RANTOUL
RAPHALL
cester in the state legislature, 1834-38; was a
member of the judiciary committee, and in 1836
of a special committee to revise the statute laws
of Massachusetts; represented the state in the
first board of directors of the Western railroad,
1836-38, and in 1837 was appointed by Governor
Everett a member of the first ^Massachusetts
board of education, resigning in 1844. He re-
moved to Boston, Mass., in 1839, and soon became
prominent as an advocate and lawyer. He was
U.S. district attorney for Massaclmsetts, 1845-
1849. On the resignation of DanielWebster from
the U.S. senate in ISoO, Governor Briggs of
Massachusetts appointed Robert C. Winthrop to
fill the vacancy, but upon the meeting of the
state legislature in 1851, Mr. Rantoul was elected
and served until the 4th of Marcli, when the term
ended. He was elected by the coalition a repre-
sentative in the 33d congress, 1851-52. In 1851
he was counsel for Thomas Simms, the first
fugitive slave surrendered by Massachusetts. He
published a weekly journal in Gloucester in the
interest of the Jacksonian Democracy, 1832-88;
was editor of a "Workingmen's Library " and two
series of a " Common Scliool Library '" and carried
the "Journej-men Bootmakers' Case" through
the courts, establishing the right of laborers to
combine for business purposes. He died in Wash-
ington, D.C., and rests at Beverly, under a stone
which bears an epitaph from the pen of Sumner.
On his sudden death at the age of 47, Whittier
wrote elegiac verses which have been much ad-
mired. The date of his death is Aug. 7, 1852.
RANTOUL, Robert Samuel, educator, was
born in Beverly, Mass., June 2, 1832; son of
Robert, Jr. (q.v.) and Jane E. (Woodbury) Ran-
toul. He was graduated from Harvard college,
A.B., 1853, A.M. and LL.B., 1856; was admitted
to the Essex bar in 1856, and at once began prac-
tice in Beverly and Salem. He was married. May
13, 1858, to Harriet Cliarlotte, daughter of David
Augustus and Harriet Charlotte (Price) Neal of
Salem, Mass. Captain Neal was a well known
merchant, and later president of the Eastern and
Illinois Central railroads. Mrs. Rantoul died,
May 20, 1899, leaving six sons and three
daughters. Mr. Rantoul was a representative
from Beverly in the state legislature of 1858, and
in 1884-85, from Salem, where he had resided
since 1858. He was collector of the port of
Salem and Beverly by appointment of Preisdeut
Lincoln, 1865-69; mayor of Salem, 1890-93; a
candidate for presidential elector on the Palmer
and Buckner ticket, 1896, and in 1896 became
president of the Essex Institute. He is the
author of: Centennial of American Independence,
an oration delivered in Stuttgart. Germany, July
4, 1^76; and of an address to the English .speaking
residents of Stuttgart on the anniversary of the
death of Freiligrath in 1877; The Two Hundred
and. Fiftieth Anniversary of the Landing of John
WintJirop at Salem, an oration delivered before
the Essex Institute in 1880; of historical papers
in the Institute Collections, and of other contri-
butions to local history and antiquarian research.
RAPALLO, Charles Antonio, jurist, was born in New York city, Sept. 15, 1823; son of Antonio and Elizabeth (Gould) Rapallo; grandson of Ben- jamin Gould of Newbury port, Mass., a captain in the Revolutionary armj' at Lexington, and elected to the first congress from Massachusetts. Antonio Rapallo came from Rapallo, Italy, to the United States early in the nineteenth century, his republican tendencies having brought him into disfavor with his family and the Vatican, and became a practising attorney and counselor at law in New York city, having offices for manj- years with John Anthon. Charles was brought up under the personal direction of his father, who supervised Ins education, teaching him the class- ics, the modern languages and the law. He was admitted to the bar in 1844; practised in part- nership with Joseph Blunt, 184.5-48; with Horace F. Clark, 1848-68, and with James C. Spencer, 1868-70. He was married in 1852 to Helen, daughter of Bradford Sumner of Boston, Mass. He was elected an associate judge of the New York court of appeals as a Democrat, serving 1870-84; was defeated as chief justice in 1880, and re-elected associate judge for a second term of fourteen years by both political parties in 1884. He received the degree LL.D., Columbia, 1887. He died in New York city, Dec. 28, 1887.
RAPHALL, Morris Jacob, clergyman, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in September, 1798. He was educated in a Jewish college at Copen- hagen, Denmark; learned the English language in England, and made a tour through France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. He attended the University of Giessen, Germany, 1821-24, and in 1825 returned to England, where he mar- ried and made his home. In 1832 he entered public life as a lecturer, delivering a course on post-Biblical history at Sussex Hall, London, and elsewhere; and established the weekly Hebrew Review and Magazine of Rabbinical Literature. the first Jewish periodical in England, which was discontinued after seventy-eight numbers. He acted for a time as secretary- to the Rev. Dr. Solomon Hirschel, chief rabbi of the German congregations of the British Isles; inyestigated the persecutions of the Jews in Syria in 1840, and was rabbi of the synagogue at Birmingham, England, 1841-49. He was one of the founders of the Hebrew National school; immigrated to the United States in 1849; was rabbi of the fiist Anglo-German Jewish synagogue in New Yoi 1< city, and subsequently of the congregation Bnai
