Professor of Philosophy, $11,000; and contribution toward paying off a floating indebtedness, $30,000. (See GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) Sartain, John, artist, born in London, England, Oct, 24, 1808; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 25, 1897. He studied painting with John Varley and Henry Richter, learned the art of line and mezzotint engraving, and produced fine specimens of each branch before leaving England. In 1830 he removed to Philadelphia, and continued his study of painting with Joshua Shaw and Manuel J. de Franca. During the first ten years of his residence in Philadelphia he painted portraits in oil and miniatures on ivory, drew on wood for book illustrations, and designed vignettes for bank notes. In 1840 he became connected with "Graham's Magazine." To this periodical he contributed many of his best miniature engravings. Three years afterward he became proprietor and editor of "Campbell's Foreign Semi-Monthly Magazine." He also acquired an interest in "The Electric Museum," for which he engraved many plates. In 1848 he bought a half interest in "The Union Magazine," published in New York, which he transferred to Philadelphia and renamed "Sartain's Magazine." In this he first published the famous poem of The Bells," after making the author rewrite it three times. He brought this magazine to a high standard of excellence, and while acting as its managing editor engraved a very large number of illustrations for magazine and book publications. He also produced numerous prints for framing, of which the most noteworthy are "The County Election in Missouri," after Bingham (about 1855); "Christ Rejected," after West (1862); "Men of Progress, American Inventors" (1862); "Zeisberger preaching to the Indians at Gosgoshunk" (about 1862); "The Ironworker and King Solomon " (1876); "John Knox and Mary, Queen of Scots," after Leutze; "Homestead of Henry Clay," after Hamilton; and "Edwin Forrest" and "The Battle of Gettysburg," after Rothermel (1876-77). Mr. Sartain had charge of the art department at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and for his services there received numerous honors. He gathered a great collection of illustrated books, original paintings, and prints, the engravings alone numbering more than 20,000. Sedgwick, John, jurist, born in New York city, June 22, 1829; died in Norfolk, Conn., Sept. 11, 1897. He was graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1847, was admitted to the bar in 1852, and was assistant district attorney of New York in 1856-61. He was defeated as Republican candidate for the offices of city judge and recorder, but in 1871 was elected a judge of the Supreme Court of New York, and in 1885 was re-elected on a combined ticket of Republicans and Democrats. His re-election was a compliment to his honesty and ability displayed in the disruption of the Tweed ring. He became a justice of the Supreme Court of New York in 1895, when under the new Constitution the Superior Court was merged in that tribunal, and in May, 1896, retired. Seward, Clarence Armstrong, lawyer, born in New York city, Oct. 7, 1828; died in Geneva, N. Y., July 24, 1897. He was a nephew of William H. Seward, in whose family he was brought up; was graduated at Hobart College in 1848; and was admitted to the bar in 1850. He began practice in partnership with Samuel Blatchford, removed with him to New York city in 1854, and on his partner's elevation to the bench Mr. Seward became head of the law firm of Blatchford, Seward, Griswold & Da Costa. Mr. Seward made a specialty of the laws of patents and common carriers. He was judge advocate general of New York in 1856-'60; Assistant Secretary of State of the United States under his uncle, and Acting Secretary during the latter's illness in 1865 following the attempt to assassinate him; was a delegate to the National Republican Convention of 1878; and a presidential elector in 1880. Mr. Seward conducted many diplomatic negotiations for the Government, and had much to do with bringing about the creation of the State of West Virginia. He was an original member of the Union Club, and had been its president since 1890. He collected an exceptionally fine library. assisted Judge Blatchford in compiling the "New York Civil and Criminal Justice" (Auburn, 1850). He Seymour, Augustus Sherrill, jurist, born in Ithaca, N. Y., Nov. 30, 1836; died in New York city, Feb. 19, 1897. He was graduated at Hamilton College and the Dwight Law School; began practicing law in New York city in 1859, removed to New Berne, N. C., in 1865, and became city judge in 1868. He served in both branches of the Legislature and in the State Constitutional Convention of 1871; was elected judge of the Superior Court of the State in 1874, and held the office till 1882, when he was appointed judge of the United States District Court of Eastern North Carolina. The last office he retained until his death. Judge Seymour compiled a "Digest of the Laws of North Carolina" (1878). Shelby. Joseph Orville, soldier, born in Lexington, Ky., in 1831; died near Adrian, Mo., Feb. 13, 1897. He removed with his parents to Waverly, Mo., in 1850, and engaged in the manufacture of rope. Subsequently he became owner of a large plantation in Lafayette County. During the Kansas-Missouri border troubles he was an active proslavery leader, and early in the civil war he raised and equipped a company of cavalry for the Confederate service. Soon afterward he was commissioned colonel and brigadier general, and given command of a brigade that saw much hard service in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. He commanded a division in the raid under Gen. Sterling Price into Missouri, and saved that general's army on its retreat to Texas. After the surrender of the Confederates in the Trans-Mississippi Department at Shreveport Gen. Shelby marched a force of 1,000 well-equipped cavalrymen into Mexico, where he offered to raise an army of 40,000 veteran American soldiers to sustain the empire. Maximilian declined his overtures, and his force soon disbanded. Gen. Shelby himself became a freight contractor in the city of Mexico, but rereturned to his farm in Missouri in 1867. In 1893 he was appointed United States marshal for the Western District of Missouri. Sheldon, Edward Austin, educator, born in Perry Center, Wyoming County, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1823; died in Oswego, N. Y., Sept. 16, 1897. He was educated at Hamilton College, began teaching in Oswego in 1848, and was Superintendent of Public Schools in Syracuse in 1851-53, and in Oswego in 1853-'69. While holding the last-named office he was the first to introduce object teaching in the United States, and in 1861 he organized the first training school for teachers. In 1869 the Oswego training school was made a State normal school, and he was principal of it from that year till his death. His special work in recent years comprised the adding of kindergarten work to the normal-school departments, the perfecting of a system whereby kindergartens may be incorporated harmoniously in primary-school work, the unifying of the school systems of the State, and the bringing of industrial training into its true educational relation with other instruction. Dr. Sheldon's publications include a First Reading Book and Reading Charts" (New York, 1862); Manual of Elementary Instruction" (1862); “Series of Reading Books and Charts" (1874); and "Lessons on Objects" (1875). Skilton, Julius Augustus, physician, born in Troy, N. Y., June 29, 1833; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1897. He was graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1849 and at Albany Medical College in 1855, and practiced in Troy till the beginning of the civil war. commissioned assistant surgeon to the 30th New In 1861 he was York Volunteers, and in 1862 surgeon of the 87th. He served under Gen. Philip Kearny in the Peninsula campaign, and after the seven days' fight was left in charge of the wounded on the field when the army retreated. wounded as could be removed he was taken to With such of the Richmond, and after a short confinement in Libby Prison he was exchanged and returned to New York. In 1863 he took part in organizing the 14th New York Cavalry, of which he was commissioned surgeon, and with which he served during the draft riots in New York city. nied the regiment to New Orleans, was appointed Afterward he accompamedical director of the Cavalry Department of the Southwest in 1864, and served through the Red River campaign, in which he was wounded. On being mustered out of the service he went to Vera Cruz as correspondent for a New York newspaper, and witnessed the events leading to Maximilian's dethronement and death. Subsequently he was appointed medical officer of the escort that accompanied President Juarez to the city of Mexico. In 1869 he was appointed United States consul to the city of Mexico, and from 1872 till 1878 he was consul general. Pending the resumption of diplomatic intercourse he also acted in special matters for the governments of England, France, and Austria. He made extensive archæological explorations, and gathered a valuable collection of specimens, now in Yale University Museum. After the expiration of his term as consul general he engaged in railroad and mining operations in Mexico till about twelve years ago, and then became head of a firm of electrical engineers in New York city. Among his publications is one on the mining districts of Mexico. Smith, Job Lewis, physician, born in Spafford, Onondaga County, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1827; died in New York city, June 9, 1897. He was graduated at Yale College in 1849, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1853. He made a specialty of diseases of children, and passed his entire professional life in New York. From 1878 till within a short time of his death he was Professor of the Diseases of Children in Bellevue Hospital Medical College, and for many years was Physician to the City Hospital, the New York Foundling Asylum, and the New York Infant Asylum. Dr. Smith published a "Treatise on the Diseases of Children' (8th ed., 1896). Smith, John Eugene, soldier, born in Bern, Switzerland, Aug. 3, 1816; died in Chicago, Ill., Jan. 29, 1897. He was a son of John Banler Smith, an officer under Napoleon, who removed with his family to Philadelphia a few months after John's birth. The son received an academic education, learned the jeweler's trade, and followed it in St. Louis, Mo., and in Galena, Ill. On the inaugurapointed an aid on the Governor's staff, and from tion of Gov. Richard Yates in 1861, he was apApril till July was engaged in raising, organizing, and forwarding troops. After the first battle of Bull Run he recruited the 45th Illinois Volunteers, known as the Washburn Lead-Mine Regiment, and capture of Forts Henry and Donelson, the battle of was commissioned its colonel. He took part in the Shiloh, and the siege of Corinth; was promoted brigadier general Nov. 29, 1862; commanded the 8th division. 16th Army Corps, in the following Vicksburg campaign; and with the 15th Corps was month, and the 3d division, 17th Corps, during the at the capture of Mission Ridge, and in the Atlanta and Carolina campaigns. In April, 1866, he was mustered out of the volunteer service, and in July was commissioned colonel of the 27th United States and transferred to the 14th in 1870, and retired Infantry. He was assigned to the 15th Infantry May 19, 1881. Gen. Smith was brevetted major general of volunteers, Jan. 12, 1865, for faithful servand major general United States army, March 2, ice and gallantry in action, and brigadier general Savannah. 1867, for the siege of Vicksburg and the action at Pa., in 1818; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 2, 1897. Spangler, Andrew M., journalist, born in York, In early life he was editor of the "Lancaster Gazette," and founder and editor of "The Farm Journal." Afterward he established and edited "The times he was editorially connected with "The EvenProgressive Farmer" and "The Culturist"; and at ing Herald.” “The Star,” ing Journal," and "The Age." all in Philadelphia. Early in the civil war he aided in organizing the "The Globe," "The EvenPhiladelphia Home Guards, and through the war he was active in raising money and supplies for sick and wounded soldiers. Mr. Spangler had been a member of the Board of Education of Philadelphia for many years. He was acknowledged authority and Anglers" and "Near-by Fresh- and Salt-Water on fishing, and published "A Paradise for Gunners Fishing." Summer Hill, Cayuga County, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1809 ; Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry, banker, born in died in Buffalo, N. Y., May 5, 1897. He studied law, 1834 settled in Buffalo. In 1836 he became city was admitted to practice in Genesee County, and in clerk, attorney of the Supreme Court, and solicitor in Chancery; in 1847 was elected mayor; and in 1848 was elected to the Assembly. He practiced law with much success till about 1850, when he beand Mechanics' Bank of Batavia was removed to came a banker. At his instigation the Farmers' ing law it was reorganized with Mr. Spaulding as Buffalo, and after the passage of the Federal bankpresident and principal stockholder. In 1849-51 he was a Whig Representative in Congress, in 1853 Congress. In his last term in Congress, as chairwas State Treasurer, and in 1858-63 was again in Ways and Means charged with the preparation of man of the subcommittee of the Committee on financial measures, he drafted the legal-tender and the national currency bank acts, and secured their adoption as war measures. stance he became known as the "father of greenbacks." From this circumIn 1869 he published a Legal-Tender Paper Money used during the Great History of the fore the National Banking Association at the CenRebellion," and in 1876 delivered an address betennial Exhibition in Philadelphia on "One Hundred Years of Progress in the Business of Banking.' pist, born in Waterville, Oneida County, N. Y., berry, of Detroit, Mich., and widow of John Starkweather, one of Michigan's early educators. Her husband died in 1883, and soon afterward, by the death of an uncle, she came into possession of a large estate. From that time till her death she was noted for her large public benefactions. In 1886 she gave to the Ladies' Library Association of Ypsilanti her handsome residence; in 1888 gave to Highland Cemetery a $10,000 chapel; soon afterward gave to the city a costly fountain and the statue that surmounts the Soldiers' Monument; and recently she erected a $10,000 building for the Students' Christian Association of the State Normal College. Stevens, Abel, clergyman, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 19, 1815; died in San José, Cal., Sept. 11, 1897. He was educated at Wesleyan University; joined the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and become pastor of a church in Boston, Mass., in 1834; and spent a year in the service of the university. After a second pastorate in Boston, he made a European tour in 1837, and on his return was stationed in Providence, R. I. In 1840-'52 he was editor of "Zion's Herald" in Boston; in 1853-'54 of "The National Magazine" in New York; in 1856 was elected editor of "The Christian Advocate and Journal"; and in 1860-'74 was an associate editor of "The Methodist." Subsequently he spent many years in travel and in residence at Geneva, Switzerland, where he was pastor of the Union Church. He received the degree of LL. D. from Indiana University in 1856. He was most widely known as the historian of Methodism. His publications include "Memorials of the Introduction of Methodism into New England" (2 vols., Boston, 1847-'52); "History of the Religious Movement of the Eighteenth Century, called Methodism " (3 vols., 1858-61); "History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States' (4 vols., 1864-'67; Vol. V, 1895); "The Centenary of American Methodism" (1865); "The Women of Methodism; Its Three Foundresses" (1866); “A Compendious History of American Methodism " (1867): "Madame de Staël: A Study of her Life and Times" (1881); "Character Sketches" (1882); and "Christian Work and Consolation " (1885). Stevenson, John D., soldier, born in Staunton, Va., June 8, 1821; died in St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 22, 1897. He took a partial course at the College of South Carolina, was graduated in law at Staunton in 1841, and began practicing in Franklin County, Mo., in 1842. In 1846 he raised a company of volunteers, with which he served under Gen. Stephen W. Kearny in the invasion of New Mexico. He removed to St. Louis after his return, served in both branches of the Legislature, and was president of the Senate. In 1861 he recruited the 7th Missouri Volunteers, of which he was commissioned colonel. During the siege of Corinth he commanded the District of Savannah. Afterward he commanded a brigade in Tennessee; was promoted brigadier general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862; served through the Vicksburg campaign; commanded an expedition that drove the Confederates from northern Louisiana; and occupied and fortified Decatur, Ala. Toward the close of 1864, being left without a command, he resigned his commission. On July 28, 1866, he was appointed colonel of the 30th United States Infantry, and during the reconstruction period he was stationed in northern Georgia. He was brevetted major general of volunteers and brigadier general, U. S. A., March 2, 1867, for distinguished services during the war and for gallantry in leading a charge at Champion Hill. Subsequently he commanded the 25th United States Infantry till his resignation, Jan. 1, 1871. After retiring from the army he resumed law practice. Stokes, Ellwood H., clergyman, born in Medford, N. J., Oct. 10, 1815; died in Ocean Grove, N. J., July 16, 1897. He was of Quaker parentage, and when thirteen years old was apprenticed to a bookbinder in Philadelphia. In 1842 he was appointed a class leader in the Methodist Episcopal Church; in 1843 was licensed to preach and assigned temporarily to the Salem circuit; and in 1844 was given a charge in the Medford circuit. From the last year till 1875 he held appointments in New Jersey, and built churches in Newark and Trenton. He was an organizer of the Pitman Grove Camp-Meeting Association; was President of the Ocean Grove Camp-Meeting Association from its organization, in 1869, till his death; and since 1875 had been occupied principally with the work at Ocean Grove. Largely through his efforts the greatest camp-meeting grounds in the world were there established. The erection of the great Auditorium, that cost $70,000, was the crowning work of his life. He published a volume of letters from Europe and two volumes of poems. (See GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) Storrow, James J., lawyer, born in Boston, Mass., July 29, 1837; died in Washington, D. C., April 15, 1897. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1857, and at the Harvard Law School in 1858; was admitted to the bar in 1860; and early acquired reputation as a patent lawyer. From 1879 till his death he was chief counsel for the Bell Telephone Company, and in this post he prepared all the cases concerning the company before the United States courts, and appeared in all the final appeals before the Supreme Court. He was best known to the public through his services as counsel to the Venezuela Government in its controversy with Great Britain over the boundary line. After the British and Venezuelan ministers in Washington had agreed on the terms of the arbitration treaty, Mr. Storrow accompanied the latter to Venezuela, where, despite considerable opposition, he was instrumental in bringing the treaty into favor and securing its acceptance. He was Swain, David Gaskill, soldier, born in Salem, Ohio, Dec. 22, 1832; died in Washington, D. C., Aug. 17, 1897. He was admitted to the bar in 1858, and practiced at Salem. He was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the 65th Ohio Infantry, Oct. 4, 1861; was promoted 1st lieutenant, Nov. 4 following; captain and assistant adjutant general, May 16, 1862; and major, Feb. 7, 1865; and was mustered out of the volunteer service, Sept. 15, 1866, having been appointed 2d lieutenant in the 34th United States Infantry, July 28 preceding. On Dec. 9, 1869, he was promoted major and judge advocate, and on Feb. 18, 1881, brigadier general and judge advocate general of the army. brevetted lieutenant colonel and colonel of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and 1st lieutenant, captain, and major, United States army, March 2, 1867, for faithful and meritorious services during the war. Gen. Swain was engaged in the battles of Shiloh, Murfreesborough, Perryville, Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and at Missionary Ridge, and served on the staffs of Gens. William S. Rosecrans and George H. Thomas. In 1884 we was involved in sensational proceedings, for which he was court-martialed and suspended from rank and duty for twelve years, and on Dec. 22, 1894, the unexpired portion of the sentence was remitted by the President and he was retired. He sued to recover full pay for the period of his suspension, but the Supreme Court decided against him on appeal. Sweetser. Moses Foster, author, born in Newburyport, Mass., Sept. 22, 1848; died in Dorchester, Mass., in July, 1897. He was educated at Beloit and Columbian Colleges and made a protracted tour of Europe and the East. On his return he Tenney, Asa W., jurist, born in Dalton, N. H., in 1833; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 11, 1897. He was brought up on his father's farm, began teaching when sixteen years old, and was graduated at Dartmouth College in 1859. After studying law and serving as a school commissioner two years at Lancaster, N. H., he removed to New York city in 1862, and was admitted to the bar. During the draft riots he was one of a company of citizen volunteers who defended the house of Mayor Opdyke against the mob. In 1867, when the Republicans of Georgia were endeavoring to restore their party organization, Mr. Tenney was selected by Horace Greeley to visit the State and aid the work. He delivered addresses in Atlanta and Savannah, under police protection, that were printed and circulated as Republican campaign documents. In 1873 he was appointed United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and he held the office more than twelve years. On the expiration of his last term he applied himself to private practice in Brooklyn. In July, 1897, he was appointed United States district judge for the Eastern District of New York. Hard work to clear the docket by the end of the term resulted in a fatal prostration. Sept. 21, 1866; transferred to the 4th Infantry, Oct. 22, 1876; and to the pay department, May 23, 1878; and was retired July 2, 1891. In the volunteer service he was commissioned colonel of the 79th transferred to the 19th United States Colored InUnited States Colored Infantry, March 20, 1863; Nov. 30 following; and mustered out Jan. 15, 1866, fantry, Jan. 16, 1864; promoted brigadier general, During the civil war he was brevetted major. U. S. A., May 12, 1864, for gallantry at Spottsylvania; lieutenant colonel, July 30, for services in front of Petersburg; and colonel and brigadier general, and major general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, for meritorious services during the war. Gen. Thomas was engaged in the first battle of Bull Run; the actions at Snicker's Gap, Va., Bristol Station, Rappahannock Station, and Mine Run, Va.; and the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Petersburg, and Hatcher's Run. He was the first regular army officer to accept a colonelcy of colored troops. Montpelier, Vt., Feb. 9, 1850; died in New York Thompson. Daniel Greenleaf, author, born in city, July 10, 1897. Daniel Pierce Thompson, author of " Mountain Boys." He was graduated at Amherst in He was the youngest son of 1869. Previous to graduation, in connection with his The Green college duties, he served several terms as Assistant Secretary of State of Vermont. In the autumn of 1869 he removed to New York city, where he gave private instruction and studied law. In April, 1870, he became teacher of classics in the Springfield, Terry, William Richard, soldier, born in LibMass., High School, where he remained until the erty, Va., March 12, 1827; died in Chesterfield, Va., summer of 1872. In July of that year he published March 28, 1897. He was graduated at the Virginia sumed the study of law in New York, and in Decem"A First Book in Latin," and in the autumn he reMilitary Institute in 1850, and was engaged in ber was admitted to the bar. He was continuously business till the beginning of the civil war. entered the Confederate service as a captain of of leisure were given to study and literary work, and He in active practice of law from that date. His hours cavalry, was soon afterward commissioned colonel he made notable contributions to periodicals. His of the 24th Virginia Regiment, and in May, 1864, publications in book form were: "A System of Psywas promoted brigadier general. Gen. Terry was a State Senator eight years, and Evil" (1886); "Religious Sentiments of the Human After the war chology" (2 vols., 8vo, 1884); "The Problem of superintendent of the Richmand Penitentiary. Thayer, Alexander Wheelock, born in South Philosophy of Fiction in Literature" (1892); and Mind" (1888); Natick, Mass., in 1817; died in Trieste, Austria, "Politics in a Democracy" (1893), an essay upon Social Progress" (1889): "The July 15, 1897. He was graduated at Harvard Uni- present political tendencies, which has since been versity in 1843, and at the Harvard Law School in translated into Dutch, by Dr. D. C. Nijhoff. He 1848. While employed as an assistant in the uni- also delivered addresses before many societies and versity library he resolved to write a life of Beethoven, and in 1849 he went to Germany to collect dress before the "Woman's Law Class" of the Union various occasions, one of the last being an admaterial for this purpose, intending from the first versity of the City of New York, at the closing that the biography should first be printed in German. He was United States consul at Trieste from member of the Committee of One Hundred at the exercises, April 4, 1894. Mr. Thompson served as a 1859 to 1882, and he continued to reside there after Columbian Celebration in the autumn of 1892, and the latter date, employed upon his great work. The held numerous honorary offices in connection with first volume, which takes the life of his subject to public movements. 1796, appeared at Bonn in 1866; the second, which presidency of the Nineteenth Century Club, which carried it to 1806, was issued in 1872; the third, office he held two years. At the time of his death he In 1888, he was elected to the which carried the narrative to 1816, was published was a member of the executive council and secretary in 1879. A fourth and concluding volume was nearly completed at the time of Mr. Thayer's death. Century Club, Manhattan Club, Reform Club, Bar of the Authors Club. He was also a member of the No English version of the work has yet appeared. Association, Lawyers' Club, Sons of the Revolution, Besides many contributions to American newspapers and about 20 articles in Grove's “ Dictionary Amherst gave him the degree of Ph. D. in 1894. the Patria Club, and of the New England Society. of Music and Musicians," he wrote "The Hebrews and the Red Sea " (Andover, 1883), and "Signor Masoni, and Other Papers of the Late I. Brown." (See GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) In Thomas, Henry Goddard, soldier, born in Portland, Me., April 5, 1837; died in Oklahoma, Jan. 23, 1897. He was graduated at Amherst College in 1858, and was admitted to the bar in Maine. April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the 5th Maine Volunteers; in June he was promoted captain; and in August he was commissioned captain in the 11th United States Infantry. He was promoted major and transferred to the 20th Infantry, vania in 1813; died in Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 7, 1897. Thompson, William, soldier, born in PennsylHe entered the National army as a captain in the major, May 18, 1863; and colonel, June 20, 1864; 1st Iowa Cavalry, July 31, 1861; was promoted captain in the 7th United States Cavalry, July 28. was mustered out March 15, 1866; appointed a brigadier general of volunteers, March 13, 1865; 1866; and retired Dec. 15, 1875. He was brevetted major and lieutenant colonel, U. S. A., March 2, 1867, for services in action at Prairie Grove and Bayou Metoe, Ark.; and brigadier-general, U. S. A., by act of Congress in 1896. Thorne, Edwin F., actor, born in New York city in 1845; died there, May 4, 1897. He was a son of Charles R. Thorne, and brother of Charles R. Thorne, Jr., and had been on the stage from early youth, making his first appearance at Winter Garden Theater, New York city. In 1860, with his father and three brothers, he went to California, where he became popular in juvenile parts. Subsequently he made a tour round the world, returning to New York in 1865. He was associated with Nat. C. Goodwin in producing "The Black Flag" in New York, and afterward appeared but seldom, owing to feeble health. Thorne, Joseph, inventor, born in Marlboro, Ulster County, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1826; died in Sing Sing, N. Y., May 4, 1897. He was of Quaker parentage, served through the Mexican War, and became an engineer. From early youth he was fond of machinery, and for a time he was associated with Elias Howe while he was perfecting his sewing machine. Afterward he was connected with the Singer Company, and established and operated a factory in Scotland. Among his many inventions were a typewriter, a sewing machine, and the typesetting and distributing machine bearing his name. Tilton Elizabeth Richards, wife of Theodore Tilton, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1835; died there, April 13, 1897. She married Theodore Tilton in 1855, and was the cause of the sensational suit brought against Henry Ward Beecher by her husband in 1874. After the trial Mr. and Mrs. Tilton separated, he taking up a permanent residence in Paris, France, and she passing the remainder of her life in seclusion in Brooklyn. She united with a small religious circle, known as Christian Friends and as Plymouth Brethren, and many of its meetings were held at her home. For several years Mrs. Tilton was totally blind, but within the past year her sight was restored by a surgical operation. Truesdale, Hiram C., jurist, born in Rock Island, Ill., in 1860; died in Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 28, 1897. He was graduated at Iowa State University in 1880; studied law there; and removed to Minneapolis, Minn., to practice. In 1895 he made his residence in Phoenix, where he soon became known as an expert in mining laws. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Territory in June, 1897, and was fatally prostrated immediately after trying the noted suit of Warner vs. Wells, which involved the valuable Hillside mining property. Trumbull, James Hammond, philologist, born in Stonington, Conn., Dec. 20, 1821; died in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 5, 1897. He entered Yale with the class of 1842. Feeble health prevented his graduation, but in 1850 his name was restored to its place in his class, and he was given the degree of A. M. In 1842-'43 he aided the Rev. James H. Linsley in compiling catalogues of the mammalia, reptiles, fishes, and shells of Connecticut. In 1847 he became Assistant Secretary of Connecticut, and he held that place until 1851, and again in 1858-'61, and he was State librarian and register in 1854-55, and Secretary in 1861-65. He was President of the Connecticut Historical Society twenty-six years. Dr. Trumbull was librarian of the Watkinson Library of Reference in Hartford from 1863 till 1891. He became a member of the American Philological Society on its organization, in 1869, and was its president in 1874-75. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1872, in consideration of his great knowledge of the Indian languages of North America. He was the author of a dictionary and vocabulary of John Eliot's Indian Bible, and was said to be the only living American able to read that work. The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Yale in 1871 and by Harvard in 1887, and Columbia gave him that of 66 L. II. D. in 1887. He contributed to the proceedings of societies, to periodicals, and to cyclopædias. Among his articles are those on the significance of the word "Shawmut," the supposed Indian name of Boston (1866), on the significance of "Massachusetts" (1867), on the Algonkin name of "Manitou " (1870), and on the "Indian Languages of America." His publications include "The Colonial Records of Connecticut" (3 vols., Hartford, 1850-'59); "Historical Notes on Some Provisions of the Connecticut Statutes" (1860-61); "The Defense of Stonington against a British Squadron, August, 1814" (1864); Roger Williams's Key into the Language of America" (Providence, 1866); “Thomas Lechford's Plain-Dealing, or Newes from New England, 1642" (Boston, 1867); "The Origin of McFingal (1868); “The Composition of Indian Geographical Names" (1870); "The Best Method of studying the Indian Languages (1871); "Some Mistaken Notions of Algonkin Grammar" (1871); "Historical Notes on the Constitution of Connecticut" (1872); "Notes on Forty Algonkin Versions of the Lord's Prayer" (1873); "On the Algonkin Verb" (1876); "The True Blue Laws of Connecticut and the False Blue Laws invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters" (1876); and "Indian Names of Places in and on the Borders of Connecticut, with Interpretations" (1881). He edited "The Memorial History of Hartford County" (2 vols., Boston, 1886). In the various bibliographies on the languages of North American Indians compiled by James C. Pilling and published by the Bureau of American Ethnology a full bibliography of his works will be found. The catalogue of Americana belonging to George Brinley was made by him at the time of the sale of the collection, 1879-'86, and gained for him the reputation of the "most learned and acute bibliographer in America." Tucker, John Randolph, statesman, born in Winchester, Va., Dec. 24, 1823; died in Lexington, Va., Feb. 13, 1897. He was a grandson of St. George Tucker, and son of Henry St. George Tucker, and was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1844. The following year he was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Winchester. In 1857-'65 he was Attorney-General of Virginia, and in 1870-'74 was Professor of Equity and Public Law at Washington and Lee University. From 1874 till 1887 he represented the 10th Virginia District in Congress, in which he was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means for eight years, chairman of the Committee on Judiciary for four years, and a member of the Committee on CivilService Reform. Among his notable speeches were those opposing protective duties in tariff legislation; on the electoral commission bill and the constitutionality of the presidential count of 1876; and Chinese immigration in 1883. Some of his most famous addresses were those delivered before the Social Science Association in 1877, before the law school of Yale College in 1887, and at the unveiling of the statue of Gen. Jackson in Richmond. At the close of his congressional service he resumed his professorship at Washington and Lee University, and at the time of his death was also dean of its law school. He received the degree of LL. D. from Yale in 1887. Tucker, Joshua Thomas, clergyman, born in Milton, Mass., Sept. 20, 1812; died in Boston, Mass., June 11, 1897. He was graduated at Yale College in 1833, and at Lane Theological Seminary in 1837. He engaged in the home-mission work of the Presbyterian Church in Chester, Ill., for a few months; was ordained by the presbytery of Alton, Ill., and had charges in Rushville in 1838, and in Hannibal, Mo., in 1840-'46. In 1846-48 he held a pastorate in St. Louis, and was associate editor of the "Her |