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=Stith, William.= _Va._, 1689-1785. An Episcopal clergyman of Virginia, president of William and Mary College, 1752-55. He wrote a History of Virginia, which though diffuse is not without interest and dignity of style. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Stockton, Francis Richard.= _Pa._, 1834-1902. A widely popular humorist and novel-writer who first attracted general notice by his now famous Rudder Grange, a thoroughly original piece of humour. In the same vein are, The Rudder Grangers Abroad, and Other Stories; Pomona’s Travels; The Casting Away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine. His other works, which all display original inventive humour, are, Tales Out of School; The Ting-a-Ling Stories; Roundabout Rambles; What Might Have Been Expected; A Jolly Fellowship; The Floating Prince; The Story of Viteau; The Late Mrs. Null; The Lady or the Tiger?, his most celebrated work; The Christmas Wreck, and Other Stories; The Hundredth Man; The Bee Man of Orn; The Dusantes; Amos Kilbright; Ardis Claverden; The Great War Syndicate; The Stories of the Three Burglars; The Merry Chanter; The House of Martha; Kobel Land; The Clocks of Rondaine; The Watchmaker’s Wife; The Adventures of Captain Horn; A Chosen Few; Personally Conducted; A Story-Teller’s Pack, a volume of short stories; Stories of New Jersey; Captain Chap, or the Rolling Stones. _See Vedder’s American Writers._ _Am. Cent. Do. Hou. Lip. Scr._

=Stockton, Thomas Hewlings.= _N. J._, 1808-1868. Half brother of F. R. Stockton, _supra_. A Methodist preacher of Baltimore and Philadelphia, chaplain to both houses of Congress successively, and famous for his eloquence. Floating Flowers from a Hidden Brook; Poems; Stand Up for Jesus, and Other Poems; The Book Above All. _See Life by Wilson, 1869._

=Stoddard, Amos.= _Ct._, 1762-1813. Great-grandson of S. Stoddard, _infra_. A soldier of note in the early days of the Republic. Sketches of Louisiana (1812); The Political Crisis.

=Stoddard, Charles Augustus.= _Ms._, 1833- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, editor of The Observer from 1885. Across Russia; Spanish Cities; Beyond the Rockies; Cruising Among the Caribbees. _Scr._

=Stoddard, Charles Warren.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A lecturer on English literature in the Catholic University of America at Washington. Poems; Mashallah: a Flight into Egypt; South Sea Idyls; Summer Cruising in the South Seas; The Lepers of Molokai. _Scr._

=Stoddard, Mrs. Elizabeth Drew [Barstow].= _Ms._, 1823-1902. Wife of R. H. Stoddard, _infra_. A novelist and poet whose work in verse and fiction shows much individuality. The Morgesons; Temple House; Two Men; Lolly Dinks’s Doings, a juvenile tale; Poems. _Cas. Hou._

=Stoddard, John F----.= _N. Y._, 1825-1873. An educator of New York State who published a Universal Algebra, and a widely circulated series of arithmetics.

=Stoddard, John Lawson.= _Ms._, 1850- ----. A popular stereopticon lecturer. Red Letter Days Abroad; Napoleon from Corsica to St. Helena. _Hou. Mer._

=Stoddard, Richard Henry.= _Ms._, 1825-1903. A poet, journalist, and critic of New York city, literary editor of The Mail and Express from 1880. His verse is unequal in merit, but his best work has always won the praise of the discriminating few, though never much heeded by the average reader. He edited the Bric-a-Brac Series and other volumes, while his own writings include, Poems; Adventures in Fairy Land; Footprints; Life of Humboldt; Songs of Summer; The King’s Bell; The Book of the East; Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode; Putnam the Brave; A Century After; Life of Washington Irving; The Lion’s Cub, with Other Verse; Under the Evening Lamp, a collection of essays on literary topics. _See Stedman’s Poets of America; Vedder’s American Writers._ _Scr._

=Stoddard, Solomon.= _Ms._, 1643-1729. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Northampton, Massachusetts, from 1669 until his death. Appeal to the Learned; Guide to Christ; Safety in the Righteousness of Christ; Doctrine of Instituted Churches Explained, a reply to Increase Mather’s “Order of the Gospel,” and one which occasioned much exciting controversy.

=Stoddard, William Osborn.= _N. Y._, 1835- ----. A journalist and inventor whose writings have been largely though not entirely for juvenile readers, and have been very popular. Little Smoke; The Windfall; Esau Hardery; Dab Kinzer; Saltillo Boys; Wrecked; Verses of Many Days; The Heart of It; The White Cave, an Australian Story; The Red Mustang; Two Arrows; Among the Lakes; The Quartet; Winter Fun; Men of Business; The Talking Leaves; The Volcano Under the City, a story of the draft riots in New York; Lives of the Presidents; Gid Granger; Chuck Purdy, comprise the greater part of his works. _Ap. Cent. Fo. Har. Lo. Mer. Scr. Sto._

=Stoever, Martin Luther.= _Pa._, 1820-1870. A Pennsylvania educator, a professor in the college at Gettysburg, 1840-70. Brief Sketch of the Lutheran Church in the United States; Life and Times of Henry Muhlenberg.

=Stone, Andrew Leete.= _Ct._, 1815-1892. A Congregational clergyman in San Francisco from 1866. Service the End of Living; Ashton’s Mothers; Memorial Discourses; Leaves from a Finished Pastorate.

=Stone, David Marvin.= _Ct._, 1817-1895. Brother of A. L. Stone, _supra_. A noted journalist of New York city, editor of The Journal of Commerce, 1849-93. He published Frank Forrest (1850), a work that passed into twenty editions.

=Stone, Ebenezer Whitten.= _Ms._, 1801-1880. An adjutant-general of the Massachusetts militia from 1851. Digest of Massachusetts Militia Laws; Compend of Instructions in Military Tactics; Manual of Percussion Aim.

=Stone, Edwin Martin.= _Ms._, 1805-1883. A Congregational clergyman of Providence. Life of Elhanan Winchester; History of Beverly, Massachusetts, 1630-1842; The Invasion of Canada in 1775; Our French Alliès in the Revolution.

=Stone, Edwin Winchester.= _Ms._, 1835-1878. Son of E. M. Stone, _supra_. A soldier in the Federal army during the Civil War. He was the war correspondent of The Providence Journal, and author of Rhode Island in the Rebellion.

=Stone, James Kent.= _Ms._, 1840- ----. Son of J. S. Stone, _infra_. A Roman Catholic clergyman of the order of Passionists, and known as Father Fidelis. He was formerly an Episcopal clergyman and president of Hobart College. The Invitation Heeded, issued in 1870, and giving his reasons for his recent change of faith, was widely read.

=Stone, James Samuel.= _E._, 1852- ----. An Episcopal clergyman of Chicago. Simple Sermons on Simple Subjects; The Heart of Merrie England; Readings in Church History; Woods and Dales of Derbyshire. _Co._

=Stone, John Augustus.= _Ms._, 1801-1834. A dramatist and actor. He is best remembered by Metamora, a play written for Edwin Forrest, for whom he also wrote The Ancient Briton; and Fauntleroy. Other dramas by him are, Tancred; The Demoniac; La Roque.

=Stone, John Seely.= _Ms._, 1795-1882. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, dean of the Episcopal Theological School there, 1867-72, and prominent among the Low Churchmen of his day. The Living Temple; The Christian Sacraments; Sermons; Memoir of Bishop Griswold; The Christian Sabbath; The Contrast, or the Evangelical and Tractarian Systems Compared. _Ran._

=Stone, Thomas Treadwell.= _Me._, 1801-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Bolton, Massachusetts. Sermons on War; Sermons; The Rod and Staff; Sketches of Oxford County, Maine.

=Stone, William Leete.= _N. Y._, 1792-1844. A journalist of prominence in New York city, and the first superintendent of public schools there. History of the Albany Constitutional Convention of 1821; Tales and Sketches; Matthias and his Impostures; Maria Monk and the Nunnery of the Hotel Dieu; Ups and Downs of a Distressed Gentleman, a social satire; Letters on Animal Magnetism; Poetry and History of Wyoming; Lives of Brant, Red Jacket; Letters on Masonry. _See Life by his son._

=Stone, William Leete.= _N. Y._,1835- ----. Son of W. L. Stone, _supra_. A lawyer and historical writer of Jersey City. History of New York City; Life of Sir William Johnson; Burgoyne’s Campaigns; Life and Military Journals of General Riedesel; Reminiscences of Saratoga and Ballston; Life of William Leete Stone, _supra_; Visits to Saratoga Battle Grounds, include his principal publications.

=Storer, David Humphreys.= _Me._, 1804-1891. A Boston physician, dean of the Harvard Medical School, 1854-1868. Ichthyology and Herpetology of Massachusetts; Synopsis of North American Fishes; History of the Fishes of Massachusetts.

=Storer, Francis Humphreys.= _Me._, 1832- ----. Son of D. H. Storer, _supra_. An eminent chemist, professor of agricultural chemistry at Harvard University from 1870, and dean of the Bussey Institute. Alloys of Copper and Zinc; Manufacture of Paraffin Oils; First Outlines of a Dictionary of the Solubilities of Chemical Substances; Manual of Inorganic Chemistry (with C. W. Eliot, _supra_); Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis; Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry. _Scr._

=Storer, Horatio Robinson.= _Ms._, 1830- ----. Son of D. H. Storer, _supra_. A surgeon of note. Why Not? a Book for Every Woman; Is It I? a Book for Every Man; Nurses and Nursing; Criminal Abortion (with F. F. Heard, _supra_). _Le. Lit._

=Storey, Moorfield.= _Ms._, 1845- ----. A Boston lawyer living in Brookline, Massachusetts. Life of Charles Sumner. _Hou._

=Stork, Charles Augustus.= _Md._, 1838-1883. Son of T. Stork, _supra_. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at Gettysburg, 1881-83. Light on the Pilgrim’s Way. _See the Stork Family in the Lutheran Church, 1886._

=Stork, Theophilus.= _N. C._, 1814-1874. A Lutheran clergyman of Philadelphia. Life of Luther; Luther’s Christmas Tree; Luther and the Bible; Afternoon; Home Scenes in the New Testament; The Unseen World, are his principal works. _Lip._

=Storrs, Richard Salter.= _Ms._, 1821-1900. A distinguished Congregational clergyman of Brooklyn, pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims from 1846. The Constitution of the Human Soul; Historical Addresses; Divine Origin of Christianity; Conditions of Success in Preaching without Notes; John Wycliffe and the First English Bible; Manliness in the Scholar; Love to Christ; Recognition of the Supernatural; Bernard of Clairvaux; Forty Years of Pastoral Life. _Do. Ran. Scr._

=Story, Isaac.= _Ms._, 1774-1803. Cousin of J. Story, _infra_. A lawyer and verse-writer of Castine, Maine. An Epistle from Tarico to Inkle; Consolatory Odes; A Parnassian Shop.

=Story, Joseph.= _Ms._, 1779-1845. A jurist of eminence, Dane professor of law at Harvard University, 1829-45. His earliest work was The Power of Solitude, with Fugitive Poems, a somewhat callow performance; and his first legal production, which appeared in 1805, was a Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions. His subsequent works include, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States; The Conflict of Laws, his most able effort; Equity Jurisprudence; The Law of Agency; Law of Bailments; Equity Pleadings; Law of Partnership; Law of Promissory Notes; Miscellaneous Writings. _See Allibone’s Dictionary; Life by W. W. Story; Biographical Encyclopædia of Massachusetts._ _Har. Lit._

=Story, William Wetmore.= _Ms._, 1819-1895. Son of J. Story, _supra_. A poet, sculptor, and essayist. He studied law and practised at the bar in Boston for a short time, but after 1848 lived in Rome and became widely known as a sculptor. His prose writings include, The Law of Contracts; The Law of Sales; Life of Joseph Story; Proportions of the Human Figure; Roba di Roma; The American Question; Fiammetta, a novel; Conversations in a Studio; Excursions in Art and Letters. The Castle of St. Angelo; A Roman Lawyer in Jerusalem; Nero, an Historical Play; and a two-volume edition of Poems, comprise his verse. He and She: a Poet’s Portfolio; and A Poet’s Portfolio: Later Readings, contain both poetry and prose. _See Appletons’ Annual Cyclopædia, 1895._ _Hou. Lip. Lit._

=Stow, Baron.= _N. H._, 1801-1869. A Baptist clergyman of Boston, of much prominence in his day, among whose writings are, Helen’s Pilgrimage; History of the English Baptist Mission to India; Christian Brotherhood; First Things. _See Life by Neale, 1870; Memoir of by J. C. Stockbridge, 1895._

=Stowe, Calvin Ellis.= _Ms._, 1802-1886. A Congregational clergyman and educator who held successive professorships at Dartmouth College, Lane Seminary, Bowdoin College, and Andover Seminary. While at Lane Seminary he married his second wife, Harriet Beecher, the daughter of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. Origin and History of the Books of the Bible; Elementary Instruction in Europe; Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews; Introduction to Biblical Criticism.

=Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth [Beecher].= _Ct._, 1811-1896. Wife of C. E. Stowe, _supra_, and daughter of Lyman Beecher, _supra_. In 1836 she was married to Professor Stowe at Cincinnati, and, in frequent visits to the slave States at that period, acquired a knowledge of Southern customs. In 1850 she removed to Brunswick, Maine, and, having by this time become deeply impressed with the wrong of slavery, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin for The National Era at Washington, in which paper it appeared serially from June, 1851, till April, 1852. It was then published in book form and speedily became world-famous, five hundred thousand copies being sold in America within five years, while translations of it appeared in twenty languages. As a moral agent few books have been of so much importance. From a literary point of view there is less to be said of it; and The Minister’s Wooing, a novel of the early days of the republic, must rank as her finest work. The quality of her other work is uneven, its highest level being represented by Oldtown Folks; The Pearl of Orr’s Island; Dred; The Chimney Corner; Religious Poems, among which is the well-known hymn, “Still, still with Thee.” Her lesser works comprise, My Wife and I; Sam Lawson’s Fireside Stories; We and Our Neighbors; Little Foxes; The Mayflower, and Other Sketches; Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands; Our Charley; Agnes of Sorrento, an Italian novel; House and Home Papers; Stories about Our Dogs; Queer Little People; Daisy’s First Winter; Men of Our Times, biographical sketches; The American Woman’s Home (with Catherine Beecher); Little Pussy Willow; Pink and White Tyranny; Palmetto Leaves; Betty’s Bright Idea; Footsteps of the Master; Bible Heroines; Poganuc People; A Dog’s Mission. _See Life of, by her Son; Atlantic Monthly, July, 1882, August and September, 1896; The Century Magazine, September, 1896; New England Magazine, September, 1896; The Forum, August, 1896; The Outlook, July 25, 1896; Life of, by Mrs. Fields, supra._ _Fo. Hou._

=Stowell, Charles Henry.= _N. Y._, 1850- ----. A microscopist, professor of histology in the University of Michigan. Students’ Manual of Microscopy; Physiology and Hygiene; The Microscopical Structure of the Human Tooth; A Primer of Health; A Healthy Body; Essentials of Health. _Sil._

=Stowell, Mrs. Louisa Maria [Reed].= _Mch._, 1850- ----. Wife of C. H. Stowell, _supra_. An instructor in microscopical botany at the University of Michigan for twelve years. Microscopical Structure of Wheat; Microscopic Diagnosis (with C. H. Stowell).

=Strachey, William.= _E._, _c._ 1585-16--. The first secretary of the Virginia colony. He was the author of A True Repertory of the Wracke and Redemption of Sir Thomas Gates upon and from the Islands of the Bermudas, supposed to have been the inspiration of Shakespeare’s Tempest; Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; For the Colony in Virginia Britannia: Lawes Divine, Morall, and Martiall, a compilation. _See Tyler’s American Literature._

=Strahan, Edward.= _See Shinn, Earl._

=Stranahan, Mrs. Clara Cornelia [Harrison].= _Ms._, 183- - ----. An art writer of Brooklyn. A History of French Painting from its Earliest to its Latest Practice. _Scr._

=Straus, Oscar Solomon.= _Bv._, 1850- ----. A municipal reformer of New York city, minister to Turkey in 1887. The Origin of Republican Government in the United States; Roger Williams, the Pioneer of Religious Liberty. _Cent. Put._

=Street, Alfred Billings.= _N. Y._, 1811-1882. A verse-writer of Albany, and State librarian of New York from 1848. His verse is chiefly nature poetry and was popular for a time. His writings include, Frontenac; Woods and Waters; Forest Pictures; The Burning of Schenectady, and Other Poems; Drawings and Tintings; Fugitive Poems; Digest of Taxation in the United States. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America._

=Strickland, William.= _Pa._, 1787-1854. A Philadelphia architect whose chief professional work was the Capitol at Nashville, Tennessee. Triangulation of the Entrance into Delaware Bay; Report on Canals and Railways; Public Works of the United States (with Gill and Campbell).

=Strickland, William Peter.= _Pa._, 1809-1884. A Methodist clergyman, pastor of a Presbyterian church at Bridgehampton, Long Island, 1865-77, whose principal writings comprise, Pioneers of the West; History of the American Bible Society; The Genius of Methodism; Light of the Temple; Old Mackinaw, or the Fortress of the Lakes; Christianity Demonstrated by Facts; The Astrologer of Chaldea, or the Life of Faith. _Meth._

=Strohm, Gertrude.= _O._, 1843- ----. A writer living near Dayton, Ohio. Word Pictures; Universal Cookery Book; Flower Idyls; The Young Scholar’s Companion.

=Strong, Augustus Hopkins.= _N. Y._, 1836- ----. A Baptist clergyman of Rochester, New York, president of Rochester Theological Seminary from 1872. Systematic Theology; Philosophy and Religion.

=Strong, George Crockett.= _Vt._, 1832-1863. A general in the Federal army during the Civil War who fell in the assault on Fort Wagner. Cadet Life at West Point.

=Strong, James.= _N. Y._, 1822-1894. A Methodist clergyman and educator of eminence, professor in Drew Seminary at Madison, New Jersey, from 1868. With T. McClintock, _supra_, he edited a Biblical Encyclopædia, continuing the work alone after 1870. His other writings include, English Harmony of the Gospels; Greek Harmony of the Gospels; Irenics; The Tabernacle of Israel; Sacred Idyls; Future Life; Jewish Life; Our Lord’s Life; Commentary on Ecclesiastes; Concordance of the Bible. _Meth._

=Strong, Josiah.= _Il._, 1847- ----. A Congregational clergyman, general agent of the Evangelical Alliance in America after 1886. Our Country; The New Era of the Coming Kingdom.

=Strong, Latham Cornell.= _N. Y._, 1845-1879. A journalist and verse-writer of Troy, New York. Castle Windows; Pots of Gold; Poke o’ Moonshine; Midsummer Dreams.

=Strong, Nathan.= _Ct._, 1748-1816. A Congregational clergyman of Hartford. Sermons; The Doctrine of Eternal Misery Consistent with the Infinite Benevolence of God.

=Strong, Theodore.= _Ms._, 1790-1869. A professor of mathematics at Rutgers College, 1827-63. Treatise on Elementary Algebra; On Differential and Integral Calculus.

=Strong, Titus.= _Ms._, 1787-1855. An Episcopal clergyman of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Tears of Columbia, a Political Poem; Candid Examination of the Episcopal Church; The Deerfield Captive; The Young Scholar’s Manual.

=Strother= [strŭth´e̯r], =David Hunter.= “Porte Crayon.” _Va._, 1816-1888. An artist of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, once popular as a magazinist. During the Civil War he was a colonel in the Union army, and in 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general. The Blackwater Chronicle; Virginia Illustrated. _See Hart’s American Literature._

=Stroud, George McDowell.= _Pa._, 1795-1875. A Philadelphia jurist who published Sketch of Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States.

=Stryker, Melanchthon Woolsey.= _N. Y._, 1851- ----. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, president of Hamilton College from 1892. Beside several hymnals, he has published Miriam, and Other Verse; Hamilton, Lincoln, and Other Addresses; The Letter of James the Just. _Gi._

=Stuart, Charles Beebe.= _N. H._, 1814-1881. A military engineer in government service. Naval Dry Docks of the United States; Water Works of the United States; Civil and Military Engineers of the United States.

=Stuart, Moses.= _Ct._, 1780-1852. A Congregational clergyman and educator of Massachusetts, professor of sacred literature at Andover Seminary, 1809-1848. Among his writings are, Commentaries on the Epistles to the Romans and the Hebrews; Hints on the Prophecies; Conscience and the Constitution; Critical History and Defence of the Old Testament Canon.

=Stuart, Mrs. Ruth McEnery.= _La._, 1856- ----. A Golden Wedding, and Other Tales; Carlotta’s Intended, and Other Stories; The Story of Babette; Sonny; Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pockets. _Cent. Har._

=Stuckenberg, John Henry Wilburn.= _G._, 1835-1903. A Lutheran clergyman, professor of theology at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, 1873-80, and minister in charge of the American chapel at Berlin from 1880. Christian Sociology; Life of Kant; Introduction to the Study of Philosophy.

=Sturges, Mrs. Mary Jane [Upshur] [Stith].= _Va._, 1828- ----. A writer of New York city. Confederate Notes, a novel; Poems.

=Sturgis, Frederick Russell.= _Ph._, 1844- ----. A prominent physician and surgeon of New York city. Human Cestoids; Students’ Manual of Venereal Diseases.

=Sturgis, Russell.= _Md._, 1836- ----. An architect of New York city, a valued authority upon art, architecture, and archæology. European Architecture. _Mac._

=Sturtevant, Julian Monson.= _Ct._, 1805-1886. A prominent educator of Jacksonville, Illinois, professor in Illinois College, 1830-86. Economics, or the Science of Wealth; Keys of Sect. _Le. Put._

=Sullivan, James.= _Me._, 1744-1808. An eminent Boston jurist who was governor of Massachusetts, 1807-08. History of Land Titles of Massachusetts; Observations on the Government of the United States; The Path to Riches, or a Dissertation on Banks; The Altar of Baal Thrown Down, or the French Nation Defended; Impartial Review of Causes of the French Revolution. _See Life by Amory, 1859._

=Sullivan, James William.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. A journalist of New York city, editor of social reform journals, 1893-96. Tenement Tales of New York; So the World Goes; Direct Legislation through the Initiative and Referendum, a widely circulated work. _Ho._

=Sullivan, Mrs. Margaret Frances [Buchanan].= _I._, 1847-1903. A journalist of Chicago. Ireland of To-Day (1881).

=Sullivan, Thomas Russell.= _Ms._, 1799-1862. Grandson of J. Sullivan, _supra_. A Unitarian clergyman of Keene, New Hampshire, 1825-35, and from 1835 till his death an educator in Boston. Letters Against the Immediate Abolition of Slavery; Limits of Responsibility in Reforms.

=Sullivan, Thomas Russell.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A novelist of Boston. Tom Sylvester; Roses of Shadow; Day and Night Stories; and several plays. _Scr._

=Sullivan, William.= _Me._, 1774-1839. Son of J. Sullivan, _supra_. A lawyer of Boston. Familiar Letters on Public Men of the Revolution; Historical Causes and Effects; Sea Life.

=Sullivant, William Starling.= _O._, 1803-1873. A botanist of Ohio. Musci Alleghanienses; Musci Cubenses; Icones Muscorum; Musci and Hepaticæ of the United States East of the Mississippi.

=Sully, Thomas.= _E._, 1783-1872. A distinguished portrait painter of Philadelphia. Hints to Young Painters.

=Summerfield, John.= _E._, 1798-1825. A Methodist clergyman, renowned for eloquence in his day. His Sermons and Sketches of Sermons were posthumously published. _See Lives by Holland, 1829, Willett, 1857._ _Har._

=Summers, Thomas Osmond.= _E._, 1812-1882. A Methodist clergyman of Nashville. Commentary on the Gospels, Acts, and Ritual of the Methodist Church South; Treatise on Baptism; On Holiness; Talks Pleasant and Profitable, include his principal writings. _See Life of, by Fitzgerald, 1884._

=Sumner, Charles.= _Ms._, 1811-1874. Son of C. P. Sumner, _infra_. A distinguished Massachusetts statesman who succeeded Daniel Webster in 1851 in the Senate of the United States. He was a fearless opponent of slavery, and, in consequence of this attitude of his, was assaulted in the Senate Chamber by Preston Brooks, of South Carolina, in 1856, and severely injured. The True Grandeur of Nations; Prophetic Voices Concerning America. His Complete Works, including his many orations and speeches, have been issued in fifteen volumes. _See Lives by Pierce, Storey._ _Le._

=Sumner, Charles Allen.= _Ms._, 1835- ----. A stenographer of San Francisco. Shorthand and Reporting; Golden Gate Sketches; Travel in Southern Europe; Poems (with R. Sumner).

=Sumner, Charles Pinckney.= _Ms._, 1766-1839. A lawyer of Boston, high sheriff of Suffolk County from 1825 till his death. Eulogy on Washington; The Compass (verse); Letters on Speculative Masonry.

=Sumner, George.= _Ct._, 1793-1855. A Hartford physician, professor of botany at Trinity College, 1824-55. Compendium of Physiological and Systematic Botany.

=Sumner, William Graham.= _N. J._, 1840- ----. An Episcopal clergyman, prominent as a political economist, professor of political and social science at Yale University from 1872. A History of American Currency; What Social Classes Owe to Each Other; Problems in Political Economy; Collected Essays in Political and Social Science; Protectionism; Lives of Andrew Jackson, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris; The Financier and the Finances of the Revolution, a more extended life of Robert Morris. _Do. Har. Ho. Hou._

=Sunderland, Jabez Thomas.= _E._, 1842- ----. A Unitarian clergyman, editor of The Unitarian from 1880. A Rational Faith; What is the Bible?; The Liberal Christian Ministry; Home Travel in Bible Lands; The Bible: its Origin and Place among the Sacred Books of the World; Orthodoxy and Revivalism. _El. Put._

=Sunderland, La Roy.= _R. I._, 1802-1885. A writer who in early life was a zealous Methodist preacher, and after 1845 an equally zealous opponent of Christianity, slavery, Spiritualism, and Mormonism. Among his writings are, History of South America; Book of Human Nature; Book of Psychology; The Trance, and How Introduced; Anti-Slavery Manual; Mormonism Exposed.

=Suplée= [su-play´], =Thomas Danly.= _Pa._, 1848- ----. An educator of New Jersey. Frank Muller, or Labor and its Fruits; Pebbles from the Fountain of Castalia; Poems; Plain Talks; Riverside, a romance; Civil Government under the United States Constitution.

=Suydam, John Howard.= _N. Y._, 1832- ----. A Dutch Reformed clergyman of Jersey City from 1869. The Cruger Family; Cruel Jim; The Wreckmaster.

=Swain, David Lowry.= _N. C._, 1801-1868. A governor of North Carolina, 1832-35, who wrote a Revolutionary History of North Carolina.

=Swain, James Barrett.= _N. Y._, 1820-1895. A journalist of New York city, post-office inspector, 1881-85. Life and Speeches of Henry Clay; Historical Notes to Speeches of Henry Clay; A Military History of New York State.

=Swan, James.= _S._, 1754-1831. A soldier in the American army during the Revolution, afterwards adjutant-general of Massachusetts. The last fifteen years of his life were passed in a debtors’ prison in Paris. Dissuasion to Great Britain and the Colonies from the Slave Trade to Africa (1772); Causes qui sont opposées au Progrès du commerce entre la France et les États-Unis de l’Amérique (1790); On the Fisheries; Fisheries of Massachusetts; National Arithmetick; Address on Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce.

=Swan, Josiah Rockwell.= _N. Y._, 1802-1884. A prominent jurist of Columbus, Ohio. Treatise on Justices of the Peace and Constables in Ohio; Manual for Executors and Administrators; Pleading and Practice; Commentaries on Pleadings under the Ohio Code, constitute his principal writings.

=Swan, William Draper.= _Ms._, 1809-1864. An educator and bookseller of Boston. He published a popular series of school readers, and (with R. Swan and D. Leach) a series of widely used arithmetics.

=Swank, James Moore.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. The general manager of the American Iron and Steel Association since 1885. History of the Department of Agriculture; Iron Making and Coal Mining in Pennsylvania; Iron Manufacture in All Ages.

=Swartz, Joel.= _Va._, 1827- ----. A Lutheran clergyman, pastor at Gettysburg from 1881. Dreamings of the Waking, with Other Poems; Lyra Lutherana.

=Sweat, Mrs. Margaret Jane [Muzzey].= _Me._, 1823- ----. Ethel’s Love Life; Highways of Travel, or a Summer in Europe.

=Sweet, Alexander Edwin.= _N. B._, 1841-1901. A Texas journalist who served in the Confederate army. Three Dozen Good Stories from Texas Siftings.

=Sweet, Homer De Lois.= _N. Y._, 1826- ----. A civil engineer of Syracuse. The Averys of Groton, a genealogy; Twilight Hours in the Adirondacks.

=Sweetser, Charles Humphreys.= _Ms._, 1841-1871. A journalist of New York city and subsequently of Chicago. Songs of Amherst; History of Amherst College; Tourist’s and Invalid’s Guide to the Northwest.

=Sweetser, Moses Foster.= _Ms._, 1848-1897. A Boston writer who has published Europe for Two Dollars a Day; Artist Biographies; Summer Days Down East; guide-books to New England, the Middle States, the White Mountains, and the Maritime Provinces; In Distance and in Dream, a story. _Hou. Kt._

=Sweetser, William.= _Ms._, 1797-1875. A physician who was professor of medicine at Bowdoin College, 1845-61. Treatise on Consumption; Digestion and its Disorders; Mental Hygiene; Human Life.

=Swenson, Carl Aaron.= _Pa._, 1857-1904. A Lutheran clergyman, founder and president of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, editor of several Swedish journals, and author of Sondagsskolboken; Minnen från Kyrkan; Vid Hemmets Härd.

=Swett, John Appleton.= _Ms._, 1808-1854. A physician of New York city. Diseases of the Chest. _Ap._

=Swett, Josiah.= _N. H._, 1814-1890. An Episcopal clergyman long prominent in Vermont. English Grammar; Pastoral Visiting; Family Prayer; The Firmament in the Midst of the Waters.

=Swett, Samuel.= _Ms._, 1782-1866. A once prominent citizen of Boston who during the War of 1812 served in the American army as a topographical engineer. History and Topographical Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle; Who was Commander at Bunker Hill?; Sketches of Distinguished Men of Newbury and Newburyport.

=Swett, Sophia Miriam.= _Me._, 186- - ----. A writer of short stories and juvenile books, now (1897) living at Arlington, Massachusetts. Pennyroyal and Mint; The Lollipops’ Vacation; Captain Polly; Flying Hill Farm; The Mate of the Mary Ann; Cap’n Thistletop; The Ponkaty Branch Road. _Est. Har. Lo. We._

=Swett, Susan Hartley.= _Me._, 186- - ----. Sister of S. M. Swett, _supra_. A writer of Arlington, Massachusetts. Field Clover and Beach Grass, a volume of short stories. _Est._

=Swett, William.= _N. H._, 1825-1884. A deaf-mute who founded the Deaf-Mute Industrial School at Beverly, Massachusetts. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute, in the White Mountains.

=Swift, John Lindsay.= _Ms._, 1828-1895. A Boston lawyer and journalist, deputy collector of the port of Boston from 1890. About Grant. _Le._

=Swift, Zephaniah.= _Ms._, 1759-1823. A noted Connecticut jurist. System of the Laws of Connecticut; Digest of the Laws of Evidence; Digest of the Laws of Connecticut, a standard authority.

=Swinburne, Louis Judson.= _N. Y._, 1855-1887. A Colorado writer who was in Paris during the siege in 1871, and published a volume of observations on the subject entitled Paris Sketches.

=Swing, David.= _O._, 1830-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago, tried for heresy in 1874, and acquitted, subsequently pastor of the Central Church there until his death. Sermons; Club Essays; Truths for To-day; Motives of Life; Old Pictures of Life, a collection of essays. _Mg. St._

=Swinton, John.= _S._, 1829-1901. Brother of W. Swinton, _infra_. A journalist of New York city whose principal work is John Swinton’s Travels.

=Swinton, William.= _S._, 1833-1892. A journalist and educator, long prominent in New York city. Rambles Among Words; Twelve Decisive Battles of the War; Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac; The “Times’s” Review of McClellan; History of the New York Seventh Regiment; Word Analysis; Bible Word Book; Studies in English Literature. _Har. Scr._

=Swisher, Mrs. Bella [French].= _Ga._, 1837-1894. A writer who resided in Texas from 1877. Struggling up to the Light, a novel; Rocks and Shoals; Florecita, a romance; History of Brown County, Wisconsin; Cassie; Homeless Though at Home; The Story of a Woman’s Love.

=Swisshelm, Mrs. Jane Gray [Cannon].= _Pa._, 1815-1884. A journalist of Pittsburg, and subsequently of St. Cloud, Minnesota, prominent as an abolitionist. Letters to Country Girls; Half a Century, an autobiography. _See Hart’s American Literature._ _Mg._

=Sylvester, Herbert Milton.= _Ms._, 1849- ----. A Boston lawyer who has published two volumes of sympathetic nature studies. Prose Pastorals; Homestead Highways. _Hou._

=Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett.= _N. Y._, 1825-1894. A lawyer of Troy, New York. Historical Sketches of Northern New York; History of the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts; Indian Legends of Saratoga; Historical Narratives of the Upper Hudson; Histories of Saratoga, Rensselaer, and Ulster Counties, New York.

=Symmes, John Cleves.= _N. J._, 1780-1829. A soldier of Newport, Kentucky. He was the author of The Theory of Concentric Spheres, an attempt to prove that the earth is hollow, open at the poles, and habitable in the interior. _See Harper’s Magazine, October, 1882; Atlantic Monthly, April, 1873; McBride’s Pioneer Biography._

=Sypher, Josiah Rinehart.= _Pa._, 1832- ----. A journalist and lawyer of Philadelphia, war correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1862-65. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; School History of Pennsylvania; The Art of Teaching School; School History of New Jersey (with E. A. Apgar). _Lip._

=Szabad, Emeric.= _Hy._, _c._ 1822- ----. A soldier under Garibaldi who came to America in 1861, and served in the Federal army. Hungary Past and Present; State Policy of Modern Europe; Modern War: its Theory and Practice.

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=Tabb, John Banister.= _Md._, 1845- ----. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator, professor of English literature in St. Charles’s College, Ellicott City, Maryland. His verse has received much well merited praise. Poems; Lyrics; An Octave to Mary. _Cop._

=Tafel, Johann Friedrich Leonhard.= _Wg._, 1800- ----. A German educator who removed to the United States in 1853, and lived in St. Louis. Staat und Christenthum; Der Christ und der Atheist; A German-English and English-German Pocket Dictionary (with his son Ludwig Tafel).

=Tafel, Rudolph Leonhard.= _Wg._, 1831- ----. Son of J. F. L. Tafel, _supra_. Formerly an educator of St. Louis, but since 1868 a Swedenborgian minister in London, England. Emanuel Swedenborg as Philosopher and Man; Our Heavenward Journey; Authority in the New Church; The Preaching Gift; Investigation as to the Laws of English Pronunciation and Prosody.

=Talbot, Charles Remington.= 1851-1891. A writer of juvenile books who was an Episcopal clergyman at Wrentham, Massachusetts. Honor Bright; Miltiades Peterkin Paul; Royal Louise; Romulus and Remus, a dog story; A Midshipman at Large; The Impostor; A Romance of the Revolution. _Lo._

=Talbot, Henry Paul.= _Ms._, 1864- ----. An associate professor of analytical chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis. _Mac._

=Talmage= [tăl-mĭj or tăm-ĭj], =Thomas De Witt.= _N. J._, 1832-1902. A Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, 1869-1894, and subsequently of New York, widely known as a preacher. Though he was a prolific writer, the literary worth of his books is very slight. Crumbs Swept Up; Sermons; From Manger to Throne; Sports that Kill; Social Dynamite; The Pathway of Life; The Marriage Ring; Old Wells Dug Out; Every-Day Religion; Sundown; Fishing Too Near Shore, include his principal works. _Fu._

=Talvi.= _See Robinson, Mrs. Thérèse._

=Tannehill, Wilkins.= _Pa._, 1787-1858. A journalist of Nashville. Freemasons’ Manual; Sketches of the History of Literature; Sketches of the History of Roman Literature.

=Tanner, Benjamin Tucker.= _Pa._, 1835- ----. A bishop of the African Methodist Church. Paul _vs._ Pius Ninth; The Negro’s Origin, and Is the Negro Cursed?; Outline of the History and Government of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

=Tanner, Henry S----.= _N. Y._, 1786-1858. A geographer of Philadelphia. Memoir on the Recent Surveys in the United States (1830); View of the Valley of the Mississippi; American Traveller; Central Traveller; New Picture of Philadelphia; Description of Canals and Railways in the United States (1840).

=Tappan, David.= _Ms._, 1752-1803. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Massachusetts, 1774-92, and Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard University from 1792 until his death. Sermons on Important Subjects; Lectures on Jewish Antiquities. _See Memoir by Abiel Holmes, supra._

=Tappan, Eli Todd.= _O._, 1824-1888. A professor of mathematics at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1875-87, and afterwards Ohio commissioner of common schools. Plane and Solid Geometry; Elements of Geometry; Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry.

=Tappan, Henry Philip.= _N. Y._, 1805-1881. A Dutch Reformed clergyman, professor of philosophy in the University of the City of New York, chancellor of the University of Michigan, 1852-1863. Elements of Logic; Treatise on Universal Education; Review of Edwards’s “Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will;” The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Determined by an Appeal to Consciousness; The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Applied to Moral Agency; A Step from the Old World to the New and Back Again; Introductions to Illustrious Personages of the Nineteenth Century.

=Tappan, Lewis.= _Ms._, 1788-1873. A merchant of New York city, proprietor of The Journal of Commerce, and active as an abolitionist. Life of Arthur Tappan, by his brother, a valuable contribution to anti-slavery literature.

=Tappan, William Bingham.= _Ms._, 1794-1849. A verse-writer and educator of Philadelphia and Boston. Poetry of the Heart; Poetry of Life; New England, and Other Poems; Songs of Judah; Lyrics; Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems; The Sunday School, and Other Poems; Early and Late Poems. _See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America; Duyckinck’s American Literature._

=Tarbell, Frank Bigelow.= _Ms._, 1853- ----. A professor of Greek in the University of Chicago from 1892. A History of Greek Art; The Philippics of Demosthenes, with Introduction and Notes. _Fl. Gi._

=Tarbell, Ida Minerva.= _Pa._, 1857- ----. Madame Roland; Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (with J. M. Davis). _Scr._

=Tarbell, John Adams.= _Ms._, 1810-1864. A homœopathic physician of Boston. Sources of Health; Homœopathy Simplified.

=Tarbox, Increase Niles.= _Ct._, 1815-1888. A Congregational clergyman who was secretary of the American College and Education Society, 1851-84. Winnie and Walter Stories; When I was a Boy; Nineveh, or the Buried City; Uncle George’s Stories; Journeys and Labors of St. Paul; Life of General Israel Putnam; Sir Walter Raleigh and His Colony in America; Songs and Hymns for Common Life. _Lo._

=Tarr, Ralph Stockman.= _Ms._, 1864- ----. A geologist, assistant professor of geology at Cornell University, 1892-1897, professor of dynamic geology and physical geography there from 1897. Elementary Geology; Economic Geology of the United States; Elementary Physical Geography. _Mac._

=Tatham, William.= _E._, 1752-1819. An engineer and lawyer of Virginia who served in the American army during the Revolution. An Analysis of the State of Virginia; Remarks on Inland Canals; National Irrigation.

=Taussig= [tŏw´sig], =Frank William.= _Mo._, 1859- ----. A professor of political economy at Harvard University. Protection to Young Industries as Applied in the United States; The History of the Present Tariff, 1860-83; The Tariff History of the United States; The Silver Situation in the United States (1892); Wages and Capital. _Ap. Put._

=Taylor, Alfred.= _Pa._, 1831-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Peeps at Our Sunday-Schools; Sunday-School Photographs; Hints about Sunday-School Work. _Meth._

=Taylor, Bayard.= _See Taylor, [James] Bayard._

=Taylor, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1819-1887. A popular verse-writer of Chicago whose work is always pleasing, though it never reaches a very high plane of inspiration. Songs of Yesterday; Old Time Pictures, and Sheaves of Rhyme; Dulce Domum; Between the Gates; Summer Savory; The River of Time; Pictures of Life in Camp and Field; Complete Poems (1887); Theophilus Trent, a novel. _Ap. Sc._

=Taylor, Charles.= _Ms._, 1819- ----. A Methodist clergyman who was a missionary to China, 1848-54. Five Years in China; Baptism in a Nutshell.

=Taylor, Charles Fayette.= _Vt._, 1827-1899. A surgeon of New York city. Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure; Spinal Irritation; Sensation and Pain; Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature of the Spine; Treatment of Disease of the Hip Joint; Infantile Paralysis. _Lip._

=Taylor, Fitch Waterman.= _Ct._, 1803-1865. An Episcopal chaplain in the United States navy. The Flag Ship, or a Voyage Around the World; The Broad Pennant, a work of similar nature.

=Taylor, George Boardman.= _Va._, 1832- ----. A Baptist missionary in Rome since 1873. Oakland Stories; Costar Grew; Roger Bemant, the Pastor’s Son; Walter Ennis, a tale of the Early Virginia Baptists; Life of J. B. Taylor, _infra_. _Bap._

=Taylor, George Henry.= _Vt._, 1821- ----. Brother of C. F. Taylor, _supra_. A physician of New York city, among whose writings are, Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure; Health for Women; Massage; Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics.

=Taylor, George Lansing.= _N. Y._, 1835-1903. A Methodist clergyman of eastern New York. Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad Epic; Grant: an Elegy, and Other Poems; What Shall we Do with the Sunday-School?; The New Africa. _Fu. Meth._

=Taylor, Hannis.= _N. C._, 1851- ----. A lawyer of Mobile, minister to Spain, 1893-97. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution. _Hou._

=Taylor, Henry Osborn.= _N. Y._, 1856- ----. A legal writer of New York city. Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations, a standard work much used as a text-book in law schools; Ancient Ideals. _Put._

=Taylor, Hobart Chatfield.= _See Chatfield-Taylor._

=Taylor, James Barnett.= _E._, 1819-1871. A Baptist missionary in Virginia. Life of Lot Cary; Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers. _See Life, by G. B. Taylor, supra._ _Bap._

=Taylor, [James] Bayard= [bi´ard]. _Pa._, 1825-1878. An author well known as poet, novelist, translator, and traveller. It was as a poet that he most desired to be remembered, but except in a few instances his verse does not reach a very lofty level of attainment, and, while often excellent in quality, lacks usually the element of spontaneity. His volumes of verse comprise, Ximena, and Other Poems; Rhymes of Travel; Poems and Ballads; Poems of Home and Travel; Poems of the Orient, his most original work; The Picture of St. John; The Poet’s Journal; Lars; The Masque of the Gods; Home Pastorals; Prince Deukalion; The Prophet, a tragedy; Centennial Ode. In fiction he published, Beauty and the Beast; Hannah Thurston; The Story of Kennett; John Godfrey’s Fortune; Joseph and his Friend. His travels include, Views Afoot; Eldorado; Byways of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt and Iceland; Greece and Russia; At Home and Abroad; India, China, and Japan; The Lands of the Saracen; Colorado. The translation of Faust is his greatest work, and the one on which his fame will most securely rest. Other works of his are, School History of Germany; Literary Essays and Notes; Studies in German Literature; The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions. _See Catholic World, April, 1879; Lippincott’s Magazine, August, 1879; Stedman’s Poets of America; Life and Letters of, by Marie Hansen-Taylor and H. E. Scudder; Life by Smyth; Allibone’s Dictionary._ _Ap. Hou. My. Put._

=Taylor, James Monroe.= _N. Y._, 1848- ----. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Vassar College from 1886. Psychology.

=Taylor, James Wickes.= _N. Y._, 1819-1893. A United States consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 1870. The Victim of Intrigue, a Tale of Burr’s Conspiracy; History of Ohio, First Period: 1620-1787; Manual of Ohio School System; Forest and Fruit Culture in Manitoba; Mineral Resources of the United States (with Browne).

=Taylor, John.= _Va._, 1750-1824. A politician of prominence in his day as a senator from Virginia. Inquiry into the Principles and Polity of the United States Government; Agricultural Essays; Construction Construed; Tyranny Unmasked; New Views of the United States Constitution.

=Taylor, John Louis.= _E._, 1769-1829. A former chief justice of North Carolina, 1810-29. Superior Court Cases in Law and Equity; The North Carolina Law Repository; Term Reports; Duties of Executors and Administrators.

=Taylor, John Neilson.= _N. J._, 1805-1878. A lawyer of Brooklyn. American Law of Landlord and Tenant; The Law of Executors and Administrators in New York State. _Lit._

=Taylor, John Orville.= _N. Y._, 1807-1890. An educational writer and reformer long prominent in New York State, and after 1879 a resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The District School, or Popular Education.

=Taylor, Marshall William.= _Ky._, 1846-1887. A Methodist clergyman of African descent in Kentucky. Handbook for Schools; The Negro in Methodism.

=Taylor, Nathaniel William.= _Ct._, 1786-1858. A Congregational clergyman prominent in his day as the exponent of the New Haven type of theology, who was Dwight professor at Yale University, 1822-38. Practical Sermons; Moral Government of God; Essays, etc., upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology.

=Taylor, Oliver Alden.= _Ms._, 1801-1851. A Congregational clergyman of Manchester, Massachusetts. Brief Views of the Saviour; Life of Jesus. _See Memoir by A. A. Taylor._

=Taylor, Richard.= _La._, 1826-1879. A son of President Taylor, and a Confederate officer. Destruction and Reconstruction. _Ap._

=Taylor, Richard Cowling.= _E._, 1789-1851. An English geologist who came to America in 1830, among whose publications are, Geology and Natural History of the Northeast Extremity of the Alleghany Mountains; History and Description of Fossil Fuel; Statistics of Coal. _Bai._

=Taylor, Rufus.= _Ms._, 1811-1894. Brother of O. A. Taylor, _supra_. A Congregational minister of Massachusetts, whose home was at Beverly, New Jersey, after 1878. Union to Christ; Love to God; Thoughts on Prayer; Cottage Piety Exemplified. _Lip._

=Taylor, Samuel Harvey.= _N. H._, 1807-1871. An educator long prominent in Massachusetts, principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, 1837-71. Method of Classical Study. _See Memorial compiled by his last class._

=Taylor, Thomas House.= _S. C._, 1799-1869. An Episcopal clergyman, prominent in New York city as the rector of Grace Church, 1834-67, and active as a Low Church controversialist. Sermons Preached in Grace Church.

=Taylor, Walter Herron.= _Va._, 1838- ----. A Confederate officer during the Civil War, and subsequently a banker in Norfolk. The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic; Four Years with General Lee. _Ap._

=Taylor, William.= _Va._, 1821-1902. A noted Methodist missionary and evangelist, appointed bishop in Africa in 1884, among whose writings are, California Life Illustrated; Seven Years’ Street Preaching in San Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary Work; The Model Preacher; Reconciliation; The Election of Grace; Christian Adventures in South Africa; Our South American Cousins.

=Taylor, William Mackergo.= _S._, 1829-1895. A Presbyterian clergyman of eminence. He came from Scotland to New York city in 1871, and was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, 1871-1893. Contrary Winds; The Limitations of Life; The Lost Found; The Gospel Miracles; Prayer and Business; Life Truths; John Knox; Joseph the Prime Minister; Ruth the Gleaner and Esther the Queen; David, King of Israel; Elijah the Prophet; Peter the Apostle; Daniel the Beloved; Moses the Law-Giver; Paul the Missionary; The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation, comprise his most important works. _Har. Ran. Scr._

=Tefft, Benjamin Franklin.= _N. Y._, 1813-1885. A Methodist clergyman of Maine. The Shoulder-Knot, a Story of the 17th Century; Memorials of Prison Life; Methodism Successful; Our Political Parties; Evolution and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; Life of Daniel Webster. _Co. Le._

=Tennent, Gilbert.= _I._, 1703-1764. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, active in his day as a controversialist. XXIII Sermons; Discourses on Several Subjects; Sermons on Important Subjects.

=Tenney, Edward Payson.= 1835- ----. A Congregational clergyman of Cambridge, at one time President of Colorado College. Agamenticus; Constance of Acadia, a novel. _Le. Rob._

=Tenney, Sanborn.= _N. H._, 1827-1877. A naturalist who was professor of natural history at Williams College from 1868. Elements of Zoölogy; Manual of Zoölogy; Geology for Teachers.

=Tenney, Mrs. Sarah [Brownson].= _Ms._, 1839-1876. Wife of W. J. Tenney, _infra_, and daughter of O. Brownson, _supra_. Marion Elwood, or How Girls Live; At Anchor; Life of Demetrius Gallitzin, Prince and Priest.

=Tenney, Mrs. Tabitha [Gilman].= _N. H._, 1762-1837. The wife of a noted physician of Exeter, New Hampshire. She wrote Female Quixotism, an amusing satirical novel, which was long popular.

=Tenney, William Jewett.= _R. I._, 1814-1883. A writer who lived at Elizabeth, New Jersey, for many years. He edited Appletons’ Annual Cyclopedia, 1861-82, and wrote a Military and Naval History of the Rebellion.

=Terhune, Albert Payson.= _N. J._, 1868- ----. Son of Mrs. Terhune, _infra_. A journalist and author of New York city. Syria from the Saddle, a volume of travels; Columbia Stories, a collection of sketches; The Great Cedarhurst Mystery. _Sil._

=Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia [Hawes].= “Marion Harland.” _Va._, 1835- ----. A popular novelist, lecturer, and writer on domestic topics, the wife of a Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York city. Her work in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; Beechdale; Judith; The Hidden Path; Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen Gardner’s Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With the Best Intentions; True as Steel; Sunnybank; From My Youth Up; My Little Love; A Gallant Fight; The Royal Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s Sister; Marion. Other works of hers are, Eve’s Daughters; Common Sense in the Household, a widely known manual of housewifery; Common Sense in the Nursery; The Cottage Kitchen; The Dinner Year-Book; Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea; The Story of Mary Washington; Loitering in Pleasant Paths. _Cas. Do. Hou. Scr._

=Terry, Adrian Russell.= _Ct._, 1808-1864. A physician and educator who was for some years professor in Bristol College, Pennsylvania, and author of Travels in the Equatorial Regions of South America in 1832.

=Terry, John Orville.= _L. I._, 1796-1869. A rural versifier of Orient, Long Island, who published The Poems of J. O. T., consisting of Song, Satire, and Pastoral Descriptions.

=Terry, Milton Spenser.= _N. Y._, 1840- ----. A Methodist clergyman and educator, since 1884 a professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, Illinois. Commentary on Judges, Ruth, and Samuel; Commentary on Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah; Commentary on Genesis and Exodus; Biblical Hermeneutics; Sibylline Oracles (from the Greek); The Song of Songs; Prophecies of Daniel Expounded; Rambles in the Old World. _Meth._

=Teuffel, Mrs. Blanche Willis [Howard] von.= _Me._, 1847-1898. A novelist who resided in Stuttgart, Germany, from 1875. One Summer; Aulnay Tower; Aunt Serena; Guenn; The Open Door; No Heroes, a Story for Boys; A Fellowe and His Wife (with William Sharp); Seven on the Highway, short stories; One Year Abroad: European Travel Sketches. _Hou._

=Thacher, James.= _Ms._, 1754-1844. A physician of Plymouth, Massachusetts, prominent in his youth as a military surgeon in the battles of the American Revolution. American Medical Biography; History of Plymouth; Essay on Demonology; American New Dispensatory; Observations on Hydrophobia; A Military Journal during the American Revolution, a work of great value; The Management of Bees; American Orchardist; Observations Relating to the Execution of Major André.

=Thacher, John Boyd.= _N. Y._, 1847- ----. A critical scholar and bibliographer of Albany, mayor of that city in 1897. Charlecote, a drama; The Continent of America, its Discovery and its Baptism; Little Speeches. _Do._

=Thacher, Mary Potter.= _See Higginson, Mrs. Mary._

=Thacher, Samuel Cooper.= _Ms._, 1785-1818. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston, pastor of the New South Church, 1811-15. An Apology for Rational and Evangelical Christianity; The Unity of God; Sermons; Evidences Necessary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity.

=Thacher, Thomas.= _E._, 1620-1678. A Puritan clergyman, pastor and physician at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1644-66, and pastor of the Old South Church in Boston from 1666. He published, in 1677, A Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New England How to Order Themselves and Theirs in the Small Pocks or Measels, supposed to be the first medical work published in New England. _See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit._

=Thanet, Octave.= _See French, Alice._

=Tharin, Robert Seymour Symmes.= _Al._, 1830- ----. A lawyer of Alabama who was prominent as a Unionist during the Civil War, and has since been employed in the auditor’s office in Washington. Arbitrary Arrests in the South; Letters on the Political Situation.

=Thatcher, Benjamin Bussey.= _Me._, 1809-1840. A Boston lawyer and littérateur. Indian Biography; Indian Traits; Traits of the Boston Tea Party; Tales of the American Revolution; Memoir of Phillis Wheatley. _Har._

=Thatcher, Oliver Joseph.= _O._, 185- - ----. A Presbyterian clergyman, assistant professor of mediæval and English history in the University of Chicago from 1893. A Sketch of the History of the Apostolic Church; Europe in the Middle Age (with F. Schwill); A Short History of Mediæval Europe. _Hou. Scr._

=Thaxter, Adam Wallace.= _Ms._, 1832-1864. A dramatist of Boston among whose plays are, The Sculptor; Olympia; Mary Tudor; The Painter of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto Nymph.

=Thaxter, Mrs. Celia [Laighton].= _N. H._, 1835-1894. A poet whose childhood and much of whose later life was spent in the Isles of Shoals. Her verse is distinctly original and is largely the poetry of the shore, such poems as The Sandpiper; Courage; Kittery Church-Yard; The Spaniards’ Graves; The Watch of Boon Island, being characteristic of her work in verse. Her volumes of verse comprise, Drift-Weed; The Cruise of the Mystery; Idyls and Pastorals; Verses; Poems for Children; Poems, Appledore Edition (1896). She wrote, also, An Island Garden; Among the Isles of Shoals. _See Letters of; Appletons’ Annual Cyclopedia, 1894._ _Hou. Lo._

=Thayer, Alexander Wheelock.= _Ms._, 1817-1897. A writer whose later life was spent abroad, and who was consul at Trieste, 1859-82. His most important work, a Life of Beethoven, the third volume of which was published in Berlin in 1887, has not been printed in English. It was unfinished in 1897. The Hebrews and the Red Sea; Signor Masoni, and Other Papers of the late J. Brown.

=Thayer, Eli.= _Ms._, 1819-1899. An educator of Worcester, Massachusetts, very prominent in the history of the settlement of Kansas. A History of the Kansas Crusade: its Friends and its Foes. _Har._

=Thayer, Mrs. Emma [Homan] [Graves].= _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A writer and artist of Salida, Colorado. Wild Flowers of Colorado; Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast; An English American, a novel.

=Thayer, James Bradley.= _Ms._, 1831-1902. A professor in the Harvard Law School at Cambridge. A Western Journey with Mr. Emerson; Cases on Constitutional Law; A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law.

=Thayer, Joseph Henry.= _Ms._, 1828-1901. A Congregational clergyman, professor of New Testament criticism and interpretation in the Divinity School of Harvard University from 1884. Books and Their Use; The Change of Attitude Toward the Bible; A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. _Har. Hou._

=Thayer, Martin Russell.= _Va._, 1819- ----. A jurist of Philadelphia. The Duties of Citizenship; The Great Victory: its Cost and Value; The Law as a Progressive Science; On Libraries; Life and Works of Francis Lieber; The Battle of Germantown.

=Thayer, Stephen Henry.= _N. H._, 1839- ----. A banker of New York city living at Tarrytown, New York, who has published Songs of Sleepy Hollow.

=Thayer, Sylvanus.= _Ms._, 1785-1872. Cousin of M. R. Thayer, _supra_. A military engineer of distinction, superintendent of West Point Academy, 1817-1833, and from 1836-68 in charge of the military defences of Boston. Papers on Practical Engineering.

=Thayer, Thomas Baldwin.= _Ms._, 1812-1882. A Universalist clergyman of Lowell. Over the River; Christianity vs. Infidelity; Historical Doctrine of Endless Punishment; Bible Class Assistant; Theology of Universalism.

=Thayer, William Makepeace.= _Ms._, 1820-1898. A Congregational clergyman who retired from the ministry, and, living at Franklin, Massachusetts, devoted himself to authorship. His books, which have been extraordinarily popular, are mainly intended for juvenile reading. Among them are, Youths’ History of the Rebellion; The Bobbin Boy; The Pioneer Boy; The Printer Boy; The Poor Boy and the Merchant Prince; Turning Points in Successful Careers; Marvels of the New West; The White House Series; Aim High: Hints for Young Men; Life of Garfield; Men Who Win; Women Who Win. _Cr. Wh._

=Thayer, William Roscoe.= _Ms._, 1859- ----. Formerly an instructor at Harvard University. His writings in verse include, The Confessions of Hermes; Hesper; Poems, New and Old. He has published, also, The Dawn of Italian Independence; The Best Elizabethan Plays. _Gi. Hou._

=Thébaud= [tay-bo´], =Augustine J----.= _F._, 1807-1885. A Roman Catholic clergyman and educator of New York city. The Irish Race in the Past and Present; Louisa Kirkbride, a tale of New York; The Church and the Moral World; The Twit-Twats, a bird allegory.

=Theller, Edward Alexander.= _Q._, _c._ 1810-1859. A Canadian physician who, for his activity in the Canadian rebellion of 1837, was imprisoned and sentenced to death. He escaped to the United States, and was subsequently a journalist in California and superintendent of schools in San Francisco. Canada in 1837-38.

=Thieblin, Nicolas Leon.= _Iy._, 1834-1889. A journalist of London, and, after 1874, of New York city. He was Spanish correspondent of The Herald in the Carlist war. A Little Book About Great Britain; Spain and the Spaniards. _Le._

=Thoburn, James Mills.= _O._, 1836- ----. A Methodist missionary, bishop in India and Malaysia since 1888. Missionary Addresses; My Missionary Apprenticeship in New York; India and Malaysia; Light in the East; The Deaconess and Her Vocation; Christless Nations. _Meth._

=Thomas, Abel Charles.= _Pa._, 1807-1880. A Universalist clergyman of Philadelphia, and for a short time in Lowell, where he established the Lowell Offering, a periodical written by the factory operatives. Allegories and Divers Day Dreams; Centenary of Universalism; Discussions on Universalism; The Christian Helper; Autobiography.

=Thomas, Amos Russell.= _N. Y._, 1826-1895. A Philadelphia physician, dean of Hahnemann Medical College. Post Mortem Examinations and Morbid Anatomy.