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34 sumed the practice of law, and held the office of attorney-general of the state for ten years preceding his death. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866, and presided over the New Hampshire Republican convention on 14 Sept., 1886. In the presidential election of 1872 he supported his life-long friend, Horace Greeley.

TAPPAN, William Bingham, poet, b. in Beverly, Mass., 29 Oct., 1794 ; d. in West Needham, Mass., 18 June, 1849. His early advantages were limited, but he acquired a good education and for six years taught in Philadelphia. In 1826 he re- moved to Boston, where he became general agent of the American Sunday-school union, and was en- gaged in the same work in Cincinnati and Phila- delphia. He was licensed to preach in 1840. His publications are " New England, and other Poems" (Philadelphia, 1819) ; " Songs of Judah, and other Melodies" (1820); " Lyrics" (1822); "Poems" (1834); "Memoir of Capt. James Wilson " (1842) ; "Poetry of the Heart " (Boston, 1845); "Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems " (1846) ; " Poetry of Life" (1847); "The Sunday-School, and other Poems " (1848) ; and " Late' and Early Poems " (Worcester. Mass., 1849).

TARAVAL, Sigismond, clergyman, b. in Lodi, Italy, 26 Oct., 1700 ; d. probably in Italy. He en- tered the Jesuit novitiate on 31 Oct., 1718, went to Mexico, and thence to California, where he founded the mission of Santa Rosa. He discovered the islands of Afagua and Amalgua on the Pacific coast, afterward known as Los Dolores, and col- lected a large number of documents for a history of California. His manuscript work, entitled " Re- lacion del Martirio de los PP. Tomas Tello y En- rique Ruhen, muertos por los Indios Seris," is in the Library of Mexico.

TARBELL, John Adams, physician, b. in Bos- ton, Mass., 31 March, 1810; d. there, 21 Jan., 1864. He was graduated at Harvard in 1832, and studied medicine in Paris for three years, receiving his de- gree from Bowdoin in 1836. He began practice in Boston, and in 1843 became a homoeopathist. He was associate editor of the " Quarterly Homoeopath- ic Review " (Boston, 1853-'4), edited John Epos's " Domestic Homoeopathy " and " The Pocket Ho- moeopathist " (Boston, 1849) ; and was the author of " Sources of Health " (1850) and " Homoeopathy Simplified " (1856-'62).

TARBELL, Joseph, naval officer, b. about 1780 ; d. in Norfolk, Va., 24 Nov., 1815. He entered the navy as a midshipman, 5 Dec, 1798, was promoted to lieutenant, 25 Aug., 1800, and served in Preble's squadron during the Tripolitan war. He was in- cluded in the vote of thanks to Preble and his officers by act of congress, 3 March, 1805, was pro- moted to master-commandant, 25 April, 1808, and commanded the frigate " John Adams " in 1811— '14. He was commissioned a captain, 24 July, 1813, and rendered good service in the defence of Craney island and James river in June, 1813, capturing three barges and forty prisoners when the British were repelled in this attack. He was then stationed at Norfolk, Va., where he died.

TARBOX, Increase Niles, author, b. in East Windsor, Conn., 11 Feb., 1815; d. in West New- ton, Mass., 3 May, 1888. He was graduated at Yale in 1839, studied theology while acting as tutor there in 1842-'4, and from 1844 till 1851 was Siastorof a Congregational church in Framingham, dass., which he left to become secretary of the American education society, later the American college and education society, in Boston, Mass. This office he filled till 1884. He received the de- gree of D.D. from Yale and from Iowa college in . He wrote extensively on historical and re- ligious subjects for the " New Englander," " Bib- liotheca Sacra," " Historic-Genealogical Register," and other periodicals, was in 1849-'51 associate editor of the " Congregationalist," contributed many poems and hymns to that and other journals, and from 1881 till his death was historiographer for the New England historic-genealogical society. Dr. Tarbox published juvenile books entitled the "Winnie and Walter Stories" (4 vols., Boston, 1860) and " When I was a Boy" (1862) ; " Nineveh, or the Buried City" (1864); "The Curse, or the Position occupied in History by the Race of Ham " (1865); "Tyre and Alexandria the Chief Commer- cial Cities of Scripture Times " (1865) ; " Missionary Patriots: James H. and Edward M. Schneider" (1867) ; " Uncle George's Stories " (1868) ; " Life of Israel Putnam (Old Put), Major-General in the Con- tinental Army " (1876) ; " Sir Walter Raleigh and his Colony in America " (1884) ; " Songs and Hymns for Common Life" (1885); and "Diarv of Thomas Robbins, D. D." (2 vols., 1886-'7).

TARDIVAL, Julius Paul, Canadian journal- ist, b. in Covington, Ky., 2 Sept., 1851. He re- moved to Canada in 1868, was educated at St. Hyacinth college, in the province of Quebec, was assistant editor of " Le Canadien " in 1874, and is editor of " La verite," in Quebec, which he founded in 1881. He was assistant government translator at Ottawa from 1879 till 1881. Mr. Tardival has published " Vie du Pape Pie IX.. ses ceuvres et ses douleurs " (Quebec, 1878) ; " Borrowed and Stolen Feathers, or a Glance through Mr. James M. Lemoine's Latest Work, ' The Chronicles of the St. Lawrence ' " (1878) ; " L'Anglicisme, voila l'en- nemie" (1879); and "Melanges" (1887).

TARIEU DE LANAUDIERE, Charles (tah-ree-uh), Canadian statesman, b. in Canada in 1744; d. there in 1841. At the age of sixteen he took part in the battle of Saint Foye, as an officer in the regiment de la Sarre, and was severely wounded. He went to France with his regiment after the surrender of Montreal, visited the principal courts of Europe, and married shortly after his return to Canada. In 1775 he held a command in the Canadian militia, and was taken prisoner by the Ameri- cans in a skirmish on the frontier. He was instrumental in saving Gen. Carleton from capture when Benedict Arnold reached Montreal, escorting the English leader to Quebec at the head of three hun- dred Canadians. He was made aide-de-camp on Carleton's staff, and several years later master of the waters and forests. Tarieu made frequent journeys to Europe, the expenses of which impaired his fortune. When he returned to Canada in 1787 he endeavored to turn his influence with the Cana- dian government to account, in order to obtain a change in the system of seignorial tenures, and presented a petition to this effect in January, 1788. The result of the changes he asked for would enable the Canadian seigneurs to draw larger revenues from their fiefs by throwing them open to American and English settlers. The measure was opposed by most of the other great proprie- tors, and the agitation that then began was not settled until 1854, when the question of land-ten- ure in Canada received a definitive solution. In 1792 he was created a member of the legislative council, which post he held till his death, and in which his talents, combined with his influence over successive governors, gave him great power.

TARLETON, Sir Banastre, bart., British soldier, b. in Liverpool, 21 Aug., 1754; d. in England, 23 Jan., 1833. He came to America with Lord Cornwallis in Sir Peter Parker's squadron in May,