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Young (1856), Corcoran galler.v, Washington, D.C.; The Portage (1865); A Dttck and her Young (IsaS): Ruffled (?ro»,se (186<»); Woodstock Shooting: Snowed in, and Halt on the Carry (1871): Ricqnette Lake (1873); There's a Good Time Coming (1876); Jack in Office (1885); Thoroughbreds and Startled (1887); A Mother's Solicitude (1888). and Coming Home (1903), which Mr. Tait considered one of liis best paint- in,!?s. He was residing in Yonkers, N.Y.. in 1903. TAIT, Charles, senator, was born in Louisa county. Va.. Feb. 1, 1768. He was a cousin of Henry Clay. He was educated as a lawyer, re- moved to Elbert county, Ga., was a teacher in the Richmond academy, and was presiding jus- tice of the western circuit of the state, 1803-09. He was elected to the U.S. senate to complete the term of Senator John Milledge, resigned, and was re-elected for a full term, serving as a sen- ator from Georgia from Dec. 28. 1809, to March 3, 1819. Wiiile in the senate, he became a friend of John C. Calhoun, secretary of war, and the two maintained a correspondence for years. Cal- houn, in a letter dated. July 20, 1818, says, "Your political course has been without an aberration so far as I have seen it."' In 1819 Senator Tait removed to Alabama, and in 1820 was appointed by President Monroe the first Federal district judge of the state. He resigned from the bench in 1826 and continued as a planter in Wilcox county up the time of his death, which occurred near Claiborne. Ala.. Oct. 7, 1835.

TAIT, John Robinson, artist, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 14, 1834; son of George and Eliza Dickey (Morrison) Tait; grandson of Jolin and Elizabeth (Cattnach)Tait and of Jacob and Mary (Fay) Morrison. His first ancestor in America, John Tait, born in Edinburgh, 1779, arrived in America, 1810; removed from Pitts- burg to Indiana, 1822, and died in 1868. He at- tended Woodward college at Cincinnati, 1845-50; was graduated from Bethany college, Va., A.B., 1852: studied art. and painted in Forence, Italy, 1853-56; and resumed his studies in Diisseldorf, 1859-71, and in Munich. 1873-76. He was mar- ried, Dec. 26, 1872. to Anna Dolores, daughter of Charles and Gay (Bernard) Tiernanof Baltimore, Md., where he made liis home after 1876. He is the author of: Dolce far Niente, poems (1859); European Life, Legend and Landscape (1859); Ein aufrichtiger Heirathsgesuch, a German comedy (1869); numerous papers on art in lead- ing magazines, and was art critic of the New York Mail and Express (1884-R7). His paintings include: L<tke of Four Cantons, exliibited in Paris .-^ilon (1864); Siebengebirge (1805); Lake of Wallenstadt and Meyringen (1866); Norwe- gian Waterfall (1869) -.Solitude (1871); A Rainy Day (1874); Under the Willows (1874); Land-

scape and Cattle (1875); Vesper Hour and Tyro- lean Cottage, the two latter exhibited at ilie Paris salon (I87G).

TALBOT, Ethelbert, third bishop of Central Pennsylvania and 143d in succession in the American episcopate, was born at Fayette, Mo., Oct. 9, 1848; son of John A. and Alice (Daly) Talbot; grandson of Prof. Lawrence and Eliza- beth Daly, and of George and Mary Talbot, and a descendant of a prominent English family of that name. His father was an eminent physician of Fayette, and Ethelbert received a good pre- paratory education and was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1870, A.M., 1873, and from the General Theological seminary in 1873. He was married. Nov. 5, 1873, to Dora, daughter of James and Mary Harvey of Roanoke, Mo. He was ordered deacon, June 29, 1873, and ordained priest, Nov. 4, 1873. He was rector of St. James, Macon city, Mo., 1873-87, and established a mili- tary school for boys in the parish. He was elected missionary bishop of the district of Wyoming and Idaho, and was consecrated at Christ church, St. Louis, May 27, 1887, by Bish- ops Whipple, Vail and Tuttle, assisted by Bishops Spalding, Dudley, Perry, Burgess, Seymour, Thompson, Knickerbacker, Walker, Worthing- and Gilbert, and during his bislx)pric, he built at Laramie a cathedral known as St. Matthew's at a cost of $50,000; St. Margaret's school for girls at Boise city; St. Matthew's Hall for boys at Lara- mie and the Frances Holland hospital at Wallace. He was elected bishop of the diocese of Central Pennsylvania, Nov. 11, 1897. The honorary de- gree of D.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth college, in 1887: that of LL.D. by the University of Missouri, in 1887, and that of S.T.D. by the General Theological seminary, in 1887.

TALBOT, Isham, senator, was born in Bed- ford county, Va., in 1773. He practised law in Versailles, and Frankfort, Ky.; was state senator, 1813-15, and was elected to the U.S. senate, taking liis seat. Feb. 2, 1815, to fill the un- expired term of Jesse Bledsoe, resigned, and serving till the completion of Bledsoes term, March 3, 1819; was again chosen to fill the unex- pired term of William Logan, who was elected his successor, but resigned, Nov. 27, 1820, and Senator Talbot completed the term, March 3, 1825. He died in Frankfort, Ky.. Sept. 25, 1837.

TALBOT, Joseph Cruikshank, second bishop of Indiana, and 70th in succession in the Amer- ican episcopate, was born in Alexandria, Va., Sept. 5. 1816. Tlis parents were Quakers, and he attended Pierpont academy, Alexandria. He en- gaged in business in Louisville. Ky., in 1835; joined the Protestant Episcopal church, and pre- pared for the i)riesthood, 1841-46. He was ad- mitted to the diaconate at Christ church, Louis-