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Tomes, Robert – Toomer, John De Rossett

Tomes, Robert

physician, author, was born March 27, 1817, in New York city. He was the author of Panama in 1855; Bourbon Prince; My College Days; Richard the Lion-Hearted; Oliver Cromwell; The Americans in Japan; Battles of America by Sea and Land; The War with the South; and The Champagne Country. He died Aug. 28, 1882, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tomkins, Caleb

state legislator, congressman, was born in Westchester county, N. Y. He was a member of the New York assembly from that county from 1804 to 1806; and was elected a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1821.

Tomkins, Christopher

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1835. He died in 1845 in Glasgow, Ky.

Tomkins, Cydnor B

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 8, 1810, in Belmont, Ohio. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirtysixth congress.

Tomlinson, Gideon

lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born.

Dec. 31, 1780, in Stratford, Conn. In 1818 he was chosen a representative in congress, in which office he was continued till 1827. In that year he was chosen governor of Connecticut, and remained in that station until 1831, when, on being elected a senator of the United States, he resigned his office as governor. He died Oct. 8, 1854, in Fairfield, Conn.

Tomlinson, Thomas A

state legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served in the New York state assembly from Essex county in 1835 and 1836; and was a representative in congress from 1841 to 1843.

Tompkins, Charles H

soldier, was born Sept. 12, 1830, in Fort Monroe, Va.

In 1856 he entered the United States service in the dragoons; served with distinction through the civil war; and attained the rank of colonel and brigadier-general in 1865.

Tompkins, George

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1780. He was an early settler of Missouri. He was a judge of the state supreme court from 1828 to 1840; and was its chief justice from 1840 to 1846.

He died April 7, 1846, near Jefferson City, Mo.

Tompkins, Patrick W

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He settled in Mississippi; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849.

Tompson, Benjamin

educator, author, poet, was born July 14, 1642, in Braintree, Mass. He was a colonial educator, the master of a preparatory school in Cambridge for nearly forty years from 1670, and a satirical poet of some merit.

He was the author of New England's Crisis, a poem on King Philip's War. He died April 13, 1714.

Toole, Joseph Kemp

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born May 12, 1851, in Savannah, Mo. In 1872 he was elected district attorney of the third judicial district of Montana; and was re-elected in 1874 without opposition. In 1881 he was elected a member of the council of the twelfth legislative assembly of Montana, and was chosen president of the council.

In 1884 he was elected the delegate from Montana to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Toomer, John De Rossett

jurist, state senator, was born March 13, 1784, in Wilmington, N. C. In 1831 and 1832 he represented Cumberland county in the North Carolina state senate; and in 1836 was elected judge of the superior court, and served until 1840 when he continued the practice of law in Pittsboro, N. C. He died Oct. 27, 1856, in Pittsboro, N. C.