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where he gradually became interested in sev- 

 eral cotton-plantations. Meeting with success 

 at the outset, he rapidly extended his opera- 

 tions and embarked in all lines of the cotton in- 

 dustry, growing it, shipping it, dealing in it, and 

 manufacturing the staple into cloth and the seed 

 into oil. When the civil war began, he was con- 

 sidered a millionaire ; when it closed, he was 

 a bankrupt. But he repaired the losses that 

 the war had entailed upon him with so much 

 energy that at the time of his death he was 

 called the cotton king of the world. He had 

 amassed a fortune variously estimated at from 

 $8,000,000 to $12,000,000; was the owner and 

 manager of forty cotton-plantations in Louisi- 

 ana, Arkansas, and Mississippi, marketing an 

 average of 15,000 bales annually, and had, be- 

 sides, over $1,000,000 invested in business in 

 New Orleans, and other large sums in mills, 

 factories, and steamboats elsewhere. His an- 

 nual income exceeded $1,000,000. He was 

 chairman of the Board of Management of the 

 "World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Ex- 

 position in New Orleans in 1883, and gave 

 $25,000 to promote its success. 



Richardson, Henry Hobson, an American archi- 

 tect, born in New Orleans, La., in 1839 ; died 

 in Boston, Mass., April 27, 1886. He was 

 graduated at Harvard, in the class of 1859, and 

 also, in architecture, at the Ecole des Beaux- 

 Arts, Paris, France. On his return from Paris 

 he engaged in business in New York city, but 

 after his partner's death removed to Boston. 

 He was one of the commissioners appointed to 

 prepare plans for the New York State Capitol 

 at Albany, and much of the exquisite work on 

 that building is due to his genius, particularly 

 the Senate-chamber, the Governor's room, the 

 Court of Appeals, and the western stairway. 

 Mr. Richardson was also the architect of the 

 City Hall, Albany, N. Y. ; Sever Hall and 

 Austin Hall, Cambridge, Mass. ; the Allegheny 

 county building at Pittsburg, Pa., now being 

 erected ; the new building of the Chamber of 

 Commerce, Cincinnati, Ohio ; the Oakes Ames 

 Memorial Hall, and Trinity Church, Boston. 

 He also planned several library-buildings in 

 New England, of which Crane Memorial Li- 

 brary at Quincy, Mass., is the most noticeable. 



Rion, James II., an American lawyer, died in 

 Winnsboro', S. C., Dec. 14, 1886. He served 

 in the Confederate army during the civil war, 

 reaching the rank of colonel, and since then, 

 with the exception of being a member of the 

 National Democratic Executive Committee in 

 1876, had persistently declined to become a 

 candidate for any office. In addition to a large 

 general law practice, he was chief counsel for 

 the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company 

 and the Atlantic coast-line rail way system, and 

 at the time of his death was also President of 

 the Bar Association of South Carolina. 



Robertson, Charles Franklin, an American cler- 

 gyman, born in New York city, March 2, 

 1835; died in St. Louis, Mo., May 1, 1886. 

 After attending private schools in New York, 



he entered his fathers office, intending to pur- 

 sue a mercantile career ; but in 1855 he en- 

 tered Yale College with a view to taking or- 

 ders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, and 

 was graduated in 1859. He then took the 

 prescribed course at the General Theological 

 Seminary, New York, and was graduated 

 there in 1862. In the same year he was or- 

 dained deacon and priest, immediately after- 

 ward assuming charge of St. Mark's Church, 

 Malone, N. Y. He remained there till Sept. 

 1, 1868, when he was called to St. James's 

 Church, Batavia, N. Y., and four days later 

 was elected Bishop of the Diocese of Missouri. 

 He was consecrated in Grace Church, New 

 York city, Oct. 25, 1868, by Bishops Smith, of 

 Kentucky ; McCoskry, of Michigan ; Johns, of 

 Virginia ; Lee, of Iowa ; Potter, of New York ; 

 and Lay, of Arkansas. He received the de- 

 gree of S. T. D. from Columbia College in 

 1868. Bishop Robertson was Vice-President 

 of the St. Louis Social Science Association 

 and of the National Conference of Charities 

 and Corrections, and was an active or a cor- 

 responding member of the Virginia, Maryland, 

 Southern Missouri, and Wisconsin Historical 

 societies. 



Rodney, John, an American clergyman, born 

 in Lewes, Del., Aug. 20, 1796; died in Ger- 

 mantown, Pa., Sept. 29, 1886. He served as 

 a private soldier under his uncle, Thomas Rod- 

 ney, in the War of 1812, and entered the Col- 

 lege of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1814. He 

 went to Philadelphia and studied theology un- 

 der Bishop White, of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church. He was ordained deacon in 1819, 

 assigned to the parish of Trinity Church, 

 Easton, Pa., and ordained priest by Bishop 

 White in 1823. In 1825 he accepted a call 

 from St. Luke's Church, Germantown, Pa., 

 delivering his first sermon there in October. 

 He was active and efficient till 1861, when he 

 was elected rector emeritus and retired. In 

 1879 he celebrated his golden wedding. At 

 the time of his death Mr. Rodney was the old- 

 est living graduate of Princeton, and the oldest 

 person in orders in the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in America. 



Rowley, W. R., an American soldier, born in 

 St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1824; died in 

 Chicago, 111., Feb. 9, 1886. He taught for 

 some time in Brown County, Ohio, and in 1843 

 settled in Galena, 111., where he held various civil 

 offices. In November, 1861, he entered the mili- 

 tary service as a first-lieutenant in the Forty- 

 fifth Illinois Volunteers. After the battle of 

 Fort Donelson he was commissioned captain 

 and appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Gen. 

 Grant. He greatly distinguished himself at the 

 battle of Shiloh, by riding from the thickest of 

 the fight at the Hornets' Nest in the direction 

 of Crump's Landing with orders to Gen. Lew 

 Wallace to bring his troops to the battle-field 

 as soon as possible, and for this he was pro- 

 moted to the rank of major. He continued to 

 serve on the staff till the siege of Vicksburg, 



