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Train, Elizabeth Phipps – Treat, Samuel Hubbel

Train, Elizabeth Phipps

author, was born in 1857 in Massachusetts. She is a novelist of Duxbury, Mass.; and the author of Dr. Lamar; Autobiography of a Professional Beauty; A Social Highwayman; A Marital Liability. Her translations from the French include The Apostate; The Shadow of Dr. Laroque; and Recollections of the Court of the Tuileries.

Train, George Francis

lecturer, author, was born March 24, 1829, in Boston, Mass. He is a lecturer of New York city; and the author of an American Merchant in Europe; Young America Abroad; Young America in Wall Street; Spread Eagleism; Union Speeches; and Irish Independency.

Trapier, Paul

congressman. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the continental congress from 1777 to 1778.

Trask, Jabez Nelson

educator, clergyman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1831, in Freedom, Maine. In 1863 he was employed by the New England Educational commission as superintendent of abandoned plantations on Port Royal island, S. C. In 1871-72 he was United States Indian agent among the Utahs in southwestern Colorado. In 1894 he published a work entitled Adjusted Constitution of Massachusetts. Since 1868 he has been a clergyman, and has filled pastorates in various cities throughout the United States.

Trask, William Blake

author, genealogist, was born Nov. 25, 1812, in Dorchester, Mass. He has contributed extensively to the Historical and Genealogical Register of Boston, Mass. He copied the ancient town records of Boston, and made fac similes of autographs for Samuel G.

Drake's history of that city; and contributed extensively to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, and various other publications.

Trautwine, John Cresson

civil engineer, author, was born March 30, 1810, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a civil engineer of eminence; and the author of Method of Calculating Cubic Contents of Excavations and Embankments; Field Practice of Laying out Railroad Curves; and Civil Engineer's Pocket-Book. He died Sept. 14, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Travers, Levi Dove

jurist, legislator, was born Nov. 21, 1828, in Taylor's Island, Md. In 1878 he was chaplain of the state senate of the legislature of Maryland; and for the past twelve years has been a member of the Maryland state legislature.

Travis, William Barrett

soldier, was born in 1811 in Conecuh county, Ala. At the commencement of the Texan struggle for independence he drew his sword in that cause and fell bravely fighting a vastly superior force of Mexicans. He was killed March 1, 1836, at the Alamo, and he is known in history as the hero of the Alamo.

Traynor, W. J. H

journalist, was born July 4, 1845, in Canada. He is the founder, editor and owner of The Patriotic American; and he is the supreme president of the American Protective association, with headquarters at Detroit, Mich.

Treadwell, Daniel

educator, author, was born Oct. 10, 1791, in Ipswich, Mass. He was the inventor of the powerpress for spinning hemp for cordage; and also a cannon which bears his name. He was Rumford professor at Harvard university in 1834-45; and the author of The Relations of Science to the Useful Arts; The Practicability of Constructing Cannon of Great Calibre; and Construction of Hooped Cannon. He died Feb. 27, 1872, in Cambridge, Mass.

Treat, Robert

governor, was born in 1622 in England. In 1676 he was elected deputy governor of Connecticut, and subsequently served as governor. He died July 12, 1710, in Milford, Conn.

Treat, Samuel Hubbel

lawyer, author, jurist, was born June 21, 1811, in Plainfield, N. Y. In 1855 he was appointed to the office of United States judge for the southern district of Illinois, which post he held at the time of his death.

He compiled, with notes, Illinois Law Statutes, embracing all of the general laws in force, in two volumes. He died March 27, 1887, in Springfield, Ill.