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RAYMOND, Bradford Paul, educator, was born near Stamford, Conn., April 22, 1846; son of Lewis and Sally A. (Jones) Raymond; grand- son of Gould and Olive (Stevens) Raymond, and of Isaac and Lois (Curtis) Jones, and a descend- ant of Richard Raymond. He taught school in Stamford, Conn., 1861-63, and in 1864 enlisted in the 48th New York volunteer infantry, serving until honorably discharged in September, 1865. He attended Hamline university at Red Wing, Minn., 1866-69, and was graduated at Lawrence university, Appleton, Wis., A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873, and at Boston university, Boston, Mass., B.D., 1874. He was married, Sept. 15, 1873, to Lula A., daughter of the Rev. Justin O. and Maria J. (Wellman) Rich of Red Wing, Minn. He made a special study of philosophy at Boston university, and under Lotze at Gottingen. He also studied under Luthardt at Leipsic and Ritschl at Gottingen, 1880-81. He was ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1874; was pastor of the Allen Street church, New Bedford, Mass. , 1874-77; of the Chestnut Street church, Providence, R.I., 1877-80, and of the Main Street church, Nashua, N.H., 1881-83. He was president

of Lawrence university, Ap- pleton, Wis., 1883-89, and of Wesleyan university, M iddletown, Conn., from 1889. He re- ceived the degree Ph.D. from Boston university in 1881; D.D. from North- western university in 1884; LL.D. from Law- rence university in 1889, and D.D. from Yale in 1901. He is the author of: Christianity and the Christ (1894).

RAYMOND, Evelyn Hunt, author, was born at Watertown. N.Y., Nov. 6, 1843; daughter of Alvin and Charlotte (Hatch) Hunt. She at- tended private schools and Mount Holyoke college in the class of 1861, but was not graduated. She was married. Sept. 29, 1869, to John Bradford Raymond, and made her home in Cornwall-on- Hudson. New York, removing to Baltimore, Md., 1897. Her published writings, chiefly juvenile stories, include: Mixed Pickles (1892); Monica (1893); Little Lady of the Sorse (1894); The Mushroom Caue (1895); A Cape May Diamond (1896); The Little Red Schoolhouse (1897); Among The Lindens (1898); The Boys and Girls of Brantham (1899); My Lady Barefoot (1899); .4 Daughter of the West (1899); Reels and Spindles (1900); The Story of Delight (1900); Divided Skates (1900); Yankee Girl in Old California

(1901); A Pair of Them (1901); Daisies and Dig- gleses (1901); A Daughter of the Forest (1901); Jessica Trent (1902).

RAYMOND, George Lansing, educator and author, was born at Chicago, 111., Sept. 3, 1839; son of Benjamin Wright (q.v.) and Amelia (Porter) Raymond. He was graduated at Phil- lips academy, Andover, Mass., 1858; at Williams college, Mass., 1862, and at Princeton Theological seminary, 1865. He studied in Europe, 1865-68, and was pastor of the Presbyterian church, Danby, Pa., 1870-74. He was married at Phila- delphia in 1872. to Mary Elizabeth Blake. He was professor of oratory in Williams college, 1874-81, and in 1880 was elected profes.sor of oratory and esthetic criticism in the College of New Jersey, Princeton, and in 1893, professor of esthetics there. The peculiarity of the system unfolded in his esthetic works lies in his develop- ing all the different arts from identical methods of using forms borrowed from nature in order to represent (in distinction from present) different phases of thought and feeling. He received the degree L.H.D. from Rutgers college in 1883, and from Williams college in 1889. He was a mem- ber of the Authors club; a lecturer, and a vice- president of the American Social Science associ- ation. Among his published works are: Colony Ballads (1876); Ideals made Real (1811); the Orator's Mamial (1879); Modern Fishers of Men (1879); A Life in Song (1886); Poetry and Repre- sentative Art (1886); Ballads of the Revolution and Sketches in Song (1887); The Genesis of Art- Form (1893), The Speaker and The Writer (1893); Art in Theory and Pictures in Verse (1894); Rhythm and Harmony in Poetry and Music and Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as Repre- sentative Arts (1895); Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1899); TJie Representative Signifi- cance of Form and T7ie Aztec God, and Other Dramas (1900); Ballads ayid Other Poems (1901).

RAYMOND, Henry Jarvis, journalist, was born in Lima, Livingston county, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1820; son of Jarvis and Lavinia (Brockway) Raymond; grandson of Jonathan P. and Han- nah (Jarvis) Raymond, and a descendant of Richard Raymond, mariner, of Salem, Mass., who moved to Norwalk, Conn., and then to Saybrook, where he died in 1692. He worked on his fatlier's farm and was graduated from the University of Vermont at the head of his class, A.B., 1840, A.M., 1843, and studied law in New York city. He taught in a young ladies' seminary, and became a regular contributor to the Nevj Yorker, a weekly magazine conducted by Horace Greeley. In 1841 Mr. Greeley established the New York Tribune, and Raymond was ap- pointed assistant editor on a weekly salary of