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bar, and on the death of Chief-Justice Edward Shippen the office was tendered to him. He de- clined it, but. recommended for the office his kins- man. William. — Matthew's great-grandson, Lloyd, soldier, b. in Talbot county, Md., in 1816; d. near Vicksburg, Miss., 16 May, 1863, entered the U. S. military academy, was graduated in 1836, and as- signed to the 1st dragoons. He became full 2d lieutenant, 4 July. 1836, but resigned on 30 Sept. and entered on the business of a civil engineer. He was division engineer of the Baltimore and Sus- quehanna railroad in 1836-7, of the Norfolk and Wilmington canal in 1837-'8, the Eastern Shore railroad of Maryland in 1838-'9. and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in 1839-'40. He served in the war with Mexico as volunteer aide to Gen. David E. Twiggs at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and was captain of the Maryland and District of Columbia battalion of volunteers from 14 Aug., 1847, until it was disbanded, 13 July, 1848. He then served as principal assistant engineer of the Panama division of the Isthmus railroad, and was engineer on southern railroads till 1859. He joined the Confederate array in 1861, was commis- sioned brigadier-general in 1862, and surrendered at Fort Henry in February of that year. He was exchanged in July, and killed at the battle of Champion Hill. — Tench, soldier, great-grandson of James's brother Richard, b. in Plimhimraon, Talbot co., Md., 25 March. 1810: d. in Baltimore, Md., 22 Dec, 1874, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1832, and was assigned to the 4th artil- lery, but resigned, 30 Nov., 1833, and was a farmer at Oxford, Md., till his death. He was brigadier- general of Maryland militia in 1837-'60 and major- general in 1860-'l, state commissioner of public works in 1841-51, and superintendent of the mili- tary department of the Maryland military acade- my, Oxford, in 1847-'57. In 1849-'50 he was U. S. consul at Mayaguez, Porto Rico. He projected the Maryland and Delaware railroad, was unwearied in his efforts to build it, and served as its president in 1855-'61. In 1858-'60 he was president of the Na- tional agricultural society. Gen. Tilghman was for many years at the head of the Maryland Society of the Cincinnati, and at his death he was also treasurer-general of the order in the United States. From 1857 till 1860 he was collector of customs for the port of Oxford, Md. — His kinsman, Richard Lloyd, naval officer, great-grandson of James's brother, William, b. in Kent county, Md., 20 April, 1810; d. in 1867, entered the IT. S. navy as a mid- shipman. 27 Oct., 1830, promoted to lieutenant, 8 Sept., 1841, and during the Mexican war served with Com. Robert F. Stockton in the Pacific in the " Congress " and " Cyane," and participating in the conquest of California, the capture of Mazatian, Guaymas, and La Paz, and in the operations inci- dent to these victories. He commanded the brig " Perry" on the Brazil station from 1857 till 1860, during the Paraguayan war. H e returned home during the excitement before the civil war, on 23 April, 1861, resigned from the navy, and died soon after the close of the war.

TILLEY, Jean Le Gardeur, Chevalier de, French naval officer; b. in Quebec, Canada, in 1740; d. in Canada after 1792. His family were Canadian pioneers, and had served with credit in the wars against the Iroquois and the English. A Le Gardeur de Tilley was a missionary among the Illinois in 1660, and another was a member of the council of Bishop Laval Montmorency. A mem- ber of another branch. Le Gardeur de Saint Pierre (q. v.) was on Ohio river in 1753. Tilley entered the navy early in life and rose rapidly in the ser- vice, being a commander at the beginning of the war for independence. He served from 1778 till 1783 under De Guichen, De Grasse, La Motte-Pic- quet and Vaudreuil, and commanded in a cruise along the Canadian coast, securing many prizes. In 1781 he was in command of the squadron that pursued Benedict Arnold in Chesapeake bay, and he took the " Romulus " and several transports. He was promoted knight of Saint Louis and brigadier-general of the naval forces after the con- clusion of peace, and rose afterward to the rank of chef d'escadre, commanding in 1789 the squad- ron at Rochefort. In 1791 he left France and re- turned to Canada, where he died.

TILLEY, Sir Samuel Leonard, Canadian statesman, b. in Gagetown, Queen's co., New Bruns- wick, 8 May, 1818. His father was Thomas Mor- gan Tilley, and his grandfather, Samuel, was a loyalist, who, at the close of the American Re volution, left Brook- lyn, N. Y., and settled in New Brunswick, becoming a grantee of the city of St. John. The family is of Dutch extraction. Young Tilley was educated at the county grammar- school, but at the age of twelve he was obliged to leave his home and seek em- ployment. He went to St. John and en- tered a drug-store as an apprentice. After duly serving his time

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on his own account with Thomas W. Peters. He joined a debating society, and became a warm and uncompromising exponent of the temperance cause. Throughout his life he has remained a total abstainer. In 1849 Mr. Tilley's name first appears in connection with the politics of his native province, when, espousing the side of the protectionists of that day, he nominated and aided in electing a candidate for the legislature. Toward the close of the year he took an active part in forming the New Brunswick railway league, which had for its object the construction of a line of railway from St. John to Shediac. At the general election of 1850 he was nominated a candidate for St. John in the reform interest. In June he was elected to a seat in the house of assembly. In 1851, however, the Liberals experienced a serious reverse, two of the leading members of their party having deserted to the other side. Mr. Tilley and two of his friends resigned, and he did not return to public life until 1854, when his old constituency re-elected him. In November he entered the cabinet of the Liberal administration, and from that day to the present time (1888) he has enjoyed, save in two periods of a few months' duration, uninterrupted power as minister or governor. In 1856 he was beaten at the polls on the prohibitory liquor-law question, when his ministry made the subject a direct issue. The new government repealed the act, but was unable to maintain itself in office longer than a year, when, a dissolution occurring, the Liberals we're again returned to power, ami Mr. Tillev was reinstated in his old post as provincial secretary. Shortlv afterward he became premier. From June, 1857,' till March, 1865. Mr. Tilley remained leader. In 1864 he went to Charlottetown,