Tefft, Lyman B – Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia
Tefft, Lyman B
clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 15, 1833, in Exeter township, R. I. He has been professor in Roger Williams university, Tenn.; and is now president of the Hartshorn Memorial college, Va.
Telfair, Edward
merchant, congressman, was born in 1735 in Scotland. He was a delegate from Savannah, Ga., to the old congress in 1778, and from 1780 to 1783. He died Sept. 17, 1807, in Savannah, Ga.
Telfair, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1813 to 1817. He died in April, 1818, in Savannah, Ga.
Teller, Henry Moore
lawyer, United States senator, was born May 23, 1830, in Granger, N. Y. He moved to Illinois in 1858, and from there to Colorado in 1861. He never held office until he was elected to the United States senate on the admission of Colorado as a state, and took his seat in 1876; and was re-elected in 1876. He served until April 17, 1882, when he was appointed secretary of the interior; and served until March 3, 1885.
He was again elected to the United States senate as a republican to fill a vacancy, and took his seat March 4, 1885; and was re-elected in 1890 and in 1897. was
Teller, Isaac
congressman, born in 1798 in New York. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-third congress to fill a vacancy. He died April 30, 1868, in Matteawan, N. J.
Temple, Daniel
missionary, author, was born Dec. 23, 1798, in Reading, Mass. He was ordained as an evangelist in 1821, and went to Malta as a missionary in 1822, where he labored till his return to this country in September, 1828. He published many works in modern Greek, Italian and Armenian, including several biographies of Bible characters, and edited a monthly magazine in Greek.
He died Aug. 9, 1851, in Reading, Mass.
Temple, Edward Lowe
banker, author, was born May 12, 1844, in Fort Winnebago, Wis. Since 1883 he has been manager of the Marble Savings bank; and in 1893 he published a volume entitled The Church in the Prayer Book; Shakespeare: the Man and his Art; and the Testimony of the Scriptures.
Temple, Jackson
lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 11, 1827, in Heath, Mass.
He was appointed to the bench of the California state supreme court to fill a vacancy in 1887, and then continued in his seat by re-election. He has also served as district judge and judge of the superior court of Sonoma county.
Temple, Oliver P
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Jan. 27, 1820, in Greene county, Tenn. He is a noted lawyer of Knoxville, Tenn.; and during 1866-78 was chancellor of the second chancery division of Tennessee. He is the author of The Covenanter; The Cavalier; and The Puritan.
Temple, William
merchant, state senator, governor, was born Feb. 28, 1815, in Queen Anne county, Md. In 1844 he was elected to the Delaware state legislature, and was speaker of the house. The governor of the state and president of the senate having died, he became acting-governor for the remainder of the term. During the next ten years he was a member of the state senate, and declined a reelection in 1854. He was elected a representative from Delaware to the thirtyeighth congress. He died in 1863 in Smyrna, Del.
Temple, William Granville
na- Rutland, Vt. He served with distinction through the Mexican and civil wars; and became a rear admiral in 1884.
Templer, James N
lawyer, was born Feb. 8, 1836, in Xenia, Ohio. In 1861 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the thirteenth judicial circuit of Indiana, and held the office three consecutive terms of two years each.
Ten Broeck, Abraham
soldier, banker, jurist, state senator, was born May 13, 1734, in Albany, N. Y. He was made a colonel of militia early in the revolution, and in 1778 became brigadiergeneral of militia. He was mayor of Albany, N. Y., in 1779-83; a member of the state senate in 1780-83, and judge of the court of common pleas in 1781-84. He died Jan. 19, 1810, in Albany, N. Y.
Ten Eyck, Egbert
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born April 18, 1779, in Rensselaer county, N.
Y. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1812 and 1813, and speaker.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1825. He also held the offices of judge of the Jefferson county court, and president of a county agricultural society. He died April 11, 1844, in Watertown, N. Y.
Ten Eyck, Henry James
journalist, author, was born July 25, 1856, in Albany, N. Y. He was an occasional contributor to the magazines, more particularly the Century and the Popular Science Monthly, an article from his pen in the latter magazine in 1886 on Some Tendencies in Taxation having attracted much attention. He died Nov. 29, 1887, in Albany, N. Y.
Ten Eyck, John Conover
lawyer, United States senator, was born March 21, 1814, in Freehold, N. J. In 1839 he was appointed prosecutor of the pleas for Burlington county, N. J., holding the position for ten years; and was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1859 and ending in 1865. He died Aug. 24, 1879, in Mount Holly, N. J.
Tennant, Albert C
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 11, 1846, in Willet, N. Y.
In 1873 he was admitted to the bar at Albany, N. Y.; was elected surrogate in 1883, and so ably and satisfactorily discharged his duties that in 1889 he ceived the re-election to the same office. re-
Tennent, Gilbert
clergyman, author, was born in 1703 in Ireland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, active in his day as a controversialist; and the author of XXIII Sermons; Discourses on Several Subjects; and Sermons on Important Subjects. He died July 23, 1764, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Tenney, Mrs. Abby Amy Gove
author. She is the author of Pictures and Stories of Animals for the Little Ones at Home; and a New Game of Natural History. She also contributed to scientific journals.
Tenney, Charles Henry
merchant, was born July 9, 1842, in Salem, N.
H. While owning an interest in the hat industry, he is preeminently a commission merchant; and in this capacity he now represents upward of forty hat manufacturing concerns, among them the largest not only in the United States but in the world.
Prominent in the town of Methuen, N.
Y., is Y., is a shaft in a val officer, was born March 23, 1824, in granite and bronze, erected by him at a C cost of $20,000, to commemorate the memory of the men of Methuen who fell on southern battlefields. The town supplied a company of the sixth Massachusetts infantry, the first regiment to pass through Baltimore for the defense of Washington upon the outbreak of the war.
Tenney, Edward Payson
clergyman, college president, author, was born in 1835. He is a congregational clergyman of New England, at one time president of Colorado college; and the author of Agamenticus; and Constance of Acadia, a novel.
Tenney, Samuel
soldier, physician, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 27, 1748, in Byfield, Mass. He was present at the battle of Bunker Hill, where he was employed in attending upon the wounded. He was attached to the Rhode Island line of the provincial army, and served during the whole war. For many years he was judge of probate in Exeter, N. H. In 1800 he was elected a representative from that state in the congress of the United States. He died Feb. 6, 1816, in Exeter, N. H.
Tenney, Sanborn
naturalist, author, was born Jan. 13, 1827, in Stoddard, N. H. He was a naturalist who was professor of natural history at Williams college from 1868; and the author of Elements of Zoölogy; Manual of Zoölogy; and Geology for Teachers. He died July 9, 1877, in Buchanan, Mich.
TENNEY, MRS. SARAH [BROWN- SON], author, was born June 7, 1839, in Chelsea, Mass. She was the author of Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live; At Anchor; and Life of Demetrius Gallitzin, Prince and Priest. She died Oct. 30, 1876, in Elizabeth, N. J.
TENNEY, MRS. TABITHA [GILMAN], author, was born in 1762 in Exeter, N. H.
She wrote Female Quixotism, an amusing satirical novel, which was long popular.
She died May 2, 1837, in Exeter, N. H.
Tenney, William Jewett
author, was born in 1814 in Newport, R. I. He was a writer who lived at Elizabeth, N. J., for many years. He edited Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia in 1861-82, and wrote a Military and Naval History of the Rebellion. He died Sept. 20, 1883, in Newark, N. J.
Terhune, Albert Payson
journalist, author, was born in 1825 in New Brunswick, N. J. He is the author of Syria from the Saddle, a volume of travels; Columbia Stories, a collection of sketches; and The Great Cedarhurst Mystery.
Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia
[HAWES], author, was born in 1830 in Amelia county, Va. She is a popular novelist, lecturer, and writer on domestic topics, and the wife of a Dutch reformed clergyman of New York city. Her work in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; Beechdale; Judith; The Hidden Path; Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen Gardner's Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With the Best Intentions; True as Steel; Sunnybank; From My Youth Up; My Little Love; A Gallant Fight; The Royal Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt's Wife's Sister; Eve's Daughters; and Marion.
Other works of hers are, Common Sense in the Household, a widely known manual of housewifery; Common Sense in the Nursery; The Cottage Kitchen; The Dinner Year-Book; Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea; The Story of Mary Washington; and Loitering in Pleasant Paths.