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TOWNSEND, John Kirk, naturalist, was born in Piiiladelphia, Pa., Aug. 10, 1809. He attended the Friends school and the West Town boarding school, and became interested in natural history. When J. J. Audubon prepared his " American Ornithology ", Tovvnsend was selected by him as an associate. He accompanied Thomas Nuttall on his journey west of the Mississijjpi river, across the Eocky mountains to the Co- lumbia river, and later went to the Sandwich islands and South America. He was in charge of the Ornithological department of the Smithson- ian Institution, and was a member of the Phila- delphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He wrote: ^4 Narrative of a Journejj across the Rocky Mountains to the Columbia River (1839); Or- nithologij of the ifnited States (1839). He died in Washington, D.C., July IG, 1851.

TOWNSEND, Lawrence, diplomatist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 13, I860; son of Henry Clay and Georgiana Lawrence (Talman) Townsend; grandson of John W. and Sibylla (Price) Townsend and of James Townsend and Mary Watson (Lawrence) Talman, and a descendant of Richard Townsend, who accom- panied William Penn in 1682, on the ship Wel- come, on his Hist visit to the colony, and settled at Westchester, near Philadelphia. Lawrence Townsend attended Mantua academy, 1872-77, and matriculated at the University of Pennsyl- vania in the class of 1881, but left at the close of his junior year, and owned and directed a large ranch in Plateau, Col., 1881-86. He was married, March 8, 1886, to Natalie, daughter of Louis and Sarah (Price) Hannau of Philadelphia; studied international law and history of diplomacy in Vienna, 1889, and was first secretary of the U.S. legation at Vienna, Austria, 1893-97, being pro- moted U.S. minister to Portugal, June 9, 1897. and transferred to Belgium, April 15, 1899.

TOWNSEND, Luther Tracy, author, was born in Orono, Maine, Sept. 27, 1838; son of Luther K. and I\Iary True (Call) Townsend. After his father's death he removed to New Hampshire, where he attended the common schools and worked on a farm. He entered the employ of the Boston, Concord, and Montreal railroad in 1850, devoting his leisure to study; infrequently at- tended the New Hampshire Conference seminary, and was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1859, and from Andover Theological seminary, 1862. He enlisted as a private in the 16th New Hampshire regiment in 1862; was promoted ad- jutant and assigned to the 19th army corps, and was mustered out of service in 1863, liaving acted as ordnance officer, surgeon, commissary and chaplain during his brief military career, and declined a colonelcy. He was ordained to the Methodist ministry, 1864, and on Sept. 27, 18G5,

was married to Laura C, daughter of David T. and Sarah F. (White) Huckins, of Watertovvn, Mass. He was i^i-ofessor of Hebrew, Chaldee and New Testament Greek, Boston university, 1868- 1870; of historical theology, 1870-72; of practical theology and sacred rhetoric, 1872-93, and there- after professor emeritus, having resigned to de- vote himself to literary pursuits, in connection with which he became pastor of the Mount Ver- non Place church, Baltimore, Md., 1893. He was a delegate to the ecumenical council in London, 1881, and to the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893; dean of the Chautauqua School of Theology, 1882-85 • member of the Victoria Institute, London, and in 1897 was graduate pas- tor of the Metropolitan M.E. church, W^ashing- ton, D.C., in which city he resided. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Wesleyan uni- versity, 1866, and that of D.D. from Dartmouth college, 1871. In addition to his duties as a pro- fessor, he held several pastorates, both north and south, and was editorially connected with various daily, weekly and monthly publications. He is the author of: Credo, and True and Pretended Christianity (1869); Sword and Garment (1871). God-Man (1872); Lost Forever, and Outlines of Theology (1873); Arena and Tlirone (1874); The Chinese Problem (1876); The Supernatural Factor in Revivals (1877); The Intermediate World (1878); Elements of General and Christian The- ology (1879); Fate of Republics, and Studies in Poetry and Prose (1880): Art of Speech (2 vols., 1880-81); Studies in Eloquence and Logic and Mosaic Record and Modern Science (1881); Bible Theology and Modern Thought (1883); Faith- Work, Christian Science and other Cures; Hand- Book upon Church Trials, and The Bible and other Ancient Literature (1885); Pulpit and Rhe- toric (1886); History of the Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers (1896); Story of Jonah in the Light of Higher Criticism (1897); twelve discourses of the Credo series (1898); Evo- lution or Creation (1809); Anastasis (1900).

TOWNSEND, riartin Ingham, representative, was born in Hancock, Mass., Feb. 6, 1810; son of Nathaniel and Cynthia (Marsh) Townsend. He removed with his parents to Williamstown, Mass., in 1816, where he was brought up on a farm and attended the common schools. He was graduated from Williams college, A.B., 1833, A.M., 1836. and on May 13, 1836, was admitted to the New York bar. He commenced practice in Tro}% where lie was for many years in partnership with his brother, Randolph Wanton Townsend (A.B., Williams, 1836, A.M., 1839), and was district at- torney of Rensselaer county, 1842-45. Until 1848 Mr. Townsend was a Democrat, but, influenced by the proceedings of the Democratic national con- vention of that year at Buffalo, he became a