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Rh — His brother, Thomas De Witt, clergyman, b. in Bound Brook, N. J., 7 Jan., 1832, was educated at the University of the city of New York in the class of 1853, but was not graduated. After gradu- ation at New Brunswick theological seminary in, he was ordained pastor of the Reformed Dutch church in Belle- ville, N. J. He had charge of the church in Syracuse, N. Y., from 1859 till 1862, and of one in Philadelphia in 1862-9. During the civil war he was chaplain of a Penn- sylvania regiment, and he is now chap- lain of the 13th 9 ^r New York regiment. In 1869 he was made pastor of the Central Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, N. Y., which post he still holds. In 1870 his congregation erected a new semicircular church of wood and iron capable of seating 3,400 Persons. This building, known as the Brooklyn 'abernacle, was enlarged in 1871 so as to seat 500 more, but it was destroyed by fire on 22 Dec, 1872. On 22 Feb., 1874, a new Tabernacle was dedicated. It is in the Gothic style, with seats for 5,000 per- sons, and is the largest Protestant church in this country. In 1872 he organized in the building that was formerly occupied by his congregation a lay college for religious training. He is a popular lec- turer, and appears once a week in this capacity. He attracts large audiences and his sermons are published weekly in nearly 600 religious and secu- lar journals in this country and in Europe, being translated into various languages. The University of the city of New York gave him the degree of A. M. in 1862, and he received that of D. D. from the University of Tennessee in 1884. In addition to numerous lectures and addresses and sketches and light essays on moral subjects, which have been printed in magazines and weekly papers, he has edited " The Christian at Work " (New York, 1873-'6); "The Advance," of Chicago (1877-8); and he now conducts " Frank Leslie's Sunday Maga- zine." Dr. Talmage has published " The Almond- Tree in Blossom " (Philadelphia, 1870) ; " Crumbs swept Up " (1870) ; " Sermons " (4 vols., New York, 1872-'5) ; " Abominations of Modern Society " (New York. 1872 ; 2d ed., 1876) ; " One Thousand Gems, or Brilliant Passages and Anecdotes " (1873) ; " Old Wells dug Out" (1874); "Around the Tea-Table" (Philadelphia, 1874); "Sports that Kill" (New York, 1875) ; " Every-Day Religion " (1875) ; " Night Sides of Citv Life" (1878); "Masque torn Off" (1879) ; " The Brooklyn Tabernacle, a Collection of 104 Sermons" (1884); and "The Marriage Ring" (1886). Two other brothers are ministers — the Rev. Dr. James R. of the Congregational, and the Rev. Goyn of the Reformed Dutch church.

TALMAGE, Samuel Kennedy, educator, b. in Somerville, N. J., in 1798; d. in Midway, Ga., 2 Oct., 1865. He was graduated at Princeton in 1820 and was tutor there in 1822-5. From 1838 till 1841 he was professor of ancient languages at Oglethorpe university, of which he was president from 1841 until his death. Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1845. He contributed to the "Southern Presbyterian Review," and pub- lished several sermons and addresses.

TALON, Indian chief, b. about 1675. He was also called Jeax le Blanc and Outoutaga, the latter being probably his real name. He was chief of the Ottawas du Sable, and an able orator. His eloquence gave him great influence, and he was spokesman for the Indian allies of the French in their conference with Oallieres, the French gov- ernor of Canada in 1701. In 1706 the Ottawas made an attack on Detroit, and having seized the Recollet chaplain of the fort, Father Constantin, were about to slay him, when Talon saved him from death and begged him to ask the comman- dant to stop firing on them, as they had no designs on the fort, but only on the Miamis, who were pro- tected by it. He retired shortly afterward with his tribe to Mackinaw. In June, 1707, he set out for Montreal, as the spokesman of the Ottawa chiefs. He made a long harangue to Vaudreuil, the governor, in which he stated that the trouble at Detroit had been occasioned by the comman- dant, Bourgmont, who refused him an audience no less than seven times. Vaudreuil refused to make peace until the surrender of Le Pesant, a chief who was supposed to have been principally instru- mental in urging the Ottawas to attack the Miamis. Le Pesant gave himself up, but, on the entreaty of Talon and other chiefs, was pardoned.

TALON, Edouard (tah-long), Flemish adminis- trator, b. in Ghent in 1759; d. in Bruges in 1819. He early entered the Portuguese service and held for twenty years important offices under the gov- ernment of Brazil. In 1810 he was secretary of the commission to mark the boundary between the Portuguese and Spanish possessions in South America, and from 1812 till 1815 he was chief of the local administration of French Guiana, which had been surrendered to the Portuguese. He re- turned to Europe in 1817. and died suddenly at Bruges during a journey. His works include " Me- morial sobre a administracao das provincias de Minas-Geraes e Rio Grande do Sul " (Lisbon, 1804) ; " Estatistica politica e commercial do Brazil " (2 vols., 1805) ; " Historia de Gomez Freire de Andra- da eda guerra das sete Missoes" (2 vols., 1808); "Expose de l'etat present de la Guiane" (1817); and "Memoire sur l'administration du eapitaine general Victor Hugues" (1817).

TALON, Jean-Baptiste, French administrator, b. in Picardy in 1625 ; d. in Versailles in 1691. He held offices in the intendancies of Bordeaux and Lyons, was intendant of Hainaut in 1661-'3, and was appointed on 23 March, 1663, in- tendant of justice, police, and finance of Canada, Acadia (Newfoundland), and other possessions of the crown in North America. He was the second intendant of New France, which greatly improved and prospered under his administration. Af- ter compelling the company of New France to abandon its monopoly of trade in Canada, he endeavored to de- velop the resources of the country, was the first to build ships in the colony, established a trade between Canada and the West Indies, cod-