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Knox College, Toronto, and at Amhenit, Mann. He 

 married Mi-- Kate I.inton, of Montreal, and was tii>t 

 appointed Professor of Languages in Edgeworth Scm 

 inary, (ireen>boro, N. ( '., and afterward in Mount 

 Washington Institute, New York. Daring this period 

 itrihutcd to " Putnam's Maira/ino" articles en 

 titled " Kaml>lfs over tlio Uealms of Verbs and Sub- 

 stantives,'' which were oinboilied in ' Rambles 

 amoinr Words" (1869). Subsequently ho became a 

 iiu'inher of the editoriiil stuff of the New York 

 Times," and in 1862 he was sent to the front as a 

 wur correspondent There he incurred the displeas- 

 ure of the military authorities, and Gen. Burnside's 

 il encounter with him, (icii. Monde's action 

 (July 6, 1864) in ordering him to leave the lines, and 

 the caustic mention of him in Gen. Grant's "Mem- 

 oirs," have been much discussed. At the expiration 

 of the war Mr. Swinton visited the Confederate gen- 

 enils and ohtaimul a vast amount of information that 

 was not attainable elsewhere. His principal works 

 on tin- civil war are: "Campaigns of the Army of the 

 Potomac" (1866), "The Twelve Decisive Battles of 

 the War " (1867), and u The History of the New York 

 Seventh Regiment during the Rebellion " (1870). On 

 . I uly f5, 1869, he was elected Professor of English in 

 the University of California. He was very popular 

 with the students, and was universally recognized by 

 the schoolmen of that State as a man of genius ; but 

 he dirt'ered with President Oilman in respect to the 

 prominence due to the colleges of mining and agri- 

 culture, Swintou wishing the University of California 

 to rank with Cornell and the College of Agriculture 

 at Amherst. He. resigned his professorship March 3, 

 1874, and removed to Brooklyn, N. Y. Here he com- 

 posed text-books of such excellence that he may be 

 said to have created a new era in school literature, for 

 which he was awarded a gold medal at the Paris 

 Exposition. Personally, he was tall and well formed, 

 with blonde complexion and regular features ; eyes 

 large and luminous, voice well modulated, articula- 

 tion deliberate, without Scotch accent When en- 

 gaged upon any literary work he toiled day anl night 

 till it was completed, but when his work was done he 

 enjoyed his hours of idleness like an Oriental. 

 Among his unpublished manuscripts have been found 

 a brochure on Columbus, materials for an encyclo- 

 pedia of language, and a brief history of the United 

 He also left valuable papers pertaining to the 

 civil war. 



Talmage, John Van Nest, clergyman, born in Somer- 

 ville, N. J., Aug. 18, 1819: died in Bound Brook, 

 N. J., Aug. 19, 1892. He was a brother of the Rev. 

 I 1'e Witt Talmage; was graduated at Rutgers 

 College in 1842, and at the New Brunswick Theo- 

 logical Seminary in 1845; and was licensed as a mis- 

 sionary bv the I'hiladelphiaClassisof the Dutch Re- 

 formed church in 1846. In the same year he began 

 missionary work in China, and ho remained there 

 forty years. Dr. Talmago translated several books of 

 the Bible into the colloquial dialect of Amoy, and 

 published a " Chinese-English Dictionary " (1888). 



Tanner, Edward Allen, educator, born in Waverly, 

 111.. Nov. -29, 18.T7; died in Jacksonville, 111., Feb. 8, 

 II was graduated at Illinois College in 1857, 

 taught school for four years, was then appointed 

 Professor of Latin in a college on the Paci tic coast, 

 ted Professor of Latin and Rhetoric in Illi- 

 nois College in 1865, appointed financial agent of the 

 college in 1*81, and elected its president in 188-2. He 

 added land, buildings, and endowments, increased 

 the number of professors, raised the standard of 

 scholarship, and brought the institution from a mqri- 

 bund condition to one of prosperity. President Tan- 

 ner was a clergyman of the Congregational Church. 



Taylor, Lathrop Miner, pioneer, born in Clinton, 

 Oneidi County, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1805; died in South 

 Bend. I ml., Aug. 29, 1892. His father, Israel Taylor, 

 with his family, removed to Detroit in 1811, and when 

 { ' M. Hull surrendered the entire family became pris- 

 oners and subsequently were paroled. They removed 

 to Montgomery County, Ohio, in 1814, and thence to 

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Fort Wayne, Ind., in IK-JII. Lathrop Taylor went 

 fn.m Fort Wayne to what is now South Bend in 1827, 

 and was the first white man t/> nettle there in the 

 wilderness among the Pottawattamie Indians. He 

 soon mastered their language, and was an Indian 

 trader and an extensive fur dealer, shipping hi fur 

 direct to Kurope, and for many years alfcerward was 

 the leading merchant in South Mend. He was an ad- 

 viser whom the Indians trusted implicitly, and 

 through his ettortw they received fair terms in the 

 treaty at Chicago in 1833. He secured for them a 

 large reservation in Michigan, and -. large sum of 

 money which otherwise they would not have ob- 

 tained. He founded the town of South Bend, and he 

 was the first man to bring goods up the St. Joseph 

 river by boat from Lake Michigan. Owing to his 

 efforts the county seat was located at South Bend. 

 He was the first postmaster, the first clerk of the cir- 

 cuit court, and the first county auditor. He was 

 colonel of the 79th Indiana Militia from 1832 to 1837. 

 He retired from active business in 1860. 



Ten Broeok, Richard, turfman, born in Albany, N. Y., 

 in 1810; died in San Mateo, Cal., Aug. 1,1892. He 

 took a partial course at the United States Military 

 Academy in 1829-'30, and subsequently studied law 

 in New York city ; but forming a partnership with 

 Col. William Johnson, of Virginia, he abandoned law 



Sractice and engaged in horse racing and breeding, 

 e raced horses for several years with uniform suc- 

 cess, established racing stables in Havana and Can- 

 ada, and in 1853 became a part owner of " parley," 

 afterward famous under the name of " Lexington." 

 The success of this horse was phenomenal, and his 

 victories over " Sally Waters," " Lecompt," " High- 

 lander," " Arrow," and other noted racers of that day, 

 are matters of turf history. In 1856 Mr. Ten Broeck 

 made the first shipment of American racing horses to 

 England, sending " Lexington," " Prioress," " Prior," 

 and " Lecompt." In October, 1857, he won the 

 Czarewitch stakes on the Newmarket course with 

 " Prioress." In 1858 " Lecompt " and " Prior " died, 

 and in 1859, I860, and 1861 he won several of Eng- 

 land's richest stake races with " Starke," " Umpire," 

 and " Optimist," driven by the celebrated English 

 iockey Fordham. Mr. Ten Broeck remained in Eng- 

 land with his racing stable ten years, and his win- 

 nings aggregated $197,756. On his return to the 

 United States he settled on the Huretbpurne farm, 

 near Louisville, Ky., where he remained till 1887, and 

 then removed to San Mateo, Cal., where, in 1889, he 

 built the Hermitage, in which he died. 



Throop, Montgomery Hunt, lawyer, born in Auburn, 

 N. Y., Jan. '20, 18-27; died there, Sept 11, 1892. He 

 was a nephew of Enos T. Throop, who was twice 

 Governor of New York ; was educated in Geneva, 

 Switzerland, in Naples, and at Hobart College; and 

 was admitted to the bar in 1848. He practiced in 

 Utica from 1851 till 1864, first with his uncle, Ward 

 Hunt, and afterward with Roscoe Conkling, and in 

 New York city from 1870 till 1878. He was ap- 

 pointed a commissioner to revise the statutes of the 

 State in 1870, w.is chairman of the commission that 

 prepared the " Code of Civil Procedure," and, after 

 returning to Albany in 1878, applied himself to legal 

 writing. His publications include "The Future" 

 (New York, 1864) ; " Treatise on the Validity of Ver- 

 bal Agreements" (Albany, 1870); "Annotated Code 

 of Civil Procedure" (1880); "The New York Jus- 

 tices' Manual " (1880) ; " Digest of the Decisions of 

 the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts " (1887) ; 

 and " Revised Statutes of New York " (1888). 



Torsey, Henry P., educator, born in Monmouth, Me,, 

 Aug. 7, 1819; died at Kent's Hill, Me., Sept. 16, 1892. 

 He was educated in the Maine NVesleyan Seminary at 

 Kent's Hill; became a teacher in the normal depart- 

 ment of the East Greenwich, R. I.. Seminary in 1841, 

 and assistant in Maine Wesley an Seminary in 1843; 

 and was principal of that institution from 1>44 till 1882, 

 when from failing health he resigned. l>r. Torsey 

 was licensed to preach in 1845, was received into the 

 Maine Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church 



