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also attempted some dramatic writing at this time, several of his farces being purcliased by- Barney Williams, and this departm'e brought him an offer to go on the professional stage, which he, however, refused. He removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1852, where he was a local editor on the Sun; went on a journalistic trip to Niagara Falls in 1858, and there formed the acquaintance of Junius Henri Browne, who became his life-long friend. He was subsequently detailed to report the celebrated " Matt Ward" trial in Kentucky, the sale of his published report exceeding 20,000 copies; was employed on the Cincinnati?7in'oujsf, 1854, and afterward edited the Cincinnati Colum- bian, declining its entire management in 1855. He was married in April, 1855, to Mary Louise Pease of Cincinnati. In 1857 he severed his con- nection with the Gazette and went to Kansas, where he served as secretary of the territorial legislature; engaged in political life, and contri- buted regularly to the Boston Jo^irnal. He ac- companied Horace Greeley and Henry Vilhird to Pike's Peak in 1859, and the same year revisited New England and made an extended tour of the southwestern territories, corresponding mean- while with the New York Sun and other news- papers. He subsequently made a second trip to Pike's Peak as special correspondent of the Tribune, in company with Col. Thomas W. Knox, with whom he established and edited the Western Mountaineer. He traveled through the Southern states as secret correspondent of the Tribune, 1860-61; and afterward as a war correspondent. On May 3, 1863, with Junius H. Browne, also of the Tribune, SLiidColhuvnot the New York Woiid, he joined the party of thirty-four men who attempted to pass the Vicksburg batteries on two barges lashed to a steam-tug. He was taken pris- oner and confined at Salisbury, N.C., but finally escaped, and after a journey of 400 miles arrived in Tennessee in 1865. During liis imprisonment his wife and infant son had died and he himself had contracted pneumonia, and was obliged to visit California for the benefit of his health in the spring of 1865 and again in 1869. He was mar- ried in November, 1869, while on his deatli-bed, to Abby Sage. He is the author of: The Field, the Dungeon and the Escape (1865); Beyond the Mississippi (1806), and Personal History of Ulys- ses S. Grant (1868). See "Garnered Siieaves" (1871), by Abby Sage Richardson (q.v.). Mr. Richardson was shot and fatally wounded in the Tribune office. New York city, by Daniel Mac- Farland. Nov. 26, 1869, and died, Dec. 2, 1869.

RICHARDSON, Charles Francis, author, was born in Hallowell. Maine. May 29, 1851; son of Dr. Moses Charles and Mary Savary (Wingate) Richardson; grandson of Moses Davis and Sarah (Collins) Richardson and of Francis and Martha

(Savary) Wingate, and a descendant of William Richardson, who was born in England about 1620 and settled in Newbury, Mass., about 1640. He was graduated from Dartmouth col- lege, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and engaged in journalism. He was an editor of the New York Independent, 1872-78; of the Sunday School Times in Philadelphia, Pa., 1878-80; and of Good Literature in New York city, 1880-82; and was elected professor of English language and liter- ature at Dartmouth college in 1882. He was married, April 12, 1878, to Elizabeth Miner, daughter of Jesse and Ellen Elizabeth (Miner) Thomas of Wilkesbarre, Pa. The honorar}- de- gree of Ph. D. was conferred on him by Union college in 1895. He is the author of: A Primer of American Literature (-1878); The College Book (1878); The Cross (1879); The Choice of Books (1881); American Literature, 1607-18S5 (1886- 88); The End of the Beginning (1896).

RICHARDSON, Ernest Cushing, librarian, was born in Woburn. Mass., Feb. 9, ISGO; son of James Cushing and Lydia Bartlett (Taylor) Richardson; grandson of Benjamin B. and Abigail (Cushing) Richardson and of Philip and Nancy (Le Baron) Taylor, and a descendant of Samuel Richardson, one of the founders of Woburn, Mass., in 1642. He was graduated from Amherst college, A.B., 1880, A.M., 1883, and from the Hartford Theological seminary in 1883. He was librarian and associate professor at Hartford Theological seminary, 1883-90, and was appointed librarian of Princeton university in 1890. He was married, June 30, 1891, to Grace Duncan, daughter of Z. Stiles and Sarah (Duncan) Ely of New York city. He was appointed a member of the New Jersey State Library commission; was president of the New Jersey Library association, and first vice-president of the American Library association. The degree of Ph. D. was conferred on him by Washington and Jefferson college in 1887, and that of A.M. by Princeton university in 1896. He was editor of the American chapter in Berner's " Jahresberichte d. Geschichtswissen- scliaft," and is the author of: Bibliographical Synopsis of the Ante-Nicene Fathers {W87); Li- flucnce of the Golden Legend on the Culture-His- tory of the Middle Ages (1887); Faust, and the Clementine Recognitions (1894); In Praise of Libraries (1900); Classification, Tlieoretical and Practical (1901); and revised translations of Eusebius's " Life of Constantine " (1890); Jerome's and Gennadius's '• Lives of Illustrious Men " (1892), and a critical edition of the same (1896).

RICHARDSON, Henry Hobson, architect, was born in Priestley's Point, St. James parish. La., Sept. 29, 1838; son of Henry D. and Catherine Caroline (Priestley) Richardson. He was gradu-