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 RENWICK

RESTARICK

was appointed by the U.S. government one of the commissioners for the survey of the northeast boundary' line between the United States and New Brunswick in 1838. He was a trustee of Columbia college, 1817-20, and received the de- gree LL.D. from there in 1829. He contributed to the New York Revieio, the Whig Revieiv, and the American Quarterly Revieio; translated from the French, Lallemand's " Treatise on Artillery " (2 vols., 1820), and edited with notes, American editions of Parker's " Rudiments of Chemistry" (1824); Lardner's "Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine" (1828): DanielFs "Chemical Philosophy" (2 vols., 1832). and Moseley's "Il- lustrations of Practical Meolianics " (1839). He is the author of: Life of David Rittenhouse (1839); Life of Robert Fulton (1845), and Life of Coxmt Rumford (1848), in Sparks's " Library of Ameri- can Biography;" Outlines of Natural Philosopliij {■I vols., 1822-23); Treatise on the Steam Engine (1830): Elements of Mechanics (1832); Ajjplica- tions of the Science of Mechanics to Practical Purposes (1840); First Principles in Chemistry (privately printed for the use of his classes, 1838); Life of DeWitt Clinton loith Selections of his Liters (1840); Life of John Jay (with Henry B. Ren wick, 1841); Life of Alexander Hamilton (1841); First Principles of Chemistry (1841); First Principles of Natural Philosophy (1842). He d;L>, 1 ill New York city, Jan. 12, 1863.

RENWICK, James, architect, was born in New York city, Nov. 3, 1818; son of James (q.v.) and Margaret Anne (Brevoort) Ren wick. He was graduated from Columbia college, A.B., 1S16. A.M., 1839: engaged in civil engineering on tlia Erie railway, and became assistant engineer o;i the Croton aqueduct, superintending the con- struction of the distributing reservoir, Fifth avenue and Forty-Second street, now the site of the New York Public library. He furnished a plan for a fountain to be erected at the expense of the property owners in LTnion Square, New York, and another in the Bowling Green, both of which were accepted; was the successful competing architect for Grace church, New York city, com- pleted in 1845; architect of Calvary P. E. church and of the Church of the Puritans in New York city; of the new building of the Smithsonian Institution, and of the Corcoran art gallery, in Washington, D.C.; of St. Patrick's cathedral, New York city, 1855-59, and of the two towers, 1887-88; of the group of buildings of Vassar col- lege, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; of St. Ann's church, Brooklyn; of Booth's theatre, and the Young ]\Ieu"s Christian Association building. New York city; of the restoration of the old Spanish cathe- dral at St. Augustine. Fla., and of many other churches. He was married in April, 1850, to Anna Lloyd, daughter of William H. and Anna

(Breck) Aspinwall of New York. During h.is lifetime he made a collection of the paiiiLiiij^s of old masters, and at his death bequeathed seventy-

four paintings and other objects of art to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, together with a bust of himself, on condition that they should all be placed in a special room and be known as the James Renwick collection. The trustees declined the gift in the December following his death, as the condition was impracticable. He died in New York city. June 23. 1895.

REPPLIER, Agnes, author, was born in Phil- adelphia. Pa.. April 1, 1859; daughter of Jolin and Agnes (Mathias) Repplier, and granddaugh- ter of Jolm and Catharine (Alghaier) Repplier and of Jacob and Mary (Shorb) Mathias. She at- tended the Sacred Heart convent, Tor- resdale. Pa., and early engaged in lit- erature, contributing essays to the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Harpers', and other magazines. She re- ceived the degree of Litt. D. from the O^^pr^^j V^^i^^ University of Penn- sylvania in 1902. She is the author of: Bnols and Men (1888); Points of Vieiu (1891); Essays ni Miniature (1892); Essays in Idleness (1893); la the Dozy Hours (1895); Varia (1897); Philadel- 2^hia, The Place and the People (1898); The Fire- side Sphinx (1902).

RESTARICK, Henry Bend, first American missionary bishop of Honolulu and 2IOtii in suc- cession in the American episcopate, was born in Somerset, England, Dec. 26, 1854: son of Edwin and Amelia Riall (Webb) Restarick, He at- tended King James Collegiate school, Bridge- water, Eng., and was graduated at Griswold col- lege, Iowa, A.B.. 1882. He was married, June 28, 1882, to May Lottie, daughter of Peter Baker of Council Bluffs, Iowa. He was ordained deacon at Council Bluffs, Iowa, 1881; priest at Daven- port, Iowa, 1882; had charge of Trinity church,

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