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Totten, Silas – Townsend, Charles
Totten, Silas
clergyman, author, was born March 26, 1804, in Schoharie county, N. Y. He was an episcopal clergyman, president of Trinity college in 1837-48; and the author of New Introduction to Algebra; and The Analogy of Truth. He died Oct. 7, 1873, in Lexington, Ky.
Touchard, Louis Charles
naval officer, was born in 1741 in New Orleans, La. In 1782 he was attacked by two English men of war; he captured one, but was killed in the moment of victory. He died April 12, 1782, at sea; and was buried with honors in Martinique.
Tourgee, Eben
musician, philanthropist, was born June 1, 1834, in Warwick, R. I. In 1859 he founded a musical conservatory at East Greenwich, and in 1864 he projected a larger institution at Providence, which was removed to Boston in 1867, and incorporated in 1870. He died April 12, 1891, in Boston, Mass.
Tousey, Sinclair
president of the American News company, was born July 18, 1818, in New Haven, Conn. In 1864 he helped form the American News company in New York city, which bought the trade of himself and several other wholesale dealers. He was elected president of the new company, and occupied the office until his death. He died June 16, 1887, in New York city.
Tower, Zealous Bates
soldier, was born Jan. 12, 1819, in Cohasset, Mass.
After forty years of active service he was retired. He received eight brevets up to major-general. He founded the City of Mexico in 1847.
Towle, George Makepeace
journalist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1841, in Washington, D. C. He was the author of History of Henry V.; Glimpses of History; Modern France; Certain Men of Mark; American Society; Beaconsfield; England and Russia in Asia; England in Egypt; Young People's History of England; Young People's History of Ireland; The Nation in a Nutshell; Heroes of History; The Literature of the English Language; and Heroes and Martyrs of Invention. He died Aug. 10, 1893, in Brookline, Mass.
Town, Salem
educator, author, was: born March 5, 1779, in Belchertown, Mass. He was a once noted educator of New York and Indiana; and the author of System of Speculative Masonry; Analysis of English Derivatives; and, with N. Holbrook, a popular series of readers..
He died Feb. 24, 1864, in Greencastle, Ind.
Towne, Charles Arnette
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1858, in Oakland county, Mich. He is one of the foremost lawyers of the west, and has a large practice in Duluth, Minn. He served. with distinction as a member of the fiftyfourth congress, and since 1897 has been. chairman of the national committee of the silver republican party.
Towne, Edward Cornelius
clergyman, author, was born in 1834 in Massachusetts. He is a congregational clergyman of New Haven; and the author of The Question of Hell; and Electricity and Life.
Townsend, Amos
merchant, congressman, was born in 1831 in Fayette county, Pa. He served in the Cleveland city council for ten years, seven years as president of the council; and was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Townsend, Calvin
author, was. born in 18-. He is the author of Analysis of the United States Constitution; Compendium of Commercial Law; Analysis of Letter-Writing; and Shorter Course in Civil Government.
Townsend, Charles
author. He is the author of Essays on Mind, Matter, Force, etc.; and Primordial Principles of the Universe.
TOWNSEND, CHARLES CHAMPLIN, soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Nov. 24, 1841, in Allegheny City, Pa.
He served two years in the army during the rebellion as a private in company A, ninth regiment Pennsylvania reserve volunteer corps, and afterwards as adjutant of the first Pennsylvania cavalry. He was elected from New Brighton, Pa., to the fifty-first congress as a republican.