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 TERHUNE

TERRELL

He was married, Sept. 2, 1901, to Anice Morris, daughter of John P., and Elizabeth (Olnistead) Stockton of New York city. He became an authority and expert writer ou physical culture topics, publishing many articles and one book on the"'subject. He is the author of: Syria from the Saddle (1896); Coluvibia Stories (1897); Paul Dufour, Bohemian (1898); The Deluge of '09 (1898); A Galahad of Park Row (1899); and Dr. Dale: A Story without a Moral, in collaboration with his mother, "Marion Harland " (1900); also short stories and verses in the leading magazines. TERHUNE, Mary Virginia, author, was born in Amelia county, Va., Dec. 21, 1831; daughter of Samuel Pierce and Judith Anna (Smith) Hawes; granddaughter of Sterling and Judith Smith and of Jesse and Aniia (Pierce) Hawes, and a descendant of Robert and Anne Pierce, who landed in Massachuetts, 1630, and of Thomas Smith, brother of Captain John Smith of the Jamestown (Va. ) colony (1607.) Her father, a native of Massachusetts, removed to Virginia and became a successful merchant, and her mother was of an old Virginia family. She began to con- tribute articles to the press in 1815 and in 1847 published a sketch entitled Marrying through Prudential Motives, which was copied by an English periodical without credit and was re- published as an English story in Godey's Lady's Book. Her first book, Alo7ie, originally printed in Richmond, was republished in 1854 in New York city, where it had a large sale. She was married Sept. 2, 1856, to the Rev. Edward Payson Terhune of New Jersey; removed to Newark, N.J., in 1858; subsequently spent three years abroad, and in 1900 became a member of the editorial staff of Tlie Xorth American of Philadelphia, and also as- sumed charge of an immense newspaper syndicate of " Women's Pages", making her residence at Sunnybank, Pompton, N.J. She conducted several magazines, including Babyhood and J7ie Home Maker; had charge of departments in Wide Awake and St. Nicholas, and under the pen name of " Marion Harland " is the author of: Alone: A Tale of Southern Life and Planners (1854); The Hidden Path (1855); Moss Side (1857); I^emesis (1860); 2Iiriam (1860); Husks (1863); Husbands and Homes (1865); Sunnybank (1866); Helen Gardners Wedding Day (ISQl); Tlie CJiristmas Holly (1868); Ruby's Husband (1868); Phemie's Temptation (1869); At Last (1870); The Empty Heart (1871); Common Sense in the Household (1871); Breakfast. Luncheon and Tea (1875); The Dinner Year Book (1878); Loi- terings in Pleasant Paths (1880); Eve's Daughters (1881): Jiidith (1'883); A Gallant Fight (1888); An Old-Field-Schoolgirl (1897); Some Colonial Homesteads (1897): The National Cook Book, in collaboration with her daughter, Christine Ter-

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hune Herrick (1897); WhereGhosts Walk (1898); More Colonial Homesteads (1899); When Grand- mama was New (1900); Literary Hearthstones (1900-1901); Dr. Dale; AStory Without a Moral, in collaboration with her son, Albert Payson Terhune (1901); and Li Our County (1902).

TERRELL, Edwin Holland, diplomatist, was born in Brookville, Ind., Nov. 21, 1848; son of the Rev. Dr. Williamson and Martha (Jarrell) Ter- rell; grandson of Capt. John and Abigail (Allan) Terrell and of James and Rachel (Powell) Jar- rell, and great-grand- son of Henry Terrell, who removed from Virginia to Kentucky in 1787. He gradu- ated at De Pauw university, valedic- torian, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874; from the law department of Harvard university, 1873; was a student in Europe 1873-74, and practised law in Indianapolis, 1874-77. He was married, Aug. 17, 1874, to

Mary, daughter of Samuel Augustus and Mary (Adams) Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, and in 1877 removed to San Antonio. He was delegate from Texas to the Republican national conven- tions of 1880 and 1888, and a member of the Re- publican state executive committee of Texas, 1894-1900. He was appointed by President Har- rison U.S. minister to Belgium in 1889, and oc- cupied that position four years. He was pleni- potentiarj^ on the part of the United States in the international conference on the slave trade at Brussels, November, 1889, to July, 1890, which drew up the slave trade treaty, known as the " General Act of Brussels," subsequently ratified by the President and senate. In tRily, 1890. he held a similiar commission in the International Customs-Tariffs conference at Brussels; in Nov- ember and December, 1890, he was a member of the Commission Technique which elaborated a tariff system for the conventional basin of the Congo, as defined in the treaty of Berlin of 1885; and in connection therewith, he conducted nego- tiations with the six European powers holding possessions in the Congo basin, and secured from them the " Protocol of Dec. 22, 1890," granting the United States full commercial privileges, etc. in the entire Congo basin. In 1891 Mr. Terrell negotiated with King Leopold a treaty of com- merce and navigation and a consular treaty be- tween the United States and the Congo Free State, subsequently approved by the President