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Childhood (1890); The Flying Islands of the yight (1891); Gnen Fields and Running Drooks (1892); Poems Here at Home (1800); An Old Stoeetheart of .Ifinf. republishe'l (189-2); Armn- zimly (1894): A Child-World (1896); Ruhaiijatof Doc Sifers (1991); Home- Folks (1900); and The Book of Joyous Cliildren (1902). He was never raarrieil.

RINEHART, William Henry, sculptor, was born near Union Bri.lge, Carroll county, Mil., Sept. 13. \'^'2'i. H? attended school, worked on his father's farm, and later w;xs employed as assistant to a stonecutter in Carroll county. In 1844 he was apprenticed to a marble-cutter in Baltimore, where his genius and application in- duced his employer to furnish him a studio on his premises. In \S"i he went to Italy and on his return ia IS.!?, established a studio in Balti- more, but returned to Rome in 1858, from which city he made occasional visits to America. Among liis best known figures are the bas- reliefs in marble. Xight and Morning; a fountain figure for the post office buiMing at Washington. D.C.; two figures, Indian avd Backwoodsman, to support the clock in the Hall of Representatives, Wasiungton. D.C.; Hero and Leander; Indian Girl: St. Cecilia; Sleeping Babes; Woriian of Sa- maria; Christ; Angel of Resurrection; Antigone; Nymph; Clytie; Atalanta; Latona and her Children; Diana and Apollo; Endymion, and Rebecca. He also moilelled the bronze statue, Love Reconciled ivifh Death, placed in Green- mount cemetery, Baltimore, and completed the bronze doors of the capitol at Washington left unfiiiislied by the death of Thomas Crawford. His statue of Chief-Justice Roger B. Taney was unveiled in Annapolis. Md., in 1872. He died in Rome. Italy. Oct. 28. 1«:4.

RINGGOLD, Cadwalader, naval officer, was born in Washington county, Md., Aug. 20, 1802; son of the Hon. Samuel (q.v. ) and Maria (Cad- walader) Ringgold. He was warranted midship- man in the U. S. navy. March 4, 1819; was at- tached to Commodore Porter's fleet in the West Indies, 182-3-24; was promoted lieutenant. May 17, 1828; commandeil the brig Porpoise in Lieut. Charles Wilkes's exploring expedition. 1838-42. in the discovery of the Antarctic continent and in the survey of the Pacific coast line of North America and of the South Sea Islands; was pro- moted commander. July 16, 1849; served in Cali- fornia, 1849-.51, and in the bureau of construction in the navy def>artment, Washington. D.C., in 18.')2. He was given command of the North Pa- cific exploring expedition, but was forced to return, owing to ill health, and was placed on the reserve list, Sept. 13, 1855. He was promoted captain, April 2.1^56; was returned to the active list; served in Washington, D.C., 1859-60, and

commanded the frigate Sabine in 1861. He rescued a marine battalion and the crew of the Governor ofi Hatteras. while accompanying Du- Pont's e.xpedition to Port Royal, October. 1861; returned to the Brooklyn Navy yard for repairs, and furnished from his frigate men for Lieutenant Worden's crew for the iron-clad monitor, tlien fitting out for Hampden Roads, Va. He was promoted commodore, July 16. 1802; was placed on the retired list, Aug. 20, 1^64; was retired with the rank of rear-admiral. July 25. 1860, and died in New York city. April 29. 1867.

RINGGOLD, Samuel, representative, was born in Chestertown. Md., Jan. 15. 1770; son of Thomas and Mary (Galloway) Ringgold; grand- son of Thomas and Anna Maria (Earle) Ringgold, and of Samuel Galloway of Anne Arundel county. Md., and a descendant of Tliomas Ring- gold who settled in Kent county, Md., with his sons John and James in 1650. He was educated under private tutors; was married, Maj-S. 1792, to Maria, daughter of Gen. John Cadwalader of Kent county. In 1792 he removed to his estate, "Fountain Rock," in Washington county. Md., where he built one of the finest mansions in the state, which became a part of the College of St. James, and finally a preparatory school. He was a state senator for several years, and a Demo- cratic representative from Maryland in the 11th congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resig- nation of Roger Nelson (q.v.), being re-elected to the 12th, 13th. 15th and 16th congresses, serving, 1810-15 and 1817-21, He married secondly, at the White House, Washington, Marie Antoinette Hay. He died in Frederick city. Md.. Oct. 18. 1829.

RIORDAN, Patrick William, R.C. archbishop, was born in Chatham, New Brunswick, Aug. 27, 1841; son of Matthew and Mary Riordan. He removed to Chicago, 111., with his parents in 1848, and was educated at the University of St. Mary's of the Lake in that city and at the Uni- versity of Notre Dame, Ind. He was sent to the American college at Rome. Italy, to fit for the priesthood, but being attacked by the malaria, studied afterwards in Paris and Louvain. Belgium, from the L'niversity of which city he graduated in 1865. He was ordained priest at Mechlin, Belgium, June 10, 1865, by Cardinal Engelbert Stercks; returned to Chicago, 111., and was pro- fessor of ecclesiastical history and canon law and of dogmatic tlieology in St. Mary's of tiie Lake Theological seminary, 1865-68. He engaged in missionary work as rector of the church at Wood- stock, 111., in 1868. and of St. Mary's cliurch in Joliet, 111., 1868-71; was rector of St. James's church, Chicago, 111., 1871-83, where he extended the parochial schools under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy, and received notice of his ap- pointment as titular bishop of "Cabasa" and