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 TOWNSHEND

TRACY

Professor Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian In- stitution, and Dr. John Torrey of New York in making the annual inspection of the coinage at the U.S. mint in Philadelphia, Pa. He was profes- sor of agriculture in Iowa Agricultural college, 1869, and in 1870 was appointed by Gov, R. B. Hayes a trustee of the projected Agricultural and Mechanical College of Ohio (Ohio State uni- versity, 1878) resigning that position in 1873, to accept the college professorship of agriculture, botany and veterinary medicine. In 1884 Dr. Townshend visited the agriculture and veteri- nary schools and botanic gardens of Great Brit- ain and Ireland ; attended the national fairs of Shrewsbury, Edinburgh and Ireland, and there- after resumed the chair of agriculture in the Ohio State university. He died in Columbia, Ohio, July 14. 1895.

TOWNSHEND, Richard Wellington, repre- sentative, was born in Prince George county, Md., April 30, 1840. He attended public and private schools in "Washington, D.C., served as a page in the national house of representatives, and removed to Fayette county. 111., in 1858, wliere he taught school ; was admitted to the bar, 18Q2, and began practice at McLeansborough. He was clerk of the Hamilton county circuit court, 1863-68 ; was prosecuting attorney for the twelfth judicial district, 1868-72, and in 1873 settled in practice in Shawneetown, 111. " He was a member of the Democratic state central com- mittee, 1864-65 and 1874-75 ; a delegate to the Democratic national convention at Baltimore, 1872, and a Democratic representative from the nineteenth Illinois district in the 45tli-50th con- gresses, 1877-89, serving in the last term as chair- man of the committee on military affairs. He died in Washington, D.C., Marcli 9, 1889.

TOY, Crawford Howell, educator, was born at Norfolk, Va., March 23, 1836; son of Thomas Dallam and Amelia (Rogers) Toy. He was grad- uated at the University of Virginia in 1856 ; taught school, 1856-59 ; studied at the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Greenville, S.C., 1856-60. and was professor of Greek in Richmond college. Va.. 1860-61. He served in the Confeder- ate army. 1861-63 ; was professor in the Univer- sity of Alabama. 1864-65 ; studied at the Univer- sity of Berlin, 1866-68 ; was professor of Greek in Furman university, Greenville, S.C., 1868-69, and was transferred to the chair of Old Testa- ment interpretation in the Southern Baptist Theological seminary. The seminary was re- moved in 1878 from Greenville to Louisville, Ky., and in 1879 Professor T03' resigned his chair, be- cause of a change in his theological opinions, and became professor of Hebrew at Harvard in 1880, In 1888 he was married to Nancy, daughter of the Rev. R. M. Saunders of Norfolk, Va. He is the

author of: The Religion of Israel (1882); Quota- tions in the New Testament (1884); Judaism and Christianity (1890); Hebrew Text and English Translation of Ezekiel (1899); Commentary on the Proverbs (1899).

TRACY, Albert Haller, representative, was born in Norwich, Conn., Jan. 17, 1793 ; son of Dr. Philemon and Abigail (Trott) Tracy, and brother of Phineas Lyman Tracy. He abandoned his preparation for the medicine and began the study of law with his brother at Madison, N.Y., being admitted to the bar in 1815, and commenced practice in Buflfalo, N.Y. He was married to Harriet Norton. He was a Conservative Demo- cratic representative from Erie county, in the 16th-18th congresses, 1819-25 ; declined a judge- ship tendered him by Gov. Dewitt Clinton and a seat in the cabinet of President Adams, and was a state senator, 1830-37. He was defeated as a Whig candidate for U.S. senator by Nathaniel P. Tallmadge in 1833, and again declined a seat in the cabinet of President Tyler in 1841, He died in Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 12, 1859.

TRACY, Benjamin Franklin, cabinet officer, was born in Owego, N.Y., April 26, 1830 ; son of Benjamin Franklin Tracy, wlio was a pioneer settler of Tioga county. N.Y. He attended the common schools, and Owego academy ; studied law ; was admitted to the bar in May, 1851, and began prac- tice in Owego, where he was married, in 1851, to Delinda E. Catlin. He was Whig district-attor- ney of Tioga county, 1853-59 ; an organizer of the Republican party ; a member of the state assembly, 1861-62 ; recruited the 109th and 137th regi- ments of N.Y, vol- unteers, and was

commissioned colonel of the former in 1862. Dur- ing the Wilderness campaign his regiment was attached to Hartranft's 1st brigade, Wilcox's 3d division, Burnside's 9th corps. Grant's Army of the Potomac, Colonel Tracy being severely wounded. He took part, however, in the battles of Spottsylvania, May 8-10, 1864, thereafter sur- rendering his command to Lieut. Col. I, S. Catlin and continuing leave of absence until September, when he was commissioned colonel of the 127th U.S. colored troops. He commanded the mili- tary post at Elmira, N.Y,, 1865-66 ; received a medal for gallantry and was breretted brigadier- general, U.S. v., in 1865. He was U.S. district-

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