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Tappan, William Bingham – Tasistro, Louis Fitzgerald

Tappan, William Bingham

educator, author, was born Oct. 29, 1794, in Beverly, Mass. He was a verse-writer and educator of Philadelphia and Boston; and the author of Poetry of the Heart; Poetry of Life; New England, and Other Poems; Songs of Judah; Lyrics; Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems; The Sunday School, and Other Poems; and Early and Late Poems. He died June 18, 1849, in West Needham, Mass.

Tarbell, Frank Bigelow

educattor, author, was born in 1853 in Massachusetts. He is a professor of Greek in the university of Chicago from 1892; and the author of A History of Greek Art; and The Philippics of Demosthenes, with Introduction and Notes.

Tarbell, Ida M

author. She is the author of Early Life of Abraham Lincoln.

Tarbell, John Adams

physician, author, was born March 31, 1810, in Boston, Mass. He was a homœopathic physician of Boston; and the author of Sources of Health; and Homœopathy Simplified. He died Jan. 21, 1864, in Boston, Mass.

Tarbox, John Kemble

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 6, 1838, in Methuen, Mass. He served in the union army in the fourth regiment of Massachusetts volunteers. He was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts in 1868, 1870, and 1871, and of the state senate in 1872. He was mayor of the city of Lawrence in 1873 and 1874. He was elected a representative to the fortyfourth congress from Massachusetts as a democrat.

Tarr, Christian

congressman, was born in Baltimore, Md. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1817 to 1819, and again from 1820 to 1821.

Tarr, Ralph Stockman

geologist, educator, author, was born in 1864 in Massachusetts. He is a geologist, assistant professor of geology at Cornell university in 1892-97, and professor of dynamic geology and physical geography there from 1897. He is the author of Elementary Geology; Economic Geology of the United States; and Elementary Physical Geography.

Tarsney, John C

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1845, in Lenawee county, Mich. He was city attorney of Kansas City, Mo., in 1874 and 1875, since which time he has followed the profession of the law. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.

Tarsney, Timothy E

civil engineer, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1849, in Ransom, Mich. He was a justice of the peace in 1873 and 1874; and was city attorney of East Saginaw, Mich., from 1875 to 1878, when he resigned. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-ninth congress in 1884; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress.

Tarver, William Henry

educator, business man, was born in Hawkinsville, Ga. For many years he was engaged in educational work, and is now the proprietor of a book store and circulating library in Savannah, Ga.

Tascher, Elbe M. M

artist, poet, was born Nov. 21, 1843, in Winterport, Maine. She is the author of Arbutus and Dandelions. She is also an artist in portrait and figure painting.

Tasistro, Louis Fitzgerald

actor, journalist, author, was born about 1808 in Ireland. He was the author of Travels in the Southern States; Random Shots and Southern Breezes. He died about 1868.

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