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KAWLINS

RAWLE, William Henry, lawyer, WcOS born in Philadelphia, Pa.. Aug. 31, 182:3; sou of Wil- liam, lawyer (q.v.) aud Mary Anna (Tilghman) Riiwle. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1841, A.M., 1844; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1844. and engaged in prac- tice in Philadelphia. When his state was threat- ened by an invasion in 18G-,». he enlisted in the artillery as a private, and again in 18(53 as a quartermaster. He was vice-pruvost of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, 186.")-73; vice-ciiancel- lor of the Law association, 1880-89, and a secre- tary and director of the Library Company of Pliiladelphia for several years. He was married, Sept. 13, 1849. to Mary Binney, daughter of Judge John and Mary (Binney) Cadwalader of Phila- delphia; and secondly, Oct. 7, 1869, to Emily, daughter of Gen. Thomas and Maria C. (Gouver- neur) Cadwalader of Trenton, N.J. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1882. He published: Laio of Covenants for Title (1852); John W. Smith's " Law of Contracts'" (third American ed., with notes, 1>>53); Joslma William's '• Law of Real Property " (second American ed.. 1857); Equity in Pennsyl- vania, including the Registrar's Book of Gov. William Keith's Court in Chancery (1868); Some Contrasts in the Growth of Pennsylvania in English Law (1881): Oration at Unveiling of the Monument Erected by the Bar of the United States ^) Chief Justice Marshall (1884), and The Case of the Educated Unemployed (1885). He died in Philadelphia, Pa.. April 19, 1889.

RAWLES, William A., educator, was born in Remington. Ind., Dec. 4, 1863; son of Lycurgus and Catherine (Oilar) Rawles; grandson of John Ruth (Darnell) Oilar. He attended the Reming- ton and Bloomington public schools, and was graduated from Indiana university in 1884. He was principal of the high school at Mitchell, Ind., 18^84-85; assistant in the preparatory department of Indiana university, 1885-87; principal of the Vincennes high school, 1887-89; principal of the high school at SeJalia, Mo., 1889-92 and 1893-94; serving as assistant in the St. Louis high school, 1892-93. and was instructor in history at the In- <liana university, 1894-95: in hi.story and econ- omics. 1896-98; a.ssi.stant professor of the same, 1899-1902. and assistant professor of political economy from 1902. He was married. June 26, 1895. to Harriet McClure, daugliter,of Henry Mc- (Jlure and Emma (Robb) Post of St. Louis, Mo. He received the degree of A.M. from Indiana university, 1895. and Ph.D. from Columbia uni- versity, 1903; \va.s a fellow in economics at Cor- nell, 1S9.')-9G: scholar in ailministr.itive law, Columbia, 1898-99; a menil)er of the American Historicil association of Wasliington and of the
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American Economic association, and is the author of: The Government of the People of the State of Indiana (1897); and Centralizing Tendencies in the Ailministration of Indiana (1903).

RAWLINS, John Aaron, soldier and cabinet ollicer, was born at East Galena, 111., Feb. 13, 1831; .son of James Dawson Rawlins, a native of Madison county, Ky., who removed to Missouri, and from there to East Galena. He was a de- scendant of Robert Rawlings, an early settler of Maryland. The family removed to Guildford, III., where John Aaron Rawlins attended school and helped on the farm and in burning charcoal. He attended Mount Morris seminary, 1852-53; studied law in Galena. 1854-55; practised in partnership with Isaac P. Stevens, his preceptor, 1855-56. and with David Sheean, 1858-61. He was elected city attorney for Galena in 1857; was a Democratic candidate for presidential elector in 1860. and held a series of joint discus- sions with Allen C. Fuller, the Lincoln and Hamlin candidate for elector from his district, which gave him a local reputation as a public speaker. On the firing on Fort Sumter in April, 1861, he aided in arousing the people of Illinois to the dangers that threatened the Union and in recruiting the 45th Illinois volunteers. He was appointed aide-de-camp to General Grant, who had been attracted to him by hearing him speak at Galena in favor of maintaining the Union, and although the youngest member of his staff, was promoted assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, Sept. 15, 1861. at Cairo, his commission dating from Aug. 31, 1861. The only time he was absent from staff duty during the entire war was in August and September, 1864, when on sick leave. He was promoted rapidly, being made major, April 14, 1862; lieutenant- colonel, Nov. 1, 1862; brigadier-general of volun- teers, Aug. 11, 1863; brevet major-general of volunteers, Feb. 24, 1865; brigadier-general, U.S.A.. and chief of staff, March 3. 1865, and brevet major-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865. He was married first. June 5, 1856, to Emily, daughter of Hiram Smith of Goshen. N.Y.. and secondly, in 1863, to Mary E., daughter of S. A. Hurlburt of Danbury, Conn. General Grant characterized him as " more nearly indispensaijle to me than any officer in the service." He was appointed secretary of war in President Grant's cabinet, March 9. 1869, and held the office until his death from pulmonary consump- tion, contracted during the war. A i)opular sub-