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lege in 1S95. He was co-editor of The Columbian Speaker (1874); meFranklin Speaker (]S:o), and The Hamilton Declamation Quarterly (18915); and is tlie author of : Brief Elementary Trigonometry (1899).

ROPES, John Codman, author, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, April 28, 1836 ; son of William and Mary Anne (Codnian) Ropes. His father was a Boston merchant, temporarily living in St. Petersburg, and afterward in London, 1Sj7-43. He studied at Chauncy Hall, Boston; was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1857, and LL.B. 1801 ; and on Nov. 28, 1801, began practice in Boston. He made five tours of Europe be- tween 1870 and 1884, collecting materials for his life of Napoleon, and delivered a course of seven lectures upon " Bonaparte and his Empire "before the Lowell Institute in 1883. He was elected a member of the Union club of Boston in 1864, serving successively as a director, treasurer and vice-president ; was made a companion of the third class of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; was president of the Bristow club of Boston in 1876 ; a member of the board of visitors to the U.S. Military academy, 1878 ; was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical so- ciety, 1880, and a fellosv of the Royal Historical society of London in 1888. He was also the founder of the Military Historical Society of M.issacliusetts. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1897, and was an over- seer, 1S08-76. He edited, with John C. Gray, the American Laiv Review, 1866-70, and is the autlior of : Likenesses to Julius Ccesar (1877); The Army Under Pope, in " Campaigns of the Civil War" (1881); Campaign of Waterloo (1893 ; 3d ed., 1894), and A Story of the Civil War (Part I., 1894 ; Part II., 1899). He bequeathed to the Military His- torical Society of Massachusetts liis collection of memorabilia of the Napoleonic regime. He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 28, 1899.

RORER, Sarah Tyson (Heston), educator and author, was born in Richboro, Pa., Oct. 18, 1849 ; daughter of Charles Tj'son and Elizabeth (Sagers) Heston ; granddaughter of William Penn Heston, and a descendant of Col. Edward Heston of Hestonville, Philadelphia. She was graduated from East Aurora, N.Y., academy in 1869, and in February, 1871, was married to William Albert Rorer of Philadelphia, Pa. She made a special study of domestic science and became well known as a writer on cookery and kindred subjects. She was principal of the Philadelphia School of Domestic Science, 1881-92 ; editor and partial owner of Table Talk, 1886-92 ; editor and half owner of Household Netvs, 1893-97, and director of the State Fair Domestic Science school, Spring- field, 111., 1899. In 1897 she accepted a position on the staff of the Ladies' Home Journal. Her

published books, which reached a wide circula- tion, include: Mrs. Borers Cook Book (1886); Home Candy Making (1888); Canning and Pre- serving {1888); Hot Weather Dishes (1889); Sand- wiches (1896); Colonial Cookery (1896) ; Hoio to Use a Chafing Dish (1896); Netv Salads (1897); 3Iade Overs (1899) ; Bread and Bread Making (1900) ; Good Cooking (1901); A Book on Diet and Cookery (1902).

ROSATI, Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born at Sora, Naples, Italy, Jan. 12, 1789 ; son of John and Vienna (Soresi) Rosati. He joined the Lazarist order ; attended the seminary at Monte Citorio, Rome, and was ordained, Feb. 10, 1811, at Rome. He studied English, and accepted a call from Bishop Dubourg of New Orleans, to come to the United States, sailing from Bordeaux, France, June 13, 1816, and arriving at Baltimore, Md., July 26, 1816. He preached in Louisville, Ky., 1816-17 ; St. Louis, Mo., 1817-18, and removed to the Barrens, Perry county, Mo., in 1818, where he erected a building and founded a Lazarist college in 1819, being chosen its first superior and professor of logic and theology. The name of the college was changed to St. Mary's. He was superior of the Lazarists in the United States, 1820-30, and was consecrated bishop co- adjutor of New Orleans, at Ascension paiish, by Bishop Dubourg, assisted by Bishops Sibourd and Sedalla. He refused the bishopric of New Orleans, March 14, 1826, and accepted the ap- pointment of bishop of the newly erected see of St. Louis, March 20, 1827. He was administrator of Louisiana, 1820-29 ; co-operated with the Jesuits in the establishment of St. Louis univer- sity, and built a cathedral at St. Louis, which was consecrated in October, 1834. He was a member of the first four provincial councils of Baltimore ; went to Rome in 1840, and was ap- pointed apostolic delegate to Hayti to reorganize the Haytian church. He died in Rome, Italy, Sept. 25, 1843.

ROSE, Chauncey, philanthropist, was born in Wethersfield, Conn., Dec. 24, 1794. In 1817 he settled in Terre Haute, Ind., which became his permanent home, with the exception of the years 1819-25, which he spent in Park county, Ind., engaged in milling. By his successful mer- cantile interests in Terre Haute and by land in- vestments he became a man of wealth and influ- ence, organizing the Terre Haute and Indiana- polis railroad company. All of his New York charities grew out of an act of justice, which he considered due from him to his brother John, a cotton broker of New York, who had left a fortune of $900,000. This fortune, in danger of being diverted, was rescued by Mr. Rose after six years of litigation, the estate having then increased to $1,600,000, and was distributed