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he took the vows of the order and was ordained priest in 1880. He continued liis studies at Rome, 1880-82 ; was professor of chissics at St. Clwirles college, 1883-.S4 : treasurer of St. John's seminary, Brighton, in 1884, and later became professor of dogmatic theology. He succeeded the Rev. Fr. Hogan as superior of St. John's seminary in 1889, filling the office, 1889-94. He was president of St. Charles college, 1894-96, and died at Colorado Springs, Col.. Feb. 22, 1897.

REXFORD, Eben Eugene, author, was born in Johnsburg, N.Y., July 10, 1848 ; son of Jabez Burrows and Rebecca (Wilcox) Rexford ; grand- son of Rowell and Betsey Rexford and of Jacob and Susanna Wilcox. He was a student at Law- rence university, Appleton, Wis.; contributed to current periodicals from 1862, and was a mem- ber of the editorial staff of the Ladies' Home Journal. Philadelphia, from 1890. conducting the horticultural department. He also edited the floral department of Home and Flowers, Springfield. Ohio. He was married, Dec. 9, 1890, to Mrs. Harriet Harsh, daughter of Carl and Anna Bauman. He is the author of several well-known songs, including "Silver Tiireads Among the Gold " and " Only a Pansy Blossom." He is also the author of : Brother and Lover, poem of the war (1886, new ed., 1897): Home Floricidture (1888, rev. and enl., 1903): Jo7m Fielding and His Enemy (1888) ; Grandmothers Garden (1890) ; Flowers, How to Grow TJiem (1898); The Swamp Secret (1897); Into the Light (1899), and many contributions to periodicals.

REYNOLDS, Alexander Welch, soldier, was born in Clarke county, Va., in August, 1817. He was graduated at the U.S. Military academy and promoted 2d lieutenant, 1st infantry, July 1, 1838 ; served in the Florida war, 1838-40, and as adjutant, 1840-41, and was on frontier and in garrison duty in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri, 1841-46. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, June 11, 1839, and assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain, Aug. 5, 1847 ; served on quarter- master duty in Philadelphia, Pa., 1847-48, and in Mexico in 1848, and was promoted captain, March 15, 1848. He was engaged in convoying trains to Forts Washita and Towson, Indian Territory, and to Santa Fe, Mexico, 1848-52, and in settling his accounts at Washington, D.C., 18.52-55. A deficiency could not be accounted for, and he was dismissed from the service, Oct. 8, 18.55. He was reinstated as assistant quartermaster with the rank of captain in 1857, served on quartermaster duty, 1858-61, and having failed to report for several months was dropped from tiie army list. Oct. 4, 1861. He joine<l the Con- federate army as captain of infantrj'in 1801 ; was appointed colonel of the 50th Virginia iiifatitry in July, 1861 ; commanded the 4th brigade, made

up of the 3d, 31st, 43rd and 59th Tennessee volun- teers and the 3rd Maryland battery in Gen. C. L. Stevenson's division, Pemberton's Confederate army, at Champion's Hill, Big Black Bridge, and the siege of Vicksburg up to July 4, 1863 ; was promoted brigadier-general, Sept. 14, 1863, and conunandetl the 3d brigade, made up of the 58th and OOtli North Carolina regiments and the 54th and 63d regiments, Virginia troops, in the divi- sion of C. L. Stevenson, Hood's corps, in the Atlanta campaign. He went to Egypt after the close of the civil war, was appointed colonel of staff in tlie Egyptian army, April 21, 1870, and took a prominent part in the Abyssinian war. He died in Ale.xiandria, Egypt, May 26, 1876.

REYNOLDS, Daniel Harris, soldier, was born near Centerburg, Ohio, Dec. 14, 1832 ; son of Amos and Sophia (Houck) Reynolds, and a de- scendant of John Reynolds, who came to America prior to 1771 and settled in Loudoun county, Va. He was educated at the Oiiio Wesleyan univer- sity ; removed to Somerville, Tenn., in 1857, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858. He settled in practice at Lake Village, Chicot county. Ark., in May, 1858. and on March 25, 1861, was appointed captain in an Arkansas regiment. He served in McCulloch's division in tiie campaigns of Missouri and Arkan- sas, 1861-62 ; took part in the battle of Pea Ridge, March 7-8, 1862, and in April was transferred with Price's army to Tupelo, Miss., the head- quarters of General Beauregard, in command of the Army of the Mississippi. On June 27, 1802, General Bragg assumed command and began his invasion of Kentucky. Captain Reynolds took part in the battles of luka, Sept. 19 ; Corinth, Oct. 3-4, and Perryville, Oct. 8, 1802. He was promoted brigadier-general, jMarch 5, 1864, and commanded his brigade in Cante}''s and Wal- thall's division, Polk's corps. Army of tiie Missis- sippi, in the Atlanta campaign, and in Hood's Army of Tennessee in the invasion of that state, including the battle of Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864. He was several times wounded and his leg was amputated. He surrendered with the army of the W^est and returned to the practice of law in Lake Village, Ark., from which place he was a state senator. 1800-07. He was married, Nov. 24, 1808, to Martha Jane, daughter of Jere- miah and Eleanor (Waddell) Wallace of Lake Village, Ark., wiiere ho died, March 14, 1902.

REYNOLDS, Elmer Robert, ethnologist, was born near Dansville, N.Y., July 30, 1846; son of Dr. Allen Branch and Sarah Wanzer (Van Amburg) Reynolds, and grandson of Allen Rey- nolds, of Colonel Warren's regiment, of the Con- necticut line, in the Revohitionarv war. He removed with his parents to New Lisbon, Wis., in 1848, where he received his primary educa-