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church ; was ordained by Bishop Asbury, Nov. 19, 1792, and in 1796 removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he organized a congregation. He was a member of the house of representatives in the first and second territorial legislatures, 1799- 1803, and in the 8th and 9th general assemblies of Ohio. 1809-11, being speaker of the house, 1809- 11. He was president of the state constitutional convention of 1803, and was unanimously elected first governor of Ohio in 1803, being re-elected in 1805. He resigned in 1807, upon his election as U.S. senator to succeed Thomas Worthington, taking his seat, March 3, 1807, and resigning on the death of his wife, March 3, 1809. He resumed the medical pi'ofessiou at Chillicothe, Ohio, and in 1813, being appointed commissioner of the general land oflice by President Madison, removed to Washington." He exchanged offices with Josiah Meigs, surveyor-general of public lands northwest of the Ohio river, and returned to Chillicothe, holding ofl5ce till July 1, 1839, when he was removed by President Jackson. He was twice married, first in 1789 to Mary, daughter of Col. Robert Worthington, and secondly to Mary Porter, of Delaware. He died in Chillicothe, Ohio. Aug. 9. 1839.

TIQERT, John James, clergyman, was born in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 35, 1856; son of John James and Mary (Van Veghten) Tigert ; grandson of John James and Susanna (Wicklein) Tigert and of Abraliam and Mary (Hunt) Van Veghten, and a descendant of the Van Veghtens, early Dutch settlers of New York, including Abraham Van Veghten (q.v.). He was graduated from Vanderbilt university in 1877, and joined the Louisville conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. South, in the same year ; was stationed in Louisville, Ky., 1877-78; and in Franklin, Ky., 1878-81. He was married, Aug. 38, 1878, to Amelia, daughter of Bishop Holland N. and Amelia (Townsend) McTyeire of Nashville, Tenn. He was tutor and professor of moral philosophy in Vanderbilt university, 1881-90. In the latter year he was transferred to the Southwest Miss- ouri conference and stationed at the Walnut Street and Troost Avenue churches. Kansas City, 1890-9-4. building the latter church in 1893. In 1893 he was fraternal delegate from the M.E. church, South, to the General Conference of the M.E. church at Omaha, Neb., and in 1891: be- came book editor of the M.E. church. South, and editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, making his home in Nashville, Tenn. He received the post-graduate degree of S. T. B. from Vander- bilt university, 1883 : that of D.D. from Emory and Henry college, 1888, and that of LL.D. from the University of Missouri, 1894. He was assist- ant secretary of the general conferences of his denomination, 1883, 1890, and 1894, and secretary,

1898 and 1903. His publications include : Hand- hook of Logic (1885) ; TJieology and Philosophy (1888) ; The Preacher Himself (1889) ; A Voice from the South (1893) ; Constitutional History of American Episcopal Methodism (1894) ; The Journal of Thomas Coke (1896) ; The Making of Methodism (1898) ; Theism (1901) ; The Doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal church in America (1903). He edited "Systematic Theology" by Dr. T. O. Summers (1888) ; Bishop McTyeire's volume of sermons, " Passing Through the Gates " (1889); and " A Manual of Christian Doctrine," by Dr. John S. Banks.

TILDEN, Douglas, sculptor, was born in Chico, Cal., May 1, 1860 ; son of Dr. William Pe- gram and Catherine (Hecox) Tilden ; grandson of Charles Nehemiah and Sarah Tilden and of Adna and Maria (Hamer) Hecox. and a descend- ant of Marmaduke Tylden, grandson of Sir Wil- liam Tylden of Great Tyldens, Kent county, Eng- land, who was seated at Great Oak Manor, Kent county, in 1458. In 1865, as a result of scarlet fever, he was left deaf and dumb, and was grad- uated from the Deaf and Dumb institution. Berke- ley, Cal., in 1879, continuing there as an instruct- or, 1879-87, having meanwhile matriculated in the class of 1883 at the University of Califor- nia, which course he did not continue. He de- voted his leisure to the study of sculpture. 1883- 87 ; attended the National Academy of Design, New York city, 1887, under Ward and Flagg, and the Gotham Art League, under Mowbray, and subsequently became the pupil for several months of Paul Chopin in Paris, where he remained until 1894, exhibiting TJie Baseball Players at the Salon of 1889, which was subsequently placed in Golden Gate park, San Francisco, and other statues in the salons of 1890-93 ; The Tired Boxer receiving honorable mention in 1890, and later becoming the property of the Olympic club of San Fran- cisco. In 1894, he became professor of sculpture in Mark Hopkins Art institute. University of California. He was married, June 12, 1896, to Elizabeth Delano, daughter of Leander Goss and Elizabeth (Smith) Cole of Oakland, Cal., where he continued to make his home, conducting a studio at the same place. Professor Tilden orig- inated the international congress of the deaf during the World's fair at Paris, 1889, and served as vice-president thereof ; served on tlie jury on sculpture at the Chicago exposition, 1893, and as a member of the committee on programme. Second International congre.ss, Chicago, 1893. and Third International congress, Paris, 1900. receiving a medal at the Paris exposition of that year. He was a member of the National Sculp- ture society, the Art club of New York, and the Art association of San Francisco. His notable works in sculpture include : Tlie Indiari Bear