Richards, Zalmon
educator, was born Aug. 11, 1811, in Cummington, Mass.
He attended Williams college during 1831- 36; was principal of the Union academy of his native city for three years; of the Stillwater academy for ten years; of the preparatory department of the Columbian college for three years; and of the Union academy during 1851-66. For two years he was superintendent of public schools of Washington, D. C., and for three years was a clerk in the bureau of education. Since 1856 he has been president and a member of the National Educational association. RICHARDSON, MRS. ABBY (SAGE), educator, author, poet, was born in 1835.
She is an educator and lecturer upon literature, and the author of Familiar Talks on English Literature; Stories from Old English Poetry; History of Our Country; and Abelard and Heloise, a Mediæval Romance. She has edited Songs from the Old Dramatists, and other works.
RICHARDSON, ALBERT DEANE, journalist, author, was born Oct. 6, 1833, in Franklin, Mass. He was a journalist of New York city, and famous as the war correspondent of The Tribune during the civil war. He was the author of Beyond the Mississippi; Personal History of Ulysses Grant; The Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape; and Garnered Sheaves.
He died Dec. 2, 1868, in New York city.
RICHARDSON, BEALE HOWARD, journalist, was born in 1843, in Baltimore, Md. In 1889 he obtained control of the Georgia Enquirer Sun, which under his management became remarkably successful.
RICHARDSON, CHARLES ALBERT, soldier, lawyer, public official, was born Aug. 14, 1829, in Freetown, N. Y. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools, and attended Cortland academy of Homer, N. Y. He has been county treasurer and surrogate of Ontario county, N. Y.; New York state commissioner for Gettysburg and Chattanooga monuments; and United States commissioner for Gettysburg national park. During the civil war he served in the union army as lieutenant, captain and major of the one hundred and twenty-sixth regiment New York volunteer infantry. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the east, and has a large practice at Canandaigua, N. Y. RICHARDSON, CHARLES FRANCIS, educator, author, was born May 29, 1851, in Hallowell, Maine. He was a professor of English literature at Dartmouth college from 1882, and is the author of Primer of American Literature; The Cross, a collection of verse; American Literature, 1607-1885; and The Choice of Books. Coeditor with H. A. Clark of The College Book.