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His son, Jules, b. in Quebec, 16 April, 1852, was educated at the Quebec seminary and at the Jesuit college, Montreal. He was admitted to the bar in 1874, is one of the editors of the “Quebec Law Reports,” was secretary of the National convention in 1880, is president of the Quebec liberal club, and in 1887 was elected to the legislative assembly of the province.

TESTE, Lucien Auguste (test), Swiss geologist, b. in the canton of Valois in 1765; d. in Rome, Italy, in 1817. He was attached to the expeditions around the world under command of Capt. Malaspina in 1789-'95, during which time he studied everywhere the geological formations and formed valuable collections. After his return to Vienna he became an assistant professor of geology in the university, and subsequently a corresponding member of the Academy of sciences. He was appointed in 1805 professor in the University of Milan, and in 1815 was sent to Brazil, where great geological discoveries had been made. He explored the environs of Rio Janeiro and visited Bahia; but his health failed, and he returned to Europe. His works include “Observations géologiques faites en Asie et en Amérique par un des membres de l'expédition autour du monde du Capitaine Malaspina, 1789-1795” (2 vols., Geneva, 1798); “Geologischer Atlas der ganzen Erde” (Vienna, 1800); “Dialoge und kleine Aufsätze über die Geologie und Geognostie ” (1802); “Bemerkungen über die Geologie von Südamerika” (2 vols., 1805); and “Entwurf eines Systems der geognostischen und geologischen Beschreibung der Erde” (1815).

TETINCHOUA, Miami chief, lived in the 17th century. He is described by Nicolas Perrot, who met him in 1671 at Chicago, as being the most powerful of Indian chiefs. According to the French traveller, he could control four or five thousand warriors, never marched without a guard of forty men, who patrolled night and day around his tent when he camped, and seldom held any direct communication with his subjects, but conveyed his orders to them by subordinates. Perrot was received with great honor as an envoy from the French governor. Tetinchoua sent out a detachment to meet him, which, after performing some remarkable military evolutions, escorted Perrot and his Pottawattamie guard into the principal town of the Miamis. Tetinchoua then assigned him a guard of fifty men, regaled him splendidly after the manner of the country, and ordered a game of ball to be played for his diversion. He was unable, owing to his age and infirmities, to accompany Perrot to Sault Ste. Marie, at the mouth of Lake Superior, where the French took formal possession of all the country on the lakes. He did not even send deputies to the assembly that was held on the occasion, but he gave the Pottawattamies power to act in his name. In 1672 Father Claude Dablon is said to have met him with his army of 3,000 Miamis. But, although the missionary was received with marks of friendship, he did not succeed in making any conversions.

TETLEPANQUETZAL (tet-lay-pan-ket-sal'), Mexican king, d. in 1525. He was the fourth Tecpanec king of Tlacopan, and reigned after 1503 as a tributary of the Mexican emperor Montezuma II., whom he assisted in the first defence of Mexico. Afterward he was one of the principal auxiliaries of Cuauhtemotzin (q. v.), and when the city was finally taken, 13 Aug., 1521, he was made prisoner and tortured, together with the emperor, by the Spaniards that he might reveal the hiding-place of the imperial treasure. When Cortes marched in 1525 to Honduras to subdue the revolt of Cristobal de Olid, he carried the emperor and three kings with him, and, under the pretext that he had discovered a conspiracy, all four were strangled.

TÊTU, Louis David Henri (tay-tew), Canadian clergyman, b. in Rivière Ouelle, province of Quebec, 24 Oct., 1849. He was educated at the College of Sainte Anne de la Pocatiere and at the Seminary of Quebec, was assistant secretary to the archbishop of Quebec from 1870 till 1878, and in the latter year became almoner. He was named chamberlain and domestic prelate to the pope in 1887. He has published “Notice biographique; Monseigneur de Laval, premier évêque de Quebec” (Quebec, 1887), and “Mandaments, lettres, pastorels et circulaires des évêques de Quebec” (3 vols., 1888, to be completed in seven volumes).

TETZOTZOMOC (tet-so-tso-mok'), king of Atzcapotzalco, d. in 1427. He ascended the throne in 1353 and exercised suzerainty over the monarchs of Mexico, but approved the choice of King Huitzilihuitl II. in 1403 and gave him his daughter Miahuaxochitl in marriage, notwithstanding the opposition of his son Maxtla. He declared war against the king of Texcoco, Techotlalatzin, and being defeated sued for peace; but after the latter's death he continued the war against his successor, Ixtlilxochitl I., whom he defeated and assassinated in 1419, usurping the crown of Texcoco.

THACHER, George, jurist, b. in Yarmouth, Me., 12 April, 1754; d. in Biddeford, Me., 6 April, 1824. He was graduated at Harvard in 1776, and afterward studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1778. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental congress in 1787-'8, and from 4 March, 1789, to 3 March, 1801, he represented the Maine district of Massachusetts in congress. He served as judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts, and afterward of that of Maine, from 1800 till 1824, and was a delegate to the Maine constitutional convention in 1819.

THACHER, James, physician, b. in Barnsta- ble, Mass., 14 Feb., 1754 ; d. in Plymouth, Mass., 26 May, 1844. He began the study of medicine under Dr. Abner Hersey, in his native town, about 1771, applied for a place in the medical depart- ment of the Continen- tal army in 1775, and was appointed sur- geon's mate in the hos- pital at Cambridge, of which Dr. John Warren was the seni- or attending surgeon. In February, 1776, he was made surgeon's mate in one of the regiments that occu- pied Prospect Hill. He marched with his regiment to Ticon- deroga, and was sur- geon s mate in the

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that fort as long as it was held by the Continental army. He then retired with the sick and wounded to Fort Edward, and subsequently to Albany. He was transferred from the hospital to the field ser- vice by his own desire, was appointed chief surgeon to the 1st Virginia regiment in 1778, and to a New England regiment in 1779. Dr. Thacher was present sit nearly all the important movements of the Continental army until the surrender of Cornwallis, ami became known for his patriotism and self-sacrificing devotion to his patients, as