SOULE, Richard (sole), lexicographer, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, 8 June, 1812; died in St. Louis, Missouri, 25 December, 1877. He was descended in the sixth generation from George Soule, who was one of the signers of the compact on the "Mayflower." Richard was graduated at Harvard in 1832 and was a civil engineer till 1838. From 1840 till 1853 he engaged in sugar-refining, and after 1855 he devoted himself to literary pursuits. Most of his life was spent in Boston. He was a member of the school committee of that city in 1848 and 1849, and of the legislature in the latter year. From 1855 till 1859 Mr. Soule had supervision of the corps of editors that assisted Dr. Joseph E. Worcester in the preparation of his quarto dictionary. He published "Memorial of the Sprague Family," a poem, with genealogical and biographical notes (Boston, 1847); "Manual of English Pronunciation and Spelling, with a Preliminary Exposition of English Orthoepy and Orthography," with William A. Wheeler (1861); "Dictionary of English Synonymes" (1871); and "Pronouncing Hand-Book," with Loomis J. Campbell (1873).