Thkoop, Enos Thompson – Thwaites, Reuben Gold
Thkoop, Enos Thompson
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 21, 1784, in Johnstown, N. Y. He was a representative in congress during the years 1815 and 1816, and in 1823 was elected circuit judge. In 1829 he became lieutenant-governor of New York, and in 1831 was governor of that state. In 1838 he was appointed charge d'affaires to the two Sicilies. He died Nov. 1, 1874, near Auburn, N. Y.
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Throop, Montgomery Hunt
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 26, 1827. is a lawyer of New York city, and the author of The Future: a Political Essay; Validity of Verbal Agreements; Annotated Code of Civil Procedure; The New York Justices' Manual; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Decisions; and Revised Statutes of the State of New York.
Thruston, Buckner
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in 1763 in Winchester, Va. He was appointed federal judge in the territory of Orleans in 1805, and was, the same year, elected a member of the United States senate from Kentucky for six years. He-resigned in 1809, on being appointed by President Madison judge of the United States circuit court of the District of Columbia, which office he held until his death. He died Aug. 30, 1845, in Washington.
Thruston, Charles Mynn
soldier, jurist, legislator, was born in 1738 in Gloucester county, Va. At the beginning of the revolution he raised a company, was commissioned as captain, and badly wounded at Trenton. On his recovery he was appointed colonel, being known as the Warrior Parson. After the war he was judge and a member of the legislature, and in 1808 removed to Louisiana. He died in 1812 near New Orleans, La.
Thruston, Charles Mynn
soldier, banker, was born Feb. 22, 1789, in Lexington, Ky. In 1814 he was commissioned as lieutenant of artillery, and assigned to duty on Governor's Island, New York harbor. He became adjutant of his regiment in 1821, and during the Florida war in 1835-36 was acting adjutant-general of the Florida army. Resigning in 1836, he settled on a farm at Cumberland, Md.
He became president of a bank in 1838, and mayor in 1861. He died in February, 1873, in Cumberland, Md.
Thruston, Gates Phillips
soldier, lawyer, was born June 11, 1835, in Dayton, Ohio. He was promoted major and assistant adjutant-general in 1863, and was brevetted colonel and brigadiergeneral of volunteers for gallantry. Since the war he has followed his profession at Nashville, Tenn.
Thummell, George Hamilton
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1848, in Palmyra, Ill. He began the practice of law in Grand Island, Neb. In 1871 he was a member of the Nebraska constitutional convention; and six years later was elected state senator.
Thurber, Charles Herbert
educator, author, was born in 1864 in New York. He is an educator of Chicago, a professor in the university of Chicago from 1895, and the author of In and Out of Ithaca; and The Higher Schools of Prussia.
Thurber, George
botanist, journalist, author, was born in 1821 in Rhode Island. He was a botanist who edited The American Agriculturist in 1863-90. He published American Weeds and Useful Plants, a revision of Darlington's Agricultural Botany. He died in 1890.
Thurman, Allen Granberry
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Nov. 13, 1813, in Lynchburg, Va. He was a representative from Ohio to the twenty-ninth congress, and was elected a judge of the supreme court of Ohio in 1851. He was chief justice of the same from 1854 to 1856. In 1868 he was elected a senator in congress from that state for the term commencing in 1869 and ending in 1875, and was re-elected for the term ending in 1881.
Thurman, John R
congressman. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1849 to 1851. He died July 25, 1854, in New York.
Thursby, Emma Cecilia
vocalist, was born Feb. 21, 1857, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
She was a choir singer in Beecher's Plymouth church and elsewhere. Mr. Strakosch in 1879 introduced her to the concert stage, where her remarkable talents were recognized both in Europe and America.
Thurston, Benjamin B
state senator, congressman, governor, was born June 29, 1804, in nopkinton, R. I. He was elected fourteen years in succession to the assembly of his native state. He was a presidential elector in 1836, and in 1838 was lieutenant-governor. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1847 to 1849, and again from 1851 to 1857. He was subsequently elected a member of the senate of Rhode Island.
He died May 17, 1886, in New London, Conn.
Thurston, Brown
publisher, genealogist, was born Oct. 6, 1814, in Winthrop, Maine. He was the first job printer to introduce the power-press in Portland, Maine, and subsequently introduced stereotyping, electrotyping and wood engraving. In 1880 he compiled and published the first edition of the Thurston Genealogy; and in 1892 issued a second edition. He is president of the Brown- Thurston Publishing company of Portland, Maine.
Thurston, Charles Baldwin
railroad president, was born April 2, 1832, in New York city. He is president of the Jersey City and Bergen Railroad company; treasurer and manager of the Jersey associates of Jersey City, which own nearly all the water front and ferry rights; has charge as president of the toll roads between Jersey City and Newark; president of the board of park commissioners of the Hudson company, and holds other positions of trust and responsibility. a
Thurston, John Mellen
lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Aug. 21, 1847, in Montpelier, Vt.
He was elected member of the Omaha city council in 1872; city attorney of Omaha in 1874, and a member of the Nebraska legislature in 1875. He was president of the Republican league of the United States in 1889 to 1891. In 1877 he became assistant attorney of the Union Pacific Railway company, and in 1888 was appointed general solicitor of the Union Pacific system, and held that position at the time of his election to the senate. In 1895 he was tendered in writing the unanimous vote of the entire republican membership in the legislature, and was elected for the term commencing March 4, 1895. His term of office will expire March 3, 1901. He was permanent chairman of the republican national convention of 1896 which nominated President McKinley. He is a constant contributor to current publications; and an able orator.
Thurston, Robert Henry
was born Oct. 25, 1839, in Providence, R. I.
He was trained in the workshops of his father, Robert Lawton Thurston, and graduated from Brown university in 1859. In 1861 he entered the navy as an officer of engineers and served during the civil war on various vessels.
In 1865 he was detailed as assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the United States naval academy of Annapolis, where he also acted as lecturer of chemistry and physics. In 1870 he visited Europe for the purpose of studying the British iron manufacturing districts, and in 1871 was appointed professor of mechanical engineering at the Stevens institute of Technology; and has written numerous papers on technical subjects, which have appeared in scientific journals in Europe and America. In 1878 he was made vice-president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and is at present director of the Sibley college, Cornell university, dean of the faculty and professor of mechanical engineering. He is the author of Friction and Lubrication; Manual of the Steam Engine; Manual of Steam Boilers; Engine and Boiler Trials; History of the Growth of the Steam Engine; Materials of Engineering; Friction and Lost Work; Steam-Boiler Explosions in Theory and Practice; Heat as a Form of Energy; and Robert Fulton, His Life and Its Results.
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Thurston, Robert Lawton
manufacturer, was born Dec. 13, 1800, in Portsmouth, R. I. He developed an extraordinary talent as a mechanic, and in conjunction with John Babcock, completed an experimental steam engine. 1830 he moved to Providence, and four years later commenced business with Mr.
Babcock, starting the first steam engine building establishment in New England, known as the Providence Steam Engine company, which subsequently became Thurston, Greene and Company. He died Jan. 13, 1874, in Providence, R. I.
Thurston, Samuel R
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1816 in Monmouth, Maine. He was a delegate in congress from the territory of Oregon from 1849 to 1851. He died April 9, 1851, at sea.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold
journalist, author, was born May 15, 1853, in Boston, Mass. He is an antiquarian writer of Wisconsin, and secretary of the State Historical society, and the author of Historic Waterways; Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers; The Story of Wisconsin; Our Cycling Tour in England; and The Colonies, 1492-1750. He is also the editor of the Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents.