Totten, Silas – Townsend, Edward Davis
Totten, Silas
clergyman, author, was born March 26, 1804, in Schoharie county, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman, president of Trinity college in 1837-48; and the author of New Introduction to Algebra; and The Analogy of Truth. He died Oct. 7, 1873, in Lexington, Ky.
Toucey, Isaac
lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 1796, in Newton, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1835 to 1839; and was governor of the state from 1846 to 1847. He was appointed attorney-general of the United States by President Polk. He was a state senator in 1850; and was a senator in congress from 1852 to 1857. In March of the latter year he went into President Buchanan's cabinet as secretary of the navy, serving as such until 1861.
He subsequently founded two scholarships in Trinity college. He died July 30, 1869, in Hartford, Conn.
Touchard, Louis Charles
naval officer, was born in 1741 in New Orleans, La. In 1782 he was attacked by two English men of war; he captured one, but was killed in the moment of victory. He died April 12, 1782, at sea; and was buried with honors in Martinique.
Toulmin, Henry
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in 1767 in England. He was a jurist who was a judge of the United States district court in 1804; and was the Kentucky secretary of state in 1796-1804, and president of Transylvania university, and subsequently lived in Alabama. He was the author of A Description of Kentucky; Magistrate's Assistant; Collection of the Acts of Kentucky; Review of the Criminal Law of Kentucky; and Digest of the Territorial Laws of Alabama. He died Nov. 11, 1823, in Washington county, Ala.
Tourgee, Albion Wimegar
lawyer, jurist, diplomat, author, was born May 2, 1838, in Williamsfield, Ohio. He received his education at the Kingsville academy and the Rochester university. During the civil war he was first lieutenant in the one hundred and fifth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry.
During 1868-76 he was judge of the superior court of the seventh district of North Carolina; has been code commissioner; and was a member of the constitutional conventions of North Carolina in 1868 and in 1874. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley as minister to He is the author of A Fool's Errand, his most noted work, and the following books: A Royal Gentleman; Figs and Thistles; Bricks Without Straw; John Eax; Hot Plowshares; Black Ice; Button's Inn; Pactolus Prime; Murvale Eastman; With Gauge and Swallow; A Son of Old Harry; Out of the Sunset Sea; The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House; An Outing with the Queen of Hearts; An Appeal to Cæsar; The Veteran and His Pipe; The Man of Destiny; Letters to a King; The Story of a Thousand; The War of the Standards; The Code with Notes; Digest of Cited Cases; and The Bystander, in the Chicago Inter Ocean since 1886.
Tourgee, Eben
musician, philanthropist, was born June 1, 1834, in Warwick, R. I. In 1859 he founded a musical conservatory at East Greenwich, and in 1864 he projected a larger institution at Providence, which was removed to Boston in 1867, and incorporated in 1870. He died April 12, 1891, in Boston, Mass.
Tousey, Sinclair
president of the American News company, was born July 18, 1818, in New Haven, Conn. In 1864 he helped form the American News company in New York city, which bought the trade of himself and several other wholesale dealers. He was elected president of the new company, and occupied the office until his death. He died June 16, 1887, in New York city.
Tower, Charlemagne
lawyer, author, was born April 17, 1848, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a prominent lawyer of Philadelphia, Pa., where he has a large and lucrative practice; and is the author of a work entitled The Marquis de La Fayette in the American Revolution.
Tower, Fayette Bartholomew
civil engineer, was born Jan. 29, 1817, in Waterville, N. Y. He made Waterville, N. Y., his residence, and at that time prepared his Illustrations of the Croton Aqueduct, consisting of a series of twenty-one plates, with text. He died Feb. 16, 1857, in Waterville, N. Y.
Tower, Zealous Bates
soldier, was born Jan. 12, 1819, in Cohasset, Mass.
After forty years of active service he was retired. He received eight brevets up to major-general. He founded the City of Mexico in 1847.
Towle, Amos
educator, was born July 23, 1823, in Exeter, N. H. He received a thorough education and attended the Phillips Exeter academy. He attained success in educational work, and taught two years in the Bristol academy of Taunton, Mass., before he moved in 1844 to Mobile, Ala. He then taught in private schools until 1853, when he engaged in building up the public schools until 1860.
He then entered the Mobile college for eight years; then established Towle's institute for Boys, which flourished until he ceased to teach, after fifty-three years of active service in the cause of civilization.
Towle, George Makepeace
journalist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1841, in Washington, D. C. He was the author of History of Henry V.; Glimpses of History; Modern France; Certain Men of Mark; American Society; Beaconsfield; England and Russia in Asia; England in Egypt; Young People's History of England; Young People's History of Ireland; The Nation in a Nutshell; Heroes of History; The Literature of the English Language; and Heroes and Martyrs of Invention. He died Aug. 10, 1893, in Brookline, Mass.
Towler, John
educator, author, was born June 20, 1811, in England. He is an English educator who settled in America in 1850, was a professor in Hobart college, Geneva, N. Y., in 1853-82, and subsequently lived at Orange, N. J. Beside publishing a number of works on photography, he was co-editor of Hilpert's German and English Dictionary.
Towles, Mrs. Catherine Webb
author, poet, was born Oct. 25, 1823, in Charlemont, Mass. She has received honorary degrees from southern colleges. She has published Tales for the Freemason's Fireside; The Three Golden Links; and Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.
Town, Salem
educator, author, was: born March 5, 1779, in Belchertown, Mass. He was a once noted educator of New York and Indiana; and the author of System of Speculative Masonry; Analysis of English Derivatives; and, with N. Holbrook, a popular series of readers..
He died Feb. 24, 1864, in Greencastle, Ind.
Towne, Charles Arnette
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1858, in Oakland county, Mich. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the west, and has a large practice in Duluth, Minn. He served. with distinction as a member of the fiftyfourth congress, and since 1897 has been. chairman of the national committee of the silver republican party.
Towne, Edward Cornelius
clergyman, author, was born in 1834 in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman of New Haven; and the author of The Question of Hell; and Electricity and Life.
Towne, Henry Robinson
manufacturer, was born Aug. 28, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pa. The Yale and Towne Manufacturing company, whose works are yet located in Stamford, with others in Branford, Conn., was practically founded and has been entirely developed by him.
Towns, George Washington
journalist, lawyer, legislator, congressman, governor, was born May 4, 1801, in Wilkes county, Ga. He served for several years in the Georgia legislature. He was a representative in congress from 1835 to 1839, and was again elected in 1846. His last public position was that of governor of Georgia, to which office he was elected in 1847; and was re-elected in 1849. He died July 15, 1854, in Macon.
Townsend, Amos
merchant, congressman, was born in 1831 in Fayette county, Pa. He served in the Cleveland city council for ten years, seven years as president of the council; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Townsend, Calvin
author, was. born in 18-. He is the author of Analysis of the United States Constitution; Compendium of Commercial Law; Analysis of Letter-Writing; and Shorter Course in Civil Government.
Townsend, Charles
author. He is the author of Essays on Mind, Matter, Force, etc.; and Primordial Principles of the Universe.
Townsend, Charles Champlin
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1841, in Allegheny City, Pa.
He served two years in the army during the rebellion as a private in company A, ninth regiment Pennsylvania reserve volunteer corps, and afterwards as adjutant of the first Pennsylvania cavalry. He was elected from New Brighton, Pa., to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Townsend, Dwight
merchant, congressman, was born in 1826 in New York city. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress to fill a vacancy; and was also elected to the forty-second congress.
Townsend, Edward Davis
soldier, author, was born Aug. 22, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He was an adjutant-general of the United States army, at the time of his death on the retired list as brigadier-general. He was chief executive officer of the war department in Washington during the civil war. He was the author of Catechism of the Bible; and Anecdotes of the Civil War in the United States. He died May 11, 1893, in Washington, D. C.