to the people, subsequently published as the
"Ryan Address." He removed to Milwaukee
in 1848 ; was city attorney, 1870-72 ; was appoint
ed chief justice of the supreme court of Wiscon
sin to succeed Luther S. Dixon, June 17. 1874. and
was elected to the office in April, 1875. serving
until his death, which occurred in Milwaukee,
Wis., Oct. 19, 1880.
RYAN, James, R.C. bishop, was born in
Thurles, county Tipperary, Ireland, June 17. 1848.
He came to the United States at an early age ;
prepared for the priesthood in the seminaries of
St. Thomas and St. Joseph, Bardstown, Ky.; was
ordained, Dec. 24, 1871, at Louisville, Ky.; was
professor at St. Joseph s seminary, and subse
quently missionary pastor in Kentucky until
1878, and in Illinois, 1878-88. He was appointed
bishop of Alton, 111., and was consecrated May 1,
1888, by Bishop Spalding of Peoria, assisted by
Bishops McCloskey and Janssen.
RYAN, John, Jesuit clergyman and educator,
was born in Ireland, June 24, 1810. He was edu
cated in the Catholic schools of his native coun
try, at that time decried by the government, and
determining to enter the priesthood, he came to
America and joined the Society of Jesus at Bards-
town, Ky., Sept. 7. 1839, where lie served his no
vitiate and was ordained priest in 1845. He joined
the Jesuit colony in New York city, where he
helped to conduct the School of the Holy Name
of Jesus, first in basements of churches and
then in a building on Third avenue between Elev
enth and T.welfth streets. He was the second
president of the school, 1847-50, and having
through strenuous efforts and against great oppo
sition secured a plot of ground on West Fifteenth
street as the site for a Jesuit college, lie was in
strumental in founding the College of St. Francis
Xavier, opened in 1850, and he was the first pres
ident under the new name, 1849-55. He died in
New York city in 1861.
RYAN, Patrick John, archbishop, was born in
Thurles. county Tipperary, Ireland, Feb. 20, 1831 ;
son of Jeremiah and Mary Ryan. He attended
the Christian Brothers school at Thurles ; a pri
vate school in Dublin until 1847 ; was ^graduated
from Carlow college in 1852, and ordained sub-
deacon, and in .the same year came to the United
States. He was professor of English literature in
Carondolet Theological seminary, St. Louis, Mo.,
1852-53 ; ordained deacon in 1853, and priest,
Sept. 8, 1853, by Archbishop Kenrick, being ap
pointed assistant rector of the St. Louis cathedral
and secretary of the archbishop. In 1856 he was
made rector, remaining in that position until
1860, when he assumed charge of the Parish of the
Annunciation in St. Louis, serving also during
the civil war as chaplain to the Gratiot Street
Military prison and hospital, and declining a com
mission as chaplain in the army. After the war
lie was appointed rector of St. John s church, St
Louis, and while on a visit in Europe., in 1867-68.
at the invitation of Pope Pius IX., delivered in the
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latter year the English course of Lenten lectures
in Rome. He was appointed vicar-general upon
his return to St. Louis in 1868, and was adminis
trator of the diocese during Archbishop Kenrick s
absence while attending the Vatican council ;
was consecrated Bishop of Tricomia (Palestine)
i. p. i., and coadjutor to the archbishop of St.
Louis, April 14, 1872, by Archbishop Kenrick,
assisted by Bishops Feehan and Melcher ; pro
moted archbishop coadjutor, and translated to
the titular see of Salamis (Greece). Jan. 6, 1884,
and transferred as archbishop to Philadelphia,
June 8, 1884. In 1877 he delivered, on invitation,
two lectures before the legislature of Missouri ; in
1879 he preached at the dedication of the New
Y/ork cathedral ; and in 1885 preached on the occa
sion of the bestowal of the pallium on Archbishop
Corrigan. In November, 1883, he visited Rome
to participate in the deliberations of the Ameri
can archbishops before the Third plenary council
of Baltimore, and preached the opening sermon
of the council in November, 1884, as well as the
centennial sermon of the establishment of the
Catholic hierarchy of the United States in 1889 ;
was chosen orator by Cardinal Gibbons, when the
latter received the cardinal s hat in 1886 ; preached
the sermon at the laying of the corner-stone of
the National Irish Church of Patrick in Rome,
1888, and delivered the address to his holiness
Leo XIII., on presenting him with a copy of the
constitution of the United States, the gift of
President Grover Cleveland, on the occasion of
the Pope s Episcopal jubilee in 1888. The sil
ver jubilee of Archbishop Ryan s elevation to the
see of Philadelphia was celebrated by the Cath
olic Province of the Archdiocese of that city with
elaborate ceremony in 1897. His published lec
tures include : What Catholics <lo not Believe
(1877); The Causes of Modern Religious Skepti
cism (1883); Agnosticism (1895). In 1902 Arch
bishop Ryan dedicated the new R.C. chapel of
St. Maron in Philadelphia, the house of worship
for the Maronites, who are permitted to use their
ancient liturgy in the Cyro-Chaldaic tongue.
Archbishop Ryan received the honorary degree of
LL.D. from the University of New Y/ork in 1864,
and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1886,
and was closely identified as one of the trustees
with the promotion of the American Catholic
university at Washington, B.C. A jubilee cele
bration in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of
Archbishop Ryan s ordination was arranged for
Sept. 8, 1903, by the clergy of the archdiocese.
RYAN, Stephen Vincent, R.C. bishop, was
born in Almonte, Ontario, Jan. 1. 1825 ; son of
Martin and Catherine (McCarthy) Ryan, lie re
moved with his parents at an early age to Potts-
ville, Pa. ; attended St. Charles seminary, Phila
delphia, 1840-44. joining the I.azarist order at
CapeGirardeau, Mo., in the latter year, and after
continuing his theological studies at the semi
nary of St. Mary s of the Barrens. Mo., was or
dained priest by Archbishop P. R. Kenrick, June
24, 1849. From 1851 to 1857 he was engaged as pro
fessor and prefect at St. Mary s ; as professor at
Cape Girardeau, and as president of the College of
St. Vincent. In 1857, on the anniversary of his or
dination, he was made visitor of the Vincentian
Fathers, making his home in St. Louis. Mo., and
subsequently in Germantown, Pa., to which city
the headquarters of the community were trans
ferred largely through his influence. He was con
secrated second bishop of the diocese of Buffalo in
St. Joseph s cathedral, Buffalo, N.Y., Nov. 8, 1868,
by Archbishop McCloskey of Ne\v Y/ork, assisted
by Bishops Loughlin, McQuaid and Conroy.
During his administration the diocese more than
doubled the number of its churches and chapels,
and also the number of its priests. Bishop Ryan
bequeathed his property to the Roman Catholic
church. He died in Buffalo, N.Y., April 10. 1896.
RYAN, Thomas, musician, was born in Temple
Moor, Ireland, in 1827 : son of Michael and Ellen
(Armstrong) Ryan. His father was a bandmas
ter in the British army. Thomas Ryan came to
the United States in 1845, and was immediately
engaged as a member of the orchestra of a theatre
owned by William B. English, on Washington
street, Boston, Mass., joining the orchestra at
the Howard Athenaeum in 1846, and subsequently
teaching and playing as opportunity offered. In
November, 1849, the Mendelssohn Quintet club
gave its first public performance in Chickering
Hall, Boston. Mr. Ryan rendering a clarinet con
certo, lie remained a member of the club until
his death, touring through the United States,
Australia, Nesv Zealand and the Sandwich Islands.
He was married. May 24, 1854, to Mary Helen,
daughter of Eben Carlton and Eliza Badger
(Jacobs) Ewins of Gilmanton. N.H. In 1873 he
was active in inducing the club to establish the
National College of Music in Tremont Temple,
Boston, but was obliged to abandon the enterprise
after one year, arid in 1893 founded the Con-
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servatory of Music and Fine Arts at Augusta,
Ga. He was a member of the Boston Academy
of Music, introducing for the first time in Boston
Mendelssohn s " Midsummer Night s Dream " and
his own " Scotcli Symphony ; a member of the
Musical Fund society, and of the Orchestral union.
Mr. Ryan was known as a talented player of the
clarinet and viola, and as the composer of a
number of quartettes for strings and clarinet, per
formed by the Mendelssohn Quintet club and by
himself as soloist. He is the author of : Recollec
tions of An Old Musician ( 1899) . He died in New
Bedford. Mass., while on his way from New York
city to his home in Boston, Mass., March 5, 1903.
RYAN, Thomas, representative, was born at
Oxford. N.Y., Nov. 35, 1837. In early life he
went with his parents to Bradford county, Pa.,
where he lived on a farm until 1854. He was a
student at Dickinson seminary, Williamsport,
Pa., and in 1861 was admitted to the bar. He
served in the Federal army, 1862-64 ; was severely
wounded at the battle of the Wilderness, and was
mustered out with the rank of captain. He was
married, Nov. 24, 1863, to a daughter of Edwin
Coolbaugh of Towanda, Pa. In 1865 he removed
to Topeka, Kan., where he was county attorney,
18C j-73 ; assistant U.S. attorney for Kansas,
1873-76 ; and a Republican representative from
the fourth district of Kansas in the 45th-50th con
gresses, 1877-89. He was re-elected to the 51st
congress, but resigned to accept the office of U.S.
minister to Mexico, where he served, 1889-93.
He again practised law in Topeka until 1897,
when he was appointed by President McKinley
first assistant secretary of the interior, and was
continued as such by President Roosevelt.
RYAN, William Henry, representative, was
born at Hopkinton, Mass., May 10, 1860; son
of Patrick and Jane (Cleary) Ryan. In 1866 he
removed with his parents to Buffalo, N.Y"., where
he was educated in the public schools, and en
gaged in business as a contractor. He was mar
ried, Sept. 19. 1887. to Ellen, daughter of Ter
ence Cosgrove. of Buffalo, N.Y/. He was a
member of the board of supervisors of Erie
county. 1895-99, and its chairman, 1898, and was
a representative from the thirty-second district
of New York in the 56th, 57th and 58th congresses,
1899-1905.
RYDER, James, educator, was born in Dublin,
Ireland. Oct. 8, 1800. He came to the United
States at an early age ; entered the Society of
Jesus, 1813; studied at Georgetown university,
D.C., and in Rome, Italy, and was ordained priest
in 1825. He was professor of theology and the
sacred scriptures, College of Spoleto, Italy, 1825-
28 ; professor of theology and philosophy, and
vice-president of Georgetown university, D.C. ,
1828-39, resigning in 1839 to become pastor of St.
Mary s church, Philadelphia, Pa. He was pastor
in Frederick, Md., 1840-41 ; president of George
town university, 1841-43 ; superior of the Jesuit
order in the United States, 1843-45 ; president of
the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.,
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1846-48, and again pi esident of Georgetown uni
versity, 1848-51. He is the author of various ad
dresses and sermons. He died in Philadelphia,
Pa,. Jan. 12. 1860.
RYDER, Platt Powell, artist, was born in
Brooklyn, N.Y/., June 11, 1821 ; son of Uriah and
Mary Ann (Powell) Ryder ; grandson of Nathaniel
and Phebe (Xostrand) Ryder, and of Jacob and
Elizabeth (Sands) Powell, the latter of Quaker
stock. He attended the public schools and later
the Brooklyn Art Association and Academy of De
sign, and the National Academy of Design, al
though he was in art mainly self-educated. He vis
ited Europe in 1860. and again in 1869. studying in
London, Amsterdam. The Hague, and at the atelier
of Bonnat in Paris, exhibiting two works in oil
at the Salon in 1870. On his return in the latter
year he painted genre subjects, interiors, with
figures, landscapes and portraits. He also painted
in water-colors, when leisure permitted. He was
elected a member of the National Academy of
Design in 1868, and was one of the founders of
the Brooklyn Academy of Design. Mr. Ryder
never married. His portrait subjects include :
Miss Emily Cole, Katskill, N.Y\; Mrs. Dickinson,
New York ; Judge Alexander McCue and others
of his family ; Judge G. J. Dyckerman ; Will
iam Marshall ; Charles Parsons, A.N.A., for
the National Academy of Design ; S. R. Putnam ;
George P. Putnam, for the trustees of the Metro
politan Museum of Art, and Gen. U. S. Grant,
which last portrait, though executed entirely
from memory of the general s features, as studied
at his various appearances in public assemblies, is
said to be a striking likeness. His genre paint
ings include : The Christmas Turkey ; Tli e House
keeper ; Boys Playing Marbles (W. T. Evans col
lection); Expectant; On Guard ; Waiting for the
Train. He died in Saratoga, N.Y ., July 16. 1896.
RYLAND, Charles Hill, educationist and min
ister, was born in King and Queen county, Va.,
Jan. 22, 1836 ; son of Samuel Peachey and Cath-
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arine (Gaines) Hill Ryland. He was prepared
for college at Fleetwood academy ; was a student
at Richmond college, 1854-56, and \vas graduated
at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary in
1860. He was evangelist and colporteur in the
Confederate army, 1861-65 ; -was pastor at Bur-
russ s church, Mount Carmel, Va. , 1863-66 ; gen
eral state superintendent of Sunday-schools, 1866-
69, and was prominent in the first national Sun
day-school institute at St. Louis, 1869. He was
married, Oct. 28, 1869, to Alice Marion, daughter
of Dr. John Muscoe and Anne E. (Hancock)
Garnett of King and Queen county, Va. ; pastor
in Alexandria, Va.. 1869-74; financial secretary
and librarian, Richmond college, 1874-1903. He
was elected a trustee of Richmond college ; a
member of the corporation of Columbian univer
sity, D.C., and overseer, 1872-82, and founder of
the Virginia Baptist Historical society, 1876. The
degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Rich
mond college.
RYLAND, Robert, educator, was born in King
and Queen county, Va., March 14, 1805; son of
Josiah and Catharine (Peachy) Ryland ; grand
son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hunley) Ryland,
and great-grandson of Richard Hunley. He re
ceived a good preparatory training in private
schools and academies near his home ; was li
censed to preach in 1825, and ordained to the Bap
tist ministry in 1827. He was married, May 27,
1830, to Josephine, daughter of Thomas and Ann
(Mosby) Norvell of Richmond, Va. He was grad
uated from Columbian college, Washington, D.C.,
A.B., 1826, A.M. 1831 ; was pastor at Lynchburg,
Va., 1827-31 ; principal of the Virginia Baptist
seminary, Spring Farm, Henrico county, Va. (a
manual labor school, which was removed to Rich
mond, Va., 1834), and served, 1832-40, and as
president of its successor, Richmond college,
1840-66. He resigned the presidency in 1866.
He had served as chaplain of the University of Vir
ginia, 1834-36, and as pastor of the First African
Baptist church, Richmond, 1842-67. He was
president of the female seminary in Shelbyville.
Ky., 1868-70; at Lexington, Ky., 1870-77, and at
New Castle, Ky., 1877-80. He received the hon
orary degree of D.D. from Richmond college and
from Shurtleff college, 111. He is the author of :
Lectures on the Apocalypse (1857); of several ad
dresses and published sermons, and of a catechism
which was used for the oral instruction of the
colored people in his church. He died in Lexing
ton, April 23, 1899.
RYLAND, William Sample, educator, was
born in Richmond, Va., June 4, 1836 ; son of the
Rev. Robert (q.v.) and Josephine (Xorvell) Ry
land. He was graduated at Richmond college,
of which his father was president. A.B., 1855.
A.M., 1858; was pastor of the Baptist church at
Winchester, Va., 1859-61 ; taught school in Clarke
county, 1861-63 ; was chaplain in the Confederate
army, 1863-65 ; pastor and teacher at Frederick
county, Va., 1865-67; Grenada, Miss., 1867-73,
and Lexington, Ky., 1873-80 ; president of the
Lexington Female college, 1877-80 ; president of
Bethel college, Ky., 1889-98, serving also as profes
sor of natural science, 1880-93, and as chairman of
the faculty, 1887-89, and in 1893 became pastor of
churches in Logan county, Ky., residing at Rus-
sellville. He was married at Racine, Wis.,
Sept. 29, 1870, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Dr.
William J. Morton, a native of Shelby county, Ky.
He received the degree of Ph.D. from Mercer uni
versity, Ga., in 1886, and that of D.D. from
Georgetown, Ky., in 1887.
RYORS, Alfred, educator, was born in Phila
delphia, Pa., or Long Island, N.Y ., June 28, 1812.
Left an orphan at an early age in Philadelphia,
he resided at Abington, Montgomery county, Pa.,
in the family of the Rev. Robert Steel, whose se
lect school he attended. He was graduated from
Jefferson college. Pa., in 1835, meanwhile teach
ing Latin and Greek at C. J. Ilalderman s school
at Bristol, Pa., 1833-34 ; was principal of the pre
paratory department at Lafayette college, Pa.,
1835-36 ; adjunct professor of Latin and Greek,
1836-37, and professor of mathematics in Ohio
university, Athens, 1836-44. He was married in
1838 to Louisa, daughter of Judge Walker of
Athens, Ohio. He was licensed to preach by the
presbytery of Philadelphia in 1838 ; was professor
of mathematics in Indiana university, 1844-48 ;
was ordained by the presbytery of Salem, Ind., in
1845, and preached in Bloomington, 1845-48 ; was
president of Ohio university, 1848-52, and in 1852
was elected president of Indiana university, but
he resigned at the end of the first year, and sup
plied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church
of Madison, Ind., declining, however, to become
their pastor. He was professor of mathematics
in Centre college, stated supply of the Presby
terian church, New Princeton, and co-pastor elect
of the Second church, Danville, Ky.. 1854-58.
The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on
him by Indiana university in 1848. He died in
Danville, Ky., May 8, 1858.
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SABIN, Dwight May, senator, was born on a
farm near Marseilles. La Salle county, 111.. April
25, 1843 ; the youngest son of Horace C. and
Maria E. Sabin ; grandson of Jedediah Sabin, of
Huguenot and Scotch descent, who shared in
the original Roxbury grant, owning a large farm
in Windham county, Conn., which had descended
to him from the earliest pioneers. His father,
who had settled in Illinois, returned to Windham,
Conn., in 1857. D\viglit M. Sabin attended
Phillips academy, Andover, Mass. ; served in the
Federal army for three months in 1863, and then
engaged in farming and lumbering in Connecticut
until 1868, when he settled in Stilhvater. Minn.,
in the lumber business and as a manufacturer
of railroad cars and agricultural machinery.
He represented the twenty-second district in
the Minnesota senate, 1872-73, and in the lower
house, 1878 and 1881, and was a delegate to the
Republican national conventions of 1872, 1876,
1880 and 1884, serving as chairman in 1884. He
was a U.S. senator from Minnesota, 1883-89,
serving as chairman of the committee on rail
roads. He was married, July 1. 1891. to Jessie
Larmon, daughter of Asahel and Susan Slee of
Paducah, Ky. He died suddenly of heart failure
at the Auditorium Annex, Chicago, Dec. 22, 1902.
SABIN E, James, clergyman, was born at
Fareham, Hampshire, England, May 26, 1774 ;
son of Sarah and Samuel (Beaker) Sabine. He
entered the Presbyterian ministry, and was mar
ried, Aug. 19, 1800, to Ann, daughter of Isaac
and Rachel (Jackson) Danford of Uley. Glouces
tershire, England. He sailed from London with
his wife and seven children, May 6, 1816, and
arrived, June 15, at St. Johns, Newfoundland,
where he preached until after the two great fires
which devastated that city. He then removed to
Boston, Mass., arriving. July 18. 1818. and there
founded the society in Boylston Hall, which later
became the Essex Street church, of which he was
the first minister. In 1828 he withdrew from the
Presbyterian church and took orders in the Pro
testant Episcopal church, being ordained priest
in 1830. He was the first rector of Grace church,
Boston, and in 1830 was transferred to Christ
church. Bethel, Vt., where he remained until
liis death. He is the author of : Ecclesiastical
History (1820), and many published sermons. He
died in Randolph. Vt., at the residence of his
daughter, Oct. 2, 1845.
SABINE, Lorenzo, historian, was born in Lis
bon, N.H., July 28, 1803 ; son of the Rev. Elijah
Robinson and Hannah (Clark) Sabine ; grandson
of Nehemiah and Mary (Rice) Sabine, and of
John Clark, and a descendant of William Sabine,
a Huguenot, who came from Wales to Rehoboth,
Mass., in 1643. Elijah Robinson Sabine (1776-
1818) was presiding elder of the Vermont and
Rhode Island districts ; was the first Methodist
to serve as chaplain of the Massachusetts house
of representatives, and was taken prisoner by the
British during the war of 1812, for assisting in
the military hospital. Lorenzo Sabine became
book-keeper for the Passamaquoddy Bank, East-
port, Me., and engaged as a frontier trader, 1834-
48. He served three terms as representative in
the Maine legislature, and afterward as deputy
collector of customs. He removed to Massachu
setts in 1849 ; was confidential agent of the U.S.
treasury department in relation to the Ashburton
treat} in 1852, and was a Whig representative in
the 32d congress as successor to Benjamin Thomp
son, deceased, 1852-53. He was also secretary of
the Boston Board of Trade, and wrote nine of its
annual reports. He was a member of the New
England Historic Genealogical society and of the
Massachusetts Historical society ; and received
the honorary degree A.M. from Bowdoin in 1846,
and from Harvard in 1848. He is the author of :
Life of Com. Edii ardPreble, in Sparks s American
Biography (1847); The American Loyalists, or
Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British
Crown in the Revolution (1847; 2d. ed., 2 vols.,
1864); Reports on the Principal Fisheries of the
American Seas, for the U.S. treasury department
(1853); Notes on Duels and Duelling, with a Pre
liminary Historical Essay (1855 ; 3d. ed., 1856), and
Address on the Hundredth Anniversary of the
Death of Major-General James Wolfe (1859). He
died in Boston, Mass., April 14, 1877.
SACKET, Delos Bennet, soldier, was born at
Cape Vincent, N.Y., April 14, 1822. He was
graduated at the U.S. Military academy, brevet
2d lieutenant in the 2d dragoons, July 1,1845;
served in the military occupation of Texas, 1845-
46, and in the Mexican war, 1846-47, and was
brevetted 1st lieutenant, May 9, 1846, for gal
lantry at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. He
was promoted 2d lieutenant, 1st dragoons, June
30, 1846, and 1st lieutenant, Dec. 27, 1848 ; was
assistant instructor in cavalry tactics at the U.S.
Military academy, 1850-55 ; was promoted captain,
1st cavalry, March 3, 1855; served in garrison and
on the field, 1855-56, and on the board to revise
the army regulations at Washington, 1856-57.
He was engaged in quelling the Kansas disturb
ances ; in the Utah and Cheyenne expedition
and in the Antelope Hill expedition, 1857-59;
was promoted major, Jan. 31, 1861, and lieutenant-
colonel, 2d cavalry, May 3, 1861 ; and served as
acting inspector-general at Washington, D.C.,
June to August, 1861 ; as mustering and disburs
ing officer in New York city, August to Decem-
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ber, 1861, and was promoted inspector-general
with the rank of colonel, Oct. 1, 1861. He was
inspector-general, Army of the Potomac, 1861-63 ;
served on McClellan s staff in the Peninsular and
Maryland campaigns, and on Burnside s staff in
Virginia. He was in charge of the inspector-
general s office at Washington, B.C., in 1863;
served successively on the boards to organize the
invalid corps, and for retiring disabled officers,
1863-64 ; was on inspection duty in the depart
ments of the Tennessee, Cumberland, Arkansas,
and New Mexico, 1864-65, and on March 13, 1865,
was brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry in
the field during the war, and major-general for
services during the war. He served on a tour of
inspection to and through Montana Territory to
the Pacific ocean in 1666 ; was inspector-general
of the departments of the Tennessee and of the
Cumberland, 1866-68 ; of the division of the
Atlantic, 1868-72, and under general instructions
from the war department, 1872-76. He was in
spector-general of the division of the Missouri,
1876-81, and was promoted inspector-general of