Tilsit

Tilsit, a town of the kingdom and province of Prussia, at the junction of the Tilse and the Niemen (Memel), which is here spanned by a long bridge, 60 m. N. E. of Konigsberg; pop. in 1871, 20,236. The town proper consists of two long streets, and has many fine new buildings, manufactories of paper, machinery, iron, sugar, and leather, and an active trade in grain. After Napoleon's victory at Friedland, he met here for the first time the emperor Alexander (June 25, 1807) on a raft in the middle of the Niemen, and the Tilsit treaty of peace, by which Prussia lost half her possessions, was concluded early in July. (See Bonaparte, vol. iii., p. 42).

Timber

See Wood.

Timothy

Timothy (Gr. тιμόθεος, "he who honors God "), a disciple of Paul, and his companion in travel and in preaching. He was a native of Derbe or Lystra in Lycaonia, and the son of a Greek and a Jewess. To prevent the cavils of the Jews, Paul circumcised him. He was set apart to the office of the ministry by the laying on of the hands of Paul and the presbytery. He journeyed through Macedonia and Achaia, and was afterward sent by Paul to Ephesus, whence he accompanied the apostle to Jerusalem, and probably to Rome. In the epistles of Paul written during his captivity at Rome, Timothy is mentioned as being with the apostle. Tradition says that Timothy was the first bishop of Ephesus, and was martyred under Domitian.

Timothy Bigelow

Timothy Bigelow, an American lawyer, born in Worcester, Mass., April 30, 1767, died May 18, 1821. He was the son of Col. Timothy Bigelow, who served in Arnold's expedition to Quebec. He graduated at Harvard college in 1786, and practised law at Groton, Mass., from 1789 to 1807, when he removed to Boston. He took an active part in politics as a firm federalist, was for 20 years a member of the state legislature, and 11 years speaker of the house of representatives, and a member of the Hartford convention. He stood at the head of his profession, and in the course of 32 years was supposed to have argued 10,000 causes.

Timothy Merritt

Timothy Merritt, an American clergyman, born in Barkhamstcad, Conn., in October, 1775, died in Lynn, Mass., May 2, 1845. He became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1796, and spent 34 years as a pastor in Boston, Lynn, Providence, Springfield, New Bedford, and elsewhere. In 1831 he edited "Zion's Herald" in Boston, and from 1832 to 1837 the "Christian Advocate and Journal" in New York. He also started a monthly periodical in Boston entitled " Guide to Christian Perfection." He was the author of " The Christian's Manual," "The Convert's Guide and Preacher's Assistant," and, with the Rev. Wilbur Fisk, " Lectures and Discourses on Universal Salvation," besides numerous pamphlets and sermons mainly controversial.

Timothy Pitkin

Timothy Pitkin, an American historian, born at Farmington, Conn. Jan. 21, 1766, died in New Haven, Dec. 18, 1847. He graduated at Yale college in 1785, studied law, became a member of the state legislature, where for five sessions he was speaker of the house, and from 1806 to 1820 was a representative in congress. He published " A Statistical View of the Commerce of the United States" (New Haven, 1816; revised ed., 1835), and "Political and Civil History of the United States from 1763 to the Close of Washington's Administration" (2 vols., New Haven, 1828). He left a manuscript continuation of the latter work, bringing it down to about 1820.