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Trimble, Joseph McDowell, clergyman. l><>nt in JlilU- 

 lo,i 'in:!!, Ky., in 1N>7; died in Columbus, Ohio, May 



,. II. removed to lllio 111 childhood, W0 



graduated at Oliio lnivcrsit\ , Atlicii.-, in 1^-Js, a nd 



Joined the Ohio Conicrcnce of tin- Methodist (CpU- 

 copul Church in ls-j',1. Iti 1->;J4 '<i."> he was secretary 

 oftbe Ohio Conference ; from ISM till his death he 



delegate U> every General 'onlerciice of hi* 

 Church; in IMS ami 185]) h,- was secretary of the 

 General Conference ; lor live \carshc was a pi 

 in Augusta College, Kentucky; in 1864-VJ8 In- was 



tt( missionary M-i-ri-tary in the West; and tor 

 nearly t'orty years he wa> a trustee ot < Miio Wcslcyan 

 Inhcr-itv. Dr. Trimble discharged the. duties of 

 fort\ ci._'ht appointment*, gave lii.s first dollar to aid 

 in establishing < 'hio YA'cslcyaii I diversity, t'ounded 

 the Preachers' Relief Society of his eont'erellee, and 



pi vi- it in all *i;r>,000. 



Tripp, Alonio, educator, born in Harwich, 

 Miiren 1-1, IM.s; died in Newton. Mas.-.. Dec. -jo, is-tl. 

 Hi- was lired t<> the sea, and visited F.uropc several 

 times, liis trip in 1847 being for the pUTPOM of Study- 

 ing the principal educational systems. On his n- 

 torn he was engaged by the Massachusetts Board ot' 



Education to lecture DOfon teachers' institutes, and 

 suhse,|Ucntl\ he taught in New Kngland aca<lemies, 

 and delivered lectures on " France and Europe since 

 1 s is" before the principal fducational institutions in 

 the Tinted States and Canada, In 1*4* he published 

 a book on his European travels, of which sixty edi- 

 tions were printed. 



Tufts, Gardiner, executive officer, bom in Lynn, 

 Inly o, Is-js; died in Boston, Mans., Nov. -j:'.. 

 Ib'Jl. He entered public life in 1801 as member of 

 the State Assembly, and the same year became con- 

 nected with the I'ost-otflce Department in Washing- 

 ton. In 18ti^ he was appointed by Gov. Andrew 

 Massachusetts State agent at Washington, the first 

 appointment of the kind by any governor, and he 

 held the office till 1876. During this time lie had 

 the care of the sick, wounded, and dead soldiers of 

 Ma.-.-achusetts in the Army of the Potomac: estab- 

 lished a free bureau for the collection of the pay, 

 bounties, and pensions of soldiers from his State; 

 collected more than $1,000,000 on these accounts; 

 and by appointment of Secretary Stanton served as a 

 member of the board for the inspection of military 

 hospitals and prisons in the Department of Wash- 

 ington. He was appointed a paymaster in the army 

 in 1863, but at the request of the State authorities he 

 resigned his commission and remained State agent. 

 I'nder Gov. Claflin's administration he waft appoint- 

 ed visiting agent tor the Hoard of State Charities and 

 agent for juvenile offenders in lsii:, and held the 

 office for ten years. He then became steward and 

 treasurer of the State' Reformatory for Women, and 

 after five veal's' service there he was elected superin- 

 tendent of the new State Reformatory at Concord in 

 1884, and held this office till his death. 



Turney, Jacob, lawyer, born in Givcnshurg. Pa.. Feb. 

 18, 18-J.~>: died theiv. Oct. 4, 1MM. He received an 

 academical education and was admitted to the bar in 

 1849. In Is.".' i he was elected district attorney for 

 Westmoreland County, in \*~>'-'< was re-elected, in 

 Is.'di was a Democratic presidential elector, in 1857 

 was elected State Senator, in 1871 was defeated for 

 the same office, and in 1874 and 1876 was elected 

 to Congress from the L Jlst Pennsylvania District as a 

 Democrat, lie also served as a member of the com- 

 mittees on Flections and on Territories. 



Tweedy, John H., pioneer, born in Danbury, Conn., 

 in 1814; died in Milwaukee, \Vis.. Nov. 1-J, L89L Ik- 

 was graduated at Yale College, studied law and was 

 admitted to the bar, and removed to Wisconsin in 

 1836. He was one of the earliest promoter* of rail- 

 road extension in that State, havinir presented the 

 draft of a proposition for the city to loan from $100,- 

 OOIP to x-j .-.IMIOII to aid the construction of any railroad 

 that would connect Milwaukee with the Mississippi 

 river at a public mcetiinr in Milwaukee on Feb. 1. 

 1849. The adoption of his proposition was the first 



step in the cnntion nf tin- prcMint great nyaUsn. 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. I'aul liuiln.iid < n.puny. 

 Ill 1M1 '4:.' he wits i 1. . t.-d in tin 'I , 1 1 it,, nu | ( ouncil, 

 in l-l>;t<> the Constitutional Convention, m 

 ( 'oiigrt-M u* Territorial dclc^ute, and in IMS wto. 

 defeated ttw the til>t Whig ealldi... , rii., r 



While in Coiijrrcs* he drew tin- enabling (|l t \,, r u., 

 admission of the Territory into the I uion UH u StaU-. 

 Alter serving in the LqgttUtON in is.Vi lie wir 

 from political life, and watt afterward . 

 financial corporation*! 



Dlher, James M., clergyman, born in 1-11; died in 

 Medforu, Mass., Dec. 31, 1891. He was iipprcnti- ed 



to the baker's trade, but when seventeen Near* old 



bewail preparing for the 1'niversalist iiiini-trv. ill 

 whloh he was ordained in IhJt'J. From IK:','.I till* 1844 



he lived in Lexington. Ma.->. II.- e-tabli-he.l the 

 lirst I niv<'|-.-alist pa|.er in the I'nited Mates in 1841, 

 and remained its sole owner till ]M;.".. In IK ( ;I } )( . 

 acquired the " Trumpet," and in IM',:; the "Cliristiun 

 Freeman." He WILS elected to t c (,.iH-ral Court 

 from Lynn in 1848, and, at the mmcst of Iloriu-c 

 Mann, was appointed to the Committee on Public 

 Education, and in 1851, 1857, and 18.08 he was elected 

 to the State Senate from .Middlesex Count v. In iK'.h 

 he was also a presidential elector on the l)emocratic 

 ticket. Afterward he became a Republican, an anti- 

 slavery advocate, and founder of the Massachusetts 

 Total Abstinence Society. In lsf,7 he was principal 

 agent of the State at the Paris Exhibition. 



Van Oleve. Horatio Phillips, military officer, born in 

 Princeton, H. J., Nov. 23, 1809; died in MinneaiK.lis, 

 Minn., April 24,1891. He was educated at Prince- 

 ton and at the I'nited States Military Academy, being 

 graduated at the latter in 18^1; served on 'frontier 

 duty in the army from 1831 till 1836; resigned and 

 engaged in farming near Monroe, Mich., till 1889; 

 and. after teaching in Cincinnati, Ohio, one \ear, fol- 

 lowed farming near Ann Arbor, Mich., till 1*54. In 

 Is.Vi he was a civil engineer in the State service, and 

 in 185i; was a pointed United States Surveyor of 

 Public Lands in .Minnesota. He was appointee! colo- 

 nel of the 2d Regiment of Minnesota Volunteers early 

 in 1861, took part in the operations in Kentucky, was 

 promoted brigadier-general of volunteers March 'Jl, 

 I8i^, and with the Army of the Ohio was at tl, 

 and capture of Corinth. At the battle of Stone River, 

 Teiin., he was disabled by a wound, but he soon re- 

 covered and commanded his brigade at Chickumuu- 

 ga. From December, 1863, till Aug. L'4, !>';.",. he was 

 in command at Mur freesborough. lie was hn \cttcd 

 major-general of volunteers March !:;. l;."i. and after 

 the war. by special act of Congress, he was restored 

 to the regular army and retired. In 1866-'70 and 

 1876-'82 he was Adjutant-(ieneral of Minnesota. 



Van Dyke, Henry Jackson, clergyman, horn in Ab- 

 ingdon. I'a.. March :;. lv_"_'; diea in Brooklyn. N. V.. 

 May :ii'>. ! v '.'l. He was graduated at the Tniversity 

 of Pennsylvania in 1 >>:;. and at Princeton Theolog'- 

 ical Seminary in 1st:,; was called to past orates in 

 Bridgeton, N. .1., in l*4. r >, Gcrmantown, I'a.. in 1862, 

 and Brooklyn. N. V.. in Isfi."; and was moderator of 

 the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in 

 Brooklyn in IS"! 1 ,. For nearly lotto years lie had 

 been pastor of the lid Presbyterian Church in Brook- 

 lyn. He was active in the movement for the reunion 

 <>f the old and new schools of the Church h. 

 He was a Calvinist of the Princeton school, and was 

 a member of the General Assembly's Committee on 

 Revision of the Westminster Confession of Faith. 

 A few days before his death lie was elected : 

 velt Professor of Systematic Theology in the I'nion 

 Theological Seminary. 



Vibbard, Ohannoey, capitalist, born in Gal way, Sara- 

 toga County, N". V., Nov. 11. 1M1: died in Mucon, 

 Ga.. .lime :>', ls;il. He was educated at Moll's Acndc- 

 mv. iii Albany, N. Y., became a grocery clerk when 

 tifteen years old. afterward entered a wholesale dry- 

 irixnls store in New York city, and in Is-'U went to 

 Montgomery. Ala., as a lxx)k-'keeiH'r. In is:;r, lie U>- 

 L'an his career ?n railroad work as chief clerk of the 



