RIVES, John Cook (reeves), journalist, born in Franklin county, Virginia, 24 May, 1795; died in Prince George county, Maryland, 10 April, 1864. He removed to Kentucky at eleven years of age, was brought up by his uncle, Samuel Casey, acquired a good education, and in 1824 removed from Edwardsville, Illinois (in which city he had been connected with a bank), to Washington, D. C., where he became a clerk in the fourth auditor's office. During the early part of President Jackson's administration, with Francis Blair, senior, he founded the "Congressional Globe," of which he was sole proprietor till 1864. He possessed much humor, and was generous in the extreme in his public and private benefactions. Altogether he gave about 830,000 to the wives of soldiers who had enlisted in the National army from the District of Columbia, besides innumerable smaller amounts to private individuals, and he subsequently gave 812,000 toward the equipment of two regiments in the District of Columbia.