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Tiernan, Luke

merchant, was born in 1757 in Ireland. In 1826-27 he was one of a committee to urge upon the legislature of Maryland the incorporation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company, the first railroad company incorporated in this country. He died Nov. 10, 1839, in Baltimore, Md.

TIERNAN, MRS. MARY SPEAR (NICHOLAS), author, was born in 1836.

She was a Georgia novelist and the author of Homoselle; Suzette; and Jack Horner. She died in 1891.

Tiffany, Charles Comfort

clergyman, author, was born in 1829 in Maryland. He is an episcopal clergyman of New York city, but prior to 1866 a congregational clergyman. He is the author of Expression in Church Architecture; and History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

Tiffany, Francis

clergyman, author, was born in 1827 in Maryland. He is a unitarian clergyman living in Cambridge, pastor at West Newton, Mass., in 1865-82, and the author of Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix; Bird Bolts; Life of Charles Francis Barnard; and This Goodly Frame, the Earth, a volume of travels in America, Japan, Egypt, Palestine, and Greece.

Tiffany, Joel

author. He is the author of Treatise on Government and Constitutional Law; Man and His Destiny; Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York; The Book of Forms; Laws of Trusts and Trustees; and Treatise on Practice and Pleadings in the Courts of Record.

Tiffany, Osmond

author, was born July 16, 1823, in Baltimore, Md. He is a custom-house clerk in Baltimore since 1869, and the author of The Canton Chinese; Brandon, a Tale of the American Revolution; and Life of General Otho Williams.

Tiffin, Edward

governor, United States senator, was born June 19, 1766, in England. He was speaker of the Ohio territorial legislature in 1799. He was elected first governor of the state from 1803 to 1807, and was United States senator from Ohio from 1807 to 1809. He was appointed commissioner of the general land office in 1812, and resigned in 1815, when appointed surveyor-general of the northwest, which he held until his death.

He died Aug. 9, 1829, in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Tift, Nelson

congressman. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the fortieth congress.

Tigert, John James

clergyman, educator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1856, in Louisville, Ky. He is a methodist clergyman and educator in Nashville, and the author of Handbook of Logic; The Preacher Himself; A Voice from the South; and Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism.

Tilden, Daniel R

congressman, was born in Connecticut. Having settled in Ohio, he was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1847.

Tilden, Samuel Jones

lawyer, state legislator, was born Feb. 9, 1814, in New Lebanon, N. Y. In 1846 he was elected to the New York state legislature, and was again elected to the state legislature in 1870.

In 1874 he was elected governor of New York. A volume of his Writings and Speeches was edited and published in 1893. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of He died Aug. 4, 1886, the United States. in Greystone, N. Y.

Tilden, William Phillips

cler-. gyman, author, was born in 1811 in Massachusetts. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston, and the author of The Work of the Ministry; and Buds for the Bridal Wreath. He died in 1890.

Tilghman, Lloyd

soldier, was born in 1816 in Talbot county, Md. He joined the confederate army in 1861, was commissioned brigadier-general in 1862. He died May 16, 1863, near Vicksburg, Miss.