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and prepare himself for business life. lie 

 therefore entered Columbia College, New York 

 city, was graduated in 1838, and upon the re- 

 turn of the family to Baltimore became partner 

 in a commission house dealing with the West 

 Indies and South America, in 1840. In 1843 he 

 married Mary, a daughter of Hon. Reverdy 

 Johnson. His firm prospered till 1853, when, 

 through reverses, they were forced to discon- 

 tinue business. The partnership was dissolved, 

 and Mr. Travers again removed to New York. 

 In 1854 he formed a partnership with Edmund 

 H. Muller, and they began business in Wall 

 Street as stock-brokers. In July, 1856, he was 

 admitted to membership in the New York 

 Stock Exchange. On the expiration of his 

 partnership in 1857, Mr. Travers became asso- 

 ciated with Leonard Jerome, and it is believed 

 that each partner was worth over $1,000,000 

 when their partnership was dissolved by limita- 

 tion. Mr. 'Travers was afterward associated 

 with C. Kowalsky, Van Schaik & Masstt, 

 Plume & Van Embnrgh, and, as silent partner, 

 with French & Travers, J. I). Prince & Co., 

 Prince & Whitely, Travers & Hackman, and 

 Moale, Armstrong & Co., of Baltimore. In 

 1880 Mr. Travers began building the pictur- 

 esque village of Lyndhurst, in New Jersey, 

 about fifty minutes' ride from New York, to 

 provide domiciles for people in moderate cir- 

 cumstances, leasing the buildings at a small 

 rent, and giving tenants the option of buying 

 them by easy installments. This is now a thriv- 

 ing community, with several factories, also 

 built by him. He was a man of much original 

 wit, which an impediment in his speech great- 

 ly sharpened, popular in every circle, and lav- 

 ishly generous. 



Treat, Snmnel If., an American lawyer, born 

 in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1812; died in 

 Springfield, 111., March 27, 1887. He was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in his native State, and, re- 

 moving to Springfield in 1834, formed a law 

 partnership with George Forquer, formerly at- 

 torney-general of Illinois, and subsequently 

 register of the land-office in Springfield. The 

 death of Mr. Forquer left Mr. Treat in sole pos- 

 session of a large and growing law practice. In 

 1839 a new J-tute judicial circuit was formed, 

 and Stephen T. Logan appointed judge. After 

 serving about three months he resigned, and 

 Gov. Carlin appointed Mr. Treat to fill the va- 

 cancy. He was afterward elected to the same 

 bench, serving till 1841, when he was trans- 

 ferred to the Supreme Court of the State. He 

 held this office continuously till 1855. On the 

 division of the former United States Judicial 

 District of Illinois into the northern and south- 

 ern districts. Judge Treat was appointed to the 

 latter by President Pierce, and at the time of 

 his death had held the office over thirty years. 



Truxtiin. William Talbot, an American naval 

 officer, born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 11, 

 1824; died in Norfolk, Va., Feb. 25, 1887. He 

 was appointed midshipman in the United 

 States Navy Feb. 9, 1841, and, after a service 



of five years at sea and one at the United 

 States Naval Academy, passed the examina- 

 tion Aug. 10, 1847, and received the warrant 

 of passed-midshipman. He was attached to 

 the flag-ship " Brandy wine " and brig " Perry " 

 on the Brazilian station 1847-'48 ; r? turned 

 from Brazil as acting master on the slaver 

 "Independence," captured by the " Perry " off 

 Rio de Janeiro, January, 1848 ; and served on 

 the " Dolphin " in 1853 when the bank on 

 which the first transatlantic cable was laid was 

 discovered, and the first specimens of the bot- 

 tom brought up. In 1854 he was detailed to 

 special duty with the Strain expedition to sur- 

 vey a route for a ship-canal across Darien ; in 

 1855 promoted to the grades of master and 

 lieutenant; in 1855-'57 on coast-survey duty, 

 and in 1861 attached to the sloop " Dale " as 

 executive officer. In the following year that 

 vessel was assigned to the North Atlantic 

 blockading squadron, and he was placed in 

 command, with the grade of lieutenant-com- 

 mander. He remained attached to that squad- 

 ron till the close of the war, taking part in 

 the capture of Plymouth, N. C., 1864, the two 

 attacks and capture of Fort Fisher, N. C., 

 1864-'65, and in various engagements with 

 Confederate batteries along the const of North 

 Carolina. He was promoted to the grade of 

 commander in 1866, and in that and the follow- 

 ing years was on special duty at the Philadel- 

 phia Navy-yard. He had command of the 

 " Jamestown," of the Pacific squadron, in 1868- 

 '70 ; was inspector of ordnance at the Boston 

 Navy-yard 1871-'73 ; commanded the " Brook- 

 lyn " 1873-'75 ; was a member of the Board of 

 Inspectors 1876 ; and in command of the 

 Brooklyn Navy-yard 1879-'80. After his pro- 

 motion to the grade of commodore he was in 

 command a second time of the Brooklyn Navy- 

 yard, and of that at Norfolk, Va. His nomi- 

 nation by the President for promotion to the 

 grade of rear-admiral was held back so long 

 by the Senate Naval Committee that he had to 

 be retired on the grade of commodore. 



Tulane, Paul, an American philanthropist, 

 born in Princeton, N. J., about 1800; died 

 there March 28, 1887. He received a common- 

 school education, and when eighteen years old 

 rode to New Orleans on horseback, and 

 opened a store there for the sale of general 

 merchandise, from which he realized a fortune 

 of over $150,000 by 1828. He continued in 

 this business for nearly forty years, engaging 

 at the same time in cotton and real-estate trans- 

 actions. In 1867 he retired with a large for- 

 tune, making his home in Princeton. For 

 many years it was known to a few of his most 

 intimate friends that he was regularly and 

 liberally assisting several of the charitable in- 

 stitutions of New Orleans, but it was not till 

 1882 that he made the gift that will perpetuate 

 his name among the grand philanthropists of 

 the United States. In that year he transferred 

 to a board of trustees all the property he pos- 

 sessed in New Orleans, which was then ap- 



