Part 53

=Roberts, Oran Milo.= _S. C._, 1815-1898. A Texas jurist who was governor of Texas, 1879-83, and professor of law in the University of Texas from 1883. He wrote a description of his State, entitled Governor Robinson’s Texas.

=Roberts, Robert Ellis.= _N. Y._, 1809-1888. A prominent merchant and citizen of Detroit. Sketches of Detroit; The City of the Straits.

=Roberts, Solomon White.= _Pa._, 1811-1882. A distinguished civil engineer of Pennsylvania. The Destiny of Pittsburg.

=Roberts, William.= _W._, 1809-1887. A Welsh Presbyterian clergyman of Utica from 1875. He published, in Welsh, The Abrahamic Covenant; The Election of Grace.

=Roberts, William Henry.= _W._, 1844- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor of theology in Lane Seminary, 1886-93, and stated clerk of the General Assembly from 1884. History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States; Ecclesiastical Status of Theological Seminaries; The Presbyterian System.

=Robertson, John.= _Va._, 1787-1873. A Virginia jurist. Riego, or the Spanish Martyr, a tragedy; Opuscula, a book of verse.

=Robinson, Mrs. Annie Douglas [Green].= “Marian Douglas.” _N. H._, 1842- ----. A writer of Bristol, New Hampshire. Picture Poems for Young Folks; Peter and Polly, or Home Life in New England One Hundred Years Ago. _Do._

=Robinson, Charles.= _Ms._, 1818-1894. A noted Kansas politician, three times governor of the State as candidate of the Free State party, 1856-59. The Kansas Conflict (1892). _Har._

=Robinson, Charles Seymour.= _Vt._, 1829-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in New York city, well known as an hymnologist. Besides Laudes Domini, and other hymnals, he published Church Work, a volume of sermons; Studies on the New Testament; Studies of Neglected Texts; The Pharaohs of the Bondage and the Exodus; Simon Peter, his Life and Work; Studies in Mark’s Gospel; Simon Peter’s Later Life and Labors; Sermons in Songs; Sabbath Evening Sermons. _Fu._

=Robinson, Edith.= _Ms._, 1858- ----. A Boston novelist. A Forced Acquaintance; Penhallow Tales; A Loyal Little Maid. _Cop. Hou. Kt._

=Robinson, Edward.= _Ct._, 1794-1863. A distinguished Congregational clergyman and Biblical scholar of New York city, a professor in Union Seminary, 1837-63, and the founder of the Bibliotheca Sacra. Harmony of the Four Gospels, in Greek; Harmony of the Four Gospels, in English; Biblical Researches in Palestine; Physical Geography of the Holy Land; A Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament. _See Life by R. D. Hitchcock; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Hou. Rev._

=Robinson, Ezekiel Gilman.= _Ms._, 1815-1894. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Brown University, 1872-89. Yale Lectures on Preaching; Principles and Practice of Morality; Christian Evidences. _Ho. Sil._

=Robinson, Fayette.= _Va._, -----1859. Mexico and her Military Chieftains; Account of the Organization of the United States Army; California and the Gold Regions (1849); Spanish Grammar; Wizard of the Wave, a romance; and a number of translations from the French.

=Robinson, Frank Torrey.= _Ms._, 1845-1898. A journalist and art critic of Boston, and more recently one of the curators of the Metropolitan Museum of New York city. Quaint New England; Living New England Artists; History of the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteer Militia.

=Robinson, Mrs. Harriet Jane [Hanson].= _Ms._, 1825- ----. Wife of W. S. Robinson, _infra_. A prominent woman-suffragist of Malden, Massachusetts. In her early life she was one of the contributors to the noted Lowell Offering. Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement; Captain Mary Miller, a drama; Early Factory Labor in New England; The New Pandora, a drama in blank verse. _Put. Rob._

=Robinson, Harry Perry.= _E. I._, 1860- ----. An English littérateur resident in the United States from 1883, and now (1897) living in Chicago. A brother of Philip Robinson, the English writer. Men Born Equal, a novel; monographs on railway topics. _Har._

=Robinson, Horatio Nelson.= _N. Y._, 1806-1867. A mathematician and educator of Cincinnati, Ohio, after 1854 a resident of Eldridge, New York. University Algebra; Mathematical Recreations; Treatise on Surveying and Navigation; Treatise on Astronomy; Analytical Geometry and Conic Sections, include the greater number of his writings. _Am._

=Robinson, John Hovey.= _Me._, 1825- ----. A physician who wrote a large number of sensational romances of slight literary merit, among which are, White Rover; Nightshade; Silver-Knife.

=Robinson, Mrs. Leora [Bettison].= _Ark._, 1840- ----. A writer and educator of Tallahassee. House with Spectacles; Than; Patsy.

=Robinson, Mrs. Martha Harrison.= _Va._, 18-- - ----. A writer of Philadelphia who has published a number of translations from the French, and Helen Erskine, an original novel. _Lip._

=Robinson, Mrs. Mary Dommet [Nauman].= _Pa._, 185- - ----. A novelist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Twisted Threads; Sidney Elliot; The Enchanted Princess; Clyde Wardleigh’s Promise; Eva’s Adventures in Shadowland. _Lip._

=Robinson, Rowland Evans.= _Vt._, 1833-1900. A farmer of Ferrisburgh, Vermont. Danvis Folks, a novel; Vermont: a Study of Independence; Uncle ’Lisha’s Shop; In New England Fields and Woods. _Hou._

=Robinson, Mrs. Sarah Tappan Doolittle [Lawrence].= _Ms._, 1827- ----. Wife of C. Robinson, _supra_. A writer of Lawrence, Kansas, who published, in 1856, Kansas: its Exterior and Interior Life, a work giving valuable information concerning a critical period in the history of the State.

=Robinson, Solon.= _Ct._, 1803-1880. A journalist of New York city long known as an agricultural writer for The Tribune, and after 1870 a resident of Jacksonville, Florida. Hot Corn, or Life Scenes in New York, a very popular book for a short period; Facts for Farmers, which was extensively circulated; How to Live, or Domestic Economy Illustrated; Me-won-i-toc.

=Robinson, Stillman Williams.= _Vt._, 1838- ----. A civil engineer, professor of physics at Ohio State University from 1878. Practical Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels; Railroad Economics; Strength of Wrought Iron Bridge Materials.

=Robinson, Stuart.= _I._, 1816-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman of prominence in Louisville. Discourses of Redemption; The Church of God. _Ap._

=Robinson, Mrs. Therese Albertine Luise [Von Jakob].= “Talvi.” _G._, 1797-1869. Wife of E. Robinson, _supra_. An able and learned author who wrote both in English and German, using the pseudonym Talvi in the latter case. Characteristik der Volkslieder germanischen Nationen; Die Unechtheit der Lieder Ossians; Aus der Geschichte der ersten Ansiedelungen in den Vereinigten Staaten; Die Colonisation von New England; Fifteen Years, a Picture from the Last Century; Historical View of the Language and Literature of the Slavic Nations. She also wrote a number of stories which her daughter translated from the German, including Psyche; Heloise; Life’s Discipline; The Exiles.

=Robinson, Tracy.= _N. Y._, 1833- ----. An official of the Panama Railway, 1861-74, and subsequently a resident of New York city. Song of the Palm, and Other Poems.

=Robinson, William Stevens.= “Warrington.” _Ms._, 1818-1876. A journalist of Boston long known as the Boston correspondent of the New York Tribune and the Springfield Republican. The Salary Grab; Manual of Parliamentary Practice; Warrington’s Pen Portraits; Personal and Political. _See Memoir by Mrs. Robinson._ _Le._

=Roche, James Jeffrey.= _I._, 1847- ----. A popular Boston journalist, since 1890 the editor of The Pilot. Songs and Satires; Ballads of Blue Water; Life of John Boyle O’Reilly, _supra_; The Story of the Filibusters; Her Majesty the King. _Hou. St._

=Rochester, Thomas Fortescue.= _N. Y._, 1823-1887. A once prominent physician of Buffalo. The Army Surgeon; Medical Men and Medical Matters in 1776.

=Rockwell, Alphonso David.= _Ct._, 1840- ----. A physician of New York city. Relation of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery; Medical and Surgical Uses of Electricity (with G. M. Beard, _supra_).

=Rockwell, Charles.= _Ct._, 1806-1882. A Congregational clergyman who held pastorates in the New England and other States. Sketches of Foreign Travel and Life at Sea; The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around.

=Rockwell, Joel Edson.= _Vt._, 1816-1882. A Presbyterian clergyman of Stapleton, Staten Island. Sketches of the Presbyterian Church; The Young Christian Warned; Scenes and Impressions Abroad; My Sheet Anchor; Seed Thoughts.

=Rockwell, John Arnold.= _Ct._, 1803-1861. A jurist of Norwich, Connecticut. Spanish and American Law in Relation to Mines and Titles to Real Estate.

=Rodenbough, Theophilus Francis.= _Pa._, 1838- ----. A Federal army officer, assistant inspector-general of New York State, 1880-83. From Everglade to Cañon with the Second United States Cavalry; Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute; Uncle Sam’s Medal of Honor.

=Rodman, Thomas Jefferson.= _Ind._, 1815-1871. An army officer, brevetted brigadier-general in 1865. He invented the method of hollow casting. Report of Experiments on Metals for Cannon and Cannon Powder.

=Rodney, Cæsar Augustus.= _Del._, 1772-1824. A noted Delaware jurist, prominent in Congress, and the first United States minister to Argentina. Reports on the Present State of the United Provinces of South America (with T. Graham) (1824).

=Roe, Azel Stevens.= _N. Y._, 1798-1886. A once popular novelist who was for many years a wine merchant of New York city. True to the Last; A Long Look Ahead; Time and Tide; To Love and To Be Loved; James Montjoy; True Love Rewarded; How Could He Help It?; Looking Around; Woman Our Angel; The Cloud in the Heart.

=Roe, Edward Payson.= _N. Y._, 1838-1888. A Presbyterian clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, devoted himself to novel-writing. His stories, which are nearly all of a semi-religious character, have been extraordinarily popular, but it must be admitted that their literary merit is very slight, the style being weak and inflated and the construction poor. The best that can be said in their favour is that they are well-intentioned. Barriers Burned Away; Opening a Chestnut Burr; A Face Illumined; His Sombre Rivals; What Can She Do?; Near to Nature’s Heart; From Jest to Earnest; A Knight of the Nineteenth Century; A Day of Fate; Without a Home; A Young Girl’s Wooing; An Original Belle; Driven Back to Eden; Nature’s Serial Story; The Earth Trembled; Miss Lou; Taken Alive, and Other Stories. He also published two horticultural books, The Home Acre; Success with Small Fruits. _Do._

=Roe, Edward Reynolds.= 18-- - ----. A novelist of Chicago. Brought to Bay; The Grey and the Blue; God Reigns: Lay Sermons; From the Beaten Path; May and June.

=Roebling, John Augustus.= _P._, 1800-1869. A civil engineer of note who built the suspension bridge across the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington, and was the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge. Long and Short Span Railway Bridges.

=Roebling, Washington Augustus.= _P._, 1837- ----. Son of J. A. Roebling, _supra_. A famous civil engineer of Brooklyn who completed the Brooklyn Bridge. He has published Military Suspension Bridges. _See Schuyler’s Studies in American Architecture._

=Roemer, Jean.= _E._, 1806-1892. An educator of New York city, vice-president of the College of the City of New York from 1869. Dictionary of English-French Idioms; Polyglot Readers; Cavalry; Principles of General Grammar; Cours de lecture et de traduction; Origins of the English People and Language; Left in the Wilderness. _Ap._

=Rogé, Mrs. Charlotte Fiske [Bates].= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. An educator and verse-writer of Cambridge and New York city who has written Risk, and Other Poems, and edited The Cambridge Book of Poetry and other works. _Cr. Hou._

=Rogers, Fairman.= _Pa._, 1833-1900. A professor of civil engineering in the University of Pennsylvania, 1855-70. The Magnetism of Iron Vessels.

=Rogers, Henry Darwin.= _Pa._, 1808-1866. A noted geologist who was professor in the University of Pennsylvania, 1835-46, and held the chair of natural history in the Scottish University of Glasgow from 1857 till his death. The Geology of Pennsylvania; Geological Map of Pennsylvania. _Lip._

=Rogers, Henry Wade.= _N. Y._, 1853- ----. A lawyer and educator, president of Northwestern University, 1890-1900. Illinois Citations; Expert Testimony.

=Rogers, Horatio.= _R. I._, 1836- ----. A Providence jurist who has published The Private Libraries of Providence; Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr; and edited Hadden’s Journal and Orderly Books. _Pr._

=Rogers, James Webb.= _N. C._, 1822-1896. A writer who in early life was an Episcopal clergyman in Tennessee, and during the Civil War a Confederate officer. He became a Roman Catholic in 1878 and settled in Washington as a lawyer. Lafitte, or the Greek Slave; Arlington, and Other Poems; Parthenon.

=Rogers, Robert Cameron.= _N. Y._, 1862- ----. A littérateur of Buffalo. The Wind in the Clearing, and Other Poems; Will of the Wasp, a yarn of the War of 1812; Old Dorset, a collection of short stories. _Put._

=Rogers, Robert William.= _Pa._, 1864- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator, professor of Hebrew in Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, from 1893. Two Texts of Esarhaddon; Unpublished Inscriptions of Esarhaddon; The Inscriptions of Sennacherib.

=Rogers, William Barton.= _Pa._, 1804-1882. Brother of H. D. Rogers, _supra_. An eminent scientist of Boston, the founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1862, and its president, 1862-70, and again, 1878-81. The Geology of the Virginias; Elements of Mechanical Philosophy; The Strength of Materials. _See The Brothers Rogers, by W. Ruschenberger, infra, 1885; Life by E. Rogers, 1896._ _Ap._

=Rohlfs, Mrs. Anna Katharine [Green].= _L. I._, 1846- ----. A very popular novelist of Buffalo whose detective romances display much inventive skill. The Sword of Damocles; The Leavenworth Case; A Strange Disappearance; Hand and Ring; The Mill Mystery; Behind Closed Doors; Cynthia Wakeham’s Money; Marked “Personal”; Miss Hurd; An Enigma; Dr. Izard; Old Stone House, and Other Stories; 7 to 12; X, Y, Z; The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock; That Affair Next Door; Risifi’s Daughter, a Drama; The Defence of the Bride, and Other Poems. _Put._

=Rolfe, John Carew.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. Son of W. J. Rolfe, _infra_. A professor of Latin in the University of Michigan. Heauton Timorumenos of Terence. _Gi._

=Rolfe, William James.= _Ms._, 1827- ----. A distinguished Shakespearean scholar and educator of Cambridge. He has published Shakespeare the Boy; two annotated editions of Shakespeare, the Friendly Edition in twenty volumes, and a School Edition in forty volumes; and a series of annotated editions of selections from Tennyson, Browning, Wordsworth, Gray, Goldsmith, Scott, and other English poets. He has also edited Craik’s English of Shakespeare; and is co-author with J. H. Hanson of several classical text-books, and with J. A. Gillet of The Cambridge Physics. _Har. Hou._

=Rollins, Mrs. Alice Marland [Wellington].= _Ms._, 1847-1897. A littérateur of New York city. My Welcome Beyond, and Other Poems; The Ring of Amethyst, and Other Poems; The Story of a Ranch; All Sorts of Children; The Three Tetons; From Palm to Glacier; Uncle Tom’s Tenement, a study of New York tenement-house life. _Put._

=Rollins, Mrs. Ellen Chapman [Hobbs].= “E. H. Arr.” _N. H._, 1831-1881. A writer of Philadelphia. New England Bygones; Old-Time Child-life. _See Memoir by Gail Hamilton, 1882._ _Lip._

=Ronayne, Maurice.= _I._, 1828-1903. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New York city, professor of history at St. Francis Xavier’s College from 1888. Religion and Science; God Knowable and Known.

=Rood, Ogden Nicholas.= _Ct._, 1831-1902. A physicist of note, professor of physics at Columbia College from 1863, and author of Modern Chromatics. _Ap._

=Roosa= [ro´zah], =Daniel Bennett St. John.= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A prominent physician of New York city, and a professor at the University of the City of New York, 1863-82. Treatise on the Ear; A Doctor’s Suggestions; On the Necessity of Wearing Glasses.

=Roosevelt, Blanche.= _See Macchetta d’Allegri, Marchesa._

=Roosevelt, Robert Barnwell.= _N. Y._, 1829- ----. A lawyer of New York city who was minister to the Netherlands, 1888-89. The Game Fish of North America; Coast and Game Birds of the Northern States; Florida and the Game Water Birds; Love and Luck; Progressive Petticoats; Five Acres Too Much, a Satire. _Har._

=Roosevelt, Theodore.= _N. Y._, 1858- ----. Nephew of R. B. Roosevelt, _supra_. The twenty-fifth president of the United States. The Naval War of 1812; Hunting Trips of a Ranchman; Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail; The Winning of the West; The Wilderness Hunter; Essays on Practical Politics; History of the City of New York; American Ideals, and Other Essays; The Rough Riders; The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses; The Deer Family (with others); Lives of Thomas H. Benton, _supra_, Gouverneur Morris, _supra_, and Oliver Cromwell. _Cent. Hou. Lgs. Mac. Put._

=Ropes, John Codman.= _R._, 1836-1899. A lawyer of Boston well known as a military historian. The Army under Pope; The Campaign of Waterloo; Atlas of Waterloo; The First Napoleon; The Story of the Civil War. _Hou. Put. Scr._

=Rose, Aquila.= _E._, 1695-1723. A printer and verse-writer of Philadelphia whose Poems on Several Occasions were collected after his death.

=Rosengarten, Joseph George.= _Pa._, 1835- ----. A lawyer of Philadelphia. The German Soldier in the Wars of the United States. _Lip._

=Rosenthal, Lewis.= _Md._, 1856- ----. A journalist who has published America and France: the Influence of the United States on France in the Eighteenth Century. _Ho._

=Ross, Albert.= _See Porter, L. B._

=Ross, Clinton.= _N. Y._, 1861- ----. A novelist of New York city. The Silent Workman; The Countess Bettina; The Speculator; Adventures of Three Worthies; Improbable Tales; Two Soldiers and a Politician; The Puppet; The Scarlet Coat; Battle Tales; Bobbie McDuff; The Meddling Hussy; Zuleika. _Lam. Put. St._

=Ross, Frederick Augustus.= _Va._, 1796-1883. A Presbyterian clergyman of Huntsville, Alabama. Slavery as Ordained of God.

=Rosser, Leonidas.= _Va._, 1815-1892. A Methodist clergyman of Virginia. Baptism; Experimental Religion; Class Meetings; Recognition in Heaven; Open Communion; Initial Life; Reply to Howell’s “Evils of Baptism.”

=Rotch= [rōch], =Abbott Lawrence.= _Ms._, 1861- ----. A meteorologist who founded the Blue Hill meteorological observatory in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1885, and who has published many valuable meteorological papers.

=Rothrock, Joseph Trimble.= _Pa._, 1839- ----. A professor of botany in the University of Pennsylvania from 1877. Botany of the Wheeler Expedition; Vacation Cruisings; Flora of Alaska; Revision of the North American Gaurineæ, include his principal publications. _Lip._

=Round, William Marshall Fitz.= _R. I._, 1845- ----. A writer active in prison reforms. His books for juvenile readers include, Achsah; Child Marion Abroad; Torn and Mended; Hal; Rosecroft. _Le._

=Rouquette= [roŏ-ket´], =Adrien Emmanuel.= _La._, 1813-1887. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New Orleans, known as the Abbé Rouquette. Les Savannes; Poésies américaines; Wild Flowers; Sacred Poetry; Le Thébaïde en Amérique; L’Antoniade, ou la Solitude avec Dieu; Poëmes patriotiques.

=Rouquette, François Dominique.= _Pa._, 1810-1890. Brother of A. E. Rouquette, _supra_. A lawyer who resided in France for part of his life. Les Meschacébéennes; Fleurs d’Amérique; and a work in French and English on the Choctaw Indians.

=Rowe, Mrs. Henrietta Gould.= _Me._, 1835- ----. A writer of Bangor, Maine. Re-told Tales of the Hills and Shores of Maine; Queenshithe.

=Rowland, Henry Augustus.= _Ct._, 1804-1859. A Congregational clergyman of Newark, New Jersey. Common Maxims of Infidelity; The Path of Life; Light in a Dark Valley; The Way of Peace. _See Memorial of, by Fairchild, 1860._

=Rowson, Mrs. Susanna [Haswell].= _E._, 1762-1824. A once famous novelist whose Charlotte Temple was the most popular tale of its day. Born in England, she came to Boston as a child, but returned to England in 1784 and there married. In 1793 she came again to America, and after a short career as an actress opened a school in Boston, which was very successful. Her writings include Victoria; Mary, or the Test of Honour; The Fille de Chambre; The Inquisitor; The Trials of the Heart; Reuben and Rachel; Lucy Temple, a sequel to Charlotte Temple; Miscellaneous Poems; The Slaves of Algiers, an opera; The Volunteers, a farce; The French Patriot, a comedy. _See Memoir by E. Nason, supra, 1870._

=Royall, Mrs. Anne.= _Va._, 1769-1854. A once well-known and unpopular Washington journalist, editor of the Washington Paul Pry, whose literary style was quite devoid of merit. The Black Book; The Tennessean, a novel; Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the United States; A Southern Tour: Letters from Alabama.

=Royce, Josiah.= _Cal._, 1855- ----. A professor of the history of philosophy at Harvard University. The Religious Aspect of Philosophy; California: a Study of American Character; The Feud of Oakfield Creek, a novel; Primer of Logical Analysis; The Spirit of Modern Philosophy. _Hou._

=Rudder, William.= _B. G._, 1820-1880. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, rector of St. Stephen’s Church. Sermons; A Rationale of the Church’s Liturgic Worship. _Co. Lip._

=Rude, Mrs. Ellen [Sergeant].= _N. Y._, 1838- ----. A verse-writer of Duluth who has published Magnolia Leaves (verse).

=Ruffner, Henry.= _Va._, 1798-1861. A Presbyterian clergyman of Virginia, and a noted opponent of slavery. Fathers of the Desert: a History of Monachism; Future Punishment.

=Ruffner, William Henry.= _Va._, 1824- ----. Son of W. Ruffner, _supra_. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, and from 1870 State superintendent of public instruction in Virginia. Charity and the Clergy.

=Ruggles, Henry Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1813- ----. A lawyer of New York city. The Method of Shakespeare as an Artist; The Plays of Shakespeare founded on Literary Forms. _Hou._

=Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, Count.= _Ms._, 1753-1814. A statesman and philosopher. After serving Great Britain in the War of the Revolution, he entered the service of the Elector of Bavaria, rose to the position of minister of war, and was created Count of the Holy Roman Empire, taking his title Rumford from Rumford, now Concord, New Hampshire. Essays: Political, Economical, and Philosophical, 1798-1806. _See Cuvier’s Éloge de Rumford; Sparks’s American Biography; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1871._

=Runcie, Mrs. Constance [Faunt Le Roy].= _Ind._, 1836- ----. A writer whose home was many years at St. Joseph, Missouri. Divinely Led; Poems, Dramatic and Lyric; Woman’s Work; Felix Mendelssohn; Children’s Stories and Fables.

=Runkle, John Daniel.= _N. Y._, 1822-1902. A noted mathematician, professor of mathematics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1870-78. Elements of Plane and Solid Analytic Geometry. _Gi._

=Rupp, Isaac Daniel.= _Pa._, 1803-1878. An industrious local historian of Pennsylvania, who, besides writing histories of nearly thirty counties in his State, published also Events in Indian History; History of Religious Denominations in the United States; Early History of Western Pennsylvania; Thirty Thousand Names of German Emigrants.

=Ruschenberger= [roo´shĕn-ber-ḡer], =William S. W.= _N. Y._, 1807-1895. A noted naval surgeon and naturalist of Philadelphia. Elements of Natural History; A Voyage Around the World; Three Weeks in the Pacific; Notes and Commentaries during Voyages to Brazil and China; Lexicon of Natural History Terms; Account of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Philadelphia, 1787-1887; The Brothers Rogers.