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fessor of chemistry in the Berkshire Medical col- lege for two years, and pastor at Chicago, 111., 1876-77. resuming his scientific lecture work in 1877. He received the degree Ph.D. from Madi- son (Colgate) university in 1869. He was asso- ciated in the editorship of the Chicago Standard, 1870-^. contrihuted freipieiitly to magazines, and is the author of: Shakespeare Calendar (ia>0); Ilnrrij's Vacation, or Philosophy at Home (1854); Electron (1858); Science in Song (1865); Great in Goodness, a Memoir of George X. Briggs, Governor of Massachusetts (1866); Baptist Banquets (1881); The Lord is My Shepherd (1884): The Mountain Anthem {ISS5); Our Fatlier in Heaven (^^^6). and college and anniversary poems. He died in Cliicago. III.. May 19, 1892.

RICHARDS, William Trost, artist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14, 1833; son of Ben- jamin M. and Annie Richards. He was educated in the common schools of Philadelphia; studied art under Paul Weber of Philadelphia, and in Florence. Rome and Paris, 1855-56. He S'N was married, June

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6. 1856, to Anna, daughter of Charles French and Sarah Ann (Maue) Matlack < if Philadelphia, Pa., ind in the same year i.pened a studio in Philadelphia. He

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England, and exhib- ited his works at the Royal academy and in the Gnjsvenor Gallery. In 1880 lie returned to Phila- delphia, Pa., where he became an associate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1860; an lionorary member of the National Academj' of Design in 1861, and of the American "Water Color society in 1875. He received a medal at the Cen- tennial exposition in 1876: the Temple silver medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1885, and a bronze medal at the Paris exprjsition of 1889. He belonged to the school of extreme pre- Raphaelites during his early years, and his work of that period shows a painstaking study of detail in landscape. He devoted his later years to marine painting, and is represented in the per- manent collections of the Metropolitan MiLseum of Fine Arts, New York; Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington. D.C.; Metropolitan Museum, New- ark, N.J., and the Schaube Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. His oil paintings include: Trdij) Trees (1859); Midsummer (1862); Woods in June

(1864); Mid-Ocean (1869); On the Wissahickon (1872); Sea and Sky (1875): Land's End (1880): Old Ocean's Gray and Mehmcholy Waste (1885): February (1887), and A Summer Sea (1887). Among his water colors are: Cedars on the Sea- Shore (1873); Paradise, Xewjwrt (1875); Sand- Hills, Coast X.J. (1876); King Arthurs Castle, Tintagel, Cornwall (1879); Mullioa Gull Rock, Tintagtl, Cornwall (1882); The Unresting Sea (1884); Cliffs of Morch, Land's End (1885); A Summer Afternoon (IS86); Cliffs of St. Colomb (1887), and A Break in the Storm (1887).

RICHARDSON, Abby Sage, author, was born in Lowell, Mass., Oct. 14. 1837; daughter of William and Abigal Sage; granddaughter of William and Elizabetli (Ingalls) Sage, and a des- cendant of David (who emigrated from Wales in 1652 and settled in Middletown, Conn.) and Mary (Willcox) Sage. She was taken to Manchester, N.H., in 1842, receiving a liberal education in the public schools. In 1847 she removed to New York city. During the earlier part of her career she gave lectures on English literature and became a well-known Shakespearean scholar. She was married about 18G0 to Daniel MacFarland, a law- yer, from whom she obtained a divorce in 1868. In November, 1869, she was married to Albert Deane Richardson (q.v.), then on his death bed. Later in life she became prominent as a dram- atist, her works in this line being as follows: Americans Abroad and A Woman's Silence, adapted from the French of Sardou; Prince and Pauper, dramatized from Mark Twain's book, and 77(6 Colonial Girl and Hie Pride of Jennico, dram- atized in collaboration with Grace Livingston Fur- niss. She contributed frequently to periodicals; edited Songs from the Old Dramatist (1872); Old Love Letters; or. Letters of Senti7nent tvritten by Persons Eminent in English Literature and History (1882): Abelard and Heloise: A Mediceval Romance: with tJie Letters of Heloise (1883); and is the author of: Garnered Sheaves ( 1871 ), a collection of her husband's writings with a memoir: Stories from Old English Poetry (1871 ); The History of Our Country (1875), and Famil- iar Talks on English Literature (1881). She died whileon a visit to Rome, Italy, Dec. 5. 1900.

RICHARDSON, Albert Deane, journalist, was born in Franklin, INlass., Oct. 6, 1833: son of Elisha and Harriet (Blake) Ricliardsou, and grandson of Timothy and Julia (Deane) Blake. He was brought up on a farm and attended the academy at Holliston, Mass., editing the academy paper and contributing both prose and verse to the Waverly Magazine and other Boston publica- tions. He taught school two terms in Medway, Mass.. and in 1851 went to Pittsburg, Pa., where be first taught a village school and subsequently became a reporter on the Pittsburg Journal. He