Philadelphia whose later years were spent in Florence and Rome. As a
poet he is best known by the famous Sheridan’s Ride; Drifting; and
The Closing Scene, and it is by these poems that he will continue to
be remembered. Poems; Lays and Ballads; The Pilgrims of the Great St.
Bernard, a prose romance; The New Pastoral; The House by the Sea; The
Wagoner of the Alleghanies, in which occurs the fine lyric beginning,
“The maid who binds her warrior’s sash;” Sylvia; A Voyage to Iceland; A
Summer Story; Sheridan’s Ride, and Other Poems. His complete poems were
issued in 1882. _See Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Lip._
=Realf= [rĕlf], =Richard.= _E._, 1834-1878. A journalist and
verse-writer of Pittsburg who was a Federal officer during the Civil
War. Guesses at the Beautiful. _See Lippincott’s Magazine, February,
1879._
=Reavis= [rĕv´is], =Logan Uriah.= _Il._, 1831-1889. A St. Louis
journalist, who published St. Louis the Future Great City of the
World; Life of Horace Greeley; Thoughts for the Young Men and Women of
America; Life of General Harney; Railway and River System.
=Redden, Laura.= _See Searing, Mrs._
=Redfield, Amasa Angell.= _N. Y._, 1837-1902. A lawyer of New York
city. Handbook of United States Tax Laws; Law and Practice of
Surrogates’ Courts; Reports of Surrogates’ Courts of New York State,
1864-82; The Law of Negligence (with Shearman).
=Redfield, Isaac Fletcher.= _Vt._, 1804-1876. A lawyer who was chief
justice of Vermont, 1852-60, and a resident of Boston after the
latter date. The Law of Railways; The Law of Wills; Law of Carriers
and Bailments; Leading American Railway Cases; Civil Pleading (with
Herrick). _Lit._
=Redfield, William Charles.= _Ct._, 1789-1857. A once noted
meteorologist. On Whirlwind Storms, and many monographs upon
meteorology. _See Biography of, by D. Olmsted._
=Redpath, James.= _E._, 1833-1891. A New York journalist for many years
on the staff of The Tribune, and prominent as an abolitionist. The
Roving Editor; Handbook of Kansas Territory; Public Life of Captain
John Brown; Echoes of Harper’s Ferry; Guide to Hayti; Talks About
Ireland.
=Redway, Jacques Wardlaw.= _Tn._, 1849- ----. A geographer and educator
of California. Complete Geography; Manual of Physical Geography; Manual
of Geography and Travel.
=Reed, Edwin.= _Me._, 1835- ----. A Shakespearean scholar who has
published Bacon _vs._ Shakspere, a history of the controversy, with
arguments pro and con. _Kt._
=Reed, Henry.= _Pa._, 1808-1854. An educator of Philadelphia, professor
of English literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Lectures
on English History; Lectures on English Literature; Lectures on the
British Poets. _See Memoir, by W. B. Reed, infra._
=Reed, Henry.= _Pa._, 1846- ----. Son of H. Reed, _supra_. A
Philadelphia jurist who has published The Law of the Statute of Frauds.
=Reed, Hugh.= _Ind._, 1850- ----. A military educator of Virginia.
Signal Tactics; Cadet Regulations; Military Science and Tactics; Broom
Tactics.
=Reed, James.= _Ms._, 1834- ----. Son of S. Reed, _infra_. A
Swedenborgian clergyman of Boston from 1858. Men and Women; Religion
and Life; Swedenborg and the New Church. _Hou._
=Reed, John.= _Pa._, 1786-1850. A Pennsylvania jurist, professor of law
in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1834-50, and author of
The Pennsylvania Blackstone.
=Reed, Sampson.= _Ms._, 1800-1880. A Swedenborgian writer of Boston,
editor of The New Church Magazine for Children. Observations on the
Growth of the Mind. _Hou._
=Reed, William Bradford.= _Pa._, 1806-1876. Brother of H. Reed, 1st,
_supra_. A lawyer of Philadelphia, minister to China, 1857-58. Life and
Correspondence of Joseph Reed; Memoir of Henry Reed, _supra_.
=Rees, John Krom.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. An astronomer, professor at
Columbia College, and director of the Observatory from 1881. Report on
the Solar Eclipse, 1878; International Time System; Observations of the
Transit of Venus, 1882.
=Reese, David Meredith.= _Pa._, 1800-1861. An eminent physician of New
York city, superintendent of the city public schools at one period.
Strictures on Health; Review of the Anti-Slavery Society’s First Annual
Report; Quakerism _versus_ Calvinism; Phrenology Known by its Fruits;
Medical Lexicon of Modern Terminology; Humbugs of New York.
=Reese, John James.= _Pa._, 1818-1892. A Philadelphia physician,
professor of jurisprudence in the University of Pennsylvania. American
Medical Formulary; Analysis of Physiology; Manual of Toxicology;
Text-Book of Medical Jurisprudence.
=Reese, Lizette Woodworth.= _Md._, 1856- ----. A verse-writer and
educator of Baltimore. A Branch of May; A Handful of Lavender; A Quiet
Road. _Hou._
=Reeve, James Knapp.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A novelist of Franklin,
Ohio. Vawder’s Understudy; The Three Richard Whalens. _Sto._
=Reeve, Tapping.= _L. I._, 1744-1823. An eminent jurist of Litchfield,
Connecticut. Law of Baron and Femme, of Parent and Child, of Guardian
and Ward, of Servant and Master; Treatise on the Law of Descents in the
Several United States.
=Reeves, Marian Colhoun Legaré.= _S. C._, _c._ 1854- ----. A novelist
of Washington. Ingemisco; Randolph Honor; Sea Drift; A Little Maid of
Arcadie; Wearithorne; and with Emily Read, Old Martin Boscawen’s Jest;
Pilot Fortune. _Hou._
=Reichel, William Cornelius.= _N. C._, 1824-1876. A Moravian clergyman
and educator of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, among whose writings are
Moravianism in New York and Connecticut; Memorials of the Moravian
Church; A Red Rose from the Olden Time.
=Reichert, Edward Tyson.= _Pa._, 1855- ----. A Philadelphia physician
and educator, professor of physiology in the University of Pennsylvania
from 1886. A Text-Book of Physiology.
=Reid, Christian.= _See Tiernan, Mrs. Frances._
=Reid, David Boswell.= _S._, 1805-1863. A chemist who came to America
in 1856, and was director of the medical inspection of the United
States Sanitary Commission. Introduction to the Study of Chemistry;
Rudiments of Chemistry of Daily Life; Ventilation for American
Dwellings, are among his writings.
=Reid, John Morrison.= _N. Y._, 1820-1896. A Methodist clergyman and
editor of religious journals who secured the library of Von Ranke for
Syracuse University. Missions of the Methodist Church; Doomed Religions
(edited). _Meth._
=Reid, Samuel Chester.= _N. Y._, 1818-1897. A lawyer of New Orleans.
The United States Bankrupt Law of 1841; The Battle of Chickamauga.
=Reid, Whitelaw.= _O._, 1837- ----. A journalist of prominence in
New York city and editor of The Tribune from 1872. After the War,
a Southern Tour; Ohio in the War; Schools of Journalism; Newspaper
Tendencies. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Clke._
=Reid, William James.= _N. Y._, 1834-1902. A United Presbyterian
clergyman, pastor at Pittsburg from 1889. Lectures on the Revelation;
United Presbyterianism.
=Reily, William McClellan.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A German Reformed
clergyman and educator of Allentown, Pennsylvania, president of the
Female College there from 1888. The Artist and his Mission.
=Remensnyder, Junius Benjamin.= _Va._, 1843- ----. A Lutheran clergyman
of New York city from 1880. Heavenward; Doom Eternal; Lutheran
Literature: its Distinctive Traits; Work and Personality of Luther;
Six Days of Creation; Lutheran Manual. _Fu._
=Remington, Frederic.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A popular artist and
illustrator, whose work in the main reflects the life of the far West.
Pony Tracks. _Har._
=Remington, Joseph Price.= _Pa._, 1847- ----. A professor of pharmacy
in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy from 1874. The Practice of
Pharmacy. _Lip._
=Remington, Stephen.= _N. Y._, 1803-1869. A Baptist minister, but prior
to 1845 a preacher of the Methodist faith. Reasons for Becoming a
Baptist; A Defence of Restricted Communion.
=Remsen, Ira.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. An eminent chemist, professor of
chemistry at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. Chemical Experiments
(with W. Randall). _Ho._
=Reno, Conrad.= _Al._, 1859- ----. A lawyer of Boston. Employers’
Liability Acts. _Hou._
=Renwick, James.= _N. Y._, 1792-1863. A once prominent scientist of
New York city, professor of natural and experimental philosophy and
chemistry at Columbia College from 1820 to 1853. Lives of Rittenhouse,
Fulton, Count Rumford, in Sparks’s American Biography; Outlines
of Natural Philosophy; Treatise on the Steam Engine; Elements of
Mechanics; Lives of Jay, Hamilton, De Witt Clinton, include the greater
number of his works. _Har._
=Repplier, Agnes.= _Pa._, 1859- ----. A popular essayist of
Philadelphia. Books and Men; Points of View; In the Dozy Hours, and
Other Papers; Essays in Idleness; Essays in Miniature; Varia. _Hou._
=Requier, Augustus Julian.= _S. C._, 1825-1887. A lawyer of Mobile
prior to the Civil War, and subsequently of New York city. The Old
Sanctuary, a romance; Poems; and the dramas, Marco Bozzaris; The
Spanish Exile.
=Revere, Joseph Warren.= _Ms._, 1812-1880. A grandson of Paul Revere,
and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Keel and
Saddle: Retrospect of Forty Years’ Military Service (1872).
=Rexdale, Robert= (_pseud._). _Me._, 1859- ----. A journalist and
verse-writer of Portland, Maine. Drifting Songs and Sketches; Saved by
the Sword, a novel; The Cuban Liberated.
=Rexford, Eben Eugene.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A popular verse and song
writer of Shiocton, Wisconsin, whose poem Silver Threads Among the Gold
has been set to music and widely sung. Brother and Lover; Grandmother’s
Garden; John Fielding and his Enemy.
=Reynolds, Elmer Robert.= _N. Y._, 1846- ----. An ethnologist in
the United States civil service from 1877. A Scientific Visit to
the Caverns of Luray; Shell Mounds, etc., of the Choptank Indians;
Aboriginal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Columbia, are among
his professional monographs.
=Reynolds, John.= _Pa._, 1789-1865. An Illinois lawyer and journalist,
governor of Illinois, 1832-34. Pioneer History of Illinois; Glance at
the Crystal Palace; My Life and Times.
=Reynolds, William Morton.= _Pa._, 1812-1876. An Episcopal clergyman,
but prior to 1864 a Lutheran clergyman. Discourse on the Swedish
Churches. He translated, from the Swedish of Israel Acrelius, A History
of New Sweden, with introduction and notes.
=Rhees, William Jones.= _Pa_, 1830- ----. The chief clerk of the
Smithsonian Institution from 1852, who has published, among other
works, The Smithsonian Institution; James Smithson and His Bequest.
=Rhodes, Albert.= _Pa._, 1840- ----. A writer who was successively
United States consul at Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Rouen, and Elberstadt,
and since 1885 has been a resident of Paris. Jerusalem as It Is; The
French at Home; Monsieur at Home.
=Rhodes, James Ford.= _O._, 1848- ----. An historian, of Boston.
History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850. _Har._
=Rhodes, Mosheim.= _Pa._, 1837- ----. A Lutheran clergyman of St. Louis
from 1874. Life Thoughts for Young Men; Life Thoughts for Young Women;
Recognition in Heaven; Vital Questions; The Throne of Grace; Expository
Lectures on Philippians.
=Rice, David Hall.= _Ms._, 1841- ----. A lawyer of Boston, living in
Brookline, Massachusetts. Protective Philosophy; Digest of Decisions
of Commissioner of Patents, 1869-80 (with C. Lepine).
=Rice, Edwin Wilbur.= _N. Y._, 1831- ----. A Congregational clergyman
connected with the Sunday-School Union from 1871. People’s Lesson Book
in Matthew; Stories of Great Painters; Historical Sketch of the United
States; People’s Commentary on the Acts.
=Rice, George Edward.= _Ms._, 1822-1861. A verse-writer of Boston.
Ephemera; Nugamenta; An Old Play in a New Garb, a fanciful adaptation
of Hamlet.
=Rice, Harvey.= _Ms._, 1800-1891. A prominent lawyer of Cleveland.
Mount Vernon, and Other Poems; Select Poems; Nature and Culture;
Pioneers of the Western Reserve; Sketches of Western Life; The Founder
of the City of Cleveland. _Le._
=Rice, Isaac Leopold.= _Bo._, 1850- ----. A lawyer of New York city who
has written What Is Music?
=Rice, Nathan Lewis.= _Ky._, 1807-1877. A Presbyterian clergyman
of note who held pastorates in St. Louis, Cincinnati, and New York
city, and was an active controversialist. Romanism the Enemy of Free
Institutions; The Signs of the Times; Baptism; The Pulpit; Discourses.
=Rich, Mrs. Helen [Hinsdale].= _N. Y._, 1827- ----. A verse-writer of
Chicago. A Dream of the Adirondacks, and Other Poems; Madame de Staël.
_S._
=Richards, Mrs. Cornelia Holroyd [Bradley].= _N. Y._, 1822-1892. Wife
of W. C. Richards, _infra_, and sister of Mrs. Alice Haven, _supra_. At
Home and Abroad, or How to Behave; Pleasure and Profit, or Lessons on
the Lord’s Prayer; Hester and I; Memoir of Mrs. Haven.
=Richards, Mrs. Ellen Henrietta [Swallow].= _Ms._, 1842- ----. An
instructor in sanitary chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, wife of Professor Richards of the same institution.
Chemistry of Cookery and Cleaning; Food Materials and their
Adulterations; First Lessons in Minerals. _Est._
=Richards, Mrs. Laura Elizabeth [Howe].= _Ms._, 1850- ----. Daughter of
Mrs. J. W. Howe, _supra_. A writer of juvenile books, whose home is in
Gardiner, Maine. The Joyous Story of Toto; Toto’s Merry Winter; In My
Nursery; Five Mice; Captain January; Jim of Hellas; Queen Hildegarde,
are among her books. _Est. Rob._
=Richards, Mrs. Maria [Tolman].= _Ms._, 1821- ----. An educator and
lecturer of Providence. Life in Judea; Life in Israel.
=Richards, William Carey.= _E._, 1818-1892. A Baptist minister of
Chicago, widely known as a lecturer upon physical science. Baptist
Banquets; The Lord is My Shepherd; The Mountain Anthem; Our Father in
Heaven, a series of sonnets; Science in Song. _Le._
=Richardson, Mrs. Abby [Sage].= _Ms._, 1837-1900. Wife of A. D.
Richardson, _infra_. An educator and lecturer upon literature. Familiar
Talks on English Literature; Stories from Old English Poetry; History
of Our Country; Abelard and Heloise, a Mediæval Romance. She edited
Songs from the Old Dramatists; Old Love Letters, and other works. _Hou.
Mg._
=Richardson, Albert Deane.= _Ms._, 1833-1869. A journalist of New York
city, famous as the war correspondent of The Tribune during the Civil
War. Beyond the Mississippi; Personal History of Ulysses Grant; The
Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape; Garnered Sheaves. _See Memoir._
=Richardson, Charles Francis.= _Me._, 1851- ----. A professor of
English literature at Dartmouth College from 1882. Primer of American
Literature; The Cross, a collection of verse; American Literature,
1607-1885; The Choice of Books. Co-editor with H. A. Clark of The
College Book. _Hou. Lip. Put._
=Richardson, Hobart Wood.= 1831-1889. A journalist of Portland, Maine.
Paper Money; The National Banks; The Standard Dollar. _Ap. Har._
=Richardson, Nathaniel Smith.= _Ct._, 1810-1883. An Episcopal clergyman
who was editor of The American Church Review. Reasons Why I Am a
Churchman; Reasons Why I Am Not a Papist; Evidences of Natural and
Revealed Religion, are among his writings.
=Richardson, William Adams.= _Ms._, 1821-1896. A Massachusetts jurist,
chief justice of the United States Court of Claims from 1885, and
secretary of the United States Treasury, 1873-74. The Banking Laws of
Massachusetts; History of the Court of Claims; Practical Information
concerning the United States Public Debt; National Banking Laws.
=Richardson, William Merchant.= _N. H._, 1774-1838. Chief justice of
New Hampshire, 1816-38. The New Hampshire Justice; The Town Officer.
=Richmond, Mrs. Euphemia Johnson [Guernsey].= _N. Y._, 1825- ----. A
writer of Upton, New York. Hope Raymond; Two Paths; The McAllisters, a
temperance tale; The Jewelled Serpent; The Fatal Dower; Anna Maynard,
the King’s Daughter, form a portion of her writings. _Meth._
=Ricord= [rē-cor´], =Mrs. Elizabeth [Stryker].= _L. I._, 1788-1865.
Wife of J. B. Ricord, _infra_. An educator of Geneva, New York, and
after 1845 a resident of Newark, New Jersey. Philosophy of the Mind;
Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem.
=Ricord, Frederick William.= _W. I._, 1819-1897. Son of J. B. Ricord,
_infra_. A lawyer and educator of Newark, New Jersey. History of
Rome; The Youth’s Grammar; English Songs from Foreign Tongues; The
Self-Tormentor, from the Latin of Terentius, with More English Songs.
=Ricord, Jean Baptiste.= _F._, 1777-1837. A French physician and
naturalist who settled in New York city. Improved French Grammar;
Recherches et expériences sur les poissons d’Amérique.
=Riddle, Albert Gallatin.= _Ms._, 1816-1902. A lawyer of Washington
who wrote a number of romances of early life in Ohio. The House of
Ross; Bart Ridgeley; Alice Brand; The Tory’s Daughter; Mark Loan; The
Portrait; Personal Recollections of War Times; Students and Lawyers;
Life of Benjamin Wade; Life of Garfield; Speeches and Arguments,
include his principal works. _Put._
=Rideing, William Henry.= _E._, 1853- ----. A Boston littérateur on the
editorial staff of The Youth’s Companion. Pacific Railway Illustrated;
A Saddle in the Wild West; Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains;
Boys Coastwise; Stray Moments with Thackeray; Alpenstock; Young Folks’
History of London; The Boyhood of Living Authors; Thackeray’s London;
A Little Upstart, a novel; In the Land of Lorna Doone; The Captured
Cunarder. _Ap. Cop. Cr. Est._
=Ridgaway, Henry Bascom.= _Md._, 1830-1895. A Methodist clergyman
and educator of Illinois, president of Garrett Biblical Institute at
Evanston, Illinois, from 1882. Life of Alfred Cookman; The Lord’s Land,
or Travels in Sinai and Palestine; Lives of Bishops Janes, Waugh,
Simpson. _Meth._
=Ridgway, Robert.= _O._, 1850- ----. An eminent ornithologist of
Washington, curator of the department of birds in the National Museum
from 1879. The Birds of Colorado; Ornithology of the Fortieth Parallel;
Manual of North American Birds; History of North American Birds (with
Baird and Brewer, _supra_). _Lip._
=Ridpath, John Clark.= _Il._, 1840-1900. A professor of belles-lettres
at De Pauw University. Popular and Academic Histories of the United
States; History of Texas; Life of Garfield; History of the World;
Christopher Columbus; Columbia, a Quadricentennial Story; Great Races
of Mankind; Epic of Life, a poem. _Meth._
=Riggs, Elias.= _N. J._, 1810-1901. A Congregational missionary in
Constantinople, famous as a linguist, among whose writings are, Manual
of the Chaldee Language; Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language; Notes
of Difficult Passages of the New Testament; A Harmony of the Gospels,
in Bulgarian. _Ran._
=Riggs, James Stevenson.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A Presbyterian
clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological Seminary from 1881, who has
published The Bible in Art.
=Riggs, Mrs. Kate Douglas [Smith] [Wiggin].= _Pa._, 1857- ----. A
popular writer of New York city. Timothy’s Quest; Polly Oliver’s
Problem; The Birds’ Christmas Carol; The Story of Patsy; A Summer in a
Cañon; Children’s Rights; A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope’s English
Experiences; The Village Watch-Tower; Marm Lisa; Nine Love Songs and
a Carol. She has also written in collaboration with her sister, Nora
Archibald Smith, The Story Hour; and The Republic of Childhood, a work
on the kindergarten. _Hou._
=Riggs, Stephen Return.= _O._, 1812-1883. A missionary to the Indians
in Minnesota and Dakota. Forty Years Among the Sioux; The Bible in
Dakota (with Williamson); and many translations and other writings
relating to the Dakota Indians.
=Riis, Jacob August.= _Dk._, 1849- ----. A New York writer on social
problems. How the Other Half Lives; The Children of the Poor; Nibsy’s
Christmas; The Making of an American. _Scr._
=Riley, Charles Valentine.= _E._, 1843-1895. A distinguished
entomologist of Washington, at one period State entomologist of
Missouri, and from 1881 till his death in charge of the entomological
division of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Locust
Plague in the United States; Potato Pests; Noxious, Beneficial, and
Other Insects of Missouri.
=Riley, Henry Hiram.= _Ms._, 1813-1888. A lawyer of Constantine,
Michigan, once known as a humourous writer. Paddleford and Its People;
The Paddleford Papers, or Humors of the West. _Le._
=Riley, James.= _Ct._, 1777-1840. A mariner who was enslaved by the
Arabs of Africa in 1815 and ransomed by Mr. Willshire, the British
consul, at Mogadore. In 1821 he settled in Ohio and founded the town
of Willshire, named in honour of the consul. From his journals was
prepared, in 1816, the Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American
Brig Commerce on the West Coast of Africa, with a Description of
Timbuctoo.
=Riley, James.= _I._, 1848- ----. A verse-writer of Boston whose
unpretentious Poems, published in 1886, reached a third edition in 1888.
=Riley, James Whitcomb.= _Ind._, 1852- ----. A very popular poet of
Indianapolis whose dialect poems of Hoosier life have been greatly
praised. His earliest work appeared over the signature “Benjamin F.
Johnson of Boone.” His dialect and other poems display much real
feeling and originality. The Old Swimmin’ Hole and ’Leven More Poems;
The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Afterwhiles; Old-Fashioned Roses;
Pipes o’ Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood; Flying Islands of the
Night; Neighborly Poems; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; Green Fields and
Running Brooks; Poems Here at Home; Armazindy; A Child World. _Bo.
Cent. Lgs._
=Riley, John Campbell.= _D. C._, 1828-1879. A Washington physician who
wrote a Compend of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. _Lip._
=Rimmer, Caroline Hunt.= _Ms._, 1851- ----. Daughter of W. Rimmer,
_infra_. Animal Drawing. _Hou._
=Rimmer, William.= _E._, 1816-1879. A Boston painter, sculptor, and
teacher of art anatomy, who also practiced medicine, but gave up his
profession to devote himself to art. Art Anatomy; Elements of Design.
_Hou._
=Riordan, Roger.= _I._, 1848- ----. A New York city journalist. A Score
of Etchings; Sunrise Stories, a Glance at the Literature of Japan.
_Scr._
=Ripley, George.= _Ms._, 1802-1880. A Unitarian clergyman who was
pastor in Boston, 1826-41, and then for several years the chief
promoter of the famous Brook Farm experiment. In 1849 he became
literary editor of The New York Tribune, and continued in that position
until his death. With C. A. Dana, _supra_, he edited the American
Cyclopædia, 1857-63, and also the revised edition of the same, 1873-76.
His literary criticisms exerted a wide and beneficial influence.
Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion; Letters to Andrews Norton,
_supra_, on the Latest Form of Infidelity. _See Modern Review, July,
1883; Appletons’ American Biography; Life by O. B. Frothingham, supra._
=Ripley, Henry Jones.= _Ms._, 1798-1875. A Baptist clergyman who
held a pastorate in Georgia, 1819-26, and from 1826 to 1860 was a
professor in the Theological Seminary at Newton, Massachusetts. Notes
on the Gospels, Acts, Hebrews; Christian Baptism; Church Polity; The
Exclusiveness of the Baptists.
=Ripley, Roswell Sabine.= _O._, 1823-1887. A Confederate army officer
of prominence who wrote a History of the Mexican War.
=Ritchie, Mrs. Anna Cora [Ogden] [Mowatt].= _F._, 1822-1870. A once
popular actress who retired from the stage in 1854, and for the last
ten years of her life lived in Florence and London. Her writings
include several novels, The Fortune Hunter; The Mute Singer; Fairy
Fingers; Evelyn; The Twin Roses; The Clergyman’s Wife; two successful
plays, Fashion and Armand; Mimic Life, or Before and Behind the
Curtain; Autobiography of an Actress, the last named an exceedingly
popular book.
=Ritter, Abraham.= _Pa._, 1792-1860. A merchant of Philadelphia.
History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia; Philadelphia and her
Merchants.
=Ritter, Mrs. Frances Malone [Raymond].= _E._, 1830-1890. Wife of F.
L. Ritter, _infra_. Woman as a Musician; Some Famous Songs, an Art
Historical Sketch; Songs and Ballads.
=Ritter, Frédéric Louis.= _F._, 1834-1891. A musician of Alsace who
came to the United States in 1856, and, becoming professor of music at
Vassar College in 1867, retained that position until his death. Music
in England; Music in America; History of Music in the Form of Lectures;
Manual of Musical History. _Dit. Scr._