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158 priest in 1863, and stationed at Attica, Ind., at the same time attending several other missions. In 1869 he was transferred to the pastorate of the Church of St. Paul of the Cross, Columbia City, and in 1877 was appointed pastor of the Church of St. Mary, Fort Wayne, and shortly afterward chancellor of the diocese. His next post was that of pastor of St. Mary's church. Lafayette. His zeal and ability in these several places recommended him for pro- motion. He was nominated to the see of Nashville on 21 April, 1883, and consecrated bishop on 24 June following by Archbishop Feehan. After that time he worked earnestly and successfully for the advancement of his diocese, which on his departure contained 28 priests, 5 ecclesiastical students, 36 churches, 2 orphan asylums, 15 female religious institutions, 15 parochial schools, 5 academies, and a college. He became bishop of Fort Wayne.

RADFORD, William, naval officer, b. in Fin- castle, Va.. 1 March. 1808; d. in Washington. D. C., Jan., 1890. He became midshipman on 1 March, 1825, and lieutenant on 9 Feb., 1837. During the war with Mexico he served on the western coast of that country, and commanded the party that cut out the " Malek Adel," a Mexican vessel-of-war, at Mazat- lan in 1847. He was made commander on 14 Sept.. 1855, assigned to the "Cumberland" in 18iil, and became captain on 16 July, 1862, and commodore on 24 April, 1863. He served on court-martial duty at Fort Monroe, and commanded the "New Ironsides " and the iron-clad division of Admiral Porter's squadron at the two attacks on Fort Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865. Admiral Porter wrote : "Com. Radford has shown ability of a very high order, not only in fighting and manoeuvring his vessel, but in taking his division. His vessel did more execution than any other in the fleet, and I had so much confi- dence in the accuracy of his fire that even when our troops were on the parapet he was directed to clear the traverses of the enemy in advance of them. This he did most effectually, and but for this the victory might not have been ours." He was appointed rear-admiral on 25 July, 1866, com- manded the European squadron in 18(J9-'70, and was retired on 1 March, 1870.

RADIGUET, Maximilien René' (rah-de-gay), French explorer, b. in Landerneau, Finisterre, 17 Feb., 1816. After studying in the School of the fine arts at Paris, he became in 1838 secretary to Ad- miral Charles Baudin and Count de Las Casas, who had been sent to negotiate with the government of Hayti for the payment of an indemnity to the de- scendants of the French citizens that had been murdered during the troubles of 1798-1803. He was influential in bringing the negotiations to a speedy conclusion, preventing the impatient ad- miral several times from bombarding Cape Hay- tien. From 1841 till 1845 he was in South America and the Marquesas islands, as secretary to Admiral I)u Petit-Thouars, and he has since devoted himself to literary labors. Among other works, he has pub- lished " Souvenirs de I'Amerique Espagnole : Chili, Perou, Bresil " (Paris, 1856 ; revised ed., 1874).

RAE, John, explorer, b. in Clestrain House, Ork- neys, 30 Sept.. 1813; d. in London, 24 July, 1893. Scott visited Clestrain, when travelling in the Ork- ney islands, to gain local information for writing "The Pirate." Mr. Rae studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh from 1829 till 1833, when he was graduated, entered the service of the Hud- son bay company as surgeon, and lived at Moose fort from 1835 till 1845, making many explora- tions in British America. In 1846-'7 he visited the Arctic sea, and spent the winter in a stone house at Repulse bay without fuel, during which time he traced about 635 statute miles of new land and coast forming the shores of Committee bay. In 1848 he accompanied Sir John Richard- son in a search for Sir John Franklin along the coast from Mackenzie river to Coppermine river, and in 1850 was placed in charge of a similar expedition by the Hudson bay com- pany. He chose the route by Great Bear lake and Coppermine river, tracing 030 miles of unexplored coast along the southern shores of Victoria and Wollaston lands, and finding two pieces nt wood that were prob- ably parts of Sir John Franklin's vessels. The Esquimaux gave him scant information regarding the party they had seen a few years before, and Dr. Rae explains in a pamphlet, published in London, that the reason he did not immediately search for his sup- posed countrymen was owing to his imperfect Knowledge of their route, and to the condition of the lowlands flooded by melting snow, which ren- dered progress impossible. In 1853 the Hudson bay company fitted out a boat expedition at his re- quest to complete the survey of the Arctic coast along the west shore of Boothia, and during this expedition to Repulse bay in 1853-'4 he discovered a new river, which falls into Chesterfield inlet. In the following spring, after travelling 1.100 miles, he was the first discoverer of certain traces of Sir John Franklin's party, for which he was paid 10.000 by the English government. He purchased from the Esquimaux numerous relics, among which were Sir John Franklin's cross of knighthood, a gold cap-band, silver spoons and forks, coin, and several watches. In 1860 he took charge of a survey for laying a cable between Eng- land and America, via Faroe. Iceland, and Green- land, and in 1864 he conducted a telegraph survey from Winnipeg to the Pacific coast, through the British territory, and crossing the Rocky moun- tains about latitude 53. This line was not formed, as the Canada Pacific railway was laid in a more southern course, and the telegraph followed the railway. In 1852 he received the founder's gold medal of the Royal geographical society of Lon- don. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Edinburgh, and that of M. D. from McGill college, Montreal, in 1880, and was also a member of the Natural history society of that city and of several distinguished societies. Dr. Rae was the author of a " Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847 " (London, 1850). See "Dr. Rae and the Report of Capt. McClintock" (New York, 1860).

RAE, Luzerne, educator, b. in New Haven, Conn., 22 Dec., 1811; d. in Hartford. Conn., 16 Sept., 1854. He changed the spelling of his name from Ray to Rae. After graduation at Yale in 1831 he became instructor of the deaf and dumb in the Hartford asylum, which office he held until his death, except in 1838-'9, when he served as chaplain of the Insane hospital in Worcester, Mass. He was editor of the " Religious Herald" from 1843 till 1847, and of the "American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb" from 1*48 till 1854, and pub-