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Trumbull, Gurdon – Tubman, Harriet

Trumbull, Gurdon

artist, was born May 5, 1841, in Stonington, Conn. He has attained eminence as one of the foremost artists in America.

Trumbull, Henry Clay

clergyman, journalist, author, was born June 8, 1831, in Stonington, Conn. He is a congregational clergyman of Philadelphia; editor of the Sunday-School Times; and the author of A Model Superintendent; The Threshold Covenant; The Knightly Soldier; Kadesh-Barnea; Teaching and Teachers; The Blood Covenant, a Primitive Rite; The Sunday-School, its Origin, Methods and Auxiliaries; Children in the Temple; Some Army Sermons; The Worth of an Historic Consciousness; Principles and Practice; Friendship the Master Passion; and Studies in Oriental Social Life.

Trumbull, James Hammond

philologist, author, was born Dec. 20, 1821, in Stonington, Conn. He is the author of The Composition of Indian Geographical Names; Best Method of Studying the Indian Languages; Indian Names of Places; On the Algonkin Verb; The True Blue- Laws of Connecticut. He has edited The Colonial Records of Connecticut; and Roger Williams's Key to the Languages of North America.

Trumbull, John

lawyer, jurist, author, was born April 24, 1750, in Westbury, Conn. He was a noted jurist of Hartford, famous in his day as a satirical poet. With Barlow and others he published The Anarchiad, a series of satirical essays, and he was the author of The Progress of Dulness; but MacFingal, a Hudibrastic poem, the first canto of which appeared in 1775, is his best title to remembrance. He died May 10, 1831, in Detroit, Mich.

Trumbull, John

artist, was born April 6, 1756, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a son of Jonathan Trumbull, colonial governor of Connecticut. His Battle of Bunker Hill, and Death of Montgomery before Quebec, known through engravings.

Four of the colossal pictures in the rotunda of the capitol at Washington, viz., Surrender of Cornwallis; Resignation are well of Washington; Declaration of Independence; and Surrender of Burgoyne, are his. He died in 1843 in New York city.

Trumbull, Joseph

congressman, was born March 11, 1737, in Lebanon, Conn. He was a delegate to the continental congress in 1774 and 1775; was a commissioner for the board of war in 1777; and was commissary-general in the revolutionary army from 1775 to 1777. He died July 23, 1778, in Lebanon, Conn.

Trumbull, Joseph

legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1782, in Lebanon, Conn. He was president of the Hartford bank for eleven years; served in the general assembly in 1832, 1848 and 1851; and was president of a railroad company. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut in 1834 to fill a vacancy, and from 1839 to 1843. In 1849 he was elected governor of Connecticut. He died Aug. 4, 1861, in Hartford, Conn.

Truxton, William Talbot

naval officer, was born March 11, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1841 he entered the navy as a midshipman; became a commodore in 1882; and was promoted to rear admiral by seniority in 1886. He died Feb. 25, 1887, in Norfolk, Va.

Tryon, George Washington

conchologist, author, was born May 20, 1838, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a conchologist of Philadelphia; and the author of Land and Fresh-Water Shells of North America; Marine Conchology; Structural and Systematic Conchology; and Manual of Conchology. He died Feb. 5, 1888, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Tryon, William

governor, was born about 1725 in Ireland. In 1764 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of North Carolina; and in 1771 was appointed governor of New York. He died Feb. 27, 1788, in England.

Tubman, Harriet

abolitionist, was born in 1821 in Cambridge, Md. She was active in the cause of emancipation.