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RAUB, Albert Newton, educator, was born at Miirtinsville. Pa., March 2S. 1840; son of John and Mary (Miller) Raub. He was gradu- ated in the scientific course of the State Normal sciiool at Millersville, Pa., in 1800; was princi- pal of tiie public schools of Bedford, Pa., 1800-61; had charge of the schools ofCressona, Pa.,18Cl- 04: was superintend- ent of the Ashland, Pa., public schools, 1 8G4-0; professor of English grammar and literature in the State Normal school at Kutztown, Pa., 1866- 68; superintendent of schools in Clinton county and the city schools of Lock Ha- ven, Pa., and principal of the Lock Haven higli schools, and of the Central Pennsylvania State Normal school, which he was largely instrumental in founding, 1877-84. In 1888 he became president of Delaware college, Newark, Del. In 1865 be began his work as lecturer l)efure teachers' institutes and other assem- blies, which work became an important part of his professional life. He received the hon- orary degree A.M. from the College of New Ji-rsey (Princeton) in 1866, that of Ph.D. from Lafayette in 1879, and that of LL.D. from Ursi- nus college in 1895. He was president of the Pennsylvania State Teachers' association in 1871, and in January, 1885, became editor and proprie- tor of the Educational News, a weekly. His published works include series of grammars, reailers. and arithmetics; also: Plain Educa- tional Talks (1869); School Management (1882); Studies in English aiid American Literature (1882); Methods of Teaching (188:J); A Practical Rhetoric (1887); Helps in the Use of Good English (1897).

RAUCH, Friedrich August, educator, was V>orn in Kirchbra(!iit, Hesi^e-Darmstadt, Ger- many, July 27. l^iOO; son of a clergyman. He was graduated at the University of Marl)urg in 1827; took post graduate studies at the Univer- sity of Giessen, 1827-28; was assistant to his uncle who conducted a literary institution in Frankford. 1828-29; and taught in the Univer- sity of Heidelljerg. 1829-30, and at the University of Giessen. 1830-31. In 1831, being obliged to leave the romitry owing to his free expression of his political opinions, he came to the United States and studied the Englisli language. Mean- while he supiwrted him.self by giving lessons on

the piano and teaching the German language in Lafayette college, 1833, and conducted a classi- cal school in connection with the German Re- formed Theological seminary, York, Pa., 1832-34. He was ordained to the German Reformed min- istry in 1832, and was profes.sor of Biblical litera- ture in the seminary, 1832-41. He was married in 1833 to a daughter of Laomi Moore of Morris- town, N.J. He removed his academj% with the seminary, to Mercersburg, Pa., in 1834, and in 1835 the academy became Marshall college, of which he was first presiilent, 1836-41. He re- ceived the degree Ph.D. from Heidelberg and the honorary degree of D.D. elsewhere. He is the author of: De Sojyhoclis Electra; De Ressurec- tion Mortuorum; Psychology; The Inner Life, and Commentary on Goethe" s Faust. He died in Mercersburg, Pa., March 2, 1841.

RAUCH, John Henry, physician, was born in Lebanon, Pa.. Sept. 4, 1828; son of Bernhard and Jane (Brown) Ranch, and a descendant of the Rev. Christian Henry Ranch, a Reformed Moravian clergyman, missionary to the Indians, 1741-42; a German Reformed clergyman in Lebanon, Berks, Lancaster, and other counties, 1746, and a teacher and preacher in Lititz and Warwick, Pa., 1749. He prepared for college at Lebanon academy, and was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, M.D., in 1849. He removed to Burlington, Iowa, in 1850. and as a member of the Iowa State Medical society re- ported on the medical and economical botany of the state in 1850. He was the first delegate from Iowa to the American Medical association in 1851. He assisted Professor Agassiz in the collection of materials for Natural History of the United States, from valuable collections secured from the Upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. 1855-56, a description of which appeared in Silliman's Journal of Natural Sciences. He was an active member of the Iowa Historical and Geological institute; professor of materia medica in Rush Medical college, Chicago. 111., 1857-60; president of the Iowa State Medical society, 1858, and an organizer and professor of materia medica and medical botany in the Chi- cago College of Pharmacy, 1859-01. He was brigade-surgeon in Hunter's and McDowell's army in Virginia, 1861-62; assi-stant medical director of the army of Virginia, 1862; of the army in Louisiana, 1862-64; and at Detroit, Mich., and in the Madison general hospital, 1864-65. He was mustered out with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1865; settled in Chicago, where he aided in reorganizing the health service of the city in 1867, and was a member of the board of health, and sanitary superintendent, 1867-73. lie visited the mining regions of South America in 1870, in the hope