A mem­ber of Hen­ry Beech­er’s Ply­mouth Church, Ray­mond held de­grees from the Brook­field Pol­y­tech­nic In­sti­tute (1857), La­fay­ette Coll­ege (PhD 1868), Leigh Un­i­ver­si­ty (LLD 1906), and the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Pitts­burgh (hon­o­rary LLD. 1915). He served as the Unit­ed States Com­mis­sion­er of Mining Sta­tis­tics, and was sec­re­ta­ry of the Amer­i­can In­sti­tute of Min­ing, Me­tal­lur­gy, and Pe­trol­e­um En­gin­eers (1884-1911). In 1945, the in­sti­tute named its Ros­si­ter W. Ray­mond Me­mor­i­al Award af­ter him, to re­cog­nize the best pa­per pub­lished by a mem­ber un­der 33 years of age. Ray­mond lived in Brook­lyn, New York, at least part of his life, and wrote at least one West­ern no­vel:

• Brave Hearts, 1873

One of Raymond’s best known quotes is:

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

• Julian, p. 1691

1. Far Out on the De­so­late Bil­low
2. Morning Red
3. Now Rest, Ye Pil­grim Host
4. Star, Beau­ti­ful Star
5. There Dwelt in Old Ju­dea
6. Ye Fainting Souls, Lift Up Your Eyes