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TYNG, Stephen Higginson, clergyman and author, was born in Newburyport, Mass., March 1, ISOO; son of Dudley Atkins Tyng, and a de- scendant of James Tyng of Tyngsborough, Mass. His father (1760-1829) was U.S. collector of New- buryport, Mass.; reporter of the state supreme court until his death, and editor of "Reports of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts " (17 vols., 1805-33). Stephen attended Phillips acad- emy, Andover, Mass; was graduated from Har- vard, A. B., 1817, A.M., 1820; studied theology under Bishop Griswold at Bristol, R.I., 1819- 21; was admitted to the diaconate in 1820, and advanced to the priesthood, March 4, 1821, He was rector of Georgetown parish, D.C., 1821-29; of Queen Anne parish,, Md., 1823-29; St. Paul's church. Philadelphia, Pa., 1829-33; Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, 1833-45, and of St. George's, New York city, 1845-78, when he was retired as rector emeritus. He was one of the founders of the Evangelical Knowledge society and of the American Church Missionary and the Evangelical Educational societies. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Jefferson college in 1832, and by Harvard in 1851. He edited the Episcopal Recorder and the Protestant Churchman, and is the author of: Lectures on the Law and the Gospel {ISZi); Memoir of Rev. Gregory A. Bedell (1835); Sermons Preached on the Church of the Epiphany (1839); Recollections of England (1847); Christ is All (1852); The Rich Kinsman; the History of Ruth, the Moabitess (1856); Forty Years' Experience in Sundaij- Schools (1860); The Captive Orphan: Esther, the Queen of Persia (1860); The Prayer-Book Illus- trated by Scripture (8 vols., 1863-07); The Child of Prayer, a Father's Memorial of D. A . Tyng (1866), and T7ie Office and Duty of a Christian Pastor (1874). He died at Irvington-on-the Hud- son. N.Y., Sept. 4, 1885.

TYNG, Stephen Higginson, clergyman, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 28, 1839; son of the Rev. Dr. Stephen Higginson Tyng. He was grad- uated from Williams, A.B., 1858, A.M., 1861, and from the Alexandria (Va.) Theological seminary, Va., in 1861; was admitted to the diaconate, May 8, 1861, and advanced to the priesthood, Sept. 11, 1863. He assisted liis father at St. George's church. New York city, 1861-63; was rector of the Church of the Mediator, New York, 1863-64; served as chaplain of the 12th N. Y. volunteer reg- iment in 1864, and in 1865 organized the parish of Holy Trinitj', New York, a new church being erected by the parisli in 1873. He was tried by an ecclesiastical jury in 1867 for preaching in a

Methodist church in New Jersey, and censured bj^ Bishop Potter; became interested in the Moody and Sankey revival methods in 1875, and in 1876 held services in a tent near his church. He resigned his pastorate in April, 1881, and be- came the Paris director-general of the Mutual Re- serve Fund Life association, and president of the American chamber of commerce in Paris. He was a trustee of Williams college, 1872-84, and received the degree of D.D. from that college in 1882, He edited: TJie Working Church and the Christian at Woi^k, and is the author of; The Square of Life (1876); He Will Come (1877), and Tlie People's Pidpit. He died in Paris, France, Nov. 17, 1898.

TYSON, James, ph3-sician, was born in Phila- delphia, Pa., Oct. 20, 1841; son of Dr. Henry and Gertrude (Haviland) Tyson; grandson of Cor- nelius and Hannah Tyson and of John Haviland, and a descendant of Cornelius Tyson, who em- igrated from Crefeld, Germany, to Germantown, Pa,, between 1683 and 1703, Dr, Tyson was ed- ucated at public and private schools in Reading, Pa., and at the Friends Central school, at Philadel- phia, and was graduated from Haverford college, A.B., 1860, A. M., 1865, and from the medical de- partment of the University of Pennsylvania in 1863. He was acting medical cadet in the U.S. military hospitals at Philadelpliia, 1862-63; was appointed acting assistant surgeon, U.S.A., in 1863; was resident physician in the Pennsylvania hospital, 1863-64, and established himself in the practice of medicine in Philadelphia in 1864. He was married, Dec. 5, 1865, to Frances, daughter uf Auguste Jean Baptiste and Fannie Hortense Von Leo Bosdevox. He was physician to the Phila- delphia hospital, 1872-89, and again, 1893-1903, when he resigned; became professor of morbid anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania in 1876; was dean of the medical school, 1888-92; chosen professor of clinical medicine and physi- cian to the University hospital, and professor of medicine in 1899, and physician to the Pennsyl- vania hospital in 1902. He was also a manager of the Hospital of the University of Pennsyl- vania, and a trustee of the Rust Hospital for the treatment of consumption. He was made a member of the American Philosophical society; the American Medical association; Association of American Physicians, and of numerous local medical societies of Philadelphia. He edited the publications of the Pathological Society of Phil- adelphia (4 vols., 1871-77), and is the author of numerous important papers and books on medical subjects.