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and Samuel Colman, subsequently under Leon Bailly in Paris, and during five years travelled and sketched in Europe and Africa. In 1870 he be- came a member of the Water-color society ; the following year he was elected an associate of the National academy, and he became an academician in 1880. He is also a member of the Society of American artists. Among his works in oil are " Fruit- Vender, under the Sea- Wall at Nassau" (1870); "Market -Day, Morlaix," and " Duane Street, New York" (1878); and "Bow-Zarea, Al- giers." His water - colors include " Meditation " (1872): "Shop in Switzerland," "Old and New Mosques at Cairo," and " Lazy Life in the East " (1876); " Algiers " (1877) ; and "Cobblers at Bori- farik " (1878). He devotes much time to decora- tive work, and has furnished many cartoons and designs for windows for the Tiffany glass company, of which he is the founder. The interior work of his father's house in New York was executed under his supervision.

TIFFANY, Osmond, author, b. in Baltimore, Md., 16 July, 1823. He was educated at Baltimore and studied at Harvard in 1840-'2, but was not graduated. He afterward engaged in mercantile and literary work, was ordnance clerk at the U. S. armory in Springfield, Mass., in 1862-'3, and pay- master's clerk in the U. S. army in 1863-'4, and has been custom-house liquidating clerk at Balti- more since 1869. He has contributed to periodi- cals and published "The Canton Chinese, or the Americans' Sojourn in the Celestial Empire " (Bos- ton, 1849) ; " Brandon, a Tale of the American Colonies " (New York, 1851) ; and " Sketch of the Life of Gen. Otho H. Williams " (Baltimore, 1851). He has edited " Patriarchs and Prophets of Bibli- cal Story " (Springfield, Mass., I860).

TIFFIN, Edward, statesman, b. in Carlisle, England, 19 June, 1766; d. in Chillicothe, Ohio, 9 Aug., 1829. After receiving an ordinary English education, he began the study of medicine, and continued it after his removal to Charlestown, Va., in 1784, receiving his degree at the University of Pennsylvania in 1789. In the same year he married Mary, sister of Gov. Thomas Worthington. In 1790, he united with the Methodist church, and soon afterward he became a local preacher, being ordained deacon by Bishop Asbury, on 19 Nov., 1792. In 1796 he removed to Chillicothe, Ohio, where he continued both to preach and to practise medicine. At Deer Creek, twelve miles distant, he organized a flourishing congregation, long before that part of the country was visited by travelling preachers. In 1799 he was chosen to the legislature of the Northwest territory, of which he was elected speaker, and in 1802 he was president of the convention that formed the constitution of the state of Ohio. He was elected first governor of the state in 1803, and re-elected two years later. During his second term he arrested the expedition of Aaron Burr, near Marietta, Ohio. After the expiration of his service he was chosen U.S. senator, to succeed his brother-in-law, Thomas Worthington, and took his seat in December, 1807, but early in the following year his wife died, and on 3 March, 1809, he resigned from the senate and retired to private life. Shortly afterward he married again, and was elected to the legislature, serving two terms as speaker. In the autumn of 1810 he resumed the practice of medicine at Chillicothe, and in 1812, on the creation by act of congress of a commissionership of the general land-office, he was appointed by president Madison as its first incumbent. He removed to Washington, organized the system that has continued in the land-office till the present time, and in 1814 was active in the removal of his papers to Virginia, whereby the entire contents of his office were saved from destruction by the British. Wishing to return to the west, he proposed to Josiah Meigs, surveyor-general of public lands northwest of Ohio river, that they should exchange offices, which was done, after the consent of the president and senate had been obtained. This post he held till 1 July, 1829, when he received, on his death-bed, an order from President Jackson to deliver the office to a successor. Dr. Tiffin continued to preach occasionally in his later years. Three of his sermons were published in the “Ohio Conference Offering” in 1851. In a letter of introduction to Gen. Arthur St. Clair, Gen. Washington speaks of Dr. Tiffin as being “very familiar with the law.”

TILDEN, ———, poet, b. in 1686 ; d. about . He was the author of " Tilden's Miscellane- ous Poems on Divers Occasions, chiefly to animate and rouse the Soldiers" (1756). This little volume of thirty pages was one of the first of the produc- tions that were written with a view to stimulate the soldiers in the French war. A copy of this rare book was in the library of George Ticknor, of Boston, and the whole of it appeared in the New York "Historical Magazine" for November and December, 1859, and January, 1860.

TILDEN, Samuel Jones, statesman, b. in New Lebanon, N. Y., 9 Feb., 1814; d. at his country- house, Graystone, Westchester co., N. Y., 4 Aug., 1886. The name of an ancestor, Nathaniel Tilden of Tenterden, yeoman, and that of Lydia, his wife, with seven chil- dren and seven servants, head the list of " such per- sons as embarked themselves in the good ship called the ' Hercules,' ... to be therein transported to the plantation called New England in America," from the port of Sand- wich, England, in March, 1634. This Nathaniel Tilden had been mayor

of Tenterden, as

had been his uncle John before him. and as was his cousin John after him. He settled with his family at Scituate, whence the second generation of Tildens migrated to Lebanon, Conn. To Isaac Tilden, the great-grandfather of Samuel J., was born at this place, in 1729, a son named John, who settled in what was afterward called New Lebanon, Columbia co., N. Y. Samuel J.'s father, Elam, the youngest of John Tilden's seven children, was born in 1781, and in 1802 married Polly Y. Jones, a descendant of William Jones, lieutenant-governor of the colony of New Haven. Eight children were born of this union, of whom Samuel J. was the fifth. The boy early developed great activity of mind and a remarkable command of language. His father, a farmer, who also carried on a mercantile business, was an intimate friend of Martin Van Buren, and the political controversy of the time was part of the very atmosphere of the Tilden household. In his eighteenth year Samuel prepared an address, which was adopted as a party manifesto by the Democrats, in regard to the issues of the pending state election. In the same year he entered Yale col-