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ginia. By resolution of the New Jersey Leg- 

 islature, he also copied u The Minutes of the 

 Council" into sixteen volumes, and the 

 "Documents relating to the Colonial History 

 of the State of New Jersey," into thirty vol- 

 umes, all of which, with the index, are de- 

 posited in the library of the New Jersey His- 

 torical Society in Newark. 



Stowe, Calvin Ellis, an American educator, 

 horn in South Natick, Mass., April 26, 1802 ; 

 died in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 22, 1886. He 

 was educated at academies in Bradford, Mass., 

 and Gorham, Me., and at Bowdoin College, 

 Brunswick, Me., graduating at the latter with 

 such honor that he was immediately appoint- 

 ed a tutor in Dartmouth College. While 

 there he married a daughter of Prof. Tyler ; 

 hut she lived only a short time. He then ac- 

 cepted the appointment to a chair in Lane 

 Theological Seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, and 

 in 1836 married Harriet Beecher, daughter of 

 Rev. Lyman Beecher, one of the founders of 

 the institution. In the same year he was ap- 

 pointed by the Legislature of Ohio a special 

 commissioner to examine the school system of 

 Prussia and report upon the expediency of 

 adapting it to the public schools of the State. 

 He was also commissioned by the trustees of 

 the seminary to collect a library for that insti- 

 tution while abroad. In 1850 he resigned the 

 chair in Lane Seminary, and accepted a new 

 professorship in Bowdoin College, which he re- 

 tained uutil the death of Prof. Stuart, of the 

 Andover Theological Seminary, when he was 

 chosen to succeed him. He occupied the chair 

 twelve years, and in 1863 retired and removed 

 to Hartford, Conn. 



Snnderlaud, Thomas, an American lawyer, born 

 in Terre Haute, Ind., in 1821 ; died in New 

 York city, Oct. 9, 1886. He studied law early 

 in life, but caught the gold-fever and went to 

 California in 1849. After making a large for- 

 tune, he engaged in the practice of his profes- 

 sion, and became Chief-Justice of the Supreme 

 Court of California. He was a resident of Ne- 

 vada for some time, and was urged ineffectually 

 to become a candidate for United States Sena- 

 tor from that State. In politics he was a Dem- 

 ocrat. He had served many years in the Cali- 

 fornia Legislature, and was an active member 

 of the Scientific Society of San Francisco. 



Swords, Thomas, an American soldier, born in 

 New York city, Nov. 1, 1806; died there, 

 March 20, 1886. He was graduated at Colum- 

 bia College in 1826, and at the United States 

 Military Academy in 1829. Immediately after 

 leaving the Academy he was assigned to tbe 

 Fourth Infantry, and served in various parts 

 of the Southern States for four years, when he 

 was appointed first-lieutenant in the First 

 Dragoons, attaining the rank of captain March 

 3, 1837. During nearly the whole of the next 

 twelve years he was engaged on frontier duty, 

 serving with Gen. Leaven worth against the 

 Indians in the Southwest, and with Gen. 

 Stephen Kearny in the conquest of New Mexi- 



co and California, and being honored with the 

 order to raise the first American flag over 

 Sante Fe. In 1846 he was commissioned ma- 

 jor and assigned to the quartermaster's depart- 

 ment ; but, disliking office-work, he was sent 

 into active service in Mexico at his own re- 

 quest. For meritorious services during that 

 war he was brevetted lieutenant-colonel in 

 May, 1848. From 1848 till 1851 he was on 

 duty in the quartermaster's department in 

 Washington, D. C., and then, after similar 

 service in St. Louis, Mo., and in New Mexico, 

 was ordered to New York city, where he 

 served till 1857, being promoted meanwhile to 

 be deputy quartermaster-general, with the full 

 rank of lieutenant-colonel. On Aug. 3, 1861, 

 he was promoted to be assistant quartenn as- 

 ter-general, with the rank of colonel, and as- 

 signed as chief quartermaster of the Depart- 

 ment of the Cumberland, with headquarters in 

 Louisville, Ky. Gen. Swords was brevetted a 

 major-general in the regular army for faithful 

 and efficient services during the war, March 

 13, 1855, and retired Feb. 22, 1869. 



Tappan, Mason Weare, an American lawyer, 

 born in Newport, N. H., Oct. 20, 1817; died 

 in Bradford, N. H., Oct. 24, 1886. His father, 

 a lawyer of eminence, early removed to New- 

 port, but in 1818 settled in Bradford. He was 

 a pioneer in the anti-slavery movement, and 

 his house became a resting-place for the fu- 

 gitives. The son's early education began at 

 home, in the common school, and was supple- 

 mented by an academic course at Hopkinton, 

 and at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden. He 

 then studied law with his father, and later 

 with George W. Nesmith, of Franklin, was 

 admitted to the Merrimack County bar in 

 1841, and soon acquired a large practice. In 

 his boyhood days he resolved to abstain from 

 the use of intoxicants, and he kept his pledge. 

 His early political associations were with the 

 Whig and later with the Free-Soil party. Mr. 

 Tappan represented his town in the Legisla- 

 tures of 1853, 1854, and 1855, being chosen 

 upon his personal popularity (as Bradford was 

 strongly opposed to him in politics). Being a 

 candidate for Speaker of the House in 1854, 

 he nearly overcame a majority of twenty 

 against his party. The contest culminated in 

 the failure of the Democratic party to choose 

 a United States Senator that year, and the 

 next year in its complete overthrow in the 

 State. The following year, by combination of 

 all anti-Democratic parties, Mr. Tappan was 

 elected to Congress, from the Second District, 

 and was re-elected twice. In Congress he 

 gained reputation as a fearless champion of 

 the Union, and of the principles of the then 

 new Republican party. In the winter of 

 1860-'61 he represented his State on the cele- 

 brated Select Committee of Thirty-three, to 

 which was referred so much of the President's 

 annual message as related to the disturbed 

 condition of the country, and he joined C. C. 

 Washburn, of Wisconsin, in a minority re- 



