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Ruebsam, John Emil Herman – Ruggles, Joseph Wesley

Ruebsam, John Emil Herman

inventor, was born March 19, 1841, in Prussia. He was operator and inventor for the movement treatment at the Union hospital of Philadelphia, Pa., in 1876; and he is the inventor of various kinds of apparatus for medical use.

Ruffin, Margaret E

poet, was born Aug. 26, 1857, in Baldwin county, Ala. She is proficient in music, a linguist, and the author of a volume of poems entitled Drifting Leaves.

Ruffin, Thomas

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Edgecombe county, N. C. He served as circuit attorney of the seventh judicial circuit of the state of Missouri from 1844 to 1848.

He was elected a representative from North Carolina to the thirty-third, thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He took part in the rebellion of 1861 as a member of the confederate congress, having previously been a delegate to the peace congress of 1861. He died in October, 1863, in Alexandria, Va.

Ruffner, Henry

clergyman, educator, author, was born Jan. 19, 1789, in Page county, Va. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Virginia; a noted opponent of slavery; and the author of Fathers of the Desert: a History of Monarchism; and Future Punishment. He died Dec. 17, 1861, in Malden, Va.

Ruffner, William Henry

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1824, in Virginia. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and from 1870 state superintendent of public instruction in Virginia. He is the author of Charity and the Clergy.

Ruger, Thomas Howard

soldier, was born April 2, 1833, in Lima, N. Y.

In 1862 he was commissioned brigadiergeneral of volunteers, and was subsequently promoted to major-general. In 1868 he was provisional governor of Georgia; and during 1871-76 was superintendent of the United States Military academy.

Ruger, William Crawford

lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 30, 1824, in Bridgewater, N. Y. In 1882 he was elected chief judge of the New York court of appeals.

Ruggles, Benjamin

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Feb. 21, 1782, in Pomfret, Conn. In 1810 he was elected president judge of the court of common pleas for the third circuit of Ohio. He was elected a senator of the United States from Ohio, serving from 1815 to 1833. He died Sept. 2, 1857, in St.

Clairsville, Ohio.

Ruggles, Daniel

soldier, was born Jan. 31, 1810, in Barre, Mass. He joined the confederate army, and was commissioned brigadier-general in the same year. He became major-general in 1863, and commanded the department of the Mississippi.

Ruggles, Emily

merchant, was born July 16, 1827, in Dorchester, Mass. She is a descendant of Peregrine White, the first child born among the Pilgrims of Massachusetts. Being deeply interested in the reforms of the day, she was one of the first women in Massachusetts elected to the office of school committee.

Ruggles, John

mechanic, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Oct. 8, 1789, in Westborough, Mass. He was nine times elected to the Maine legislature, and officiated as speaker three years. From 1831 to 1835 he was judge of the court of common pleas. He was a senator in congress from Maine from 1835 to 1841. He died June 20, 1874, in Thomaston, Maine.

Ruggles, Joseph Wesley

musician, composer, was born Dec. 2, 1837, in Milan, Ohio. He is a director of the Conservatory School of Music at the Upper Iowa university of Fayette. He is the author of a number of anthems, cantatas, and Sunday school songs.