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196 Ohio infantry, and in August he joined the 1st Ohio cavalry. He was commissioned 3d lieutenant soon afterward, promoted 1st lieutenant, 12 March, 1862, captain, 1 April, 1863, and brevet major, 23 Nov., 1863. He participated in all the campaigns and battles of his regiment, which formed part of Loring's cavalry brigade. Army of the Cumberland, and during his service was never absent from duty except while he was a prisoner for eight days. After leaving the army he entered the Wesleyan university, Delaware, Ohio, where he was graduated in 1867. He afterward returned to Pennsylvania, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1868. In 1869-'73 he was assessor of internal revenue. Removing to Minnesota, he then became editor of the Minneapolis "Tribune," but in May, 1877, he resumed the practice of law, and in November was elected a judge of probate for Hennepin county. He was next elected judge of the 4th Minnesota district, and in November, 1886, was re-elected for the term of six years. He was quartermaster-gen- eral of Minnesota from 1883 till 1886. holding the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1887 was chosen commander-in-chief of the Grand army of the re- public at the national encampment at St. Louis.

READ, Charles, jurist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 1 Feb., 1715; d. probably in North Carolina about 1780. His father, of the same name, was ma Mir of Philadelphia in 1725, sheriff of the county in 1739-'31, collector of excise in 1725-'34, after- ward collector of the port of Burlington, N. J., and at his death was a provincial councillor and sole judge of the admiralty. The son succeeded his fathrr as collector of the port of Burlington, stud- ied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1753. Ali. int 1760 he became an associate justice of the supreme court, which office, as well as that of col- lector, he held till the Revolution, acting for a time as chief justice on the death of Robert II. Morris in 1764. He was several times mayor of Burling- ton. He was chosen colonel of a regiment of militia in 1776, was a deputy to the convention to frame a new constitution, and on 18 July was made colonel of a battalion of the flying camp, but in December he made his submission to the British. Bancroft, in an early edition of his " History of the United States," confounded Gen. Joseph Reed with the officer that submitted to Sir. William Howe. Read was afterward taken prisoner by the Ameri- cans and sent to Philadelphia, whence he was re- moved to North Carolina. He was one of the founders of the American philosophical society. His brother, James, jurist, b. in Philadelphia. Pa., 29 Jan., 1716; d. there, 17 Oct., 1793, studied law and was admit ted to the bar in September, 1742. He was deputy prothonotary of the supreme court of the province, and also a justice of the peace. About the time of the formation of Berks county he settled in Reading, where in 1752 he became the first prothonotary, register of wills, and clerk of the courts, which offices he held for more than twenty-five years. He served in the general assem- bly in 1777, and in the supreme executive council from June, 1778, till October, 1781. Prom 1781 till 1783 he was register of the admiralty. In 1783 he became one of the council of censors whose duty it was to propose amendments to the constitution. From 1787 till 1790 he was again a member of the executive council. Shortly after- ward he removed to Philadelphia, where he re- sided until his death. He was a man of scholarly attainments. His correspondence, which is still in existence, besides remarks on gardening and ob- servations of nature, gives his views on education and politics and criticisms on current French and English works. His death was caused by yellow- fever during the great epidemic. James's son, Collinson, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1751; d. in Reading. Pa,, 1 March, 1815. studied law at the Temple, London, and was admitted to the bar of Berks county on 13 Aug., 1772. He was appointed deputy register of wills" for the county, and after- ward practised law in Philadelphia. He was a presidential elector when George Washington was first chosen president of the United States. He published a " Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania " (Philadelphia, 1801) : " Abridgment of the Laws of Pennsylvania" (1804); "American Pleader's As- sistant " (1806) ; and " Precedents in the Office of a Justice of the Peace " (3d ed., 1810). His daughter, Sarah, married Gen. William Gates.

READ, Daniel, composer, b. in Attleborough, Mass., 16 Nov., 1757; d. in New Haven, Conn., in 1841. He was a manufacturer of combs in New Haven, but at the same time cultivated music, and published in 1791 " The American Singing-Book, or a New and Easy Guide to the Art of Psalmody," and in 1793 " Columbian Harmony," a collection of devotional music. Subsequently he published a "New Collection of Psalm-Tunes," which came to be known as the " Litchfield Collection," containing many tunes of his own composition (Dedham, 1805). Windham," " Greenwich," " Sherburne," " Rus- sia," " Stafford," and others of Read's hymn-tunes are still in general use in American churches.

READ, Daniel, educator, b. in Marietta, Ohio, 24 June, 1805; d. in Keokuk, Iowa, 3 Oct., 1878. He was graduated at Ohio university in 1824, and for eleven years was principal of the preparatory department, at the same time studying law, and obtaining admission to the bar, although he never practised. He became professor of ancient languages in the university in 1836, and when, in 1838, a separate professorship of Greek was established, taught political economy in connection with Latin till 1843. when he accepted the chair of languages at the Indiana state university. He was a member of the State constitutional convention of Indiana in 1850. In 1853-'4 he performed the duties of president of the university. In 1856 he became professor of mental and moral philosophy in Wisconsin university, and in 1868 entered on the presidency of Missouri state university, Columbia, which office he filled until 1876. He was a frequent speaker on educational subjects. His brother, Abner, naval officer, b. in Urbana, Ohio, 5 April, 1821 ; d. in Baton Rouge, La., 12 July, 1863, was educated at the Ohio university, but left in his senior year, having received an appointment as midshipman in the U. S. navy. After a voyage to South America, he studied for a year at the Naval school in Philadelphia, and was appointed acting sailing-master, in which capacity he gained a reputation as a navigator. He took part in the later naval operations of the Mexican war, and in 1855 was placed on the retired list with the rank of lieutenant, but was afterward reinstated by the examining board. In the early part of the civil war he performed important services as commander of the " Wyandotte" in saving Fort Pickens from falling into the hands of the Confederates. He was assigned to the command of the " New Lon- don " in 1862, and cruised in Mississippi sound, taking more than thirty prizes, and breaking up the trade between New Orleans and Mobile. He captured a battery at Biloxi, and had several en- gagements with Confederate -I earners. He was commissioned lieutenant-commander on 16 July, and commander on 13 Sept., 1862. In June, 1863, he was placed in charge of the steam sloop