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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (ToxER VANDERBILT.) 



to the first exhibition a picture called " The Road 

 to the Sawmill." Mr. Thompson found his subjects 

 in Spain, Algiers, and Morocco, as well as in this 

 country. While his Oriental scenes are of interest, 

 however, he will probably be best remembered as a 

 painter of American historical themes. He painted 

 Revolutionary subjects like "Annapolis in 1776" 

 and " A Review at Philadelphia in 1777," and he 

 also chose several themes from colonial times. The 

 sympathy, knowledge, and merit of his historical 

 genres gave them a lasting interest. He was a con- 

 stant exhibitor at the National Academy through- 

 out his professional life, and his pictures were 

 agreeable features of many private collections. 



Toner, Joseph Meredith, scientist, born in 

 Pittsburg, Pa., April 30, 1825; died in Washington. 

 D. 0., Aug. 1, 1896. He studied at Western Penn- 

 sylvania University and Mount St. Mary's College ; 

 was graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 

 is.">:>. and settled in Washington, D. C., to practice, 

 in 1855. In the early part of his career as a phy- 

 sician he devised a scheme for collecting and pre- 

 serving the early medical literature of the United 

 States, which resulted in the establishment of the 

 remarkable library of the American Medical Asso- 

 ciation, which was placed in the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution. He was the founder of the Providence 

 Hospital and of St. Ann's Infant Asylum in Wash- 

 ington, and in 1871, by a gift of $3,000, founded 

 the Toner course of lectures, designed to bring out 

 new facts in medical science. A few years after- 

 ward he gave medals to Jefferson Medical College 

 to be awarded annually for four years for the best 

 thesis embodying the results of original investiga- 

 tion, and for several years he gave a similar medal 

 to the University of Georgetown. Dr. Toner de- 

 vi^ed the system of symbols of geographical locali- 

 ties which was adopted by the United States Post- 

 office Department for its official publications, com- 

 prising a small square indicating a central location 

 and the same with small lines projected from the 

 square to indicate the main and intermediate points 

 of the compass. He published a large number of 

 works relating to the medical profession. Probably 

 his most enduring work was' his research into early 

 American medical literature and its results. He 

 collected over 1,000 treatises published prior to 

 1800, and probably more than 4,000 sketches for an 

 -original "Biographical Dictionary of Deceased 

 American Physicians." In 1882 he presented to 

 Congress his collection, which comprised 26,000 

 books and 18,000 pamphlets. Dr. Toner had also 

 spent many years in making a collection of copies 

 of every original letter and paper written by George 

 Washington, whether preserved in the United 

 States or elsewhere, and it is believed that this col- 

 lection forms the largest assemblage of Washington 

 papers ever got together. 



Trnmlmll, Lynian, jurist, born in Colchester, 

 Conn., Oct. 12, 1813; died in Chicago, 111., June 25, 

 1896. He was a grandson of the Rev. Benjamin 

 Trumbull, D. D., theologian and historian, and was 

 educated at Bacon Academy. While leaching in 

 Georgia he studied law and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1837. Soon afterward he removed to Belle- 

 ville, 111., to practice. In 1840 he was elected to 

 the Legislature, where he had Abraham Lincoln 

 for an associate; in 1841 was appointed Secretary 

 of State ; and in 1848 was elected one of the three 

 justices of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was 

 elected to Congress as an anti-Nebraska Democrat 

 in 1854, but before the time arrived for him to take 

 his seat the Legislature elected him United States 

 Senator, his opponents being Abraham Lincoln, 

 candidate of the Whigs, and Gen. James Shields, 

 Democratic nominee for re-election. After several 

 ballots had been taken, Mr. Lincoln withdrew and 



asked his friends to vote for Judge Trumbull. In 

 1861 and 1867 he was re-elected, and he served con- 

 tinuously in that body for eighteen years. In the 

 Senate he early opposed his party on the slavery 

 question and his colleague, Stephen A. Douglas, 

 on the popular sovereignty doctrine. His antag- 

 onism to the plans for the 

 extension of slavery led him 

 first to denounce and then 

 to abandon his party and 

 to ally himself with the anti- 

 slavery workers. Through 

 the whole period of the civil 

 war he was a conspicuously 

 stanch Union man. He 

 urged timely and adequate 

 measures for the prosecution 

 of the war. supported the 

 emancipation proclamation, 

 defended the suspension of 

 the habeas corpus, intro- 

 duced a bill prohibiting 

 the return of slaves to 

 their owners and confiscating the property of all 

 persons in rebellion, and drafted the thirteenth 

 amendment to. the Constitution, which abolished 

 slavery forever in the United States. For many 

 \ears he was chairman of the Committee on the 

 Judiciary. His vole against the impeachment of 

 President Johnson was condemned by many of his 

 party associates, and he afterward acted with the 

 Democratic party, and was its candidate for Gov- 

 ernor of Illinois in 1880. He supported Horace 

 Greeley for President in 1872. and joined the Popu- 

 lists in 1894. In the last year he defended the offi- 

 cers of the American Railway Union in the pro- 

 ceedings against them growing out of the great 

 railway stiike. 



Tnekerman. Charles Keating', author, born in 

 Boston. Mass.. March 11,1821; died in Florence, 

 Italy. Feb. 26, 1896. He was a brother of Henry T. 

 Tuckerman, and was appointed the first United 

 States minister resident in Greece in 1868, serving 

 till 1872. He edited Rangabe's " Greece : Her Prog- 

 ress and Present Position " (New York, 1867) ; and 

 was author of "The Greeks of To-day" (1873); 

 " Poems " (London, 1885) ; and " Personal Recol- 

 lections of Notable People," (New York, 1895). For 

 his services in behalf of the Greeks, King George 

 conferred on him the decoration of the Order of the 

 Saviour. 



Tuttle. Isaac Henry, clergyman, born in New 

 Haven, Conn., Feb. 5, 1811 ; died in New York city 

 Nov. 20, 1896. He was graduated at Trinity Col- 

 lege, Hartford, in 1836; studied at the General 

 Theological Seminary and was ordained a deacon 

 in 1839 and a priest in the following year. In 1850 

 he accepted a call to St. Luke's Church in New 

 York city, of which he remained the active rector 

 till 1891, when he became rector emeritus. He 

 founded St. Luke's Home for Indigent Christian 

 Females and the Home for Old Men and Aged 

 Couples, aided in the founding of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Orphan Asylum and the Church of the 

 Beloved Disciple, and secured the removal of his 

 church from Hudson Street and the erection of a 

 new edifice on Lexington avenue at a cost of over 

 $250,000. He was among the first of the Episcopal 

 clergy in New York city to encourage the forma- 

 tion of sisterhoods. He bequeathed $4,000 to St. 

 Luke's Home for Indigent Females; $5,000 to 

 Trinity College, Hartford: and $10,000 to the 

 Church he had served so long. 



Vanderbilt, Maria Louisa, benefactor, born in 

 Coeymans, near Albany, N. Y., in 1821 ; died in 

 Scarboro, N. Y., Nov. 6,' 1896. She was a daughter 

 of the Rev. Samuel Kissam, and widow of William 



