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disunion, been directed to mercantile pursuits, his financial success would have satisfied the most mercenary ambition.

Mr. Tullock's charities, like his fiiendships, have been unostentatious, but ever constant and unrestrained, prompted by an innate generous sympathy for his kind. His numerous acts of kindness to a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and his little deeds of love to the poor and friendless, — though unheralded to the world, — will make his name and memory

" Smell sweet and blossDin in the dust."

Mr. Tullock was married in Philadelphia, August 29, 1844, to Emily Estell Rogers. She was born in that city, October 14, 1824, and was the only child of Job and Elizabeth Rogers. Her father, believed to be a lineal descendant of the martyr Rogers, was ot Quaker parentage, originally from New Jersey. Her mother's maiden name was Bener, and both father and mother died before their daughter was six years of age. Her grandmother, Hannah (Duffield) Bener, who died December 17, 1857, aged eighty-three, descended from Thomas Dufifield, one of three brothers, — Abraham, Jesse, and Thomas, — who came from England with William Penn and settled in Philadelphia. He was her great-grandfather, and purchased land commencing at Frankfort, — now within the city limits of Philadelphia, — and running up the Delaware River ten miles, and five miles back therefrom. Edward Duffield, the executor of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, was of the family. Hannah's father was in the Revolu- tionary War and at the battle of Treiiton, N. J. An extended sketch of the family would be interesting. Mrs. Tullock was a Christian lady of rare excel- lence and accomplishments. She possessed a genial, happy temperament ; a beautifully symmetrical character, and enjoyed the love and esteem of the society in which she moved. She was radiant with goodness and purity, and conspicuous for the salutary influence she exerted. Endowed with excellent judgment and discrimination, she was endeared to family and friends, and universally admired for her remarkable energy, vivacity, and loveliness. Her warm and generous heart promptly responded to every good work. She died at Portsmouth, N. H., January i, 1S65, leaving two children: Thomas L. Tullock, Junior, paymaster U. S. Navy, who was lost on the U. S. Steamer Oneida in Yokohama Bay, Japan, January 24, 1870;* and Seymour Wilcox Tullock, born in Portsmouth, April 5, 1855, who was a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York, June 13, 1877, receiving the degree of civil engineer. He was one of five of a class of ninety-eight, who finished their course without condition. Previous to entering the institute, he was a student at the Conference Seminary at Tilton, N. H., and graduated at the Emerson Institute, Washington, D. C., where he received medals at different times for punctuality, proficiency in his studies, and scholarship. He was employed by the U. S. Coast Survey in the vicinity of Mount Desert, Maine, during his vacation of 1875 ; ^^^ immediately on graduating at Troy, was connected with the U. S. Hot Springs Commission in Arkansas as draughts- man until September, 1877, when he entered the University of the State of Wisconsin, located at Madison, having been recommended by the Faculty at Troy, as assistant in engineering, which position he resigned at the close of the scholastic year to enter Racine College, which he left at the request of his father in December, 1878. to become the financial clerk of the Washington City Postoffice, where he is now employed as cashier.

Mr. Tullock was married to his second and present wife, Miranda Barney Swain, January 10, 1866, and they have one child, Henry Vanderbilt Tullock,


 * See Granite MONXiiLV, October, 1880, pages 43-48,

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