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226 and began to write at the age of seventeen, con- tributing poems and stories to magazines. He has published in book-form a poem entitled " Brother and Lover" (New York, 1887); "Grandmother's Garden " (Chicago, 188?) : and a story entitled " John Fielding and His Enemy " (1888). He has written several popular songs, among which the best-known are Silver Threads among the Gold " and " Only a Pansy-Blossom." Since 1885 Mr. Rex- ford has given much attention to floriculture, con- ducting departments that are devoted to that sub- ject in several magazines.

REY, Anthony, clergyman, b. in Lyons, France, 19 March, 1807; d. near Ceralvo. Mexico, in 1846. He removed to Switzerland- at an early age. and prepari'd himself for a commercial career, but after- ward entered the Jesuit college of Fribourg, and united with the order in 1827. After his ordina- tion he was appointed professor in the institution. In 1840 he was sent to the L'nited States, became professor of metaphysics and ethics in Georgetown college, and was transferred to St. Joseph's church, Philadelphia, in 1843. In 1845 he was made as- sistant to the Jesuit provincial of Maryland, and also at the same time vice-president of (ii-m _ college and pastor of Trinity church in that place. Hi- v,,-i- appointed chaplain in the I". S. army in 1846, and served mi tin- -tall 1 <>f (Jen. Zai-hary Tay- lor. When a part of the 1st Ohio regiment entered Monterey, he was always in the most exposed po- sit inns walking about with a small cross while the shells were bursting around him, and stopping wherever the wounded and dying needed his ser- vices. After the siege was over he remained with the army in the city, but devoted hi- -pare time to the " ranchos " in the neighborhood, and was making, as he believed, successful efforts to reclaim tin- half-civilized rancheros. He set out to visit Matamoras, accompanied by a single servant, against the advice of the officers in Monterey, trusting to his clerical character and to the influ- ence he thought he had acquired over tin- Mexicans. He reached Ceralvo in safety, ami preached to a mixed audience of Americans and Mexicans. This was the last that was heard of him until hi- body was discovered, a few days afterward, pierced with lances. It was supposed that he was killed by a band under a guerilla leader named ( 'analrs.

REYNOLDS, Alexander Welch. soldier, b. in Clarke county, Ya., in August, 1817 : d. in Alex- andria, Egypt, 2(5 May, 1876. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1838, served in the Florida war, became 1st lieutenant in 1839. be- came captain in 1848, and was dismissed in 1855. He was reappointed, with his former rank, in 1858, but joined the Confederate army in 1861. and was made captain of infantry. He became colonel of the 50th regiment of Virginia infantry in July of the same year, and brigadier-general. 14 Sept., 1863, his brigade being composed of North Caro- lina and Virginia troops. He went to Egypt after the civil war, received the appointment of briga- dier-general in the khedive's army in 1866, and served in the Abyssinian war, but subsequently resigned, and resid'ed in Cairo, Egypt.

REYNOLDS, Daniel H., soldier, b. near Cen- treburg, Knox co., Ohio, 14 Dec., 1832. He was educated at Ohio Wesleyan university, settled in Somerville, Fayette co., Tenn., in 1857. studied law. and was admitted to practice in 1858. He removed to Arkansas in May. 1858, settling at Lake illagc. Chicot county. On 25 May, 1861, he was elected eapiainot' a company for service in the ('< erate army, and he served in the campaigns in Arkansas and Missouri until April, 1*62, when his regiment was ordered to the eastern side of Missis- sippi river, and fell back to Tupelo, Miss. He was promoted brigadier-general, 5 March, 1864. Gen. Reynolds participated in many of the battles of the western Confederate armies from Oak Hills, Mo., to Nashville, Tenn. He was several times wounded, and lost a leg. He was state senator in Arkansas in 1866-' 7.

REYNOLDS, Elmer Robert, ethnologist, b. in Dansville, Livingston co., N. Y., 30 July, 1846. He emigrated with his parents to Wisconsin in 1848, and was educated in the public schools and at the medical school of Columbian university, Washing- ton, D. C. He served in the 10th Wisconsin bat- tery in 1861-'5, participated in the battles of Cor- inth, Stone River, Knoxville, Resaca, Jonesboro, Atlanta. Bentonville, and numerous minor engage- ments, and at the end of the civil war entered the U. S. navy as school-teacher, serving in the Medi- terranean fleet in 1867, and in the West Indies and Yucatan in 1808. Since 1877 he has been in the U. S. civil service. His last twenty years have been devoted to the exploration of aboriginal remains in the valleys of the Potomac, Piscataway, Wicomico, Patuxent. Choptank, and Shenandoah rivers, his re- searches embracing their mortuary mounds, shell- banks, copper and soapstone mines, cemeteries, burial-caves, and ancient camps and earthworks. He was a founder of the Anthropological society of Washington, D. C., and its secretary in 1879-'81, received a silver medal from Don Carlos, crown prince of Portugal, in 1886, in recognition of his scientific researches, was knighted by King Hum- bert of Italy, in 1887, " for distinguished scientific attainments," and is a member of numerous scien- tific societies. His publications include " Aborigi- nal Soapstone Quarries in the District of Colum- bia " (Cambridge, 1878): "The Cemeteries of the Piscataway Indians at Kittamaquindi, Md." (Wash- ington, D'. C., 1880); "A Scientific Visit to the Caverns of Luray, and the Endless Caverns in the Massanutton Mountains " (1881) ; " Memoir on the Pre-Columbian Shell-Mounds at New-burg. Mil., and the Aboriginal Shell-Fields of the Potomac and Wicomico Rivers " (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1884): "The Shell-Mounds, Antiquities, and Do- mestic Arts of the Choptank Indians of Maryland " (1886); and " Memoir on the Pre-Columbian Ossu- aries at Cambridge and Hambrook Bay. Md." (Lis- bon, Portugal, 1887). He has also a large amount of similar material in manuscript,

REYNOLDS, Ignatius Aloysius, R. C. bishop, b. in Nelson county, Ky., 22 Aug.. 1798 ; d. in Charleston, S. C., 9 March, 1855. His parents emigrated from Maryland and settled on a farm near Bardstown. Ky. The son entered the diocesan seminary of St. Thomas, but was transferred to the Sulpitian seminary of Baltimore in 1819. On the completion of his theological course he was ordained priest by Archbishop Marechal on 24 Oct., 1823, and returned to Kentucky, where he was employed till 1827 in teaching and missionary work. In the latter year he was appointed president of Bardstown college, which he freed from debt. In 1830 he was appointed pastor of the cathedral, Bardstown, and in 1834 he was made pastor of the only Roman Catholic church in Louisville, where he remained till 1840, founding an orphanage and parochial schools. lie was sent to Europe in 1840 on business relating to the affairs of the diocese, and returned in 1841. In 1*42 In- was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of Louisville. Hi a nominated successor to I!i-liop l-ln^laud in the -ee of Charleston in May, 1843, by the 5th provincial council of Baltimore, and consecrated by Bishop