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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. 



port. The majority had agreed to, and sub- 

 mitted, a report recommending amendments 

 to the Constitution, by which the South should 

 acquire all it had demanded for the institution 

 of slavery. The minority report recommend- 

 ed the adoption of the following : u Resolved, 

 That the provisions of the Constitution are 

 ample for the preservation of the Union and 

 the protection of the material interests of the 

 country ; that it needs to be obeyed rather 

 than amended ; and our extrication from pres- 

 ent difficulties is to be looked for in efforts to 

 preserve and protect the public property and 

 enforce the laws, rather than to new guaran- 

 tees for particular interests, or compromises, 

 or concessions to unreasonable demands." On 

 Feb. 5, 1861, this report was submitted, and 

 Mr. Tappan made one of his most patriotic 

 speeches in support of the Government. When 

 President Lincoln called for 75,000 three 

 months' volunteers, Mr. Tappan was one of 

 the earliest to enlist, and was commissioned 

 colonel of the First Regiment from New 

 Hampshire, leaving for the seat of war May 

 25, 1861. He was offered the command of the 

 Fourth (three years') Regiment, but declined 

 it. Since then he had been occupied with his 

 legal practice. In 1876 he received the ap- 

 pointment of Attorney-General of the State, 

 which office he held until his decease. On 

 Sept. 14, 1886, he presided over the Republi- 

 can State Convention, and made an elaborate 

 presentation of the party issues of that can- 

 vass. In the presidential election of 1872 he 

 supported his life-long friend Horace Greeley. 

 Col. Tappan was thrice married, and left a 

 son by his first wife, and a daughter by his 

 wife now living. 



Taylor, William, an American legislator, born 

 in New York city, in 1810; died in Middle- 

 town, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1886. He was graduated 

 at Union College in 1838, and at the time ot 

 his death was the oldest member of the Psi 

 Upsilon fraternity. For several years he was 

 a school trustee in New York city, and with 

 the late Hon. Townsend Harris designed the 

 Free Academy, since known as the College of 

 the City of New York. In the years 1852-'53 

 he represented the Thirteenth Assembly Dis- 

 trict in the Legislature of New York as a Re- 

 publican, having formerly been a Whig. He 

 had rendered efficient service as a member 

 of the Sunday-School Union, and was at one 

 time associate editor of the "Whig Press" of 

 Middletown. 



Terhune, John, an American printer, born in 

 Blauenburg, N. J., May 4, 1793 ; died in New 

 Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 9, 1886. He was edu- 

 cated in the grammar-school at Princeton, 

 N. J., and in 1812 went into business in New 

 Brunswick as a printer, publisher, book-binder, 

 and stationer, remaining in almost daily charge 

 of his store till the day of his death. He was 

 the printer of the celebrated " Webster's Ele- 

 mentary Spelling-Book," and was a justice of 

 the peace for many years. 



Thatcher, Thomas Antony, an American educa- 

 tor, born in Hartford, Conn., Jan. 11, 1815; died 

 in New Haven, Conn., April 7, 1886. He was 

 graduated at Yale College in 1835, and for 

 three years was employed in teaching. In 

 1838 he was appointed a tutor at Yale, and in 

 1843 became Professor of Latin, holding the 

 office continuously till his death. 



Thaxter, Benjamin, an American merchant, 

 born in Abingdon, Mass., June 2, 1788; died 

 in Boston, Mass., Sept. 6, 1886. He was 

 brought up on his father's farm, and on going 

 to Boston, when quite young, found employ- 

 ment as supercargo on a vessel bound to Medi- 

 terranean ports. On the return voyage the 

 vessel stopped in Chesapeake Bay, where it 

 was captured by an English man-of-war. 

 Young Thaxter was taken prisoner, and was 

 in confinement when the news of Com. Per- 

 ry's victory on Lake Erie was received there. 

 After his release and return to Boston he es- 

 tablished a trade with the provinces, and also 

 ran a line of packets between Boston and 

 Philadelphia. He was a director in the Eagle 

 Bank, and one of the trustees of the Provident 

 Institution for Savings. 



Thayer, Thomas B., an American clergyman, 

 born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 10, 1812; died 

 there, Feb. 12, 1886. He was educated in the 

 Grammar and Latin Schools of Boston, and 

 entered Harvard College, but was obliged to 

 leave at the end of the first year's course, and 

 soon afterward he became an assistant teacher 

 in the Hawes Grammar-School, Boston. A few 

 years later he devoted himself to the work of 

 the ministry, his first engagement being with 

 the Universalist Society in South Dedharn (now 

 Norwood), Mass., where he supplied the pulpit 

 for several months. In June, 1832, he received 

 letters of fellowship from the Boston Associa- 

 tion, and was ordained by that body in Decem- 

 ber following. From 1833 till 1845 he was pas- 

 tor of the First Universalist Society at Lowell, 

 Mass., and from 1845 till 1851 held pastoral re- 

 lations with the society in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 then returning to his former charge in Lowell. 

 Subsequently he was pastor of the Shawmut 

 Universalist Church in Boston for a few years, 

 and then resigned from regular duties. He 

 had made the tour of Europe and the Holy 

 Land, and had long been editor of the " Uni- 

 versalist Quarterly," and one of the editors of 

 the " Christian Leader." He was the author 

 of several books of wide circulation, among 

 which may be cited." Over the River," "The- 

 ology of Universalism," and "Christianity 

 against Infidelity." 



Trow, John F., an American printer, born in 

 Andover, Mass., in 1810 ; died in Orange, N. J., 

 Aug. 8, 1886. He learned the printing trade 

 with Messrs. Flagg and Gould, and after pub- 

 lishing a newspaper in New Hampshire for 

 some time, removed to New York, and in 1852 

 established a printing-house, and began the 

 publication of " Trow's New York City Direc- 

 tory," which is still issued by a company. 



