Tyng, Dudley Atkins – Underwood, Joseph Rogers
Tyng, Dudley Atkins
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 12, 1825, in Prince George county, Md. He was known as a lecturer on religious and secular subjects. He was the author of Vital Truth and Deadly Error; God in Our Dwelling; and Our Country's Troubles.
He died April 19, 1858, in Brookfield, Pa.
Tyng, Edward
naval officer, was born in 1683, in Massachusetts. He commanded the frigate Massachusetts in the expedition against Cape Breton in 1745; and was made commodore of the provincial fleet. He died Sept. 8, 1755, in Boston, Mass.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson
clergyman, author, was born March 1, 1800, in Newburyport, Mass. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city; rector of St. George's church in 1844-85; and long prominent among low churchmen.
He was the author of The Christian Pastor; Family Commentary on the Gospels; Lectures on the Law and the Gospel; The Israel of God; Christ is All; The Rich Kinsman, the history of Ruth; The Prayer Book Illustrated by Scripture; The Captive Orphan; Esther the Queen of Persia; and Forty Years' Experience in Sunday Schools. He died Sept. 4, 1885, in Irvington, N. Y.
Tyng, Stephen Higginson
clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1839, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city; for a number of years subsequent to 1881 the manager of an insurance company in Paris. He is the author of The Square of Life; He Will Come; and Our Church Work.
Tyson, Jacob
state senator, congressman. man. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1823 to 1825; and was a member of the New York senate from Richmond county in 1828.
Tyson, James
physician, educator, author, was born Oct. 26, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a Philadelphia physician, and medical professor in the university of Pennsylvania from 1870. He is the author of Manual of Physical Diagnosis; The Cell Doctrine; Introduction to Practical Histology; Practical Examination of the Urine; and Treatise Bright's Disease. on
Tyson, Job R
lawyer, legislator, congressman, author, was born Feb. 8, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pa. He frequently served in the city councils of Philadelphia; and was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-fourth congress. He also served in the legislature of Pennsylvania; and through his exertions the archives. of that state were first published. He was the author of Essay on the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania; The Lottery System of the United States; Social and Intellectual State of Pennsylvania prior to 1743; and Resources and Commerce of Philadelphia. He died June 27, 1858, in Woodlawn Hall, Pa.
Tyson, Philip Thomas
chemist, author, was born June 23, 1799, in Baltimore, Md. He published Geology and Industrial Resources of California. In 1856 he was appointed state agricultural chemist, which place he held until 1860. He was first president of the Maryland academy of sciences and contributed papers to its proceedings. He died Dec. 16, 1877, in Baltimore, Md.
Tytler, James
compiler, author, was born in 1747, in Scotland. He was the author and compiler of three-fourths of Elliot's Encyclopedia Britannica; and several works in Scotch dialect. He died in 1805, near Salem, Mass.
Udall, David King
farmer, was born Sept. 7, 1851, in St. Louis, Mo. He is a successful farmer of Springerville, Ariz. He received his education in the public schools of Nephi, Utah; has been bishop of a ward; and president of a stake in the church of the Latter-Day Saints.
Udree, Daniel
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was as born in Philadelphia. He removed to Berks county, Pa., where he entered largely in the manufacture of iron. He was in the state legislature from 1799 to 1805. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1813 to 1815, from 1819 to 1821, and from 1823 to 1825, to fill vacancies. He died July 22, 1828.
Uhle, Albrecht Bernhard
artist, was born Oct. 5, 1847, in Saxony. He is the instructor of the portrait class at the Pennsylvania academy, and has become known as an excellent artist. Among his portraits are those of Isaac Lea and Peter McCall; Joseph Leidy, painted for the Academy of Natural Sciences; Wayne McVeagh, for the department of justice, Washington; and John D. Lankenau, for the German hospital, Philadelphia.
Uhler, Philip Reese
naturalist, librarian, author, was born June 3, 1835, in Baltimore, Md. In 1876 he became an associate in natural sciences at Johns Hopkins university. He is also librarian of the Peabody institute in that city. He translated and edited, with a glossary, Dr.
Hermann A. Hagen's Synopsis of Neuroptera of North America.
Uland, Lars A
farmer, legislator, was born Aug. 24, 1855, in Vernon county, Wis. He settled in North Dakota in 1887, and shortly afterward became an active member of the Farmers' Alliance. In 1889 he was elected a representative to the North Dakota legislature; was again elected in 1892; and in 1894 received the nomination from the populist party for lieutenant-governor.
Ullmann, Daniel
soldier, was born April 28, 1810, in Wilmington, Del. In 1861 he raised the seventy-eighth regiment New York volunteers; served as colonel; was promoted brigadier general in 1863; and became major-general in 1865.
He died Sept. 20, 1892, in Nyack, N. Y.
Ulrich, John
lawyer, state legislator, was born Sept. 16, 1857, in New York city. In 1882 he was a member of the New Jersey legislature; and was judge of the city court of Plainfield, N. J.
Unangst, Elias
missionary, author, was born in 1824, in Lehigh Valley, Pa. In 1857 he was ordained to the lutheran ministry. He is at the head of the mission stations of the general synod. He has rendered important service in the translation of the New Testament into the language of the Telugus, has also translated various tracts and hymns into the same language, and published a Historical Sketch of the American Evangelical Lutheran Missions in India.
Underhill, Edward Fitch
stenographer, lawyer, author, poet, was born April 20, 1830, in Wolcott, N. Y. He was one of the first court reporters in the United States; and in 1860 procured the passage of a law that made stenographers officers of the courts in New York city, which practice has since been adopted by the county courts and by nearly every state in the union. He has been official stenographer of the legislature for five years, of the constitutional convention in 1867-68, of the state supreme court for eight years, and of the surrogate's court from 1872 till the present time.
Underhill, Walter
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Underwood, Adin Ballou
soldier, was born May 19, 1828, in Milford, Mass. In 1861 he was captain of the second regiment Massachusetts infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted major-general.
Underwood, Benjamin Frank- Lin
journalist, author, was born in 1839.
He was formerly the editor of The Index in Boston; and the author of Influence of Christianity upon Civilization; and Essays and Lectures.
Underwood, Francis Henry
diplomat, author, was born Jan. 12, 1825, in Enfield, Mass. He was a Boston writer; and the organizer of the Atlantic Monthly.
He was American consul at Glasgow in 1885-89, and subsequently at Leith, where he died. He was the author of Handbooks of English Literature: British Authors, and American Authors: Builders of American Literature; biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier; The Poet and the Man, Recollections of James Russell Lowell; Cloud Pictures; and the novels, Lord of Himself; Man Proposes; Dr. Gray's Quest; and Quabbin. He died in 1894.
Underwood, John Cox
soldier, civil engineer, journalist, was born Sept. 12, 1840, in Georgetown, D. C. He was engineer in charge of the public works of Warren county, Ky., city engineer of Bowling Green in 1868-75, and mayor of that town in 1870-72. In 1876-80 he was lieutenant-governor of Kentucky. In 1881 he removed to Covington, and organized a daily newspaper publishing company in Cincinnati, Ohio, where in 1882 the Daily News, of which he was general manager, began to be issued.
Underwood, John Curtiss
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1808 in Litchfield, N. Y. From 1861 to 1863 he was fifth auditor of the treasury in Washington; and was subsequently United States district judge in the state of Virginia.
He died Dec. 7, 1873, in Washington, D. C.
Underwood, John William Henry
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1816, in Elbert county, Ga. In 1843 he was elected solicitor-general for the western circuit, resigning in 1847. He was a member of the Georgia legislature in 1857, and chosen speaker. In 1859 he was elected a representative from Georgia to the thirty-sixth congress. He died July 18, 1888, in Rome, Ga.
Underwood, Joseph Rogers
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 24, 1791, in Goochland county, Va. In 1813 he was lieutenant of a volunteer company. He was a member of the Kentucky legislature from 1816 to 1819. In 1823 he removed to Bowling Green; and was elected a member of the general assembly in 1825 and 1826. From 1828 to 1835 he was judge of the court of appeals. He was elected a representative in congress, in which position he served from 1835 to 1843. In 1846 he was again elected to the legislature of Kentucky, and was speaker of the house. In 1847 he was elected a member of the United States senate for six years. He died Aug. 23, 1876, near Bowling Green, Ky.