TERHUNE
TERRELL
He was married, Sept. 2, 1901, to Anice Morris,
daughter of John P., and Elizabeth (Olnistead)
Stockton of New York city. He became an
authority and expert writer ou physical culture
topics, publishing many articles and one book on
the"'subject. He is the author of: Syria from
the Saddle (1896); Coluvibia Stories (1897); Paul
Dufour, Bohemian (1898); The Deluge of '09
(1898); A Galahad of Park Row (1899); and Dr.
Dale: A Story without a Moral, in collaboration
with his mother, "Marion Harland " (1900); also
short stories and verses in the leading magazines.
TERHUNE, Mary Virginia, author, was born
in Amelia county, Va., Dec. 21, 1831; daughter
of Samuel Pierce and Judith Anna (Smith)
Hawes; granddaughter of Sterling and Judith
Smith and of Jesse and Aniia (Pierce) Hawes,
and a descendant of Robert and Anne Pierce,
who landed in Massachuetts, 1630, and of Thomas
Smith, brother of Captain John Smith of the
Jamestown (Va. ) colony (1607.) Her father, a
native of Massachusetts, removed to Virginia and
became a successful merchant, and her mother
was of an old Virginia family. She began to con-
tribute articles to the press in 1815 and in 1847
published a sketch entitled Marrying through
Prudential Motives, which was copied by an
English periodical without credit and was re-
published as an English story in Godey's Lady's
Book. Her first book, Alo7ie, originally printed in
Richmond, was republished in 1854 in New York
city, where it had a large sale. She was married
Sept. 2, 1856, to the Rev. Edward Payson Terhune
of New Jersey; removed to Newark, N.J., in
1858; subsequently spent three years abroad, and
in 1900 became a member of the editorial staff of
Tlie Xorth American of Philadelphia, and also as-
sumed charge of an immense newspaper syndicate
of " Women's Pages", making her residence at
Sunnybank, Pompton, N.J. She conducted
several magazines, including Babyhood and J7ie
Home Maker; had charge of departments in
Wide Awake and St. Nicholas, and under the pen
name of " Marion Harland " is the author of:
Alone: A Tale of Southern Life and Planners
(1854); The Hidden Path (1855); Moss Side
(1857); I^emesis (1860); 2Iiriam (1860); Husks
(1863); Husbands and Homes (1865); Sunnybank
(1866); Helen Gardners Wedding Day (ISQl);
Tlie CJiristmas Holly (1868); Ruby's Husband
(1868); Phemie's Temptation (1869); At Last
(1870); The Empty Heart (1871); Common Sense
in the Household (1871); Breakfast. Luncheon and
Tea (1875); The Dinner Year Book (1878); Loi-
terings in Pleasant Paths (1880); Eve's Daughters
(1881): Jiidith (1'883); A Gallant Fight (1888);
An Old-Field-Schoolgirl (1897); Some Colonial
Homesteads (1897): The National Cook Book,
in collaboration with her daughter, Christine Ter-
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hune Herrick (1897); WhereGhosts Walk (1898);
More Colonial Homesteads (1899); When Grand-
mama was New (1900); Literary Hearthstones
(1900-1901); Dr. Dale; AStory Without a Moral,
in collaboration with her son, Albert Payson
Terhune (1901); and Li Our County (1902).
TERRELL, Edwin Holland, diplomatist, was born in Brookville, Ind., Nov. 21, 1848; son of the Rev. Dr. Williamson and Martha (Jarrell) Ter- rell; grandson of Capt. John and Abigail (Allan) Terrell and of James and Rachel (Powell) Jar- rell, and great-grand- son of Henry Terrell, who removed from Virginia to Kentucky in 1787. He gradu- ated at De Pauw university, valedic- torian, A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874; from the law department of Harvard university, 1873; was a student in Europe 1873-74, and practised law in Indianapolis, 1874-77. He was married, Aug. 17, 1874, to
Mary, daughter of Samuel Augustus and Mary (Adams) Maverick of San Antonio, Texas, and in 1877 removed to San Antonio. He was delegate from Texas to the Republican national conven- tions of 1880 and 1888, and a member of the Re- publican state executive committee of Texas, 1894-1900. He was appointed by President Har- rison U.S. minister to Belgium in 1889, and oc- cupied that position four years. He was pleni- potentiarj^ on the part of the United States in the international conference on the slave trade at Brussels, November, 1889, to July, 1890, which drew up the slave trade treaty, known as the " General Act of Brussels," subsequently ratified by the President and senate. In tRily, 1890. he held a similiar commission in the International Customs-Tariffs conference at Brussels; in Nov- ember and December, 1890, he was a member of the Commission Technique which elaborated a tariff system for the conventional basin of the Congo, as defined in the treaty of Berlin of 1885; and in connection therewith, he conducted nego- tiations with the six European powers holding possessions in the Congo basin, and secured from them the " Protocol of Dec. 22, 1890," granting the United States full commercial privileges, etc. in the entire Congo basin. In 1891 Mr. Terrell negotiated with King Leopold a treaty of com- merce and navigation and a consular treaty be- tween the United States and the Congo Free State, subsequently approved by the President
