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 REMINGTON

REMSEN

Lucy Paddock. The manufactory was removed to Ilion, N.Y., in 1828, and upon the death of his father, he continued the business alone, in 1845 bringing out a contract awarded Ames & Co. of Springfield, Mass., for several thousands of car- bines for the U.S. army. In 1857 he added the manufacture of pistols, and in 1861 numer- ous government orders necessitated the enlarge- ment of his works. Under the pressure of these demands his healtli broke down, and his sons Philo and Samuel took his place in the factory. He was president of the Ilion bank, and was interested in the local affairs of the city. He died in Ilion. N.Y.. Aug. 12, 1861.

REMINGTON, Frederick, artist, was born in Canton, N.Y., Oct. 4, 1861; son of Pierre and

Clara Remington; grandson of Seth and

(Cushing) Remington, and a descendant of John and Mary Remington, who settled in Newbury- port, Mass., in 1634. He attended the Yale Art school, and the Art Students' league in New Y'ork city, and went to the far west, where he established a ranch. He devoted himself to drawing, using military and western subjects entirely, and illustrating for the leading maga- zines, and also became well known as a painter, sculptor and author. He was married, Oct. 1, 1S83, to Eva Adelle, daughter of Lawton and

(Hoyt) Calen. He was one of the first to

depart from the conventional methods of draw- ing a horse in motion. He made pictures of the Geronimo war, the Yaqui war, the outbreak of Sioux in '90, and the Spanish Cuban rebellion, and went to Cuba as a newspaper artist during the Santiago campaign. He was elected an as- sociate member of the National Academy of De- sign, and among his works in sculpture are: The Broncho Buster, The Wounded Bunkie, TJie Buf- falo Signal, and The Xorther. He is the author of: Pony Tracks; Crooked Trails; Frontier Sketches; Sundown Leflare (1899); Men icith the Bark On (1900); John Ermine of the Yellowstone (1902).

REMSEN, Ira, educator, was born in New York city. Feb. 10, 1846; son of James Vander- bilt and Rosanna (Secor) Remsen; grandson of Garret and Martha (Vanderbilt) Remsen and of Theodore and Mary (Haring) Secor, and a descend- ant of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck (came to this country from the Netherlands in 1642, and set- tled first at Albany. N.Y., and shortly afterwards at Wallabout (or Flatbush), Long Island), and of John Haring (q.v.). He was a student at the College of the City of New York, and was gradu- ated M.D. from the College of Physicians and Surgeons. New York, 1867. He began the prac- tice of medicine but soon gave it up for the study of chemistry. lie went to Munich in 1867. where he heard the lectures of Liebig. and worked under Volhard, afterward professor of chemistry in the

University of Halle; to Gottingen in 1868, where he came in contact with Wohler, Hiibner and Fittig, and received the degree Ph.D. in 1870; and to Tiibingen in 1870 as an assistant of Fittig, holding the position for two years. He was professor of chemistry and phy- sics in "Williams col- lege, 1872-76; profes- sor of Chemistry in Johns Hopkins uni- versity, 1876-1901; acting president,

1889-90, and upon the resignation of Presi- dent Oilman in 1901, he became president. He was married, April 5. 1875. to Bes- sie Hillyer, daughter

of "William and Mary (Melius) Mallory of New York city. In 1879 he founded and became editor of the Anierica7i Chemical Journal. He was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1882, and was elected foreign member of the Chem- ical Society of London, and honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. He declined several attractive calls, among tliemone to Chicago tmiversity, preferring to remain at Johns Hopkins, where most of his work was done. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Columbia in 1893, from Princeton in 1896, from Y'ale in 1901, and from Toronto in 1902. Among his many published articles embodying the results of original investigations in the field of pure chemistry are: oxidation of substituticn-products of aromatic hydrocarbons; investigations on the sulphinides; on the decomposition of diazo-com- pounds by alcohols; on chemical action in a magnetic field; on the sulphonphthaleins; on ozone and active oxygen; on the nature and structure of the double halides. His text-book publications are: Principles of Tlieoretical Chemistry (5 editions: also German and Italian translations); Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon (1885, many later edition.';), of which there is an English edition by Macmillan & Co., and German, Russian and Italian transla- tions; Introduction to the Study of Chemistry (1886. and many later editions), of which there is an English edition, and German, French and Japanese translations; llie Elements of Chemis- try (1887, 2d ed., 1891), reprinted by Macmillan & Co., London, and translated into German and Japanese; Inorganic Chemistry, Advanced Course (1889, 3d. ed., 1892), of which there is an English edition by Macmillan & Co., and German and Italian translations.