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graduated from Greeneville college, Tenn., about 1814. He was admitted to the bar in 1817, and practised at Kuoxville, Tenn. He was president of the East Tennes- see Historical society, 1830-59 ; chancellor of the eastern district of Tennessee, 1831-35, succeeding Natlian Green, resigned, and in 1835 was unani- mously elected by tiie legislature a judge of the supreme court, serving on the bench until 1847, when his term expired, and he became a candidate for U.S. senator, but was defeated by John Bell. He became president of East Tennessee university in 1850, as successor to President East- brook, resigned, and Judge Reese resigned in 1853. He advocated the building of a canal to one of the South Atlantic ports, and was in- terested in the introduction of railroads in his native state. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from East Tennessee university, 1845. He died near Knoxville, Tenn., July 7, 1859.

REESE, William Smythe, educator, was born in Pipestone, Mich., May 18, 1850 ; a descendant of tiie Reeses and Rulisons of tlie Schoharie Valley, N.Y. He attended the schools of Berrien county, and was graduated from Otterbein university, Westerville, Ohio, Ph.B., 1885, Ph.M.. 1888. He was married, June 11, 1874, to Amy M.. daughter of David and Mary Johnson of Westerville, Ohio, and engaged in farming. He entered the min- istry of the United Brethren church, in 1886 ; was ordained in 1888, and was pastor at Marion, Oliio. and at Avalon, Mo. He was professor of mathematics at Avalon college. 1887-89, and at Western college, Toledo, Iowa, 1889-94 ; was president of York college, Nebraska, 1894-97 ; was elected president of Westfield college. Illinois, in 1897, serving as professor of mental and moral sci- ence there, 1897-1900, as prof essor of philosophy, 1900-02, and as professor of mathematics and ped- agogy from 1902. The honorary degree of D.D. wa.« conferred on him by York college in 1900.

REEVE, Charles McCormick, lawyer, was born in Dansville, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1847 ; son of Gen. Isaac V. D. and Elizabeth (]\tann) Reeve; grandson of Isaac and Harriet (Howell) Reeve, and of Joshua and Elizabeth (Hurlbert) Shepard, and a descendant of James Reeve, who came to .Southold, L.L, in 1640, from England ; Ralph Sliepard, who came from Stepney Parish, Eng- land, in 1634, and settled in Massachusetts, and

Edward Howell, who came from England in 1635, and settled on Long Island, N.Y. He at- tended Canandaigua 'academy, was graduated from Yale, A.B.. 1870, A.M., 1873, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1872. He was married, June 4. 1873. to Christine, daughter of James and Helen (Wetherbee) Lawrence, and established himself in practice in Minneapolis. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1890 ; was sent to Russia during the famine of 1892 as a relief commissioner from Minnesota and Ne- braska, ant^ was secretary of the World's Fair commission, 1891-93. At the outbreak of the Spanish- American war lie was appointed colonel of the 13th Minnesota volunteers. May 7, 1898 ; was promoted brigadier-general, U.S.V., Aug. 13, 1898, for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Manila, and served as deputy provost- marshal and 1st American chief-of-police of ^Manila. He was appointed warden of the Min- nesota State prison, Dec. 1, 1899. He is the author of How We Went, and What We Saw (1890).

REEVE, Tapping, jurist, was born in Brook- haven, L.L, in October, 1744; son of the Rev. Abner Reeve, a minister of Long Island, and afterward of Vermont, who lived to be on© hundred and four years old, preaching his last sermon when one hundred and two years of age. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, A.B.. 1763, A.M., 1766; taught school at Elizabeth, N.J., being joint headmaster of a flourisliing institution, 1763-67. and at the same time was a tutor to Aaron and Sarah (children of the Rev. Aaron) Burr. He was a tutor at the College of New Jersey, 1767-70 ; married Sarah Burr in 1771, when she was seventeen years of age ; studied law with Judge Root, and in 1772 established himself in practice in Litchfield, Conn. Owing to his wife's invalidism he could not take up active service in the Revolutionary war, altliough an ardent patriot. In December, 1776, however, he was appointed by tiie Connecticut assembly a member of the committee (as was Oliver Ellsworth, his classmate at college) to go througii the state and rouse the people to aid tiie desperate Continental army by enlistments. He himself took a commission as an officer, and got as far as New York with the new volunteers, when tiie news of the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and Washington's altered fortunes reached him, and he immediately returned to hi& invalid wife. In 1784 he founded a law school in Litchfield, in which he was the only instructor till 1798, when James Gould became associated with him. the school of Reeve and Gould becom- ing the most prominent of its kind in the country. His wife died. March 30, 1797, leaving one son, Aaron Burr Reeve, born Oct. 3, 1780 ; graduated