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Rh in 1893 was again elected for the state at large on the Cleveland and Stevenson ticket. He has been on the lecture phitforni since 1892, where he achieved success. In 189(5 he was for the third time nomi- nated by the Democrats for governor and was elect- ed, defeating George JI. Tillman. Much credit was due Gov. Taylor for the success of the Tennessee centennial exposition, in which he took great in- terest, anti where his happy addresses to the vari- ous visiting delegations won for him national fame.

TEFFT, Israel Keech, antiquarian, b. in Smithfield, R. I.. 12 Feb., 1794; d. in Savannah, 6a,, 30 June, 1862. He received a common-school education, and, his |>arents having died when he was quite young, he in 1816 removal to Savannah, where he engaged in business. In 1821 he under- took the puWication and editing of the "Savannah Georgian," but gave up the enterprise at the end of a year and entered the bank of the state of Georgia as a clerk ; he was made paying teller of the institution in 1830, and cashier in 1848, which position he held until his death. His leisure time was spent in the collecting and care of his auto- graphs and his books. He was also an enthusi- astic member of the Georgia historical society, serving as its corresponding secretary from its be- ginning in 1839 until 1862; a corresponding mem- ber of the New England historic genealogical so- ciety and of the Massachusetts historical society. Mr. Tefft's exceedingly large and valuable collec- tion of autographs was sold at auction in New York city at the close of the civil war.

TELLO, Juan Antonio de. Spanish missionary, b. in Guadalajara in l.'i66: d. in Sayula, Mexico, in 1654. He entered the Franciscan order, came early to New S|)ain, and in 1596 was one of the four missionaries that accompanied Sebastian Viz- caino {q. V.) to California. lie was elected in 1605 prior of the convent of Zacoaico, and built there the fine church that is still standing. In 1620 he visited Amatlan to pacify the country and or- ganize missions, was very successful, and became popular among the Indians. He was elected prior of the convent of Tealotlan in 1641, and in 1648 of the convent of Savula. built a church and a hos- pital there, and collected a library of Aztec works. He composed a valuable history, of which Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta discovered a part in the archives of Guadalajara and in the Franciscan convent at Mexico, which he published in the second volume of his "Colecci6n tie I)ral de la provincia de Santiago de .lalisco y Nueva Vizcaya, y des<Mibriiiiifnto drl Nucvo Mexico."

TEMPLE, Oliver Perry, lawyer, b. in Green county, Tenn., 27 Jan., 1820. and was graduated at Wa-shington college, in that state. He 8tudie<l law, was wlmittetl to the bar in 1846, was an un- successful Whig candidate for congress the follow- ing year, and in 1848 he removed to Knoxville. President Fillmore apfxiinted him, in 1850, a mem- ber of a commission to visit the Indian tribes of New Mexico. Arizona, and California, and he was a Bell-Everett presidential elector for Tennessee in 1860. Mr. Temple made the first L'nion speech in his native state after the election of President Lincoln, and he was among the most prominent Union leaders in East Tennessee. He was one of the chancellors of the state from 1866 to 1878, was postmaster of Knoxville for four years, and was ap(Kiinter| by President Grant a member of the board of visitors to the V. S. military academy. Mr. Temple is the author of " The Covenanter, tfie Caviller, and the Puritan " and " East Tennessee and its Union Leaders in the War."

TENNEY, Asa Wentworth, jurist, b. in Dal- ton, X. H., 20 May, 1883; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 10 Dec, 1897. He was graduated from Dartmouth, studied law, and served as a school commissioner at Lancaster, N. H. In 1862 he removed to New York, where he was admitted to the bar. He was one of a band of volunteer citizens that defended the house of Mayor Opdyke during the draft riots, and in 1867 he was selected by Horace Greeley to aid the Republicans of Georgia in their efforts to reorganize the party. His addresses, delivered under police protection in Savannah and Atlanta, were printed and circulated as Republican cam- paign documents. He was appointed U. S. district attorney for the eastern district of New York in 1873, and he held the office for more than twelve vears, applying himself to private practice in brooklvn on expiration of his term, lie was ap- pointed U. S. district judge for the eastern district of New York in July, 1897.

TERRELL, Edwin Holland, lawyer, b. in Brookville. Ind., 21 Nov., 1841, was graduated at De Pauw university and the Harvard law-school, also studying in Europe for two years. After practising law in Indianapolis from 1874 to 1877. tie settled in San Antonio, Tex., where he still resides. He was a delegate to the Republican na- tional conventions of 1880 and 1888, and in the year 1889 he was appointed by President Harri- son American minister to Belgium, where he re- mained for four years. During that period Mr. Terrell was a nieinbcr of the slave-trade confer- ence held in Brussels, of the custom-house con- ference, of the commigsion technique to revise the Berlin treaty, a representative to negotiate a commercial treaty with the Congo Free State, and a commissioner to and vice-president of the inter- national monetary conference of 1892. By a royal decree Mr. Terrelfwas in the following year created a "Grand officer of the Order of Leopold."

TESLA, Nikola, electrician, b. in Smiljau, Lika, Servia, in 1857, is the son of a minister in the Greek church. He was educated in the public schools of Gospich, and at the realnchule at Karlstadt, from which he was ^aduated in 1873 ; he then attended the jiolytechnic school atGratz. Much against the preference of his father, who wished him to enter the ministry, he gave his attention to electricity and magnetism, relinquishing his plan of teaching mathematics and physics, in favor of the profession of an engineer. He studied languages at Prague and at Buda-Pesth, became an assistant in the govern- ment telegraph-engineering department, and then worked with Puskas. who had intrcxluced the tele- phone into Hungary. He went to Paris after a short time, and thence came soon to the United States. He worked with Edison at Meiilo Park, and then entered into a company formed to put his own inventions upon the market. He perfected his discovery of the rotary field principle, and then gave his attention to the utilization of the undulat- ing current. He has studied also the principles of ligiiling. motors, the conversion of energy, and other related subjects, and ha.s always produced, as a result of his studies, improvements of high order and of great lienefit. In the application for a patent for a recent discovery Testa says: "The greatest value of my invention will result from its effects upon warfare and armaments, for by rea- son of its certain unlimited destructiveness it tends to bring about and maintain permanent peace among nations." See "The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla, with Sjiecial Refer-