Richardson, Joseph
architect, was born Sept. 7, 1814, in England. Thirty years ago he established a line of steamboats between New York and Bridgeport, Conn., which he yet controls. The water works at Laramie City are another monument to his enterprise, he having been their originator and builder. He also built the water works at Houston, Texas.
RICHARDSON, NATHANIEL SMITH, clergyman, journalist, author, was born Jan. 8, 1810, in Middlebury, Conn. He was an episcopal clergyman who was editor of The American Church Review, and was the author of Reasons Why I am a Churchman; Reasons Why I am not a Papist; and Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion. He died Aug. 7, 1883, in Bridgeport, Conn.