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TALBOT, ISRAEL TISDALE, M.D., was born in Sharon, Mass., Oct. 29, 1829. Like many New England boys he was obliged to depend upon his own resources and energy to obtain an education. At the age of fourteen he went to Baltimore, where he opened a private school. This proved very suc- cessful, and with teaching occasionally he obtained means by which he was enabled to continue his studies. He fitted latterly at the Worcester Academy, to enter the sophomore class at Harvard. Circumstances, however, prevented him from com- pleting his classical course, and in March, 1851, he entered the Harvard Medical School. He spent one winter in Philadelphia and was graduated from the Pennsylvania Homeopathic Medical College in 1853 and from the Harvard Medical School in 1854. He then spent three years in medical study abroad ( 1854-5 and 1857-8). Since 1848 Boston has been his home, and he has resided here constantly except when his studies called him away. He has
had an extensive practice, and, firmly convinced of the truth of homeopathy, he has done much to or- ganize and establish its institutions. He originated the Homoeopathic Medical Dispensary, chartered in 1856, and except during his absence in Europe in 1857-8 has been its secretary up to the present time. He has done much for the Massachusetts Homoeopathic Hospital, of which he has been trustee, secretary, and vice-president, as well as president of its medical board for several years. He was instrumental in securing the establishment by the State of the Westboro' Insane Hospital. He was active in organizing the Boston University School of Medicine, of which from its commence- ment he has been the dean and professor of sur- gery. He has occupied the positions of secretary and president of the Boston Homeopathic Society, the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society, and the American Institute of Homoeopathy, all of which have prospered under his direction. He was vice-president of the International Homcopa- thic Congress held in London in 1881, and presi- dent of a similar congress held in Atlantic City in 1892. He established and for several years was the editor of the " New England Medical Gazette," and has been a frequent contributor to medical medical and other societies, he is an honorary mem- ber in twelve State Medical Societies and in the National Homeopathic Societies of Great Britain, Germany, and France. In 1856 Dr. Talbot mar- ried Miss Emily Fairbanks, of Winthrop, Me., who has been well known through her influence in edu- cational matters. They have two daughters and two sons living.
TAYLOR, BERTRAND EUGENE, architect, son of Jacob and Harriet (Thayer) Taylor, was born in St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 29, 1856. He was educated at the St. Johnsbury, Vt., Academy; and was fitted for college, but did not enter. After thorough preparation he began the practice of his profession, and entered into partnership with George D. Rand, in January, 1881, under the firm name of Rand and Taylor. He is a member of Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges, of the Newton, and the Architectural clubs. He was married Oct. 17, 1883, to Miss Helen Clifton Payne : they have three children : Ruth, Dorothy, and Clifton Taylor.
TAYLOR, CHARLES H., editor-in-chief and general manager of the " Boston Globe," was born in Charlestown, Mass., July 14, 1846. He was edu- cated in the Charlestown public schools. At fifteen
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years of age he found his first employment in a nominated by the many friends whom he had made Boston general printing-office. Here the " Massa- chusetts Ploughman " and the " Christian Register" were set up, so that he learned the trade of a com- positor on those papers. The year 1861 found him in the " Boston Traveller " office, where he worked at different times in the mail-room, the press-room, and the composing-room. He was but sixteen years of age when he left the " Traveller" office and shouldered a musket for the war as a private soldier in the Thirty-eighth Regiment, Massa- chusetts Volunteers, one of the youngest recruits to enlist in defence of the Union. He served in the field about a year and a half, with Gen. N. P. Banks' command. In the memorable assault upon Port Hudson, June 14, 1863, Private Taylor was badly wounded, and in consequence was sent into the army hospital at New Orleans, where he re- mained nearly three months, when he was honorably discharged from the service and sent home. He still carries the bullet with which he was wounded. Returning to civil life he reentered the " Traveller" office, and, after working for some time in the com- posing-room of that paper, became one of its report- ers, and soon made his mark as an intelligent and ready writer, with a sharp " nose for news." He grappled with the mysteries of shorthand writing, and, having mastered that difficult art, did much notable work as a stenographer. While connected with the " Traveller " he also earned considerable reputation as a correspondent for newspapers in other cities, his letters to the " New York Tribune " and the " Cincinnati Times " attracting attention at the time. On Jan. 1, 1869, a new phase of his career opened. On that date he became private secretary to Governor William Claflin, and for several years thereafter his face "was a familiar one about the State House. Governor Claflin made him a member of his military staff with the rank of colonel, and as " Colonel Taylor " he has ever since been popularly known, though by the more recent appointment of Gov. William E. Russell he is now more properly addressed as "General Taylor." While acting as Governor Claflin's private secretary Colonel Taylor continued a large part of his former work as a newspaper correspondent, and never once dissociated himself from his chosen profession as a journalist. He remained at his secretarial post in the governor's office for three years. In 1872 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature from Somerville and was reelected the following year, receiving the unusual honor on both occasions of being the unanimous choice of his fellow-citizens regardless of party lines. In the year 1873 he was
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in the Legislature for the clerkship of the House, a position that had. long been held by the well- remembered newspaper correspondent, William S. Robinson, whose letters over the signature of " Warrington " were then among the most salient features of the "Springfield Republican." Mr. Robinson's friends made a stout fight for his re- election, but Colonel Taylor defeated him over- whelmingly. Colonel Taylor filled the office of clerk of the House until August, 1873, when an- other chapter in his career was to open. It was in that month and that year that Colonel Taylor took charge of the " Boston Daily Globe," then a news- paper which had been started a little over a year before, and which was struggling to obtain a foot- hold among the older Boston dailies. For nearly five years as manager of the "Globe," he seemed to be fighting a losing battle, but on March 7, 1878, he took a bold new departure, and, reorgan- izing the enterprise as a Democratic two-cent daily paper, conducted on popular lines, and appealing to the many instead of the few, gave it a second birth. This somewhat audacious step proved to be the turning-point in the history of the "Globe." Colonel Taylor hail found for his paper and himself that tide "which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune." The history of the " Boston Globe " from that date on to the present time is one of the romances of modern journalism. It is a witness to the genius, energy, and indomitable pluck of its creator. Not by one, but by many and repeated strokes of enterprise has Colonel Taylor placed the " Globe" in its present position. The keynote of his success has been - striking originality of ideas and liberality in carrying them out. He found the "Globe " a staid, conservative sheet, addressed to the literary and cultured few, and he has made it a sprightly, dashing, and aggressive sheet, full of new, bizarre features, and successfully catering for the favor of the reading million. Among the novelties which, through the " Globe," Colonel Taylor has grafted to some extent on the daily journalism of Boston, the regular illustration of news articles, political cartoons, serial stories, and " signed editorials " are to be reckoned. There is always an element of surprise in the "Globe's" management. Colonel Taylor has indeed a positive gift for doing the unexpected. Still a young man, well on the sunny side of fifty, with excellent health and surrounded by a large staff by whom he is personally beloved as well as professionally honored, he occupies a most conspicuous place in American journalism of to-day.
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TEELE, JOHN OSCAR, son of Samuel and Ellen and Surgeons, and is connected with the Suffolk Chase (Clough) Teele, was born in Wilmot, N.H., Dispensary as oculist and aurist. He is a member July 18, 1839. He was educated at the New Hampton and New London, N.H., Academies, and fitted for college, but the college course was interrupted by the . Civil War. He studied law and began practice in Hillsborough Bridge, N.H., in 1863, a member of the law firm of Briggs & Teele. Here he remained until 1867. Then he removed to Boston and was a partner of Hon. Charles R. Train from 1868 to 1885, when Mr. Train died. He has since practised alone. He was a member of the lower house of the State Legislature in 1886 and ISS7. On the 18th of February, 1868, he was married to Miss Mary Page ; they have one son, Arthur P. Teele, now in Harvard College.
TEMPLE, THOMAS FRENCH, was born in Canton, Mass., May 25, 1838. He was educated in Dorches- ter, and served as clerk and treasurer of the town until its annexation to Boston in 1869. He was then appointed the first judge of the Dorchester municipal court. Since 1871 he has held the re- sponsible position of register of deeds. He was a member of the board of overseers of the poor for twenty years. In 1870 he was elected to the com- mon council from the Dorchester district. Mr. Temple is a member of many organizations, and has been commander of the Ancient and Honor- able Artillery Company ; president of the trustees of Cedar Grove Cemetery ; a director of the In- ternational Trust Company ; trustee of the Home Savings Bank, the Perkins' Institution for the Blind, and the Farm School; director of the John Han- cock Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the Boston Lead Manufacturing Company, and presi- dent of the Dorchester Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is connected with the Masonic fraternity, past master of the Union Lodge, and treasurer of the Massachusetts Consistory. He was formerly connected with the Boston Fire De- partment.
TENNEY, JOHN ARTHUR, was born in Newport, N.H., Oct. 19, 1844. He was educated in the public schools of Newport, and graduated from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, in 1883. He settled in Gardner, where he remained for a year and a half, and then went abroad, studying at Vienna, Paris, and London during 1884 and 1885. When he returned he came to Boston and began practice here in 1886. He is now professor of ophthal- mology and otology in the College of Physicians
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of the Massachusetts Medical Society and of the Boston Therapeutical Society.
TENNEY, WARD M., son of Orlando B. and Lydia
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M. (Harriman) Tenney, was born in Georgetown, Mass., May 25, 1849. He was educated in the local schools, and early in life learned the art of wood-engraving, entering the Boston office of Britcher & Russell in 1863. In January, 1886, he established the well-known Boston Engraving Com- pany, which employs approved processes for pro- ducing half-tone work.
THAYER, CHARLES PAINE, M.D., .son of Samuel School, and is now professor of anatomy and busi-
White Thayer, was born in Randolf, Vt., Jan. 22,
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1843. He was educated in Burlington, V't., gradu- ating from the high school and studying two years in the university. Then he joined the Thirteenth Vermont regiment and served in the army as hos- pital steward for nine months. After this service he returned to Burlington and entered the medical department of the university, from which he grad- uated M.D., in June, 1865. He at once began the practice of medicine in Burlington, where he re- mained until 1871, when he was appointed surgeon of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In that capacity he served three years. Again returning to Burling- ton he resumed general practice. In October, 1878, he came to Boston, and here he has since remained in general practice. Dr. Thayer was city physician of Burlington from 1872 to 1875, and health officer from 1875 to 1878; he was also ex- amining physician for the Germania and Vermont
Life Insurance Companies and the New England Commercial Travellers Association. He is a mem- ber of the Vermont State Medical Society, of the Chittendon Company Society, and the Burlington Medical and Surgical Club, at one time president of the latter, and of the Massachusetts and Suffolk Dis- trict Medical Societies. He was also the publisher of the Vermont Medical Register. He was adjunct professor of anatomy in the Burlington Medical ness manager of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston. Dr. Thayer was married Sept. 2, 1871, to Miss Mary Alice, daughter of A. S. Bemis, of Boston.
THAYER, DAVID, M.D., son of Deacon Nathaniel Emmons Thayer, of Braintree, Mass., was born in that town July 19, 1813. His maternal grandfather was Deacon Eliphaz Thayer, who was a soldier of the Revolution and was with Washington at West Point at the time of the defection of Gen. Benedict Arnold and the capture and execution of the unfor- tunate Major André, the British spy. He is a di- rect descendant of John Alden and Priscilla, of the " Mayflower" company. Dr. Thayer was educated in the common schools of his native town, in the Weymouth and Braintree Academy, in Phillips (Andover) Academy, in the Appleton Academy at New Ipswich, N.H., and in Union College, Sche- nectady, N.Y. His medical education was acquired chiefly in Boston, in the medical department of Harvard College, and in the Massachusetts General Hospital. At this time it was not his intention to be- come a physician, but he began the study of medi- cine with Prof. B. F. Joslin, M.D., L.L. D., in 1836, while an undergraduate at Union College, with the intention of preparing himself for a life of travel and exploration. He went to the Medical College at Pittsfield, Mass., where he took his degree, pre- paratory to his departure for Rio Janeiro ; but the death of his father and the earnest desire of his mother caused him to abandon, for the present, his long-cherished plan of becoming a traveller, and he took an office in Boston; and here he has remained until the present - through a period of nearly fifty years in the practice of medicine. Dr. Thayer has shown through his whole life a spirit of fearlessness and independence both in thought and action. While in Phillips Academy, the famous George Thompson, of England, lectured in An- dover, on American slavery, and many of the stu- dents of the Theological Seminary and of Phillips Academy heard him. The faculty were opposed to Thompson and his abolitionism, and to prevent the
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students hearing him, old Prof. Moses Stuart, at a prayer meeting on Sunday afternoon, used this lan- guage, speaking of George Thompson: "Young gentlemen, I warn you, on the peril of your soul's salvation, not to go to that meeting to-night." The discussion of the question of slavery was forbidden in the Philomathean Society in the academy, and students were forbidden to join the anti-slavery society in the town of Andover. About fifty young men of the academy, however, refused to submit to this dictation. They drew up a protest in which they denied the right of the faculty to exercise such authority, and presented it in print to that body ; and this proving ineffective they demanded their credentials and obtained them. About forty of these young men then left in a body. This was the beginning of Dr. Thayer's interest in the anti- slavery cause, and it led him to side with the abo- litionists. He became an admirer and a follower of Garrison and Phillips, Francis Jackson, Rev. Theo- dore Parker, Governor Andrew, Theodore D. Weld, John Brown, and others. He was an active agent of the "underground railroad," while that institu- tion was in active service, and his house was a ref- uge and an asylum for fugitives from oppression, for twenty years before the war which emancipated the slaves. One of John Brown's men was con- cealed in his house on the day when John Brown was executed. Dr. Thayer was professor of prac- tice and the institutes of medicine in Boston Uni- versity for several years. In 1883 he went to Europe and visited the hospitals of England and the Continent. In 1889 he obtained letters-patent from the United States and from several European governments, for an invention which he called an Aerial Railway, for the exploration of the polar zone and for navigating the air. Dr. Thayer was married in 1860, and after a period of twenty-two years he obtained a decree of divorce by the Mas- sachusetts Supreme Court.
Quincy and Parker Houses, the Farragut at Rye Beach, the Atlantic at Nantasket, and a still uncom- pleted hotel at Los Angeles; Cal. He has been a strong adviser as to building in a " fire-proof" way where life is endangered or where great values are stored: His three most prominent buildings where this has been strictly adhered to are, that admit tedly fine civic building, the City Hall at Providence, R.I. (which was awarded to him in an anonymous competition of twenty-four architects), the Tudor on Beacon street, and the Boston Tavern. The town halls of Brookline and Stoughton, the Nevins Me- morial Hall in Methuen, the Library of Dartmouth College, the high schools in Springfield, Mass., and Nashua, N.H., all testify to his skill, not only by their beauty, but by their adaptability to the uses for which they are designed. In mercantile buildings, strength, simplicity, and ample provision for light has been his rule. He was the recipient of one of the three medals and diplomas awarded by the United States Centennial Commission to New Eng- land architects for bold and excellent design. Mr. Thayer was married in 1864 to Miss Emeline W. Goodwin, a Boston school-teacher.
THOMPSON, CHARLES F., was born in Orange, Mass., Dec. 15, 1852. He is of English descent,
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THAYER, SAMUEL J. F., architect, was born in Boston Aug. 19, 1842. At the close of his school days, in 1858, he entered the office of J. D. Towle, an architect at that time of considerable eminence, as a student (in those days " apprentice "), remain- ing there three years. In 1862 he enlisted in the army and was shortly promoted to engineer service in the Eighteenth army corps. On his return from 1 the army he was engaged in many of the active works that followed the close of the war. He has built a goodly number of dwellings, churches, and CHARLES F. THOMPSON. hotels, from Cape Cod to Michigan ; among the and numbers among his ancestry some of the old latter are the Thorndike, the extensions of the residents in this country. Stephen Fossett, his !
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mother's grandfather, left England in 1650, and a few years later settled in Boston. The latter's son was brought up here, and at one time lived in the only house on the island of East Boston, then " Noddle's Island," situated in what is now the very centre, and supplied English vessels with produce from his farm. The relatives on the father's side came over from England in 1700, and also settled near Boston. One of them at least is known to have fought in the Revolutionary War. Charles F. Thompson's parents moved from Orange to Fitch- burg in 1857, and from there to Lynn in 1862. In Lynn he received his education in the public schools ; and soon afterward began his business life. He was employed for a time in various capacities in shoe factories in Lynn, and eventually worked his way up to a position of importance with F. W. Breed, with whom he remained fourteen years. During this period he became interested in several profitable . ventures. At one time he owned the largest por- tion of the stock of a cooperative shoe manufactur- ing company ; and he now holds one-half interest in a manufactory of shoe supplies. He also invested considerably in real estate in Lynn and adjoining towns. In 1881 he joined the Odd Fellows, and has since been very prominent in fraternal circles. He is a member of thirteen orders, in four of which he is treasurer. When the order of The World was established, he was made supreme secretary, and to his tireless energy and excellent management that order owes much of its advancement. He has the reputation of being one of the first authori- ties on all that pertains to the subject of fraternal insurance.
THOMPSON, GEORGE EBEN, M.D., son of the late Charles A. C. and Louisa J. (Davis) Thompson, was born in Durham, N.H., Dec. 15, 1859. He at- tended public schools of Dover, N.H., to which place his parents moved in 1868, took a scientific course at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1879, and entered the Harvard Medical School in that year. In 1882 he became house physician at the Mc- Lean Asylum, and in 1883 house physician at the Boston City Hospital. He received his degree in 1884, and began practice in Boston, where he has since remained. He is at present physician to out-patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical So- ciety, the Boston Society for Medical Observation, and the American Academy of Medicine. He was married in 1887 to Miss Dora F. Atwood, and has two children: Charles F. and Marjorie Thompson.
THORNTON, WILLIAM, M.D., son of Thomas and Eliza (Young) Thornton, was born in Leeds, York- shire, England, May 17, 1846. He received his education under private tuition, at Cambridge, Eng- land, and is a Guy's Hospital man. His profes- sional work began in 1873, when he became an assistant to Dr. Chadwick, of London. In 1877 he came to Boston, and has since remained here. He has received the diploma of the Academy of Medicine of France in recognition of his work, " Origin, Purpose, and Destiny of Man," as one of the most valuable additions to science of late years, and he has also honors on the same work from Tokio University, Japan. In 1885 he wrote '" Rationalism in Medicine." He has been a fre- quent contributor to medical journals. Dr. Thorn- ton was married in 1873 to Miss Sarah Gamble ; they have five children : Alice Louise, Florence
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Gertrude, Wilhelmina Maria, Sadie, and William George Thornton.
THURSTON, RUFUS LEANDER, M.D., son of Abel I .. Thurston, was born in Fitchburg, Mass., Aug. 7, 1850. He was educated in the Fitchburg public schools and the Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, N.H. At nineteen he entered the drug business, and subsequently began the study of medicine under the late William T. Wythe, M.D., and Alfred Boy- son, M.D., at San Francisco, Cal. Dr. Thurston
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also attended lectures at the Pacific Medical Col- member of the Maine State Medical Society. Dr. lege, San Francisco, and the Hahnemann Medical Tilton was married Sept. 22, 1879, to Miss Fannie College of Chicago, graduating from the latter in the winter of 1881-2. He is a member of the International and the Boston Hahnemannian Associations.
TILDEN, GEORGE T., architect, was born in Con- cord, N.H., in 1845, and received his education at the Phillips (Exeter) Academy. He pursued his architectural studies in the office of Messrs. Ware & Van Brunt, and then went 'abroad for a year, studying in England, France, and Italy. He began the practice of his profession in Boston in 1872, continuing alone until 1880, when he entered into partnership with Arthur Rotch, under the firm name of Rotch & Tilden, at No. 85 Devonshire street. The work of the firm includes some of the most elaborate and beautiful buildings in this vicinity. They built the Church of the Messiah and the Church of the Ascension in Boston, the Church of the Holy Spirit in Nahant, Episcopal churches at Chestnut Hill and in Wellesley, the Art Museum and Art School at Wellesley College, gymnasiums at Hojan College and Exeter Acad- emy, the Bridgewater Public Library, high schools in Milton and Plymouth, and a large number of private houses and churches in other places. On Commonwealth avenue, and on Fifth avenue, New York City, are many fine mansions designed by this firm. They also designed the Fortress hotel at Quebec.
TILL, CHARLES HENRY, son of Thomas and Mary E. (Hiller) Till, was born in Swampscott, Mass., March 29, 1858. He was educated in the public schools of that town. He began business with the Tapley Machine Company of Boston, and has ever since been connected with it, now occupying the position of treasurer. He was married Sept. 7, 1885, to Miss Isabella McDonald.
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