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 TINCKER

TITTMANN

TINCKER, nary Agnes, author, was born in Ellsworth, Maine, July 18, 1833; daughter of Richard and Mehitabel ( Jellison) Tincker; granddaughter of Benjamin (?) and Mary (Has- lem) Tincker, and of John and Elizabeth (Milliken) Jellison, and a descendant of Tliomas Tincker, of the Mayfloiver, and of Benjamin Jellison, who settled first in Maine, and subse- quently in New Brunswick, Canada. She at- tended public and private schools, and the acad- emy in Blueliill, Maine, 1848-49; taught countiy schools in North Ellsworth, four summers, and a parochial Catholic school, one year, having adopted the Roman Catholic faith in 1853. She began writing at an early age; served as a volun- teer nurse in Washington, D.C., the last year of the civil war; subsequently settled in Boston, Mass., where she devoted herself to literary pur- suits; made her home in Italy, 1873-87, visiting England, France and Spain during that period, and after her return resided chiefl}' in Boston. She was made a member of the Ancient Academy of Arcadia of Rome, and of the American Acad- emy of Political and Social Science, Philadelphia; is the autlior of: The House of Yorke (1872); A Wingt'd Word (1873); Grapea and TJiorns, translated into French (1874); Six Simny Months (1878); Signor Monaldini's Niece in the "No- Name Series" (1879); By the Tiber, translated into German (1881); The Jewel in the Lotus (1884); Aurora (1885); The Two Coronets, trans- lated into German (1889); San Salvador (1889); Autinnn Leaves (1898).

TINQEY, Thomas, naval officer, was born in London, England, Sept. 11, 1750. He served for a short time in the British navy, but prior to the American Revolution, immigrated to the colonies and entered the merchant marine. He fought in the American navy during the Revolution, and when the U.S. navy was formed in 1798, he was commissioned captain, and given command of a squadron of three boats, rendering efficient service during the trouble with France in 1799. Owing to his refusal to allow a British captain to search his boat, his commission was revoked under the permanent naval establishment act, but in 1804 he was re-commissioned captain and put in command of the Washington navy yard, to which, after the capture in 1814 of the capital by the British, he set fire, and was the last to withdraw before the invaders. He continued in command of the navy-yard until his death in Washington, D.C., Feb.' 23. 1829.

TIPTON, John, senator, was born in Sevier county, Tenn., Aug. 14, 1786; son of Joshua Tipton who was massacred by the Indians, April 18, 1793. He received a limited education, and became prominent as an Indian fighter, and in 1807 he removed with his family to Harrison

county, Ind., where he engaged in farming. He was largely instrumental in freeing the district of the counterfeiters and horse thieves, by whom it was overrun, and in 1809 lie joined the company of Yellow Jackets, and served as ensign in the battle of Tippecanoe where on the death of the captain and both lieutenants he succeeded to the command of the company. He was appointed brigadier-general of state militia; was sheriff of Harrison county, 1815-19, and was a representa- tive in the state legislature, 1819-23. He was a member of the board of commissioners appointed in 1820, to select the site for a new capital for Indiana, and described in a journal his search for a locality and the final choosing of Fall Creek. In March, 1823, he was appointed U.S. Indian agent for the Pottawattamie and Miami tribes. He was elected U.S. senator to succeed Robert Hanna (q.v.), taking his seat Jan. 3, 1833, and was re-elected for a full term expiring March 3, 1839. He purchased extensive tracts of land in Indiana, and gave the site for the city of Colum- bus, which for a time was known as Tiptonia. He died in Logansport. Ind., April 5, 1839.

TIPTON, Thomas Warren, senator, was born in Cadiz, Ohio, Aug. 5, 1817. He was graduated from Madison college. Pa., and practised law in Ohio. He was a representative in the state legis- lature in 1845-46; removed to Brownsville, Neb. Ter.; was a member of the constitutional conven- tion of Nebraska in 1867; a member of the terri- torial council in 1860, and at the outbreak of the civil war joined the Federal army as chaplain. He was elected to the U.S. senate from Nebraska in 1867, drew the short term expiring March 3. 1869, and was re-elected for a full term that ex- pired March 3, 1875. He then resumed the practise of law. He died in Washington, D.C., Nov. 28, 1899.

TITTMANN, Otto Hilgard, geodetist, was born in Belleville, 111., Aug. 20, 1850; son of Carl Edward and Rosa (Hilgard) Tittmann; grandson of Carl August and Juliana Frederike (Mertz) Tittmann and of Theodore and Marga- rethe (Pauli) Hilgard. His father, born in Dres- den, Saxony, Dec. 1, 1809, immigrated to New York in 1836. He attended the public schools of St. Louis, Mo., 1859-66; entered the U.S. coast and geodetic survey as aid in 1867; was made chief of party in 1872, carrying on primary tri- angulation and astronomical work in California and Colorado; was assistant astronomer of the transit of Venus expedition to Japan in 1874. and subsequently in charge of various surveying ex- peditions to the east and west coasts. He was married, Dec. 7, 1880. to Kate Trowbridge, daughter of William Duncan and Elizabeth Cass (Trowbridge) Wilkins of Detroit. Midi. He was in charge of the offii;e of weight and measures,