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tuuity of aoquiriMi; a good English eduration. He served in the patriot army during the hist days of the Hevohition. While in the home of the Hon. Harry Innes, a relative, as a tutor, he studied law, and nMuoved with Judge Innes to Kentucky in ITS;}, where he was admitted to the bar. He was clerk of the state legislature. 1792- 1801; clerk of the Federal court for the district of Kentucky; and upon the erection of the state government, was elected clerk of the court of appeals. He was appointed a judge of the court in 1801 and succeeded Judge Muter as chief jus- tice in 180G. He estahlished the basis of the land laws of Kentucky, and on March 3, 1807, was elected associate justice of the U.S. supreme court and served until his death, which occurred 'n Frankfort. Ky., Feb. 7. 1826.

TOEBBE, Augustus Mary, R.C. bishop, was born in Meppen, Hanover. Germany, Jan. 15, 1S29; son of Henry and Maria (Balte) Toebbe. His father was an inn-keeper at Meppen, and he attended the gymnasium there. He came to the United States in 1851; was a student at Mount St. Mary's seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1852-54; was ordained priest, Sept. 14, 1854, by Bishop Purcell, and was subsequently pastor at New Richmond and at Cumminsville, Ohio. He was assistant pastor of St. Philomena's church, Cin- cinnati, 1857-65. and pastor, 1865-70; a member of the council held at Baltimore in 18G6, to pre- pare the discussions of the second plenary coun- cil; was elected bishop of Covington, and con- secrated such, Jan. 9, 1870, at St. Philomena's church, by Bishop Rosecrans, assisted by Bish- ops Luers and Feehan. He died in Covington, Ky.. May 2. 1884.

TOLFREE, James Edward, naval officer, was born in Ithaca. N.Y., Aug. 29, 1837; son of John Edward and Caroline Rebecca (Cole) Tolfree; grandson of James and Mary Tolfree, and a de- scendant of the Taillfer and Bacon families of Englaml. He attended the Ithaca academy; subsequently studied in France and Italy under private tutors; was commissioned acting assist- ant paymaster, Sept. 13, 1862; advanced to as- sistant paymaster, March 3, 1865, and to pay- ma-ster, Jan. 22, 1860; serving during the civil war on the U.S. steamer Vanderhilt, being ad- vanced ten numbers for his meritorious .services at the attack on Fort Fisher, Jan. 13-15, 1865; and was attached to the Richmond, Mediterra- nean station, 1869-71. He was married, Oct. 9, 1872, to Caroline, daughter of William and Mary Overman of Philadelphia, Pa. He was on duty on the Colorado, receiving-ship at the New York navy yard, 1873-77; served as fleet paymaster in charge of the naval depr>t at Villefranche, France, 1877-79, and in the same capacity at the South Atlantic station, 1879-82; and was on the

receiving ship Vermont, 1882-85, being ad- vanced to pay-inspector, Aug. 10, 1886. He served as fleet paymaster, Asiatic station, 1886- 89; w:is on duty at the New York navy yard, 1889-91, and 1893-95. meanwhile serving on the Minnesota, 1891-93, and at the navy pay office, New York city, 1895-99, being advanced to pay- director, Feb. 12, 1898. He was retired with the rank of rear-admiral, Aug. 29, 1899, and subse- quently made iiis home in New York city.

TOME, Jacob, philanthropist, was born in Manheim, York county. Pa., Aug. 13, 1810. He was the son of German Lutherans. He received a limited education, engaged in farming, fishing, merchandising and teaching in turn, and in 1833 began dealing in lumber and grain in Port De- posit, Md. He was a member of the state senate and chairman of the finance committee in 1864. He declined the position of secretary of the U.S. treasury offered by President Grant; was a trustee of Dickinson college, and gave to thdt in- stitution a handsome building for scientific uses in 1884. He was the organizer of the Port De- posit bank in 1850, which became tiie Cecil Na- tional Bank of Port Deposit, and served as its president, 1850-98, when, upon his decease, his widow, Evelyn S. Tome, succeeded him as presi- dent. In 1889 he founded the Jacob Tome In- stitute at Port Deposit for the benefit of poor parents who could not send their children to a higher institution of learning than the public schools. He first expended $250,000 in 1889. and when the school opened in 1894, endowed the in- stitution with a fund of $1,000,000, which by the terms of his will was increased by about §3.000,- 000. making it one of the richest in.stitutions of the kind in the world. He died at Port Deposit, Md., March 16. 1898.

TOMLINSON, Everett Titsworth, author, was born in Shiloli, N.J., May 23, 1859: son of the Rev, George E. and Amanda (Titsworth) Tomlinson; grandson of Abel and Lois (Ayer) Tomlinson, and a descendant of Lieut. James Tomlinson, a soldier in the war of the Revolution, He re- moved to Westerly, R.I., where he attended the public schools; was a student in W^illiams col- lege, 1875-77; principal of a high school in Auburn, N.Y., 1881; and headmaster of the pre- paratory department of Rutgers college. New Jersey, 1883-88. He was married to Anna, daughter of O. DeGra.sse and Meli.s.sa P. Greene of Adams, N.Y. In 1894 he began to devote him- self entirely to literary production, making liis specialty historical stories for young people. The honorary degree of Pli.D. was conferred up- on him by Colgate in 1888. He is the author of: Tlie Search for Andrew Field (1894): The Bi>y Soldiers of IS 12 ri895); Three Colonial Boys (1895); The Boy Officers of 1S12 (1896); Tiiree Young