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Rh and decisions are contained in the &ldquo;Supreme Court Reports&rdquo; of Benjamin R. Curtis, Benjamin C. Howard, and Jeremiah S. Black. His opinions as a circuit judge from 1836 till 1861 were reported by his son-in-law, James Mason Campbell. He wrote Andrew Jackson's farewell address on retiring from the presidency. At the age of seventy-seven he began an autobiography, which he brought down to 1801, and which forms the introduction to a &ldquo;Memoir&rdquo; by Samuel Tyler (Baltimore, 1872).

TANGUAY, Ciprian, Canadian clergyman, b. in Quebec, Canada, 15 Sept., 1819. He was gradu- ated at the Seminary of Quebec on 15 Aug., 1839, ordained priest in the Roman Catholic church on 14 May, 1843, and appointed vicar of Rimouski the same year. He was made cure of St. Ray- mond in 1846 and of Rimouski in 1850, in 1859 was transferred to St. Michel, and in 1862 ap- pointed cure of St. Henedine. Since 1864 he has been attached to the department of agriculture at Ottawa. He was raised to the rank of domestic prelate of the papal household by Leo XIII. in 1888. He has published " Journal d'un voyage de Boston a l'Oregon " (Quebec, 1842) ; " Repertoire du clerge Canadien depuis la fondation du Canada " (1868) ; '• A travers les registres " (Montreal, 1886) ; " Monseigneur Pourroy de P Auberiviere, 5'* me eveque de Quebec " (1886) ; and " Dictionnaire genealogique des families Canadiennes" (Mon- treal). When it is completed this last work will form seven volumes : four have already appeared, and the fifth is now in press. It is considered a work of national importance in Canada, and the author not only has examined the registers of every parish in the country, family records, etc., but went to Europe in order to make himself ac- quainted with the archives of the ministry of marine at Paris and those of other institutions.

TANNEHILL, Adamson, soldier, b. in Freder- ick county, Md., in 1752; d. in Pittsburg, Pa., 7 July, 1817. He received a public-school education, served in the Revolutionary war as captain of riflemen, removed to Pennsylvania, and cultivated a small farm near Pittsburg, where he served as justice of the peace. He opposed the whiskey in- surrection. From 25 Sept. till 31 Dec, 1812, he was brigadier-general of Pennsylvania volunteers. He was then elected to congress as a Democrat, and served from 24 Mav, 1813, till 3 March. 1815.

TANNEHILL, Wilkins, journalist, b. in Pitts- burg, Pa., 4 March, 1787 ; d. in Nashville, Tenn., 2 June, 1858. His father, Gen. John, served in the Continental army during the Revolution. The son removed to Lexington, Ky., at an early age, and soon afterward to Nashville, Tenn., where he became an editor of the " Whig," and also of the " Herald," the first Henry Clay organ in Ten- nessee. Subsequently he edited "The Orthopoli- tan," a new literary and independent paper, and in 1848-'9 the " Portfolio," a journal of Free- masonry. He was forced to discontinue this, owing to the failure of his eyesight, and in later years be- came blind. He was the author of a " Freemason's Manual," containing a history of the progress of the order ; " Sketches of the History of Literature " (Nashville, 1827); and "Sketches of the History of Roman Literature " (1846).

TANNER, Benjamin, engraver, b. in New York city, 27 March, 1775 ; d. in Baltimore, Md., 14 Nov.. 1848. At an early age he manifested a talent for drawing and designing, and after re- ceiving his education he began to learn the art of engraving. In December, 1799, he went to Phila- delphia, where he established his business, and aided his brother Henry in publishing maps. In 1816 he formed a bank-note engraving establish- ment, under the name of Tanner, Vallance, Kear- ny and Co., which he afterward discontinued, and in 1835 established a blank check note and draft publishing office, which he abandoned in 1845. His engravings include portraits of Washington, after Savage; Benjamin Franklin, after Charles N. Cochin (1822); "Apotheosis of Washington," after J. J. Barralet (1802) ; " Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, 10 Sept., 1813," and " The Launch of the Steam Frigate Fulton," after the same artist (1815); " Macdonough's Victory on Lake Cham plain, and Defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Gen. McComb, 11 Sept., 1814," after Hugh Reinagle (1816); "The Surrender of Cornwallis at York- town," after J. F. Renaulty; and "America Guided by Wisdom," after J. J. Barralet. — His brother, Henry S., geographer, b. in New York in 1786; d. in New York city in 1858. In early life he removed to Philadelphia, where he resided un- til 1850, when he returned to New York city. He engraved and published many atlases and separate maps, contributed geographical and statistical arti- cles to various periodicals, and was a member of the geographical societies of London and Paris. He collected a fine cabinet of shells. His maps in- clude the "New American Atlas," with letter- press descriptions (Philadelphia, 1817-'23) ; " The World," on a globular projection (4 sheets, 1825) ; "Map of the United States of Mexico" (1825); " Map of Philadelphia " (1826) ; and " Map of the United States of America " (1829). He also- pub- lished "Memoir on the Recent Surveys in the United States " (2d ed., 1830) ; " View of the Val- ley of the Mississippi " (1832) ; " American Travel- ler " (1836) ; " Central Traveller " (New York, 1840) ; " New Picture of Philadelphia " (Philadelphia, 1840) ; and " Description of the Canals and Rail- roads of the United States " (New York, 1840).

TANNER, Benjamin Tucker, A. M. E. bishop, b. in Pittsburg, Pa., 25 Dec, 1835. He is of African descent. After studying at Avery institute and Western theological seminary, Alleghany City, Pa., he officiated at the 15th street Presbyterian church in Washington, D. C, also organizing the first school for freedmen in the U. S. navy-yard, by permission of Admiral Dahlgren. At the end of eighteen months he returned to his own church, the African Methodist Episcopal, entering the Baltimore conference in April, 1862. He labored as a missionary in Alexandria, where he organized the first society of his church on Virginia soil. He was stationed in 1863 in Georgetown, D. C, in 1864 in Frederick, Md., and in 1866 in Baltimore, but resigned to organize a proposed conference school in Frederick, Md., as well as to take charge of the schools of the Freedmen's bureau in Frederick county. He was elected secretary of the general conference of 1868, and by this body was chosen editor of the "Christian Recorder," being continued in this post by three subsequent general conferences of 1872, 1876, and 1880. In 1884 he was elected managing editor of a new church publication, the "A. M. E. Church Review." He received the degree of A. M. from Avery college in 1870, and that of D. D. from Wilberforce university in 1878, and on 19 May, 1888, was elected a bishop. Dr. Tanner has written prose and poetry for periodicals, and is the author of " Paul versus Pius Ninth" (Baltimore, 1865); "Apology for African Methodism" (1867); "The Negro's Origin, and Is the Negro Cursed?" (Philadelphia, 1869); and " Outline of the History and Government of the A. M. E. Church " (1883). He has ready for publication " The Negro, African and American."