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 TWOMBLY. TYLER. 613 Mr. Turner is an active member of Con- verse Lodge, and a past officer of Mt. Vernon Lodge, F. & A. M.; a member of the Royal Arcanum and A. O. U. W. ; ex- second lieutenant 3d Massachusetts bat- tery (militia) ; vice-president of the Maiden Club, and one of its founders ; has been twice president of the Republican city com- mittee, and its treasurer during the Butler- Robinson campaign ; a member of Maiden HENRY E TURNER, JR. common council the lirsl two years after its incorporation as a city ; a member of the Boston Club : commodore and vice-commo- dore of Great Head Yacht Club for four years ; ami a member of the Hull and Corin- thian Yacht clubs. He represented the city of Maiden, where he now resides, in the Huuse of Representatives of 1889, serv- ing as clerk on the joint committee on drain- age, and was re-elected at the last election to serve his constituents for another year. TWOMBLY, William H., son of Wil- liam and Lydia(Horn) Twombly, was born in Dover, Strafford county, N. H., Febru- ary 28, 1822. After his early tuition in the public schools, he finished his educational train- ing in the seminaries at Parsonsfield, Me., and (iilmanton, N. H. He began to learn the printing business in March, 1835, and was first in business for himself, January, 1844, in South Boston, publishing a paper called "The Galaxy." He lias since been owner or part owner of sev- eral newspapers — one in New York City, one in Maine, and live in Massachusetts. He is at present publisher and editor of the " Reading Chronicle " Mr. Twombly was married in Lowell. March 25, 1858, to Ellen A. Townsend (deceased). Of this union are three chil- dren : Willie E., James Franklin, and Grade S. Twombly. Mr. Twombly has generally held aloof from political life. He is a member of the Sons of Temperance, and has always been an active temperance worker. One of the most flourishing lodges of Good Templars in Maine was named after him — the Twombly Lodge, Camden, Me. WILLIAM H. TWOMBLY. During a period of more than fifty-four years he has worked at his chosen vocation of printer and general newspaper man, with but few weeks of interruption. TYLER, William Seymour, son of Joab Tyler, a farmer in northern Penn- sylvania, and Nabby (Seymour) Tyler, of Otsego county, N. Y., was born in Har- ford, Susquehanna county, Pa., September 2, 1810. He began the study of Latin at seven years of age in his native place, and fitted