Thaumastura
in ornithology, the sheartail; a genus of Tr Trochilidæ, with two species, from the humid districts of Peru. The genus is distinguished by the peculiarly shaped tail, the feathers of which are pointed, the middle ones being greatly elongate. Several pairs are generally met with together. males are extremely pugnacious, driving off every other kind of humming bird which ventures to enter their territory. The plumage of the sexes is different, the female being much duller in color.
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Thausing
MORITZ (tou'sing), an Austrian art critic; born in Leitmeritz, in Bohemia, June 3, 1838. He became professor of the science of æsthetics in the University of Vienna, 1873. He wrote: "Dürer: History of His Life and His Art" (1876); "J. J. Callot's Sketch- Book" (1881); "Art Letters from Vienna" (1884). He died in Leitmeritz, Aug. 14, 1884.
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Thaxter
MRS. CELIA (LEIGH- TON), an American poet; born in Portsmouth, N. H., June 29, 1836. She spent her childhood and most of her later life at the Isles of Shoals. Her works are: "Poems" (1872); "Among the Isles of Shoals" (1873); "Poems" (1874); "Drift Weed" (1879); "Poems for Children" (1884); "The Cruise of the Mystery," etc. (1886); "Idyls and Pastorals" (1886); "The Yule Log" (1889); "An Island Garden" (1894); "Letters" (1895); "Stories and Poems for Children" (1895). She died on the island of Appledore, Isles of Shoals, Aug. 26, 1894.
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Thayer
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, an American clergyman; born in Franklin, Mass., Feb. 23, 1820. His books attained great popularity, several being reprinted abroad in German, French, Italian, Greek, Swedish, etc. Among his works are: "The Bobbin Boy" (1859); "The Pioneer Boy" (1863); a Series of Biographies (10 vols. 1859-1863); 'Youth's History of the Rebellion"
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Thayer
ALEXANDER WHEEL- OCK, an American writer on music and musicians; born in 1817. He contributed musicians, to the "Dictionary of Music"; was musical critic of the New York "Tribune"; afterward was consul at Trieste, 1859- 1897. He published: "Signor Masoni," etc. (1862); "The Hebrews and the Red Sea" (1893); and three volumes of "Life of Beethoven" (1866-1887). He died in Trieste, July 15, 1897.
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Thayer (ELI an American educator born)
ELI, an American educator; born in Mendon, Mass., June 11, 1819; was graduated at Brown University in 1845, and soon afterward became principal of the Worcester Academy. He founded the Oread Institute, a school for girls, in Worcester, Mass., in 1848; served for several years as a member of the Worcester school board; became alder- Biographic Sketch of Ezra Abbott," etc. man of that city in 1853 and was a member of the State Legislature in 1853-54. While there he originated and organized the "Emigrant Aid Company," and labored till 1857 to obtain the support of the Northern States for his plan to send anti-slavery settlers to Kansas. He was a member of Congress in 1856-1861, when he made his famous speeches on "Central American Colonization," "Suicide of Slavery," and the admission of Oregon. While the Civil War was in progress he proposed a plan for the military colonization of Florida as a war measure. Sub sequently he urged his colonization scheme as a remedy for polygamy in Utah; wrote and published several books; and invented a hydraulic elevator, a safety steam boiler, and an automatic boiler cleaner. He died in Worcester, Mass., April 15, 1899.
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Thayer (EMMA HOMAN an American author)
EMMA HOMAN, an American author; born in New York city, Feb. 13, 1842; was educated at Rutgers College and took a course in art at the National Academy of Design, New York city, where she exhibited numerous figure paintings; settled in Colorado in 1882, and made sketches of the flora of that vicinity. Her publications include: "Wild Flowers of Colorado" (1885); "Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast" (1887); "The English Am American" (1889); "Petronilla, the Sister" (1898); "A Legend of Glenwood Springs" (1900); and "Dorothy Scudder's Science" (1901). She died in 1908.
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Thayer (II)
ABBOT HANDERSON, an American figure, landscape, and portrait painter; born at Boston, Mass., in 1849. He studied at the Beaux Arts, Paris, under Gerome and Lehmann, being much influenced by Bastien-Lepage, and, on return to the United States, first painted portraits and landscapes, but later gave his energy to the production of idea figures. The most notable of his works are: "Young Woman" (Metropolitan Museum, New York); York); "Caritas" (Boston (Bosto Museum); "Winged Figure" (Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo); "A Virgin" (Freer Collection, National Gallery, Washington); and "Virgin Enthroned." He was for two years president of the Society of American Artists.
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Thayer (III)
CHARLES SNOW, an American librarian; born at Westfield, Mass., in 1865. He was educated at Amherst, Yale, and Göttingen, leaving the latter university in 1901. In 1886-92 he was a bank clerk at Minneapolis, and became assistant pastor of the Union Congregational Church at Providence, R. I., in 1900. Since August, 1902, he has been librarian of the Case Memorial Library and associate professor of bibliology at the Hartford Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1902 and is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.
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Thayer (IV)
JAMES BRADLEY, an American educator; born in Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 15, 1831; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852 and at its law school in 1856; admitted to the bar in Boston the same year and practiced there till 1873, when he became Royall professor of law at Harvard University. Professor Thayer was the author of many well-known law books. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 14, 1902.
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Thayer (V)
JOSEPH HENRY, an American educator; born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 7, 1828; was graduated at Harvard University in 1850 and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1857; preached in Salem, Mass., in 1859-1864; was professor of sacred literature at Andover Theological Seminary in 1864fessor of New Testament criticism and 1884; and in the latter year became prointerpretation in the Harvard Divinity School. His publications include: "Books and Their Use"; "The Change of Attitude Toward the Bible"; "A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament"; "A 1901.
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Thayer (VI)
MARTIN RUSSELL, an American jurist; born in Petersburg, Va., Jan. 27, 1819; was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1840, and admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1842. He was appointed by the governor to revise the revenue laws of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania in 1862; 1862; was a member of Congress in 1863-1867; judge of the district court of Philadelphia in 1867, and presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1874- 1896. His publications include: "The Duties of Citizenship"; "The Battle of Germantown"; "The Philippines"; "What Is Demanded of the United States by the Obligations of Duty and National Honor"; and many essays, speeches, reviews, etc. He died in 1906.
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