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San Francisco. Cal., 1879, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1882 he took up real estate and insurance and continued his mercantile interests in Butte City, Mont., where his public career began as an alderman. He was a member of the city council of Butte, 1885-87 ; representative from Silver Bow count}' in the upper house of the territorial legislature, 1887, and a mem- ber of the constitutional con- vention in 1889. He was the first lieutenant-governor of the state, 1889-93, and the election of two Repub- lican U.S.- senators was due to his decision as president of the joint convention of the two houses, his action being afterward ratified by the U.S. senate. He was governor of Montana, 1893- 97, and supervisor of census for the district of Montana, 1900. He was a lay member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1888 and 1892. He was married first, July 5, 1876. to Lizzie M., daughter of Benjamin and Margaret "Wilson of Newark, Del. She died in San Francisco in 1881, and he married secondly, in 1883, Mrs. Eliza A. (Ellis) Boucher of Canada. He had nine children, and was residing in Butte, Mont., in 1903.

RICKETTS, James Brewerton, soldier, was born in New York city, June 21,1817. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1839 ; promoted 2nd lieutenant of 1st artillery, July 1, 1839, and 1st lieutenant, April 21, 18-i"2. He served in the war with Mexico, 1846-48 ; en- gaged in the battle of Monterey, Sept. 20-25, 1846, and held the Rinconada pass, during the battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 22-23, 1847. He served in Florida against the Seminoles in 1852 ; was pro- moted captain, Aug. 3, 1852, and served on frontier and garrison duty, 1852-61 ; in the de- fence of Washington, D.C., April-July. 1861, and was severely wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861. and held as prisoner of war, 1861-62. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, U.S.A., July 21,

1861, for gallantry at Bull Run, and commissioned brigadier-general, U.S.V. He joined in the operations in the Shenandoah valley in June,

1862, and in the Northern Virginia campaign, Aug. -Sept., 1862, commanding the 2nd division, 3d army corps. Army of Virginia, at Cedar Moun- tain, second battle of Bull Run, and in the actions at Rappahannock station and Thorough- fare Gap, where his division was detached and ordered to delay Longstreet's advance. He com- manded the 2nd division, 1st array corps, Army of the Potomac, in the JIaryland campaign, Sei)t.- Nov. 1862, taking part in the battles of South Mountain and Autietam, He was promoted

major, U.S.A., June 1, 1863, and commanded the 3d division, 6th army corps, under General Grant in the Richmond campaign, March-July 1864. in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. He was brevetted colonel, U.S.A., for gallantry at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864, and took part in the defence of Maryland against General Early's raid, commanding the 3d division, under Gen. Lewis Wallace, at the battle of Monocacy. He commanded the 6th army corps, Army of the Shenandoah, at Opequan, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, Va., where he was severely wounded. He was brevetted major-general of U.S. volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864, for gallant conduct during the rebellion, and particularly in the battles of the campaign under General Grant ; the Monocacy under General Wallace ; and Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, in the Shenandoah cam- paigns under General Sheridan. He was brevet- ted brigadier-general, U.S.A., March 13. 1865. for Cedar Creek, and major-general, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the field, during the rebellion. He commanded a district in the department of Virginia, 1865-66, and was mustered out of volunteer service, April 30, 1866, and retired from active service, Jan. 3, 1867, for disability from wounds received in battle. He died in Washington, D.C.. Sept. 27, 1887.

RICORD, Frederick William, author, was born in Guadeloupe, W.I., Oct. 7, 1819: son of Dr. Jean Baptiste (1777-1837), a native of Paris, France, who fled to Italy during the French revolution, settled in Baltimore, Md., was grad- uated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1810, and in the same year married Elizabeth Stryker (1788-1865), daughter of the Rev. Peter Stryker of New Utrecht, L.T., and was in the West Indies making botanical re- searches when Frederick William was born. The son was a student at Hobart and Rutgers colleges, studied medicine and law in Geneva, N.Y., and removed with his mother to Newark, N.J., in 1845, where he conducted a classical school, 1847-59. He was also librarian of the New- ark Library association, 1849-69 ; a member of the board of education of Newark, 1852-69, and its president, 1867-69 ; state superintendent of the public schools of New Jersey, 1860-63 ; sheriff of Essex county, N.J., 1865-67; mayor of Newark, N.J., 1870-73 ; associate judge of the county court, 1875-79, and librarian of the New Jersey Historical society for many years. The honorary degree A.M. was conferred upon him by Rutgers in 1845, and by the College of New Jersey in 1861. He edited several volumes of The Colonial Documents of New Jersey published by the his- torical society, and is the author of : History of Rome (1852); An English Grammir (1853); Life