Ton (American educator born)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

an American educator; born in Union, N. J., Dec. 22, 1848; was graduated at Oberlin College in 1875; had charge of city schools in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin for many years; Professor of Philosophy and Literature in Parks College for six years; held the same chair at Salt Lake College for three years; and was president of the Utah State Christian Endeavor Union in 1897-1898. He conducted extensive mining operations, and contributed to literary and educa tional magazines. TIBER (Italian, Tevere; Latin, Tiberis), the chief river of central Ítaly, and the most famous in the peninsula. It rises in a dell of the Tuscan Apennines (province Arezzo), about 11 miles N. of the village of Pieve Santo Stefano. Its course till it reaches Perugia is S. S. E.; thence, as far as Rome, it pursues, along an irregular zigzag line, a S. direction; but when it enters the plain of the Campagna it curves S. S. W.. and enters the Mediterranean by two branches, which inclose the Isola Sacra, or Sacred Isle. Of these the N., the Fiumicino, alone is navigable; the Fiumara is silted up with sand. The entire course of the river is about 260 miles-only 145 direct from source to sea. The most celebrated towns on or near its banks are Perugia, Orvieto, Rome, and Ostia; and its chief affluents are the Nera and the Velino and Teverone or Aniene (Anio) from the left, and the Paglia with the Chiana from the right. In its upper course it is rapid_and turbid, and of difficult navigation. It is navigable for boats of 50 tons to the confluence of the Nera, 100 miles from its mouth, and small steamers ascend to within 7 miles of that point. The Tiber is supplied mainly by turbid mountain torrents, whence its liability to sudden overflowing of its banks; even the oldest Roman myth, that of Romulus, being inseparably associated with an inundation. Its waters, too, are still discolored with yellow mud, as when Vergil described it. TIBERIAS. See GALILEE.