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per made a second survey in 178G, and on his re- turn took charge of the military organizations at Springfield, Mass., during Shays's rebellion, re- pelling the insurgents' attack on the armory, and being immediately afterward discharged from active service. He removed to Ohio in the sum- mer of 1787, arriving at Marietta, Aug. 9, ll^i:^,

MAPI ETTA -17as where he was actively engaged in promoting the plans of the Ohio company. At the assem- bling of the first civil court of the Northwestern Territory, Sept. 9, 1788, with Rufus Putnam, he served as justice of the quorum, and thereafter, with the exception of one or two sessions, pre- sided until his death. Of his cliildren : Maj. Anselm Tupper, who was a " fine classical scholar, a good mathematician, and something of a poet," died in Marietta, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1808 ; Col. Ben- jamin, Jr., died at Putnam, Ohio, 1815 ; Gen. Edward W., who served under General Harrison in the war of 1812, died in Gallipolis, Ohio, 1823, and his daughter Rosoma married Gov. Winthrop Sargent, and died in Marietta, 1790. General Tupper was a member of the Society of the Cin- cinnati, and the inventor of the screw propeller. He died in Marietta, Ohio, June, 1792.

TUPPER, Henry Martin, educator, was born in Monson, Mass.. April 11, 1831 ; son of Earl and Permelia (Norris) Tupper ; grandson of Ezra and Huldah (Spencer) Tupper, and of William and Susanna (Clapp) Tupper, and a descendant of Thomas Tupper, an early settler of Massachu- setts Bay colony, arriving at Saugus, Mass., 1624 or 1635. Henry M. Tupper attended Mon- son academy : was graduated from Amherst, A.B., 1859, A.M., 1862, and from Newton Theolog- ical institution, 1862. He enlisted as a private in the U.S. volunteer army, July 14, 1862 ; was ordained a few day later to the Baptist ministrj', at Wales, Mass. ; served as soldier and chaplain in the Army of the Potomac, 1862-65 ; and was mis- sionary pastor, under the auspices of the A.B.H. M.S., of a colored church. Raleigh, N.C., 186.V74. He was married, Jan. 25, 1864, to Sarah, daughter

of Jacob and Betsey Ann (Leonard) Baker of Statford, Conn. In addition to his pastoral du- ties, he also conducted a school and a theological class in the church building, which he had him- self built with the assistance of his pupils. Out of this rude beginning, known as the Raleigh In- stitute, developed Shaw university, a co-educa- tional institution for colored youth, of which Mr. Tupper was president, 1866-93. The university obtained its charter in 1870, consisting at that time of college, normal, theological and indus- trial departments, opened a medical department, 1880-81, and subsequently added medical and law departments, a school of pharmacy, and a mis- sionary training com'se for women. Industrial training was from its institution an emphatic feature of the university curriculum. The degree of D.D. was conferred upon him by Wake Forest college, N.C., in 1886. See : '• H. M. Tupper, D.D., — A Narrative of Twenty-Five Years' Work in the South " (1890) . He died in Raleigh, Nov. 12, 1898.

TURLEY, Thomas Battle, senator, was born in Memphis, Tenii., April 5, 1845 ; son of Thomas J. and Flora (Battle) Turley. He served as a private in the 54th Tennessee regiment, C.S.A., through the civil war, .being twice woundeil ; was graduated from the University of Virginia, LL.B., 1867, and began practice in Menqihis. He was married in 1871, to Irene Rayner. He was appointed U.S. senator from Tennessee, July 20, 1897, to succeed Isham G. Harris, deceased ; elected by the legislature, Feb. 14, 1898, and served until March 3, 1901, declining re-election and resuming the practice of law in Memphis, Tenn.

TURNBULL, Robert James, nulUfier, was born in New Smyrna, Fla., in January. 1775. His father, an English physician, founded a Greek colony in Florida, 1772, which he named in honor of the birth-place of his wife, and sub- eequenty removed to Charleston, S.C., having during the Revolutionarj^ period been obliged to relinquish his titles by his support of the colonial cause. Robert James Turnbull was educated in England ; was admited to the bar, and began practice in Charleston. In 1810 he purchased an estate in the country and retired from his pro- fession. He was a prominent advocate of the nullification movement, publishing several pam- phlets in its interest in 1827. subsequently col- lected and republished as The Crisis, and also TJie Tribunal of Dernier Ressort in 1830. He was a member of the Free-trade convention of Columbia and Charleston, 1831 and 1832. respectively ; was a delegate to tlia South Carolina convention that passed the nullification ordinance in November, 1832, being the author of tlie address sent out by the convention to the citizens, and upon the issuing of President Jackson's nullification proc-