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Rodman, Thomas Jefferson

soldier, inventor, author, was born July 30, 1815, in Salem, Ind. He was an army officer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He invented the method of hollow casting; and was the author of Report of Experiments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon Powder. He died June 7, 1871, in Rock Island, Ill.

Rodney, Caleb

governor. nor. He was acting governor of Delaware in 1822 and 1823 to fill a vacancy.

Rodney, Daniel

congressman, governor, United States senator, was born in 1764 in Delaware. He was a presidential elector in 1809; and was governor of Delaware from 1814 to 1817. He was a representative in congress from the state of Delaware from 1822 to 1823; and was a senator in congress from 1826 to 1827. He died Sept. 2, 1846, in Delaware.

Rodney, George B

congressman, was born in Delaware. He was a representative in congress from his native state from 1841 to 1845; and was a delegate in 1861 to the peace congress of Washington.

Rodney, Thomas

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 4, 1744, in Sussex county, Del. He was a delegate from Delaware to the continental congress from 1781 to 1783, and from 1785 to 1787. In 1803 he was appointed United States judge for the territory of Mississippi. He died Jan. 2, 1811, in Rodney, Miss.

Roe, Alfred Seelye

educator, legislator, author, was born June 8, 1844, in Rose, N. Y. He served as a soldier during the civil war; and during 1892-97 was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature. He is the author of several books and pamphlets on educational, military and historical subjects.

Roe, Edward Reynolds

author.

He is a novelist of Chicago; and the author of Brought to Bay; The Grey and the Blue; God Reigns: Lay Sermons; From the Beaten Path; and May and June.

Roe, Francis A

rear-admiral, was born Oct. 4, 1823, in Elmira, N. Y. He served in the navy during the Mexican and civil wars; was commander of several United States battleships, and fought a fleet of pirate war junks in China in 1853.

During his service in the United States navy he was promoted from midshipman to rear-admiral.

Roe, Harre Allan

poet, was born April 8, 1860, in Havana, Cuba. In 1873 he moved to Bloomington, Ill.; thence to Franklin Grove. His poems have appeared in the Detroit Free Press and other papers, and in several standard works.

Roe, J. E

author. He is the author of Bacon's Drama of the DeFoe Period, and other works.

Roehr, Julius Edward

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1892 he was elected a state senator for four years to the Wisconsin legislature. He is a successful lawyer and jurist of Milwaukee, Wis.

Roemer, Jean

educator, college president, author, was born about 1815 in England. He was an educator of New York city, vice-president of the college of the city of New York from 1869; and the author of Dictionary of English-French Idicms; Polyglot Readers; Cavalry; Principles of General Grammar; Cours de lecture et de traduction; Origins of the English People and Language; and Left in the Wilderness. He died Aug. 31, 1892, in Lenox, Mass.