TAYLOR, JAMES B. 



TELEGRAPHS. 



TAYLOR, Rev. JAMES B., D. D., an emi- 

 nent Baptist clergyman and author, born in 

 Barten-on-the-Hnmber, Lincolnshire, England, 

 March 19, 1804; died in Richmond, Va., De- 

 cember 22, 1871. When he was about a year 

 old his parents emigrated to the United States, 

 and he resided for twelve or thirteen years in 

 New York City. Here he obtained his early 

 education and made a profession of religion, 

 uniting with the First Baptist Church in New 

 York, then under the pastoral care of Rev. Dr. 

 Parkinson. About 1818 he removed with his 

 father's family to Mecklenburg County, Va., 

 where he obtained a good academical educa- 

 tion, and, on attaining adult age, entered the 

 ministry in this denomination. He preached 

 for a time as a home missionary, but in 1826 

 was called to the pastorate of the Second Bap- 

 tist Church in Richmond, where he soon ac- 

 quired a high reputation as an able and elo- 

 quent preacher and a most efficient pastor. 

 After thirteen years' labor in this church he ac- 

 cepted the appointment of chaplain to the Uni- 

 versity of Virginia, which he filled with great 

 success ; but, preferring Richmond as a resi- 

 dence, he returned thither, and in 1841 became 

 pastor of the Grace Street Baptist Church, with 

 which he remained till his election in 1845 as 

 Corresponding Secretary of the Foreign Mis- 

 sion Board of the Southern Baptist Conven- 

 tion, in which office he continued till a few- 

 weeks before his death. His duties in this 

 position were arduous, but his great executive 

 ability made him equal to them, and no benev- 

 olent organization in the country has been man- 

 aged with more skill, or, when the circum- 

 stances are considered, with greater success. 

 Dr. Taylor was all his life a close and diligent 

 student. Without the advantages of a collegiate 

 or theological training, he had by private study 

 made himself the peer of the eloquent and 

 learned clergymen who have graced the pulpits 

 of Richmond for the last forty years, andhe was 

 greatly beloved by them all. He was one of the 

 originators of the Virginia Baptist Education 

 Society, and one of the founders of Richmond 

 College, in which he always took a deep interest. 

 He was a man of great liberality and generos- 

 ity, denying himself often that he might have 

 wherewith to give. His published works were : 

 " Memoir of Luther Rice, one of the First Mis- 

 sionaries to the East ; " " Lives of Virginia 

 Baptist Ministers," 2 vols. ; " Memoir of Lott 

 Gary ; " and several minor works. He had 

 long been engaged in preparing a " History of 

 Virginia Baptists," which was nearly ready 

 for the press at the time of his death. 



TAYLOR, SAMUEL HAEVET, LL. D., an emi- 

 nent teacher and scholar, born in London- 

 derry, N. H., October 3, 1807 ; died at An- 

 dover, January 29, 1871. He received his early 

 education in the schools of his native town, 

 graduated from Dartmouth College in 1832 ; 

 was engaged in teaching for a year or two, 

 entered Andover Theological Seminary in 

 1834, and graduated in 1837, though, during 



his last year, 1836-'37, he was engaged as tutor 

 at Dartmouth. He was never ordained, but 

 from September, 1837, to his death, was prin- 

 cipal of Phillips Academy, Andover, which 

 under his care became the best classical ..and 

 preparatory school in the United States. He 

 received the honorary degree of LL. D. from 

 Brown University in 1851. Dr. Taylor was 

 an earnest opponent of the proposed new 

 system of education, which exalts physical 

 science at the expense of classical training. 

 After 1852 he was one of the editors of 

 the BibliotJieca Sacra. He had translated and 

 edited very carefully, " Krebs's Guide for 

 writing Latin ; " " Kuhner's Elementary 

 Grammar of the Greek Language ; " and, with 

 Rev. Bela B. Edwards, "Kuhner's Grammar 

 of the Greek Language ; " and had written 

 "Method of Classical Study" (1861), and 

 " Classical Study " (1870). He had also edited 

 some Latin text-books. Dr. Taylor was a man 

 of very superior scholarship, and was particu- 

 larly distinguished for his fine classical taste 

 and attainments. 



TEGHETOFF, Admiral WILHELM von, Bar- 

 on TEGHETOFF, an Austrian naval officer, born 

 in Marburg, Styria, in 1827 ; died at Vienna, 

 April 6, 1871. He was a pupil in the Ven- 

 ice Naval School, and entered the navy in 

 1845. In 1849 he took part in the blockade 

 of Venice, and attained the rank of captain in 

 1857, when he was sent to Egypt to improve 

 the trade between Austria and that country. 

 The year following he received command of 

 the corvette Archduke Frederick, and took 

 part in the naval operations of the war against 

 France. Soon after, he was placed in charge 

 of one of the departments of the Admiralty. 

 He accompanied the Archduke Maximilian to 

 Brazil, and in 1860 was placed in command 

 of a ship-of-war. Teghetoff, in 1862, received 

 command of the Austrian Adriatic Squadron. 

 Two years later he was transferred to the con- 

 trol of the North Sea Squadron, and gained a 

 victory over the Danes at Heligoland. In the 

 Austro-Italian War of 1866 he commanded 

 the Austrian fleet, and gained the important 

 victory of Lissa over the Italian fleet, com- 

 manded by Admiral Persano. On that oc- 

 casion the Austrian fleet of twenty-five vessels, 

 including seven iron-clads, dispersed the Italian 

 fleet of thirty-four vessels, and sunk the Ro 

 d'ltalia. Toward the close of the year, Teghe- 

 toff travelled abroad, and was in this country 

 in 1867, when he was instructed to apply in 

 Mexico for the body of the ill-fated Maximilian, 

 and convey it to Austria. He accomplished 

 this duty after many vexatious delays, and ar- 

 rived at Trieste June 20, 1868. The month 

 after his return home he was placed in charge 

 of the naval section which had just been at- 

 tached to the War Department. 



TELEGRAPHS. The submarine cables laid 

 between the years 1851 and the end of 1871 

 are about forty thousand miles in length, be- 

 sides duplicate (and, in some instances, tripli- 



