sumed the practice of law, and held the office of attorney-general of the state for ten years preceding his death. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalists' convention of 1866, and presided over the New Hampshire Republican convention on 14 Sept., 1886. In the presidential election of 1872 he supported his life-long friend, Horace Greeley.
TAPPAN, William Bingham, poet, b. in Beverly, Mass., 29 Oct., 1794 ; d. in West Needham,
Mass., 18 June, 1849. His early advantages were
limited, but he acquired a good education and for
six years taught in Philadelphia. In 1826 he re-
moved to Boston, where he became general agent
of the American Sunday-school union, and was en-
gaged in the same work in Cincinnati and Phila-
delphia. He was licensed to preach in 1840. His
publications are " New England, and other Poems"
(Philadelphia, 1819) ; " Songs of Judah, and other
Melodies" (1820); " Lyrics" (1822); "Poems"
(1834); "Memoir of Capt. James Wilson " (1842) ;
"Poetry of the Heart " (Boston, 1845); "Sacred
and Miscellaneous Poems " (1846) ; " Poetry of
Life" (1847); "The Sunday-School, and other
Poems " (1848) ; and " Late' and Early Poems "
(Worcester. Mass., 1849).
TARAVAL, Sigismond, clergyman, b. in Lodi,
Italy, 26 Oct., 1700 ; d. probably in Italy. He en-
tered the Jesuit novitiate on 31 Oct., 1718, went to
Mexico, and thence to California, where he founded
the mission of Santa Rosa. He discovered the
islands of Afagua and Amalgua on the Pacific
coast, afterward known as Los Dolores, and col-
lected a large number of documents for a history
of California. His manuscript work, entitled " Re-
lacion del Martirio de los PP. Tomas Tello y En-
rique Ruhen, muertos por los Indios Seris," is in
the Library of Mexico.
TARBELL, John Adams, physician, b. in Bos-
ton, Mass., 31 March, 1810; d. there, 21 Jan., 1864.
He was graduated at Harvard in 1832, and studied
medicine in Paris for three years, receiving his de-
gree from Bowdoin in 1836. He began practice in
Boston, and in 1843 became a homoeopathist. He
was associate editor of the " Quarterly Homoeopath-
ic Review " (Boston, 1853-'4), edited John Epos's
" Domestic Homoeopathy " and " The Pocket Ho-
moeopathist " (Boston, 1849) ; and was the author
of " Sources of Health " (1850) and " Homoeopathy
Simplified " (1856-'62).
TARBELL, Joseph, naval officer, b. about 1780 ;
d. in Norfolk, Va., 24 Nov., 1815. He entered the
navy as a midshipman, 5 Dec, 1798, was promoted
to lieutenant, 25 Aug., 1800, and served in Preble's
squadron during the Tripolitan war. He was in-
cluded in the vote of thanks to Preble and his
officers by act of congress, 3 March, 1805, was pro-
moted to master-commandant, 25 April, 1808, and
commanded the frigate " John Adams " in 1811— '14.
He was commissioned a captain, 24 July, 1813, and
rendered good service in the defence of Craney
island and James river in June, 1813, capturing
three barges and forty prisoners when the British
were repelled in this attack. He was then stationed
at Norfolk, Va., where he died.
TARBOX, Increase Niles, author, b. in East
Windsor, Conn., 11 Feb., 1815; d. in West New-
ton, Mass., 3 May, 1888. He was graduated at
Yale in 1839, studied theology while acting as
tutor there in 1842-'4, and from 1844 till 1851 was
Siastorof a Congregational church in Framingham,
dass., which he left to become secretary of the
American education society, later the American
college and education society, in Boston, Mass.
This office he filled till 1884. He received the de-
gree of D.D. from Yale and from Iowa college in
. He wrote extensively on historical and re-
ligious subjects for the " New Englander," " Bib-
liotheca Sacra," " Historic-Genealogical Register,"
and other periodicals, was in 1849-'51 associate
editor of the " Congregationalist," contributed
many poems and hymns to that and other journals,
and from 1881 till his death was historiographer
for the New England historic-genealogical society.
Dr. Tarbox published juvenile books entitled the
"Winnie and Walter Stories" (4 vols., Boston,
1860) and " When I was a Boy" (1862) ; " Nineveh,
or the Buried City" (1864); "The Curse, or the
Position occupied in History by the Race of Ham "
(1865); "Tyre and Alexandria the Chief Commer-
cial Cities of Scripture Times " (1865) ; " Missionary
Patriots: James H. and Edward M. Schneider"
(1867) ; " Uncle George's Stories " (1868) ; " Life of
Israel Putnam (Old Put), Major-General in the Con-
tinental Army " (1876) ; " Sir Walter Raleigh and
his Colony in America " (1884) ; " Songs and Hymns
for Common Life" (1885); and "Diarv of Thomas
Robbins, D. D." (2 vols., 1886-'7).
TARDIVAL, Julius Paul, Canadian journal-
ist, b. in Covington, Ky., 2 Sept., 1851. He re-
moved to Canada in 1868, was educated at St.
Hyacinth college, in the province of Quebec, was
assistant editor of " Le Canadien " in 1874, and is
editor of " La verite," in Quebec, which he founded
in 1881. He was assistant government translator
at Ottawa from 1879 till 1881. Mr. Tardival has
published " Vie du Pape Pie IX.. ses ceuvres et ses
douleurs " (Quebec, 1878) ; " Borrowed and Stolen
Feathers, or a Glance through Mr. James M.
Lemoine's Latest Work, ' The Chronicles of the St.
Lawrence ' " (1878) ; " L'Anglicisme, voila l'en-
nemie" (1879); and "Melanges" (1887).
TARIEU DE LANAUDIERE, Charles (tah-ree-uh), Canadian statesman, b. in Canada in 1744; d. there in 1841. At the age of sixteen he took part in the battle of Saint Foye, as an officer in the regiment de la Sarre, and was severely wounded.
He went to France with his regiment after the surrender of Montreal, visited the principal courts of Europe, and married shortly after his return to Canada. In 1775 he held a command in the Canadian militia, and was taken prisoner by the Ameri-
cans in a skirmish on the frontier. He was instrumental in saving Gen. Carleton from capture when Benedict Arnold reached Montreal, escorting the English leader to Quebec at the head of three hun-
dred Canadians. He was made aide-de-camp on
Carleton's staff, and several years later master
of the waters and forests. Tarieu made frequent
journeys to Europe, the expenses of which impaired
his fortune. When he returned to Canada in 1787
he endeavored to turn his influence with the Cana-
dian government to account, in order to obtain a
change in the system of seignorial tenures, and
presented a petition to this effect in January, 1788.
The result of the changes he asked for would
enable the Canadian seigneurs to draw larger
revenues from their fiefs by throwing them open
to American and English settlers. The measure
was opposed by most of the other great proprie-
tors, and the agitation that then began was not
settled until 1854, when the question of land-ten-
ure in Canada received a definitive solution. In
1792 he was created a member of the legislative
council, which post he held till his death, and in
which his talents, combined with his influence over
successive governors, gave him great power.
TARLETON, Sir Banastre, bart., British soldier, b. in Liverpool, 21 Aug., 1754; d. in England, 23 Jan., 1833. He came to America with Lord Cornwallis in Sir Peter Parker's squadron in May,
