Townsend, Edward Waterman – Tracewell, Robert J
Townsend, Edward Waterman
journalist, author, was born in 1855 in Ohio. He is a journalist of New York city whose studies of Bowery life and dialect have been widely popular. He is the author of Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories; Chimmie Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds; A Daughter of the Tenements, a novel; Near a Whole City Full, a collection of short dramatic stories. In collaboration he has written several plays, including Chimmie Fadden; A Daughter of the Tenements; and The Marquis of Michigan.
Townsend, Eliza
poet, was born in 1789 in Boston, Mass. She was a versewriter of Boston whose collected Poems and Miscellanies appeared in 1856. She died Jan. 12, 1854, in Boston, Mass.
Townsend, Frederick
soldier, was born Sept. 21, 1825, in Albany, N. Y.
In 1856 he became adjutant-general of the state. He served in various capacities during the civil war as major; and in 1878 was appointed a brigadier-general in the state militia, and afterward became adjutant-general.
Townsend, George
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 to 1819.
Townsend, George Alfred-
Gath-journalist, author, was born Jan. 30, 1841, in Georgetown, Del. He is a journalist of New York city and Chicago famous as a war correspondent, among whose writings are Washington Outside and Inside; Tales of the Chesapeake; Bohemian Days; Campaigns of a Non-Combatant; The Entailed Hat, a novel; Poems; Life of Garibaldi; The Real Life of Abraham Lincoln; Katy of Catoctin, a National Romance; and Mrs. Reynolds and Hamilton.
Townsend, George Washington
merchant, lawyer, author, was born Feb. 1, 1839, in West Chester, Pa. He received his education in the public and classical schools of Philadelphia. For ten years he was a successful merchant, and in 1874 was admitted to the bar. He is the author of several religious and secular works, and has given much time and study to solving the educational problem How to Educate. His method of education embodied in The Wherewithal trains the senses and teaches how to think. He has filled high official Masonic positions, and has lectured extensively on educational topics.
Townsend, Hosea
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 16, 1840, in Greenwich, Ohio. He enlisted in the second Ohio cavalry in 1861; and was promoted to lieutenant, and resigned in 1863 on account of disability. He was admitted to the bar at Cleveland, Ohio, and commenced the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn., in 1865. He was elected to the legislature of that state in 1869 as a republican, and served one term. He removed to Colorado in 1879; was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed judge of the United States supreme court for the southern district of the Indian territory.
Townsend, Howard
physician, author, was born Nov. 22, 1823, in Albany, N. Y. He was a physician of Albany; and the author of The Sunbeam and the Spectroscope; Food and its Digestion; and Sinai Bible. He died Jan. 16, 1867, in Albany, N. Y.
Townsend, James
congressman. He was elected a representative from New York to the second congress. He died in May, 1791.
Townsend, James Mulford
capitalist, philanthropist, was born Jan. 20, 1825, in New Haven, Conn. The Townsend prize fund, amounting to one hundred dollars, was his gift to the Yale Law school, and is offered the student who shall write and deliver the best oration in the best manner on graduation day.
Townsend, John Kirk
naturalist, author, was born Aug. 10, 1809, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a naturalist of Washington; and the author of Journey to the Columbia River, republished in London as Sporting Adventures in the Rocky Mountains. He died Feb. 16, 1851, in Washington, D. C.
Townsend, Linus
author, poet, was born Dec. 25, 1819, near Apollo, Pa. For half a century he has contributed to the periodical press; is the author of a volume entitled Miscellaneous Poems, a work of over three hundred pages; and a Pioneer History, containing historical notes of a district in West Pennsylvania. His poems also appear in Poets of America, and other standard works.
Townsend, Luther Tracy
clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 27, 1838, in Orono, Maine. He is a methodist clergyman and educator of prominence, professor in Boston university in 1873-93; a pastor in Baltimore from 1893; and subsequently in Washington, D. C. He is the author of God-Man; Credo; The Fate of Republics; Outlines of Christian Theology; Sword and Garment; The Arena and the Throne: The Intermediate World; Search and Manifestations; The Mosaic Record and Modern Science; Bible Miracles and Modern Thought; Outlines of Theology; The Supernatural Factor in Religious Revivals; Real and Pretended Christianity; The Bible and Other Ancient Literature in the Nineteenth Century; The Chinese Problem; The Intermediate World; and The Art of Speech.
Townsend, Martin Ingham
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1810, in Hancock, Mass. In 1842-45 he was district attorney for Rensselaer county, N. Y.; attorney for the northern district of New York during 1879-87; and a member of the constitutional commission of 1890.
He was elected a representative in the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a republican.
Townsend, Mrs. Mary Ashley
[VAN VOORHEES], author, poet, was born about 1836 in Lyons, N. Y. She is a popular poet of New Orleans; and the author of Xariffa's Poems; Down the Bayou, and Other Poems; Distaff and Spindle; The Captain's Story, a Poem; and The Brother Clerks.
Townsend, N. S
Congressman, was born in England. He settled in Ohio; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1853.
Townsend, Smith J
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 16, 1869, in Geneva, Ill. He received his degree of medicine from the medical department of the Western Reserve university of Cleveland, Ohio; and has since attained success in his pro-- fession at Paton, Iowa. He has been health commissioner; medical examiner of various large life insurance companies, and is a prominent member of the leading medical bodies.
Townsend, Thomas S
compiler, was born Aug. 27, 1829, in New York city.
In 1860 he determined to form a chrono-- logical history of every important occurrence in connection with the impending civil war. This journalistic record comprises about one hundred and twenty vol-- umes containing sixty thousand pages.
This collection is now in Columbia college library, New York city.
Townsend, Virginia Frances
author, was born in 1836 in New Haven, Conn. She is the author of A Woman's Word; One Woman's Two Lovers; Lenox Dare; Protestant Queen of Navarre; Only Girls; Sirs, Only Seventeen; A Boston Girl's Ambition; Six in All; But a Philistine; and That Queer Girl.
Townsend, Washington
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1813 in Westchester, Pa. In 1832 he became a teller in the bank of Chester county, during which service he studied law, and came to the bar in 1844.
He served two terms as deputy state's attorney of Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the Baltimore national convention of 1852, and also to the Chicago convention of 1860.
In 1868 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the fortysecond, forty-third, and forty-fourth congresses as a republican.
Townsend, William Kneeland
lawyer, jurist, was born June 12, 1849, in New Haven, Conn. He is a noted lawyer of New Haven, Conn.; has been corporation counsel; judge of the United States district court; and professor of law in the Yale university.
Townshend, Richard Welling- Ton
lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1840, in Prince George county, Md. He was prosecuting attorney for the twelfth judicial circuit of Illinois from 1868 to 1872. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.
Townsley, Frances Eleanor
educator, clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 13, 1849, in Albany, N. Y. She is now pastor of the baptist church of Ashland, Neb. She is the author of numerous poems of merit, which have appeared in Harper's Weekly, Poets of America, and other standard works.
Toy, Crawford Howell
clergyman, educator, author, was born March 23, 1836, in Norfolk, Va. He is a unitarian clergyman, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University Divinity school. He is the author of Quotations in the New Testament; History of the Religion of Israel; and Judaism and Christianity, the Progress of Thought from the Old Testament to the New.
Tracewell, Robert J
lawyer, congressman, was born May 7, 1852, in Warren county, Va. He entered his father's law office at Corydon, Ind., and has since remained at Corydon in the practice of the law. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican,