OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (REED RICHMOND.) 



vass. In April, 1861, he refused to furnish the 

 quota of soldiers called for by President Lincoln 

 for the National army. He seized the arsenal at 

 Little Rock and the fort at Fort Smith, with all 

 the ammunition and stores. In May, 1861, a mili- 

 tary board, one of whom was the Governor, was 

 appointed to organize and equip an army, which 

 was done to the extent of 40 regiments, to fight 

 for the Confederate cause. The revolutionary 

 convention of 1861, having omitted to continue 

 the office of Governor, a contest arose over the 

 question, and the Supreme Court declared the of- 

 fice vacant. Gov. Rector then fought in the Con- 

 federate army till the close of the war.- 



Reed, Albnzo, author, died in Remsenburg, 

 Long Island. N. Y., Aug. 19, 1899. While a 

 teacher of English in the Polytechnic Institute 

 of Brooklyn he developed a plan of teaching 

 English grammar which was embodied in an ele- 

 mentary text-book, published under the title of 

 Graded* Lessons in English, and this was fol- 

 lowed by others on the same subject, some of 

 them written in conjunction with Brainerd Kel- 

 logg (New York, 1877). 



Reed, Harrison, editor, born in Littleton, 

 Mass., in 1813: died in Jacksonville, Fla., May 25, 

 1899. In 1836 he removed to Wisconsin. He 

 founded the Milwaukee Sentinel, of which he was 

 editor. During the civil war he worked in the 

 United States Treasury Department. In 1868 he 

 was elected Governor of Florida, under its new 

 Constitution, and he served four years and a half. 



Reed, Myron Winslow, clergyman, born in 

 Brookfield, Vt., July 24, 1836; died in Denver, 

 Col., Jan. 30, 1899. He was preparing for the 

 ministry when, in June, 1862, he enlisted as a 

 private'in the 18th Michigan Infantry, of which 

 he was soon afterward appointed chaplain. This 

 commission he resigned after two months, to ac- 

 cept a captaincy. He served till July, 1865, and 

 for some time before he was mustered out he was 

 chief of scouts on the staff of Gen. George H. 

 Thomas. After the war he resumed his studies, 

 was graduated at the Chicago Theological Semi- 

 nary in 1868, and was pastor of Congregational 

 churches in New Orleans and Milwaukee, and of 

 the First Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis 

 till 1883. In that year he went to the First Con- 

 gregational Church in Denver, where he remained 

 eleven years, resigning to take charge of the new 

 Broadway Temple. Dr. Reed was for several 

 years president of the Denver Charity Organiza- 

 tion Society and of the Colorado State Board of 

 Charities, and in 1892 was president of the Na- 

 tional Conference of Charities and Corrections. 



Reynolds, Joseph Jones, military officer, 

 born in Flemingsburg, Ky., Jan. 4, 1822; died in 

 Washington, D. C., Feb. 26, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated at West Point, and commissioned a brevet 

 second lieutenant in the 4th Artillery, in 1843; 

 was promoted second lieutenant in the 3d Ar- 

 tillery, May 11, 1846; first lieutenant, March 3, 

 1847; resigned Feb. 28, 1857; was appointed colo- 

 nel of the 26th Infantry, July 28, 1866; assigned 

 to the 25th Infantry, Jan. 8, and to the 3d Cav- 

 alry, Dec. 15, 1870; and was retired June 25, 1877. 

 In the volunteer service he was commissioned 

 colonel of the 10th Indiana Infantry, April 25, 

 1861, and brigadier general, May 17; resigned 

 Jan. 23, 1862; was reappointed a brigadier gen- 

 eral. Sept. 17, 1862; promoted major general, Nov. 

 29, and was mustered out Sept. 1, 1866. He was 

 brevetted brigadier general, United States army, 

 for " gallant and meritorious services in the 

 battle of Chickamauga," and major general for 

 similar services in the battle of Missionary 

 Ridge. In the early part of his career Gen. 



Reynolds served at the Military Academy as 

 Assistant Professor of Geography, History, and 

 Ethics, and later as Assistant Professor of Nat- 

 ural and Experimental Philosophy. He was on 

 frontier duty at Fort Wichita when he resigned 

 from the army to become Professor of Mechanics 

 and Engineering in Washington University, St. 

 Louis, Mo. This place he resigned four years 

 later, and engaged in private business in Lafay- 

 ette, Ind. Between the times of resigning his first 

 commission of brigadier general and of accepting 

 the second he served without any commission in 

 organizing Indiana volunteers. After returning 

 to the field he was assigned to command the 

 Cheat Mountain district in West Virginia. He 

 made the campaign* of the Army of the Cumber- 

 land in 1862-'63, taking part in the battles of 

 Hoover's Gap, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga, 

 and toward the end of 1863 became chief of staff 

 of that army. In the early part of 1864 he com- 

 manded the defenses of New Orleans; in June 

 he was placed in command of the 19th Corps, 

 and in the next two months he organized the 

 forces for the capture of Mobile. From Novem- 

 ber of that year till April, 1866, he commanded 

 the Department of Arkansas. After his return 

 to the regular army he commanded for five years 

 the 5th Military District, comprising Louisiana 

 and Texas, and while there (1871) was elected 

 United States Senator from Texas, but declined 

 the office. His last service was as commander of 

 the Department of the Platte, in 1872-76. Gen. 

 Reynolds was retired for disability contracted in 

 the line of duty. 



Richardson, John Peter, planter, born in 

 Clarendon County, South Carolina, in 1831 ; died 

 in Columbia, S. C., July 6, 1899. He was gradu- 

 ated at the South Carolina College, and was a 

 member of the Legislature till the civil war. He 

 served on the staff of Gen. Cantey, in the Confed- 

 erate army, from 1862 till the end of the war. 

 He was again elected to the Legislature in 1878, 

 was made State Treasurer in 1880, 1882, and 

 1884, and in 1886 and 1888 was elected Governor. 



Richardson, Locke, elocutionist, born in Prov- 

 idence, R. L, in 1844; died in Berlin, Germany, 

 June 15, 1899. He was a teacher of elocution at 

 Cornell University, and made his first essay as a 

 public reader before the Young Men's Christian 

 Association, in New York city, in 1873. He was 

 so well received that he made a season's engage- 

 ment to give readings in different cities of the 

 country, and became very popular. He was par- 

 ticularly admired in selections from Dickens and 

 Shakespeare. Of his readings from the last-named 

 writer, the most popular was Henry IV, in which 

 he displayed an intimate and affectionate knowl- 

 edge of the poet's dramatic intention and an ad- 

 mirable power of characterization. 



Richardson, William, educator, born in Car- 

 narvon, Wales, in 1843; died in New York city, 

 April 15, 1899. He ceme to New York in 1869, 

 and soon afterward began studying chemistry at 

 Cooper LTnion. On completing the course he fol- 

 lowed his profession for several years, "and then 

 returned to the school as an assistant in its chem- 

 ical laboratory. He was afterward appointed 

 director, and held the post nearly ten years. He 

 received the degree of Ph. D. from Waynesburg 

 (Pa.) College in 1888. 



Richmond, Adelbert G., antiquary, born 

 about 1840; died in Canajoharie, N. Y., Nov. 13, 

 1899. He was interested in various industrial 

 enterprises in Canajoharie. For several years, in 

 early life, he was private secretary to Francis E. 

 Spinner, Treasurer of the United States. He was 

 best known as a collector of relics of the North 



