The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . nvention in 1787. Heheld various state offices, and was appointed judgeof appeals (1782); was elected United States Senatortwice (1789 and 1793), but resigned to assume theduties of chief justice of the state. He died in NewCastle, Sept. 21, 1798. READ, John Meredith, an American diplo-matist; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1837; andreceived his education in a military school. He ac-cepted in November, i860, the office of adjutant-general of New York, and won the rank ofbrigadier-general at the age of 23. I
The Encyclopaedia Britannica; ..A dictionary of arts, sciences and general literature . nvention in 1787. Heheld various state offices, and was appointed judgeof appeals (1782); was elected United States Senatortwice (1789 and 1793), but resigned to assume theduties of chief justice of the state. He died in NewCastle, Sept. 21, 1798. READ, John Meredith, an American diplo-matist; born in Philadelphia, Feb. 21, 1837; andreceived his education in a military school. He ac-cepted in November, i860, the office of adjutant-general of New York, and won the rank ofbrigadier-general at the age of 23. In 1869he was appointed United States consul-general inFrance and Algeria, to reside in Paris. GeneralRead likewise acted as consul-general of Germanyduring the Franco-German war, and afterward, fornearly two years, directed all the consular affairs ofthat empire, including the protection of Germansubjects and interests during the first and secondsiegesof Paris (1870-72). From 1873 to 1880 hewas United States minister to Greece. During theRusso-Turkish war he discovered that only one. port in Russia for the delivery of grain was stillopen, and he pointed out to Secretary of StateEvarts the advantages that would accrue to the com-merce of the United States were a grain fleet dis-patched for the peaceable capture of the Europeanmarkets. The event justified his .judgment, theexport of cereals from the United States showingan increase within the year of $73,000,000. In 1881the Kingof Greece created him a knight of the Orderof the Redeemer. He was president of the SocialScience Congress at Albany, N. Y., in 1868; and wasvice-president of a similar congress held in Ply mouth,Eng., in 1872. Died in Paris, Dec. 27, 1896. READ, Opie, an American author, born in Nash-ville, Tennessee, Dec. 22, 1852; was educated atNeophogen College, Gal-latin, Tennessee. Tookup newspaper work upongraduation, and followedhis profession in LittleRock, Louisville, Nash-ville and Cleveland. Fi-nally started T
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