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Rhea, John – Rhodes, Robert Lewis

Rhea, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1803 to 1815, and from 1817 to 1823.

In 1816 he was appointed United States commissioner to treat with the Choctaws.

He died May 27, 1832.

Rhea, John S

lawyer, congressman, was born March 9, 1855, in Russellville, Ky. He was elected prosecuting attorney for Logan county, Ky., in 1878, and again elected in 1882. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democratic-populist.

Rhees, William Jones

author, was born March 13, 1830, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is the chief clerk of the Smithsonian institution from 1852, who has published, among other works, The Smithsonian Institution; and James Smithson and His Bequest.

Rhett, Robert Barnwell

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 24, 1800, in Beaufort, S. C. In 1826 he was elected to the South Carolina state legislature; and in 1832 was elected attorney-general of South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from 1838 to 1849; and was a senator in congress during the years 1850, 1851, and a part of 1852. He died Sept. 14, 1876, in Saint James parish, La.

Rhind, Alexander Golden

naval officer, was born Oct. 31, 1821, in New York city. He served in the United States navy during the civil war; attaining the rank of rear-admiral.

Rhine, Alice Hyneman

author, was born Jan. 31, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. She is a daughter of Leon Hyneman, and has gained a reputation as a writer of prose and verse for the periodical press. She has contributed numerous articles to the Popular Science Monthly, the North American Review, and the Forum, and has edited an illustrated work on Niagara.

Rhoads, James E

physician, college president, philanthropist. He was a religious teacher and the organizer of schools among the negroes of the south and the Indians. He was the first president of Bryn Mawr college, and filled that position during 1885-94. He died Jan. 2, 1895, in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Rhodes, Albert

author, was born Feb. 1, 1840, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is a writer who was successively United States consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, and Elberstadt, and since 1885 has been a resident of Paris. He is the author of Jerusalem as It Is; The French at Home; and Monsieur at Home.

Rhodes, James Ford

author, was born in 1848. He is a historian of Boston; and the author of History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850.

Rhodes, John Henry

soldier, lawyer, educator, was born Feb. 8, 1836, in Morrow county, Ohio. He served as a soldier during the civil war, and was mustered out in 1865 as lieutenant-colonel. During 1886-87 he was a member of the Ohio state legislature. He moved to Clyde, Ohio, in 1869, where he has been engaged in the practice of law since 1870.

Rhodes, Mosheim

clergyman, author, was born April 14, 1837, in Williamsburg, Pa. He is a Lutheran clergyman of St. Louis from 1874; and the author of Life Thoughts for Young Men; Life Thoughts for Young Women; Recognition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The Throne of Grace; and Expository Lectures on Philippians.

Rhodes, Robert Lewis

educator, business man, was born Nov. 4, 1837, in Hephzibah, Ga. For many years he was a school teacher; and during the civil war was a conductor for mail trains. For the past ten years he has been postmaster of his native village; where he is a successful farmer, real estate agent, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.