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who emigrated from Poiters, France, and was married in the Province of New Jersey, July 17, 1668, to Ann, daughter of John Boutcher of Hart- fordshire, England. Theodore Runyon was graduated from Yale in 1842; was admitted to the bar in 1846, and began practice in Newark, N.J. He was city attorney, 1853-56; city counsel, 1856; and in 1860 was a presidential elector on the Douglas and Johnson ticket. He was brigadier-general of the state militia, 1857-69; was mus- tered into the U.S. service as brigadier- general of volunteers in 1861, and assigned to the command of the fourth division of the Army of Northeast- ■eru Virginia. His troops built Fort Runyon, but did not leave Washington, D.C. In Au- gust, 1861, he resigned his commission; was subsequently brevetted major-general of the state militia, and promoted to that rank in 1869. He was married Jan. 21, 1864, to Clementine, daughter of William D. and Sarah (Ostrander) Bruen of New York. He was elected mayor of Newark, N.J., in 1864, and in 1865 was the un- successful Democratic candidate for governor. He was chancellor of New Jersey, 1873-87; practised law for six years; was appointed U.S. minister to Germany in 1893 to succeed William Walter Phelps; and was advanced to the position of ambassador extraordinary and minister pleni- potentiary ill 1894. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1862, and that of LL.D. from Rutgers in 1875, from Wesleyan, 1867, and from Yale, 1882. He died in Berlin, ■Germany, Jan. 27, l8v)6.

RUPP, Israel Daniel, historian, was born in Cumberland county, Pa., July 10, 1803. His boy- hood was spent upon a farm, and lie was mainly self-educated, early evincing a remarkable talent for languages. He became a school teacher, and from 1827 devoted himself to the collecting of historical materials, principally for his "History of the Germans of Philadelphia," which was in- complete and unpublislied at the time of his death. In addition to his numerous translations and his county histories of Pennsylvania, he is the author of: Geographical Catechisms of Penn- sylvania (1836); Events in Indian History (1842); History of the Religious Denominations of the United States (1844); Collection of Names of Tliirty Tliousand German and Other Immigrants IX. -13

to Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 (1856), and Genealogy of the Descendants of Jolt n Jonas Rupp (1874). lie died in Philadelphia, May 31, 1878.

RUPPERT, Jacob, Jr., representative, was born in New York city, Aug. 5, 1867; son of Jacob and Anna (Gillig) Ruppert, natives of New York city; grandson of Franz and Wilhelmina (Zindel) Rup- pert, and of George and Anna (Dorn) Gillig of Germany. He attended the Columbia grammar school, and engaged in business as a brewer in New York city. He was a member of the 7th regiment, N.G.S.N.Y.; was appointed aide-de- camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of Governor Hill, and later served as senior aide on the staff of Governor Flower. He was a Democratic representative from the fifteentli congressional district of New York in the 56th-57th congresses, 1899-1903, and from the sixteenth district in the 58th congress, 1903-05, serving on the committees on militia, and immigration and naturalization.

RUSBY, Henry Hurd, botanist, was born in Franklin, N.J., April 26, 1855; son of John and Abigail (Holmes) Rusby, and grandson of Leon- ard and Elizabeth (Redman) Rusby and of Hugh and Eliza (Dow; Holmes. He attended the state normal school at Westfield, Mass., 1872-74, and the Centenary Collegiate institute, Hacketts- town, N.J., in 1875; taught school for several years, and was graduated from the University of the City of New York, M.D., 1884, being awarded a medal by the Centennial exhibition in 1876 for a herbarium of the plants of Essex county, N.J. As agent for the Smithsonian Institution, he made botanical explorations in New Mexico and Ari- zona, 1880-81, and again in 1883, and in 1885 he started on an exploring tour in the interest of medical botany in South America, crossing the continent, discovering several hundred new species and genera of plants and birds, and return- ing in 1887, On Oct. 5, 1887, he was married to Margaretta Saunier, daughter of Samuel and Eliza (Saunier) Hanna of Franklin, N.J., and a descendant of Pierre Paul Saunier, associate of the botanist Michaux, and who inherited Mi- chaux's American estate. He was made profes- sor of botany, physiology and materia medica iu the New York College of Pliarmacy in 1888. In 1897 he became professor of materia medica in the Bellevue Hospital Medical college, and was retained when that college and the University Medical college consolidated as the University and Beilevue Hospital Medical college. In 1893 he explored along the lower Orinoco river. He was a member of the committee for the seventh and eighth decennial revision of the U.S. Pharmaco- poeia (1893 and 1903), and chairman of the commis- sion of the Pan-American Medical congress for the study of the American medicinal flora. He was elected a corresponding member of the Pharma-