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Requier, Augustus Julian – Reynolds, Elmer Robert

Requier, Augustus Julian

lawyer, author, was born May 27, 1825, in Charleston, S. C. He was a lawyer of Mobile prior to the civil war, and subsequently of New York city. He was the author of The Old Sanctuary, a romance; Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; and The Spanish Exile. He died March 19, 1887, in New York city.

Reuling, George

physician, educator, inventor, author, was born Nov. 11, 1839, in Germany. He has invented a microtome for microscopical sections, and a ring-shaped silver-sling for the extraction of cataract within the capsule. He has written on Detachment of the Choroid after Extraction of Cataract within the Capsule; and Destruction of a Cyst of the Iris by Galvano- Cautery.

Reveal, William O

farmer, public official, was born Jan. 1, 1860, in Broad Ripple, Ind. He is a successful farmer near Indianapolis, Ind.; has been county commissioner; and is a fluent speaker on agricultural and political topics.

Revels, Hiram R

clergyman, United States senator, was born Sept. 1, 1822, in Fayetteville, N. C. He settled at Natchez, Miss.; was chosen a member of the city council; and was a senator in congress from Mississippi from 1870 to 1871.

Revere, Joseph Warren

soldier, author, was born May 17, 1812, in Boston, Mass. He was an officer in the federal army during the civil war; and the author of Keel and Saddle; and Retrospect of Forty Years' Military Service (1872).

He died April 20, 1880, in Hoboken, N. J.

Revere, Paul

patriot, engraver, was born Jan. 1, 1735, in Boston, Mass. He was one of the noted Boston tea party, and is famous for his midnight-ride through the county of Middlesex, to give notice of the intended attack of Gen. Gage.

The town of North Chelsea, Mass., was named Revere in his honor in 1871. He died May 10, 1818, in Boston, Mass.

Revere, Paul Joseph

soldier, was born Sept. 10, 1832, in Boston, Mass. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers for bravery at Gettysburg, where he received a fatal wound in the second day's battle. He died July 4, 1863, in Westminster, Md.

REXDALE, ROBERT (pseud.), journalist, author, poet, was born in 1859 in Maine. He was a journalist and poet of Portland, Maine; and the author of Drifting Songs and Sketches; Saved by the Sword, a novel; and The Cuban Liberated.

Rexford, Eben Eugene

poet, author, was born July 16, 1848, in Johnsburg, N. Y. He is a popular poet and song writer of Shiocton, Wis., whose poem Silver Threads Among the Gold has been set to music and widely sung. He is the author of Brother and Lover; Grandmother's Garden; and John Fielding and His Enemy.

Reynolds, Charles Butler

educator, was born in South East, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools and graduated from the Illinois Wesleyan university. He has filled important positions; for sixteen years was superintendent of city schools of Clinton, Mo.; and is now principal and superintendent of city schools in Kansas City, Mo.

Reynolds, Daniel H

soldier, lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 14, 1832, in Centreburg, Ohio. In 1861 he was elected captain of a company for service in the confederate army, and was promoted brigadier-general in 1864. He was state senator in Arkansas in 1866-67.

Reynolds, Elmer Robert

ethnologist, author, was born July 30, 1846, in Dansville, N. Y. He is an ethnologist in the United States civil service from 1877; and the author of A Scientific Visit to the Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of the Choptank Indians; and Aboriginal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Columbia.