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Rea, John Patterson

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1840, in Chester county, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools of his native county; attended the Hopewell academy; and graduated in 1867 in the classical course from the Ohio Wesleyan university. During the war he was second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain in the first regiment of the Ohio volunteer cavalry; was brevet major United States volunteer, and subsequently was captain company A, first regiment Minnesota national guard; and then brigadier-general. He has been judge of the probate court of Hennepin county, Minn.; district judge of the fourth judicial district of Minnesota; and in 1876-77 was editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. He is prominent in the business and political affairs of Minneapolis, Minn., and stands high in several fraternal orders.

REA, MRS. JULIE [FOSTER], singer, author, was born in 1814, in England.

She was an opera singer and dramatic critic of Philadelphia, and the author of The Ins and outs of Paris; Italy and the War of 1859; and Parisian Pickings. She died in 1866.