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Rapallo, Charles Anthony – Ratliff, Ryland

Rapallo, Charles Anthony

lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 15, 1823, in New York city. He became a successful practitioner, and was elected a judge of the New York court of appeals, taking his seat on the bench in 1870; and in 1884 he was elected for a second term of fourteen years by the united vote of both political parties. He died Dec. 28, 1887, in New York city.

Rapelje, Stewart

author, was born in 1842 in New York. He was a legal writer of New York city; and the author of Digest of Decisions of New York Courts to 1881; Digest of Federal Decisions and Statutes from the Earliest Period to 1880; Treatise on the Law of Witnesses; and Dictionary of American and English Decisions. He died in 1896.

Raphall, Morris Jacob

clergyman, author, was born in September, 1798, in Sweden. He was a Jewish clergyman once prominent in New York city; and the author of Post-Biblical History of the Jews; Literature of the Jews in Spain; Social Condition of the Jews; Festivals of the Lord; and The Path to Immortality.

He died June 23, 1868, in New York city.

Rapier, James T

Congressman, was born in 1840 in Florence, Ala. He was elected from Alabama to the forty-third congress; and re-elected to the fortyfourth congress.

Rarey, John S

author, was born in 1828 in Franklin county, Ohio. He was a famous horse-tamer who wrote a Treatise on Horse-Training that was very extensively circulated. He died Oct. 4, 1866, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Rariden, James

lawyer, congressman, was born in Kentucky. He became eminent as a lawyer; and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1837 to 1841. He died in Cambridge City, Ind.

Rathbone, Estes George

banker, state senator, was born June 30, 1848, in Hebron, Pa. He is a successful banker of Hamilton, Ohio. For nine years he was special agent of the United States treasury; chief of special examiners of pension office for three years; state senator of Ohio for two years; chief postoffice inspector for two years; and fourth assistant postmaster general under President Harrison.

Rathbone, John Finley

soldier, manufacturer, was born Oct. 18, 1821, in Albany, N. Y. In 1845 he built a foundry in Albany that is now one of the largest establishments of the kind in the world.

He was appointed adjutant-general of New York, with the rank of major-general.

Rathbone, Justus Henry

founder, was born Oct. 29, 1839, in Deerfield, N. Y. He was the founder of the Knights of Pythias. He died in 1890 in Lima, Ohio. congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.

Rathbun, George

congressman,

Ratliff, Joseph C

state legislator, was born July 6, 1827, near Richmond, Ind.

In 1875 he was chosen to represent Wayne county in the Indiana state legislature; and in 1876 he was appointed by the governor a trustee of the Purdue university, and was reappointed in 1877 for the term In 1870 he was elected of three years. president of the Wayne County Turnpike company.

Ratliff, Ryland

educator, botanist, was born in 1858 near Marion, Ind. Since 1886 he has been an instructor of natural science in Fairmount academy, Indiana. He has made a special study of botany and general biology.