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Remington, Joseph Price – Requa, Isaac Lawrence

Remington, Joseph Price

educator, author, was born March 26, 1847, in Philadelphia. He is a professor of pharmacy in the Philadelphia college of Pharmacy from 1874; and the author of The Practice of Pharmacy.

Remington, Stephen

missionary, author, was born May 16, 1803, in Bedford, N. Y. He was a baptist minister, but prior to 1845 a preacher of the methodist faith; and the author of Reasons for Becoming a Baptist; and A Defence of Restricted Communion. He died March 23, 1869, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Remsen, Ira

chemist, educator, author, was born Feb. 10, 1846, in New York city. He is an eminent chemist, professor of chemistry at Johns Hopkins university from 1876; and the author of Chemiical Experiments.

Rencher, Abraham

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in Wake county, N. C. He was elected to congress from North Carolina, where he served from 1829 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1.843. He was charge d' affaires to Portugal in 1843; and was appointed, by President Buchanan, governor of the territory of New Mexico.

Reno, Conrad

lawyer, author, was born in 1859 in Alabama. He is a lawyer of Boston; and the author of Employers' Liability Act.

Reno, Jesse Lee

soldier, was born June 20, 1823, in Wheeling, W. Va. In 1846 he graduated from West Point; served in the Mexican war; and received two brevets for gallantry. In 1861 he was commissioned a brigadiergeneral, and the following year became a major-general of volunteers. He led a brigade under Gen.

Burnside in the taking of Roanoke Island; repelled the confederates under General Lee; and was killed in action on the evening of Sept. 14, 1862.

Renwick, Edward Sabine

expert, was born Jan. 3, 1823, in New York city.

Since 1849 he has been engaged mainly as an expert in the trials of patent cases in the United States courts. In 1862, in connection with his brother, Henry B. Renwick, he devised methods for the repair of the steamer Great Eastern while afloat, and successfully accomplished it, replating a fracture in the bilge 82 feet long and about 10 feet broad at the widest place.

Renwick, James

scientist, educator, author, was born May 30, 1790, in England. He was a prominent scientist of New York city, and professor of natural and experimental philosophy and chemistry at Columbia college from 1820 to 1853. He was the author of Lives of Rittenhouse, Fulton, Count Rumford, in Sparks's American Biography; Outlines of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the Steam Engine; Elements of Mechanics; and Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clinton. He died Jan. 12, 1863, in New York.

Renwick, James

architect, was born Nov. 3, 1818, in New York city. He designed St. Bartholomew's church and the Church of the Covenant of New York city.

Repplier, Agnes

essayist, author, was born in 1855 in Pennsylvania. She is a popular essayist of Philadelphia; and the author of Books and Men; Points of View; In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Miniature; and Varia. RE QUA, HARRIET W., missionary, poet, was born in Arcade, N. Y. She is the author of two volumes of poems entitled Stones for the Temple; and Ziona, the Bride of the King.

Requa, Isaac Lawrence

mining engineer, was born Nov. 22, 1828, in Tarrytown, N. Y. He was for twenty years chairman of the republican state committee, and was tendered the nomination for governor, which he felt obliged to decline.

He is president of the Central Pacific railroad, the Eureka and Palisade railway, and the Oakland bank of savings in Oakland, Cal.