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Townsend, Washington

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1813 in Westchester, Pa. In 1832 he became a teller in the bank of Chester county, during which service he studied law, and came to the bar in 1844.

He served two terms as deputy state's attorney of Pennsylvania. He was a delegate to the Baltimore national convention of 1852, and also to the Chicago convention of 1860.

In 1868 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the fortysecond, forty-third, and forty-fourth congresses as a republican. TOWNSEND, WILLIAM KNEELAND, lawyer, jurist, was born June 12, 1849, in New Haven, Conn. He is a noted lawyer of New Haven, Conn.; has been corporation counsel; judge of the United States district court; and professor of law in the Yale university.

TOWNSHEND, RICHARD WELLING- TON, lawyer, congressman, was born April 30, 1840, in Prince George county, Md. He was prosecuting attorney for the twelfth judicial circuit of Illinois from 1868 to 1872. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, and fiftieth congresses as a democrat.

TOWNSLEY, FRANCES ELEANOR, educator, clergyman, poet, was born Sept. 13, 1849, in Albany, N. Y. She is now pastor of the baptist church of Ashland, Neb. She is the author of numerous poems of merit, which have appeared in Harper's Weekly, Poets of America, and other standard works.

ΤΟΥ, CRAWFORD HOWELL, clergyman, educator, author, was born March 23, 1836, in Norfolk, Va. He is a unitarian clergyman, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University Divinity school. He is the author of Quotations in the New Testament; History of the Religion of Israel; and Judaism and Christianity, the Progress of Thought from the Old Testament to the New.