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he was appointed by Gov. Brownlow attorney-gen- Van Buren, Daniel Tompkina, military officer, born in 

 eral for the Third Judicial District of Tennessee, and Kingston, N. Y., in 18'24; died in Plainfteld N 1 

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was elected to the office in 1869 and 1870. In 1872, July 



1874, and 1876 he was elected to Congress from the States Military Academy in 1847, entered the army as 



2d Tennessee District as a Republican, and served on 

 the Committees on Military Affairs and on Elections. 



Trask, Eliphalet, banker, born in Monson, Mass., 

 Jan. 8, 1806 ; died in Springfield, Mass., Dec. 9, 1890. 

 He removed to Boston in 1834, and established him- 

 self in the foundry business, subsequently becoming 

 President of the Hampden Savings Bank, director in 

 the First National Bank of Springfield, and director 

 in the Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He was a 

 founder of St. Paul's Universalist Church, and an act- 

 ive Free Mason and Odd Fellow. He began his po- 

 litical career as a Federalist, and was afterward con- 

 spicuous as a Whig, Know-Nothing, Republican, and 

 Prohibitionist. He held office as selectman of the old 

 town, alderman of the city in 1852-'54, mayor in 

 1854, member of the Legislature in 1856, 1857, and 

 1862, and Lieutenant-Governor of the State with Gen. 

 Banks in 185S, 1859, and 1860. While mayor he ef- 

 fectually suppressed the liquor traffic. 



Tresch, John F. J., artist, born in New York city, 

 April 15, 1862; died there, March 14, 1890. He was 

 deaf and dumb from birth, was educated in a private 

 school for deaf mutes in New York city, and in the 

 Roman Catholic Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 

 in Montreal, Canada, and begun his art studies while 

 in the latter institution. He returned to New York 

 when seventeen years old, studied painting for four 

 years, and finished the course with Prof. Corelio in 

 1884. He then established a studio on upper Broad- 

 way and engaged in portrait painting, and during his 

 two last years gave much attention to illustrating 

 periodicals. He was an artist of much promise. 



Tucker, Nathaniel Beverley, journalist, born in Win- 

 chester, Va., June 8, 1820; died in Richmond, Va., 

 July 4, 1890. He was educated at the University of 

 Virginia; founded the " Sentinel" in Washington, 

 D. C., in 1853, and edited it for three years; was elect- 

 ed printer to the United States Senate in 1853 ; and 

 was United States consul at Liverpool from 1857 till 

 1861. Returning to the United States after the be- 

 ginning of the civil war, he entered the service of the 

 Confederacy, and was sent on special missions to Eng- 

 land and France in 1862, and to Canada in 1863. 

 From 1865 till 1868 he resided in Mexico city, and 

 since 1870 he had lived in Washington, D. C., and 

 Berkeley Springs, W. Va, 



Tuckerman, Samuel Parkman, musical composer, born 

 in Boston, Mass., Feb. 11, 1819 ; died in Newport, 

 R. I., June 30, 1890. He studied music, became 

 organist and director of the choir in St. Paul's Church, 

 Boston, in 1840, went to England for further study in 

 1849, and received the diploma of the Academy of St. 

 Cecilia, Rome, in 1852, and the degree of Mus. Doc. 

 at the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1853. 

 He then resumed his offices in St. Paul's Church, and 

 lectured on sacred music and gave performance of 

 church music till 1 856, when he returned to England 

 and remained four years. A third visit to England 

 lasted from 1868 till 1879. Dr. Tuckerman collected 

 a large and rare musical librarv, and published: 

 "The Episcopal Harp" (1844)"; "The National 

 Lyre," jointly with Silas A. Bancroft and Henry K. 

 Oliver (1848) ; " Cathedral Chants " (London, 18f>2) ; 

 and " Trinity Collection of Church Music" (1864). 

 Separate pieces of note are the festival anthem, " I 

 was glad " ; the cantata " I looked, and behold a 

 Door was opened in Heaven"; and the anthems, 

 " Hear my Prayer " and " Blow ye the Trumpet." 



Vallejo,' Manuel Gonzales, military officer, born in 

 Monterey, Cal., in 1809; died in Sonoma, Cal., Jan. 

 18, 1890. He entered the Mexican army in early life, 

 was identified with public events during the Mexican 

 occupation of California, was at one time military 

 governor of the Territory, and after it became an 

 American State was a member of its first Constitu- 

 tional Convention. He was considered the oldest 

 living native of California for many years. 



2d lieutenantln the 2d Artillery^ served through the 

 Mexican War, was promoted 1st lieutenant Feb. 14 

 1849, was assistant Professor of Natural and Experi- 

 mental Philosophy at the United States Military 

 Academy in 1849-' 50, and was on coast-survey duty 

 from Dec. 2, 1852, till 1855, when he resigned. He 

 then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and 

 practiced law and civil engineering in his native city. 

 At the beginning of the civil war he re-entered the 

 army, was chief of staff' to Gen. John A. Dix while 

 that officer commanded the Department of Pennsyl- 

 vania, Middle Department, at Baltimore, 7th Army 

 Corps, at Fort Monroe, and the Department of the 

 East, and assistant adjutant-general on the staff of 

 Gen. Joseph Hooker from July 16, 1865, till Feb. 9. 

 1866. He was brevetted brigadier-general United 

 States Volunteers March 13, 1865, and was mustered 

 out of the service March 20, 1866. After the war he 

 settled in Plaintield, N. J., and engaged in surveying 

 and civil engineering. 



Vinton, Frederick, librarian, born in Boston, Mass., 

 Oct. 9, 1817 ; died in Princeton, N. J., Jan. 1, 1890. 

 He was graduated at Amherst College in 1837, studied 

 theology at Andover and New Haven, and became 

 first assistant in the Boston Public Library in 1856. 

 He arranged the 30,000 volumes presented to the 

 library by Joshua Bates, and assisted in preparing the 

 " Index to the Catalogue of Books in Bates Hall " 

 (1861), and the first supplement to it (1866). From 

 1865 till 1873 he was first assistant in the Congres- 

 sional Library, and compiled six annual supplements 

 to the " Alphabetical Catalogue of the Library of 

 Congress" and an "Index of Subjects" (2 vols., 

 Washington, 1869). In 1873 he was appointed libra- 

 rian of the College of New Jersey, and he held the 

 office till his death, publishing a " Subject Catalogue " 

 of the library (New York, 1884) and three "Bulletin 

 List" supplements. 



Walker, James Peter, Congressman, born in Lauder- 

 dale County, Tenn., March 14, 1851 ; died in Dexter, 

 Mo., July 19, 1890. He removed to Missouri in 1867, 

 was elected to Congress from the 14th Missouri Dis- 

 trict as a Democrat in 1886 and 1888, and served on 

 the committees on levees and improvements of the 

 Mississippi river, invalid pensions, expenditures on 

 public buildings, commerce, and on expenditures in 

 the Post Office Department. 



Wallace, George D., military officer, born in South 

 Carolina, June 29, 1849 ; died at Porcupine Creek, 

 South Dakota, Dec. 28, 1890. He was graduated at 

 the United States Military Academy and appointed 

 2d lieutenant in the 7th United States Cavalry June 

 14, 1872 ; was promoted 1st lieutenant June 25, 1876, 

 and captain Sept. 23, 1885 ; and was adjutant of his 

 regiment from June, 1876, till June. 1877. At the 

 time of the Custer massacre, in 1876, he was attached 

 to Reno's command. When Reno sought cover, the 

 adjutant of the regiment fell from his horse mortally 

 wounded. In the face of a terrible fire from the 



musical Jiorary, ana puonsnea: Indians, Wallace threw himself from his horse. 

 Harp " (1844)"; " The National grasped the body of the adjutant, remounted, and 



carried the officer more than a mile toward a place of 

 safety before he was compelled to abandon his bur- 

 den. At the time of Wallace's death. Col. Forsythe 

 was disarming Big Foot's band of Indians, who had 

 approached the Pine Ridge agency under an agree- 

 ment to surrender. While the disarming was in prog- 

 ress, the Indians suddenly began firing, and Capt. 

 Wallace and several privates were shot dead. The 

 young officer had shown rare courage on several oc- 

 casions, and was highly esteemed in army circles. 

 Walton, Edward Pays'on, journalist, born in Mont- 



Klier, Vt., Feb. 17, 1812; died there. Dec. 19, 1890. 

 3 studied law, but soon relinquished it for journal- 

 ism, and, after learning the printer's trade, became 

 editor of the " Vermont Watchman." After serving 

 one year in the State House of Representatives, he 



