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Taylor, William – Teller, Isaac
Taylor, William
missionary, author, was born May 2, 1821, in Rockbridge county, Va.
He is a noted methodist missionary and evangelist, appointed bishop in Africa in 1884, among whose writings are, California Life Illustrated; Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary Work; The Model Preacher; Reconciliation; The Election of Grace; Christian Adventures in South Africa; and Our South American Cousins.
Taylor, William Bower
lawyer, physicist, journalist, was born May 23, 1821, in Philadelphia. In 1854 he was made an examiner in the United States patent office in Washington, where he remained until 1877. He was appointed editor of the publications of the Smithsonian institution in 1878.
Taylor, William R
agriculturist, state senator, governor, was born in 1820 in Connecticut. He moved to Wisconsin in 1848, and turned his attention to farming; and held various county offices. He was elected to the state legislature, both house and senate; and in 1873 was elected governor of Wisconsin.
Taylor, Zachary
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 9, 1849, in Haywood county, Tenn. In 1880 he was elected a senator in the forty-second general assembly of Tennessee; and was postmaster at Covington from 1883 to 1885.
In 1884 he was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-ninth gress as a republican. con-
Teager, Michael Moores
soldier, lawyer, poet, was born May 1, 1833, in Bath county, Ky. In 1880 he was elected county and prosecuting attorney in Kentucky, and subsequently was appointed master in chancery. He has been editor of several newspapers; and is the author of a number of poems, and a volume in blank verse entitled Marian.
Teall, Francis Augustus
journalist, was born Aug. 16, 1822, in Fort Anne, N. Y. He assisted Ephraim G.
Squier in preparing his Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, and John R. Bartlett in the first edition of his Dictionary of Americanisms, and made the analytical index to the American edition of Napier's Peninsular War. In 1853 he became editor of a newspaper at Huntington, L. I.
Teese, Frederick H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1823, in Newark, N. J. In 1860 he was a member of the New Jersey general assembly; and was re-elected in 1861, and made speaker. He was appointed presiding judge of the Essex court of common pleas in 1864; and was reappointed in 1869. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fourth congress.
Tefft, Benjamin Franklin
clergyman, author, was born in 1813 in Floyd, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman of Maine; and the author of The Shoulder- Knot, a Story of the Seventeenth Century; Memorials of Prison Life; Methodism Successful; Our Political Parties; Evolution and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; and Life of Daniel Webster. He died Sept. 16, 1885, in Brewer, Maine.
Tefft, Lyman B
clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 15, 1833, in Exeter township, R. I. He has been professor in Roger Williams university, Tenn.; and is now president of the Hartshorn Memorial college, Va.
Telfair, Edward
merchant, congressman, was born in 1735 in Scotland. He was a delegate from Savannah, Ga., to the old congress in 1778, and from 1780 to 1783. He died Sept. 17, 1807, in Savannah, Ga.
Telfair, Thomas
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1813 to 1817. He died in April, 1818, in Savannah, Ga.
Teller, Isaac
congressman, born in 1798 in New York. He was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-third congress to fill a vacancy. He died April 30, 1868, in Matteawan, N. J.