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sey. He went to France on personal business in 1781, and on liis return brouglit a sup- ply of ammunition and clothing. He was a witness at the court convened to inquire as to the conduct of General Gates in 1783, and in liis testimony he blamed Gates for the defeat at Camden. He was promoted briga- dier-general, March 26, 178:]; was made a mem- ber of the Society of the Cincinnati, and returned to France at the close of the war. He died near Lixml.alle, lirittany. Jan.:U), 1703.

ROUDEBUSH, George Shotwell, educator and clergyman, was born in Goshen, Ohio. April 26, 1828; son of Daniel and Ruth (Sliotwell) Roudebush. He graduated at Jefferson college, Pa., in 18r)4; taught at Fairview academy, La., 1854-56; attended the Western Theological semi- nary, 1856-57; was married. Dec. 24. 1856, to Mar- garet Hughes, daughter of William and Eleanor (Hughes) Moore of Canonsburg, Pa.; taught in the high school at Natchez, Miss., 1857-59; was principal of Natchez institute, 1859-62; was licensed by the presbytery of Mississippi in August, 1860. and was ordained in 1862. He was pastor at Woodville, Miss., 1861-64, and stated supply in Adams county, 1864-66; again superin- tendent of Natchez institute, 1867-70; president of Oakland college, Miss., 1870-73, and of the Oakland institute, 1873-74. He was professor at the Agricultural and Mechanical college. Miss., 1880-83; Jackson high school, 1883-87, and in 1887 became the principal and proprietor of the Colle- giate academy at Madison, Miss. He received the degree of D.D. from Mississippi university in 1880. In 1882 he published A Plea for the Higher Education of the Women of MississijJjii, which led to the establishment by the state of a college for girls in 18S5. which in r.)03 enrolled 600 pupils.

ROUND, William Marshall Fitts, penologist, ■was born in Pawtucket, R.I., March 26,1845; grandson of Daniel and Sally (Marshall) Round, and of Abijali and Betsy (Pernio) Fitts. He attended the public schools and the Harvard Medical school, but did not graduate. He was appointed U.S. commissioner to the World's fair, held in Vienna, 1873, and had cliarge of the New England department. He was married, April 25, 1877, to Ellen Miner, daughter of Jesse and Ellen (Miner) Thomas of Wilkes Barre, Pa., and grand- daughter of the Hon. Charles Miner. He devoted himself to literature, becoming a journalist and author, and took an active interest in the subject of prison reform. He was corresponding .secre- tary of the Prison Association of New York; was one of the organizers and secretary of the National Prison a&sociation, and United States delegate to the prison congresses held in Rome, Paris and Brussels. He organized the Burnham Industrial farm for unruly boys at Canaan, N.Y.; intro-

duced the "Mill" system of awards, and was elected corresponding secretary of the Prison Association of New York in 1883. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Brown university in 1892. In 1903 he was managing editor of the Le7ul a Hand Record, in association with Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale (q.v.), and mucli interested in the international justice movement, of which the Record is the organ in the United States. He is the author of: AcJtsah, aXew England Life Study (1876); Child Marion Abroad (1876); To7-n aiid Mended {1817); Hoi, the Stori/ofa C/od/i 07Jj)er (1878): Rosccroft (1880).

ROUQUETTE, Adrien Emmanuel, priest and author, was born in New Orleans, La.. Feb. 13, 1813; brother of Francois Dominique, author of several poems and a history of the Clioctaw In- dians, in both French and English. He spent his early boyhood among the Indians on Bayou La- combe; attended the preparatory department of Transylvania university, Kentucky; the College Royal of Paris, and that of Nantes, and was graduated from the University of Renues in 1833. On his return to New Orleans, having resumed his friendly relations with the Indians against the wishes of liis parents, he was again sent to Paris to stud\- law, which he subsequently aban- doned. For the purpose of uplifting the Choctaw Indians he prepared for the priesthood of the Roman Catholic cliurch at Bayou Lacomb, where he learned the Choctaw language and reduced it to writing; attended the seminary of A.ssumption Parish; was ordained sub-deacon in 1844, and priest by Archbisliop Blanc of New Orleans in 1845. He was attached to the cathedral in New Orleans, La., as predicateur, 1845-58, and in 1859 established an Indian mission at the headsprings of Bayou Lacomb, where he remained until 1886. He also established missions in St. Tam- many parish, and during the civil war he placed the Indians under the protection of Catherine Tegehkwitha, the Indian saint of Canada. He was a linguist of remarkable reputation, and is the author of: Les Savaiics, jpucsies Americaines (1841), including iSoitrt'u/;- de Kentrucky; Wild Flou-ers; Sacred Poetry (1848); La Theba'ide en Amerique (1852); L'Anto)iiade, poeme eremi- tique (1860); Poemes Pat riot iques (1860); Catherine Tegehkwitha (1873); La Nouvelle Atald (1879), and Critical Dialogue between Aboo and Caboo on a New Book, or a Grandissime Ascension, edited by E. Junius, a satire on George W. Cable's " Gran- dissimes." He also translated the select poems of Estelle Anna Lewis into French, and edited Selections from the Poets of all Countries (1855). He died in New Orleans, La., July 15, 1887.

ROUSSEAU, Lovell Harrison, soldier, was born in Stanford, Lincoln county, Ky., Aug. 4, 1818. He studied law; removed to Bloomfield,