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business in the publication of sermons. addn 

 and pamphlets bearing on that struggle, ami al><> 

 brought out Prince de Joinville's report on the op- 

 erations of the Army of the Potomac. Ill* busi- 



:irospeivd and frequently necessitated removal 

 to larger quarters. Early in 1S96 he sold out his 

 retail business to the Baptist Publication Society, 

 retaining the wholesale part. In June he organized 

 the A. D. F. Randolph Company, and the gn 

 trial of his business career came a few days after- 

 ward when the company was compelled to make an 



:ment. The creditors testified to their faith 

 in the integrity of Mr. Randolph by voluntarily 

 offering to wait one year or ten years, as might suit 

 his convenience, for their money. He published 

 several volumes of original poems. 



RankiiH 1 . .lames, educator, born in Ayrshire. 



aid. Nov. 5. ls:2? : died in Geneva, X. Y.. Dec. 

 16. 1896. He removed with his family to Canan- 

 daigua. X. V. : was graduated at Union College in 

 1 S 4G: became Assistant Professor of Mathematics 

 at Trinity College, Hartford ; and subsequently was 

 rector of St. Paul's Church, Oswego. X. Y.. Presi- 

 dent of Hobart College, and rector of the Divinity 

 School at Geneva for thirty years. 



Read. John Meredith, diplomat, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa.. Feb. 21, 183? ; died in Paris. France. 

 Dec. '27. 189(5. He was a son of Judge John Mere- 

 dith Read, a former Solicitor-General of the United 

 States, and -was graduated at the Albany Law 

 School in 1859. After a period of international 

 law study in Europe, he was admitted to the bar in 

 Philadelphia and settled in Albany. X. Y. In 1860- 

 '<><] he was Adjutant General of the State of Xew 

 York, and for his promptness and ability in organ- 

 izing and forwarding troops received the thanks of 

 the War Department. In 1869-' 73 he was United 

 States consul for France and Algeria, and during 

 the Franco-German War was also acting consul 

 general for the German Government. For his pro- 

 tection of German subjects and interests during the 

 two sieges of Paris he was officially commended by 

 the President of the United States, and received 

 the thanks of the French and German governments 

 and the official and personal thanks of Prince Bis- 

 marck. In ISTo he was appointed United States 

 minister to Greece, where he remained to Septem- 

 ber, 1879, defraying the expenses of the legation 

 personally for some time before his resignation, ow- 

 ing to the refusal of Congress to make the necessary 

 appropriation. During his tenure of this office he 

 received the thanks of his Government for the man- 

 ner in which he had protected the persons and in- 

 -'s of Americans during the crisis of February. 

 j. He had secured the revocation by the Greek 



rnment of an order prohibiting the circulation 

 and sale of the Bible in Greece, and also the release 

 of the American ship " Armenia, and rendered an 

 important service to his country in discovering and 

 reporting to the Government that only one port in 

 Russia was open during the Rosso-Turkish War. 

 and urging the advantage that would result to the 

 commerce of the United States from the dispatch 

 of a grain fleet from Xew York to that port. In 

 1881 lie was created by the King of Greece a Knight 

 Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, the 

 highest degree in the gift of that Government. Af- 

 ter hi< resignation he devoted much of his time and 

 means to promoting the interests of the Greek Gov- 

 ernment and to saving it from bankruptcy. He 

 was a frequent contributor to current literature. 

 and was the outhor of an " Historical Inquiry con- 

 cerning Henry Hudson." Much of his time in re- 

 cent years was given to archaeological, historical, 

 and art studies, and his library and study in Paris 

 contained many rare books, manuscripts, and art 

 specimens. 



Reilly. William Mofl'at. military officer, born 

 in Philadelphia. Pa.. March 13. ls^ : died there 

 Feb. ',?'.'. ivi'i. When fifteen years old he joined 

 the Lafayette Light Infantry as a flag marker, and 

 on the organization of the Wayne Artillery he was 

 :_'eant. During the riots of 1844 he dis- 

 tingui>hed himself, and from that time he rose in 

 the State service. At the beginning of the civil 

 war he was commander of the 3d Brigade of Penn- 

 sylvania militia, and made a prompt tender of his 

 brigade to (iov. Curtin. Under the provisions of 

 law Gen. Cadwallader was given the command, but 

 subsequently, at the solicitation of the latter. ' 

 Reilly was placed in command of the 1st Division 

 of Pennsylvania Volunteers. He served through 

 the war. and at its close declined President John- 

 son's offer of a commission as major general of 

 volunteers. Since 1874 he had been an inspector 

 of the county prison. Gen Reilly bequeathed suffi- 

 cient money for the erection in front of Independ- 

 ence Hall. Philadelphia, of bronze statues of Lafay- 

 ette. Montgomery. Pulaski. and Steuben : for statues 

 in Independence Square of Gens. Wayne, Greene, 

 Sumter, and Morgan and Capt. Paul Jones ; and for 

 the endowment of a free eye and ear hospital. 



Reinhart. Charles Stanley, artist, born in Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., in 1844 : died at the Players' Club. Xew 

 York city. Aug. 30. 1896. Mr. Reinhart began his 

 serious study of art comparatively late. As a youth 

 he went to the front in the civil war. and although 

 his services mainly were those of a telegraph opera- 

 tor and not of a combatant, they were none the less 

 valuable, and they brought him into immediate 

 contact with actual war. It was not until 1868, 

 after three years in a steel manufactory in Pitts- 

 burg, that Mr. Reinhart was enabled to go abroad 

 and devote himself to the study of art. He went 

 first to Paris, and later to Munich, where he entered 

 the Royal Academy, studying drawing under Prof. 

 Streyhuber and painting and etching under Prof. 

 Otto. His professional life was divided between 

 X'ew York and Paris, where he had a studio from 

 1882 to 1886. For the last years of his life his 

 home was in Xew York. Mr. Reinhart was one 

 of the " young artists." so called, between 1870 and 

 1880 whose return from Paris and Munich opened 

 a new period in American art. The foundation of 

 Scribner's." now the" Century Magazine." and the 

 photography of drawings upon the wood-engraver's 

 block in place of actual drawing upon the block 

 attracted the home-coming artists, and a new 

 school of illustrators began to be developed. Mr. 

 Reinhart 's work soon made itself felt. For sev- 

 eral years he was closely identified with the pub- 

 lications of Messrs. Harper <Jc Brothers. He illus- 

 trated several important serials, and his black- 

 and-white studies of contemporary life showed a 

 talent and spirit which gave him a high rank 

 among American illustrators. This work he con- 

 tinued to the last. His drawings were reproduced 

 in his later years forother magazines and the books 

 of other firms, but his drawings for the Harper 

 publications are those of which the public has had 

 the widest knowledge. In the last months of his 

 life he was engaged upon a series of war scene - 

 eral of which, like his graphic study of ration-shar- 

 ing after the surrender at Appomattox. were re- 

 produced as double-page illustrations of Harper's 

 Weekly.' It wa> Mr. Reinhart 's ambition to con- 

 tinue in this line, and had there been sufficient en- 

 couragement he would doubtless have produced 

 some notable paintings of the war. Although the 

 demands of illustration encroached upon his work 

 in oil, he painted many pictures of importance and 

 sound merit. " Clearing Up " (18?o). " Reconnoiter- 

 ing " (1876). and " Repulse " (1877) were among his 

 earlier paintings. He found several subjects on the 



