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Raymond, Robert Raikes

journalist, educator, author, was born in 1819 in New York city. He edited the Syracuse Free Democrat in 1852, and the Evening Chronicle in 1853-54, and was professor of elocution and English in Brooklyn Polytechnic institute from 1857 till 1864. He published Gems from Tupper; Little Don Quixote, from the German; and Patriotic Speaker. He died Nov. 16, 1888, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

RAYMOND, ROSSITER WORTHING- TON, civil engineer, journalist, author, was born April 27, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a mining engineer of Brooklyn, editor of The Engineering and Mining Journal from 1868. Among his technical and other writings are included, Mines and Mining of the Rocky Mountains; Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific Slope; Silver and Gold; Brave Hearts, a novel; The Man in the Moon, and Other People; The Book of Job; Essays and a Metrical Paraphrase; The Merry-Go-Round; and Two Ghosts, and Other Tales. a