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scripLion was started after his deatli for the ben- efit of liis family, and $50,000 was raised. His statue in bronze was erected in Washington. He died in W^ashingtou, D.C.. Sept. 9, 1869.

RAWLINS, Joseph Lafayette, representative, was born in Salt Lake county, Utali Territory, March 28, 1850 ; son of Joseph Sharp and Mary (Frost) Rawlins; grandson of James and Jane (8h:irp) Rawlins, and of John and Rachel (Pate) Frost, and a descendant of Charles Rawlins, who came to North Cart)lina from England, in its early settlement. He completed a classical course in the University of Indiana, but returned to Utali before graduation. He was professor in the Uni- versity of Deseret, Salt Lake city, 1873-75, mean- wliile studying law ; vi^as admitted to the bar in 1875, and settled in practice in Salt Lake city, where he was married, Dec. 8, 1876, to Julia E., daughter of John S. and Elizabeth (Phillips) Davis. He was elected a delegate in the 53d congress from Utah Territory, as a Democrat, serving 1893-95 ; was defeated for the 54th congress by the Hon. Frank J. Cannon, and was elected to the U.S. senate from Utah for the term 1897-1903.

RAWSON, Albert Leighton, author, was born at Chester, Vt., Oct. 15, 1828; son of Adolphus and Betsey (Armington) Rawson ; grandson of Samuel Read and Philanda (Cleavland) Rawson, and a descendant of Edward and Racliel (Perne) Rawson. Edward Rawson emigrated from Gil- liiigham, Dorset county, England, to America in 1636, and settled in Newbury, Mass., subsequently removing to Boston, Mass. Albert L. Rawson was educated under private tutors, and at Black River academy, Ludlow, Vt. ; studied law under William H. Seward, theology under "Elder" Graves, and medicine under Professor Webster of the Massachusetts Medical college. He visited the far East four times, and in 1851-52, by repre- senting himself to be a Mohammedan medical student, succeeded in accompanying the caravan from Cairo to Mecca. He made important in- vestigations in the Indian mounds of the Missis- sippi valley, and in 1854-55 made similar research in Central America. He was adopted as a " bi'other " by the Ad wan Bedouins of Moab. He was one of the two founders of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a founder of the Theosophical society in the United States, a life member of the Society of the Rosy Cross, and a member of var- ious literarj' and scientific societies. He was mar- ried to Sarah Lord. He received the degrees D.D. and LL.D. (1880), from Christ college, Oxford, Eng- land, and M.D. from the University of Sorbonne, Paris. He illustrated books, including "The Life of Jesus " by Henry Ward Beecher (1871) ; executed more than 3000 engravings, and painted the portraits of Queen Victoria, Louis Napoleon, Empress Eugenie and other celebrities. He con-

tributed to magazines, wrote rituals for many secret societies, and is the author of : Divine Origin of the Holy Bible (1846); Stella and Other Novels (1847); Vocabularies and Dictionaries of Arabic, Persian and Turkish (1854); Bible Hand- book (1869) ; Ruins and Relics of the Orient (1870) ; Bible Dictionaries (1870-75); Histories of all Religions (ISIQ); Statisticsof Protestaiiiisni (1870); Antiquities of the Orient (1871); Scarlet Books of Free Masonry (1873); Vocabulary of the Bedouin Languages of Syria and Egypt (187^); Diction- aries of Arabic, German and English (1876); Vocabulary of Persian and Turkish Languages (1877); History of the Quakers (1878); Clioro- graphy of Palestine (1880); The Symposium of Basra (1880) ; Historical and Archaeological In- troduction to the Holy Bible, with maps and illustrations (1879, 1881,1882): The Unseen World (1888); The Archaic Library (Vols. I and II, 1893), and The History of Mysticism. In 1903 he resided at Hillsdale Manor, N.J.

RAY, Anna Chapin, author, was born in West- field, Mass., Jan, 3, 1865; daughter of Edward Addison and Helen Maria (Chapin) Ray ; grand- daughter of Benjamin and Anne (Dodge) Ray, and of Nathaniel and Fanny Bowen (Brown) Chapin, and a descendant of Deacon Samuel Cliapin, who came from England to Roxbury, Mass., in 1635. The Rays are Highland Scotch, their date being still in dispute. She remov- ed with her parents to West Haven, Conn., 1867; was graduated from Smith college, A.B., 1885, A.M., 1888, and became well known as a writer for young people. Her published books include : Half a Dozen Boys (1890); Haifa Dozen Girls (1891); The Cadets of Flemming Hall (1892) ; Margaret Davis' Tidor (1893); Dick (1896); How Polly and Ned found Santa Claus (1898); Teddy, Her Book (1898); Each Life Unfulfilled (1899); Playground Toni (1900); Phebe : Her Profession (1900); Teddy: Her Daughter (1901); Nathalie's Chum (1902); Adam and the Queen of Sheba (1903). She is also the author of a large number of fugitive writings of a semi-essay character.

RAY, George Washington, jurist, was born in Otselic, Chenango county, N.Y., Feb. 3, 1844. He was brouglit up on his father's farm, and was edu- cated in the district school and Norwich academy. In 1861 he enlisted in the 90th New York volun- teers as a private, and served as brigade clerk in the 1st brigade, 1st division, 19th army corps, 1862-65. He was admitted to the bar in 1867, and while practising his profession in Norwich, N.Y., conducted a large farm. He served as chairman of the Republican county and state committees ; as a representative from the twenty- first New York district in the 48tli congress. 1883-85, and from the twenty-sixth district in the 52d-57th congresses, 1891-1903. He was chair-