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an honorary fellow a year later, and he was president 

 of the American Microscopical Society in 1887. 

 He was a vice-president of the American A^c\u- 



Ition for the Advancement of Science in 1882-'83, 

 presiding over the section on mathematics and as- 

 tronomy, and delivered a retiring address in 1883 

 " On the German Survey of the Northern Heav- 

 ens," and in 1894 he presided over the section on 

 physics, delivering an address on " Obscure Heat as 

 an Agent in the Expansion of Metals." He in- 

 dented and manufactured various forms of appara- 

 us, and was the author of nearly 70 published 

 ipers that related principally to his specialties. 

 Romero, l)on Mafias, diplomatist, born in 

 axaca, Mexico, Feb. 24, 1837 ; died in Washing- 

 n, D. C., Dec. 30, 1898. He was educated at the 

 nstitute of Arts and Sciences in his native city, 

 n 1853 he went to Mexico city, and entered the 

 Foreign Office. While 

 employed there he stud- 

 ied law, and was admit- 

 ted to the bar in 1857. 

 When President Juarez 

 was forced to leave Mex- 

 ico, in 1857, Senor Ro- 

 mero accompanied him to 

 Vera Cruz, where he con- 

 tinued in the service of 

 the Department of For- 

 eign Relations. In De- 

 cember, 1859, he was sent 

 to Washington as secre- 

 tary of the Mexican lega- 

 tion, and in August, 

 1860, was made charge 

 'affaires, remaining such till 1863. In that year 

 e returned to Mexico and took part in the war 

 inst the French as colonel and chief of staff to 

 en. Diaz. Soon after this he was sent to Wash- 

 ington as envoy extraordinary and minister pleni- 

 potentiary, remaining at this post from October, 

 1863, till January, 1868. From 1868 till 1872 he 

 was Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of 

 President Juarez, retiring on account of failing 

 health to devote himself to agriculture in Soco- 

 nusco. In 1876 he became a Senator, from 1877 

 till 1878 he again served as Secretary of the Treas- 

 ury under President Diaz, and in 1880 he was ap- 

 pointed Postmaster-General. In March, 1882, he 

 was again sent as minister to the United States, 

 and remained in that capacity till his death, with 

 an interruption of ten months in 1892, when, for 

 the third time, he was called to serve as Secretary 

 of the Treasury. Senor Romero was a member of 

 the International American Conference, and one of 

 its two vice-presidents ; in the conference he voted 

 for the establishment of the Bureau of American 

 Republics, and he was a member of the Executive 

 Committee of the bureau when it was organized. 

 He published more than fifty volumes, chiefly offi- 

 cial reports. Some of his more important works 

 are "Circulars and Other Publications made by 

 the Mexican Legation at Washington during the 

 Drench Intervention " (2 vols.. Mexico, 1868) ; 

 'Coffee Culture on the Southern Coast of Chiapas" 

 (1875) ; " Correspondence of the Mexican Legation 

 it Washington during the French Intervention " 

 (9 vols., 1870-'85) ; " Historical Sketch of the An- 

 loxation of Chiapas and Soconusco to Mexico " 

 (1877) ; " The State of Oaxaca " (Barcelona, 1886) ; 

 ''Coffee and India- Rubber Culture in Mexico" 

 "Geographical and Statistical Notes on 

 lexico" (1898); and "Mexico and the United 

 States" (1898). His wife, Lucretia Allen, was 

 >rn in Philadelphia. Pa., in 1851, and died in 

 Ulantic City. N. J.. July 29. 1898. She was the 

 laughter of W. E. Allen, of Virginia, and was edu- 



cated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, Manhat- 

 tiinville, N. Y., and at the Chegory Institute, Phila- 

 delphia. In 1868 she married Seflor Romero, whom 

 she accompanied to Mexico, where she became pro- 

 ficient in the Spanish and French languages. She 

 returned with her husband tc Washington in 1882. 



Rooker, Myron Holley, journalist, born in 

 Lyons, N. Y., April 17, 1824; died in Albany, X. Y., 

 July 19, 1898. He removed to Albany at an early 

 age, and learned the trade of a printer. For two 

 years he was editor of the " Evening Transcript." 

 In 1839 he became night editor of the "New York 

 Tribune," which place he held until the last year 

 of the civil war. In 1864 he was made manager of 

 the New York State Associated Press. Resigning 

 this office in 1869. he was manager of the New York 

 City Associated Press in Albany till 1881. In 1866 

 he went to San Francisco in the vain endeavor to 

 combine all the newspapers into one association for 

 collecting and distributing news. In 1870 he be- 

 came part proprietor and associate editor of the 

 Albany "Sunday Press," and his relations contin- 

 ued after the absorption of the "Knickerbocker" 

 and throughout his life. He was a brother of 

 Thomas N. Rooker. 



Rooker, Thomas Newberry, journalist, born 

 in Hudson, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1815; died in New York 

 city, June 6, 1898. He moved, with his father, to 

 Lyons, N. Y., at an early age. and for a short time 

 he was a driver on the Erie Canal. He learned the 

 trade of a printer in Albany and Troy. In 1841 he 

 set type on the first number of the "New York 

 Tribune," and three years later he became fore- 

 man, a place that he retained till 1877. He was 

 secretary of the Tribune Association for many 

 years, beginning with 1868. In 1897 he retired 

 from active work, but so great was the appreciation 

 of his services that the association voted to him 

 half pay for the remainder of his life. 



Roosevelt, Blanche (Marquise D'ALLIGRI). author 

 and opera singer, born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1856 ; 

 died in London, England, Sept. 10, 1898. She" was a 

 daughter of W. A. Tucker, first United States Senator 

 from Wisconsin, was educated in music in Italy, and 

 made her debut at Covent Garden, London, in the 

 role of Violetta in "Traviata," under the name of 

 Blanche Roosevelt, in 1876. In 1877 she was en- 

 gaged for concerts in Milan, where she met and 

 married Signer Macchetta, who subsequently be- 

 came Marquis d'Alligri. In 1877, after a short 

 engagement in Holland and Belgium, she retired 

 from the stage and devoted herself to literary 

 work. On Sept. 23, 1879, she reappeared as Jo- 

 sephine, in " Pinafore," at the Opera Comique, 

 London, and subsequently she came to the United 

 States, where she sang the same role, as well as 

 that of Mabel, in " The Pirates of Penzance." She 

 wrote a libretto from Longfellow's " Masque of 

 Pandora," and produced it, with music by Alfred 

 Cellier, in Boston, in 1882. She then permanently 

 relinquished the stage and became correspondent 

 in London for several European and American 

 journals. Her books are "Home Life of Henry 

 Wadsworth Longfellow" (New York, 1882); 

 "Marked 'In Haste'" (New York, 1883); "Stage 

 Struck ; or, She would be an Opera Singer " (New 

 York, 1884) ; " Life and Reminiscences of Gustave 

 Dore " (New York. 1885) ; " The Copper Queen," a 

 novel (London, 1886) ; and " Verdi, Milan, and 

 Othello "(London. 1887). 



Rosecrans, William Starke, soldier, born in 

 Kingston, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1819; died near Redondo, 

 Cal., March 11, 1898. He was graduated at the 

 United States Military Academy, and commissioned 

 brevet 2d lieutenant in the Engineer Corps, July 1, 

 1842; promoted 2d lieutenant. April 3, 1843; "re- 

 signed, April 1, 1854 ; appointed brigadier general, 



