Truett, George – Tuck, Amos
Truett, George
governor, was born in 1756. He was governor of Delaware from 1808 to 1811. He died Oct. 8, 1818, in Camden, Del.
Truman, Benjamin Cummings
governor, author, was born Oct. 25, 1835, in Providence, R. I. He is a California writer, military governor of Tennessee during the civil war; and the author of The South During the War; Semi-Tropical California; Occidental Sketches; Winter Resorts of California; From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate; Homes and Happiness in the Golden Gate; and The Field of Honor.
Truman, Irwin Joseph
farmer, merchant, banker, was born Oct. 27, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was president of the Columbian Banking company of San Francisco, Cal., for four years. He is also a successful farmer; and has taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state.
Trumbo, Andrew
lawyer, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1799, in Montgomery county (now Bath), Ky. He was a representative in the twenty-ninth congress; and was one of the presidential electors of Kentucky in 1848.
Trumbo, David Sarency
soldier, lawyer, farmer, was born June 6, 1828, near Owingsville, Ky. During 1853-57 he was sheriff of his native county; and during 1862-65 was lieutenant and quartermaster of the twenty-fourth regiment Kentucky volunteers. He has attained prominence in his state as a successful farmer and lawyer.
Trumbull, Benjamin
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 19, 1735, in Hebron, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at North Haven, Conn., for sixty years; and the author of Plea in Vindication of the Connecticut Title to the Contested (Western) Lands; Divine Origin of the Holy Scriptures; General History of the United States (1810); and A Complete History of Connecticut, 1630- 1764. He died Feb. 2, 1820, in North Haven, Conn.
Trumbull, Gurdon
artist, was born May 5, 1841, in Stonington, Conn. He has attained eminence as one of the foremost artists in America.
Trumbull, Henry Clay
clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 8, 1831, in Stonington, Conn. He is a congregational clergyman of Philadelphia; editor of the Sunday-School Times; and the author of A Model Superintendent; The Threshold Covenant; The Knightly Soldier; Kadesh-Barnea; Teaching and Teachers; The Blood Covenant, a Primitive Rite; The Sunday-School, its Origin, Methods and Auxiliaries; Children in the Temple; Some Army Sermons; The Worth of an Historic Consciousness; Principles and Practice; Friendship the Master Passion; and Studies in Oriental Social Life.
Trumbull, James Hammond
philologist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1821, in Stonington, Conn. He is the author of The Composition of Indian Geographical Names; Best Method of Studying the Indian Languages; Indian Names of Places; On the Algonkin Verb; The True Blue- Laws of Connecticut. He has edited The Colonial Records of Connecticut; and Roger Williams's Key to the Languages of North America.
Trumbull, John
lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 24, 1750, in Westbury, Conn. He was a noted jurist of Hartford, famous in his day as a satirical poet. With Barlow and others he published The Anarchiad, a series of satirical essays, and he was the author of The Progress of Dulness; but MacFingal, a Hudibrastic poem, the first canto of which appeared in 1775, is his best title to remembrance. He died May 10, 1831, in Detroit, Mich.
Trumbull, John
artist, was born April 6, 1756, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a son of Jonathan Trumbull, colonial governor of Connecticut. His Battle of Bunker Hill, and Death of Montgomery before Quebec, known through engravings.
Four of the colossal pictures in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, viz., Surrender of Cornwallis; Resignation are well of Washington; Declaration of Independence; and Surrender of Burgoyne, are his. He died in 1843 in New York city.
Trumbull, Jonathan
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, was born Oct. 12, 1710, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a member of the assembly at the age of twenty-three; and was chosen lieutenant-governor in 1766, and chief justice of the superior court.
He refused to take the oath enjoined on royal officers. He was made governor from 1769 to 1783; and was the only colonial governor who took side with the people. He was a whig leader and was relied on by Washington as one of his firm supporters. The phrase sometimes used by Washington, Let us see what Brother Jonathan says, is supposed to have originated the term frequently applied to the United States. He died Aug. 17, 1785.
Trumbull, Jonathan
congressman, United States senator, governor, was born March 26, 1740, in Lebanon, Conn.
He was for several years a representative in the state legislature of Connecticut, and speaker of the house. He was a presidential elector in 1797, 1801 and 1805; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1789 to 1795. He was elected speaker of the house of representatives in 1791, and continued in that station until transferred to the United States senate in 1795, where he served only one year. He was elected lieutenant-governor of Connecticut, and resigned the senatorship; and in 1798 was elected governor. He died Aug. 7, 1809, in Lebanon, Conn.
Trumbull, Joseph
congressman, was born March 11, 1737, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1774 and 1775; was a commissioner for the board of war in 1777; and was commissary-general in the revolutionary army from 1775 to 1777. He died July 23, 1778, in Lebanon, Conn.
Trumbull, Joseph
legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1782, in Lebanon, Conn. He was president of the Hartford bank for eleven years; served in the general assembly in 1832, 1848 and 1851; and was president of a railroad company. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut in 1834 to fill a vacancy, and from 1839 to 1843. In 1849 he was elected governor of Connecticut. He died Aug. 4, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.
Trumbull, Lyman
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 12, 1813, in Colchester, Ohio. He became a member of the legislature of Illinois in 1840; was secretary of the state of Illinois in 1841 and 1842; and was a justice of the supreme court of Illinois from 1848 to 1853. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the thirtyfourth congress; and was elected a senator in congress for the term commencing in 1855 and ending in 1861. He was reelected for the term ending in 1867. In 1867 he was re-elected to the senate for the term ending in 1873.
Trusler, Nelson
lawyer, was born Dec. 11, 1823, in Franklin county, Ind. He had a lucrative practice in the courts of the counties of Fayette, Franklin, Union and Rush, and he soon took position in the front rank of the bar. While thus engaged in the practice of law, he was elected as representative to the general assembly of his state, after a bitter political contest, his political opponent being the noted baptist preacher, the Rev. Wilson W. Thompson, candidate of the democratic party for that position.
Truxton, William Talbot
naval officer, was born March 11, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1841 he entered the navy as a midshipman; became a commodore in 1882; and was promoted to rear admiral by seniority in 1886. He died Feb. 25, 1887, in Norfolk, Va.
Tryon, Dwight William
artist, educator, was born Aug. 13, 1849, in Hartford, Conn. At the salon of 1881 he exhibited Harvest Time in Normandy; and On the Maas. Among his other works are A New England Village; A November Day; Evening in Autumn; Evening in a New England Village; Starlight; and Night. He awarded gold medals at the American Art association for his was Daybreak in 1886, and Moonlight in 1887.
He has been professor of art at Smith college, and director of the Hartford school of Arts since 1885.
Tryon, George Washington
conchologist, author, was born May 20, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a conchologist of Philadelphia; and the author of Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North America; Marine Conchology; Structural and Systematic Conchology; and Manual of Conchology. He died Feb. 5, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Tryon, William
governor, was born about 1725 in Ireland. In 1764 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of North Carolina; and in 1771 was appointed governor of New York. He died Feb. 27, 1788, in England.
Tubman, Harriet
abolitionist, was born in 1821 in Cambridge, Md. She was active in the cause of emancipation.
Tuck, Amos
educator, congressman, was born in Maine. Removing to New Hampshire he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1853; and was a member of the peace congress of 1861.