Richards (II)
LAURA ELIZABETH, an American writer of juvenile books, daughter of Julia Ward Howe; born in Daughter of Julia ardh a great number of children's books, among them: "Five Mice" (1880); "Our Baby's Favorite" (1881); "Tell-Tale from Hill and Dale" (1886); and "Toto's Merry Winter" (1887); "Captain January" (1890); "Nautilus" (1895); "Love and Rocks" (1898); "Snow White" (1900); "Letters and Journals of Sam- Bridley uel Howe" (1906-1909); "Two ( 1911); " Julia Ward ( with her sister Maude " Daughter of Jehu " (1918); "Joan of Arc" (1919).
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THEODORE WILLIAM, an American chemist town, Pa., in 1868. He was educated at , born at German- Haverford College, and the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, and received many honorary ican and foreign universities. From 1894 degrees from many Amerto 1901 he was assistant professor and after that, professor of chemistry, at Harvard University. From 1903 to 1911 he was chairman of the chemical department of this institution and in 1912 became director of the Laboratory. In 1907 he served as ex- Gibbs Memorial change professor from Harvard at the University of Berlin, in 1908 he was Lowell lecturer search associate of the Carnegie Institu- , and in 1902 became retion. During the World War he was a member of the National Research Council and consulting chemist of the Bureau of Mines. the help of his assistants he revised the atomic weights of many elements. His investigations covered important branches of physical and inorganic chemistry, on which subjects he He was a member and at times an officer has published many important papers of numerous American and foreign scientific societies. Besides the Davy medal of the Royal Society (1910), the Faraday medal of the Chemical Society (1911), the Willard Gibbs medal of the American Chemical Society (1912), and the Franklin medal of the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (1915), he was also awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1915.
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Richards (IV)
WILLIAM TROST, an American landscape and marine painter; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 14, 1833. He was a student of Paul Weber and later studied in Europe, at Florence, Rome, and Paris. From 1878 till 1880, he had a studio in London, England. He was an honorary member of the National Academy. At the Metropolitan Museum, in New York City, is a series of 47 watercolor marines and landscapes, painted by him in 1871-1876. His "Wissahickon" was on exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in 1876. In the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D. C., is hung his "On the Coast of New Jersey." Among his best-known paintings in oil are: "Midsummer" (1862); "Woods in June" (1864); "Land's End" (1880); "Old Ocean's Gray and Melancholy Waste" (1885). He died at Newport, R. I., Nov. 8, 1905.
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Richardson
BENJAMIN WARD, an English physician; born in Somerby, Leicestershire, England, in 1828; was graduated in medicine at St. Andrews University in 1854. In 1855 he edited the "Journal of Health"; and he gained the Astley Cooper prize by his treatise on "The Cause of the Coagulation of the Blood," and the Fothergillian gold medal by a disquisition on the "Diseases of the Fœtus," in 1856. He originated the use of ether spray for the local abolition of pain in surgical operations, and introduced methylene bichloride as a general anæsthetic. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal Society, and president of the Medical Society of London. He published several works on medicine and hygiene, and was an earnest sanitary reformer. In 1893 he was knighted and died in 1896.
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Richardson (ABBY SAGE an American lecturer)
ABBY SAGE, an American lecturer and writer on literary topics; wife of Albert Deane Richardson; born in Massachusetts, in 1837. She first essayed the stage. Her publications include: "Stories from Old English Poetry" (1871); "The History of Our Country to 1876" (1876); "Familiar Talks on English Literature" (1881); "Old Love Letters" (1883); "Abelard and Heloise"; and a number of adaptations for the stage, principally from the French. She died in Rome, Italy, Dec. 5, 1900.
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Richardson (II)
HENRY HOBSON, an American architect; born in New Orleans, La., in 1838; was graduated at Harvard in 1859; entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1860, where he speedily gained a reputation as a most promising pupil. In 1865 he returned to the United States, and entered on a remarkably successful professional career. He designed some of the most beautiful buildings in this country, notably Trinity Church, Boston; the building of the Boston and Albany railroad, at Springfield, the Albany city hall, the Buf- Law falo Lunatic Asylum, the Cambridge Schools, and the new capitol in Albany. He died in Boston, Mass., April 28, 1886.
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Richardson (III)
HOLDEN CHESTER, an American naval officer, born at Shamokin, Pa., in 1878. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1901 and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1907. In 1904 he became assistant naval constructor, and in 1912, naval constructor. From 1915 to 1917 he was a member and secretary of the National Advisory Commission for Aeronautics. During the World War he rendered valuable services in connection with aeroplane construction and in May, 1919, served as the pilot of the NC-3 on the trans-Atlantic flight. He was a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers.
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WILLIAM CUM- MINGS, an American architect, born at Concord, N. H., in 1854. After studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1873 to 1875, he worked as an assistant in various architectural offices and made several trips abroad for further study. In 1881 he became a member of a firm of architects in Boston, which soon became one of the leading architectural firms in the United States. He designed many public and private structures, most of them in New England, and including many of the most notable modern educational buildings of that section.
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Richardson (SIR JOHN a British naturalist)
SIR JOHN, a British naturalist and Arctic traveler; born in Dumfries, Scotland, Nov. 5, 1787. After studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh he entered the royal navy, in 1807, as assistant-surgeon. He served till 1819, and was on various stations surgeon and naturalist to the Arctic exand 1825-1827, peditions of 1819-1822 under Sir John Franklin, exploring on the latter occasion the shores of the Arctic Ocean between the Mackenzie and Cop- Geognostical permine rivers. He wrote " Observations" as an appendix to the "Narrative" published by Franklin (1829, London), and edited, along with Kirby and Swainson, the "Fauna Boreali-Americana" (4 vols. 1829-1837). In 1838 he was appointed physician to the fleet, and in 1846 was knighted. In March, 1848, he took charge of an expedition to search for Franklin, and on his return published "The Arctic Searching Expedition" (1851) and "The Polar Regions" (1861). He died near Grasmere, England, June 5, 1865.
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