The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e,presided over the conventionwhich adopted it in 1776; cod-ified the Delaware laws; wasvice-president of Delaware in1777, acting as piesident orgovernor for nearly a year,while Go
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e,presided over the conventionwhich adopted it in 1776; cod-ified the Delaware laws; wasvice-president of Delaware in1777, acting as piesident orgovernor for nearly a year,while Gov. McKinly was in thehands of the British; was in thelegislature in 1779-80; U. of the court of appealsin admiralty cases in 1783; com-missioner in a boundary dis-pute between New York andMassachusetts in 1785, and amember of the Annapolis con-vention of 1786, as well as ofthat which framed the federalconstitution. As in duty bound,he maintained the claim of thelesser states to their two U. each. He was sent tothe senate in 1789 and 1791, butresigned in 1793, becoming chief justice of was a man of pure and lofty character, and hasthe glory, shared by only two others, of having affixedhis signature to the petition of the first congress toGeorge HI., the declaration of independence, andthe constitution of the United States—three weightydocuments. His Life and Correspondence was. ^^^ edited by W. T. Read in 1870. He married, in 1763,a sister of George Ross, another signer of the declara-tion of independence. Their son, George, was U. attorney for Delaware, 1789-1809; anotherson, John, was U. S. agent-general. George Read,senior, died at Newcastle, Del., Sept. 21, 1798. STODDARD, Richard Henry, poet, was bornin Hingham, Mass., July 3, 1825. His father was asea-captain, and was lost at sea when Richard was asmall boy. In 1835 he went with his mother, whohad married again, to New York, and was put towork at the trade of iron-moulding. Whil
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