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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (RAINS RICHARDS.) 



Memphis, and from 1858 to 1862 of the Church of 

 the Advent at Nashville. Prom 1862 to 1865 he 

 served as chaplain of the 18th Tennessee Regiment 

 in the Confederate army, and on Oct. 11 of the lat- 

 ter year was consecrated Bishop of Tennessee, the 

 ceremony being held in St. Luke's Church, Phila- 

 delphia. * In 1866 he began the restoration of the 

 University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn., which 

 had been ruined by the civil war, and he was able 

 by his untiring efforts to put it in a more flourish- 

 ing condition than ever before. He was an " ad- 

 vanced" Churchman, but was not unduly aggressive, 

 and under his care the Episcopal Church in Ten- 

 nessee has grown and prospered. 



Rains, George Washington, military officer, 

 born in Craven County. N.C.,in 1817; died in New- 

 burg, N. Y., March 21, 1898. He was a brother of 

 Gen. Gabriel J. Rains of the Confederate army, and 

 was graduated at the United States Military Acad- 

 emy in 1842. He entered the army as a second lieu- 

 tenant of engineers, but in the following year was 

 transferred to the 4th United States Artillery. In 

 1844-'46 he was on duty at the Military Academy 

 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, 

 and Geology. During the Mexican War he served 

 on the staffs of Gens. Scott and Pillar, and won the 

 brevets of captain and major for gallantry at Con- 

 treras, Churubusco, and Chapultepec. In 1849-'50 

 he took part in the Serninole Indian War in Florida, 

 and in 1856 ha resigned his commission and engaged 

 iu the manufacture of iron at Newburg, N. Y. 

 When the civil war broke out he offered his serv- 

 ices to the Confederacy, and was commissioned a 

 colonel in the Confederate army and assigned to 

 the building and equipment of a powder mill at 

 Augusta, Ga. He was in charge of these works 

 through the war, and was promoted to brigadier 

 general for his services there. Two years after the 

 war he became Professor of Chemistry and Phar- 

 macy in the medical department of the University 

 of Georgia, and for many years was also dean of 

 the faculty. Gen. Rains was interested in the con- 

 struction of portable steam engines, and had ob- 

 tained several patents for improvements thereon. 

 Besides numerous essays, he published " Steam Port- 

 able Engines " (Newburg, 1860); "Rudimentary 

 Course of Analytical and Applied Chemistry " (Au- 

 gusta, 1872); '"Chemical Qualitative Analysis" 

 (New York, 1879) ; and " History of the Confederate 

 Powder Works " (Augusta, 1882). In accordance 

 with his wish, the Confederate flag which he took 

 from the Augusta arsenal when he was about to 

 evacuate that post, and which was the la&t garrison 

 flag of the Confederacy, was buried with him. 



Rasniusseii, Peder A., clergyman, born in Sta- 

 vanger, Norway, Jan. 9, 1829; died in Lanesboro, 

 Minn., Aug. 15, 1898. He emigrated to America in 

 1850, and in 1851 settled in Lisbon, 111. He taught 

 school for a few years, and in 1853 the Norwegians 

 who had settled in and around Lisbon called him as 

 their pastor. He studied theology in the seminary 

 at Fort Wayne, Ind., and in 1854 was ordained 

 as a minister of the Lutheran Church. He was 

 pastor at Lisbon forty-four years, was one of the 

 founders of the Norwegian Theological Seminary 

 at Northfield, Minn., and one of the leaders in the 

 United Norwegian Church in America. 



Rector, John Benjamin, jurist, born in Jack- 

 son County, Ala., Nov. 24, 1837: died in Austin, 

 Texas, April 9, 1898. He accompanied his parents 

 to Texas in 1847, was graduated at Yale in 1859, 

 studied law, and settled in Austin. In therivil war 

 he enlisted in Terry's Texas Rangers, with which 

 he served till the close of the war. Resuming law 

 practice at Bastrop, he was elected district attorney 

 of the 2d Judicial District of Texas in 1866, but 

 lost the office in the following year under the re- 



construction Government. From 1871 till 1876 

 he was a judge of the State court in the same dis- 

 trict, and from 1876 till 1892 engaged in private- 

 practice in Austin. In March, 1892. he was ap- 

 pointed judge of the United States Court for the 

 Northern District of Texas, which office he held till 

 his death. 



Reeder, Howard J., jurist, born in Easton, Pa., 

 in December, 1843; died there. Dec. 28, 1898. He 

 was a son of Andrew II. Reeder, one of the Gov- 

 ernors of Kansas during the antislavery struggle 

 there, and was educated at Princeton College. 

 W T hile in the senior year he was appointed a lieu- 

 tenant in the 1st Regular Infantry, and he served 

 at Island No. 10, where he was wounded and obliged 

 to give up the service. He recovered and became 

 a captain in the 153d Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

 taking part in the battles of Chancellorsville and 

 Gettysburg. After the war he studied law at Har- 

 vard, and was admitted to the bar in 1867, taking 

 up his practice in Easton. In 1881 he was appoint- 

 ed judge, and in 1884 was chosen judge of the 

 Northampton Common Pleas. He was commis- 

 sioned, under appointment by the Governor, judge 

 of the Superior Court, June 28, 1895, and elected in 

 the autumn for, the term beginning Dec. 19, 1895. 



Remenyi, Edouard, violinist, born in lleves 

 Hungary, in 1830 ; died in San Francisco, CaL _ f 

 May 15, 1898. He was a pupil of Bohn at the Vi- 

 etm;i Conservatory, began giving violin recitals in 

 1849, and traveled to all the principal cities in Eu- 

 rope and America. He was so successful in Eng- 

 land that he was appointed solo violin to the Queen. 

 In 1860 he was appointed court violin master to ! 

 the Emperor of Austria. For several years before 

 his death he was a resident of New York city. Ho | 

 died on the stage of the Orpheum Theater, in San f 

 Francisco, when about to begin a response to a re- 

 call after an enthusiastic reception given to the Jr 

 first number which he had played on his first ap- 

 pearance in a vaudev^ille performance. 



Renier, Monsignor, Antonio, Count, bishop, 

 born in Chioggia, Italy, Aug. 29, 1825 ; died in New 

 York city, Dec. 11, 1898. He was educated at the 

 University of Padua, where he received the degree 

 of doctor of theology and philosophy. Foratime'^ 

 he taught law and edited a newspaper in Florence. 

 He was made secretary to Pope Pius IX, serving in 

 that capacity nearly fifteen years, and received the 

 title of bishop, but never was appointed to a see. 

 After the death of Pope Pius IX he met with re- 

 verses, and in 1890 he came to the United States, 

 very poor. He officiated nearly a year in a small 

 church in the southern part of Texas with littlo 

 success, and then came to New York, where he set- 

 tled in the Italian quarter, and was beloved becausu 

 of his modest labors and charities. 



Richards, Dexter, benefactor, born in Newport, 

 N. H., in 1810; died there, Aug. 7, 1898. lie re- 

 ceived a common-school education, and engaged in 

 business with his father till 185:'. when lie acquired 

 an interest in a flannel mill. He accumulated i 

 large fortune in manufacturing and in financifll 

 and railroad enterprises. After holding nearly all 

 the offices in the gift of the town, he served three 

 terms in the lower house of the Legislature and two 

 in the upper. He was a man of large benevolenee, 

 and among his gifts to the town were a handsome 

 public library and a high-school building. 



Richards, Matthias Henry, educator anl 

 author, born in Germantown, Pa., June IT. IN 11 : 

 died in AUentown Pa.. Dec. 12, 1898. His fat lit r 

 was a distinguished theologian of the Lutheran 

 Church. The son was graduated at Pennsylvania 

 College, Gettysburg, Pa., in 1860, and became a 

 teacher and a student of theology. On the in\,- 

 sion of Pennsylvania by Lee's army, 1863, he en- 



