the protection of industrial arts in London a gold medal for his chemical discoveries. He was one of the principal members of the commission for pre- paring the new Mexican pharmacopceia (1874). His works include Introduccion al estudio de la Qui- mifa " (Mexieo. 1S4!),; Estudio sobre el estafiate " (1850) : " Sobre los pozos artesianos y las aguas nafurales de mas uso en la ciudad de Mexico " (1854); " Un vistazo al lago deTexcoco; su influ- encia en la salubridad de Mexico; sus aguas; y procedencia de las sales que contiene " and " El Ahuautli " (1864); " El liquido tintoreo de la Baja California " and " Dictamen sobre el aerolite de la Descubridora" (1873); and scientific pamphlets.
RIONS, Francois Charles Hector d'Albert, Count de (re-ong), French naval officer, b. in
Avignon, 10 Feb., 1728; d. in Paris, 3 Oct., 1802.
He entered the navy in 1743, served in Canada
during the war of 1756-'63, and was placed in
charge of the station of Santo Domingo in 1769.
where he made a survey of the coast of the Leeward
islands. He served under D'Estaing at Newport,
in tin 1 campaign of the Antilles in 1778-'81, and
under Vaudreuil in the engagement with Admiral
Arbuthnot in Chesapeake bay. He continued to
serve under De Grasse in the following campaign,
assisted in the battles off St. Christopher and Do-
rniniea in April, 1782, and joined Vaudreuil at
];<inn. He emigrated in 1792, .-ervingin Ger-
many in the army of Conde, returned to France in
1800, and was pensioned in 1802. His works in-
clude " Resume des operations de 1'armee navale du
Comte de Grasse pendant les annees 1781-1782"
(Toulon, 1786).
RIORIUN. Patrick William, R. C. archbish-
op, b. in Chatham, X. B., 27 Aug., 1841. He was
taken by his parents to Chicago, 111., in 1848. and
was educated at the University of St. Mary's of the
Lake in that city. He was then sent to the Ameri-
can college at Rome, but, being attacked by malaria,
he completed his studies in Paris and Louvain.
He was ordained a priest in Belgium in 1865 by
Cardinal Sterckx, and on his return to the L T nited
States was appointed professor of ecclesiastical
history and canon law in the theological seminary
of St. Mary's of the Lake. In 1867 he was trans-
ferred to the chair of dogmatic theology. From
1868 till 1871 he was engaged in missionary work
at Joliet, 111., after which he became rector of St.
James's church, Chicago. There he devoted him-
self to sustaining and extending the parochial
schools under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy.
While he was thus engaged he received notice of
his appointment as titular bishop of Cabasa, and
coadjutor, with the right of succession, to Arch-
bishop Joseph S. Alemany, of San Francisco. He
was consecrated at St. James's, 16 Sept.. 1883, ar-
rived in San Francisco in the following November,
and at once, by visitations and in other ways, re-
lieved his superior of many of the heavier burdens
of the episcopate. After taking part with I>r.
Alemany in the 3d plenary council of Baltimore,
he succeeded to the archbishopric on the resigna-
tion of the former in IMS I.
RIPLEY, Eleazar Wheelnrk, soldier, b. in
Hanover, N. H., 15 April, 1 782 : d. in West Feliciana,
La., 2 March, 1839. His father, Sylvanus, was pro-
fessor of divinity for many years in Dartmouth,
where the son was graduated in 1800. He then
began the practice of law, settled in Portland. Me.,
was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in
1810-'12, its speaker, and state senator the latter
year. At the beginning of the second war with
Great Britain he- WHS appointed lieutenant in the
21st infantry, became colonel in March, 1813, and
as
iinded in the attack on York ( now Toronto),
Canada, 13 April, 1813. He was actively engaged
on the frontier till 14 April, 1814, when he was ap-
pointed brigadier-general, commanded the second
brigade of Gen. Jacob Brown's army in July fol-
lowing, and led it with gallantry in the battles
of Chippewa and Niagara, winning the brevet of
major-general, for his conduct, and receiving se-
vere wounds in the latter engagement. In the de-
fence of Fort Erie, 15 Aug., and the sortie of 17
Sept.. 1814, in which he was shot through the neck,
he bore a gallant part, and for his services during
that campaign he received a gold medal from con-
gress, on which was inscribed " Niagara. Chippewa,
Erie." At the reduction of the army in 1815 he
was retained in the service, but he resigned in 1820
and removed to Louisiana, where he practised law,
and was a member of the state senate. He was
elected to congress as a Jackson Democrat in 1834,
and served until his death, which was the result of
his old wounds. He published a Fourth-of-July
oration (1805).
RIPLEY, Ezra, clergyman, b. in Woodstock,
Conn., 1 May, 1751; d. in Concord, Mass., 21 Sept.,
1841. He was graduated at Harvard in 1776,
taught, and subsequently studied theology, and in
1778 was ordained to the ministry in Concord,
Mass., where he continued for sixty-three years,
preaching his last sermon the day after his
ninetieth birthday. Harvard gave him the degree of
D. D, in 1818. Dr. Ripley was a leader in the
temperance cause. At the time of his settlement
in Concord the town was divided into two religious
factions, but he quickly succeeded in binding them
in a union that existed for nearly fifty years. He
married the widow of the Rev. William Emerson,
and his stepson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, said of
him: “With a limited acquaintance with books,
his knowledge was an external experience, an
Indian wisdom. In him perished more personal and
local anecdote of Concord and its vicinity than is
possessed by any survivor, and in his constitutional
leaning to their religion he was one of the
rear-guard of the great camp and army of the
Puritans.” He gave the land in 1836 upon which
the monument is built to commemorate the battle
of Concord, 19 April, 1775. From the Revolution
for fifty years there was a controversy between
Concord and Lexington for the honor of “making
the first forcible resistance to British aggression.”
Dr. Ripley wrote an interesting pamphlet on that
subject, entitled a “History of the Fight at
Concord,” in which he proved that, though the enemy
had fired first in Lexington, the Americans fired
first in his own town (Concord, 1827). He also
published several sermons and addresses, and a
“Half-Century Discourse” (1828).
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RIPLEY, George, scholar, b. in Greenfield, Mass., 3 Oct., 1802; d. in New York city, 4 July, 1880. He was the youngest but one of ten children, four boys and six girls, all of whom he survived. His father, Jerome Ripley, was a merchant, a justice of the peace for nearly half a century, a representative in the legislature, and one of the justices of the court of sessions. His mother was a formal, precise, stately, but kind-hearted woman, a connection of Benjamin Franklin. She was orthodox in religion, and her husband was a Unitarian, which accounts for the singular mingling of conservative feeling with radical tendencies in their child. George loved to hear the old tunes at Brook Farm, and always had on his table a copy of Dr. Watts's hymns, even when he was writing philosophical articles for the “Tribune,” and worshipping in New York with an independent society of
