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Realf, Richard – Redfield, John Howard

Realf, Richard

soldier, journalist, author, was born June 14, 1834, in England. He was a journalist and poet of Pittsburg who was a federal officer during the civil war. He was the author of Guesses at the Beautiful. He died Oct. 28, 1878, in Oakland, Cal.

Ream, Vinnie

sculptor, was born in 1850, in Mississippi. She has modeled characteristic busts of Horace Greeley and Senator Sherman; and her bust of Liszt and her America, or the Four Sisters, have been much talked about.

Reavis, Isaac

lawyer, jurist, was born in Illinois. He removed to Nebraska, and was appointed from that territory an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Arizona, residing in Arizona City.

Reavis, Logan Uriah

journalist, author, was born March 26, 1831, in Sangamon Bottom, Ill. He was a St. Louis journalist, who published St. Louis, the Future Great City of the World; Life of Horace Greeley; Thoughts for the Young Men and Women of America; Life of General Harney; and Railway and River System. He died April 25, 1889, in St. Louis, Mo.

Rector, Elbridge Lee

lawyer, author, was born Nov. 16, 1847, in Seguin, Texas. He received his education at the university of Virginia; and since 1877 has been engaged in the practice of law in San Saba, Texas. He has always been a student of political economy; has contributed articles on monetary topics to the American Magazine of Civics; and is the author of a work entitled The Science of Exchange.

Rector, Henry M

governor. He was governor of Arkansas from 1860 to 1864.

REDDALL, HENRY FREDERICK, journalist, author, was born Nov. 25, 1852, in England. He has been a contributor to periodicals under the pen-name of Frederic Alldred. Since 1881 he has been associate editor of The People's Cyclopædia. He has published From the Golden Gate to the Golden Horn; Who Was He?, six historical sketches; School-Boy Days in Merrie England; Courtship, Love and Wedlock; and Fancy, Fact and Fable..

Rede, Wyllys

clergyman, author, was born March 7, 1859, in Monmouth, Ill.

He graduated from Williams college in 1882; studied at the General Theological seminary of New York; and spent a year in the post-graduate study at Oxford university. He has filled pastorates in Maine, Virginia and Maryland, and is now rector of the Emanuel church of Rockford, Ill. He is the author of The Communion of Saints; Striving for the Mastery; and other works.

Redfield, Amasa Angell

lawyer, author, was born May 19, 1837, in Clyde, Wayne county, N. Y. He is a lawyer of New York city, and the author of Handbook of United States Tax Laws; Law and Practice of Surrogates' Courts; and Reports of Surrogates' Courts of New York State, 1864-82.

Redfield, Isaac Fletcher

lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 10, 1804, in Wethersfield, Vt. He was a lawyer who was chief justice of Vermont in 1852- 60, and a resident of Boston after the latter date. He was the author of The Law of Railways; The Law of Wills; Law of Carriers and Bailments; Leading American Railway Cases; and Civil Pleading. He died March 23, 1876, in Charlestown, Mass.

Redfield, John Howard

naturalist, author, was born July 10, 1815, in Cromwell, Conn. He was appointed conservator of the herbarium of the Philadelphia academy of Natural Sciences in 1876, and he has contributed botanical papers to the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, and to the Botanical Gazette. He has also published Genealogical History of the Redfield Family in the United States.