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Springer, Reuben Runyan

philanthropist, was born Nov. 16, 1800, in Frankfort, Ky. He gave to the Music hall, the Exposition building, the Odeon theater, and the Art museum in Cincinnati, in all $420,000; to private charities of the Roman catholic church, of which he was a member, more than $100,000, and at least $30,000 annually in the way of benevolence, besides contributing liberally and regularly to various charities and public enterprises. He left about $3,000,- 000 to his nearest of kin, having no children; also annuities to the college of Music, the Music hall and the Art museum, and nearly $400,000 to various Roman catholic charitable institutions, among these, $40,000 to the Cathedral schools, $50,000 to St. Peter's Benevolent society, and $100,000 for the education of priests.

He died Dec. 10, 1884, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

SPRINGER, WILLIAM MCKENDREE, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born May 30, 1836, in Sullivan county, Ind. In 1870- 72 he was a member of the Illinois state legislature; and for twenty years during 1875-95 was a member of congress from the Springfield district. In 1895 he became judge of the United States court, and chief justice of the United States court of appeals for the Indian territory, for term expiring Dec. 12, 1899.