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from the fire. On June 19, 1861, he was trans- ferred to the armed cruiser Rhode Island of the North Atlantic squadron. He was detailed to tow the Monitor from Hampton Roads to Beau- fort, R.I., but the Monitor foundered ofif Hatteras. He was attached to the special West India squadron and later to the South Atlantic squad- ron. He was promoted captain in July, 1866 ; commodore, May 7, 1871 ; rear-admiral, Aug. 10, 1875, and was retired, July 10, 1880. He was a member of the examining board, 1871-73 ; and lighthouse inspector, 1873-75. He died in New York city, Nov. 15, 1883.

TRENHOLM, George A., cabinet officer, was born in South Carolina in 1806. He was a prom- inent merchant of ^Charleston, dealing exten- sively in cotton. He joined the Confederate cause in 1861, and gave the use of his vessels to the government as blockade runners and in ob- taining supplies from Nassau. He was appointed secretary of the treasury of the Confederate States in June, 1864, as successor to Christopher Gustavus Memminger, resigned, and in 1865 he was taken prisoner by the Federal forces, and was held until October, 1865, when he was pardoned. He died in Charleston. S.C, Dec. 10, 1876.

TRENT, William Peterfield, author, was born in Richmond, Va., Nov. 10, 1862; son of Dr. Peterfield and Lucy Carter (Burwell) Trent ; grandson of Joseph and Ann (Reynolds) Trent and of Thomas and Ann (Carter) Burwell, and a descendant of Lewis Burwell who settled in Vir- ginia before 1650. His father's ancestors settled in Virginia about 1750. He attended Norwood's University school, Richmond, 1873-80 ; was gradu- ated from the University of Virginia, A.M., 1884; taught school and read law in Richmond, Va., 1885-87, and was a post-graduate student in history and politics at Johns Hopkins university, 1887-88. He was professor of English and history in the University of the South. Sewanee, Tenn. , 1888-1900, and dean of the academic department, 1894-1900, and in the latter year was appointed professor of English literature in Columbia uni- versity, New York city. He was married, Dec. 8, 1896, to Alice, youngest daughter of Frederic and Caroline (Willis) Lyman of East Orange, N.J. He edited the Sewanee (Tenn.) Review, 1893-1900; the " Select Poems of Milton" (1895); " Essays of Macaulay " (1897); " Poems and Tales of Edgar Allan Poe" (1898); Balzac's " Comedie Humaine " (1900), and (with B. W. Wells) " Colo- nial Prose and Poetry "' (1901), and is the author of: English Culture in Virginia, in the "Johns Hopkins Studies in Historical and Political Science" (1889); Tlie Period of Constitution Making in the American Churches in " Essays in the Constitutional History of the United States," edited by J. Franklin Jameson (1889); Williain

Gilmore Si mnis in "The American Men of Let- ters" Series (1892); Southern Statesmen of the Old Regimein " Crowell's Library of Economics and Politics" (1897); Robert E. Lee in "Beacon Biographies" (1899); Verses (1899); and John Milton, a Short Study of His Life and Works (1899); Authority of Criticism (1899); War and Civilization (1901); Progress of the United States of America in the Century in " Linscott's Nine- teenth Century Series" (1901); A History of the United States {with Charles Kendall Adams) 1908 ; a,nd A History of American Literature, 1607-1SG5, in Gosse's " Literature of tlie World " series (1903).

TRESCOT, William Henry, diplomatist, was born in Charleston, S.C, Nov. 10, 1822. He was graduated from Charleston college in 1840 ; at- tended Harvard college for a time, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1843. He engaged in plant- ing on one of the islands near Beaufort, and in 1853 was appointed U.S. secretary of legation at London, and in June, 1860, was made assistant secretary of state, which office he held till the secession ordinance was passed, Dec. 20, 1860. He was a member of the South Carolina legisla- ture, 1863-66, and was selected by James L. Petigru to prepare the code of law for the state. In 1865 he went to Washington as a representa- tive from South Carolina to adjust certain diffi- culties under the reconstruction act. He removed his law practice to Washington in 1875 ; was U.S. counsel before the fishery commission at Halifax in June, 1877 ; U.S. commissioner to revise the treaty with China in April, 1880 ; and U.S. representative during the Isthmus of Panama negotiations in February, 1881. In 1882 he was appointed with General Grant, a com- missioner to negotiate a commercial treaty with Mexico. He is the author of : Tiwughts on the Foreign Policy of the United States (1849); Diplo- macy of the Revolution (1852) ; Letter to Andreiv P. Butler on the Diplomatic System of the United States (1853); An American Vieio of the Eastern Question (1854) ; Diplomatic History of the Admin- istrations of Washington arid Adams (1857) ; Ad- dresses before the So. Carolina Historical Society (1859). He died in Pendleton, S.C, May 4, 1898.

TRESSLER, David Loy, educator, was born in LoysviUe, Perry county. Pa., Feb. 5, 1839. He was graduated with honors from Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, A.M., 1860, and was principal of Loysville academy, 1860-62. He raised a com- pany of volunteers in 1863 ; was elected captain and served with his company in the battles of South Mountain, Antietam and at Fredericks- burg, where he was severely wounded. He was admitted to the bar in 1864, and practised law until 1870, when he entered the Lutheran min- istry. He was pastor at Lena, 111., 1870-72 ; pro- fessor of ancient languages at Carthage college,