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Oettysburg ; she died, Dec. 12, 1898. He was a tutor at Pennsylvania college, 1861-63 ; pastor at South Easton, Pa., 1864-65 ; at Greenwich, N.J., 1865-68 ; professor of English language and literature at Muhlenberg college, Pa., 1868-73; pastor at Indianapolis, Ind., 1873-76, and returned to his professorship at Muhlenberg in 1876, serv- ing in that capacity, and as secretary of the faculty till 1898. He was instructor and lecturer at Chautauqua, Mount Gretna, Pa. ; was also secretary of the AUentown school district for fifteen years, and a member of the Pennsylvania German society. Tlie honoi'ary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Pennsylvania college in 1889. He was editor of Church Lesson Leaves •and TJie Helper, 1880-96 ; a member of the staff of the Lutheran, 1884-98, and its associate editor, 1896-98 ; editor of the Church Messenger, 1886- 98. He died in AUentown. Pa., Dec. 11, 1898.

RICHARDS, Robert Hallowell, educator, was born in Gardiner, Maine, Aug. 26, 1844 ; son of Francis and Anne Hallowell (Gardiner) Richards; grandson of John Richards and of Robert Hallo- well Gardiner. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S., 1868 ; was assistant instructor there, 1868-71 ; became professor of mineralogy in 1871, and later professor of mining engineering and metallurgy. He was married in 1875 to Ellen Henrietta, daughter of Peter and Fanny Gould (Taylor) Swallow. He introduced laboratory methods as a means of learning mining and metallurgy, and invented a jet aspirator for chemical and physical laboratories in 1873 ; a prism for studio survey- ing in 1890 ; an ore separator for the Lake Superior Copper mills in 1881 ; a separator for Virginia iron ores in 1900, and a vortex classi- fier for separating ores. He was elected a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and was its president in 1886. He contributed largely to the Transactions of that \> )ily and to the American Journal of Science, and is the author of : Ore Dressing (1903).

RICHARDS, Thomas Addison, painter, was born in London, Eng., Dec. 3, 1820; son of the Rev. William Richards, and a brother of William Carey Richards (q.v.). He came with his parents to the United States and settled in Hudson, N.Y., 1831, soon after removing to Georgia, where the son received his early education. He studied art in the National Academy of Design, New York city, 1845-47, and was elected an associate of the academy in 1848, and a national academician in 1851. He established a studio in New York city ; served as the first director of the Cooper Union School of Design for Women, 1858-60, and in 1867 was elected professor of art in the Univer- sity of the City of New York. He married Mary Anthony of Providence, R.I., in 1857, who died

in 1894. He was corresponding secretary of the National Academy of Design, 1852-1900, and received the honorary degree A.M. from the University of the City of New York in 1878. He traveled extensively in the United States and in Europe, and became well known as an author and illustrator. He made many illustra- tions for Appleton's " Handbook of Travel," and published: The American Artist (1838); Georgia Illustrated (1842) ; Tlie Romance of American Landscape (1854); Summer Stories of the South (1852), and Pictures and Painters (1870). Among his paintings are : Alastor, or the Spirit of Soli- tude (ISrA) ; The Indian's Paradise— a Dream of the Happy Hunting Oround (1854); Live OaJ.s of the South (1858); The French Broad River, N.C. (1859); Sunnyside (18(32); The River Rhine {ISmy, Warivick Castle (1869) ; Chatsworth, England (1870); Lake Thun, Switzerland (1871); Italian Lake Scene (1873) ; Lake in the Adirondacks (1875); Lake Winnipiseogee (iSlQ) ; Lake Brienz, Sivitzcrland (1879); Edisto River, S.C. (1886). He died in Annapolis, Md., June 29, 1900.

RICHARDS, William Alford, governor of Wyoming, was born at Hazel Green, Wis., March 9, 1849 ; son of Truman Perry and Elea- nor (Swinerton) Richards ; grandson of Daniel and Ruth (Ticknor) Richards and of James and Lucy (Carpenter) Swinerton, and a descendant of John Richards of Eele River, Plymouth, 1632- 52; then of New London, Conn., 1652-87. He attended the schools of his native place and Galena, III., and in 1885 removed to Wyoming, where he engaged in stock raising. He was sur- veyor-general of Wyoming, 1889-93 ; governor, 1895-99, and on March 4, 1899, was appointed assistant commissioner of the general land office, Washington, D.C.

RICHARDS, William Carey, author, was born in London, Eng., Nov. 24, 1818 ; son of the Rev. William Richards, who immigrated to the United States with his family in 1831, and became pastor of the Baptist church in Hudson, N.Y. William, who was a brother of Thomas Addison Richards (q.v.), was graduated at Hamilton institution (Colgate university) in 1840 ; and was married, Sept. 21, 1841, to Cornelia Holroyd, daughter of George and Sarah (Brown) Bradley of Hudson, N.Y. He engaged in literary and educational work in Georgia, 1840-49. and in Charleston, S.C, 1849-51 ; edited the Orion and The School- felloiv, and was associated with the Southern Quarterly Magazine. He became associate pastor of the First Baptist church at Providence, R.I., in 1855 ; was ordained in July, 1855 ; was pastor of the Brown Street Baptist church in Provi- dence, R.I., 1855-62, and engaged in lecturing on physical science, 1862-65. He was pastor of the Baptist church in Pittsfield, Mass., 1865-68 ; pro-