as an assistant in a hotel and in a country store. He
studied law while engaged in school-teaching, and was admitted to the
bar in 1852. In 1862 he was elected a Representative from New Jersey
to the Thirty-Eighth Congress, and in 1864 was re-elected. He was
succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by John Hill.--59, 222, 306, 325,
447, 462, 520, 553.

EDWARD H. ROLLINS was born in Rollingford, New Hampshire, October 3,
1824. Having received an academical education, he taught school for
some time, and subsequently engaged in mercantile pursuits. From 1855
to 1857 he was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature, and during
two years was Speaker of the House. In 1856 he was Chairman of the
State Republican Committee. In 1860 he was elected a Representative
from New Hampshire to the Thirty-Seventh Congress, and was re-elected
to the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Congresses. His successor in the
Fortieth Congress is Aaron F. Stevens.

EDMUND G. ROSS was born in Wisconsin. He learned the art of printing,
and became an editor. In 1856 he removed to Kansas, and took an active
part in the affairs of the territory. He was a member of the Kansas
Constitutional Convention of 1858. From that time until 1861 he was a
member of the State Legislature. He served in a Kansas regiment during
the rebellion, and reached the rank of Major. He subsequently became
editor of the "Lawrence Tribune." In July, 1866, he was appointed a
Senator in Congress from Kansas for the unexpired term of James H.
Lane, deceased.

_LEWIS W. ROSS_ was born in Seneca County, New York, December 8, 1812.
He was removed in boyhood to Illinois. He was educated at Illinois
College, and adopted the profession of law. He was elected to the
State Legislature in 1840 and 1844. He was a Democratic Presidential
Elector in 1848, and a delegate to the Charleston and Baltimore
Conventions of 1860. In 1861 he was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention, and in the following year was elected a
Representative from Illinois to the Thirty-Eighth Congress. He was
re-elected to the Thirty-Ninth and Fortieth Congresses.--513.

_LOVELL H. ROUSSEAU_ was born in Stanford, Kentucky, August 4, 1818.
He studied law, and removed to Indiana in 1841. He was three years a
member of the Indiana House of Representatives, and three years a
member of the State Senate. He served as a Captain in the Mexican War,
and on his return settled in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1860 he was
elected to th