TROW BRIDGE, Tillman Conklin

[s. 761] : Born in Michigan, January 28, 1831. Died at Marash, Turkey, July 20, 1888. Studied at Romeo, Mich.; the University of Michigan, and Union Theological Seminary. Appointed mi ionary of the ABCFM in 1856, and sailed for Constantinople. After learning the language he engaged in itinerating among the Armenians of Eastern Turkey. Returning to Constantinople in 1861, he married a daughter of Dr. Elias Riggs. He had charge of the city work of Constantinople for six years, and in 1868 was transferred to Marash to a ist in the instruction of the Theological Seminary. In 1872 he visited England and America to raise funds for the Central Turkey College at Aintab. In 1876 he was appointed president of the college. From that time to his death, with the exception of a brief visit to England, he devoted himself with energy to promoting its interests, as well as to the material, moral, and religious improvement of the people of Turkey. His well-known good judgment, his quick and contagious sympathy, his unfailing cheerfulne and optimism, his ready pen and persuasive tongue, united to give him a wide influence, and the Central Turkey College owes to his energetic labor a large share of its present position and power. 761