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Tillett, Wilbur Fisk

clergyman, educator, author, was born Aug. 25, 1854, in Henderson, N. C. He is a methodist clergyman and educator, and vice-chancellor of Vanderbilt university, Nashville, in 1882-95. He is the author of Our Hymns and Their Authors; and Discussions in Theology.

TILLINGHAST, JOSEPH LEONARD, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1790 in Taunton, Mass. In 1833 he was elected a member of the board of trustees of Brown university. He was a representative in congress from Rhode Island from 1837 to 1843, and was, for many years, a member of the state legislature, and was elected speaker on several occasions. To him was awarded the authorship of the free schools, and improved judiciary system of his native state. He died Dec. 30, 1844, in Providence, R. I.