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four years, he had risen to a partnership, and in 1869 

 he became head of the firm. He was foremost in pro- 

 curing a city charter for Newton, and in the building 

 of the water-works there ; and in 1879 he was elected 

 Mayor without opposition. He was the first secretary 

 ana treasurer of the New England Associated Press, 

 and a director in several business corporations, and in 

 1886 became president of the Marietta and Georgia 

 Kailroad. 



Eafferty, Thomas, soldier, born in Londonderry, Ire- 

 land, April 10, 1823; died in Plainfield, N. J. Feb. 

 21, 1883. He came to the United States in 1834, and 

 when fourteen years old was apprenticed to the hat- 

 ter's trade. On attaining his majority he began man- 

 ufacturing hats on his own account, and in 1849 went 

 to California. Subsequently settling in New York 

 city, he was brought under the influence of Elder 

 Jacob Knapp, withdrew from the Koman Catholic 

 Church, and united with the Tabernacle Baptist 

 Church, with which he held membership till within 

 a short time of his death. On July 7, 1861, he was 

 appointed captain of a Brooklyn regiment; July 31, 

 1862, was promoted major; May 1, 1863, became lieu- 

 tenant-colonel, and with that rank, though he had 

 long been in command of his regiment, was mustered 

 out on July 30, 1864. During this service he partici- 

 pated in the battles of Fair Oaks, Fredericksburg, 

 Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wapping Heights, the 

 Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, where he was 

 wounded, and elsewhere, and was brcvetted brigadier- 

 general for gallantrv in the field, but declined the 

 promotion. He believed that he had been unfairly 

 treated through motives of jealousy, and claimed that, 

 as he had long been colonel of his regiment in fact, 

 he should have received that rank. He was a mem- 

 ber of the New York Produce Exchange, and retired 

 from business in January, 1887. 



Ray, John, lawyer, born in Washington County, 

 Mo., Oct. 14, 1816; died in New New Orleans, La., 

 March 4, 1888. He was graduated at Transylvania 

 University, Lexington, Ky., in 1835, removed to Mon- 

 roe, La., the same year, and was admitted to the bur 

 in 1839. In 1844 he was elected to the lower branch 

 of the State Legislature ; in 1 850 to the State Senate ; 

 in 1854 and 1858 was defeated as Whig candidate for 

 Lieutenant-Governor ; in 1860 was a presidential elect- 

 or on the Bell and Everett ticket ; and through the 

 civil war was a strong Unionist. He gave his sup- 

 port to the reconstruction plan of Congress, and was 

 elected to that body in 1865, but was not seated. 

 During 1868-'72 he served as State Senator, and also 

 as commissioner to revise the civil code, the code of 

 procedure, and the statutes of the State. He removed 

 to New Orleans in 1872 ; was elected United States 

 Senator in 1873 by the Kellogg Legislature when 

 William L. McMillen, the choice of the McEnery 

 Legislature, contested the election, with the result that 

 neither was seated ; was registrar of the State Land- 

 Office in 1873-'77 ; and was appointed special attorney 

 for the Federal Government to prosecute the local 

 whisky cases in 1878. He was also an attorney for 

 Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, and for the French citizens 

 of New Orleans who had claims against the Govern- 

 ment for losses sustained during the civil war by the 

 operations of the national army in Louisiana. He 

 was author of a " Digest of the Laws of Louisiana" 

 (2 vols., New Orleans, 1870). 



Eaymond, Eobert Raikes, educator, born in New York 

 city, Nov. 2, 1817 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 16, 

 1888. Ho was graduated at Union College in 1837, 

 studied law in Cincinnati with Salmon P. Chase, 

 abandoned it for theology, took the i'ull course in 

 Madison University, and was ordained to the minis- 

 try of the Baptist Church. After preaching ten years, 

 he applied himself to teaching, literary pursuits, and 

 the study of Shakespeare. In 1856 he was appoint- 

 ed Professor of English Literature in Brooklyn Poly- 

 technic Institute, in 1876 removed to Boston to teach 

 Shakespeare in the School of Oratory there, in 1879 

 became president of that institution, and in 1884 re- 



turned to Brooklyn. He was a brother of Dr. John 

 11. Ravmond, president of Vassar College. 



Eedfield, Justus Starr, publisher, born in Walling- 

 ford, Conn., Jan. 2, 1810; died near Florence, N. J., 

 March 24. 1888. He was apprenticed to the printer's 

 trade, and also learned stereotyping. When twenty- 

 one years old he opened a publishing-office in New 

 York city, and brought out tlie fir*t illustrated month- 

 ly periodical in the United States, " The Family Mag- 

 azine." He published this, under the editorship of 

 Benson J. Lossing and A. Sidney Doane, eight years, 

 and on the death of his brother, who managed the 

 pictorial department, discontinued it, and established 

 himself as a bookseller, printer, and publisher. He 

 carried on this business till 1860, was appointed United 

 States consul at Otranto, Ital.Vj in 1861, was trans- 

 ferred to the consulate at Brindisi in 1864, and resigned 

 that year. Mr. Eedfield was the original American 

 publisher of the collected writings of Edgar Allan 

 Poe, William Maginn, and John Doran ; brought out 

 ' Noctes Ambrosianse," the revised works of William 

 Gilmore Simms, and numerous miscellaneous works : 

 edited Jean Mace's " Histoire d'une Bouchec de Pain " 

 (Paris, l.siJl) ; and translated " The Mysteries of 

 Neapolitan Convents," from the Italian of Henrietta 

 Caracciolo (Hartford, 1867). 



Eiley, Henry Hiram, lawyer, born in Great Barring- 

 ton, Mass., Sept. 1, 1813 ;'died in Constantino, Mich., 

 Feb. 8, 1888. He was apprenticed to the printer's 

 trade in the office of the " Columbia Republican," 

 Hudson, N. Y., and afterward worked in the office of 

 the " Now York Gazette and Commercial Advertiser." 

 In 1837 he went to Waterloo, N. Y., and was editor 

 and publisher of the " Seneca Observer" five years ; 

 and in 1842 removed to Kalamazoo, Mich., studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar. He then made his 

 permanent residence in Constantine. He was prose- 

 cuting attorney of St. Joseph County in 1846-' 50 : 

 State Senator in 1850, 1851, and 1862 ;* was appointed 

 one of the commissioners to revise the State Constitu- 

 tion in 1873 ; and became a trustee of the Northern 

 Asylum for the Insane in Travers City and district 

 court judge. He was a frequent contributor to the 

 u Knickerbocker Magazine," and published several 

 editions of his papers in that periodical, under the 

 title of " Puddleford and its people." 



Eobinson, John, showman, born in Utica, N. Y., July 

 22, 1803 ; died in Cincinnati, Ohio, Aug. 4, 1888. He 

 ran away from home when a boy to ship as a sailor, 

 but a shipwreck satisfied this ambition, and he spent 

 several years working as a driver on the Erie Canal, 

 and in a Newport hotel. While at Newport he made 

 his first visit to a circus, and then resolved to seek 

 employment in that line. An opportunity was soon 

 afforded him to travel with Col. Page's menagerie. 

 In four years he became a skillful and daring perform- 

 er, and for twenty years he was a popular favorite. 

 From Page's menagerie he went with Page & Mc- 

 Cracken's circus, and then with Turner's circus, 

 Stewart's Amphitheatre, Hawkins's circus, Benedict 

 & Haddock's circus, and the Zoological Institute. 

 He first visited Cincinnati in 1S20, and thirty years 

 afterward built an elegant mansion there, which he 

 ever afterward occupied. At St. Louis he organized 

 a circus, and, under a contract with the American 

 Theatre of New Orleans, took it to Havana and then 

 exhibited throughout the United States. W r ith the 

 proceeds of this venture he was able to travel wholly 

 on his own account, and made money rapidly. He 

 built the National Theatre in New Orleans in 1840, 

 made a business connection with Dan Rice in Ie45, 

 and built Robinson's Opera House in Cincinnati. 



Eockwell, Julius, lawyer, born in Colebrook, Conn., 

 April 26, 1805; died 'in Lenox, Mass., May 19, 1888. 

 He was graduated at Yale in 1826, studied in the New 

 Haven Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1829, 

 and began practicing in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1830. He 

 was a "member of the Massachusetts Legislature as a 

 Whig from 1834 till 1838, was Speaker from 1835 till 

 1838, and in the latter year was appointed State Bank 



