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Dec. 21, 1894. He was born a slave, and when six- 

 teen years old ran away from his master, settled in 

 Willi'amsport, Pa., and learned the blacksmith's trade. 

 In 1841 he married and became a local preacher in 

 the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. He 

 was stationed successively at Lyons and Elmira, N. Y., 

 Elizabeth. N. J., Newburg, N. Y., and Halifax, N. S., 

 going to the last city through fear of being captured 

 and returned to slavery. While holding an appoint- 

 ment at Matawan, N. J., he began studying medicine, 

 and in 1858 he was graduated at Jefferson Medical 

 College in Philadelphia. In 1876 he was consecrated 

 a bishop of his Church, and subsequently he organ- 

 ized several conferences in the Southern States, and 

 the first one in the Bahama Islands. He was a dele- 

 gate to the Methodist (Ecumenical Council in London, 

 England, in 1882, was one of the founders of Living- 

 ston College, in Salisbury, N. C., and performed his 

 last official duty at the Genesee Conference of his 

 Church in Auburn, N. Y , in September, 1893. He 

 had been treasurer of missionary societies, and presi- ' 

 dent of the book concern of the Church. 



Thompson, Launt, sculptor, born in Abbeyleix, 

 Queen's County, Ireland, Feb. 8, 1833; died in'Mid- 

 dletown, N. Y., Sept. 26, 1894. He came to the 

 United States in 1847, and began studying anatomy 

 and medicine, and, in his leisure, drawing, at Albany, 

 N. Y. While so engaged he was received by Erastus 

 D. Palmer, the sculptor, as a pupil, and, abandoning 

 the study of medicine, he spent nine years in Mr. 

 Palmer's studio. In 1858 he removed to New York 

 city and opened a studio, in which he produced me- 

 dallion portraits. In the following year he was elect- 

 ed an associate of the National Academy of Design, 

 and in 1862 an academician. He spent 1868-'69 and 

 1875-'81 in Italy, and was vice-president of the Acad- 

 emy of Design in 1874. Since 1887 he had done no 

 work of note because of a mental malady. His best 

 known portrait busts are those of William C. Bryant, 

 James Gordon Bennett, Sr., Eobert B. Minturn, 

 Charles H. Marshall, Edwin Booth (as Hamlet), 

 Stephen H. Tyng, Charles L. Elliott, and Samuel F. 

 B. Morse. His best medallion portrait was that of 

 Gen. John A. Dix; the one that gained his election 

 as an academician was u The Trapper." Among his 

 statues, the most noted were Abraham Pierson, now 

 at Yale College ; Napoleon I, at Milford, Pa. ; Gen. 

 John Sedgwick, at West Point, N. Y. ; Gen. Wintield 

 Scott, at the Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C. ; 

 Charles Morgan, in Clinton, Conn. ; and an eques- 

 trian statue of Gen. Burnside, in Providence, E. I., 

 completed in 1887, for which he received $40,000. 



Thomson, William McClure, missionary, born in Spring- 

 dale, Ohio, Dec. 31, 1806 ; died in Denver, Col., April 

 8, 1894. He was the son ol a clergyman, Eev. John 

 Thomson, who was of Scotch-Irish descent. He was 

 graduated at Miami University in 1826, and studied 

 at Princeton Theological Seminary, but left before 

 graduating, and was sent as a missionary to Syria by 

 the American Board. He arrived in Beirut, Feb. 24, 

 1833, and was first stationed in Jerusalem. Before 

 leaving the United States he had married Miss Eliza 

 Nelson Hanna, who accompanied him, and who died 

 in Jerusalem the next year. Ibrahim Pasha (son of 

 the famous Mohammed Ali) was at war with the peo- 

 ple of Syria, who had revolted against him. During 

 this rebellion Dr. Thomson had occasion to leave 

 Jerusalem for Jaffa, as he thought for a short time 

 only, but was arrested as a spy by Ibrahim and de- 

 tained forty days. After the taking of Jerusalem he 

 was released, but anxiety because of his absence, com- 

 bined with the terror caused by a sharp earthquake, 

 had so affected Mrs. Thomson, who had been recently 

 confined, that she died soon after her husband's re- 

 turn. Dr. Thomson was next stationed in Beirut, 

 where he married Mrs. Abbott, widow of a former 

 British consul for Syria. A little later he was ap- 

 pointed one of two to form a mission station in Leba- 

 non, and resided in Abeih, where he passed through 

 the wars between Druses and Maronites in 1843 and 

 1845. He was looked upon as a friend by both parties, 



and by his influence brought about a truce, which 

 enabled the British consul general, the late Sir Huo-h 

 Eose (Lord Strathnairn), to bring away the Maronit^ 

 to Beirut, thus preventing a general massacre of Maro- 

 nite Christians. About 1850 he removed to Sidon. 

 where he was stationed for several years, extending 

 his missionary labors to Hermon, Ijon, and vicinitv. 

 and to the regions east of Tyre. In 1860, having re- 

 turned to Beirut, he co-operated with Lord Dufterin. 

 the representative of the allied forces, in adjusting 

 matters after the massacres of Damascus, Hasbeiyeh". 

 and Deir el Quamar. From the beginning of mis- 

 sionary life he vigorously pursued archaeological stud- 

 ies connected with the elucidation of Scripture, and 

 became an authority on these points. His studies and 

 travels resulted in " The Land and the Book " (2 vols.. 

 New York, 1859; revised and enlarged, 3 vols., 1880). 

 The sales of this book in Great Britain have been 

 greater than those of any other American publication 

 except " Uncle Tom's Cabin." Dr. Thomson contrib- 

 uted to the "Bibliotheca Sacra" a series of articles on 

 " The Physical Basis of our Spiritual Language," and 

 his journals, published in the " Missionary Herald '' 

 in 1841 et seq., are full of interest. In 1840, in com- 

 pany with Dr. E. E. Beadle and Dr. C. V. A. Van 

 Dyck, he journeyed to Aleppo. On the way he 

 wrote in his Journal a description of sunrise over 

 Lebanon. Th'is being published in the " Missionary 

 Herald " reached the eyes of a missionary in the Sancf- 

 wich Islands, who, struck with its poetic beauty, di- 

 vided it into lines of faultless blank verse without 

 altering a word of the original, and in this form it was 

 republlshed. In 1879 Dr. Thomson, whose health had 

 greatly failed, went to Denver, where he resided with 

 one of his daughters until his death. 



Throckmorton, James Webb, lawyer, born in Sparta, 

 Tenn., Feb. 1, 1825 ; died in McKinney, Texas, April 21, 

 1894. He removed to Texas in 1841 ; was admitted to 

 the bar; and served in the State Legislature as Eep- 

 resentative and Senator from 1851 till 1861. In the 

 latter year he was a member of the State Secession Con- 

 vention, and was one of 7 delegates who voted against 

 the ordinance of secession. After its adoption, how- 

 ever, he entered the Confederate army, and served as 

 captain and major till November, 1863, when he was 

 again elected to the State Senate. In 1864 he was 

 commissioned brigadier general of Texas troops, and 

 assigned to the command of the northwestern border of 

 the State. Soon afterward, acting on the authority of 

 the Confederate and the State governments, he nego- 

 tiated a treaty with all the tribes of Indians on the 

 Texas border. In 1865 he was elected a member, and 

 subsequently the presiding officer, of the constitu- 

 tional convention called under President Johnson's 

 proclamation. The following year he was elected 

 Governor for four years, and on Aug. 9, 1867, was re- 

 moved from office by order of Gen. Sheridan. In 

 1874, 1876, 1882, and 1884 he was elected to Congress 

 as a Democrat from the 5th Texas District. 



Trumbnll, Matthew M., author, born in London, Eng- 

 land, about 1826 ; d.ied in 'Chicago, 111., May 9, 1894. 

 He came to the United States on reaching his ma- 

 jority ; enlisted in the 3d Iowa Volunteers at the be- 

 ginning of the civil war; subsequently organized and 

 was commissioned colonel of the 9th Iowa Cavalry ; 

 and was promoted brigadier general for services dur- 

 ing the war. In 1882 he settled in Chicago, engaged 

 in iournalism, wrote much on political, sociological, 

 and philosophical subjects, and among other works 

 published " Free Trade in England." 



Tnttle, Herbert, educator, born in Bennington, Vt., 

 Nov. 29, 1846 ; died in Ithaca, N. Y., June 21, 1894. 

 He was graduated at the University of Vermont in 

 1869, and was engaged in journalism till 1880. For 

 several years he was a confidential correspondent of 

 the "London Daily News." While in Germany he 

 had the friendship of Prince Bismarck, his son, Count 

 Herbert, and Field-Marshal von Moltke, and when 

 he began gathering materials for a history of Prussia 

 Von Moltke gave him access to important military 

 archives. In 1880 he returned to the United States 



