olUTUAKIKS. AMKU1CAN. (STUART TAUXT.) 



Btuort, Mary Macrae, philanthropic. lx.ru \- 

 York cit\, in lslo;dicd tli.i.. I'.. .", Iv.iJ. she 



l.'liti T "(' Robert M.iclac, "Hi' uf the 



wcalt! .ML- "I New V.rk in his day, and 



married Robert I.. Stuart, ln-iul of the irell-EOOWll 

 Jinn "t sii./ar ivtincr.-, R. I.. ,V A. Stuart, ul>ut 1^1". 

 -iiart brothers were noted for their fift- t 

 charitable and educational institution*. In 1 -,,j iln-v 

 hc-_'iin appUinu' u certain percentage of their unniuil 

 income tu .-nine form <'f charity, an-l tlicir lirst gifts 

 aggregated $14,000. In Is7'.i, lin the. tleutli of Alc.x- 

 limited tliat their joint gifts had 

 amounted to *1. ;; '-' l.ooo, and from tiie time of his 



lil-otlnr's death till Ills null, ill December, lss_' ; 



Robert i;a\c more than x.'.oo.ooo. Robert L.Stuart, 

 havinir no near relatives, bci|Ucathcd his \\-hole prop- 

 cm absolutely to his widow, an e.-tatc valued at 

 nearly $6.000.000. The greater part of the benefac- 

 tion.* of the lirothcrs went to institutions connected 

 with the Presbyterian Church, and after Robert's 

 death his widow supplemented these Drifts with others 

 believed to aL"-'re._'iite *1 ,;,oo.ono. p,y licr will, exe- 

 cuted .Ian. Is, Is*,;, and tlin-e ciMlii-ils, dated rcspcct- 

 i\el\ Nov. i.-,, iss.7, Nov. -j.\ Iss'.i. U n,l April -Jii, 

 I -'.'. -he made special bci|Ucst.- to relatives and pcr- 

 Konul friends, hut she gave the lnilk of her property 

 t<> charitable and educational institutions. To the 

 Lenox Library shelve lu-r tine art collections, valued 

 at x.'ioo.ooo, (i(. r collections of shells, minerals, and 

 other natural-history specimens, u large portion of 

 her library, ami u residuary share in her estate, on 

 conditions tllat the collections should be placed in a 

 separate tire-proof structure and should never be ex- 

 hibited on the Lord'* l>ay. Other public bequests 

 - .000 each to nine charitable societies and in- 

 stitutions in New York city: xlo.ooo to Copper 

 I'nion: X-J.'I.OIM) to the -New York Cancer Hospital; 

 half of all the residue of her estate to the American 

 Bible Society, the Hoard of Foreign .Missions of the 

 Prcshx tcrian Church in the United States of America, 

 the Board of Home Missions of the same Church, the 

 1'rcsbyteriaa Hospital in New York city, the Lenox 

 Library, the Theological Seminary of the 'Presbyterian 

 Church at Princeton, and the Hoard of Church Krvc- 

 tionof tin- Presbyterian Church in the 1'nited States 

 of America; and the other half to the Trustees of the 

 Presbyterian Heard of Publication, the Hoard of 

 Education of the Presbyterian Church in the 1'nited 

 States of America, the Presbyterian Hoard of Re- 

 lief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and 

 Orphans of Deceased Ministers, the Hoard of .Mis- 

 sions for Frccdmen of the same Church, the Ameri- 

 can Sunday-school Union, the. Trustees of the Pres- 

 bytery of New York for church extension in the 

 city, the New York Hible Society, the American 

 Tract Society, the New City Mission and Tract 

 Society, the Young Men's Christian Association of 

 New York city, the Presbyterian Home for Aired 



Women, the Association for the Relief of Respectable 



Aired Indigent Females, the Home for IncuraMes. the 

 Association for the Hem-lit of Colored Orphans, the 

 Colored Home, the Children's Aid Soeietv. the New 

 York Juvenile Asylum, the Protestant Half-orphan 

 Home, the Soeietv for the Relief of Poor Widows 

 with Small Children, the Soeietv for the Relief of 

 Destitute Children of Seamen, the New York Kye 

 and Kar Intirmary. the New York Society for tiie 

 Prevention of Crucltv to Children, the Manhattan 

 Kye and Kar Hospital, the Society for the Relief of 

 Raptured and Crippled, the Woman's Hospital, and 

 the Orphan Asylum at Hloomimrdale. A computa- 

 tion of the value of her estate. .-<:,.< >oo,ooi i. would en- 

 able her executors to pay t<> cadi of the seven institu- 

 tions to whom the first half of the residuary estate was 

 iriven more than *:',oo.ooo, and to each of the twenty- 

 six specified under the second half more than *sn. ooo. 

 beside* pay i HIT the specific hci|Ucst>. which amountol 

 ..ooo. She originally intended irivinir Jf.">o,ooii 

 to the American Museum of Natural History for its 

 maintenance fund and her natural-history specimens 

 and books relating thereto and $50,000 to the Mctro- 



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poliUn Museum of Art ; hut * fear that UieM institu- 

 tion- iniu'hl bethlOWB ojwn to the public on Sun 

 da\ led her to Ililik-: tin- din|M (B itioli ( the article* 

 mid money ubose noted by c.li-iU. 



Swift, John Franklin, luwu-r, horn in Howling Green, 



K\.. I'eb. _'s, lv_".i; died i'n Tokio, Jupun, Mai 



1 '-'.'I. When eighteen \.ar- old ! .to M. 



M-i.. when- lie learned tin- tiiiMiiith'n trudc. In 



Is,:,^ he went to San Pranciitco and cnifujfvd inihfprixl- 



llce bll.-ilie.-.-, till he betran stuil\ili/ law. Ulld .' 



he was admitted to the bar. He MM>|I beeuilie widely 



known as a constitutional lawyer and us an cli<juc-nt 

 speaker, and was succe.-sful in manairini; lur^e case*. 

 In Isiij he bewail taking un active part in iM>litic ; in 

 -7:t. and 1^77 he was a DMOdDCC of the Lt-|riiila- 

 ture ; in Is;:, was defeated as an indciN-ndcnt 

 date for Congress ; i,, 1^77 Wu ., elected to ConjmaMi U 

 a Republican; and in ISMI ),,. accompanied .):. 

 An^'cll and William II. Trescott to Pekin, where they 

 negotiated a treaty between the United Sta' 

 China. In ISM; he was defeated is the Republican 

 candidate for Governor of California, and in March, 

 ls--.li. he was appointed minister to .la). an. 



Taft, Alphonao, jurist, born in Town.-hend, Vt.. Nov. 

 5, IblO; <lied in San Dicjro, Cal., May ^1. 1M"1. Ho 

 wa> u'laduatcd at Yale College in 1883, tauglit two 

 years in the hi^h school in EUinctOQ, Conn., was a 

 tutor and law student at Yale in lS;i">-'37, and was 

 admitted to the bar in New Haven in 1 s ';*. In IM'i 

 he removed to Cincinnati, where he acquired a langc 

 jiractiec. He was a delegate to the National Repub- 

 lican < '(invention in 1856, and was defeated us Repub- 

 lican candidate for Congress the same year. In 1V..1 

 he was appointed jud^re of theSiyierior Court of Cin- 

 cinnati to fill a vacancy, and on the expiration of the 

 term lie wits twice elected to the office, once by the 

 unanimous vote of both parties. From IbTl.when he 

 resigned, till 187t> he practiced law in partnership 

 with two of his sons, and in 1875 he was defeated as 

 candidate for the Republican nomination for Gov- 

 ernor because of a judicial opinion he had rendered 

 concerning the Hible in the public schools. In March, 

 l^T'l, he was appointed Sccivtary of War, and in May 

 following he was transferred to the office of Attorney- 

 General, which he held till March, 1*77. He then 

 practiced law in Cincinnati till April, lss-j, when he 

 was appointed United States minister to Austria, 

 whence he was transferred to Russia in ltS4, where 

 lie served till August. 1885. 



Taloott, Alvan, physician, born in North Bolton, 

 Conn., Aucr. 17, 18O4 ; died in Guilford, Conn., Jan. 

 17. l^'.'l. lie was graduated at Yale College in 1*24, 

 and at the Yale Medical School in 1831 ; practiced in 

 Ycrnon. Conn., till 1*41, aiid in Guilford till about 

 l--so. and was one of the best G reek scholars in the 

 State. He spent mu>:h of his leisure for many years 

 in preparing genealogies of the descendants of Guil- 

 ford's furty original settlers; published a " Genealo- 

 gy of the' Chittenden Family" il^s-j,; j_r a \. 

 o.io to Yale Col leire to endow the Tulcott professorship 

 of Greek in l*ss;aild bei)Ueathed hi> medical and 

 surirical books and all his instruments to the medical 

 department of the college. 



Talmage, Ooyn, clergyman, liorn in Somcrvillc, N. J.. 



Dec. 7. l*L'l; died there, June _'4. l*\'l. He 

 brother of the Rev. Thoniiis De Witt Talmairc. D. D., 

 wus irradiiated at Rutgei-s College in 1*4'J, and then 

 took a three years' course at the Theological Seminary 

 in New Hrunswiek. N. .1. After holding pastorates 

 ill several places in New York and New Jersey, lie 

 was cho-cii secretary of the Hoard of Domestic Mis- 

 sions of the Dutch Reformed Church in Isil.'t. He 

 was President of the General Synod of the Reformed 

 Church of America in 1*74. lr. Talmairc published 

 numerous sermons and tracts, and was a frcijucnt con- 

 tributor to rehsrious |H-riodicals. 



Taunt, Emory H., naval officer, bom in New .' 

 about Is-i.'i; died in lioniu, Coiiiro Free State, Africa, 

 .Ian. I 1 -, lv.il. He was a|-|x>inted a midshipman in 

 the United States navy in 18A&J was ]>n.mot,d i-n- 

 sign July 1^, 1*70, matter Dec. >. 1-7'-', and lieu- 



