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und secretary of the American Educational Society 

 and American College and Educational Society i'rm 



i 1-^4. For s"me time he was associate 

 of the " Congregationalist " and a contributor to the 

 ' New Enfflander." He published " \VjnnL-and- Wal- 

 ter Stories" (4 vols., Boston, IM;O : When I 

 Boy " (1862); " The Curse, or the Position occupied 

 in 'History bv the Race of Ham" (1864) ; ' Nineveh, 

 or the Buried City " 1 1S64) ; " Tyre and Alexandria' 1 

 : "Undo George 1 " (4 vols.. l^;s : 



" Life of Israel Putnam " (1876) ; " Sir Walter Raleigh 

 and his Colony in America" (1884); "Songs and 

 Hvinns for Common Life' 7 (1885); and ' Diarv of 

 Thomas Bobbins, D. D." (1886). 



Terryj William, soldier, born in Amherst County, 

 Y:i.. Aug. 14. Iv24 ; died near Wythevillc, Va.. 

 5. 1888. He was graduated at the University of Vir- 

 ginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He prac- 

 ticed in Wytheville till the beginning of the civil war, 

 when lie entered the Confederate array as a lieutenant. 

 In l*<)-2 he was promoted major of the Fourth Virginia 

 Regiment ; in February, 1864, colonel ; and in May fol- 

 lowing brigadier-general. In 1868 he was nominated 

 for representative in Congress from the Eighth Con- 

 gressional District of Virginia as a Conservative, and 

 was elected, but was declared ineligible. In 1870 he 

 was re-elected and admitted. He was drowned while 

 try in. 2 to ford Reed creek, near his home. 



Ttieblin, Napoleon L., journalist, born in St. Peters- 

 burg. Russia, June 6, 1834; died in New York city, 

 Nov. 1, 1888. He was graduated at the Russian Im- 

 perial Academy of Artillery in 1853, entered the Rus- 

 sian army at the outbreak" of the Crimean War, and 

 was in command of forty pieces of artillerv at the 

 f Sebastopol. He was decorated for Ir- 

 . ithdrew from the army in 1857, removed to 

 London, and became foreign correspondent of the 

 " Pall Mall Gazette." He also contributed to British 

 magazines, and translated the works of Macaulay and 

 Darwin into Russian. He followed the French "army 

 during the Franco-German War as correspondent for 

 the "Pall Mall Gazette," described the atrocities of 

 the Commune, wrote lor the ' Gazette " over the sig- 

 nature Azamet Batuk," and reported the Carhst War 

 in Spain for the New York " Herald." In 1S75 be 

 came to the United States to lecture, but re-entered 

 journalism, wrote the articles entitled " A Stranger's 

 Note-Book" for the New York "Sun." and SUMO- 

 quently the Wall Street letters signed Rigolo, and 

 contributed to various newspapers and magazines. 



Thompson, Cephas Giovanni, artist, born in Middle- 

 borough, Mass.. in 1809; died in New York city, 

 Jan. 5, 1888. He was a son of Cephas Thompson, a 

 well-known portrait-painter, studied with his father, 

 and when eighteen years old removed to Plymouth, 

 Mas*., where he spent two years painting portraits, 

 chieny of sea - captains and their families. From 

 Plymouth he went to Boston, and in 1837 removed to 

 New York city, where for ten years he was busily 

 employed in portrait painting. " He then spent five 

 years 'in New Bedford and Boston, went abroad in 

 1852, visited London, Paris, Florence, and Rome, and 

 resided in the latter city seven years. In 1860 he 

 established himself permanently in New York city. 

 In 1885 he was appointed a clerk in the Treasury De- 

 partment. While in Rome he copied the Staffa " Ma- 

 donna" of Raphael and the "Beatrice Ccnci." His 

 ideal paintings include "The Guardian .V 

 " Prospero and Miranda," " St. Peter delivered from 

 Prison," and " The Angel of Truth." 



Tilton, John Rollin, artist, born in Loudon, N. II. . in 

 1833 ; died in Rome, Italy. March 22, 188S. He 

 studied landscape painting without a teacher, follow- 

 ing the style of the Venetian school, and particularly 

 that of Titian, and spent his professional life almost 

 entirely in Italy. He traveled extensively through 

 Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, and h'ad exhib- 

 ited frequently at the Royal" Academy, London, the 

 National Academy, New 'York, and the Athemeum, 

 Boston. Among his paintings, mostly in private gal- 



in England, are "Rome from the Aventine," 

 i- The I'alare of Thebes." " Coino," " Venice," 

 " Venetian Fishing-Ij"-it>." and " Kern Oinlii 



Trimble, Isaac R., soldier, born in Culpeper County, 

 Va.. in l^o-j; died in Baltimore, Md.. Jan. 2, 1888. 

 lie was graduated at the United States Military 

 emy in 1822, and was assigned t<> survey the military 

 road from Waahington to the Ohio river. \< 

 he resigned from the army and engaged in civil en- 

 gineering, was chief engineer of the Northern Cen- 

 tral, the- Philadelphia. Wilmington and Baltimore, 

 and the Boston and Providence Railroads, and wi.s 

 engaged in large railroad operations in the We-t In- 

 dies when the civil war began. He hastened to Bal- 

 timore, was placed in command of the uniformed vol- 

 unteers mustered to protect the city, and on the dis- 

 persion of the Maryland Legislature in May. 1861, 

 went South and joined the Confederate army, in 

 which he attained the rank of major-general. He 

 erected the batteries that closed the Potomac river in 

 1861, took part in the battle of Bull Run, commanded 

 the Stonewall division after Gen. Jackson's promo- 

 tion, was in charge of the fortifications in the valley 

 of Virginia, and commanded Pender'sdi vision at G_et- 

 tvsburg, where he lost a leg and was captured during 

 the third day's li^lit. 



Tryon, George Washington, naturalist, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., May 20, 1835; died there, Feb. 5, 1888. 

 He was educated at the Friends' School in his native 

 city, and then entered business, from which he retired 

 in'l>63. His attention was early directed to con 

 chology. and his reputation in that specialty became 

 world-wide. He was active in the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, of which he became a 

 member'in 1859, and in 1865 organized the movement 

 to consider methods for the erection of its present 

 building. Through his efforts the conchological sec- 

 tion contributed three thousand dollars to the work, 

 and he added an equal sum. In 1869 he wa* chosen 

 curator of the Academy, and under his direction the 

 library and collections were arranged in the new build- 

 ing in 1876. He was elected conservator of the concho- 

 logical section of the Academy in 1875, and held that 

 office until his death. The present condition of thus 

 collection, which is said to outrank even that of the 

 British Museum, is due to his skill and labor, and he 

 bequeathed funds for the preservation of the concho- 

 logical specimens of the Academy. He was a member 

 ntific societies, and in 1865-'71 edited the 

 " American Journal of Conchology," of which he 

 was one of the founders. Mr. Tryon was a prolific 

 writer on his specialty, and prepared numerous mem- 

 oirs, including " On- the Mollusca of Harper's Ferry '' 

 (1861); "Synopsis of the Recent Species of Gas- 

 trocha?nida? ' Monograph of the Order of 



Pholadacea" (1S6-'-: and 'Monograph of the Ter- 

 restrial Mollusks of the United States " 1 1 865.) ; " List 

 of American Writers on Conchology " (New York, 

 1861); "Synopsis of the Species * Strepomatidaj" 

 (1865). His' larger works comprise " Land and Fresh- 

 Water Shells of North America," including mono- 

 graph on the genus Strepomatidae (4 vols., Washing- 

 ton, 1873) ; " American Marine Conchology " (Phila- 

 delphia, 1873) ; ' Structural and Systematic Con- 

 chology " (o vols.. IS'---') : and " Manual of Concholo- 

 fy." including " Marine Shells," 9 vols., and "Land 

 hells." 3 vols. (1879-' 65 i. With William G. Binney 

 he edited " The Complete Writings of Constantino S. 

 Rafinesquc on Recent and Fossil Conchology " (Phila- 

 delphia, 1864). 



Underwood, Adin Ballon, lawyer, bom in Milford, 

 '. .-! in Boston, Mass., Jan. 14, 



18S8. Hetraa graduated at Brown University in 1849, 

 was admitted to the bar in 16o3. and practiced in Mil- 

 ford and Boston till the outbreak of the civil war. At 

 the first call for troops he raised a company for the 

 Second Massachusetts Infantry, was elected captain, 

 and joined Gen. Patterson's d'ivision in the advance 

 toward Winchester. He bore a conspicuous part in 

 the rear-guard fight during Gen. Banks's retreat, May 



