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aiine (Gaines) Hill Kyhuul. IIo was prepared for college at Fleetwood academy; was a student at Richmond college, 1854-56, and was graduated at the Soutiieru Baptist Theological seminary in 1^00. He was evangelist and colporteur in the Confederate army, 1^G1-C5; was pastor at Bur- russ's church, Blount Carmel, Va., 1803-66; gen- eral state superintendent of Sunday-schools, 186G- 69, and was prominent in the first national Sun- day-school institute at St. Louis, 1869. He was married. Oct. 28, 1869, to Alice Marion, daughter of Dr. John Muscoe and Anne E. (Hancock) Garnett of King and Queen county, Va.; pastor in Alexandria, Va.. 1869-74; financial secretary and librarian, Richmond college, 1874-1903. He was elected a trustee of Richmond' college; a member of the corpdration of Columbian univer- sity, D.C, and overseer, 1872-82, and founder of the Virginia Baptist Historical society, 1876. Tiie degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Rich- mond college.

RYLAND, Robert, educator, was born in King and Queen county, Va., March 14, 1805; son of Josiah and Catharine (Peachy) Ryland; grand- son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Huuley) Ryland, and great-grandsou of Richard Hunley. He re- ceived a good preparatory training in private schools and academies near his home; was li- censed to preach in 1825. and ordained to the Bap- tist ministr}' in 1827. He was married, May 27, 1830, to Josephine, daughter of Thomas and Ann (Mosby) Norvell of Richmond, Va. He was grad- uated from Columbian college, Washington, D.C, A.B., 1826, A.M. 1831; was pastor at Lynchburg, Va., 1827-31; principal of the Virginia Baptist seminary, Spring Farm, Henrico county, Va. (a manual labor school, which was removed to Rich- mond, Va., 1834), and served, 1832-40, and as president of its successor, Richmond college, 1840-66. He resigned the presidency in 1866. He had served as chaplain of the University of Vir- ginia, 1834-36, and as pastor of the First African Baptist church, Richmond, 1842-67. He was president of the female seminary in Shelbyville. Ky., 1868-70; at Lexington, Ky., 1870-77, and at New Castle, Ky., 1877-80. He received the hon- orary degree of D.D. from Richmond college and from Shurtleff college, 111. He is the author of: Lectures on the Apocalypse (1857); of several ad- dresses and published sermons, and of a catechism which was used for the oral instruction of the colored people in his church. He died in Lexing- ton, April 23, 1899.

RYLAND, William Semple, educator, was born in Richmond, Va., June 4, 1836; son of the Rev. Robert (q.v.) and Josephine (Norvell) Ry- land. He was graduated at Richmond college, of whiclx his father was president, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858; was pastor of the Baptist church at Winchester, Va., 1859-61; taught school in Clarke county, 1861-63; was chaplain in tiie Confederate army, 1863-65; pastor and teacher at Frederick county, Va., 1865-67; Grenada, Miss., 1867-73, and Lexington, Ky., 1873-80; president of the Lexington Female college, 1877-80; president of Bethel college, Ky., 1889-98, serving also as profes- sor of natural science, 1880-93, and as cliairman of the faculty, 1887-89, and in 1893 became pastor of churches in Logan county, Ky., residing at Rus- sell ville. He was married at Racine, Wis., Sept. 29, 1870, to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. William J. Morton, a native of Shelby county ,-Ky. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Mercer uni- versity, Ga., in 18SG, and that of D.D. from Georgetown, Ky., in 1887.

RYORS, Alfred, educator, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., or Long Island, N.Y., June 28, 1812. Left an orphan at an early age in Philadelphia, he resided at Abington, Montgomery county. Pa., in the family of the Rev. Robert Steel, whose se- lect school he attended. He was graduated from Jefferson college. Pa., in 1835, meanwhile teach- ing Latin and Greek at C. J. Halderman's school at Bristol, Pa., 1833-34; was principal of the i)re- paratory department at Lafayette college, Pa., 1835-36; adjunct professor of Latin and Greek, 1836-37, and professor of mathematics in Ohio university, Athens, 1836-44. He was marrieii in 1838 to Louisa, daughter of Judge Walker of Athens, Ohio. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Philadelphia in 1838; was professor of mathematics in Indiana university, 1844-48; was ordained by the presbytery of Salem, Ind., in 1845, and preached in Bloomington, 1845-48; was president of Ohio university, 1848-52, and in 1852 was elected president of Indiana university, but he resigned at the end of the first year, and sup- plied the pulpit of the First Presbyterian church of Madison, Ind., declining, however, to become their pastor. He was professor of mathematics in Centre college, stated .supply of the Presby- terian church. New Princeton, and co-pastor elect of the Second church, Danville, Ky., 1854-58. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Indiana university in 1848. He died in. Danville, Ky., May 8, 1858.