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 TETLOW. Til AVER 597 R. A.; Bellingham Assembly, R. S. G. F.; trustee of Powhatan Tribe, I. 0. R. M.; a member of Bay State Lodge, No. 3, A. . U. VV.; trustee of i[ystic Lodge, No. 51, I. O. •O. F.; trustee of Samaritan Encampment, No. 23, I. 0. O. F., and member of Ridgely Canton ; member of Faith Lodge, D. of R., No. 28, I. 0. 0. F. ; trustee of Alpha Lodge No. 1., N. E. O. P.; supreme warden, N. E. O. P.; member of Lincoln Council No. 17. Home Circle; Athenian Council No. 247, 0. U. F., and has been president of the Chelsea Mutual Benefit Association since its organization. TETLOW, JOHN, son of John and Mary A. Tetlow, was born in Providence, R. I., April 1, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of Providence, and fitted for college, graduating from Brown University as valedictorian in the class of 1S64. He then became principal of the Maple Street grammar school in Fall River, where he remained a year. In 1865 he became classical assistant in the Friends' Academy at New Bedford, where he remained three years. After spending the year iS68-'69 abroad, studying German and French, on his return he was made principal of the Friends' Academy, a position which he held for ten years. In New Bedford, in 1870, Mr. Tetlow was married to his first wife, Elizabeth J., daughter of Rev. Henry F. and Elizabeth I). Harrington. She died in 1877, leaving him two daughters : Elizabeth H. and Helen I. Tetlow. In 1880 Mr. Tetlow was again married, to Elizabeth P., daughter of George and Ardelia L. Howard. Their only child is a daughter : Frances H. Tetlow. In 1878 the girls' Latin school was or- ganized in Boston, and Mr. Tetlow was elected to the mastership, which position he still holds. It started in a modest way, with an enrollment of only twenty- eight pupils ; but it has since reached a membership of two hundred, and is honor- ably represented by its graduates in all the New England colleges to which women are admitted. In 1884 Mr. Tetlow published his " In- ductive Latin Lessons." In 18S5 the girls' high school and the girls' Latin school, which occupied the same building, were united under one management, and Mr. Tetlow was elected head-master. He was appointed, in conjunction with William C. Collar and R. G. Hiding, by the Mas- sachusetts High School and Classical Teachers' Association, to take steps look- ing toward greater co-operation between colleges and preparatory schools, and the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools was the result, as also indirectly the Commission of Colleges in New England. In 1886 and '87 Mr. Tet- low served as president of the Massachu- setts High School and Classical Teachers' Association. THAYER, ELI, son of Cushman and Miranda (Pond) Thayer, was born in Men- don, Worcester county, June 11, 1819. His preparatory educational training was secured in the district school, Bellingham Academy, Amherst Academy, and Worces- ter County Manual Labor high school. He was graduated at Brown University in the class of 1845, with the honor of salu- tatory. He then became assistant teacher in the Worcester Academy, then principal of the same, and in 1848 founded Oread Institute, of which he is now the treasurer. Mr. Thayer was married in Blackstone, August 6, 1845, to Caroline M., daughter of Collins and Caroline (Silsby) Capron. Of this union were seven children : Clara Capron, Ida M., Eva Alden, Anna C, Cora P., John Alden, and George Capron Thayer. Mr. Thayer has been a member of the Worcester school board, and of the board of aldermen. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1853 and '54, where he originated the Bank of Mutual Redemp- tion and the Emigrant Aid Company ; was elected to Congress in 1856, and again in 1858 ; was chairman of the committee on public lands ; spent three years in coloniz- ing Kansas; began the colonizing of Vir- ginia in 1857, and continued the work to the beginning of the civil war. Mr. Thayer's great work was during the years 1854, '55, and '56, in organizing emigration throughout the northern states for the purpose of making Kansas a free state. His work in this direction was one of the most powerful factors in the final extinction of slavery in this country. Hon. Charles Robinson, the first governor of the state of Kansas, said in a letter dated Law- rence, Kansas, September 25, 1887 : " Kan- sas can never too highly honor her early friends, without whose exertions freedom would have been driven from our borders. Of all the long list of names that Kansas will ever delight to honor, that of the Hon. Eli Thayer stands at the head." Charles Sumner said he would rather have the credit due Eli Thayer for his Kansas work than be the hero of the battle of New Orleans. In the United States Senate, in 1856, Mr. Sumner said, speaking of the