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at Yale. 1802; married Annabella Sheldon of New York, Nov. 21, 1808; settled as a lawyer at Troy, N.Y.. and dieil there, Sept. 1, 1809, leaving a son, Tapping Burr Reeve, who died at Litchfield, Aug. 28, 1829, age 20 years, while a student at Yale. Annabella Reeve, after the death of her first husband, married David T. Burr of New Haven, and removed to Richmond, Va. Judge Reeve was married a second time in 1799, and this wife, who survived him, had no children. He was a judge of the superior court of Con- necticut, 1798-1814; chief justice of the supreme court, 1814, and a Federalist representative in the state legislature for several years. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by 3Iiddle- bury college, Vt., in 1808, and by the College of ^New Jersey in 1813. He is the author of: The 'Law of Baron and Femme (1816; 2d ed., 1846; 3ded., 1862); Laic of Parent and Child (1816); Law of Guardian and Ward (1816); Law of Mas- ter and Servant (1816; 2d ed., 1862); Treatise on the Laiv of Descents in the United States of America (1825), and Essays on, the Legal Lnport of the Terms, Heirs, Heirs of the Body Issue, Etc. The best biographical sketch of him is found in the funeral sermon preached over him by his pastor, the Rev. Lj^man Beecher, and published in the Christian Spectator for 1887, pp. 62-71. He died in Litchfield, Conn., Dec. 13, 1823.

REEVES, Walter, representative, was born near Brownsville, Pa., Sept. 25, 1848; son of Harrison and Maria (Leonard) Reeves; grandson of Samuel and Martha (Palmer) Reeves, and of Benjamin and Mary Leonard. He removed to Illinois in 1856, and engaged in farming, later becoming a teacher. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and practised in the courts of Illinois. He was married, June 27, 1876, to Marietta M., daughter of Lucius and Catherine (Warner) Cogswell of New Milford, Conn. He was a Republican representative from the eleventh district of Illinois in the 54th, 55th, 56th and 57th congresses, 1895-1903. As a mem- ber of the committee on rivers and harbors he devoted his energies to the internal development of the country. He also proposed and prepared the legislation under which President McKinley appointed the Isthmian Canal commission which investigated the Panama and Nicaraguan routes for the inter-oceanic canal. In the 57th congress he was chairman of the committee on patents.

REHAN, Ada, actress, was born in Limerick, Ireland, April 22, 1860; daughter of Thomas and Harriet Crehan. She immigrated to the United States with her parents in 1804, and set- tled in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she attended the public schools until 1873. She made her first public appearance on the stage in Newark, N.J.. in 1873, taking the part of an actress in the

company of Oliver Doud Byron, then producing " Across the Continent." She succeeded so well that her parents decided upon her adopting the profession, which was followed by her older sisters as well. She studied for one year, and then played in support of Edwin Booth, Adelaide Neilson, John McCullough, Mrs. D. P. Bowers, John T. Raymond and Lawrence Barrett in the roles of Ophelia, Desdemona, Celia, Olivia and other Shakesperian characters, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Albany, and Louisville stock com- panies. She declined the offer of leading lady in Edwin Booth's company to engage with Augus- tin Daly in 1878, and in 1879 made her appear- ance under his management at Daly's theatre, New York city, as Nelly Beers in '• Love's Young Dream" and as Lulu Ten Eyck in "Divorce." She became very successful in such comedy roles as Katherine in "The Taming of the Shrew," Rosalind in " As Y"ou Like It; '' the Countess Vera in •• The Last Word; " and the principal female characters in " Cinderella at School; " " Needles and Pins; " " A Wooden Spoon; " " The Railroad of Love; " " After Business Hours; " " Our Eng- lish Friends," and "The Country Girl." She achieved remarkable success in Daly's companj- in London and Paris, and remained under the one manager until his death in 1899, when she retired from the stage.

REHN, Frank Knox Morton, artist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 1848; son of Pro- fessor Isaac and Abigail Francis (Zelly) Rehn? grandson of James and Susanna (Asy) Zelly, and a descendant of immigrants from Holland. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Christian Schussell, and engaged in por- trait, landscape, marine, still-life and figure painting. He was married, Dec. 1, 1881, to Mar- garet Selby, daughter of George C. and Margaret (Rackliffe) Bower of Philadelphia, and removed to New Y^ork city, where he opened a studio. He ex- hibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design, New York cit}', and was awarded the first prize for marine painting at the St. Louis exposition in 1882; a prize of $250 at a water-color competitive exhibition held in New York in 1885, a gold medal at the prize fund exhibition at New Y'ork in 1886, honorable mention at the Paris exposition, 1900, and a silver medal at the Pan-American, 1901, and South Caro- lina, 1902, expositions. He was made associate National Academician, a member of the American Water Color society, and the Society of Ameri- can Artists. Among his famous paintings are: Tlie Turkish Harem; Looking down on the Sea from the Eocks at Magnolia, Mass. (1885); The Missing Vessel; The Close of a Summer Day (1887); Evening, Gloucester Harbor (1887); and the Derelict (1892).