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became their legislator. He left a valuable manu- script, "Arte de la lengua de los Mamalueos," which is preserved in the archives of Simancas.

TREJO, Rafael de, Spanish soldier and histo- rian, b. in Estremadura in the last quarter of the 15th century; d. in Mexico about 1540. Little is known of his life except that he was an officer in the band of adventurers that accompanied Hernan Cortas to the conquest of Mexico. He seems to have been an educated man, as he wrote an ac- count of the accidents of the conquest, under the title of " Memorial de algunas cosas dignas de saberse en la eonquista de Nueva Espafia," the manuscript of which, according to Torquemada, who confesses that he used some of the contents, existed in the government archives of Simancas, but has not yet been found.

TREMAIN, Henry Edwin, soldier, b. in New York city, 14 Nov., 1840. He was graduated at the College of the city of New York in 1860 and then entered Columbia law-school. On 17 April, 1861, he enlisted in the 7th New York regiment as a private, and served through its two months' campaign about Washington, after which, on 13 July, he entered the National volunteer service as 1st lieutenant of the 2d New York fire zouaves. During the peninsular campaign he was on Gen. Daniel E. Sickles's staff, and was in the battles of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, and Malvern Hill. He was then transferred to Gen. John Pope's army, and engaged at Bristow Station and the second battle of Bull Run, where he was captured while endeavoring to check a temporary panic and the rapid advance of the enemy. After several months' confinement in Libby prison he was exchanged, resumed duty on Gen. Sickles's staff as assistant inspector-general, and was present at Fredericks- burg and Chancellorsville, where he served as an aide to Gen. Joseph Hooker. Meanwhile, on 25 April, 1863, he had been commissioned major, and was chief staff officer to Gen. Sickles at the battle of Gettysburg. He was on Gen. Daniel Butter- field's staff at Chattanooga, and took part in the battles of Dalton and Resaca. In 1864 he was or- dered to the Army of the Potomac and served suc- cessively on the staffs of Gen. David M. Gregg and Gen. George Crook, participating in the cavalry battles under these officers, until the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers on 30 Nov., 1865, and continued on duty in the Carolinas until his discharge on 29 April, 1866. Gen. Tremain then resumed his law studies and was graduated in 1867, after which he entered into practice, forming in 1868 the firm of Tremain and Tyler. From 1870 till 1885 he was usually retained either by or against the government in its legal controversies in New York, and he was connected with the Marie- Garrison litigation involving the title to the Mis- souri Pacific railroad. He has been active as a Republican in political canvasses, and for five terms, beginning in 1871. he has been president of the associate alumni of the College of the city of New York. On 19 April, 1887, he was elected colonel of the veterans of the 7th regiment, the oldest organi- zation of its kind in this country. His campaign notes of " Last Hours of Sheridan's Cavalry " were edited by John Watts de Peyster (1885).

TREMAIN, Lyman, lawyer and statesman, b. in Durham, Greene co., N. Y., 14 June, 1819 ; d. in New York city, 30 Nov., 1878. After passing through college, he studied law, and was called to the bar in 1840. He began practice in his native county, and continued it in Albany, was elected supervisor of Durham in 1842, and became district attorney in 1844. In 1846 he was elected surro- gate and county judge of Greene county, and in 1858 he became attorney-general of the state of New York. He was sent to the assembly in 1866-'8, and in 1872 was elected congressman as a Repub- lican over Samuel S. Cox, serving from 1 Dec, 1873, to 3 March, 1875. — His son, Lyman, soldier, b. in Durham, Greene co., N. Y., in June, 1843; d. near Petersburg, Va., 6 Feb., 1865, entered Hobart in 1860, but abandoned his studies in 1862, and entered the National army. He was appointed ad- jutant of the 7th New York heavy artillery, served in the defences of Washington, and was afterward made assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, on the staff, in Kilpatrick's division of the Army of the Potomac. In December, 1864, he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the iOth New York cavalry. He commanded this regiment at the battle of Hatcher's run, where he received the wound of which he died.

TRENCHARD, Edward, naval officer, b. in New Jersey in 1784 ; d. in Brooklyn. N. Y., 3 Nov., 1824. He was descended from the English family of Trenchards, of Somersetshire and. Wolverton, one of whom settled at Salem, N. J., and his grandfather, George Trenchard, was attorney-gen- eral of West New Jersey. Edward was appointed a midshipman in the U. S. navy on 30 April, 1800, and became lieutenant on 18 Feb., 1807; com- mandant, 24 July, 1813; and captain, 5 March, 1817. During the war of 1812-'15 he served with Col. Isaac Chauncey on Lake Ontario, and com- manded the " Madison " during some of her en- gagements on the lake, and rendered meritorious services in the blockade of Kingston, and other operations. He had the sloop "John Adams" in the Mediterranean squadron after the Algerine war in 1815-'17, was promoted to captain, 5 March, 1817, and commanded the sloop "Cyane" on the coast of Africa in 1819-'22. — His son, Stephen Decatur, naval officer, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 10 Julv, 1818, was appointed a midshipman in the U. S. navy, 23 Oct., 1834, after making a cruise as acting mid- shipman in the European squad- ron in 1832. He was at the naval school in Philadelphia in 1839-'40, be- came passed mid- shipman, 16 Ju- ly, 1840, and was on coast survey duty in 1845-6. During this ser- vice Trenchard was on board the brig " Washing-

ton " when she

was wrecked off the coast of North Carolina, and was one of the few that were saved. He was made lieutenant, 27 Feb., 1847, was on the " Saratoga " in Mexico in that year, and while again on coast survey duty in 1853-'7 rescued the British bark "Adieu" off Gloucester, Mass., when in great peril, saving all hands and the entire cargo, for which service he was presented with a sword by the queen of England, and a watch by the underwriters of the bark. He was in the " Powhatan " on her diplomatic cruise to China and Japan in 1857-'60, and acted as aide, or flag-lieutenant, to Com. Josiah Tatnall