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tion at Northampton, Massachusetts,
1S51. lit- was editor oi the Norwich
"Tribune," 1852-53; and of the Winsted
(Connecticut) "Herald," 1854-55. He removed
to New York City in [856, where
he contributed verse to leading publica-
tions, and was editorially connected with
the "Tribune," 1859-61. He was located
at Washington, D, C, as war correspond-
ent of the New York "World" during the
Civil War days of 1861-63; and in the
confidential employ of Attorney-General
Bates, 1863-64. He was a member of the
New York Stock Exchange, 1869-1900.
He subsequently devoted his entire time
to literary work, and made his home in
Bronxville, New York. The honorary
degree of Master of Arts was conferred
upon him by Yale College in 1871, and by
Dartmouth College in 1873; that of Literarum
Humaniorum Doctor by Columbia
University in 1892, and that of Doc-
tor of Laws by Yale University, 1894.
Mr. Stedman acquired a wide reputa-
tion as a literary critic of unusual discrimination.
He lectured at Johns Hopkins
University upon the "Nature and
Elements of Poetry," upon the creation of
the Turnhull chair of poetry, the first
chair of its kind in America, 1891, and re-
peated the same course at Columbia College,
1891, and at the University of Penn-
sylvania in 1892. He was frequently
chosen to deliver original poems on im-
portant public occasions. He served as
/ice-president and president of the Ameri-
can Copyright League. He edited, with
Thomas B. Aldrich, "Cameos, from the
Poems of Walter Savage Landor" ( 1874)
"Poems of Austin Dobson" (1880) ;
"The
Library of American Literature," with
Ellen M. Hutchinson (eleven volumes,
1888-89); "The Works of Edgar Allen
Poe" (ten volumes, 1895), with G. E.
Woodbury : "A Victorian Anthology"
(1895); and "An American Anthology"
(1900). He is the author of: "Poems,
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Lyric and Idyllic" ( [86b) j "Alice of Monmouth"
(i.Xo-ij; "The Blameless Prince"
(1869); "Poetical Works" (1873); "Victorian
Poets" (1875); "Hawthorne, and
Other Poems" (1879); "Poems now first
Collected" (1884); "Poets of America"
(1885); "The Nature and Elements of
Poetry," lectures (1892). He died Janu-
ary 18, 1908.
He was married, November 2, 1853, to
Laura Hyde, daughter of Asa and Eliza-
beth (Rogers) Woodworth, of Danielson-
ville, Connecticut.
TINGIER, Lyman Twining,
Jurist, Legislator.
Lyman Twining Tingier, of Rockville,
was born June 9, 1862, in the town of
Webster, Massachusetts, the son of Seymour
Allen and Sarah (Twining) Tingier.
Both of his parents were natives of the
town of Tolland, Massachusetts, his
father, born in 1829, the son of Edward
Lay Tinker and Laura (Steele) Tinker,
and his mother, born in 1832, the daughter
of Lyman Twining, of Tolland, Massachusetts,
and Paulina (Shepard) Twining,
of Blandford, Massachusetts. The
family name of Tinker became Tingier in
1857-
Seymour Allen Tingier was a graduate
of Williams College, and for many years
was a practicing lawyer in Webster, Massachusetts,
removing in 1878 to Thomp-
son, Connecticut, where he engaged in
farming until his death in 1888. He held
several public offices in Webster and
Thompson. Sarah (Twining) Tingier
died at Webster in 1864, and in 1870, Seymour
Allen Tingier married Mary L.
Tucker, daughter of Charles and Olive
( Atwell) Tucker, of Webster, Massachusetts,
who survived him, dying at Thomp-
son in 1902.
Lyman Twining Tingier attended the
public schools of his native town, a pri-