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and was ordained pastor of the parish of Eastham, on Cape Cod, Mass., in 1C75. His piuitorate in- cluded about 500 Indians, and he transhited the "Confession of Faith" into the Nauset dialect for their use. Robert Treat died in Milford, Conn.. July 10. 1710.

TREE, Lambert, Jr., diplomatist, was born in Wasiiington, D.C.. Nov. 29, 1832; son of Lam- bert and Laura M. (Burrows) Tree; grandson of John (soldier in the war of 1812) and Rebecca (Kern) Tree and of Joseph (a soldier in the war of 1812) and Sjirah (Jeffers) Burrows, of Penn- sylvania; great-grandson of Lambert (a soldier in the Revolutionary war) and Margaret (Donald- son) Tree, of Philadelphia, and of John (a soldier in the Revolution) and Sarah (Wood) Burrows, of New Jersey; and great--grandson of William Donaldson of Darby, Pa. (landed proprietor, who died. 17.")7) and Margaret Donaldson, his wife. He attended private schools; was graduated from theUniversity of Virginia, LL.B., K55; admitted totliebar in Washington, D.C., October, 1855, and in 185G began practice in Chicago, 111., where ho was married. Nov. 24, 1859. to Anna J., daughter of H. H. and Maria (Meeker) Magie. He was pres- ident of the Chicago Law institute, 1864; a judge of the Cook County circuit court, 1870-75; resided abroad, 1875-78; was Democratic candidate for congress, 1878 and 1882, a delegate-at-large to the Democratic national convention, 1884; can- didate for U.S. senator, 1885, against Gen. John A. Logan, being defeated by only one vote; U.S. minister to Belgium, by appointment from President Cleveland, 1885-88, and to Russia, 1888- 89; a Democratic member of the monetary com- mission at Washington, D.C., 1891-92, and re- ceived a number of votes in the Democratic national convention for the nomination for the Vice-Pre-sidency in 1892. He served as president of the Illinois State Historical Library board; as a life trustee of the Newberr,v library of Chicago; was actively connected with various local busi- ness interests, and a member of several clubs at home and abroad.

TRELEASE, William, botanist, was born at Mt. Vernon. N.Y., Feb. 22, 1857; son of Samuel Righter and Mary (Gandall) Trelease; grandson of William and Margaret (DoremvLs) Trelease, and of John and Mary (Tyler) Gandall. He was graduated from Cornell, B.S., 1880; and was special agent for the U.S. department of agricul- ture during his last year in college. He was assistant in the division of entomology in 1880 and in the same year instructor in botany at Cornell. He was instructor in botany in the University of Wisconsin. 1881-83; instructor at the summer school of botany at Harvard, 1883- 84; professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, 1883-85, and lecturer on botany at

Johns Hopkins university, 1883-84. He was mar- ried, July 19, 1882, to Julia Maria, daughter of Hiram and Maria (Briggs) Johnson of Madison, AVis. In 1885 he was made Engelmann profes- sor of botany at Wasiiington university at St. Louis. Mo., and director of the Shaw School of Botany, and in 1889 became director of the Mis- souri Botanical Garden. He was secretary of the Wisconsin Horticultural society, 1882-85; was elected recording secretary of the Academy of Science of St. Louis; the directeur, Academie Internationale de Geographic Botanique in 1896; the first president of the Botanical Society of America, 1894-95; vice-president (section of bot- any) of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science, 1900; secretary. The Round Table, St. Louis; president, American Society of Naturalists, 1903. He became associate editor of the American Naturalist for systematic botany, and of the Botanical Gazette; member of the editorial committee and chairman of the American board of editors of the Botanisches Centralblatt; and with Dr. Asa Gray, he edited the " Botanical Works of George Engelmann "; translated Poulsen's "Botanical Micro-Cliemis- try" and Salomonsen's "Bacteriological Tech- nology." He received the degrees: Sc.D., Har- vard, 1884; LL.D., honorary, Wisconsin, 1902; and LL.D., honorary, Missouri, 1903. He is the author of numerous botanical memoirs published in the Reports of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Proceedings of learned societies, and the scientific journals.

TRENCHARD, Stephen Decatur, naval officer, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., July 10, 1818; son of Capt. Edward Trenchard, U.S.N. He was appointed acting midshipman on the European squadron in 1832, and midshipman in the U.S. navy in October, 1834; was stationed on the re- ceiving ship New York, 1835-37, and attended the naval school at Philadelphia, Pa., 1839-40. He was promoted passed midshipman, Julj- IG, 1840, and detailed for duty on the sloop Preble of the West India squadron. He was a member of the coast survey, 1845-40, and was attached to the brig Washington, when she was wrecked off the coast of North Carolina. He was promoted lien- tenant, Feb. 27, 1847; was assigned on the Sara- toga in ]\Iexico in 1847; served on coast survey duty, 1853-57, and rescued the Britisli bark Aden off Gloucester, Mass., for which service he was presented with a sword by Queen Victoria of England. He was attached to the steam frigate Powhatan on the diplomatic cruise to China and Jai)an, 1857-60, serving as aide to Commodore Josiah Tatnall. On April 19. 1861, lie was given command of the U.S. steamer Keystone State, and ordered to the Norfolk navy yard, where he assisted in rescuing the government property