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 THORPE

THROOP

THORPE, Thomas Bangs, autlior, was born in Westtield. Mass., March 1, 1815; son of the Kev. Thomas Thorpe. He matriculated at Wesley- an university, Middletown, Conn., in 1833. but left in 1836. and removed to Louisiana. He was rissociate editor of a "Whig newsjiaper in New Orleans, 1844; founded The Conservator, Baton Kouije, 1846; was a Mexican war correspondent, iv<4G-17; resided in New York city, 1854- t'.(t. where he contributed to BlackwoocVs, the !\i>ickrrbocker and Harjier's Magazine, and in I s'.O became editor of tl>e Spirit of the Times. 1 le served as staff -officer to Gen. B. F. Butler, with the rank of colonel of volunteers, 1862; city surveyor. 1863-63; was cliief-clerk in the ware- liouse department. New York Custom liouse, ls09_7,S. and weigher, 1878. His paintings in- chide: The Bold Dragoon, an early production (1S32}, adapted from the stoiy by Washington Irving, and Niagara as it Is, exhibited in 1860. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Wesleyan in 1847; contributed to the first edition of the American Cyclopanlia, 1858-63; was dra- matic editor of Fore.'it and Stream, New York, and is the author of: Tom Owen, the Bee-Hunter; Miistei-ies of the Back -Woods; Our Armj/ on the L'io Grande (1846); Our Army of Monterey (1847); Lynde Weiss, an Autobiography, and The Hive of the Bee-Hunter (1854); Bob Herring, the Arkansas Bee- Hunter (1854); A Voice to America, and R':membrances of the Mississippi {IQ^'i); Scenes in Arkansas (ISoS); Reminiscences of Charles L. Elliott. He died in New York city, Sept. 21, 1878.

THRALL, Homer Loveland, educator, was born in Rutland, Vt., Oct. 18, 1802; grandson of Samuel Thrall of Granville, Mass., an officer in the Patriot army during the Revolution and a repre- sentative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1778, and a descendant of William Thrall, the immi- grant, who came to America from Plymouth, England, in 1630, and settled in Dorchester, Mass., and later at Windsor, Conn. Homer Loveland i-<15, and attended Lexington Medical College of Kentucky. He was married in 1825, to Parthenia Rugg of Hillsborough, N.Y., and practised at Homer. Hebron, Utica, and Gambier, Ohio. He was professor of chemistry and geology at Kenyon college, 1838-52, and engaged in scientific inves- tigation, making discoveries relating to the law of the correlation and resohition of forces, and the law of molecular attraction, and teaching them several years before their publication to the scien- tific world by Faraday, Grove, and others. He was subsequently professor of materia medica and L.iieral pathology in Starling Medical college, ' olumbus, Ohio, and in 1865 retired from active •Af.rk to the home of his son. Dr. Seneca B. Thrall, -t Ottumwa, Iowa, where he died, July 26, 1870.
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THROCKMORTON, James Webb, represen- tative, was born in Sparta, Tenn.. Feb. 1, 1825; son of Dr. William E. Throckmorton. He at- tended the public schools, and in 1841 removeil witii his father to Collin county, Texas, where he studied medicine with his uncle, Dr. James E. Throckmorton of Princeton. Ky. He practised iri Texas until 1849, and served as surgeon of Chevallie's rangers during the Mexican war. He was married in February, 1848, to Annie, daugh- ter of Thomas and Gilean Rattan of CarroUton, 111. He studied law; was a representative in the state legislature, 1851-56; state senator, 1856-61; and a member of the state convention of 1861, where he voted against the ordinance of .seces- sion and declined to sign the act, but on the breaking ovit of hostilities he raised a company for the Confederate service and was appointed it& captain, participating in the capture of forts Wichita and Arbuckle. He was promoted major; was transferred to the 6th Texas cavalry, and served in the Missouri campaign. He returned to Texas in November, 1863; was elected state senator; was appointed brigadier-general of Texas troops in 18G4, and in 1865 was appointed a com- missioner to negotiate treaties with all tiie hostile Indians on the border, in which he was success- ful. He was a member and president of the re- construction convention of 1865; was chosen governor in 1865, but was removed from office, Aug. 9, 1867, by military order. He resumed his law practice in Collin county; was a Democratic representative from the fifth district of Texas in the 44th and 45th congresses, 1875-79, and in the 48th and 49th congresses, 1883-87. He was a presidential elector-at-large on the Hancock and English ticket in 1880 and the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for U.S. senator in Jan- uary, 1881. He died at McKinney, Texas, April 21. 1894.

THROOP, Enos Thompson, governor of New York, was born in Johnstown, Montgomery county, N.Y., Aug. 21, 1784; son of George Bliss and Abiah (Thompson) Throop. His fathers family originally resided in Lebanon, Conn., but later removed to Nova Scotia, and after his mar- riage, George Bliss Tliroop settled in Jownstown, N.Y. Enos attended the village .schools, and on the death of his father in 1794, was adoi)ted by a Mr. Metcalfe of Albany. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1806; practised in Auburn. N.Y., 1807-11; was county clerk of C'ay'iga- county, and in July, 1814, was married to Evelina Vredenburgh of Skaneateles, N.Y. He was a representative in the 14th congress, 1815-17; cir- cuit judge of New York, 1823-27, and in that capacity tried the alleged abduction of William Morgan in 1826; was candidate for lieutenant- governor, on the Martin Van Buren ticket, 1828,