

$, A.MKI;: ^ 



tour of Europe and hi- return he 



produced a large mi; Mcludim; 



Middle Slat. 



"The \Vh.' The Maritime 



Provinces "(1876): and" lide to Ku 



(18& : iiim-tei'ii guidebooks, and also 



.iphle-." Hi 1* \.lui: 



Tenner, Ana YV.. jurist. U'rri in Dalton. N. II.. iii 



1888: diAl in Hr.-;: :. He 



was brought upon his fat hcr's farm. began teach- 



en Tears oil and was graduated at 



r -tudymg law 



and serving as a school cmm -\ years at 



rk city in 



1888, and was admit tit I to the bar. During the 

 draft hot she was one of a company of citizen volun- 

 teers ! i Hi-- house of Mayor (>pd\ke 



agnin-t the in. -I.. In lst.7. when the Etepnbl 



ring to restore their party 



:i. Mr. Tcnney wa- ' y Horace 



f tO MMt the StatV and aid tin- WOffc lie 



tddresses in Atlanta and Savannah, under 



protection. that were printed and circulated 



documents. In I**; 



wasapj-'inted I ites attorney for the i 



ern District of New V..rk. and he held the 



han twelve year*. < >n the expiration of his 



rin he applied him-elf to pri tl'oe in 



Brooklyn. In .Inly. 1SJI7, he was appointed t'nited 



States district judge for the Kast.-rn Hist rict of New 



Hani w,.rk to dear the docket by the end of 



the term resulted in a fatal prostration. 



retry, Minium Uehaii, soldier, born in Lib- 



; died in Chesterfield. Ya.. 



He was graduated at the Virginia 

 Military Institute in lv~n, and was engaged in 

 business till the beginning of the civil war. II.- 



1 the Confederate service as a captain of 

 cavalry, was soon afterward commissioned colonel 

 of the" 24th Virginia K.'giment. and in May, 1864, 

 was promoted brigadier general. After the \\.ii 



T.-rry was a State Senator eight years, and 

 superintendent of the Kichmand Penitent 



Thayer. Alexander HlMeledLboro in 'South 



k, Ma-s., in 1M7: died in Trie-te, Austria, 

 July 15. 1807. He was graduated at Harvard I'ni- 

 Yersity in 1*4^. and at the Harvard Law School in 

 1848. While employed as an assistant in the uni- 

 versity library he resolved to write a life of Bee- 

 thoven. and in 1849 he went to Germany to collect 

 material for this pur|>ose. intending from the fir-t 

 that the biography should first lie printed in (ier- 

 man. He was Unite: usul at Trieste from 



1859 to IHh'J. and he continued to reside there after 

 the latter dat<\ employed uj>on his great work. The 

 first volume, which takes the life of his subject to 

 1796. appeared at Bonn in 1x66: the second, which 

 carried It to 1H06, was issued in 1878; the third, 

 which carried the narrative to 1K16, was jniMi-hed 

 in 1*7!. A fourth and concluding volume was 

 nearly completed at the time of Mr. Thayer's death. 

 No English version of the work has yet app< 

 Besides many contributions to American news- 

 papers and about 20 arti* le. in Grove's " Dictionary 

 of Music and Musicians,*' he wr-.te -The Hebrews 

 and the Red Sea M -ignor 



Masoni, and Other I'ajK-rs of the Late 1. Brown." 

 (See GIFTS AM. BEQUESTS.) 



Thonu**.. Ue..r> l,m|,|,m|. i . -. born in I'.-rt- 

 land. Me., April :>. 1S',; : ,1,,.,1 , Oklahoma. -Fan. 

 23.1897. He was graduated a 

 1858. and was admitu-d to the bar in Main. 

 April. 1861. he enlisted as a private in th 



in June he was promoted cap- 

 tain ; and in August he was commissioned captain 

 in the llth United States Infantry. He was pro- 

 moted major and transferred to the 20th Infantry. 



.'!. ls;; ; | to the 4th Infant IN 



Mid to th. ; rtment, Ma\ 88, 1878; 



and was retired .lui\ % J. 1 S '.M. In the v.li, 



.'Ml i> lied colonel of the 7!M ll 



I'liiti'd Stairs 



'.Mh I'llited Stales Colored hl- 



fantr : pn-moted br -iersd. 



ind niust-re(l out .l.i 



hum B w.'i- I'l-eVelted major. 



.'. is64 f for gallant r\ at Bpottayl- 



: lieutenant colonel. .I,i 



front of I' d et.lonel and liriL 



.il.aml ma ! of voluir 



!'.r meritoriou> M .r\ l< .: the war. 



Thomas was nigaged in the tir-t battle of hull 

 Kun : the aHi..ns at Sni. i i Sta- 



t ion. Kappa ham n. and >) in< K nn. \ a. : and 



the battl.- of tin- Wilderness, Spottsylrania, I'cters- 



iier's Kun. He was tin- lirst regular 

 -Ilieer in ii ..'.meli-y <>f ci.Ired troops. 



Ilioiupsun hanicM.i-cenlear. author. b..rn in 

 Moini.elier. Vt., I ' 1 1. '.'. ix"<): died in N 



lulv in. is'.i?. He \\a- the younu'c-t son of 



el rleroe Thompson, author of "The <. 



Mountain I'.oys." He \va- graduated at Amherst in 



l^n'.t. I'iv\ j,.ux to.L'radiiation. in conned ion with his 



college duties, he served -, -\eral lei- Maiit 



uiry of State of Vermont. In the autumn of 

 iH'.'.t lie removed to New York city, where h- 

 private instruction and studied law. In April. 

 he became teacher of classics in the SprinirhYM, 

 Mass., Hiirh Seho,.l. \vh-re he remained until the 

 summer of isT'J. In July of that year he published 

 A l-'ir-t I'i...-k in Latin." and in the autumn i 

 sumed the study of law in New Y.rk. und in Decem- 

 ber was admitted t the bar. He wa> continuously 

 in ai-tive jirai tice of law from that date. Hi- hours 

 of leisure \\ere L r i\ en to study and literary work, and 

 he made n< -table contributions to periodicals. II - 

 publications in book form were: A System oi l'-\- 

 chology" (2 vols., 8vo, 1884); "The" Problem of 

 Kvil" (1886); "Religious Sentiments of the Human 

 Mind" (1888); "Social !' 09); "The 



Philosophy of Fiction in Literature "< is'i-j) : and 

 "Politic- in a Di-micra-\ an --ay upon 



present political tendencies, which \\n* -inee been 

 translated into Dutch, by Dr. I). ('. NijhoiT. II.- 

 also delivered addresses before many soci.-tie- and 

 on various occasions, one of the last beim,' an ad- 

 dress before the " Woman's Liiw ( 'la-- " of t he I'ni- 

 \.-r-ity of the < Y.rk. at the 



exercises, April I. l.'l. Mr. Thompson served as a 

 member of rbe Committee of One Hundred at the 

 Columbian Celebration in the autumn of l s '.i'J. and 

 held numer.u- honorary otlices in c<.nneet i..n with 

 public movement-. In 1888, he was elected to the 

 .-ncy of the Nineteenth Century Club, which 

 office he held tw. rem. At the time of hi- death he 

 wasa member of the . .uneiland secretary 



of the Authors Club. He was also a member of the 

 Century Club. Manhattan Club. Keform Club, liar 

 Association. Lawyers' Cl u ' In- Kev..]ut ion. 



the Pat ria Club. And of the New Kn-lai 

 Amherst gave him thedegn-oof Ph.D. in l^'.M. 



I lioiu|i.on. \\ illiam. soldier, born in I'.-nii-vl- 



vania in IHI:{ : died in Taeoma. \Va-h.. Oct. 7, 



II. . utered the National army as a captain in the 



ry. July :?1. 1861 : was promoted 



major. May 18,1863: and colonel. June '<. i^r,| : 



was r t March bV ]*W\: appointed a 



u in the 7th t'nite.. .valry. July 'JN. 



1866: and retired D.-< . |.V l^?:,. He was brevet tr-d 



al of volunt<-er-. March i:{. \^\~n 



major and lieutenant colonel. . March - J. 



1867. I aetii.n at Prairie (Jn.vc and 



rk.: and brigadier-general, U. S. A., 



by act of Congress in 1896. 



