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Read, Nathan
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 2, 1759, in Warren, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1800 to 1803. He removed to Hallowell, Maine, and was for many years judge of the court of common pleas. He died Jan. 20, 1849, near Belfast, Maine.
Read, Nell M
educator, poet, was born Aug. 4, 1873, in Carimona, Minn.
She has attained success in educational work, and still resides in her native state at Preston. She has contributed extensively to current literature, and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Read, Opie
journalist, author, was born in 1852, in Tennessee. He is a journalist now living in Chicago, who edited The Arkansaw Traveler for some years, and whose studies of Arkansas life have been widely read. He is the author of My Young Master; An Arkansaw Planter; Len Gansett; Up Terrapin River; A Kentucky Colonel; On the Suwannee River; Miss Polly Lopp, and Other Stories; The Captain's Romance; and The Jucklins, a novel.
Read, Theodore
soldier, lawyer, was born April 11, 1836, in Athens, Ohio.
He served in various battles in General Grant's campaign, and in 1864 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for services in the field. He lost his life in the last encounter between the armies of Generals Grant and Lee. He died April 5, 1865, in Farmville, Va.
Read, Thomas
naval officer, was born in 1740, in New Castle, Del. He was the first naval officer to obtain the rank of commodore in the American navy. He died Oct. 26, 1788, in White Hill, N. J.
Read, Thomas
clergyman, was born in March, 1746, in Chester county, Pa.
In August, 1777, he performed an important service for the American cause by drawing for General Washington a map that showed the topography of the country and a route by which he could retreat from Stanton, and avoid a conflict with the superior British force that had landed at Elk ferry, and was advancing on the American camp. He died June 14, 1823, in Wilmington, Del.
Read, Thomas B
state senator. He was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1826 to 1827, and also during the session of 1829. He died Nov. 26, 1829, in Lexington, Ky.
Read, William B
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 14, 1820, in Hardin county, Ky. He was elected to the state senate of Kentucky in 1857, and again in 1861. He was elected to the legislature of Kentucky in 1867; and was elected to the forty-second and fortythird congresses as a democrat.
Reade, Edwin G
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 13, 1812, in Orange county, N. C. He was elected from North Carolina a representative in congress in 1855, serving until 1857.
Reading, John R
physician, congressman, was born Nov. 1, 1826, in Philadelphia county, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress.
Ready, Charles
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 22, 1802, in Readyville, Tenn. He was a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1835, and closely identified with the organization of the judiciary. By special commission he twice presided in the supreme court of Tennessee. He was elected a representative in congress from that state in 1853, to which position he was twice re-elected.
Ready, Samuel
philanthropist, was born March 8, 1789, in Baltimore, Md.
He obtained a charter in 1864, and, having no immediate family, left $371,000, constituting the bulk of his fortune, as an endowment for the Samuel Ready asylum. The institution, which is in the northern part of Baltimore, was opened in 1888. He died Nov. 28, 1871, in Baltimore, Md.