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tinctured with French philosophy or infidelity. His candidacy and later his election resulted in his disfavor with the Presbyterian trustees of the seminary, several of whom resigned and es- tablished a separate institution to be "under their own patronage " and known as the Ken- tucky academy, which, however, in 1798 united with the seminary, and the combined institution was called Transylvania university. Mr. Toul- min, although unanimously re-elected to the presidency of the seminary, retired, April 4, 1796, because of the state of public opinion, and was succeeded by his predecessor, the Rev, James Moore. He served as secretary of the state of Kentucky, 1796-1804. in which latter year he was appointed U.S. judge of the district court of Mississippi. He subsequently removed to Alaba- ma ; was one of the framers of the state con- stitution, and a representative in the state legis- lature. He is the author of : Description of Kentucky (1792); Magistrate's Assistant; Col- lection of the Acts of Kentucky (1802); Review of the Criminal Laio of Kentucky, with James Blair (1804). and Digest of the Laics of the State of Alabama (1823). He died in Washington county. Ala., Nov. 11. 1823.

TOURGEE, Albion WInegar, author and jurist, was born in Williamsfield, Ohio, May 2. 1838 ; son of Valentine and Louise (Winegar) Tourgee. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm until about 1846, when the family removed to Kingsville, Ohio, where he attended the academy. He matriculated at the University of Rochester in 1859 ; enlisted as a private in the 27th New York volunteers in April, 1861 ; received a serious wound at the first Bull Run. and while thus dis- abled was graduated from Rochester, A.B., 1862. In the fall of 1862 he re-enlisted in the 105th Ohio volunteers ; was promoted lieutenant ; slightly wounded at Perryville, Ky, ; captured at Mur- freesboro, Tenn,, in January, 1863, and held a prisoner for several months, at Atlanta, Milan, Salisbury and Libby. He was married. May 14, 1864, to Emma L. Kilbourne of Conneaut. Ohio, He left the service in 1864, on account of his wounds ; was subsequently appointed major of a colored regiment, and was on his way to join the regiment when the war closed. He settled in Greensboro, N.C., in 1865, where he was admitted to the bar, practised law, and published the Uu ion Register, 1866-67 ; was a delegate to the Loyalist convention, Philadelphia, Pa., 1866, and a member of the North Carolina constitutional con- vention of 1868, for which he prepared a report on the condition of the southern states, and of that of 1875 ; was judge of the superior court, seventh judi- cial district of North Carolina, 1868-75, and was one of the commissioners chosen to prepare a " Code of Procedure "' and to revise the state laws

in 1869. During his term upon the bench he unre- mittingly denounced the crimes of tlie Ku-Klux Klan, although he thereby endangered his own life ; was appointed by President Grant U.S. pen- sion agent at Raleigh, in February, 1876, which office he held, 1876-80. He was editor of The Continent, Philadelphia, Pa., 1881-84, and sub- sequently made his home in Mayville, N.Y. He was U.S. consul at Bordeaux, France, 1897-1903, and U.S. consul-general at Halifax, N.S., from June, 1903. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Rochester university in 1880, and from the University of Copenhagen in 1883. In addition to his lectures he is the author of : A Roijal Gentleman (1874) ; Hie Code of Notes (1878) ; Digest of Cited Cases (1879); A FooVs Errand (1879); Figs and Thistles (1879); Bricks u-ithout Straiu (1880); John Fax (1881); Hot Ploirshares (1883); .4/2 Appeal to Ccesar (1884); A 3Ian of Destiny (1885) ; Black Ice (1885); Buttoii's Inn (1886); Letters to a King (1886); The Veteran and His Pipe (1887); Pactohts Prime (1888); Murvale Eastman (1889) ; With Gauge & Sicalloiv (1891) ; An Outing with the Queen of Hearts (1892); A Son of Old Harry (1892); Out of the Sunset Sea (1893); The Story of a Thousand (1895); The War of the Standards (1896) ; The Mortgage on the Hip-Roof House (1896). He was professor of legal ethics, Buffalo Law school, for many years.

TOURGEE, Eben, musical director, was born in Warwick, R.I., June 1, 1834; a cousin of Albion Winegar Tourgee (q.v.). He attended East Greenwich academy, and was employed in the mill business, Harrisville, R.I., 1847-51, de- voting his leisure time to the study of music. He then became a clerk in a music store in Prov- idence, and soon after established himself as a music-dealer in Fall River, Mass., where he also taught music in the public schools and edited the Massachusetts Musical Journal. He established a musical institute in connection with East Greenwich academy, 1859 ; spent the year 1863 abroad in study, and in 1864 founded a conserv- atory of music in Providence, which in 1867 was removed to Boston, and became the New England Conservatory of Music in 1870, of which he was director. He was professor •f sacred music, Boston university, 1868-72, and dean of the College of Music, Boston university, 1872- 83. He organized the chorus of the Peace Jubilee, 1869, and the World's Peace Jubilee, 1874, and organized and conducted the chorus choir of Music Hall society, 1876. He received the honorary degree of Mus.D. from Wesleyan university, 1866. He edited Tribute of Praise (1813), Rx\i\ Chorus Choir (1875) and published his Plea for Music in the Public Schools, and the Xeu-' England Conservatory Piano Method. He died in Boston, Mass., April 21, 1890.