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266 cute in bronze a statue of La Salle, the explorer of the Illinois Territory, and presented it to Lin- coln park, Chicago. In September, 1888, he was appointed minister to Russia, where he remained until March, 1889. and in 1890 he was appointed a member of the commission of the Pan-American conference. Judge Tree took a warm interest in the work of the international conference at Brus- sels in 1889 for the purpose of forming a treaty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, and was influential in getting the treaty framed and finally ratified by the U. S. senate. In 1892 he became a trustee of the Newberry library, and has since been a vice-president and chairman of the executive and financial committee. In 1898 he was president of the Illinois historical society.

TRENT, William, founder of Trenton, N. J., b. in Inverness about 165.5; d. in Trenton, 35 Dec, 1724. He emigrated from Scotland to Phila- delphia about 1682, and engaged in business with the Quakers there. Although not trained for the law, his sound judgment and integrity raised him to a judgeship of the supreme court of Pennsyl- vania, and he was a member of the provincial council of that colony from 170.3-'21. lie was also a member of the assembly in 1710, 1715, and 1719, and during 1717-'38 its speaker. His Phila- delphia residence was once the home of William Penn and his family, and he was associated with Penn as a ship-owner. His connection with the Church of England did not militate against liis interests in the Quaker colony. Trent first became interested in New Jersey in 1714, when he bought land in the present confines of Trenton, then called Hopewell. He took up his residence on this tract in 1721, which was named " Trent's-town." He represented Burlington county in the assembly, and was made speaker in September, 1723. lie became chief justice of the New Jersey supreme court, and held that post till his death. — His youngest son, William, Indian trader, b. in Lan- caster, Pa., in 1715; d. in Philadelphia in 1787. He became a fur-trader on a large scale. In this way he enjoyed the confidence of the Indians, learned their languages, and was of great service in negotiating treaties between them and the sev- eral colonial governments involved in specific agreements. He commanded one of four com- panies which Pennsylvania raised in 1746 for a proposed expedition against Canada, and William Franklin, who was his ensign in this country, was his close friend for thirty years thereafter. For twenty years Trent was continually on duty along the frontiers, and in 1753 he began to build a fort on the present site of Pittsburg, Pa., a place which soon after became memorable in history through Gen. Braddock's defeat. By frequent In- dian raids Trent became impoverished, and some friendly chiefs of the Six Nations, at the treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1758, gave to him and several others a tract of 3,500,000 acres of land along the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, which was named Indiana Territory. Royal confirmation of this grant was not obtained until 1769, but the claims were extinguished by the American Revolution. Capt. Trent was in England for some years in the interests of his Indiana company, returned to America in 1775, and took up his residence at Trenton. He settled in Philadelphia in 1784.

TRENT, William Peterfleld, author, b. at Richmond, 10 Nov., 1862. He studied in the Uni- versity of Virginia, where he took his A. M. de- gree in 1884, and at Johns Hopkins, taking his- tory as a post-graduate course. In 1888 he became professor of English and history at the University of the south, and in 1894 accepted in addition the position of dean of the academic department. He has published " English Culture in Virginia" (Baltimore, 1889); "The Period of Constitution- Making in the American Churches" (Boston, 1889) ; "William Gilmore Simms," in " American Men of Letters" series (1892); "Southern States- men of the Old Regime," in Crowell's " Library of pjconomics and Politics " (1897) ; " John Milton : A Short Study of his Life and Works "(1899); and was the first editor of " The Sewauee Review," a quarterly journal of literary studies (1892-'9).

TROIJEC, James, R. C. bishop, b. near Lai- bach, Austria, 10 July, 1838. In his native town he made his course of classics and philosophy, and also two years' study of theology. In 1864 he met a venerable missionary from this coun- try. Father Pirc, who induced him to join the Catholic missions of America, and to accom- pany him hither. He finished his theological studies at St. Vincent's abbey of the Benedictines in Pennsylvania. He was ordained a priest at St, Paul by Bishop Thomas L. Grace, and was as- signed to missionary duty with Vicar-General Buh, of the diocese of Duluth, at Belle Prairie, and afterward labored at Wabasha and attended the missions of all Wabasha county. After twenty-one years of missionary work he was called to St. Paul in 1887, where he organized St. Agnes's parish, and served until 1897, when he was appointed bishop of St. Cloud. Dr. Trobec was consecrated in St. Paul by Archbishop Ireland at the cathedral in September, 1897.

TRUAX, Charles Henry, jurist, b. in Dur- hamville, N. Y., 31 Oct., 1846. and spent a year at Hamilton college. He studied law with his uncle, Chauneey Shaflfer, was admitted to the New York bar, and soon acquired a lucrative practice. He was elected a judge of the superior court for the term of fourteen years expiring in 1894, and a year later he was elected to the 1st judicial district of the supreme court for fourteen years, which term will continue until 1910. Judge Truax possesses a library of about ten thousand volumes, and re- cently presented 1,250 volumes to Hamilton col- lege. — Ills brother, Chauneey Shaffer, lawyer, b. in Durhamville, 11 March, 1854, was graduated from Hamilton college and Columbia law-school. He was instructor in commercial and international law at Robert college, Constantinople, sometimes styled "the Oxford of the Orient," for nearly two years, when he returned to New York and re- sumed the practice of law. He is president of the New York alumni association of Hamilton, and in 1886 founded the Greek scholarship in that college.

TRUESDALE, Hiram Clark, jurist, b. in Rock Island, 111.. 26 June, 1860; d. in Phoenix, Ariz., 28 Oct., 1897. After his graduation from Iowa state university he studied law there, but removed to Minneapolis to practise his profession. He went to Phcenix in 1895, became known as an expert in mining law, and was appointed chief justice of the territory in June, 1897, being fatally prostrated immediately after trying the important suit of Warner vs. Wells, involving an exceed- ingly valuable mining property.

TRUMBULL, Matthew Moore, soldier, b. in London, England, 10 June. 1826. He came to the United States on reaching his majority, enlisting as a private in the 3d Iowa volunteers in April, 1861, being promoted later for gallantry in many battles in which the regiment took part. Subse- quently he organized and was commissioned colo- nel of" the 9th Iowa cavalry, with which he saw much active service, and before the close of the