Tupper, Benjamin – Turner, Douglas Kellogg
Tupper, Benjamin
soldier, jurist, was born in August, 1738, in Stoughton, Mass. He attained the rank of brigadiergeneral for services in the revolutionary war. He was a surveyor of Ohio lands in 1785; distinguished himself in suppressing Shay's insurrection; and became a judge of Ohio in 1788.
Tupper, Frederic Allison
educator, poet, was born Aug. 17, 1860, in Holliston, Mass. He graduated from the Roxbury Law school and from Harvard college. Since graduation he has taught school in Worcester, New Brunswick, N. J.; and then was principal of Arms academy of Shelburn Falls, Mass.; and is now in Quincy. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Echoes from Dreamland; and his poems and sketches have appeared in current literature, Poets of America, and other standard works. He is also a brilliant orator and has delivered addresses on public occasions.
Tupper, Henry Allen
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 29, 1828, in Charleston, S. C. He received a thorough academic education; and attained eminence as a successful clergyman of the baptist church. He was pastor of the Washington, Ga., Baptist church during 1853- 72; was secretary of the foreign mission board of the southern baptist convention during 1872-93; has been trustee of several colleges; is now trustee of Richmond college; and president and trustee of the Woman's college of Richmond, Va During the war he was chaplain of the ninth Georgia regiment. He is the author of Foreign Missions of Southern Baptist Convention; A Decade of Foreign Mis sions; Truth in Romance; The Carpenter's Son; First Century of First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va.; First Church of South Carolina; American Baptist Missions in Africa; and numerous pamphlets; and contributed to current literature. In 1893 he presented a paper at the World's Congress of Religions at Chicago, on African Missions.
Tupper, Henry Martyn
educator, missionary, was born April 11, 1831, in Monson, Mass. In 1859 he graduated from Amherst college, and three years later from the Newton Theological seminary.
He served in the union army during the civil war chiefly in Virginia and Mississippi, fighting many battles and doing much chaplain work. After the war he became a missionary of the American Baptist Home Missionary society; began work among the colored people at Raleigh, N. C., and laid the basis of the Shaw university.
Turchin, John Basil
soldier, author, was born Jan. 30, 1822, in Russia.
He was a Russian soldier who came to America in 1856, served in the federal army during the civil war, and in 1873 established the Polish colony of Radon in Illinois. He is the author of The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga.
Turell, Ebenezer
clergyman, was born Feb. 5, 1702, in Boston, Mass. He was minister of Medford, Mass., from 1724 till his death. He collected and published poems by his wife, with a memoir of her.
A tract of his on Witchcraft is in the Massachusetts Historical Collections. died Dec. 8, 1778, in Medford, Mass.
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Turell, Mrs. Jane
poet, was born Feb. 25, 1708, in Boston, Mass. She wrote eulogies on Sir Richard Blackmore's works, and on The Incomparable Mr.
Waller; An Invitation into the Country in Imitation of Horace; and some prose articles. Her poems were collected and published by her husband, with a memoir of her life. She died March 26, 1735, in Medford, Mass.
Turini, Giovanni
sculptor, was born May 23, 1841, in Italy. In 1867 he exhibited a group of statuary entitled Angelica and Medora at the World's fair in Paris, and in 1882 he made a bust of Leo XIII. for the Vatican in Rome. The statue of Garibaldi erected in Washington square by the Italians of New York city was designed by him.
Turnbull, Charles Nesbit
soldier, civil engineer, was born Aug. 14, 1832, in Washington, D. C. During the civil war he served at first on the staff of General Benjamin F. Butler and in the department of the gulf, after which, in 1863-64, he was with the army of the Potomac. He received his promotion as captain of topographical engineers in 1862, and was transferred to the corps of engineers in 1863. He received the brevets of major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel for his services, and after the war served on the repairs of Fort Hamilton. He died Dec. 2, 1874, in Boston, Mass.
Turnbull, Laurence
physician, author, was born Sept. 10, 1821, in Scotland. He is an eminent physician of Baltimore; and the author of Hints and Observations on Military Hygiene: Imperfect Hearing; Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Ear; Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Anæsthesia; and The Electro- Magnetic Telegraph.
Turnbull, Needham S
lawyer, legislator, was born June 10, 1856, in Lawrenceville, Va. This eminent lawyer has been judge of Brunswick county; and in 1892 became a member of the Virginia state legislature.
Turnbull, Robert
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 10, 1809, in Scotland. He was a baptist clergyman of Hartford in 1845-69; and the author of The Theater; Olympia Morata; The Genius of Scotland; The Genius of Italy; Pulpit Orators of France and Switzerland; The Student Preacher; Theophany; The World We Live In; Life Pictures; and Christ in History. He died Nov. 20, 1877, in Hartford, Conn.
Turnbull, Robert James
lawyer, author, was born in January, 1775, in New Smyrna, Fla. He was a lawyer and political writer of Charleston; and the author of A Visit to the Philadelphia Penitentiary, much noticed at the time of its appearance in 1797; The Crisis, a work on nullification; and The Principle of Dernier Ressort. He died June 15, 1833, in Charleston, S. C.
Turnbull, William
civil engineer, was born Oct. 9, 1800, in Philadelphia, Pa.
From 1832 till 1843 he was superintending topographical engineer of the construction of the Potomac aqueduct. He died Dec. 9, 1857, in Wilmington, N. C.
Turnbull, William Paterson
clergyman, author, was born June 20, 1830, in Scotland. He was a Philadelphia ornithologist; and the author of Birds of East Lothian; and Birds of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He died July 5, 1871, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Turner, Albert
educator, journalist, was born July 22, 1842, in Fair Haven, N. J. He is now the editor and proprietor of Health Culture, published in New York city.
Turner, Alice
educator, physician, writer, was born March 13, 1859, near Greencastle, Iowa. She received her education at the Mitchell seminary, Simpson college, Lincoln university, and the college of Physicians and Surgeons of Keokuk, Iowa. She has attained success as an educator and physician of Colfax, Iowa, and is the wife of Dr. Turner of that city. She was the founder of the Colfax library; has been health officer; and has contributed valuable papers to current literature on Hygiene, and other topics.
Turner, Archelaus Ewing
educator, college president, was born April 27, 1861, near Greenville, Ill. He was professor of natural sciences in the Lincoln university for four years; and in 1888 became its president.
Turner, Benjamin Sterling
merchant, congressman, was born March 17, 1825, in Halifax county, N. C. He was elected to the forty-second congress as representative from Alabama as a republican.
Turner, Charles
congressman, was born in 1750. He was elected a representative in congress from Massachusetts, serving from 1809 to 1813; and was at one time master of the Marine hospital at Chelsea. He died in 1816.
Turner, Charles H
merchant, congressman, was born May 26, 1861, in Wentworth, N. H. He moved to New York in 1879; engaged in the ice business in New York city, and continued therein till he became a candidate in 1888 for state senator. He was elected to the fiftyfirst congress to fill a vacancy.
Turner, Charles Yardley
artist, was born Nov. 25, 1850, in Baltimore, Md. He gained the Hallgarten prize by the Courtship of Miles Standish in 1883; was also elected an associate of the academy, and in 1886 was made an academician. His works in oil include The Grand Canal at Dordrecht; The Days that are No More; Afternoon Tea; Dorothy Fox; and Preparing for Yearly Meeting.
Turner, Daniel
naval officer, was born in 1794 in Richmond, N. Y. He was a commodore of the Brazil squadron in 1843-46; and during 1846-49 had charge of the Portsmouth navy yard. He died Feb. 4, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Turner, Daniel
soldier, educator, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 26, 1796, in Warren county, N. C.
In 1814 he was appointed a lieutenant of artillery, and as such served at Brooklyn Heights and at Plattsburg. From 1819 to 1823 he served in the legislature of North Carolina; and was a member of congress from 1827 to 1829. He subsequently had charge of the Warrenton Female seminary. He died July 21, 1860, on Mare Island, Cal.
Turner, Douglas Kellogg
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 17, 1823, in Stockbridge, Mass. In 1873 he became corresponding secretary and librarian of the Presbyterian Historical society. He has published The History of the Neshaminy Church from 1726 to 1876.