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Tipton, Thomas W

clergyman, lawyer, United States senator, was born Aug. 5, 1817, in Cadiz, Ohio. In 1845 he was elected to the Ohio legislature; and was for three years at the head of a division of the general land office in Washington. He moved' to Nebraska terri-- tory, and was chosen a delegate to the constitutional convention. In 1860 he was a councilman in the territorial legislature. He served during the rebellion as chaplain of the first regiment of Nebraska infantry. He was elected a senator in congress from the new state of Nebraska for the term commencing in 1867 and ending in 1869; and was re-elected for term expiring in 1875.

TITCHENER, EDWARD BRADFORD, educator, author, was born in 1867 in England. He is a professor of psychology at Cornell university from 1892, and Sage professor of psychology there from 1895; the American editor of Mind, and co-editor of The American Journal of Psychology. Beside translating Knelpe's Outlines of Psychology and other German works, he has published An Outline of Psychology.

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