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Richardson, Sherman D

soldier, journalist, poet, was born Jan. 2, 1847, in Stafford, Conn. Colonel Richardson was an officer in the civil war. He learned the printing business, and has been editor, cartoonist, special correspondent and contributor to various newspapers and magazines. He is known as the War Poet; has given public readings of his own works with success; and is the author of a volume of poems. ficial, was born Oct. 22, 1844, in Port Gib- RICHARDSON, T., journalist, public ofson, Miss. For eighteen years he has been an alderman of his native city; postmaster for twenty years, and a delegate to the republican national conventions of 1884 and 1896. He is the editor and owner of The Vidette of Port Gibson, Miss.

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM ADAMS, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born Nov. 2, 1821, in Tynsborough, Mass. In 1855 he was appointed to revise the statutes of Massachusetts, and subsequently was appointed to edit the annual supplements to the general statutes, which he continued to do for twenty-two years.

In 1856 he became a judge of probate, and two years later judge of probate and insolvency, serving as such for sixteen years. He became assistant secretary of the treasury department, and in 1871 went to Europe as a financial agent for the government. In 1873 he was appointed secretary of the treasury, and in 1874 accepted a seat on the bench of the United States court of claims. In 1885 he was appointed chief justice of the United States court of claims. He was the author of The Banking Laws of Massachusetts; History of the Court of Claims; Practical Information Concerning the United States Public Debt; and National Banking Laws.

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM ALEXAN- DER, soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born Oct. 11, 1811, in Fayette county, Ky. In 1835 he was elected state attorney; in 1836 a member of the Illinois state legislature, and in 1838 was elected to the state senate. In 1844 he was again elected to the legislature, and made speaker of the house; and was also chosen a presidential elector in 1844. In 1846 he served as captain in the Mexican war. In 1847 he was elected a representative in congress from Illinois, where he continued to serve by re-election until 1856. In 1857 he was appointed governor of Nebraska, and in 1860 was elected to the house of representatives, and was elected a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He died Dec. 27, 1875, in Quincy, Ill.

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM CHANT, lawyer, jurist, congressman, au- MERthor, was born Jan. 4, 1774, in Pelham, N.

H. He was a member of congress from Massachusetts from 1811 to 1814, when he resigned. He removed to Portsmouth, N.

H., in 1814, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire in 1816. He was the author of The New Hampshire Justice, and The Town Officer; and a considerable portion of the first and second volumes of The New Hampshire Reports was drawn up by him.

He died March 3, 1838, in Chester, N. H.