The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . earness of hislanguage and his logic. He spoke as one who believ-ed every word he was saying, and this induced hishearers to believe in him. In 1854 John T. Hoffmanmarried the daug
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . earness of hislanguage and his logic. He spoke as one who believ-ed every word he was saying, and this induced hishearers to believe in him. In 1854 John T. Hoffmanmarried the daughter of Henry Starkweather, ofNew York city. Ex-Gov. Hoffman died at Wies-baden, Germany, March 24, 1888. DIX, J. A., governor of New York (1873-75).(See Index.) TILDEN, Samuel Jones, governor of NewYork (1875-77), was born at New Lebanon, Colum-bia Co., N. Y., Feb. 9, 1814. His ancestor, Nathan-iel Tilden, who had been mayor of Tenterden, Kent,emigrated in 1763 and settled at Scituate, Mass.,whence his son removed to Lebanon, Conn. Thegovernors grandfather founded New Lebanon, N. Y.;his father was a farmer, merchant, and friend ofVan Buren. At eighteen the boy drew up an ad-dress, which was approved by Van Buren, signedby prominent democrats, and published in the Al-bany Argus. Soon after this he spent some timeat Yale, but transferred himself to the University ofNew York, where he was graduated in 1837. In. cyLriCiJ^ ^ JU£ele^^. that year sundry articles of his -on the treasuryquestion appeared in the Argus with the signatureof Crisso. In 1838 he wrote the resolutions fortwo meetings of workingmen in Tammany Hall,Feb. 6th and 36th, and at a debate in Columbia countyanswered a speech of U. S. Senator N. P. speech at New LebanonOct. 3,1840, on currency, prices,and wages, including the historyof the U. S. Bank, was circulat-ed as a campaign document, andpronounced by Conde Raguetthe clearest exposition of thesubjects that has yet was admitted to the b
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