Travers, Levi Dove – Trent, William Peterfield
Travers, Levi Dove
jurist, legislator, was born Nov. 21, 1828, in Taylor's Island, Md. In 1878 he was chaplain of the state senate of the legislature of Maryland; and for the past twelve years has been a member of the Maryland state legislature.
Travis, William Barrett
soldier, was born in 1811 in Conecuh county, Ala. At the commencement of the Texan struggle for independence he drew his sword in that cause and fell bravely fighting a vastly superior force of Mexicans. He was killed March 1, 1836, at the Alamo, and he is known in history as the hero of the Alamo.
Traynor, W. J. H
journalist, was born July 4, 1845, in Canada. He is the founder, editor and owner of The Patriotic American; and he is the supreme president of the American Protective association, with headquarters at Detroit, Mich.
Treadwell, Daniel
educator, author, was born Oct. 10, 1791, in Ipswich, Mass. He was the inventor of the powerpress for spinning hemp for cordage; and also a cannon which bears his name. He was Rumford professor at Harvard university in 1834-45; and the author of The Relations of Science to the Useful Arts; The Practicability of Constructing Cannon of Great Calibre; and Construction of Hooped Cannon. He died Feb. 27, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass.
Treadwell, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 23, 1745, in Farmington, Conn. He filled the offices of judge of probate, and of other courts. From 1785 to 1786 he was a delegate to the continental congress. In 1809 he was elected governor of Connecticut, and served two years. He died Aug. 19, 1823, in Farmington, Conn.
TREADWELL,
Treadwell, Seymour Bough- Ton
politician, author, was born June 1, 1795, in Bridgeport, Conn. He was a politician of Jackson, Mich.; and the author of American Liberties and American Slavery Politically Illustrated. He died June 9, 1867, in Jackson, Mich.
Treadwell, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1743, in Smithtown, N. Y. He was a member of the provincial congress of the colony of New York in 1775 and 1776; and was also a member of the convention of representatives of the state of New York in 1776 and 1777, by which the first constitution of the state of New York was adopted. From 1777 to 1783 he was a member of the New York assembly; and from 1786 to 1789 of the state senate from the same county. He was the first judge of the court of probate of the state, serving from 1778 to 1787; and was subse quently surrogate of Suffolk county from 1787 to 1791. He was a member of congress from his native district from 1791 to 1795; and was one of the original proprietors of Plattsburg, N. Y. He was again elected to the state senate, and served from 1803 to 1807. He was appointed surrogate of Clinton county in 1807, and held that office until 1831, making an almost continuous term of public service of fifty-six years. He died Jan. 30, 1832, in Plattsburg, N. Y.
Treat, John Harvey
author, was born July 23, 1839, in Pittsfield, N. H. He received his education at Phillips Andover academy, and in 1862 graduated from Harvard college. After graduating he engaged in business with his father in Lawrence, Mass.; and has traveled extensively in Europe and the east; and is a member of the various historical societies in America and in England. In 1888 he presented to Harvard a large collection of rare books; and to its museum of comparative zoölogy he gave his large collection of entomological specimens. He is the author of Notes on the Rubrics; Truro Baptism; The Catholic Faith; A Genealogy of the Treat Family; and other works. In addition to which he has privately printed pamphlets on theological and archæological subjects.
Treat, Joseph
soldier, author, was born Dec. 8, 1775, in Bangor, Maine. He became brigadier-general in the Maine state militia. He published a pamphlet entitled The Vindication of Captain Joseph Treat, late of the twenty-first United States Infantry, against the Atrocious Calumnies Comprehended in Major-General Brown's Official Report of the Battle of Chippeway (1815). He died Feb. 27, 1853, in Bangor, Maine.
Treat, Mrs. Mary Lua Adelia
[DAVIS] [ALLEN], naturalist, author, was born in 18-. She is a naturalist of Vineland, N. J.; and the author of Chapters on Ants; Injurious Insects of the Farm and Garden; Home Studies in Nature; and My Garden Pets.
Treat, Robert
governor, was born in 1622 in England. In 1676 he was elected deputy governor of Connecticut, and subsequently served as governor. He died July 12, 1710, in Milford, Conn.
Treat, Samuel
educator, lawyer, jurist, journalist, was born Dec. 17, 1815, in Portsmouth, N. H. He became assistant editor of the Missouri Reporter of St.
Louis, Mo., and subsequently editor-inchief of the St. Louis Union, practicing law in addition to his editorial duties. In 1849 he was appointed judge of the court of common pleas of St. Louis; and in 1851 was elected to that position. While holding that office in 1857 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Missouri.
Treat, Samuel Hubbel
lawyer, author, jurist, was born June 21, 1811, in Plainfield, N. Y. In 1855 he was appointed to the office of United States judge for the southern district of Illinois, which post he held at the time of his death.
He compiled, with notes, Illinois Law Statutes, embracing all of the general laws in force, in two volumes. He died March 27, 1887, in Springfield, Ill.
Tredway, William M
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1845 to 1847.
Tree, Lambert
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Nov. 29, 1832, in Washington, D. C. In 1855 he moved to Chicago and practiced law. In 1864 he was elected president of the Chicago Law institute. In 1870 he was elected one of the circuit judges at Chicago to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected for a full term; and in 1885 was the candidate of the democrats in the state legislature for United States senator, but was defeated by Gen. John A. Logan by one vote. In 1885 he was appointed United States minister to Belgium.
Trego, William Henry
expressman, was born Feb. 18, 1837, in Middleburg, Md. In 1856 he became the superintendent of the Adams Express company at Baltimore, and during the civil war had charge of the transportation of express matter for troops in the southern states. In 1877 he projected and organized the first trunk railway express in the United States; and in 1887 organized the railway express over the Erie system.
Treichler, Mary Emma Dana
poet, was born July 12, 1851, in Kenton, Ohio. Her poems have appeared in the National Tribune of Washington, D. C., and other prominent publications, and in several standard collections. Her poem entitled Springtime Song is quite a favorite, and is often sung with Root's famous Brooklet Chords.
Treloar, William W
educator, composer, congressman, was born Sept. 21, 1850, near Linden, Wis. In 1872 he moved to Huntsville, and in 1875 to Mexico, Mo.; and has always been actively engaged in educational work. In 1894 he was elected a representative from Missouri in the fiftyfourth congress and served with distinction in that body. He is an accomplished musician; and has composed and published a hundred piano pieces and several booklets. The most notable of his compositions are The Sleigh Ride Galop; The Tambourine March; and The Railroad Galop. Nearly a hundred thousand copies of each of these pieces have been published.
Tremain, George L
banker, was born June 4, 1833, in Laona, N. Y. He is prominent in the business and public affairs of Humboldt, Iowa, and the president of The People's bank of that city.
Tremain, Henry Edwin
soldier, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 14, 1840, in New York city. He is a lawyer of New York city who was an officer in the federal army during the civil war; and is the author of Sailor's Creek to Appomattox Court House, or The Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry.
Tremain, Lyman
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born June 14, 1819, in Durham, N. Y. He was elected county judge and surrogate in 1846; and was elected attorney general of the state of New York in 1858. In 1866 he was a member of the assembly from the city of Albany, and was speaker in 1868. He was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died Nov. 30, 1878, in New York city.
Trenchard, Edward
artist, was born Aug. 17, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa.
His works include The Passing Shower; The Old Wreck; and Sea, Sand and Solitude, all exhibited at the Academy of Design; The Breaking Waves Dashed High; A Tropic Beach; and The Surf.
Trenchard, Stephen Decatur
naval officer, was born July 10, 1818, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1834 he became a midshipman in the United States navy; and a commodore in 1871.
Trenholm, William Lee
soldier, merchant, public official, was born Feb. 3, 1836, in Charleston, S. C. He served in the confederate army throughout the war of the rebellion; and in 1865 resumed business in Charleston. In 1885 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the civil service of the United States; and in 1886 was appointed comptroller of the currency in the department of the treasury.
Trent, William Peterfield
educator, author, was born in 1862 in Virginia. He is a professor of English and history at the university of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., from 1888; and the author of English Culture in Virginia; Life of William Gilmore Simms; and Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime.