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Rickoff, Andrew Jackson

educator, was born Aug. 23, 1824, in Mercer, N. J. The credit is awarded him of reorganizing the schools both of Cincinnati and Cleveland, and largely influencing the school systems in Ohio.

RICORD, MRS. ELIZABETH (STRYK- ER), author, was born in 1788 on Long Island. She was an educator of Geneva, N. Y., and after 1845 a resident of Newark, N. J. She was the author of Philosophy of the Mind; and Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem. She died Oct. 10, 1865, in Newark, N. J.