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Chapter 2
Business Ethics and Responsibility: Doing Well by Doing Good

Homework

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are among the most challenging issues faced by individuals and companies that are involved
in the international business?
a. Finding qualified works and management
b. Safe working conditions and health care
c. Bribery and corruption
d. Wages and living conditions
ANS: c

2. Why is McDonald’s so concerned with both reducing its amount of garbage and recycling the
garbage it does create?
a. It wants to reduce its carbon footprint.
b. It has embraced the idea of sustainable development.
c. It wishes to practise green marketing.
d. It practises cause-related marketing.
ANS: b

3. The consumerism movement has resulted in consumers getting which of the following rights?
a. The right to own property
b. The right to profit
c. The right to vote
d. The right to be informed
ANS: d

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Fill in the Blank Questions

1. When a company donates its employees’ time to work on community activities, it is practising
_____________, but when a company allows its employees to take time to accommodate their
personal needs, it is practising __________.

ANS: corporate philanthropy; corporate responsibility

2. A social audit is focused on the “double bottom line,” which takes into consideration such
traditional indicators as _______________ and socially responsible indicators such as
_____________.

ANS: profitability; community involvement

3. If two pharmaceutical companies were to collaborate to establish low prices on drugs in low-
income countries, thus saving lives, their behaviour would be __________; however, if those same
companies used workers in low-income countries to produce those drugs but paid them a non-
living wage, their behaviour would be ____________.

ANS: iilegal and ethical; legal and unethical

Drag and Drop Questions

1. The amount of harmful greenhouse gasses that a firm emits throughout its operations is referred to
as its __________.
___________ focuses on the actions of the business itself rather than donations of money and
time.
Doing business to meet the needs of this generation without harming the ability of future
generations is _______________.
__________________ includes all business donations to not-for-profit groups, including both
money and products.

ANS: carbon footprint; corporate responsibility; sustainable development; corporate philanthropy

2. ___________ are core values that transcend political, religious, class, and ethnic divisions.
___________ are a set of beliefs about right and wrong.

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___________ are ethical standards that shift depending on particular individuals and the specific
situations they face.
When a person believes it is wrong to steal a pen from Walmart, but that it is okay to take one
home from work, he or she has a(an) __________ issue.

ANS: universal ethical standards; ethics; relative ethics; business ethics

3. When a company forms a partnership with a not-for-profit firm to raise money for that
organization, the company is considering its responsibility to its ____________.
When a company has decided it will not deliberately design products to fail in order to shorten
repurchase times, the company is considering its responsibility to its ____________.
When the company CEO has decided that all business air travel will be by economy class, the
company is considering its responsibility to its ____________.
A company that has a very strong and comprehensive harassment policy, is a company that
considers its responsibility to its ____________.

ANS: community; customers; investors; employees

4. ____________ are the cornerstone of any formal ethics program.


Personal needs, family, culture, and religion all influence employees’ ____________.
____________ have more influence than any other variable on the ethical conduct of individuals in
organizations.
An effective corporate ethics program will provide support for any ____________.

ANS: codes of ethics; value systems; organizational culture; whistleblowers

Quiz Answers

1. b
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. b
6. d
7. c

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Sweetser, Moses Foster. Ms., 1848-1897. A Boston writer who has
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Summer Days Down East; guide-books to New England, the
Middle States, the White Mountains, and the Maritime Provinces;
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Sweetser, William. Ms., 1797-1875. A physician who was professor of
medicine at Bowdoin College, 1845-61. Treatise on Consumption;
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Swenson, Carl Aaron. Pa., 1857-1904. A Lutheran clergyman, founder
and president of Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, editor of
several Swedish journals, and author of Sondagsskolboken; Minnen
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Diseases of the Chest. Ap.
Swett, Josiah. N. H., 1814-1890. An Episcopal clergyman long
prominent in Vermont. English Grammar; Pastoral Visiting; Family
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Swett, Samuel. Ms., 1782-1866. A once prominent citizen of Boston
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Pennyroyal and Mint; The Lollipops’ Vacation; Captain Polly;
Flying Hill Farm; The Mate of the Mary Ann; Cap’n Thistletop;
The Ponkaty Branch Road. Est. Har. Lo. We.
Swett, Susan Hartley. Me., 186- - ——. Sister of S. M. Swett, supra. A
writer of Arlington, Massachusetts. Field Clover and Beach Grass, a
volume of short stories. Est.
Swett, William. N. H., 1825-1884. A deaf-mute who founded the Deaf-
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Deaf-Mute, in the White Mountains.
Swift, John Lindsay. Ms., 1828-1895. A Boston lawyer and journalist,
deputy collector of the port of Boston from 1890. About Grant. Le.
Swift, Zephaniah. Ms., 1759-1823. A noted Connecticut jurist. System
of the Laws of Connecticut; Digest of the Laws of Evidence; Digest
of the Laws of Connecticut, a standard authority.
Swinburne, Louis Judson. N. Y., 1855-1887. A Colorado writer who
was in Paris during the siege in 1871, and published a volume of
observations on the subject entitled Paris Sketches.
Swing, David. O., 1830-1894. A Presbyterian clergyman of Chicago,
tried for heresy in 1874, and acquitted, subsequently pastor of the
Central Church there until his death. Sermons; Club Essays; Truths
for To-day; Motives of Life; Old Pictures of Life, a collection of
essays. Mg. St.
Swinton, John. S., 1829-1901. Brother of W. Swinton, infra. A
journalist of New York city whose principal work is John Swinton’s
Travels.
Swinton, William. S., 1833-1892. A journalist and educator, long
prominent in New York city. Rambles Among Words; Twelve
Decisive Battles of the War; Campaigns of the Army of the
Potomac; The “Times’s” Review of McClellan; History of the New
York Seventh Regiment; Word Analysis; Bible Word Book; Studies
in English Literature. Har. Scr.
Swisher, Mrs. Bella [French]. Ga., 1837-1894. A writer who resided in
Texas from 1877. Struggling up to the Light, a novel; Rocks and
Shoals; Florecita, a romance; History of Brown County, Wisconsin;
Cassie; Homeless Though at Home; The Story of a Woman’s Love.
Swisshelm, Mrs. Jane Gray [Cannon]. Pa., 1815-1884. A journalist of
Pittsburg, and subsequently of St. Cloud, Minnesota, prominent as
an abolitionist. Letters to Country Girls; Half a Century, an
autobiography. See Hart’s American Literature. Mg.
Sylvester, Herbert Milton. Ms., 1849- ——. A Boston lawyer who has
published two volumes of sympathetic nature studies. Prose
Pastorals; Homestead Highways. Hou.
Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. N. Y., 1825-1894. A lawyer of Troy, New
York. Historical Sketches of Northern New York; History of the
Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts; Indian Legends of Saratoga;
Historical Narratives of the Upper Hudson; Histories of Saratoga,
Rensselaer, and Ulster Counties, New York.
Symmes, John Cleves. N. J., 1780-1829. A soldier of Newport,
Kentucky. He was the author of The Theory of Concentric Spheres,
an attempt to prove that the earth is hollow, open at the poles, and
habitable in the interior. See Harper’s Magazine, October, 1882;
Atlantic Monthly, April, 1873; McBride’s Pioneer Biography.
Sypher, Josiah Rinehart. Pa., 1832- ——. A journalist and lawyer of
Philadelphia, war correspondent of The New York Tribune, 1862-
65. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps; School History of
Pennsylvania; The Art of Teaching School; School History of New
Jersey (with E. A. Apgar). Lip.
Szabad, Emeric. Hy., c. 1822- ——. A soldier under Garibaldi who
came to America in 1861, and served in the Federal army. Hungary
Past and Present; State Policy of Modern Europe; Modern War: its
Theory and Practice.
T
Tabb, John Banister. Md., 1845- ——. A Roman Catholic clergyman
and educator, professor of English literature in St. Charles’s
College, Ellicott City, Maryland. His verse has received much well
merited praise. Poems; Lyrics; An Octave to Mary. Cop.
Tafel, Johann Friedrich Leonhard. Wg., 1800- ——. A German
educator who removed to the United States in 1853, and lived in St.
Louis. Staat und Christenthum; Der Christ und der Atheist; A
German-English and English-German Pocket Dictionary (with his
son Ludwig Tafel).
Tafel, Rudolph Leonhard. Wg., 1831- ——. Son of J. F. L. Tafel,
supra. Formerly an educator of St. Louis, but since 1868 a
Swedenborgian minister in London, England. Emanuel Swedenborg
as Philosopher and Man; Our Heavenward Journey; Authority in the
New Church; The Preaching Gift; Investigation as to the Laws of
English Pronunciation and Prosody.
Talbot, Charles Remington. 1851-1891. A writer of juvenile books
who was an Episcopal clergyman at Wrentham, Massachusetts.
Honor Bright; Miltiades Peterkin Paul; Royal Louise; Romulus and
Remus, a dog story; A Midshipman at Large; The Impostor; A
Romance of the Revolution. Lo.
Talbot, Henry Paul. Ms., 1864- ——. An associate professor of
analytical chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
An Introductory Course of Quantitative Chemical Analysis. Mac.
Talmage [tăl-mĭj or tăm-ĭj], Thomas De Witt. N. J., 1832-1902. A
Presbyterian clergyman of Brooklyn, 1869-1894, and subsequently
of New York, widely known as a preacher. Though he was a prolific
writer, the literary worth of his books is very slight. Crumbs Swept
Up; Sermons; From Manger to Throne; Sports that Kill; Social
Dynamite; The Pathway of Life; The Marriage Ring; Old Wells
Dug Out; Every-Day Religion; Sundown; Fishing Too Near Shore,
include his principal works. Fu.
Talvi. See Robinson, Mrs. Thérèse.
Tannehill, Wilkins. Pa., 1787-1858. A journalist of Nashville.
Freemasons’ Manual; Sketches of the History of Literature;
Sketches of the History of Roman Literature.
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker. Pa., 1835- ——. A bishop of the African
Methodist Church. Paul vs. Pius Ninth; The Negro’s Origin, and Is
the Negro Cursed?; Outline of the History and Government of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Tanner, Henry S——. N. Y., 1786-1858. A geographer of Philadelphia.
Memoir on the Recent Surveys in the United States (1830); View of
the Valley of the Mississippi; American Traveller; Central Traveller;
New Picture of Philadelphia; Description of Canals and Railways in
the United States (1840).
Tappan, David. Ms., 1752-1803. A Congregational clergyman, pastor at
Newbury, Massachusetts, 1774-92, and Hollis professor of divinity
at Harvard University from 1792 until his death. Sermons on
Important Subjects; Lectures on Jewish Antiquities. See Memoir by
Abiel Holmes, supra.
Tappan, Eli Todd. O., 1824-1888. A professor of mathematics at
Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1875-87, and afterwards Ohio
commissioner of common schools. Plane and Solid Geometry;
Elements of Geometry; Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry.
Tappan, Henry Philip. N. Y., 1805-1881. A Dutch Reformed clergyman,
professor of philosophy in the University of the City of New York,
chancellor of the University of Michigan, 1852-1863. Elements of
Logic; Treatise on Universal Education; Review of Edwards’s
“Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will;” The Doctrine of the
Freedom of the Will Determined by an Appeal to Consciousness;
The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Applied to Moral Agency;
A Step from the Old World to the New and Back Again;
Introductions to Illustrious Personages of the Nineteenth Century.
Tappan, Lewis. Ms., 1788-1873. A merchant of New York city,
proprietor of The Journal of Commerce, and active as an
abolitionist. Life of Arthur Tappan, by his brother, a valuable
contribution to anti-slavery literature.
Tappan, William Bingham. Ms., 1794-1849. A verse-writer and
educator of Philadelphia and Boston. Poetry of the Heart; Poetry of
Life; New England, and Other Poems; Songs of Judah; Lyrics;
Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems; The Sunday School, and Other
Poems; Early and Late Poems. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of
America; Duyckinck’s American Literature.
Tarbell, Frank Bigelow. Ms., 1853- ——. A professor of Greek in the
University of Chicago from 1892. A History of Greek Art; The
Philippics of Demosthenes, with Introduction and Notes. Fl. Gi.
Tarbell, Ida Minerva. Pa., 1857- ——. Madame Roland; Early Life of
Abraham Lincoln (with J. M. Davis). Scr.
Tarbell, John Adams. Ms., 1810-1864. A homœopathic physician of
Boston. Sources of Health; Homœopathy Simplified.
Tarbox, Increase Niles. Ct., 1815-1888. A Congregational clergyman
who was secretary of the American College and Education Society,
1851-84. Winnie and Walter Stories; When I was a Boy; Nineveh,
or the Buried City; Uncle George’s Stories; Journeys and Labors of
St. Paul; Life of General Israel Putnam; Sir Walter Raleigh and His
Colony in America; Songs and Hymns for Common Life. Lo.
Tarr, Ralph Stockman. Ms., 1864- ——. A geologist, assistant
professor of geology at Cornell University, 1892-1897, professor of
dynamic geology and physical geography there from 1897.
Elementary Geology; Economic Geology of the United States;
Elementary Physical Geography. Mac.
Tatham, William. E., 1752-1819. An engineer and lawyer of Virginia
who served in the American army during the Revolution. An
Analysis of the State of Virginia; Remarks on Inland Canals;
National Irrigation.
Taussig [tŏw´sig], Frank William. Mo., 1859- ——. A professor of
political economy at Harvard University. Protection to Young
Industries as Applied in the United States; The History of the
Present Tariff, 1860-83; The Tariff History of the United States; The
Silver Situation in the United States (1892); Wages and Capital. Ap.
Put.
Taylor, Alfred. Pa., 1831-1889. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia. Peeps at Our Sunday-Schools; Sunday-School
Photographs; Hints about Sunday-School Work. Meth.
Taylor, Bayard. See Taylor, [James] Bayard.
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin. N. Y., 1819-1887. A popular verse-writer of
Chicago whose work is always pleasing, though it never reaches a
very high plane of inspiration. Songs of Yesterday; Old Time
Pictures, and Sheaves of Rhyme; Dulce Domum; Between the
Gates; Summer Savory; The River of Time; Pictures of Life in
Camp and Field; Complete Poems (1887); Theophilus Trent, a
novel. Ap. Sc.
Taylor, Charles. Ms., 1819- ——. A Methodist clergyman who was a
missionary to China, 1848-54. Five Years in China; Baptism in a
Nutshell.
Taylor, Charles Fayette. Vt., 1827-1899. A surgeon of New York city.
Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure; Spinal Irritation;
Sensation and Pain; Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature of
the Spine; Treatment of Disease of the Hip Joint; Infantile Paralysis.
Lip.
Taylor, Fitch Waterman. Ct., 1803-1865. An Episcopal chaplain in the
United States navy. The Flag Ship, or a Voyage Around the World;
The Broad Pennant, a work of similar nature.
Taylor, George Boardman. Va., 1832- ——. A Baptist missionary in
Rome since 1873. Oakland Stories; Costar Grew; Roger Bemant,
the Pastor’s Son; Walter Ennis, a tale of the Early Virginia Baptists;
Life of J. B. Taylor, infra. Bap.
Taylor, George Henry. Vt., 1821- ——. Brother of C. F. Taylor, supra.
A physician of New York city, among whose writings are,
Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure; Health for Women;
Massage; Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics.
Taylor, George Lansing. N. Y., 1835-1903. A Methodist clergyman of
eastern New York. Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad Epic; Grant: an
Elegy, and Other Poems; What Shall we Do with the Sunday-
School?; The New Africa. Fu. Meth.
Taylor, Hannis. N. C., 1851- ——. A lawyer of Mobile, minister to
Spain, 1893-97. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution.
Hou.
Taylor, Henry Osborn. N. Y., 1856- ——. A legal writer of New York
city. Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations, a standard work
much used as a text-book in law schools; Ancient Ideals. Put.
Taylor, Hobart Chatfield. See Chatfield-Taylor.
Taylor, James Barnett. E., 1819-1871. A Baptist missionary in Virginia.
Life of Lot Cary; Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers. See Life, by
G. B. Taylor, supra. Bap.
Taylor, [James] Bayard [bi´ard]. Pa., 1825-1878. An author well
known as poet, novelist, translator, and traveller. It was as a poet
that he most desired to be remembered, but except in a few
instances his verse does not reach a very lofty level of attainment,
and, while often excellent in quality, lacks usually the element of
spontaneity. His volumes of verse comprise, Ximena, and Other
Poems; Rhymes of Travel; Poems and Ballads; Poems of Home and
Travel; Poems of the Orient, his most original work; The Picture of
St. John; The Poet’s Journal; Lars; The Masque of the Gods; Home
Pastorals; Prince Deukalion; The Prophet, a tragedy; Centennial
Ode. In fiction he published, Beauty and the Beast; Hannah
Thurston; The Story of Kennett; John Godfrey’s Fortune; Joseph
and his Friend. His travels include, Views Afoot; Eldorado; Byways
of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt and Iceland; Greece and Russia;
At Home and Abroad; India, China, and Japan; The Lands of the
Saracen; Colorado. The translation of Faust is his greatest work, and
the one on which his fame will most securely rest. Other works of
his are, School History of Germany; Literary Essays and Notes;
Studies in German Literature; The Echo Club, and Other Literary
Diversions. See Catholic World, April, 1879; Lippincott’s Magazine,
August, 1879; Stedman’s Poets of America; Life and Letters of, by
Marie Hansen-Taylor and H. E. Scudder; Life by Smyth; Allibone’s
Dictionary. Ap. Hou. My. Put.
Taylor, James Monroe. N. Y., 1848- ——. A Baptist clergyman and
educator, president of Vassar College from 1886. Psychology.
Taylor, James Wickes. N. Y., 1819-1893. A United States consul at
Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 1870. The Victim of Intrigue, a Tale of
Burr’s Conspiracy; History of Ohio, First Period: 1620-1787;
Manual of Ohio School System; Forest and Fruit Culture in
Manitoba; Mineral Resources of the United States (with Browne).
Taylor, John. Va., 1750-1824. A politician of prominence in his day as a
senator from Virginia. Inquiry into the Principles and Polity of the
United States Government; Agricultural Essays; Construction
Construed; Tyranny Unmasked; New Views of the United States
Constitution.
Taylor, John Louis. E., 1769-1829. A former chief justice of North
Carolina, 1810-29. Superior Court Cases in Law and Equity; The
North Carolina Law Repository; Term Reports; Duties of Executors
and Administrators.
Taylor, John Neilson. N. J., 1805-1878. A lawyer of Brooklyn.
American Law of Landlord and Tenant; The Law of Executors and
Administrators in New York State. Lit.
Taylor, John Orville. N. Y., 1807-1890. An educational writer and
reformer long prominent in New York State, and after 1879 a
resident of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The District School, or
Popular Education.
Taylor, Marshall William. Ky., 1846-1887. A Methodist clergyman of
African descent in Kentucky. Handbook for Schools; The Negro in
Methodism.
Taylor, Nathaniel William. Ct., 1786-1858. A Congregational
clergyman prominent in his day as the exponent of the New Haven
type of theology, who was Dwight professor at Yale University,
1822-38. Practical Sermons; Moral Government of God; Essays,
etc., upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology.
Taylor, Oliver Alden. Ms., 1801-1851. A Congregational clergyman of
Manchester, Massachusetts. Brief Views of the Saviour; Life of
Jesus. See Memoir by A. A. Taylor.
Taylor, Richard. La., 1826-1879. A son of President Taylor, and a
Confederate officer. Destruction and Reconstruction. Ap.
Taylor, Richard Cowling. E., 1789-1851. An English geologist who
came to America in 1830, among whose publications are, Geology
and Natural History of the Northeast Extremity of the Alleghany
Mountains; History and Description of Fossil Fuel; Statistics of
Coal. Bai.
Taylor, Rufus. Ms., 1811-1894. Brother of O. A. Taylor, supra. A
Congregational minister of Massachusetts, whose home was at
Beverly, New Jersey, after 1878. Union to Christ; Love to God;
Thoughts on Prayer; Cottage Piety Exemplified. Lip.
Taylor, Samuel Harvey. N. H., 1807-1871. An educator long prominent
in Massachusetts, principal of Phillips Academy, Andover, 1837-71.
Method of Classical Study. See Memorial compiled by his last class.
Taylor, Thomas House. S. C., 1799-1869. An Episcopal clergyman,
prominent in New York city as the rector of Grace Church, 1834-67,
and active as a Low Church controversialist. Sermons Preached in
Grace Church.
Taylor, Walter Herron. Va., 1838- ——. A Confederate officer during
the Civil War, and subsequently a banker in Norfolk. The Book of
Travels of a Doctor of Physic; Four Years with General Lee. Ap.
Taylor, William. Va., 1821-1902. A noted Methodist missionary and
evangelist, appointed bishop in Africa in 1884, among whose
writings are, California Life Illustrated; Seven Years’ Street
Preaching in San Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary Work;
The Model Preacher; Reconciliation; The Election of Grace;
Christian Adventures in South Africa; Our South American
Cousins.
Taylor, William Mackergo. S., 1829-1895. A Presbyterian clergyman of
eminence. He came from Scotland to New York city in 1871, and
was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle, 1871-1893. Contrary
Winds; The Limitations of Life; The Lost Found; The Gospel
Miracles; Prayer and Business; Life Truths; John Knox; Joseph the
Prime Minister; Ruth the Gleaner and Esther the Queen; David,
King of Israel; Elijah the Prophet; Peter the Apostle; Daniel the
Beloved; Moses the Law-Giver; Paul the Missionary; The Scottish
Pulpit from the Reformation, comprise his most important works.
Har. Ran. Scr.
Tefft, Benjamin Franklin. N. Y., 1813-1885. A Methodist clergyman of
Maine. The Shoulder-Knot, a Story of the 17th Century; Memorials
of Prison Life; Methodism Successful; Our Political Parties;
Evolution and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; Life of Daniel
Webster. Co. Le.
Tennent, Gilbert. I., 1703-1764. A Presbyterian clergyman of
Philadelphia, active in his day as a controversialist. XXIII Sermons;
Discourses on Several Subjects; Sermons on Important Subjects.
Tenney, Edward Payson. 1835- ——. A Congregational clergyman of
Cambridge, at one time President of Colorado College.
Agamenticus; Constance of Acadia, a novel. Le. Rob.
Tenney, Sanborn. N. H., 1827-1877. A naturalist who was professor of
natural history at Williams College from 1868. Elements of
Zoölogy; Manual of Zoölogy; Geology for Teachers.
Tenney, Mrs. Sarah [Brownson]. Ms., 1839-1876. Wife of W. J.
Tenney, infra, and daughter of O. Brownson, supra. Marion
Elwood, or How Girls Live; At Anchor; Life of Demetrius
Gallitzin, Prince and Priest.
Tenney, Mrs. Tabitha [Gilman]. N. H., 1762-1837. The wife of a noted
physician of Exeter, New Hampshire. She wrote Female Quixotism,
an amusing satirical novel, which was long popular.
Tenney, William Jewett. R. I., 1814-1883. A writer who lived at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, for many years. He edited Appletons’
Annual Cyclopedia, 1861-82, and wrote a Military and Naval
History of the Rebellion.
Terhune, Albert Payson. N. J., 1868- ——. Son of Mrs. Terhune, infra.
A journalist and author of New York city. Syria from the Saddle, a
volume of travels; Columbia Stories, a collection of sketches; The
Great Cedarhurst Mystery. Sil.
Terhune, Mrs. Mary Virginia [Hawes]. “Marion Harland.” Va.,
1835- ——. A popular novelist, lecturer, and writer on domestic
topics, the wife of a Dutch Reformed clergyman of New York city.
Her work in fiction includes, Alone; Moss-Side; Beechdale; Judith;
The Hidden Path; Handicapped; Nemesis; At Last; Helen Gardner’s
Wedding-Day; Jessamine; With the Best Intentions; True as Steel;
Sunnybank; From My Youth Up; My Little Love; A Gallant Fight;
The Royal Road; His Great Self; Mr. Wayt’s Wife’s Sister; Marion.
Other works of hers are, Eve’s Daughters; Common Sense in the
Household, a widely known manual of housewifery; Common
Sense in the Nursery; The Cottage Kitchen; The Dinner Year-Book;
Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea; The Story of Mary Washington;
Loitering in Pleasant Paths. Cas. Do. Hou. Scr.
Terry, Adrian Russell. Ct., 1808-1864. A physician and educator who
was for some years professor in Bristol College, Pennsylvania, and
author of Travels in the Equatorial Regions of South America in
1832.
Terry, John Orville. L. I., 1796-1869. A rural versifier of Orient, Long
Island, who published The Poems of J. O. T., consisting of Song,
Satire, and Pastoral Descriptions.
Terry, Milton Spenser. N. Y., 1840- ——. A Methodist clergyman and
educator, since 1884 a professor in Garrett Biblical Institute at
Evanston, Illinois. Commentary on Judges, Ruth, and Samuel;
Commentary on Kings, Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah;
Commentary on Genesis and Exodus; Biblical Hermeneutics;
Sibylline Oracles (from the Greek); The Song of Songs; Prophecies
of Daniel Expounded; Rambles in the Old World. Meth.
Teuffel, Mrs. Blanche Willis [Howard] von. Me., 1847-1898. A
novelist who resided in Stuttgart, Germany, from 1875. One
Summer; Aulnay Tower; Aunt Serena; Guenn; The Open Door; No
Heroes, a Story for Boys; A Fellowe and His Wife (with William
Sharp); Seven on the Highway, short stories; One Year Abroad:
European Travel Sketches. Hou.
Thacher, James. Ms., 1754-1844. A physician of Plymouth,
Massachusetts, prominent in his youth as a military surgeon in the
battles of the American Revolution. American Medical Biography;
History of Plymouth; Essay on Demonology; American New
Dispensatory; Observations on Hydrophobia; A Military Journal
during the American Revolution, a work of great value; The
Management of Bees; American Orchardist; Observations Relating
to the Execution of Major André.
Thacher, John Boyd. N. Y., 1847- ——. A critical scholar and
bibliographer of Albany, mayor of that city in 1897. Charlecote, a
drama; The Continent of America, its Discovery and its Baptism;
Little Speeches. Do.
Thacher, Mary Potter. See Higginson, Mrs. Mary.
Thacher, Samuel Cooper. Ms., 1785-1818. A Unitarian clergyman of
Boston, pastor of the New South Church, 1811-15. An Apology for
Rational and Evangelical Christianity; The Unity of God; Sermons;
Evidences Necessary to Establish the Doctrine of the Trinity.
Thacher, Thomas. E., 1620-1678. A Puritan clergyman, pastor and
physician at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1644-66, and pastor of the
Old South Church in Boston from 1666. He published, in 1677, A
Brief Rule to Guide the Common People of New England How to
Order Themselves and Theirs in the Small Pocks or Measels,
supposed to be the first medical work published in New England.
See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.
Thanet, Octave. See French, Alice.
Tharin, Robert Seymour Symmes. Al., 1830- ——. A lawyer of
Alabama who was prominent as a Unionist during the Civil War,
and has since been employed in the auditor’s office in Washington.
Arbitrary Arrests in the South; Letters on the Political Situation.
Thatcher, Benjamin Bussey. Me., 1809-1840. A Boston lawyer and
littérateur. Indian Biography; Indian Traits; Traits of the Boston Tea
Party; Tales of the American Revolution; Memoir of Phillis
Wheatley. Har.
Thatcher, Oliver Joseph. O., 185- - ——. A Presbyterian clergyman,
assistant professor of mediæval and English history in the
University of Chicago from 1893. A Sketch of the History of the
Apostolic Church; Europe in the Middle Age (with F. Schwill); A
Short History of Mediæval Europe. Hou. Scr.
Thaxter, Adam Wallace. Ms., 1832-1864. A dramatist of Boston among
whose plays are, The Sculptor; Olympia; Mary Tudor; The Painter
of Naples. He published, also, The Grotto Nymph.
Thaxter, Mrs. Celia [Laighton]. N. H., 1835-1894. A poet whose
childhood and much of whose later life was spent in the Isles of
Shoals. Her verse is distinctly original and is largely the poetry of
the shore, such poems as The Sandpiper; Courage; Kittery Church-

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