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sent by John Codman ou a business commission to Paris, France; returned to Boston for a short time, and again visited Europe for pleasure and study. He was one of the founders of the An- thology club in 1805, and of its successor, the Boston Athenaeum in 1807; went to the West Indies in the fall of 1805 with James Savage, in connection with his brother Frederic's business of the ice-trade, and visited France for the same purpose in 1807. In December, 1814, he origin- ated the Xorth American Review, its initial num- ber appearing in May, 1815, and served as the first editor of the publication. He was subse- quently a member of the Massachusetts legisla- ture: U.S. consul at Lima, Peru, 1823-27, and oharge d'affaires at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, 1827-30. He was a member of the Massachusetts Historical society, and the originator and one of the found- ers of the Bunker Hill monument. He is the author of: Letters on the Eastern States (1820); Miscellanies, selected from his contributions to the North American Review and the Monthly An- thology (1821); Life of James Otis, of Massachu- Jietts (1823); Gebel Teir, a political allegory (1829), and several addresses, including the 4th of July oration in Boston (1809). He died of yellow fever in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, March 9, 1830.

TUIQQ, John, R.C. bishop, was born in Don- oughmore, county Cork, Ireland, Feb. 19, 1820. JHe attended All Hallows missionary college, Drumcondra; immigrated to the United States as a volunteer missionary in December, 1849, and continued his studies in St. Michael's sem- inary, Pittsburg, Pa., also assuming the duties of a professor. He was oi'dained, May 14, 1850, and appointed an assistant pastor of St. Paul's, Pittsburg, and secretary to the bishop. He es- tablished St. Bridget's congregation and began the erection of a church, 1853; was missionary pastor at Altoona, Pa., 1853-76, where he organ- ized a school under the management of the Sis- ters of Charity; was made vicar-general of the eastern section of the diocese, 1869; consecrated bishop of Pittsburg, Marcli, 19, 1876, by Arch- bishop Wood, assisted by Bishops Slianahan and Mullen, and also appointed administrator Sede Vacante of Allegheny to succeed Bishop Dom- enec, resigned, 1877. The strenuous demands of the combined dioceses impaired his health, caus- ing several strokes of paralysis in 1882, from which he recovered, however, and continued his labors until his death, which occurred in Al- toona, Pa., Dec. 7, 1889.

TULANE, Paul, philanthropist, was born at Cherry Valley, near Princeton, N. J., May 10, 1801. His father emigrated from Tours, France, in 1792, to Santo Domingo, where he carried on a trade in lumber with France and the United States. His fortune was dissipated by the up- X. — 14

rising of the Negroes and he escaped with his family and settled at Cherry Valley, where he cultivated a farm. Paul worked with his father and assisted the local grocer in his business. He made a three years' tour through the south- western states as companion to a cousin from France, 1818-21, and in 1822 established himself as a merchant in New Orleans, La., where he rapidly acquired considerable wealth. In 1840 he went to France to visit his father, who persuaded him to invest his money in a free state, predicting that any slave state was liable to great loss in value by inevitable emancipation. He therefoie made large investments in the neighborhood of Princeton, but continued his holdings and busi- ness in New Orleans, where he lived until 1873, when he removed to Princeton, having never married. He gave generously to charity in New Orleans, and the sufferers from the repeated plagues of yellow fever during his fifty-one years residence there were always objects of his bounty as were the soldiers and their widows and chil- dren in the civil war. In 1882 he gave all the real estate he owned in New Orleans to the Tulane education fund, and this benefaction re- sulted in the Tulane University of Louisiana,

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built upon the foundation of the University of Louisiana. In his deed of gift he designated its purpose to be: " for the promotion and encourage- ment of intellectual, moral and industrial educa- tion among the white young persons in the city of New Orleans — for the advancement of learn- ing and letters, the arts and the sciences — to foster such a course of intellectual development as would be useful and of solid worth, and not merely ornamental and superficial." In 1894 a new site for the university was provided opposite the historic grounds of Audubon Park and a state- ly university building with its attendant halls, library, museum and dormitories, resulted from his donation of about $100,000. He died at Princeton, N.J., March 23, 1887.

TUNNELL, Ebe Walter, governor of Dela- ware, was born at Black water, Sussex county. Del., Dec. 31, 1844; son of Nathaniel and Maria (Walter) Tuniiell; grandson of Scarborough an<l C.mfort (Tingle) Tunnell and Ebe and Polly (Godu-iii) Walter, and a descendant of Scar-