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 TALLMADGE

TALMAGE

1861 ; was promoted brigadier-general, March 4, 1862, and served in the Army of Northern Vir- ginia until March, 1863, when he was given charge of the district of Savannah, Ga. He com- manded the 1st division, 1st military district, dm-ing the siege of Charleston ; was in charge of the garrison during the defence of Morrris Island in July, 1863, and in August, 1863, he commanded the garrison on James Island. He commanded a division in Florida, in February, 1864 ; com- manded the 7th military district of South Caro- lina, in May, 1864, and the entire district of South Carolina in December, 1864. He was pro- moted major-general, Jan. 1, 1865; and com- manded a division in January, 1865. He was a representative in the state assembly ; a Dem- ocratic pi'esidential elector ; grand master of Masons in Virginia, 1876-77, and a member of the board of visitors of the Virginia Military in- stitute and of William and Mary college. He was chosen judge of Gloucester county in 1893. He died in Belleville, Va., Feb. 27, 1898.

TALLMADGE, Benjamin, soldier, was born in Brook Haven. L.I., N.Y., Feb. 25, 1754 ; son of the Eev. Benjamin and Susanna (Smith) Tallmadge ; grandson of James and Hannah (Harrison) Tall- madge of New Haven, Conn., and a descendant of Eobert and Sarah (Nash) Tallmadge of Newton Stacy, Hampshire, England. Robert Tallmadge is mentioned in the Connecticut Records as a planter, 1645. He was graduated from Yale col- lege in 1773 and was superintendent of the Weth- ersfield high school, 1773-76, leaving to join the Revolutionary army as lieutenant in the Conti- nental line, June 20, 1776. He was promoted captain of dragoons, Dec. 15, 1776 ; major, April 7, 1777, and colonel, Sept. 5, 1779. He took part in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine, Ger- mantown and Monmouth ; planned and conducted the expedition across Long Island sound to Lloyd's Neck, L.I., where he captured 500 Tories and in 1780 led the expedition against Fort George, at Oyster Bay, L.I., for which he was thanked by congress. He was in cliarge of Major John Andre until the latter's execution, be- coming greatly attached to that officer. Remov- ing to Litchfield, Conn., he engaged in mercan- tile pursuits ; was a Federalist representative in the 7th-14th congresses. 1801-17 ; and first treas- urer of the Connecticut Society of the Cincin- nati. He was married, March 16, 1784, to Mary, daughter of William Floyd, the signer. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Yale in 1778. He is the author of : Memoirs at the Request of my Children (1859). He died in Litchfield. Conn.. March 7. 18-35.

TALLMAQE, Nathaniel Pitcher, senator, was born in Chatham. Columbia county, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1795. He was graduated from Union college in X. — 7

1815 ; admitted to the bar in 1818, and practised law in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1818-28. He was a member of the state assembly, 1828-30 ; state senator, 1830-33 ; chosen to the U.S. senate as a conservative Democrat in 1833, and re-elected in 1839. liis second term to expire March 3, 1845. He resigned in 1844, after the close of the first session of the 28th congress, and Daniel S. Dickinson completed the term. He was appointed terri- torial governor of Wisconsin by President Tyler, Sept. 16, 1844, to succeed James Duane Doty, and resided at Fond-du-Lac, Wis., until his removal from office, May 13, 1845, when he was succeeded by Henry Dodge. He died at Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 2, 1864.

TALMAGE, Samuel Kennedy, educator, was born in Somerville, N.J., 1798; son of Major Thomas (the Revolutionary soldier) and Mary Goyn (McCoy) Tahnage ; grandson of Thomas and Hannah (Norris) Talmage of Elizabethtown, and of Capt. Goyn McCoy of the New Jersey Revolutionary troops. Daniel Talmage, of Eliza- bethtown, the progenitor of the New Jersey Talmages, was the son of Enos, of East Hampton, L.I., who was the son of Thomas, a member of theTalmash family of Suffolk, England, who came to America in 1630 and was a first settler of Charlestown, Mass., and later of Lynn. S. K. Talmage was an uncle of the Rev. T. DeAVitt Talmage. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey, Princeton, A.B., 1820, A.M., 1823 ; attended the New Brunswick Theological seminary, 1820-21, and tutored at Princeton, 1822-25. When Oglethorpe university was or- ganized in 1836, at Midway, Ga., Talmage was elected professor of ancient languages. He began his duties when the first class was held in 1838, and on the resignation of President Beman in 1841, he became president, filling that office until his death. Under his administration, the uni- versity grew rapidly until the hard times of tlie last year of the war obliged it to close. He was a chaplain in the Confederate States army. Shortly after his death, the university was moved to Atlanta, and the school that now uses the former buildings is called the Talmage high school. He received the degree of D.D. from tlie College of New Jersey in 1845. He died in Mid- way, Ga., Sept. 2, 1865.

TALilAGE, Thomas Dewitt, preacher, was born in Bound Brook, N.J., Jan. 7, 1832; son of David T. and Catherine Talmage, and a nephew of Samuel Kennedy Talmage (q. v. ). He attended the University of the City of New York, receiv- ing a special course diploma in 1853. and was graduated from the New Brunswick Tlieological seminary in 1856. He was ordained a minister of the Reformed Dutch church in 1856. and was pastor at Belleville, N.J., 1856-59; at Syracuse,