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Tufts, John – Turnbull, Laurence

Tufts, John

clergyman, author, was born May 5, 1689, in Medford, Mass. He published Introduction to the Singing of Psalm-Tunes, with a Collection of Tunes in Three Parts; and a sermon, Humble Call to Archippus. He died in August, 1750, in Amesbury, Mass.

Tufts, John Quincy

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born July 12, 1840, in Aurora, Ind. He held the position of clerk, trustee, and justice; and was elected to the Iowa legislature in 1869; and re-elected in 1871 and 1873.

In 1874 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-fourth congress as a republican.

Tully, John

astrologer, was born Sept. 9, 1638, in England. For twenty years, from 1681 till the time of his death, he was engaged in compiling almanacs, and was popularly known as the New England astrologer. He died Oct. 5, 1701, in Middletown, Conn.

Tully, Pleasant B

lawyer, congressman, was born March 21, 1829, in Pleasant Exchange, Tenn. He was admitted to the bar in 1861; commenced practice at Gilroy, Cal.; and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1879. He was elected a representative from California to the forty-eighth congress as a democrat.

Tully, William

physician, botanist, educator, author, was born Nov. 18, 1785, in Saybrook, Conn. He was a noted New England botanist and physician, and medical professor at Yale university in 1829- 42. He was the author of Essays upon Fever; Materia Medica, or Pharmacology; and Therapeutics. He died Feb. 28, 1859, in Springfield, Mass.

Tunis, John

clergyman, author, was born in 1858 in New York. He was an episcopal clergyman of Millbrook, N. J., but prior to 1892 in the unitarian ministry.

He was the author of The Faith by Which We Stand. He died in 1896.

Tupper, Benjamin

soldier, jurist, was born in August, 1738, in Stoughton, Mass. He attained the rank of brigadiergeneral for services in the revolutionary war. He was a surveyor of Ohio lands in 1785; distinguished himself in suppressing Shay's insurrection; and became a judge of Ohio in 1788.

Turchin, John Basil

soldier, author, was born Jan. 30, 1822, in Russia.

He was a Russian soldier who came to America in 1856, served in the federal army during the civil war, and in 1873 established the Polish colony of Radon in Illinois. He is the author of The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga.

Turell, Ebenezer

clergyman, was born Feb. 5, 1702, in Boston, Mass. He was minister of Medford, Mass., from 1724 till his death. He collected and published poems by his wife, with a memoir of her.

A tract of his on Witchcraft is in the Massachusetts Historical Collections. died Dec. 8, 1778, in Medford, Mass.

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Turell, Mrs. Jane

poet, was born Feb. 25, 1708, in Boston, Mass. She wrote eulogies on Sir Richard Blackmore's works, and on The Incomparable Mr.

Waller; An Invitation into the Country in Imitation of Horace; and some prose articles. Her poems were collected and published by her husband, with a memoir of her life. She died March 26, 1735, in Medford, Mass.

Turini, Giovanni

sculptor, was born May 23, 1841, in Italy. In 1867 he exhibited a group of statuary entitled Angelica and Medora at the World's fair in Paris, and in 1882 he made a bust of Leo XIII. for the Vatican in Rome. The statue of Garibaldi erected in Washington square by the Italians of New York city was designed by him.

Turnbull, Laurence

physician, author, was born Sept. 10, 1821, in Scotland. He is an eminent physician of Baltimore; and the author of Hints and Observations on Military Hygiene: Imperfect Hearing; Clinical Manual of Diseases of the Ear; Advantages and Disadvantages of Artificial Anæsthesia; and The Electro- Magnetic Telegraph.