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ton C. DePiiiiw for the universitj', which adopted its patron's name in 1882; continued there as vice-president and professor of liistory and poli- tical economy, 188iMJ5, and from the latter year until his death, devoted himself to literary work. lie was defeated as a Democratic candidate for representiitive in congress from Indiana in 1896. He received the degree LL.D. from Syracuse university in 18N0 ; was a.ssociate editor of the " Pe<»ple's Cyclopeilia ", 18T9-'J5 ; edited the Arena at Boston, Mass., 1897-98; was literary director of the Jones Brothers Publishing company, 1898- 1900, and compiled the Library of Universal Literature (1898). He is the author of : Aca- demic History of the United States (1874-75); Grammar School History of the United States (1876); Popular History of the United States (1877); Liductive Grammar of the English Lan- guage (1879) ; Monograph on Alexander Hamilton (1880) ; Life and Work of Garfield (1881); Cyclo- pcedia of Universal History (4 vols., 1880-85) ; Monograph on the Trial of Guitcai (1882) ; Monograph on the Epoch of Litej rat ion (1883) ; History of Texas (1884) ; Monograph on History ayid Historical Study (1885) ; Life and Work of W. C. Z)e Pa Mir (unpublished. 1-^): Gr-'ut Races of Mankind (4 vols., 1888-94; ; Mouograpli on Beyond the Sierras (1888) ; Monograph on the True Evolution (1889) ; Monograph on the Citizen Sol- dier (1800) ; Monograph on the Man in History (1892) ; Monograph on the Sujyjiression of the In- tellectual Life (1892) ; Christopher Columbus, the Epoch, the Man, and the Work (unpublished, 1892;; Cohnnbus and Columbia (189.3) ; The Life and Work of James G. Blaine (1893) ; Epic of Life, a poem (1893) ; Famous Paintings of the World (1894) ; Life and Memoirs of Bishop William Taylor (1894-95) ; Napoleon Bonaparte (1895), and The Life and Times of William E. Gladstone. He di.-d in New York city, July 31, 1900.

RIQQ5, Elias, linguist and missionary, was born in New Providence, N.J., Nov. 19, 1810 ; son of the Rev. Elias Riggs, College of New Jersey, A.B., 1795, A.M., 1798, and pastor of the Presb}-- terian church at New Providence, N.J., 1807-25. Elias, jr., was graduated at Amherst, A.B., 1829, A.M., 1832, and at Andover Theological seminary in 1832. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Sept. 20, 1832 ; and was a foreign mis- sionary at Athens, Greece, 1832-^; Argos, Greece, 18:34-;J8 : Smyrna. Turkey, 1838-53, and Constan- tinople. Turkey, 1853-56. He visited tiie United States in 1856 ; served as instructor in sacred literature at Union Tlieologicul seminary, 1857- 68; declined a professorship there, and returned to Constantinople, where he worked, 1858-1901. He was an expert linguist, and n member of the committees that translated tlit? S riptures into the Turkish language, the translation being pub-

lished in 1878, and their revised work in 1886. He received the degree D.D. from Hanover col- lege, Ind., in 1853, and LL.D. from Amherst in 1871. He is the author of : A Manual of Chaldee Language, c^c. (1832, rev. ed., 1858); Tlte Young Forester, a Brief Memoir of the Early Life of the Swedish Missio7iary Fjelstcdf (1840) ; Translation of the Scriptures into the Modern Armenian Lan- guage (1853); Grammatical Notes on the Bulgarian Language (1844) ; Grammar of the Modern Ar- menian Language with a Vocabulary (1847, 2d. ed., 1856) ; Grammar of the Turkish Language as written in the Armenian Character (1871); Translation of the Scriptures into the Bulgarian Language (1871) ; Suggested Emendations of the Authorized English Version of the Old Testament (1873); A Harmony of the Gospels in Bulgarian (1880); Suggested Modifications of the Revised Version of the New Testament (1883); A Bible Dictionary in Bulgarian (1884); and many minor publications including, tracts, hymns, and col- lections of hymns in the Greek, Armenian and Bulgarian languages. He died in Constantinople, Turkey, Jan. 17, 1901.

RIGGS, John Cavis Seaton, educator, was born iu Washington, Pa., Jan. 29, 1851; son of Edward and Charlotte Ann (Seaton) Riggs, and grandson of John and Mary (Phillips) Riggs, and of George Clark and Esther (Shotwell) Smith Seaton. His early education was received in the public schools of Rockford, 111. He was a student at Shurtleff college from April, 1867, until De- cember, 1868 ; then attended the University of Chicago, one term ; engaged in business at Rock- ford, 111., 1869-75 ; was graduated from the Uni- versity of Chicago, A.B., 1878, A.M., 1881, and was principal of the commercial department of Salt Lake academy, Utah, 1878-79. He was married, Sept. 2, 1879, to Mary Esther, daughter of Osborn and Amanda (Rice) Chaney of Rockford, 111. He was principal of the preparatory department of the University of Cliicago, 1879-86 ; joint princi- pal of the University academ\', Chicago, 1880-87 ; organized and was principal of the Granville (Doane) academy. Denison university, Ohio, 1887- 96, and in the latter year was elected president of Ottawa university, Kansas. He was made a mem- ber of the state board of education of Kansas ; president of the Kansas College Presidents' as- sociation, and a corresponding member of the Kansas State Historical society. The degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by the University of South Dakota in 1890, upon the completion of a course in general literature and the presentation of a thesis on " Satire in Reform ", and the hon- orary degree of L. II.D. was conferred upon him by Ewing colle.,'^, Illinois, in 1901. He is the autlior of: I.i Lut inum (Cassa,r) (1890), and Li Latinum (Cicero) (1892).