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Rotch, Abbott Lawrence – Rowe, Peter

Rotch, Abbott Lawrence

meteorologist, author, was born in 1861 in Massachusetts. He is a meteorologist who founded the Blue Hill meteorological observatory in Milton, Mass., in 1885, and who has published many valuable meteorological papers.

Rothert, Henry W

merchant, legislator, was born Sept. 11, 1840, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has been mayor of Keokuk, Iowa; and for two terms was a member of the state senate, and became lieutenant-governor of Iowa by succession as president of the senate. He has been register of the land office at Cheyenne, Wyo.; and is now superintendent of the Iowa School for the Deaf.

Rothrock, Joseph Trimble

educator, author, was born April 9, 1839, in McVeytown, Pa. He is a professor of botany in the university of Pennsylvania from 1877; and the author of Botany of the Wheeler Expedition; Vacation Cruisings; Flora of Alaska; and Revision of the North American Gaurineæ.

Rothwell, Gideon F

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1836 in Callaway county, Mo. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.

Rouse, Henry Clark

railroad president, was born March 15, 1853, in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1892 he was elected president of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway company; and in 1893 was appointed receiver of the Northern Pacific, a position he still holds.

Routt, Eliza Franklin

author, was born in 1842 in Springfield, Ill. She is most noted as a social leader and philanthropist. She is the wife of Col. Routt, the first governor of Colorado in 1878, who was again elected to the high office in 1891. She has given much attention to literary work.

Routt, John L

governor. He was a resident of Denver, Colo. In 1871 he was appointed second assistant postmastergeneral, in which capacity he served until 1875. He was governor of Colorado territory during a part of the year 1875; and in 1876 was elected governor of the new state of Colorado, holding the office until 1879.

Rowan, John

lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1773 in Pennsylvania. He was elected from Kentucky a member of congress from 1807 to 1809; and was for many years a member of the general assembly.

He was a judge of the court of appeals in 1819; was a senator in congress from 1825 to 1831; and his last public position was that of minister to the Two Sicilies.

He died July 13, 1853, in Louisville, Ky.

Rowan, Stephen Clegg

soldier, was born in December, 1808, in Ireland.

In 1870 he was vice-admiral of the United States navy. He died March 31, 1890, in Washington, D. C.

Rowe, Charles Henry

clergyman, poet, was born Jan. 19, 1834, in Guilford, Maine. In 1864 he was commissioned a chaplain in the United States army. He has filled pastorates in the baptist church ever since in the vicinity of Boston. For a time he was connected with the editorial department of The Watchman of Boston; and he is the author of a number of poems and sacred hymns.

Rowe, Mrs. Harriet Gould

author, was born in 1854 in Maine. She is a writer of Bangor, Maine; and the author of Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine; and Queenshithe.

Rowe, Peter

congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1853 to 1855.