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 TELFAIR

TEMPLE

of the Virginia house of delesates, 1706-1800, and a representative in the 6th omgress, 1800-01 ; tak- ing the seat of Jolin >hii>liail, rfsigned, Nov. 26, 1800. He removed to Norfolk. Va., 1802 ; was opposed to the war of 1812. and the administra- tion of President Madison, but upon the outbreak of war, he gave the government his support. He was a representative in the -state legislature in 1816 ; was a member of the e-ommission appointed to negotiate for the purchase of Florida, and was elected U.S. senator from Virginia in place of John Taylor, deceased, and took his seat Dec. 29, 1824. completing his term, March 3, 1829, and was re-elected for a full term to expire, March 3, 1835. He resigned liis seat in 1832, having served as president pro tempore of the senate from July 9, 1832. Ho was elected governor of Virginia in 1834. serving till 1836, when he retired from poli- tics. He is the author of : Revieiv of the Xegoti- atiotis between the United States and great Bi-i- tain respecting the commerce of the Two Countries (1829). He died in Norfolk, Va., May 6. 1860.

TELFAIR, Edward, delegate, was born in Scotland, in 173"). He engaged in the mercantile business in Glasgow, and was sent to America by liis firm, residing first in Virginia, then in Hali- fax, N.C., and finally in Savannah, Ga. He was active in pre-Revolutionary movements; a mem- ber of the Sons of Liberty and of several other patriot committees, and was a member of the party that removed the powder from the maga- zine at Savannah. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1777-79 and 1780-83 ; was one of the signers of the articles of Confederation. a commissioner to treat with the Cherokee Indians in 1783, and was elected governor of Georgia in 1786, and re-elected in 1790, serving till 1793. His mansion at Savannah was converted by his daughter, into the Telfair Art Gallery. He died in Savannah. Ga.. Sept. 17. 1807.

TELLER, Henry Moore, senator, was born in Granger. Allegany county, N.Y., May 23. 1830 ; son of John and Charlotte Teller ; and ade.scend- ant of William Teller, who came from Holland to Albany, N.Y.. in 1639. He attended Rushford academy and Alfred university ; taught school, and was admitted to the bar at Binghamton, N.Y., 18.j8 ; removed to Illinois in the same year, and to Colorado in April, 1861. He was married, June 7, 1862. to Harriett M. Bruce, daughter of Packerd and Dolly Bruce of Cuba, Allegany county, N.Y. He was major-general of Col- orado state militia. 1862-64, and in 1876, when Colorado was admitted as a state, he was elected U.S. senator from that state, serving, 1876-83. He was chairman of a committee on election frauds, and on April 17, 1882, resigned his seat in the .senate and was appointed by President Arthur, secretary of the interior, .serving as such

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until March 3. 1885. He was re-elected to the U.S. senate as a Kei)ublican in 1885, and again in 1891. He withdrew from the Republican national convention held at St. Louis in June, 1896, because of dis- satisfaction with the financial platform of the Republican part}', and supported Bryan for President in 1896 and 1900. He was re- elected to the senate in 1897, by the Demo- crats and Silver Re- publicans, receiving a vote of 94 out of 100, and was re- elected to the senate, Jan. 24, 1903, as a Democrat for the term expiring The honorary degree of LL.D. v him by Alfred university in 1886.

TEMPLE, Edward Lowe, author, was born in Fort Winnebago, Wis., May 12, 1844; son of Charles and Margarette (Lowe) Temple ; grand- son of Robert and Charlotte Eloise (Green) Temple and of Maj. Gideon and Margarette Lowe, and a descendant of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Temple, who came from England to America about 1650, and settled in Massachusetts. He attended the common schools in Wisconsin and the academy and high school in Rutland, Vt., where he lived with a paternal grandparent after his father's death in 1858 ; served an apprenticeship to an architect, 1860-61 ; as chief clerk in the office of the state treasurer, 1861-67, and thereafter en- gaged in banking and insurance business, being treasurer of the Marble Savings bank, 1883-1900. He was married, Sept. 29, 1869, to Lucy, daughter of George and Lucretia (Collins) Graves of Rut- land, Vt. He was town and city superintendent of schools, 1887-93, and a member of- the state examining board of teachers. 1890-94. The honor- ary degree of A.M. was conferred upon him by Middlebury college, 1887, and by the University of Vermont in 1888. He was a deputy from Ver- mont to the triennial general conventions of the P.E. church, 1886-1900, and is the author of : Shakespeare, the Man and his Art (1892); The Church in the Prayer Book (1893); One Hundred Years of aiurch Life in Rutland (1894); Old World Memories (2 vols., 1898).

TEMPLE, Oliver Perry, author, was born in Green county, Tenn.. Jan. 27. 1820 ; .son of James and Mary (Craig) Temple ; grandson of Major and Jane (Kennedy) Temple, and of Capt. Samuel and Jane Innis (Burns) Craig ; and a descendant of William Temple of Chester county,