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Tesla, Nikola

electrician, was born in 1857. He is the inventor of the mechanical and electrical oscillator. was

Test, John

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in Salem, N. J. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1823 to 1827, and from 1829 to 1831.

He was presiding judge of one of the circuit courts of Indiana. He died Oct. 9, 1849, near Cambridge City, Ind.

Thacher, John Boyd

bibliographer, author, was born in 1847 in New York. He is a critical scholar and bibliographer of Albany, mayor of that city in 1897; and the author of Charlecote, a drama; The Continent of America, its Discovery and its Baptism; and Little Speeches.

Thacher, John Marshall

soldier, lawyer, public official, was born July 1, 1836, in Barre, Vt. He served as a volunteer officer during the war of the union. In 1864 he was appointed assistant examiner in the patent office; and rose by regular promotion to the rank of commissioner in 1874.

Thacher, Peter

clergyman, author, was born March 21, 1752, in Milton, Mass.

He published a Narrative of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He died Dec. 16, 1802, in Savannah, Ga.

Thacher, Samuel

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 1, 1776, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1802 to 1805; and served eleven years in the Massachusetts legislature. He was sheriff of Lincoln county from 1814 to 1821. He died July 19, 1872, in Bangor, Maine.

Thacher, Samuel Cooper

clergyman, author, was born Dec. 14, 1785, in Boston, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New South church in 1811-15; and the author of An Apology for Rational and Evangelical Christianity; The Unity of God; Sermons; and Evidences Necessary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity. died Jan. 2, 1818, in France.

He

Thatcher, Henry Knox

naval officer, was born May 26, 1806, in Thomaston, Maine. In 1823 he was a midshipman; passed through all the grades; and was appointed rear-admiral in 1866. He died April 5, 1880, in Boston, Mass.

Thatcher, Moses

mormon apostle, was born Feb. 2, 1842, in Sangamon county, Ill. He is now vice-president of Zion's Co-operative Mercantile institution of Salt Lake City, and of the Deseret National and Deseret Savings banks.

Thatcher, Oliver Joseph

educator, clergyman, author, was born about 1850 in Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman, assistant professor of mediæval and English history in the university of Chicago from 1893; and the author of A Sketch of the History of the Apostolic Church; Europe in the Middle Age; and A Short History of Mediæval Europe.

Thayer, Amos M

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 10, 1841, in Mina, N.

Y. During the war he was first lieutenant and brevet major in the United States signal corps. In 1865 he moved to Missouri, and became a noted lawyer of St. Louis. In 1876 he was elected judge of the eighth judicial circuit court; was re-elected in 1882; and subsequently was appointed one of the circuit judges.

Thayer, Charles Paine

physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 22, 1843, in West Randolph, Vt. He filled the chair of anatomy in the university of Vermont; and was professor of anatomy in Tufts college. He is president of the Vermont Veteran association of Boston, Mass.