., from 1851; and the author of The Coming of the Lord.

Rankin, Joseph

soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 25, 1833, in Passaic, N. J. He served three years in the union army during the civil war; and served in the Wisconsin state legislature eleven years. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-eighth and forty-ninth congresses as a democrat. He died Nov. 8, 1885, in Washington, D. C.

Rankin, William Bradshaw

college president, was born Sept. 3, 1825, in Little Chucky, Tenn. In 1867 he was chosen president of the Washington college, which position he held until 1875.

Ranney, Ambrose Arnold

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 16, 1821, in Townshend, Vt.

He was corporation counsel of Boston in 1855 and 1856; was a representative in the state legislature in 1857, 1863, and 1864; and was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-seventh, forty-eighth, and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.

Ranney, Ambrose Loomis

physician, educator, author, was born in 1848.

He is a physician, professor of nervous diseases in the university of the city of New York; and the author of A Practical Treatise on Surgical Diagnosis; Applied Anatomy of the Nervous System; Practical Medical Anatomy; and Lectures on Nervous Diseases.

Ranney, William

soldier, author, was born May 9, 1813, in Middletown, Conn. Among his works are Boone's First View of Kentucky; On the Wing; Washington on his Mission to the Indians; and Duck-Shooting, which is in the Corcoran gallery. He died Nov. 18, 1857, in West Hoboken, N. J.

Ransier, Alonzo Jacob

state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 3, 1836, in Charleston, S. C. He was elected to the South Carolina state legislature in 1868. He was elected a presidential elector in 1868; and lieutenant-governor in 1870. He was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died Aug. 17, 1882, in Charleston, S. C.

Ransom, Epaphroditus

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born in February in Shelburne Falls, Mass. He served a number of years in the Michigan legislature; and was judge of the supreme court. From 1847 to 1849 he was governor of the state. He was appointed receiver of the land office for one of the districts of Kansas, and died there before the expiration of his term. He died in November, 1859, in Fort Scott, Kan.

Ransom, Robert

soldier, was born about 1830 in North Carolina. He was made colonel of the ninth North Carolina cavalry; became brigadier-general in 1862 and major-general in 1863 in the confederate service.

Rantoul, Robert Samuel

antiquarian, lawyer, state legislator, was born June 2, 1832, in Beverly, Mass. He settled in Beverly, which he represented in the legislature in 1858, and afterward removed to Salem, Mass. He was collector of Salem in 1865-69, and representative from that town in 1884-85. He has published many historical and genealogical papers in the collections of the Essex institute, of which he is a vice-president.

Raoul, William Greene

railroad president, was born July 4, 1843, in Livingston Parish, La. Since 1887 he has been president of the Mexican National railroad at New York city.