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 REVELS

REVERE

Muscatine, Iowa, 1881-82, and was rector of St. Pauls cliurch, San Diego. Cal., 1882-1902. He was elected first bishop of the missionary district of Honolulu by the House of Bishops assembled in sj)ecial session at the parish house of Christ church, Cincinnati, April IT. 1902, and was con- secrated. July 2, 1902. by Bishops Nichols, Ken- drick and Johnson, assisted by Bishop Jagger, who preached the sermon. He is the author of: Lay Readers (1894); Tlte Love of God, or Addresses on the Last Seven Words (1897), and various pamphlets and magazine articles.

REVELS, Hiram R., senator, was born in Fayetteville. N.C.. Sept. 1, 1822. He was the son of free-born parents of mixed blood. Education being denied him under the laws of North Caro- lina, he removed to Indiana in 1844, attended the Friends seminary at Liberty and a theological school in Ohio, and was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal church. He engaged in missionary work among the Negroes of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri, and in 18fl0 settled in Baltimore, Ohio, as a minister and principal of a high school for Negro students. He assisted in organizing colored regiments in Maryland and Missouri, taught scliool in St. Louis. 1863-64, and in 1864 went to Vicksburg as chaplain of a colored regiment, assisting the provost-marshal in establishing order and indus- try among the freedmen. He accompanied the army to Jackson, Miss., where he preached to the emancipated slaves, organized several churches, and engaged in similar work in Kansas and Mis- souri, 1865-67. He settled at Natchez, Miss., in 1868, was chosen presiding elder in the African cliurch, and served as a member of the city coun- cil and as state senator. On the reconstruction of the state he was elected U.S. senator from Mississippi with Adelbert Ames, and drew the short term expiring, March 3, 1871. He took his seat in the senate, Feb. 2.5, 1870, being the first colored man to sit in that body. He was presi- dent of the Alcorn Agricultural university, Rod- ney, Miss., 1871-83, and subsequently pastor of churches at Holly Springs, Miss., and at Rich- mond, Ind. He died at Aberdeen, Miss., while ad- dressing the Mississippi conference, Jan. 15, 1901.

REVERE, Joseph Warren, soldier, was born in Boston, Mass., May 17, 1812; son of John and Lydia Le Baron (Goodwin) Revere, and grand- son of Paul (q.v.) and Rachel (Walker) Revere. He entered the U.S. navy as a midsiiipman, April 1, 1828; was promoted passed midshipmai", June 4, 18.34. and lieutenant. Feb. 25. 1841. He was married, Oct. 4, 1842, to Rosanna Duncan, daughter of Benjamin Waldo Lamb. He took part in the Mexican war, raised the first U.S. flagon the north side of the bay of San Francisco, and resigned from the U.S. navj', Sept. 20, 1850.

He entered the Mexican service as lieutenant- colonel of artillery, and was knighted by Queen Isabella of Spain for saving the lives of several of her subjects. He entered the U.S. service as colonel of the 7th New Jersey volunteers, Aug. 31, 1861; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Oct. 25, 1862, and led the 3d brigade, Sickles's division, Stonemans corps, in the battle of Fredericksburg. He was transferred to the command of the 2d brigade in the 2d division, Sickles's corps, at Chancellorsville, where he was censured^ by Gen. Joseph B. Carr, commanding the division, and the command of the brigade was given to J. Egbert Faruum of the 71st New York volunteers. He was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in May, 1863, but he succeeded in re-opening the proceedings and ex- plaining the circumstances of his dismissal, and on Sept. 10, 1SG4, President Lincoln accepted his resignation from the army. He is the author of: Keel and Saddle (1872). He died in Hoboken, N.J.. April 20, 1880.

REVERE, Paul, patriot, was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1735; son of Apollos and Deborah (Hitchborne) Rivuire. His father, a native of Riancnud, Fiance, emigrated to the island of Guernsey, and thence to Boston, Mass., in 1715, where he engaged in business as a goldsmith in 1722, and changed his name to Paul Revere. The son attended the North Grammar school, learned the goldsmith's trade under his father, and be- came skilful as an engraver. He served in General Winslow's expedition against Crown Point in 1756, as 2nd lieutenant of artillery, and was stationed at Fort William Henry on Lake George, from May to November, 1756. Returning to Boston he engaged in business as a gold-and- silver-smith. He produced many excellent cop- perplate engravings, including representations of the imposition and repeal of the stamp act, which achieved immediate popularity; illustrations of the " Boston Massacre," '* Landing of the British Troops in Boston " (1774), and " A Warm Place — Hell," representing the seventeen members of the house who voted to rescind the circular of 1768 to the provincial legislature. He also exe- cuted several portraits of colonial celebrities. Many of his engravings appeared in the Royal American Magazine, and he illustrated Capt. James Cook's " New Voyage Round the World, 1768-71 " (1774). He was a member of the famous Sons of Liberty, and was frequently commis- sioned to carry to New York and Philadelpliia the sentiments of Massachusetts, and to propose uniting the colonies through a Continental con- gress. He was a member of the guard of twenty- five men appointed to watch the ship r)artmouth. laden with tea, and to prevent the landing of anj' of the cargo. A promise was obtained from the