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 TUCSON TUDOR Cuba, April 20, 1840. He graduated at Har- vard college in 1798, and from 1801 to 1826 was pastor of a Unitarian society in Chelsea. He then labored as a missionary among the poor of Boston. In 1812 he was instrumental in forming the first charitable society for the benefit of sailors in the United States, and sub- sequently the American seamen's friend socie- ty, and a "Benevolent Fraternity of Churches" for the support of a city mission, called the "Ministry at Large." He also visited Great Britain, and promoted similar organizations there. In 1830 he wrote a prize essay "On the Wages paid to Females." He published reports to the "Fraternity of Churches " (12mo, 1831; 2d ed., 1832), and "Principles and Re- sults of the Ministry at Large." TUCSON, a city and the capital of the terri- tory of Arizona, county seat of Pima co., in lat. 32 12' N., Ion. 110 52' W., 370 m. S. W. of Santa Fe, N. M., and the same distance E. by S. of San Diego, Cal., on the route between those places; pop. in 1870, 3,224; in 1875, about 5,000, three fourths of whom are of Mexican Origin and speak Spanish. It is situated in the valley of the Santa Cruz river, 2,520^. above the level of the sea, about 55 m. S. of the Gila river and 60 m. N. of the Mexican boundary, and is the largest and most impor- tant place in the territory. It has the appear- ance of a Mexican town, with the customary plazas and narrow streets and houses built chiefly of adobe; but with the accession of American population an improvement is taking place. Camp Lowell, a United States military post, is 7 m. distant. There is only one church, Roman Catholic. Nine miles S. of the city is the church of San Xavier, built upward of a century ago by Catholic missionaries. Tucson has a designated United States depository and money-order post office, and an assay office ; a commodious and well furnished public school building, with male and female departments and a large and increasing attendance ; a serai- nary and school, under the charge of the sis- ters of St. Joseph; and a weekly newspaper. The territorial library contains 3,000 volumes. The climate is mild in winter and hot in sum- mer, the average temperature of January being 51 and of July 89. The business in 1875 amounted to $1,800,000, consisting chiefly is trade with the Mexican state of Sonora, and in supplying the military posts and Indian res- ervations of S. Arizona. Tucson is within the Gadsden purchase," obtained from Mexico by the treaty of Dec. 30, 1853. Its early history is unknown, but it has been a place of some im- portance for more than a century, and before its acquisition by the United States was a Mexican military post. It was incorporated in 1871. TUCCMAIY. I. A N. province of the Argen- tine Republic, bordering on Salta, the Gran Chaco, Santiago, and Catamarca; area, about 28,000 sq. m. ; pop. in 1869, 108,602. In the west the surface is traversed by the Aconquiia mountains, but in other directions there are extensive plains. The mountains abound in copper, silver, and other ores, but the mines are little worked. The most important rivers are the Salado, Tala, and Medinas. There are several shallow saline lakes, and in many places extensive tracts covered with fossil salt. The water of nearly all the streams is brackish. The climate of the plains is hot, but dry and healthful. The soil affords good crops of grain, sugar cane, tobacco, and fruits, and excellent pasturage. The chief exports are cattle and timber. II. A city, capital of the province, on the river Tala, in lat. 26 51' S., Ion. 65 15' W., 675 m. N. W. of Buenos Ayres, on a plain 2,490 ft. above the sea; pop. in 1869, 17,438. The streets are regularly laid out but narrow, and most of the houses are of two stories and open into spacious interior courts. The prin- cipal church, fronting on the plaza, has two towers and a lofty dome ; and there are several other churches, a Franciscan and a Dominican monastery, the college of San Miguel, and other institutions. There are tanneries, manu- factories of leather work, and brandy distil- leries. It took an important part in the war with Spain, and here, on July 9, 1816, a con- gress of the La Plata states met and issued a declaration of independence. TTDELA (anc. Tuteld), a city of Spain, in the province of Navarre, on the right bank of the Ebro at its junction with the Queiles and at the beginning of the Imperial canal, 156 in. N. E. of Madrid ; pop. about 9,000. The Ebro is crossed here by a stone bridge with 17 arches. The Queiles passes through one of the princi- pal squares, where bull fights take place ; an- other square is surrounded by arcades. It has a highly ornamented cathedral, a medical col- lege, and an orphan and foundling asylum. The exports include agricultural products, wool, oil, and wine resembling Burgundy. Few ves- tiges of the ancient fortifications remain. The Moors held the city from the 8th till early in the 12th century. The French under Lefebvre- Desnouettes were victorious here in June, 1808, and in November Lannes achieved a more de- cisive victory over Castafios in a battle fought chiefly on the heights above Tudela. TUDOR, the surname of a line of English sovereigns, consisting of Henry VII., I486-' 1509; Henry VIII., 1509-M7; Edward VI., 1547-'53; Mary I., 1553-'8; and Elizabeth, 1558-1603. The family descended from a Welsh gentleman, Owen ap Tudor, who mar- ried Catharine of Valois, widow of Henry V. One of their sons, Edmund, earl of Richmond, married Margaret, daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset, whose fa- ther was an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt by Catharine Swynford. The offspring of this connection were afterward legitimated, but ex- cluded from the succession. The only son of Richmond and the heiress of Somerset, Henry, duke of Richmond, on the extinction of the direct male line of John of Gaunt, was accepted by the Lancastrian party as their chief. He