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was president of Genesee -college, Lima, N.Y., 1858-64: editor of the Western Christian Advo- cate, Cincinnati, Oliio, 1864-68; editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, Chicago, 1868- 73; secretary of the Missionary Society of the M. E. Cliurch, 1873-88, and honorary secretary 1888-96; delegate to the general conference, 1856- 88, and to the Ecumenical Methodist conference, Loudon, England, 1881. He was married first, Nov. 14, 1844, to Ann Mason of New York city; and secondly, May 3, 1848, to Caroline S. . daughter of Thomas B. Fanton of Redding, Conn. He received the degrees, A.M., from Wesleyan uni- versity in 1858. D.D., from the University of the City of New York in 1858, and LL.D. from Syra- cuse university in 1881. He is the author of: Missions and Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (2 vols., 1883); Doomed Relig- ions (1883), and many religious tracts and pamph- lets. He died in New York city. May 16, 1896.

REID, Robert Raymond, governor of Florida, was born in Prince William parish, S.C, Sept. 8, 1789. He was educated at South Carolina college, and in early life removed to Augusta, Ga., where he was admitted to the bar in 1810. He was judge of the Georgia superior court, 1816-18 and 1833-35; a Democratic representative in the loth congress, completing the term of John Forsyth, elected to the U.S. senate, and in the 16th and 17th congresses, serving from Feb. 18, 1819, to March 3, 1823. He was mayor of Augusta, 1827- 30; judge of the superior court for the district of East Florida, 1833-39; governor of the terri- tory of Florida, 1839-41, and presiding officer of the state constitutional convention held at St. Joseph, Fla., from Deo. 3, 1838, to Jan, 11, 1839. He was married in 1811 to Anna Marga- retta McLaws of Augusta, Ga.; secondly, May 8, 1829, to Elizabeth Napier Delphia Virginia Ran- dolph of Columbia county, Ga.; and thirdly, Nov. 6, 1837, to Mary Martha, daughter of Capt. James Snaith of Camden count}-, Ga. He died near Tallahassee, Fla., July 1, 1841.

REID, Sam Chester, author, was born in New York city, Oct. 21, 1818; son of Capt. Samuel Chester (q.v.) and Mary (Jennings) Reid. He shipped before the mast in 1834, and was attached to the U.S. survey of the Ohio river in 1838. He settled in Natchez, Miss., in 1839; studied law with Gen. John A. Quitman, and practised in Natchez, 1841-44, where he was U.S. deputy marshal. He removed to Louisiana in 1844, and served during the war with Mexico in Capt. Ben McCulloch's company of Texas Rangers, being mentioned for meritorious services and dis- tinguished gallantry at Monterey. He was a member of the editorial staff of the New Orleans Picayune in 1849, and was a delegate to the national railroad convention at Memphis, Tenn.,

to decide upon a line to the Pacific. He declined appointment of U.S. minister to Italy in 1857, and during the civil war he was tiie Confederate war correspondent for a number of southern newspapers. He resumed his law practice in 1865, and was married in July, 1866, to Josephine Rowen of Kentucky. In 1874 he established the Mississippi Valley and Brazil steamship company at St. Louis, Mo. He lectured in the principal cities of the south on " The Restoration of South- ern Trade and Commerce," and is the author of: The U.S. Bankrupt Laic of IS41, with a Synopsis and Notes (1842); The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Eaiigers (I8i7); The Battle of Chickamauga, a Concise History of Events from the Evacuation of Chattanooga (1863), and T'he Daring Raid of Gen. John H. Morgan in Ohio, His Capture and Wonderful Escape u-ith Capt. T. Henry Hines (1864). He edited: The Case of the Private-Armed Brig-of-War, General Arm- strong (1857). and Life and Times of Col. Aaron Bw-r, a Vindication, which was never published, the manuscript being destroyed by fire in 1850. He died in Washington, D.C., Aug. 13, 1897.

REID, Samuel Chester, naval officer, was born in Norwich, Conn., Aug. 25,1783; second son of Lieut. John and Rebecca (Chester) Reid, and grandson of Lord John Reid of Glasgow, Scotland, and of John Chester of Norwich. His father was an officer in the Royal navy; was taken prisoner at New London, Conn., in October, 1778, and afterward resigned his commission and espoused the Ameri- can cause. Samuel Chester Reid went to sea in 1794, and en- tered the U.S. navy as midshipman on the sloop-of-war Bal- timore, under Com- modore Truxton. He " ^"^^^^^ ■ ~" was married in New

York city, June 8, 1813, to Mary, daughter of Capt. Nathan Jennings of Fairfield. Conn. He was commissioned captain by President Mad- ison, and given command of the brigantine. General Armstrong, fitted out as a privateer and on Sept. 9, 1814, he ran the blockade of British war-ships off Sandy Hook, New York harbor. He arrived at the island of Fayal, Azores, and while there, the British brig-of-war Carnation, the frigate Rosa, and the ship-of-the- line Plantagenet entered the bay. After a fruit- less effort to escape, Reid cleared his decks for action, and was attacked by the British in small

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