609 



nr.lTi \MI:I;K \\. 



Li 



teriv- tt ('apt. Ix*ewasap- 



l*.intfd an acting rear admiral. Sept. v. 1 . 



to the command of tin- North Atlantic 



g squadron, li . ;.> . ..mmand 



two years. irl in !! action! and . \pedi- 



tiring or _; M blM 



running si "n Oct. vM. 1864, he was or 



niimml the .Mi*ivippi iquadron, and for Ins 

 skill iii sui|M>rting the army under <im. Ti 

 he received a vote .f thank* from Congres-. II. 

 was detached fp-ni this coimnatM 1865; 



was on exatnining-board <!uty till 1H6U: an.. 

 th Atlantic squadron in 



i.ii MI in 



U 84, 1882; died in Nashville. 

 !*:;. lie was a son f th< 

 Philip I.i mcellor of th. ;y of 



rille, aad wa* graduated al that institution in 



.<<! ill.- medical departments of the 



- "f Louisville and lYnn-vh ania. being 



graduated at the hitter .died 



gy. and was ordained by the Presbytery of 



nut in 1 *!''. F. r a Mine he WMftetN supply 



to the Smyrna ami Hermitage churches, ami later, 



for a year, prea i\es in the Nashville di- 



n 1S88 to 1850 he was pupil of (. 

 Troost. and in IK'Hi his teacher a- Pro- 



fessor f Chemistry in the t'niversity of Nashville. 

 He was also chancellor of the university fnm 

 _: his chair in Chemistry until 



'.-titutes the main portion 

 of the university owes it- erection largely to his 



1 he ltimsU gave over $H." 



construction. !! \\a- instrumental in organi/ing 

 tli- nieilical depart inent of the university in 

 and was its first :l;s salary for twenty-three 



years he gave to his assistants in* the university or 

 i'rt of the Nashville .Journal 

 - 



organi/e<l Moi |;,-H Academy in 1867 in 



aecor n the 'designs of the founder, and 



brought it to a high state of efficiency, in 1*70 I.,- 

 resigned I 'onnection with the academy 



and |iarticitiatod in the founding "f t he T.-nnessee 

 _v of Pharmacy, in which he was Professor of 

 Materia Medica from l"7f> until his death. He was 

 called to the chair of Chemi>try and State Medicine 

 in themeili'-ul department of the I'niver.sity of Ten- 

 nessee in 1880, and held this place also iintil his 

 death. Fie was a member of the Na>hvillc Board 

 iucation in 1856-'6<>, sujH-rintendent of city 

 schoo. MO 'ary of t lie State Hoard o'f 



Fxlucation from its Inception in 1 S 7Y I>r. I.inds- 



;us also health officer of Nashville in 1878 

 From IN?? till hi- death he was secretary an 

 eoutive officer of the State Board of Health. The 

 degree of I). D. was conferred on him by Princeton 

 in 1856. He wrote papers on prix.n n form and 

 .n coloni/atioii. which wen- reprinted and 

 widely circulated. He edited the - Medicnl Annals 



:ine8see n (Na-hville. 1886) and the 

 paxlia of Tennessee Hist' 



l.inton ill iain James, art i-t and author. born 

 -land, in isj-j; died in New Haven. 



It is chiefly on his w<" 



an en gra vert hat Linton's fame depends; as a painter 

 he never achieved a wide n-putation. In 1M88 he 

 became the apprentice of O. W. Bonn.-r. an Ki 

 engrarenwhoinhi- time en joyed a high reputati-.n. 

 In 1-4'J he became the pa ; rin Smith, and 



1 he lieiran to produce the illi. 



Illus- 



trate<l Ix>ndon News." !H46-'47). perhaps the . 

 of his works that attracted the aM-mion of the pub- 

 lic, though in 1833 he had published his Pic torial 

 Illustrations of the Bible." I.intm was always a 

 zealous Chartist, and early in his career l^ecame 



associated with the . hief political ,.f his 



who help. in drawing tin- 



ion o'f i In- H ouve ,.f Commons to the opening 

 .i-d politicians' lett. ' '.iham 



urried 



to the French ' ' nmeiit the \\r^\ 



addn-v. from Brit ish workmen. In 



the editor of the ' 



Iitiblicaii print that wa> written almost entii 

 lim-clf. and attracted much attention at the tune, 

 though to \\\* , i he Briti-h (,, 



Ilielit refused 1' >!! t(. the IM.'M 



violent articles that apptared in it. He had the 

 ino-t i rrpublieaii idi-as. and .acrili.-ed 



much in 1 1, .iMi-ti an I 



jH-an commonwealth. When he came t<> thi> coun- 

 try i: he hoped to find here 

 the ideal form of government that M -cmed to him 

 not impossible. A republican government, in hi> 

 opinion, should le a model of law and order, ours 

 he described as an anarchical democracy. I. 

 he came to this country he was f. .r ->nif \ earned it or 

 and manager of peii'and I'CIK il." and' a regular 

 ii.utor of ver-e to the " Natioj, 

 and the " West minster 



published and illustrated book*. Fur so m . 

 after his arrival here he lived in New York", and 

 ultimately he took up hi- abode in New II 

 ('oiin.. where he spent the remainder of hi^ life. 



Here he opened a i 'aving est al i) j>h Illellt 



and printing house, the Avoiidale Pre>s. whence 

 many works of great beauty in 

 printed the memorable Mi... The Masters of V* 

 Kngra\ in_- 'i-tly be, >. 



If. \\alier Crane, hi- distinguished pupil, as 

 ""in every way complete as a hil<>i\. learned in 

 technique', ami sumptuous as a book." The iir-t 

 edition of this, one of his most important work-, 

 was not i ued for profit, but merely as a work of 

 No more than three c..pie wen- printed. 

 Many other-, now of almost eipial rarity, v 

 from the nine pn --. -u<'h a- M Lor Lore," ami 

 "In hisprai-c of \\"<.maii." each of which 

 limited to fifty copies, and the volume entitled 

 - Furoj.ean Republican- : Recollect ion- of Ma/xini 

 and his Friends." the work that Linloii hoped 

 above all others to be remembered by. But, how- 



ably Linton arguwl the cause of the repub- 



niini-ccn. . 



them were.it is neither by this work nor bj 

 other in which he appeared its their advocate that 



now remembered, but rat her as one of the last 

 ami most distinguished of the old M-lp.nl of en- 



I le was a follower of Bewick and t h 

 English woodcutter-, and had very little in 

 moii with our present day practitioner! of the art. 

 He began to work long before the introduction o( 

 photography, which lias not only gone : 

 depriving the wood engraver of the means of gain- 

 ing a livelihood, but has vastly changed the method 

 of such as still practice the craft. Wood engraving 

 d by Linton and his predecessors was 

 ind.-ed a distinct art. in which the engraver had a 

 better chance of preserving hi- individuality and 

 indcj ' ian he ha- to-day, when he ; 



pected more servilely to follow the artist \\ 

 work it is his business to reproduc.'. Since, the 

 introduction of photography as a medium of pi 

 duction. the engraver has become more and 

 subordinated to the draughtsman: Linton. on the 

 other hand, and the engraver- of his school 

 (raft-men who worked hand in hand with th 

 It was not the sole effort of these men to repp 

 as faithfully as possible a chalk, pencil, pen. or 

 drawing: the artist invariably drew direct upon 

 the wood, and artist and craftsman combined, 

 each making allowance for the limitation of the 



