Townsend, Thomas S
compiler, was born Aug. 27, 1829, in New York city.
In 1860 he determined to form a chrono-- logical history of every important occurrence in connection with the impending civil war. This journalistic record comprises about one hundred and twenty vol-- umes containing sixty thousand pages.
This collection is now in Columbia college library, New York city. TOWNSEND, VIRGINIA FRANCES, author, was born in 1836 in New Haven, Conn. She is the author of A Woman's Word; One Woman's Two Lovers; Lenox Dare; Protestant Queen of Navarre; Only Girls; Sirs, Only Seventeen; A Boston Girl's Ambition; Six in All; But a Philistine; and That Queer Girl.