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Riley, James – Rings, Daniel

Riley, James

author, poet, was born in 1848 in Ireland. He is a poet of Boston whose unpretentious Poems, published in 1886, reached a third edition in 1888.

Riley, John Campbell

physician, author, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a Washington physician who wrote a Compend of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He died Feb. 22, 1879, in Washington, D. C.

Rimmer, Caroline Hunt

author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. She is the author of Animal Drawing.

Rimmer, William

sculptor, artist, educator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1816, in England. He was a Boston painter, sculptor and teacher of art anatomy, who also practiced medicine, but gave up his profession to devote himself to art. He was the author of Art Anatomy; and Elements of Design. He died Aug. 20, 1879, in South Milford, Mass.

Rinehart, William Henry

sculptor, was born Sept. 13, 1825, near Union Bridge, Md. He was commissioned to finish the modeling of the bronze doors of the capitol at Washington, which Crawford had left unfinished at his death.

Copies of several of his noted pieces are in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D. C.

Ring, Llewellyn Bicknell

journalist, was born June 12, 1854, in Cooksville, Wis. He is the editor and proprietor of The Times of Neillsville, Wis. He has served as deputy United States marshall at Shanghai, China, and was subsequently engaged in newspaper work at Washington, D. C., and at La Crosse, Wis.

Ringgold, Cadwalader

naval officer, was born Aug. 20, 1802, in Washington county, Md. He was commissioned commodore in 1862, and placed on the retired list in 1864. He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1866. He died April 29, 1867, in New York city.

Ringgold, George Hay

soldier, author, was born in 1814 in Hagerstown, Md. He served in the pay department during the Mexican war, became lieutenant-colonel and deputy paymaster-general in May, 1862, and was in charge of the paymasters of the department of the Pacific from 1861 till his death. He was an accomplished scholar, draughtsman, and painter, and published Fountain Rock, Amy Weir, and Other Metrical Pastimes. He died April 4, 1864, in San Francisco, Cal.

Ringgold, Samuel

congressman, was born Jan. 13, 1770, in Chestertown, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1810 to 1815, and again from 1817 to 1821. He died Oct. 18, 1829, in Frederick county, Md.

Ringold, Thomas

congressman, He was a delegate from Maryland to the colonial congress, which met in New York in 1765.

Ringolsky, Issie Joseph

lawyer, was born Sept. 24, 1864, in Leavenworth, Kan. He received the rudiments of his education in the high school of his native city; and from the law and literary departments of the university of Michigan. He is one of the leading lawyers of Kansas City, Mo., and has the largest practice of any individual lawyer in that city.

Rings, Daniel

lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to the territory of Arkansas, and was the first chief justice of the supreme court of the state. He died Sept. 3, 1873, in Little Rock, Ark.