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Reich, Jacques

artist, was born Aug. 10, 1852, in Hungary. In 1885 he came to New York and made all the pen and ink portraits for Scribner's Cyclopædia of Painters and Paintings, as well as numerous others for periodicals. He drew the portraits for Appleton's Annual Cyclopædia for 1886, 1887, and 1888. Early in 1886 he began to execute the sixteen hundred portraits for this work, to which task he gave almost exclusive attention till it was completed in December, 1888.

REICHEL, WILLIAM CORNELIUS, clergyman, educator, author, was born May 9, 1742, in Salem, N. C. He was a Moravian clergyman and educator of Bethlehem, Pa., among whose writings are Moravianism in New York and Connecticut; Memorials of the Moravian Church; and A Red Rose from the Olden Time. He died April 18, 1825, in Prussia.

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