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 TICHENOR

TICKNOR

Army of the Potomac in the Peninsular cam- paign ; in the 3d brigade, Hooker's division, Heintzelman's corps, at Second Bull Run, Aug. 29, 1863, and on Oct. 13, 1863, was promoted major. He was also engaged at Fredericksburg and in the ChanceUorsville campaign, his term of enlistment expiring in the spring of 1863. He recruited a regiment of cavalry, of which he was commissioned colonel, Nov. 30, 1863, and in the spring of 1864 was placed in the army commanded by Franz Sigel and later by Hunter, commanding the 1st brigade of cavalry at the battle of New Market, Va., May 15, 1864, and alsD taking part in Hunter's Lynchburg campaign. He was bre- vetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 17,

1864, and major-general, March 13, 1865 ; pro- moted brigadier-general of volunteers, Oct. 18,

1865, and mustered out of service, Jan. 15, 1866. He died at Troy, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1880.

TICHENOR, Isaac, senator, was born at New- ark, N.J., Feb. 8, 1754. He was graduated at the College of New Jersey, A.B., 1775, A.M.. 1778; studied law at Schenectady, N. Y. ; was appointed assistant to the commissary general in 1777, and in performing the duties of that office visited Bennington, Vt., where he later made his home. He put his own fortune and credit at the ser- vice of the govern- ment during the Rev- olution, and the best portion of his life was spent in partial poverty. He repre- sented Bennington in the Vermont legis- lature, 1781-84, be- ing an agent to con- gress in 1782 ; and speaker in 1783 ; was one of the commissioners to arrange a settlement of the boundary question with New York, 1789 ; a judge of the supreme court of Vermont, 1791-94, and chief-justice, 1794-96. He was cliosen senator in 1796 to complete the unexpired term of Moses Robinson, resigned, and in 1797 was re-elected as a Federalist, but resigned in the fall to become governor of Vermont, being elected by the legis- lature after the people had failed to elect. He served as governor, by re-election, from 1797 until 1809, with the exception of the year 1807, when Israel Smith was governor, and was again a sen- ator from Vermont, 1815-21, being one of the last Federalists to serve in the U.S. senate. He re- ceived from Dartmouth the honorary degree of A.M. in 1789 and that of LL.D. in 1799. He died in Bennington, Vt., Dec. 11, 1838. X.-ll

TICKNOR, Caroline, author, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., daughter of Benjamin H. and Caroline (Cushnian) Ticknor and granddaughter of Wil- liam Davis Ticknor (q.v.). She became a contri- butor to the Harper and other periodicals ; was a member of the Saturday Morning club of Boston, regent of the Abigail Adams chapter of the Daughter of the American Revolution, and vice- president of the Boston Authors club. She was an associate editor of: " The International Li- brary of Famous Literature" (10 vols., 1898) ; "Masterpieces of the World's Literatm-e" (20 vols., 1899) ; " Library of Oratory, Ancient and Modern" (15 vols.,) and is the author of: A Hypocritical Romance and Other Stories (1896), and il//ss Belladonna, a Child of To-day (1897). She was residing in Jamaica Plain, Mass., in 1903.

TICKNOR, George, author, was born in Bos- ton, Mass., Aug. 1, 1791 ; son of Elisha and Eliza- beth (BiUings) Curtis Ticknor; grandson of Col. Elisha Ticknor, and his first wife, Ruth Knowles, and a descendant of William Ticknor, who came from Kent, England, to Boston, Mass., about 1640 ; was sergeant in King Philip's war, and was married to Hannah Stockbridge. His father was a public-spirited man, to whose efforts was largely due the establishment of the public pri- mary schools in Boston. He was also one of the founders of the first savings bank. George Ticknor was a natural student, and at the age of nine had an entrance certificate to Dartmouth. He entered as a junior in 1805 ; was graduated, A.B., 1807, A.M., 1810 ; studied Greek and Latin, 1807-10 ; read law, 1810-13, and after practising the profession for one year, decided to give his attention to letters. He traveled in this country, 1814-15, and visited England and Holland in 1815, studying at Gottingen university. In 1817, while still abroad, he accepted the chair of French and Spanish languages and literature and belles lettres at Harvard, and shortly after visited France, Italy, Spain and Portugal. He went to Paris in 1818 and thence to London and Edin- burgh, returning to Boston in 1819 to accept the chair at Harvard, wliich he held until 1835. He was married, Sept. 18, 1821, to Anna, daughter of Samuel Eliot of Boston. He was appointed an examiner at the U.S. Military academy in 1826 ; visited England, Ireland and Germany, 1835-36 : Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland and Italy, 1836-37. and then Tyrol, Paris, London and Scotland, re- turning to Boston in 1838, where he spent his time in literary work. Realizing the need of a public library in Boston, he began to interest the citizens in the matter, and in 1851 Edward Everett donated 1,000 volumes as the nucleus of a library. In 1852 Mr. Ticknor was appointed a member of the board of trustees to form the li-