Otliers ; A Rejoinder to Mr. Bancroft s Historical
Essay, besides pamphlets on historical subjects.
He died in New York city. Feb. 18, 1876.
REED, William Shields, educator, was born
in West Nottingham, Pa.. April 21, 1778 : son of
Adam and Martha (Shields) Reid, who emigrated
from the North of Ireland to Pennsylvania. He
was graduated at the College of New Jersey,
A.B., 1802, A.M., 1805 ; taught in the Georgetown,
D.C., academy, 1802-04 ; was professor in Hamp-
den-Sidney college, Va., 1804-06, and president
of the college, as successor to Dr. Archibald
Alexander, 1806-08. Having, while engaged in
teaching, taken a course in theology under Drs.
Balch and Hoge, he was licensed to preach by the
presbytery of Winchester in 1806, and removed
to Lynchburg, Va., 1808, where he opened a
school for young ladies, which he conducted until
1848. He organized a Presbyterian church in
Lynchburg, of which he was pastor, 1822-53. He
received the honorary degree D.D. from the Col
lege of New Jersey in 1834. He died in Lynch
burg, Va., June 23. 1853.
REEDER, Andrew Horatio, governor of Kan
sas, was born at Easton, Pa., July 12, 1807: son
of Absalom and Christina (Smith) Reeder : grand
son of John and Hannah (Marchand) Reeder and
of Leonard and Regina (Hungesser) Smith, and
a descendant of John Reeder of Norwich, Eng.
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REESE
land, who settled atNe\vto\vn. Long Island, about
1650. He attended the academy at La wren ce-
ville, N.J., and practised law in Easton from
1828. attaining a high position at the Pennsylvania
bar, and as a campaign orator in Democratic
political meetings. He was married, Sept. 13,
1831, to Fredericka Amalia, daughter of Chris
tian J. and Charlotte (Bauer) Hutter of Easton.
He was appointed by President Pierce, governor
of Kansas Territory in 1854, and although in
sympathy with the policy of the administration
regarding slavery, he expressed himself as satis
fied that the admission of the institution in
Kansas would result in- lawlessness, and he was
removed from office in July, 1855. He claimed
to have been elected a Free State delegate from
Kansas to the 34th congress in 1855, but his elec
tion was successfully contested by John W.
Whitfield, the incumbent delegate : and after
his election as U.S. senator under the Topeka
constitution, which congress refused to ratify,
Mr. Reeder returned to Easton, where he sup
ported John C. Fremont, the Republican candidate
for President. He was chairman of the Republi
can state delegation to the national convention at
Chicago in I860 ; a candidate for Vice-President
before the convention, receiving the third highest
vote, and in 1861, after having secured the ap
pointment of Simon Cameron as secretary of
war. declined a commission as brigadier-general
in the U.S. army from President Lincoln. On
Sept. 23, 1901, his portrait was presented to the
county of Northampton, by his surviving son and
daughter, on the ground that he had no military
education except that gained by his service as
captain in the state militia at Easton. He, how
ever, sent three sons to the Union army. He was
chairman of the Republican state delegation to
the Republican national convention of 1864, which
re-nominated Lincoln for President, and served
as chairman of the commission to investigate
the charges against Surgeon-General Hammond
in 1864. He died in Easton. Pa., July 5. 18G4.
REEDER, William Augustus, representative,
was born in Cumberland county, Pa., Aug. 28,
1849. He removed with his parents to Ipava,
Fulton county, 111., in 1853, attended the public
schools, and taught school in Illinois, 1863-71,
and in Beloit, Kan., 1871-79. He was married,
Aug. 18, 1876, to Eunice H. Andrews of Beloit,
and removed to Logan, Kan., where he engaged
in banking. In 1890, in partnership with A. H.
Ellis and J. J. Wiltrout, he purchased an exten
sive tract of land on the Solomon river, and
established the largest irrigation farm in the
state of Kansas. He was a Republican repre
sentative from the sixth congressional district
of Kansas in the 56th, 57th and 58th congresses,
1899-1905.
REES, John Krom, astronomer, was born in
New York city, Oct. 27, 1851 ; son of Hans and
Lucinda (Krom) Rees ; grandson of Iver Jensen
and Lena Maria Rees and of Reuben and Mary
(Dubois) Krom, and a descendant of Louis Du-
Bois (1660). He was graduated from Columbia
college, A.B., 1872, A.M., 1875, and from the
Columbia School of Mines, E.M., 1875. He was
assistant in mathematics at the School of Mines,
1873-76 ; was married Sept. 7, 1876, to Louise E.,
daughter of Nathaniel and Emma (Chambers)
Sands of New York city ; was professor of math
ematics and astronomy at Washington university,
St. Louis, Mo., 1876-81 ; was recalled to Columbia
as director of the observatory in 1881, and also
served as adjunct professor of geodesy and prac
tical astronomy, 1882-84 ; and professor, 1884-92,
being transferred to the chair of astronomy in
1892. He was chairman of the board of editors
of the School of Mines Quarterly, 1883-90. He
prepared with Prof. Harold Jacoby (q.v.) -and
Dr. Herman S. Davis as assistants, an account of
the seven years campaign (1893-1900) with the
Royal Observatory of Naples (M. Fergola, direc
tor), for the purpose of determining the varia
tions of latitude, and the constant of aberration,
the result of this work being published by the
New York Academy of Sciences as a volume of
the Annals of the Academy (1903); and under
his general direction the measurements and re
duction of the C. M. Rutherfurd star plates were
carried out by Professor Jacoby and the Observa
tory computing staff, and also published by the
Academy (1892-1903). In 1900 he completed ar
rangements for the mounting of a fixed telescope
at Helsingfors, Finland, adapted for photograph
ing star plates about the North Pole, according
to a plan suggested by Professor Jacoby. For
astronomical work done, the degree of Ph.D. was
conferred on him by Columbia in 1895. He was
president of the New York Academy of Sciences,
1894-96 ; secretary of the American Metrological
society, 1882-96, being made vice-president in
1896 ; vice-president of the American Mathemati
cal society, 1890-91 ; secretary of the University
Council of Columbia university, 1892-98 ; a fellow
of the Royal Astronomical society of London and
a member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft.
He received from the French government in
January, 1901, the decoration of the Legion of
Honor.
REESE, William Brown, jurist and educator,
was born in Jefferson county, Tenn., Nov. 19,
1793 ; son of James Reese, a pioneer settler of
East Tennessee (then Washington county. N.C.)
and a representative in the legislature of the
proposed state of Franklin, 1785-87. William B.
Reese attended the preparatory school of the Rev.
Dr. Henderson, and Blount college, and was
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REEVE
graduated from Greeneville college, Term., about
1814. He was admitted to the bar in 1817, and
practised at Knoxville, Tenu. He was president
of the East Tennes
see Historical society.
1830-59 ; chancellor
of the eastern district
of Tennessee, 1831-35,
succeeding Nathan
Green, resigned, and
in 1835 was unani
mously elected by the
legislature a judge of
the supreme court,
serving on the bench
until 1847, when his
term expired, and he
became a candidate
for U.S. senator, but
was defeated by John
Bell. He became president of East Tennessee
university in 1850, as successor to President East-
brook, resigned, and Judge Reese resigned in
1853. He advocated the building of a canal to
one of the South Atlantic ports, and was in
terested in the introduction of railroads in his
native state. He received the honorary degree
of LL.D. from East Tennessee university, 1845.
He died near Knoxville, Tenn., July 7, 1859.
REESE, William Smythe, educator, was born
in Pipestone, Mich., May 18, 1850 ; a descendant of
the Reeses and Rulisons of the Schoharie Valley,
N. Y. He attended the schools of Berrien county,
and was graduated from Otterbein university,
Westerville, Ohio, Ph.B., 1885, Ph.M., 1888. He
was married, June 11, 1874, to Amy M., daughter
of David and Mary Johnson of Westerville, Ohio,
and engaged in farming. He entered the min
istry of the United Brethren church, in 1886 ;
was ordained in 1888, and was pastor at Marion,
Ohio, and at Avalon, Mo. He was professor of
mathematics at Avalon college, 1887-89, and at
Western college, Toledo, Iowa, 1889-94 ; was
president of York college, Nebraska, 1894-97 ; was
elected president of Westfield college. Illinois, in
1897, serving as professor of mental and moral sci
ence there, 1897-1900, as professor of philosophy,
1900-02, and as professor of mathematics and ped
agogy from 1902. The honorary degree of D.D.
was conferred on him by York college in 1900.
REEVE, Charles McCormick, lawyer, was
born in Dansville, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1847; son of
Gen. Isaac V. D. and Elizabeth (Mann) Reeve ;
grandson of Isaac and Harriet (Ho well) Reeve,
and of Joshua and Elizabeth (Hurlbert) Shepard,
and a descendant of James Reeve, who came to
Southold, L.I., in 1640, from England : Ralph
Shepard, who came from Stepney Parish, Eng
land, in 1634, and settled in Massachusetts, and
Edward Howell, who came from England in
1635, and settled on Long Island, N.Y. He at
tended Canandaigua academy, was graduated
from Yale, A.B.. 1870, A.M., 1873, and was ad
mitted to the bar in 1872. He was married, June
4, 1873, to Christine, daughter of James and
Helen (Wetherbee) Lawrence, and established
himself in practice in Minneapolis. He was a
representative in the state legislature in 1890 ;
was sent to Russia during the famine of 1892 as a
relief commissioner from Minnesota and Ne
braska, and was secretary of the World s Fail-
commission, 1891-93. At the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war he was appointed colonel
of the 13th Minnesota volunteers, May 7, 1898 ;
was promoted brigadier-general, U.S.V., Aug. 13,
1898, for gallant and meritorious service in the
battle of Manila, and served as deputy provost-
marshal and 1st American chief-of-police of
Manila. He was appointed warden of the Min
nesota State prison, Dec. 1. 1899. He is the
author of How We Went, and WJtat We Scnv
(1890).
REEVE, Tapping, jurist, was born in Brook-
haven, L.I., in October, 1744; son of the Rev.
Abner Reeve, a minister of Long Island, and
afterward of Vermont, who lived to be one
hundred and four years old, preaching his last
sermon when one hundred and two years of age.
He was graduated from the College of New
Jersey, A.B., 1763, A.M., 1766; taught school at
Elizabeth, N.J., being joint headmaster of a
flourishing institution, 1763-67, and at the same
time was a tutor to Aaron and Sarah (children of
the Rev. Aaron) Burr. He was a tutor at the
College of New Jersey, 1767-70 ; married Sarah
Burr in 1771, when she was seventeen years of
age ; studied law with Judge Root, and in 1772
established himself in practice in Litchh eld, Conn.
Owing to his wife s invalidism he could not take
up active service in the Revolutionary war,
although an ardent patriot. In December, 1776,
however, he was appointed by the Connecticut
assembly a member of the committee (as was
Oliver Ellsworth, his classmate at college) to go
through the state and rouse the people to aid the
desperate Continental army by enlistments. He
himself took a commission as an officer, and got
as far as New York with the new volunteers,
when the news of the battles of Trenton and
Princeton, and Washington s altered fortunes
reached him, and he immediately returned to his
invalid wife. In 1784 he founded a law school
in Litchfield, in which he was the only instructor
till 1798, when James Gould became associated
with him, the school of Reeve and Gould becom
ing the most prominent of its kind in the country.
His wife died, March 30, 1797, leaving one son,
Aaron Burr Reeve, born Oct. 3, 1780 ; graduated
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at Yale. 1802 ; married Annabella Sheldon of New
York, Nov. 21, 1808 ; settled as a lawyer at Troy,
N.Y.. and died there, Sept. 1, 1809, leaving a son,
Tapping Burr Reeve, who died at Litchfield,
Aug. 28, 1829, age 20 years, while a student at
Yale. Annabella Reeve, after the death of her
first husband, married David T. Burr of New
Haven, and removed to Richmond, Va. Judge
Reeve was married a second time in 1799. and
this wife, who survived him, had no children.
He was a judge of the superior court of Con
necticut, 1798-1814 ; chief justice of the supreme
court, 1814, and a Federalist representative in the
state legislature for several years. The honorary
degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Middle-
bury college, Vt. , in 1808, and by the College of
New Jersey in 1813. He is the author of : The
Law of Baron and Fe mine (1816: 2d ed., 1846;
3ded., 1862); Law of Parent and Child (1816);
Law of Guardian and Ward (1816): La IP of Mas
ter and Servant (1816 ; 2d ed., 1862); Treatise on
the Laii" of Descents in the United States of
America (1825), and Essays on the Legal Import
of the Terms, Heirs, Heirs of the Body Issue, Etc.
The best biographical sketch of him is found in the
funeral sermon preached over him by his pastor,
the Rev. Lyman Beecher, and published in the
Clirixtian Spectator for 1887, pp. 62-71. He died
in Litchfield, Conn., Dec. 13, 1823.
REEVES, Walter, representative, was born
near Brownsville, Pa.. Sept. 25, 1848; son of
Harrison and Maria (Leonard) Reeves ; grandson
of Samuel and Martha (Palmer) Reeves, and of
Benjamin and Mary Leonard. He removed to
Illinois in 1856, and engaged in farming, later
becoming a teacher. He was admitted to the
bar in 1875, and practised in the courts of
Illinois. He was married. June 27, 1876. to
Marietta M., daughter of Lucius and Catherine
(Warner) Cogswell of New Milford, Conn. He
was a Republican representative from the
eleventh district of Illinois in the 54th, 55th,
56th and 57th congresses, 1895-1903. As a mem
ber of the committee on rivers and harbors he
devoted his energies to the internal development
of the country. He also proposed and prepared
the legislation under which President McKinley
appointed the Isthmian Canal commission which
investigated the Panama and Nicaraguan routes
for the inter-oceanic canal. In the 57th congress
he was chairman of the committee on patents.
REHAN, Ada, actress, was born in Limerick,
Ireland, April 22, 1860 ; daughter of Thomas
and Harriet Crehan. She immigrated to the
United States with her parents in 18C4, and set
tled in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she attended the
public schools until 1873. She made her first
public appearance on the stage in Newark. N.J. ,
in 1873, taking the part of an actress in the
company of Oliver Dond Byron, then producing
Across the Continent." She succeeded so well
that her parents decided upon her adopting the
profession, which was followed by her older sisters
as well. She studied for one year, and then
played in support of Edwin Booth, Adelaide
Neilson, John McCullough, Mrs. D. P. Bowers,
John T. Raymond and Lawrence Barrett in the
roles of Ophelia, Desdemona, Celia, Olivia and
other Shakesperian characters, in Philadelphia,
Baltimore. Albany, and Louisville stock com
panies. She declined the offer of leading lady in
Edwin Booth s company to engage with Angus-
tin Daly in 1878, and in 1879 made her appear
ance under his management at Daly s theatre,
New York city, as Nelly Beers in " Love s Young
Dream" and as Lulu Ten Ej ck in "Divorce."
She became very successful in such comedy roles
as Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew,"
Rosalind in As You Like It ; " the Countess Vera
in The Last Word ; " and the principal female
characters in " Cinderella at School ; " " Needles
and Pins ; " A Wooden Spoon ; " " The Railroad
of Love ; " " After Business Hours ; " " Our Eng
lish Friends," and "The Country Girl." She
achieved remarkable success in Daly s company
in London and Paris, and remained under the one
manager until his death in 1899, when she retired
from the stage.
REHN, Frank Knox Morton, artist, was born
in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1848; son of Pro
fessor Isaac and Abigail Francis (Zelly) Rehn ;
grandson of James and Susanna (Asy) Zelly, and
a descendant of immigrants from Holland. He
attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
under Christian Schussell, and engaged in por
trait, landscape, marine, still-life and figure
painting. He was married, Dec. 1, 1881, to Mar
garet Selby, daughter of George C. and Margaret
(Rackliffe) Bower of Philadelphia, and removed to
New York city, where he opened a studio. He ex
hibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts
and the National Academy of Design, New York
city, and was awarded the first prize for marine
painting at the St. Louis exposition in 1882 ; a prize
of 250 at a water-color competitive exhibition
held in New York in 1885, a gold medal at the prize
fund exhibition at New York in 1886, honorable
mention at the Paris exposition, 1900, and a silver
medal at the Pan-American, 1901, and South Caro
lina, 1902, expositions. He was made associate
National Academician, a member of the American
Water Color society, and of the New York Water
Color club. Among his most famous paintings
are: Tlie Turkish Harem; Looking down on the
Sea from the Rocks at Magnolia, Mass. (1885);
TJie Missing Vessel ; The Close of a Summer Day
(1887); Evening, Gloucester Harbor (1887); and
the Derelict (1892).
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REICHEL, Charles Qotthold, Moravian bishop,
was born in Hermsdorf, Silesia, July 14, 1751 ;
son of the Rev. C. R. Reichel, a Lutheran min
ister. He was educated in the Moravian college
at Nisby, and in the theological seminary at
Gradenfeld, Germany, and came to the United
States in 1784 to take charge of the boys mili
tary boarding school at Nazareth, Pa., founded
by Francis Christian Lembke in 1759. Under
Reichel s administration the school was greatly
increased, and he resigned the principalship in
1801 to receive consecration to the episcopacy of
the Moravian church. He served as presiding
bishop of the southern district, residing in Salem,
N.C., until 1811, when he was transferred to the
northern district, and resided in Bethlehem, Pa.
He was present at the general synod at Herrn
hut, Saxony, in 1818, after which he resigned his
appointment and continued to live in Germany.
He received the honorary degree of D.D. from
the University of North Carolina in 1811. He
died at Niesky, Prussia, April 18, 1825.
REICHEL, Levin Theodore, Moravian bishop,
was born in Bethlehem, Pa., March 4, 1812 ; son
of Bishop Charles Gotthold Reichel (q.v.). He
went with his parents to Saxony in 1818 ; was
educated in the Moravian college at Nisby and in
the theological seminary in Gradenfeld, Germany,
and returned to the United States in 1834. He
taught for three years at Nazareth Hall. Pa.,
and subsequently in the theological seminary
at Bethlehem ; served as preacher in Schoeneck,
Emmaus and Nazareth, and was principal of
Nazareth Hall, 1849-53. He was pastor at Lititz,
Pa., 1853-54, and served as president of the pro
vincial board of the southern district, 1854-57,
residing at Salem, N.C. He was president of the
general synod at Herrnhut in 1858, and was made
a member of the mission board, which position he
continued to hold throughout his life. He was
consecrated bishop, July 7, 1869. and as such
visited the West Indies and Labrador. He was
the founder and for several years editor of
Das Bruder Blatt, the pioneer German Moravian
publication in the United States, and is the
author of : History of Nazareth Hall (1855); TJte
Moravians in North Carolina (1857); Missions-
Atlas der Brilder-Kirehe (1800), and an unfinish
ed history of the American branch of the Morav
ian church. He died near Herrnhut, Saxony,
May 23, 1878.
REICHEL, William Cornelius, author, was
born in Salem, N.C., May 9. 1824 ; son of the Rev.
G. Benjamin Reichel, principal of the Salem
Female academy, and grandson of Bishop Charles
Gotthold Reichel (q.v.). He attended Nazareth
Hall, Pa., and was graduated from the Moravian
Theological seminary in 1844. He was tutor at
Nazareth Hall, 1844-48 ; taught school in Beth
lehem, Pa., 1848-58 ; was professor in the Morav
ian Theological seminary, 1858-62 ; principal of
Linden seminary. Lititz, Pa., 1862-68, and pro
fessor of Latin and natural sciences in the Young
Ladies seminary, Bethlehem, Pa., 1868-76. He
was ordained to the diaconate in 1S62. and to the
priesthood in May, 1864. He is the author of
many books on the early history of the Moravian
church, including: History of Nazareth Hall (1855);
History of the Bethlehem Female Seminary 17t!o-
^55(1858); Moravianism in New York and Connec
ticut (1860); Memorials of the Moravian Church
(1870); Wyalusing and tJie Moravian Mission at
Friedenshiietten (1871); Names which tJie Leuni
Lennape or Delaware Indians girc to Rivers,
Streams and Localities within the States of Penn
sylvania. Neiv Jersey, Maryland and Virginia,
n ith their Significations (1872); ^i Red Rose from
the Olden Time (1872); The Crown Inn near
Bethlehem, Pa., 1745 (1872) ; The Old Sun Inn at
Bethlhem, Pa.. 175S (1873); .4 Register of Mem
bers of the Moravian Church 17~7 to 17 5 4 (1873) ;
and a revised edition of John Heckewelder s
History of the Indian Nations (1876). He died in
Bethlehem. Pa.. Oct. 15, 1876.
REID, David Settle, senator, was born in
Rockingham county, N.C., April 19, 1813 : son of
Reuben Reid. He attended the public school;
was admitted to the bar in 1834, and opened a
law office in Went worth, lie was a member of
the state senate. 1835-42;
a Democratic representative
from the third North Carolina
district in the 28th and 29th
congresses, 1843-47 ; was de
feated for governor of the
state in 1848, by Charles
Manly. Whig, and was gov
ernor for two terms. 1851-54, and was U.S. senator
from North Carolina, from Dec. 11, 1854. to March
3, 1859, serving as chairman of the committee on
patents and the patent office. He was a delegate
to the Peace convention that met in Washington,
D.C., in February, 1861. He married a daughter
of the Hon. Thomas Settle (q.v.). He died in
Wentworth. N.C., June 19, 1891.
REID, John Morrison, educator, was born in
New York city, May 30, 1820 ; son of John and
Jane (Morrison) Reid. He was graduated from
the University of the City of New York, A.B.,
1839, A.M., 1842, and was a teacher and principal
of the Mechanics Institute school, New York
city, 1839-44. He entered the ministiy of the
Methodist Episcopal church in 1844 ; was pastor
at Wolcottsville, Conn., 1844-45; New Hartford,
Conn., 1846; Jamaica, N.Y., 1847-49 ; Birming
ham. Conn., 1849-50; Middletown, Conn., 1851-
52 : Seventh street, N.Y r ., 1853-54 ; Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1855-56, and Bridgeport, Conn., 1857. He
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REID
was president of Genesee college, Lima, N.Y.,
1858-64 : editor of the Western Christian Advo
cate, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1804-68 ; editor of the
Northwestern Christian Advocate, Chicago, 1868-
72 ; secretary of the Missionary Society of the
M. E. Church, 1872-88, and honorary secretary
1888-96; delegate to the general conference, 1856-
88, and to the Ecumenical Methodist conference,
London, England, 1881. He was married first,
Nov. 14, 1844, to Ann Mason of New York city ;
and secondly, May 3, 1848, to Caroline S. , daughter
of Thomas B. Fanton of Redding, Conn. He
received the degrees, A.M., from Wesleyan uni
versity in 1858. D.D., from the University of the
City of New York in 1858, and LL.D. from Syra
cuse university in 1881. He is the author of :
Missions and Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church (2 vols., 1883) ; Doomed Relig
ions (1883), and many religious tracts and pamph
lets. He died in New York city, May 16, 1896.
REID, Robert Raymond, governor of Florida,
was born in Prince William parish, S.C., Sept. 8,
1789. He was educated at South Carolina college,
and in early life removed to Augusta, Ga., where
he was admitted to the bar in 1810. He was
judge of the Georgia superior court, 1816-18 and
1823-25 ; a Democratic representative in the 15th
congress, completing the term of John Forsyth,
elected to the U.S. senate, and in the 16th and
17th congresses, serving from Feb. 18, 1819. to
March 3, 1823. He was mayor of Augusta. 1827-
30 ; judge of the superior court for the district
of East Florida, 1832-39 ; governor of the terri
tory of Florida, 1839-41, and presiding officer
of the state constitutional convention held at
St. Joseph, Fla.. from Dec. 3. 1838, to Jan. 11,