Tompkins, George – Totten, Joseph Gilbert
Tompkins, George
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1780. He was an early settler of Missouri. He was a judge of the state supreme court from 1828 to 1840; and was its chief justice from 1840 to 1846.
He died April 7, 1846, near Jefferson City, Mo.
Tompkins, Patrick W
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He settled in Mississippi; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.
Tompson, Benjamin
educator, author, poet, was born July 14, 1642, in Braintree, Mass. He was a colonial educator, the master of a preparatory school in Cambridge for nearly forty years from 1670, and a satirical poet of some merit.
He was the author of New England's Crisis, a poem on King Philip's War. He died April 13, 1714.
Tompson, Edward
clergyman, was born April 20, 1665, in Boston, Mass. He taught for several years at Newbury, and from 1696 until his death was pastor of the church at Marshfield, Mass. His last sermons, entitled Heaven the Best Country, were published in 1712. He died March 10, 1715, in Marshfield, Mass.
Tone, William Theobald Wolfe
soldier, author, was born April 29, 1791, in Ireland. After serving in the French army he came to America in 1816 and was in the artillery service of the United States for ten years. He died Oct. 10, 1828, in New York city.
Toner, Joseph Meredith
physician, philanthropist, was born April 30, 1825, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is the president of the Columbian Historical society of Washington, D. C.; and he gave a collection of twenty-eight thousand books and eighteen thousand pamphlets to the congressional library, known as the Toner collection, and regarded as a most important and valuable acquisition. He founded the Toner lectures under the auspices of the Smithsonian institution.
He is the author of Abortion in Its Medical and Moral Aspects; Maternal Instinct; and Medical Men of the Revolution.
Tongue, Thomas H
lawyer, legislator, was born June 23, 1844, in Lincolnshire, England. He removed with his parents to Washington county, Ore., Nov. 23, 1859, where he has since resided.
He was educated at Pacific university, Forestgrove, Washington county, Ore., and graduated in June, 1868. In 1888 he was elected member of the state senate, serving term of four years. a a In 1890 he was the permanent chairman of the state republican convention; and in February, 1892, was elected president of the state organization of republican clubs and served for a term of two years. He was a delegate to the national republican convention at Minneapolis in 1892, and was the Oregon vice-president of that convention. In 1894 he was again the permanent chairman of the state republican convention; and has been a member of the state central committee continuously since 1866. He has been the chairman of the congressional committee of the first congressional district of Oregon from the time of its organization until 1896. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Toole, Joseph Kemp
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born May 12, 1851, in Savannah, Mo. In 1872 he was elected district attorney of the third judicial district of Montana; and was re-elected in 1874 without opposition. In 1881 he was elected a member of the council of the twelfth legislative assembly of Montana, and was chosen president of the council.
In 1884 he was elected the delegate from Montana to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Toombs, Robert
soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born July 2, 1810, in Wilkes county, Ga.
In 1837 he was elected to the legislature from his nativecounty, and, with the exception of 1841, continued a member of the lower branch until his election to the federal house of representatives, where he served during the twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, and thirty-second congresses. He entered the senate during the thirty-third congress for six years, and was re-elected for a second term ending March 4, 1865. He was expelled in 1861, and became secretary of state in the confederate government. He was also brigadier-general in the great rebellion.
He died Dec. 14, 1885, in Washington, D. C. a
Toomer, John De Rossett
jurist, state senator, was born March 13, 1784, in Wilmington, N. C. In 1831 and 1832 he represented Cumberland county in the North Carolina state senate; and in 1836 was elected judge of the superior court, and served until 1840 when he continued the practice of law in Pittsboro, N. C. He died Oct. 27, 1856, in Pittsboro, N. C.
Toppan, Robert Noxon
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 17, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a lawyer of Cambridge, Mass.; and the author of Historical Summary of Metallic Money; and Biographical Sketches of Old Newbury.
Torbert, Alfred Thomas Arch- Imedes
soldier, was born July 1, 1833, in Georgetown, Del. He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of brevet major-general of volunteers in 1865. He died Sept. 30, 1880, at sea.
Tornos, Manuel Alberto
public official, author, was born June 2, 1862, in New York city. Since 1881 he has been secretary of the Spanish consulate-general in New York city. He has published Spanish Tariffs, with Extracts from the Custom-House Regulations.
Torrence, Joseph Thatcher
soldier, lawyer, mechanical engineer, was born March 15, 1843, in Mercer county, Pa. He served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1869 he moved to Chicago as manager of the Chicago Iron works, now the Union Works of the Illinois Steel company. He organized the Standard Steel and Iron company, and also the Calumet Canal Improvement company. He was prominent in the development of terminal railroad facilities in Chicago and the west; and was known as the father of track elevation. He died Oct. 31, 1896.
Torrey, Bradford
essayist, author, was born Oct. 9, 1843, in Weymouth, Mass. He is an essayist of Boston, a member of the editorial staff of The Youth's Companion; and the author of Birds in the Bush; The Foot-Path Way; A Rambler's Lease; A Florida Sketch-Book; and Spring Notes from Tennessee.
Torrey, Charles Turner
reformer, author, was born in 1813 in Scituate, Mass. He was an anti-slavery reformer who was imprisoned in Baltimore for aiding in the escape of slaves, and died in imprisonment. He was the author of Memoir of William Saxton; and Home, or the Pilgrim's Faith Reward. He died May 9, 1846, in Baltimore, Md.
Torrey, John
botanist, physician, author, was born Aug. 15, 1796, in New York city. He was a distinguished botanist and physician of New York city, professor in the college of Physicians and Surgeons in 1827-55; and United States assayer in 1853-73. He was the author of Catalogue of Plants Growing Spontaneously Within Thirty Miles of New York; Flora of the Northern and Middle States; and Flora of New York State. He died March 10, 1873, in New York city.
Torrey, Joseph
clergyman, educator, author, was born Feb. 2, 1797, in Rowley, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman and educator, and professor in the university of Vermont in 1827-67. He was the author of A Theory of Art, translation of Neander's History of the Christian Religion. He died Nov. 26, 1867, in Burlington, Vt.
Torrey, Mary Cutler
author, was born May 28, 1831, in Burlington, Vt. She is the author of America, a dramatic poem; and has edited Joseph Torrey's Theory of Fine Art; and has revised edition of Neander's Church History, herself preparing the index volume.
Torrey, Samuel
clergyman, was born in 1631 in England. In 1856 he became pastor of the church at Weymouth, which post he held for fifty-one years. He preached the election sermon in 1674, 1683, and 1689, and was a person of such deep and extensive views that the governor and council would send for him to come fifteen miles to aid them with his advice and wise observations. He died April 10, 1707, in Weymouth, Mass.
Totten, Benjamin J
naval officer, author, was born in 1806 in West Indies.
He is a naval officer of New Bedford; and the author of Totten's Naval Text-Book.
He died May 9, 1877, in New Bedford, Mass.
Totten, Charles Adelle Lewis
inventor, author, was born Feb. 3, 1851, in New London, Conn. He is a military inventor; and the author of Strategos, the American War Game; Yale Military Lectures; and Nativity: its Facts and Fancies.
Totten, George Muirson
civil engineer, was born May 28, 1809, in New Haven, Conn. He was appointed in 1850 engineer-in-chief of the Panama railroad, and spent twenty-five years among difficulties of every sort in the completion of this arduous task. He died June 8, 1884, in New York city.
Totten, Joseph Gilbert
civil engineer, author, was born Aug. 23, 1788, in New Haven, Conn. He was a military engineer of distinction, brevetted major-general in 1864; and the author of Essays on Hydraulic and Other Cements. He died April 22, 1864, in Washington, D. C.