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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (REEVE ROPES.) 



William Jewell College, Liberty. Mo., for which he 

 labored with large success for five years, and then 

 spent nearly two years abroad in studying the sys- 

 tems of the European universities, under the au- 

 thority of the trustees of William Jewell College and 

 the State government. On his return, in 1874, he was 

 unable to resume his college duties, on account of 

 failing health, and he returned to pastoral work. He 

 was pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, Brook- 

 lyn. N. Y. in 1874-'78 ; of the First Baptist Church, 

 Newark, N. J., in 1878-'82 ; of the First Baptist 

 Church, Albany, N. Y.. in 1882-'84; and after a 

 short pastorate 'in Franklin, Pa., settled in Brooklyn 

 in 1887. In 1888 he was the general delegate of the 

 Baptist Church in the United States to the World's 

 Missionary Convention in London, and afterward he 

 made his permanent home in Hamilton, N. Y. He 

 was one of the most scholarly and eloquent preachers 

 in the Baptist Church, and a successful educator. 

 Dr. Rambaut received the degrees of A. M. from Mer- 

 cer University, Georgia ; LL. D. from Madison Uni- 

 versity ; and D. D. from William Jewell College. 



Eeeve, Isaac Van Duzen, military officer, born near 

 Utica, N. Y., July 29, 1813 ; died in New York city, 

 Dec. 31, 1890. He was graduated at the United States 

 Military Academy and appointed brevet 2d lieutenant 

 in the 4th Infantry, July 1, 1835 ; promoted 2d lieu- 

 tenant, May 2, 1836 ; 1st lieutenant in the 8th Infantry, 

 July 7, 1838 ; captain, June 18, 1846 ; major of the 1st 

 Infantry, May 14, 1861 ; lieutenant-colonel of the 13th 

 Infantry, Sept. 16, 1862; colonel, Oct. 14, 1864; bre- 

 vetted major for meritorius conduct at Contreras and 

 Churubusco, Aug. 20, 1847 ; lieutenant-colonel for Mp- 

 lino del Rev, Sept. 8, 1847 ; and brigadier-general for 

 services in the civil war, March 13, 1865 and was re- 

 tired Jan. 1 , 1871. Gen. Reeve served in the campaigns 

 against the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1836-' 42, 

 in the military occupation of Texas in 1845, through 

 the Mexican War, in Indian campaigns, through the 

 civil war as commander of the District of Upper Mis- 

 souri in 1865-' 68, and as superintendent of recruiting 

 in New York city till his retirement. 



Eice, Samuel J, lawyer, born in South Carolina in 

 1816; died in Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 3, 1890. He 

 removed to Alabama in 1838, published and edited a 

 newspaper in Talladega for six years, was a Taylor 

 and Fillmore presidential elector in 1848, and, remov- 

 ing to Montgomery, was elected Chief Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Alabama in 1852, and held the 

 office for four years. He was considered one of the 

 ablest advocates in the South. 



Eiddleberger, Harrison Holt, lawyer, born in Eden- 

 burg, Shenandoah County, Va., Oct. 14, 1844; died 

 in Winchestei, Va., Jan. 24, 1890. He received a 

 limited education. He raised a company for the Con- 

 federate service, and entered the army as a 2d 

 lieutenant in March, 1862. He served in the Rich- 

 mond, Maryland, and Pennsylvania campaigns, was 

 promoted captain of cavalry, and at the time of Gen. 

 Lee's surrender had been a prisoner of war for nine, 

 months. After the war he became editor of "The 

 Tenth Legion Banner " in Edenburg. He was 

 elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1871 and 

 1873. He studied law in Woodstock, and was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in 1875 ; was soon afterward elected 

 Commonwealth attorney for ShenandoahCounty, and 

 was re-elected in 1878 ; was elected a State Senator in 

 1879 ; was a presidential elector on the Democratic 

 ticket in 1876, and on the Readjuster ticket in 1880. 

 He became editor of the Woodstock " Virginian," a 

 Republican newspaper, in 1881, and in the same year 

 he was elected United States Senator as a Readjuster. 

 As State Senator he was chairman of the committee 

 on Federal relations and a member of the committee 

 on courts of justice ; and as United States Senator he 

 was chairman of the committee on manufactures and 

 member of the committees on the District of Colum- 

 bia, naval affairs, Potomac river front, and on educa- 

 tion and labor. The public service of which ho \\ as 

 most proud was in the contest in the United States 

 Senate that led to the rejection of the proposed extra- 



dition treaty with Great Britain. For his uncom- 

 promising opposition to that measure, he received res- 

 olutions of thanks from nearly all the Irish societies 

 in the United States. 



Bhodes, John N., naval officer, born in New Haven, 

 Conn., in 1848; died in Algiers, La., July 16, 1890. 

 He was educated in Gen. Kussell's military school, 

 New Haven, and after graduation went to sea. In 

 1873 he received an appointment in the United States 

 Keyenue Marine Service, where he won a wide repu- 

 tation as a life-saver. On Jan. 18, 1884, the coasting 

 steamer "City of Columbus" was wrecked off Gay 

 Head light on Martha's Vineyard, and Mr. Bhodes, 

 then a 2d lieutenant, attached to the United States 

 revenue cutter " Dexter," commanded one of the two* 

 boats sent from the cutter to rescue the passengers, 

 and picked up 12 persons under exceedingly peril- 

 ous circumstances. For his gallant conduct he re- 

 ceived the thanks of Congress and of the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, and was -promoted 1st lieutenant, and 

 advanced 21 numbers by the President. He had since 

 served chiefly along the coast of Alaska, where he had 

 made himself the terror of opium smugglers. 



Eoloson, John Wi, telegrapher, born in Port Jervis,. 

 N. Y., in 1859 j died in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 22 V 

 1890. When thirteen years old he removed to New 

 York city, studied telegraphy, and secured employ- 

 ment in* the commercial news department of the 

 Western Union Telegraph Company. Subsequently 

 he was manager of the Bankers' and Merchants' and 

 Postal offices in the Stock Exchange, and night man- 

 ager of the Postal Telegraph Company, and had also- 

 worked for the French Cable Company and the United 

 and Associated Press. In 1884 he made the world' s- 

 record for fast sending by telegraph, 500 words in ten 

 minutes and ten second's ; in 1885 he took the first 

 prize in the telegraphing tournament in New York 

 city ; and shortly before his death he was popularly 

 believed to have shown himself the fastest sender in 

 the last tournament, though he was ruled out bv the- 

 judges. He was a governor of the New York Tele- 

 graph Club and a fine electrician, and met his death 

 through a bicycle accident. 



Eoome, Charles, engineer, born in New York city, 

 Aug. 4, 1812 ; died there, June 28, 1890. He received 

 a common-school education, and entered the service 

 of the Manhattan Gas Light Company, as assistant 

 engineer, in 1837. In 1842 he was promoted engineer- 

 in-chief, in 1855 was elected president of the company, 

 and, on the consolidation of the various gas compan- 

 ies in the city, was elected president of the new com- 

 pany, and held the office till 1888, when he resigned. 

 In early life he became a member of the 7th Regiment,. 

 N. G. S. N. Y., and at the beginning of the civil war 

 he raised, equipped, and commanded the 37th Regi- 

 ment, New York Volunteers, and he was afterward 

 commissioned a brigadier-general. He was known 

 throughout the United States by reason of his long 

 service as a Free Mason. He was especially influen- 

 tial in promoting the completion of the Masonic Tem- 

 ple in New York city, and was the author of many 

 Masonic writings. 



Eopes, Eipley, financier, born in Salem, Mass., in 

 September, 1820; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 18, 

 1890. He came to New York city when a boy, learned 

 commercial and shipping business, and was engaged 

 successfully in the South American trade for about 

 twenty -five years. He was a Republican, and held 

 many offices, among them those of alderman, super- 

 visor of the 1st ward, commissioner of public works 

 under Mayor Seth Low, and member for King's County 

 in the New York State Board of Charities for fifteen 

 years. He was President of the Brooklyn Trust Com- 

 pany for seventeen years, director of th'e Union Ferry 

 Company for many yearBt director of the Brooklyn 

 National Bank, and chairman of the auditing com- 

 mittee of the Brooklyn Association for improving the 

 Condition of the Poor. Mr. Eopes was largely instru- 

 mental in securing for King's County the St. John- 

 land county farm to relieve the institutions at Flat- 

 bush, and in developing the cottage system. 



