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The Century Cyclopedia of Names · 1904 · p. 161
There Truro. The chief town of Col chester County, Nova Scotia, situated at the head of Cobequid ulation (1901), 5,993. Bay, 54 miles north-northeast of Halifax. Pop- Truth. A poem by Chaucer, usually known as "Flee from the Pre " ("Fle fro the Pres"). Truth (tröth), Sojourner. Born in Ulster County, N. N. Y., Y., in the latter part of the 18th century: died at Battle Creek, Mich., Nov. 26, 1883. A negro lecturer and reformer, originally a slave. She obtained her freedom probably in 1817, at which time New York liberated all her slaves who were over 40 years of age. Truxillo. See Trujillo . Truxtun (truks'tun), or Truxton (truks'ton), Thomas. Born on Long Island, N. Y., Feb., 1755: died at Philadelphia, May 5, 1822. An American naval officer, distinguished as a commander of privateers in the Revolutionary War. In the French war he defeated the frigate L'Insurgente Feb. 9, 1799, and La Vengeance in Jan., 1800, but the latter escaped owing to a storm. Tryon (tri'on), Dwight William. Born at Hartford, Conn., in 1849. An American landscape-painter. Tryon (tri'on), William. Bornin Ireland about 1725: died at London, Feb. 27, 1788. A British colonial governor in America. He was governor of North Carolina 1765-71; suppre ed the "Regulators" revolt; was governor of New York 1771-78; and conducted various expeditions against Connecticut in the Revolution ary War. Tsaribrod, or Zaribrod (tsär'i-brōd). A place in Bulgaria, 34 miles north-northwest of Sofia. There, Nov. 23, 1885, the Bulgarians defeated the Servians. Tsaritzin (tsär-it'zin). A town in the government of Saratoff, Ru ia, situated on the Volga 230 miles northwest of Astrakhan. It has important transit trade by railway and river. Population (1891), 40,130. Tsarskoi Selo (tsär-skō'i sālō). A town in the government of St. Petersburg, Ru ia, about 15 miles south of St. Petersburg. It contains a famous imperial palace, a favorite summer residence of the court. The Old Palace, begun in 1744, is 780 feet long. The interior is richly decorated the walls of one room are incrusted with amber, those of another with lapis lazuli. The magnificent marble gallery, 270 feet long, connects the palace with a detached building. The park is full of caprices, such as a Chinese tower and village, an Egyptian pyramid, a Turkish'kiosk, and the so-called dollhouses of the prince es. Tschaikovsky ky (chi-kof's ki), ent Water town), Conn., April 24, 1750: died at Detroit, Mich., May 10, 1831. An American lawyer and poet. He wrote the burlesque epic "McFin gal" (1775) imitation of "Hudibras," "Elegy on the Times" (1774), etc., and collaborated with Barlow and others on the "Anarchiad." Trumbull, John. Born at Lebanon, Conn., June 6, 1756: died at New York city, Nov. 10, 1843. An American painter, son of Jonathan Trum bull. He served in the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of colonel and deputy adjutant-general; studied in London under West, and on the Continent; and settled as a portrait-painter in New York in 1804. He gave a large collection of his paintings to Yale College. Among his works are portraits of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and others, "Battle of Bunker Hill," "Death of Montgomery," four pictures in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington ("The Declaration of Independence," "The Surrender of
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