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Jersey, later removing to Philadelphia, where he was high slieriff of the city and county of Phila- delphia. 1816-19, and where he died, May 5, 1823.

TRUXTUN, William Talbot, naval officer, was born in Philadelphia, Peun., March 11, 1824; grandson of Thomas Truxtun (q.v.). He entered the navy as a midshipman, Feb. 9, 1841, and on being graduated from the U.S. Naval academy, was advanced to passed midshipman in 1847. He served on board the Brandyivine, and when he returned it was as prize captain of the Independ- ence, a slave-ship captured off Rio de Janeiro, in 1848. He saw service in the Pacific, and assisted in laying the trans- Atlantic cable in 1853. He was commissioned master, Sept. 14, 1855, and the following day was promoted lieutenant. He was on the Perr?/ during the threatened trouble with Paraguay in 1859, and after serving on the Dale as second officer, was promoted lieutenant-com- mander, and given command of his vessel in 1861. He served through the civil war, taking part in nearly all the naval operations around North Carolina ; was promoted commander, July 25, 1866, captain, Sept. 25, 1873, and commodore, May 11, 1882. He was commandant of the Nor- folk navy-yard, 1885-86 ; and was nominated for rear-admiral, Feb. 18, 1886, but before his nomi- nation was confirmed, he was retired, March 11, 1S86. He died in Norfolk. Va., Feb. 25, 1887.

TRYON, Dwight William, artist, was born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 13, 1849; son of Anson and Delia O. (Roberts) Tryon ; grandson of Isaac and Abigail (Shailer) Tryon, and of Jon- athan and Ann (Hills) Roberts, and a descendant of William Tryon and Saint, his wife, who settled in Weathersfield, Conn., in 1663. He attended the common schools ; was clerk in a book-store in Hartford, 1866-74, sj^ending his leisure in the study of art, and having opened a studio in 1874, devoted himself to landscaije-jjainting. He studied art in Paris under Chevreuse, Daubigny and Guillemet, and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, 1876-81, in the latter j^ear exhibiting his Hai~vest Time in Normandy and On the Maas at the Salon. He settled in a New York city, 1881, became pro- fessor of art in Smith college, Northampton, Mass., in 1888, and was director of the Hartford School of Arts, 1885-87. He was married in 1874, to Alice H., daughter of Seabury and Celestia Belden of Hartford. He became a member of the National Academy of Design ; also of the Society of American Artists, 1882, and of the American Water Color society, 1883. His works, nearly all of them landscapes, won many honors, including the following : medal at Boston, 1882 ; gold medal, American Art association, New York, 1886 and 1887 ; Hallgarten prize. National Aca- demj' of Design, 1887 ; Webb prize. Society of American Artists, 1889 ; Ellsworth prize, Chicago,

1889 ; Palmer prize. International State exposi- tion, Chicago, 1889 ; 1st class gold medal, Munich International exposition ; 13 medals, World's Columbian exposition, 1893 ; 1st prize, Cleveland exposition, 1895, and Nashville Centennial expo- sition, 1897 ; 1st prize gold medal and $1500, Car- negie Institute, 1898 ; Chronological Medal, Car- negie Art Institute, Pittsburg, Pa., 1899; gold medal, Pan-American exposition, 1901. Among his paintings are: A New England Village; Moonlight (1884) ; ^4 November Day (1886) ; Eveningin Autumn ; Night {18S6); Daybreak ; The Rising Moon (1889) ; Ttie First Leaves (1889), owned by Smith college ; Early Spring, Neto England (1897) ; May (1898), owned by the Car- negie Art Institute ; Neiv England Hills (1901) ; Tlie Brook (1902) ; Clearing after Storms, owned by the Corcoran art gallery ; Evening, Early Spring, and Neio Bedford Harbor.

TRYON, George Washington, conchologist, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 20, 1838. He attended the Friends school, Philadelphia ; en- gaged in business until 1868, and thereafter de- voted himself to conchology. He was elected a member of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in 1859, and in 18G5 took the initiative toward the erection of a new building, which was completed in 1876, and to which he contributed $3,000, as did also the conchological department. He served as curator of the academy, 1869-75, and conservator of the conchological section, 1875-88, raising its collection of specimens to a higher rank than that of any other similar insti- tution at home or abroad. He was a member of various scientific societies ; edited the American Journal of Conchology, 1865-71, and with William G. Binney, "The Complete Writings of Constau- tine S. Rafinesque on Recent and Fossil Conchol- ogy," 1864, and is the author of: List of Ameri- can Writers on Conchology ; On the Molluscs of Ha7-per's Ferry, and Synojysis of the Recent Spe- cies of Gastrochcenidce (1861) ; Monograph of the Order of Pholadacea (1862) ; Monograph of the Terrestrial Mollusks of the United States and Synoj^sis of the Species Strepomatidae (1865) ; Land and Fresh-Jf ater Shells of North America (4 vols., 1873) ; American Marine Conchology (1873) ; Structural and Systematic Conchology (3 vols., 1882); Manual of Conchology, including Marine Shells, 9 vols., and Land Shells, 3 vols. (1879-85). He died in Philadelphia, Feb. 5, 1888.

TRYON, William, colonial governor, was born in Ireland in 1725 ; a descendant of Abraham Tryon of Bulwick, Northamptonsliire. He had held the commissions of captain and lieutenant- colonel in a regiment of foot-guards, before his appointment as lieutenant-colonel of North Car- olina, where lie arrived, June 27, 1704, having previously married a Miss Wake, a woman of