Tiffany, Francis – Tillman, George D
Tiffany, Francis
clergyman, author, was born in 1827 in Maryland. He is a unitarian clergyman living in Cambridge, pastor at West Newton, Mass., in 1865-82, and the author of Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix; Bird Bolts; Life of Charles Francis Barnard; and This Goodly Frame, the Earth, a volume of travels in America, Japan, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece.
Tiffany, Joel
author. He is the author of Treatise on Government and Constitutional Law; Man and His Destiny; Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York; The Book of Forms; Laws of Trusts and Trustees; and Treatise on Practice and Pleadings in the Courts of Record.
Tiffany, Osmond
author, was born July 16, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. He is a custom-house clerk in Baltimore since 1869, and the author of The Canton Chinese; Brandon, a Tale of the American Revolution; and Life of General Otho Williams.
Tiffin, Edward
governor, United States senator, was born June 19, 1766, in England. He was speaker of the Ohio territorial legislature in 1799. He was elected first governor of the state from 1803 to 1807, and was United States senator from Ohio from 1807 to 1809. He was appointed commissioner of the general land office in 1812, and resigned in 1815, when appointed surveyor-general of the northwest, which he held until his death.
He died Aug. 9, 1829, in Chillicothe, Ohio.
Tift, Nelson
congressman. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress.
Tigert, John James
clergyman, educator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1856, in Louisville, Ky. He is a methodist clergyman and educator in Nashville, and the author of Handbook of Logic; The Preacher Himself; A Voice from the South; and Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism.
Tilden, Daniel R
congressman, was born in Connecticut. Having settled in Ohio, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.
Tilden, Herbert
educator, clergyman, was born June 18, 1850, in Chesterville, Maine. He received his education in the Nichols Latin school of Lewiston, Maine; and in 1875 graduated from the Colby university, from which institution he received the degree of A. M. In 1875-76 he was principal of the Black River academy of Ludlow, Vt.; has been pastor of Maine churches at Lamoine, Bararloa, Sedgwick, Old Lowell, and Farmington; and since 1892 has been pastor of the Fifth Baptist church of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Tilden, Samuel Jones
lawyer, state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1814, in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1846 he was elected to the New York state legislature, and was again elected to the state legislature in 1870.
In 1874 he was elected governor of New York. A volume of his Writings and Speeches was edited and published in 1893. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of He died Aug. 4, 1886, the United States. in Greystone, N. Y.
Tilden, William Phillips
cler-. gyman, author, was born in 1811 in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the author of The Work of the Ministry; and Buds for the Bridal Wreath. He died in 1890.
Tilford, Frank
merchant, banker, was born July 22, 1852, in New York city.
In 1876, he joined the Real Estate exchange, and, from that time to the present has been an extensive operator in real estate, both in Harlem and on the west side above 59th street. In 1885 he was elected a trustee of the North River Savings bank. During the same year, Park and Tilford opened a branch store at Fifty-ninth street and Fifth avenue, and Mr. Tilford was placed in charge of this establishment. Even this additional increase of labors was not sufficient to employ all of his active energies; and in 1889, together with George G. Haven, he organized the Bank of New Amsterdam, of which Thomas C. Acton is president. Mr. Tilford has been vice-president of the bank from the day it opened. a
Tilghman, Lloyd
soldier, was born in 1816 in Talbot county, Md. He joined the confederate army in 1861, was commissioned brigadier-general in 1862. He died May 16, 1863, near Vicksburg, Miss.
Tilghman, Matthew
congressman, was born Feb. 17, 1718, in Hermitage, Md.
He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1774 to 1777.
He died May 4, 1790, in Hermitage, Md.
Tilghman, Tench
soldier, was born Dec. 25, 1744, in Talbot county, Md. On the surrender of Cornwallis he was selected by Washington to bear his despatch to congress announcing that event. He was voted the thanks of congress, a sword, and a horse with accoutrements, for this service. After the war he became a merchant in Baltimore. He died April 18, 1786, in Baltimore, Md.
Tilghman, Tench
soldier, public official, was born March 25, 1810, in Plimhimmon, Md. He was brigadier-general of Maryland militia in 1837-60; and majorgeneral in 1860-61, state commissioner of public works in 1841-51; and superintendent of the military department of the Maryland military academy of Oxford in 1847-57. In 1849-50 he was United States consul at Mayaguez, Porto Rico. From 1857 till 1860 he was collector of customs for the port of Oxford, Md. He died Dec. 22, 1874, in Baltimore, Md.
Tilghman, William
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 12, 1756, in Talbot county, Md. He was appointed chief justice of the state supreme court in 1806. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature for several years, from 1788. He was president of the Philosophical society in 1824, and in 1809 prepared a report of the English statutes in force within the state. He died April 30, 1827, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Tillett, Wilbur Fisk
clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 25, 1854, in Henderson, N. C. He is a methodist clergyman and educator, and vice-chancellor of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, in 1882-95. He is the author of Our Hymns and Their Authors; and Discussions in Theology.
Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1790 in Taunton, Mass. In 1833 he was elected a member of the board of trustees of Brown university. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1837 to 1843, and was, for many years, a member of the state legislature, and was elected speaker on several occasions. To him was awarded the authorship of the free schools, and improved judiciary system of his native state. He died Dec. 30, 1844, in Providence, R. I.
Tillinghast, Nicholas
educator, author, was born Sept. 22, 1804, in Taunton, Mass. He was a Massachusetts educator, principal of the Normal school at Bridgewater in 1840- 53, and the author of Elements of Plane Geometry; and Prayers for Schools. He was one of the foremost educators of New England; and besides his published works contributed valuable articles to current publications.
He died April 10, 1856, in Bridgewater, Mass.
Tillinghast, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1742, in East Greenwich, L. I. He was for many years a judge of the supreme court of Rhode Island; and was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1797 to 1799, and again from 1801 to 1803. He died Aug. 26, 1821, in East Greenwich, N. Y.
Tillman, Benjamin Ryan
legislator, governor, United States senator, was born Aug. 11, 1847, in Edgefield county, S. C. He followed farming as a pursuit and took no active part in politics till he began the agitation in 1886 for industrial and technical education which culminated in the establishment of the Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical college at Calhoun's old home, Fort Hill. educational reform demand for other a The demand for broadened into changes in state affairs, and he was put forward by the farmers as a candidate for governor in 1890, and was elected in November following. This was his first political office, and he was re-elected in 1892 by an overwhelming vote. His term as governor was signalized by the passage of the dispensary law for the control of the liquor traffic by the state and by the establishment of another college, the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college for Women, at Rock Hill. He was elected as a democrat to the United States senate. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.
Tillman, George D
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1826, in Edgefield county, S. C. He was a member of the South Carolina state house of representatives in 1854 and 1855, and again in 1864. He served in the confederate army from 1862 to 1865. He was a state senator in 1865; and was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-sixth congress; and was again elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.