Tucker, William Jewett – Tuomy, Michael
Tucker, William Jewett
clergyman, college president, author, was born July 12, 1839, in Griswold, Conn. He was professor in Andover Theological seminary in 1879-93, and has been president of Dartmouth college from 1893. He is the author of The New Movement in Humanity.
Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman
architect, author, was born in 1861 in New York. He is an architect of New York city, superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum Art schools in 1888; and the author of A Short History of Architecture. He died in 1892.
Tuckerman, Bayard
author, was born July 2, 1855, in New York. He is a writer of New York city; and the author of History of English Prose Fiction; Life of Lafayette; Life of William Jay; and Life of Peter Stuyvesant.
Tuckerman, Charles Keating
diplomat, author, was born March 11, 1821, in Boston, Mass. He was a diplomat who was minister to Greece in 1868-72, and lived in Europe subsequently. He was the author of The Greeks of To-Day; Poems; and Personal Recollections of Notable People. He died in 1896.
Tuckerman, Edward
educator, author, was born Dec. 7, 1817, in Boston, Mass. He was a professor of botany at Amherst college in 1858-86; and the author of Genera Lichenum; Synopsis of the North American Lichens; and Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild within Thirty Miles of Amherst. He died March 15, 1886, in Amherst, Mass.
Tuckerman, Frederick God- Dard
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 16, 1821, in Boston, Mass. He was a lawyer and writer of Boston whose only published book was a volume of poems. He died May 14, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
Tuckerman, Henry Theodore
author, poet, was born April 21, 1813, in Boston, Mass. Much of his life was spent abroad, largely in Italy, his intimate acquaintance with Italian affairs appearing in his earliest works, The Italian Sketch - Book; and Isabel, or Sicily, a Pilgrimage, republished as Sicily and Pilgrimage (1852).
His subsequent writings include Thoughts on the Poets; The Book of the Artists; Essays Biographical and Critical; Artist Life; Rambles and Reveries; Characteristics of Literature; The Criterion; Maga Papers about Paris; Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer; Life of J. P. Kennedy; America and Her Commentators; The Optimist, a series of essays; A Sheaf of Verse; Poems; Mental Portraits; and The Collector, a volume of essays. He died Dec. 17, 1871, in New York city..
Tuckerman, Joseph
clergyman, philanthropist, was born Jan. 18, 1778, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman, minister at Chelsea, Mass., in 1801-28, long eminent as a philanthropist.
He was the author of Gleams of Truth; and Principles and Results of the Ministry at Large in Boston. Elevation of the Poor is a collection of his most important writings. He died April 20, 1840, in Havana, Cuba.
Tuckerman, Stephen Salisbury
artist, was born Dec. 8, 1830, in Boston, Mass. Since 1872 he has worked chiefly abroad, and he has exhibited in London, Paris, and in Holland, as well as in his native country. He is noted especially for his marine views, among which are Beach at Hastings; U. S. Frigate Constitution Escaping from the British Fleet in 1812, which is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and Dutch Fishing-Boats Beaching in a Gale.
Tudor, William
lawyer, state senator, was born March 28, 1750, in Boston, Mass. He was attached to General Washington's staff in 1775-78 as judge-advocate with the rank of colonel; was a member of both houses of the Massachusetts legislature; and in 1809-10 served as secretary of state. He died July 8, 1819, in Boston, Mass.
Tudor, William
journalist, legislator, author, was born Jan. 28, 1779, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature; inaugurated the ice traffic with tropical climes in 1805; and was afterwards engaged in other commercial transactions in Europe. In 1823 he was appointed consul at Lima, Peru; and in 1827 charge d'affaires to Brazil.
He published Letters on the Eastern States; Miscellanies; Life of James Otis; and Gebel Teir. He died March 9, 1830, in Rio Janeiro, Brazil.
Tufts, Arthur Webster
merchant, state senator, was born Feb. 20, 1828, in Charlestown, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 1879, 1880 and 1881, and of the senate in 1882 and 1883. In politics he was originally a whig, and in 1860 joined the republican party, becoming presidential elector in 1884, and, in 1888, delegate to the Chicago convention which nominated Benjamin Harrison. In 1889 he accepted appointment to the governor's council, serving three years. He was director in various corporations, including the Commonwealth Insurance company of Boston, and the Warren Institution for Savings in Charlestown, and was president of the Institution for Savings in Roxbury.
Tufts, Charles
philanthropist, was born July 11, 1781, in Medford, Mass. He was a liberal friend of education, and gave the site and seventy acres of land to found a college at Milford Hill, near Medford, Mass. It was founded in 1853, and was named Tufts college in his honor. He died Dec. 24, 1876, in Somerville, Mass.
Tufts, Cotton
physician, was born May 30, 1734, in Medford, Mass. He was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts Medical society, of which he was president for some time. He died Dec. 8, 1815, in Weymouth, Mass.
Tufts, John
clergyman, author, was born May 5, 1689, in Medford, Mass. He published Introduction to the Singing of Psalm-Tunes, with a Collection of Tunes in Three Parts; and a sermon, Humble Call to Archippus. He died in August, 1750, in Amesbury, Mass.
Tufts, John Quincy
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born July 12, 1840, in Aurora, Ind. He held the position of clerk, trustee, and justice; and was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1869; and re-elected in 1871 and 1873.
In 1874 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.
Tufts, Quincy
philanthropist, was born July 4, 1791, in Weymouth, Mass.
He left by his will $10,000 to Harvard for the education of indigent students, $2,000 each to Amherst college and Atkinson academy, New Hampshire, for a like purpose; $10,000 to the town of Weymouth for a free library; $10,000 to the Massachusetts General hospital for free beds; and about $40,000 to be distributed among the charitable institutions of the city. He died April 18, 1872, in Weymouth, Mass.
Tugwell, a. P
journalist, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1860 in New York city.
He is the editor and owner of The Sun of Tacoma, Wash.; and has served his state as judge.
Tully, John
astrologer, was born Sept. 9, 1638, in England. For twenty years, from 1681 till the time of his death, he was engaged in compiling almanacs, and was popularly known as the New England astrologer. He died Oct. 5, 1701, in Middletown, Conn.
Tully, Pleasant B
lawyer, congressman, was born March 21, 1829, in Pleasant Exchange, Tenn. He was admitted to the bar in 1861; commenced practice at Gilroy, Cal.; and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1879. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.
Tully, William
physician, botanist, educator, author, was born Nov. 18, 1785, in Saybrook, Conn. He was a noted New England botanist and physician, and medical professor at Yale university in 1829- 42. He was the author of Essays upon Fever; Materia Medica, or Pharmacology; and Therapeutics. He died Feb. 28, 1859, in Springfield, Mass.
Tunis, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1858 in New York. He was an episcopal clergyman of Millbrook, N. J., but prior to 1892 in the unitarian ministry.
He was the author of The Faith by Which We Stand. He died in 1896.
Tunnicliff, John J
lawyer, public official, was born March 17, 1841, in Penn Yan, N. Y. In 1863 he graduated from the Hamilton college, Clinton, N. Y., and the following year from the Albany Law school. Since 1865 he has practiced law in Galesburg, Ill.; was five times elected state's attorney of Knox county, and held the office during 1872-92; and in 1895 he was elected mayor of the city of Galesburg. While he held the office of state's attorney he prosecuted many important criminal cases, and convicted Frank Rande who had committed murders in various states; and nearly all of his cases, when taken to the supreme court, were generally sustained, and many important questions in criminal practice settled.
Tuomy, Michael
geologist, educator, author, was born Sept. 29, 1808, in Ireland. He was a professor of geology in the university of Alabama in 1847-57, state geologist of South Carolina from 1844, and of Alabama from 1848. He was the author of Geological and Agricultural Survey of South Carolina; Report on the Geology of South Carolina; Fossils of South Carolina (with F. Holmes); and First and Second Biennial Reports on the Geology of Alabama. He died March 30, 1857, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.