Roebling (II)
WASHINGTON AUGUS- TUS, an American civil engineer; born in Saxonburg, Pa., May 26, 1837; son of the preceding. He was graduated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1857; was an engineer officer during the Civil War and attained the rank of colonel of volunteers. In 1865 he resigned from military service to become assistant to his father in constructing the suspension bridges at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. In 1869 he was assistant engineer under his father in the construction of the first suspension bridge over the East River between New York and Brooklyn; and on his father's death became chief engineer, which post he held till the completion of the bridge in 1883. He then became president lent of the large wire manufactory at Trenton, N. J. He published many valuable engineering reports, notably several relating to the construction of the East river bridge.
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Roebuck
. See Deer
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Roentgen Rays
. See X-Rays 2026 Editor's Note: Röntgen's rays were the sensation of the age — shoe stores would soon X-ray children's feet for fun. The safety reckoning came later; see Röntgen , who refused to patent the discovery. (Ed: BR 2026-07-04)
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Rogers
JAMES EDWIN THO-
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Rogers
HENRY HUDDLESTONE, an American capitalist, born at Fairhaven, Mass., in 1840. He was educated in the Fairhaven High School, and after being newspaper seller, clerk, and railroad worker, went to Pennsylvania and settled at McClintock's Wells. Here he entered the oil business and had great success in the kerosene industry. In 1870 he settled in New York and in 1874 cooperated in the establishment of the Standard Oil Company. Eventually he became vice-president and was regarded as executive head. The money he made in oil he invested in other business, so that he became connected with the Amalgamated Copper Company, United States Steel Corporation, the National Transit Company, and other mining, railroad, and industrial undertakings. He built the Tidewater railroad, 442 miles in length, exclusively with his own capital. He left over $100,000,000. Died 1909.
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Rogers (HENRY WADE an Amerin an jurist)
HENRY WADE, an Amerin an jurist and economist, born ican land Patent, N. Y., in 185 1853. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1874. After studying law he was admitted to the bar in 1877. He was connected with the law department of the University of Michigan from 1883 to 1891. From 1890 to 1900 he was president of the Northwestern University. In 1913 he was appointed United States Circuit Judge. He was chairman of the World's Congress on Jurisprudence and Law Reform, in 1893, and general chairman of the Saratoga Conference on the Foreign Policy of the United States, in 1898. He took a prominent part in the activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church and acted as an official of many important committees. In 1908 he was chairman of the Committee on International Relations in the Federal Council of the Churches. He was delegate to many international conferences on prison reform and other subjects. He wrote "Expert Testimony" (1883); "Introduction to Constitutional History as Seen in American Law" (1889). He contributed many articles to encyclopedias and reviews.
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Rogers, Randolph
Randolph (1825-1892), an American sculptor. He was born at Waterloo, New York . He took up his residence in Italy in 1855 and died at Rome. He is best known by the bronze doors of the capitol at Washington and by various statues of noted men at Richmond, Providence, and Detroit.
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Roget
PETER MARK, an English physician; born in London, England, Jan. 18, 1779; was educated at Edinburgh; became physician to the Manchester Infirmary in 1804; and in 1808 settled in London, where he became physician to the Northern Dispensary; F. R. S. (1815), and afterward for over 20 years its secretary; Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution; and an original member of the senate of the University of London. He wrote one of the "Bridgewater Treatises"-"On Animal and Vegetable Physiology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology" G-Cyc (1834), and the more famous "Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases" (1852). He died in Malvern, Sept. 17, 1869.
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Roggeveld Mountains
a range in the S. W. division of Cape Colony, running N. W. to S. E. with an average height of 5,000 feet.
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Rogue
an idle, slothful, inactive person; in the legal sense, a vagrant; a vagabond; a sturdy beggar. A knave; a rascal; a wilfully dishonest person; a cheat; a trickster. A name of slight tenderness or endearment for one who is mischievous or frolicsome; as, a wicked rogue (in irony).
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Rohan (HENRI DE a French Protestant)
HENRI DE, a French Protestant leader; born in Brittany, France, Aug. 25 (or 21), 1579. He is less remarkable for military achievements than for his four books of memoirs: the first three published under the title "Memoirs on Events in France from the Death of Henry the Great to June, 1629" (1644), covering the civil wars; and the fourth as "Memoirs and Letters on the War of the Valtelline" (1758), whither Richelieu had sent him to keep off the Imperialists and the Spanish. They rank among the finest of the memoirs written by the aristocracy of the 16th and 17th centuries. He also wrote "The Perfect Captain" (1636), a political tract; and others. He died April 13, 1638.
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Rohilkhand
or ROHILCUND, a division of the provinces of Agra and Oude in British India; area, 10,885 square miles; pop. about 5,345,000. The surface is a plain, with a gradual slope S., in which direction its principal streams, Ramganga, Deoha, and others, flow to the Ganges. It takes its name from the Rohillas, an Afghan tribe, who gained possession of it early in the 18th century.
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Rolfe
JOHN CAREW, an American educator, born in Lawrence, Mass., in 1859, the son of William J. Rolfe. He graduated from Harvard University in 1881 and took post-graduate studies in Cornell and in Athens. From 1882 to 1885 he was instructor of Latin in Cornell, and he occupied the same post at Harvard in 1889-90. From 1890 to 1902 he was on the faculty of the University of Michigan, and from 1902 was professor of the Latin language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He edited various text-books and was a frequent contributor to scientific magazines. WILLIAM ROLFE, JAMES, an American editor; born in Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 10, 1827. He was a distinguished Shakespearian scholar, and published many editions of Shakespeare, annotated; among them "The Friendly Edition," in 20 volumes (1870-1883), n," in 40 volumes. and a "School Edition,' He also published: "Shakespeare, the Boy," annotated editions of selections from Tennyson, Scott, Browning, Wordsworth, Gray, Goldsmith other English poets, and "Tales from English History." He died July 7, 1910.
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