While not true blood relatives, Rossiter was Anton’s close friend and Uncle Ros to his kids (I have 3 of Rossiter”s books signed, in part, ‘Uncle Ros & Aunt Sally’ to Karl E. Eilers in 1905).  Since his wide ranging interests and successes do not get their due elsewhere on the web, they will get it here (and eventually wikipedia). As Walter R. Ingalls once noted, “Dr. Raymond was one of the most remarkable cases of versatility that our country has ever seen’—sailor, soldier, engineer, lawyer, orator, editor, novelist, story-teller, poet, biblical critic, theologian, teacher, chess-player—he was superior in each capacity. What he did, he always did well.”

Here’s a short biographical sketch from Rossiter’s Memorial (full pdf here):

Rossiter Worthington Raymond, Brooklyn Pol­y­tech­nic In­sti­tute (1857), La­fay­ette Coll­ege (PhD 1868), Leigh Un­i­ver­si­ty (LLD 1906), and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh (hon­o­rary LLD. 1915)., mining engineer, metallurgist, lawyer, and author, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 27, 1840, the son of Robert Raikes and Mary Anna (Pratt) Raymond; grandson of Eliakim and Mary (Carrington) Raymond, of New York City, and of Caleb and Sally (Walker) Pratt, of Providence, Rhode Island.He was of English descent, his earliest American ancestor on the paternal side, Richard Raymond, having emigrated from England to this country and settled at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1632; while on his mother’s side he was descended from well-known New England families. His great-grandfather, Nathaniel Raymond, was an officer in the Revolutionary army; and his grandfather, Caleb Pratt, served in the war of 1812.

His father (born 1817, died 1888), a native of New York City, was a graduate of Union College in 1837, editor of the Syracuse Free Democrat in 1852, and the Evening Chronicle in 1853-4, and afterward professor of English in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and principal of the Boston School of Oratory. His mother (born 1818, died 1891) was a native of Providence, Rhode Island. They were married at Columbus, Ohio, in 1839, and Rossiter was the eldest of a family of seven children, of whom four were sons.

He received his early education in the common schools of Syracuse, New York, and in 1857 entered the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, of which his uncle, John H. Raymond (afterward president of Vassar College), was then president, graduating from that institution, at the head of his class, in 1858. He spent the ensuing three years in professional study at the Royal Mining Academy, Freiberg, Saxony, and at the Heidelberg and Munich universities.

Returning to the United States in August 1861, he entered the Federal army and served as aide-de-camp, with the rank of captain, on the staff of Major-General J. C. Fremont, by whom, during his campaign in the Valley of Virginia, he was officially commended for gallant and meritorious conduct.

From 1864 to 1868, he engaged in practice as a consulting mining engineer and metallurgist in New York City; and in the latter year was appointed U. S. Commissioner of Mining Statistics, -which position he held until 1876, issuing each year Reports on the Mineral Resources of the United States West of the Rocky Mountains (8 vol., Washington, 1869-76). These reports contained descriptions of the geology, ore deposits, and mining enterprises of the United States public domain, discussions of metallurgical processes adapted to American conditions, and observations and criticisms concerning the practical operation of the Federal mineral- land laws of 1866 and subsequent years. In 1870, he was appointed lecturer on economic geology at Lafayette College, which chair he occupied until 1882, and for one year during that period gave the entire course on mining engineering.

In 1873, Dr. Raymond was appointed United States Commissioner to the Vienna International Exposition, and as such delivered in Vienna addresses in the German language at the International Convention on Patent Law and the International Meeting of Geologists; and an address in English at the meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute in Liege, Belgium. From 1875 to 1895, he was associated as consulting engineer with the firm of Cooper, Hewitt & Co., owners of the New Jersey Steel & Iron Co., the Trenton Iron Co., the Durham and the Ringwood iron works, as well as numerous mines of iron ore and coal. As president of the Alliance Coal Co., and director of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., as well as a personal friend of Franklin B. Go wen, he became acquainted with the inner history of the memorable campaign against the Molly Maguires, and has since been known as a fearless opponent of all tyranny practised in the name of labor. His articles published in the Engineering and Mining Journal at the time of the Homestead riots, attracted wide attention and for these, as well as similarly frank discussions of the operations of the Western Federation of Miners in Montana, Idaho, and Colorado, he received special denunciations and threats from the labor-unions thus criticised. While connected with Cooper, Hewitt & Co., he also assisted Abram S. Hewitt in the management of Cooper Union and for many years directed the Saturday Evening Free Popular Lectures on science, etc., which constituted the beginning of what has since become a vast lecture system in the city of New York.

From 1885 to 1889, he was one of the three New York State Commissioners of Electric Subways for the city of Brooklyn, and served as member and secretary of the board, preparing its final report, which was generally regarded as the best statement of the problem of municipal engineering and policy involved in the distribution of electric conductors. At the close of his official term as Commissioner, he became consulting engineer to the New York & New Jersey Telephone Co., which position he retained for many years.

In 1898, Dr. Raymond was admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York State and of the Federal District and Circuit Courts, his practice being confined to cases involving either mining or patent law, in the former of which he was a leading authority. In 1903 he was lecturer on mining law at Columbia University, New York. He had also delivered numerous addresses at other colleges and universities, including Yale, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Lehigh, Lafayette, Union, California, the Worcester Polytechnic, and the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons.

An original member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, he served as its vice-president in 1871, 1876, and 1877, president from 1872 to 1875, and secretary from 1884 to 1911. In the last capacity he edited 40 of the annual volumes of Transactions, to which he liberally contributed essays, especially pertaining to the Federal mining laws, as well as other articles of importance.

In 1911, Dr. Raymond resigned his position as secretary of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, of which he was after that time secretary emeritus.

Dr. Raymond was the editor of the American Journal of Mining from 1867 to 1868, of the same periodical under the title Engineering and Mining Journal from 1868 to 1890, and thereafter was a special contributor to that journal. In 1884, he. prepared for the U. S. Geological Survey a historical sketch of mining law which was subsequently translated into German and published in full by the Journal des Bergrechts, the only periodical in the world devoted exclusively to the subject of mining jurisprudence, and for which he received high praise.

In addition to the official works previously mentioned he was the author of the following: Die Leibgarde (1863), a German translation of The Story of the Guard by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont (1863); The Childrens Week (1871); Brave Hearts (1873); The Man in the Moon and Other People (1874); The Book of Job (1878); The Merry-go- Round (1880); Camp and Cabin (1880); A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms (1881); Memorial of Alexander Mining Law (1883-95); Two Ghosts and Other Christmas Stories (1887); The Life of Peter Cooper (1897); various technical works and papers on mining law, as well as numerous addresses and magazine articles, and contributions to several American dictionaries and encyclopedias.

In 1909, in collaboration with W. R. Ingalls, he contributed to the first Pan-American Scientific Congress, held at Santiago, Chile, a paper on The Mineral Wealth of America, and at the second congress, which assembled at Washington, D. C., in 1915, he was represented by a paper entitled The Value of Technical Societies to Mining Engineers. The Conservation of Natural Resources by Legislation was delivered in 1909 before a joint meeting of the four national engineering societies.

In 1910 the 70th birthday of Dr. Raymond was celebrated by a dinner at which all branches of the engineering profession, the scientific and learned societies, and the prominent institutions of learning were represented. On this occasion the gold medal of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy was awarded to Dr. Raymond “in recognition of eminent services and lifelong devotion to the science and practice of mining and metallurgy, and of his numerous and valuable contributions to technical literature”.

In 1911, during the visit to Japan of members and guests of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Dr. Raymond received from the Mikado the distinction of Chevalier of the Order of the Rising Sun, fourth class—the highest ever given to foreigners not of royal blood— “for eminent services to the mining industry of Japan”. These services consisted in advice and assistance rendered in America to Japanese engineers, students, and officials throughout a period of more than ,25 years.

Dr. Raymond was an honorary member of the Society of Civil Engineers of France, the Iron and Steel Institute and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy of Great Britain, the Mining Society of Nova Scotia, and the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers. He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Geographical Society, a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the American Forestry Association, and various other technical and scientific organizations both at home and abroad. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Lafayette College in 1868, and that of LL.D. from Lehigh University in 1906. On the latter occasion, speaking as an adopted alumnus of the University, he delivered to the graduating classes an address on Professional Ethics which has been widely quoted and approved.

In February 1915, Dr. Raymond delivered the commemorative address on the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Pittsburgh, and received from that Institution the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1916, Dr. Raymond published a volume of poems, entitled Christus Consolator and Other Poems. At the time of his death he was at work upon a history of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, which he hoped to finish this year.

His family life had its share of tragedy. On March 3,1863, at Brooklyn, New York, he married Sarah Mellen, daughter of William R. and Mary (Fiske) Dwight of that city. Of their five children two survived to adult years; Alfred (born 1865, died 1901), an architect and engineer of thorough training and great promise; and Elizabeth Dwight (born 1868), since 1892 the wife of H. P. Bellinger of Syracuse.

Roster Raymond died suddenly, of heart failure, at his home in Brooklyn, on the evening of December 31, 1918, and was buried in Greenwood cemetery surrounded by members of the Raymond family, along with Beecher and Howard families.

Biographies about Rossiter W. Raymond:

Rossiter W. Raymond Memorial Book
Rossiter W. Raymond Dinner of 1910
Taking up the tools : the early career of Rossiter Worthington Raymond, 1867-1876 (by Mary C Horstman Williams)
Rossiter W. Raymond, 1840 – 1918, Canadian Mining Institute
Nethymal.org Dr. Rossiter W. Raymonds Gravestone

Books, Biographies and Articles written by Rossiter W. Raymond:

Die Leibgarde (1863) (German translation of The Story of the Guard by Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont (1863))
Manhattan Silver Mine Report from Adelberg & Raymond (1865)
Mines of the West Commissioner Report by RWR (1869)
The Christmas Angel and other stories (1870)
1870 Census – contributed the mining stats for the statistical atlas
The Childrens Week; Seven stories for seven days (1871)
Mines, Mills, and Furnaces of the Pacific States and Teritories (1871)
Brave Hearts (1873)
Dedication of Pardee Hall at Lafeyette College by RWR (Oct 21, 1873)
Silver and gold: an account of the mining and metallurgical industry of the United States, with reference chiefly to the precious metals (1873)
The Man in the Moon and Other People (1874)
The Gold and Silver Mines of the West (1874)
The case of the Rev. E.B. Fairfield … : being an examination of his “Review of the case of Henry Ward Beecher,” together with his “Reply” and a rejoinder … (1874)
Mining industry of the states and territories of the Rocky mountains including descriptions of quartz, placer, and hydraulic mining ; amalgamation ; concentration ; smelting, etc (1875)
Contributions to American metalurgy [sic] from the annual reports (1870 to 1876) of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics
The Jenks corundum mine, Macon County, N.C. (1876)
A collection of the opinions of scientists on the formation and filling of metallic veins, and the recurrence of “faults,” and their origin (1876)
The American Iron-Masters WorkThe Book of Job (1878)
The Manganese Pig (1878)
Resolutions on the death of the Hon. Asa Packer : adopted by the Alumni Association of the Lehigh University, and address before the Association, (June 18, 1879)
Treasures from Fairyland (1879)
Note on the Zinc Deposits of Southern Missouri (1879)
Red Elephant Mining Company … Location of mines: Red Elephant Mountain, Clear Creek County, Colorado (1879)
The Hygiene of Mines (1879)
The Eureka-lode, of Eureka, Eastern Nevada (1879)
The Merry-go- Round (1880)
Camp and Cabin (1880)
Chrysolite Silver Mining Company (1880)
California Water and Mining Co., No. 115 Broadway, New York, Rooms 51 to 57 Boreel Building (1880)
The Colorado Central Consolidated Mining Company (1880)
Discussion of Steel Rails (1881)
A Glossary of Mining and Metallurgical Terms (1881)
Hoefers method of determining faults in mineral veins (1882)
American Mining Code (1882) (http://lccn.loc.gov/31004660)
The Law of the Apex (1883)
The Natural Coke of Chesterfield County (1883)
Historical sketch of mining law (1883-1884)
Memorial of Alexander Mining Law (1883-95)
The Sunbeam Factory and other stories (1885)
Indicative Plants (1886)
Biographical notice of Oswald J. Heinrich (1886)
Plymouth Sunday Evening Lectures (1887)
Two Ghosts and Other Christmas Stories (1887)
Biographical notice of Martin Coryell (1887)
Henry Ward Beecher : a memorial address, delivered in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., (March 11, 1888)
National Heating Company, operating the Prall system of central station heating and power supply (1888)Evolution of Animal Life (part of a series)(1889)
The Walking Delegate (188?)
The Tale of Three Corners (1890)
Spirally-welded steel pressure tubes (1890)
The crown of life : from the writings of Henry Ward Beecher (forward by RWR) (1890)
Genesis of Ore Deposits (1892) (1913 2nd edition sequel)
The Auld Lang Syne Club. (1893)
Worlds Fair in retrospect : a souvenir number of the Engineering Magazine specially designed to indicate the practical value of the Worlds Columbian Exposition to the science and industry of the time (1894)
Biographical notice of Eckley B. Coxe AIME (1895)
Life and the Conditions of Survival: Water pgs 95-104 (1895)
The Life of Peter Cooper (1897)
Mining Law in British Columbia, Mexico, and the United States (1897)
Biographical notice of Peter, ritter von Tunner (1897)
The New Puritanism: papers presented at Plymouth Church (1898)
Biographcal notice of Theodor Richter (1898)
The kings double (1900)
Biographical notice of Clarence Kings (1901)
(Clarence King Memoirs)Biographical notice of Richard P. Rothwell (1901)
Biographical notice of James F. Lewis (1901)
Bigraphical notice of Alfred Raymond (Rossiters son) (1901)
Biographical notice of James F. Lewis (1902)
The Governors Forest Policy (1903)
Biographical notice of John F. Blandy (1903)
Biographical Notice of William Henry Pettee (1904)
The new onward movement : season of evangelism at Plymouth Church : sermons and addresses (1904)
Henry Ward Beecher : estimates of Beecher by Drs. Abbott, Hillis, Gunsaulus, Raymond, Julia Ward Howe and others (1904)
Melody in speech: a book of principle, precept, and practice in inflection and emphasis (1906)
A new tale of a grandfather. (1907)
Biographical Notice of James Duncan Hague (1909)
Conservation of Natural Resources: Meeting of Engineers (Raymond co-author) (1909)
A Commercial Fuel-Briquette Plant (1910)
Biographical Notice of William Phipps Blake (1910)
The Feast of Lights (four stories) by RWR (1910)
Biographical notice of Joseph Esrey Johnson (1911)
The Chesapeake and Delaware canal in the civil war (1911)
Comparison of mining conditions to-day with those of 1872, in their relation to federal mineral-land laws (1914)Professional Ethics, Commencement Address, Colorado School of Mines (1914)
Our Duty (1915)
Christus Consolater and other poems by RWR (1916)
The John Fritz Medal (1917)
Biographical Notices of the John Fritz Medal-lists (differs from above?) (1917)
GLORY SONGS: Never alone is the Christian / Rossiter W. Raymond (1930)
James and Jim by RWRLectures on Mining Law (No Date Provided)
Machinery and education; a study in evolution (lecture notes, no dates)
Biography: The Fahnehjelm water-gas incandescent light (no date, article from Transactions)
Biography: Criticism of J.B. Eadss review of Humphreys and Abbots Report on the physics and hydraulics of the Mississippi River : with reply of Eads (no date, article)
Blessed They Are (no date)
Biographical Notice of Alexander Lyman Holley (no date)
A Little Child shall lead them (no date)
The City of Our God (no date
)Old Mines of California and Nevada (1964 by Frontier Publishing)

Mining Reports (World Cat Resources):[First] report has title: Mineral resources of the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains … Subtitle varies slightly. Continues the reports of J.R. Browne. Continued by “Mineral resources of the United States” published by the U.S. Geological survey. No reports made 1877-1881. Found in the Congressional series as follows:
[1st] 1868, 40th Cong., 3d sess., House ex. doc. no. 54.
[2d] 1869, 41st Cong., 2d sess., House ex. doc. no. 207.
[3d] 1870, 42d Cong., 1st sess., House ex. doc. no. 10.
[4th], 1871, 42d Cong., 2d sess., House ex. doc. no. 211.
[5th], 1872, 42d Cong., 3d sess., House ex. doc. no. 210.
[6th], 1873, 43d Cong., 1st sess., House ex. doc. no. 141.
[7th], 1874, 43d Cong., 2d sess., House ex. doc. no. 177.
[8th], 1875, 44th Cong., 1st sess., House ex. doc. no. 159.

Christmas Sermons at Plymouth Church Sunday School:

Antonio : a Christmas story, 1886
The Story of Gaspar — The 35th Christmas Story, 1904
Robinson Crusoes Christmas, 1908
How Maud Returned — The 46th Christmas Story, 1913
Pierre Ladotte — The 49th Christmas Story, 1916
Solomon Lake — The 50th Christmas Story, 1917

Additional Correspondence or documents that I know little:

Rossiter W. Raymond Letters 12 Letters @ U of Wyoming (1886 – 1899)
Exchequer Gold and Silver Mining Company, Ltd: Letters of correspondenceRossiter W. Raymond letter to George Frederick Kunz : LS, New York : 1907 Apr. 22. Discusses date of Marshalls discovery of Gold in California – 3 leaves
Edward Robbins Howe Papers: Included also are copies of reports of Adelberg & Raymond on mines in Montana, Nevada and Utah, 1865-1866, and a report by R.W. Raymond on property of the Mineral City Mining and Smelting Company in Illinois, 1874.
Special reports on the Silver Peak and Red Mountain Gold & Silver Mining Companys property in the state of Nevada
3 Letters from Rossiter Raymond Regarding the Sutro Tunnel Company and/or Adoph Sutro
2 Letters to William Henry Pettee in the William H. Pettee Papers
1 Letter to Louis Jann in 1909 from the Charles Henry Janin Collection
An interesting or important letter to Louis Jann in 1909 about professional ethics and legal problems common to mining engineers
Plymouth Church Tribute to Rossiter Raymond (Book) (1920)
1 Letter from Henry Ward Beecher to Mr. Hicks Recommending Rossiter to the Century Club (1869)
Between the Iron mask gold mining company, (foreign), plaintiffs. And the Centre star mining and smelting company (foreign), and George Gooderham and Thomas Gibbs Blackstock, defendants. Evidence of Clarence King, Waldemar Lindgren and Rossiter W. Raymond, taken at trial at Rossland, commencing April 17th, 1899– By Clarence King
1 or more letters — Carl Barus Papers which include letters relating to his USGS research role
Frazer Family Papers — While mentioned by name, its unclear whether there was a letter to or from Rossiter
Beecher Family Papers — Not surprisingly, theres information related to Rossiter
Thoughts on death and immortality : address at Plymouth Prayer Meeting, March 12, 1915
Booker T Washington Letter: typewritten letter to Rossiter Raymond, undated, on Tuskegee letterhead but written from New York City, indicating Washington will be in New York for some time securing funds for Tuskegee and hoping Raymond will be willing to contribute; signature, clipped from letter, Yours truly, Booker T. Washington, Prin. (circa 1904)
Correspondence: About 6000 letters spread out over the Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington Libraries, from all kinds of authors including Rossiter W. Raymond
Papers of James D. Hague — Includes letters relating to Rossiter Raymond and some of the people with whom Rossiter was also in contact, such as Clarence King and Louis JaninVery interesting sounding collection of documents with no specific library attached .. only an OCLC # 31203368 … Rossiter Worthington Raymond : [collection] : 1857- 1920
1883 American Manuscripts. August 2, 1883. Raymond, Rossiter W[orthington]. New York. To Ben[jamin] W. Austin. Sioux City, Iowa. Sends his autograph. [autograph letter, signed] 1 p.

Hymns (according to Nethymnal.org):

Far Out on the De­so­late Bil­low
Morning Red
Now Rest, Ye Pil­grim Host
Star, Beautiful Star
There Dwelt in Old Ju­dea
Ye Fainting Souls, Lift Up Your Eyes

Poetry/Songs:

The Troopers Death (Page 518 from A New Library of Poetry and Song, William Cullen Bryant) (1875?)Song

Famous Quotes:

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is on­ly a ho­ri­zon; and a ho­ri­zon is no­thing save the lim­it of our sight.

Archives:

Adelberg &Raymond Archives: Collection consists of business correspondence, geological and technical reports, and hand-drawn maps from the period 1858 to 1875

Other:

Adelberg and Raymond Archives at the NY Public Library
Rossiter Raymonds defense of Harry Ward Beecher. Other Powers by Barbara Goldsmith. Interesting read.1874 drawing that includes RWR called the Plymouth Church Inquiry
The Mineral Industry, 1888. “Raymond, Rossiter Worthington, Ph. D., is well known from one end of the world to the other as the highest authority in America on Mining Law, and he contributes to this volume an article on ” Tunnel Rights.” For many years Dr. Raymond was the editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal and was practically its founder. He was for several terms president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and has for many years been its most efficient secretary. Educated as a mining engineer at Freiberg, Saxony, in the days before mining- schools were established in the United States, he quickly became one of the most prominent engineers in this country, and was influential in framing its early mining laws.”National Press Club Photo, John Hays Hammond Collection
1879 Review of Raymonds Book of Job
1881 Rossiter Raymond is sued by Sidney De Kay over Mine recommendation
1882 NYTimes reference of him attending and giving a speech to the Revenue Reform Club at Hubels Restaurant. This was colloquially known as a Free Traders Group.
1995 “The Historic Origins of the U.S. Mining Laws and Proposals for Change” quotes and interprets Rossiter Raymond.

Link to Engineering & Mining Journal Articles staring in the early 1870s