Methfessel, and Jacob Schmitt, and came to this country in 1835. In the same year he appeared at the Park theatre. New York, as a pianist, and obtained an engagement to play second horn in the orchestra, and occasional piano solos. Dur- ing this time he was also organist at Grace church. About a year later he became musical director of an opera troupe at the Charleston theatre. In 1838 he returned to New York, where he settled permanently. When the National opera-house was built he became chorus-master and trombone- player; but the theatre was soon burned. In 1843 he became president of the Philharmonic society, which post he held for sixteen years. During his presidency he frequently appeared as the piano soloist at the society's concerts, and for eight years was trombone-player in the orchestra. He became well known as an excellent piano-teacher, and his services as an accompanist were much in demand. His published compositions are few, the most nota- ble being the second piano part for Johann B. Cramer's eighty-four "Etudes."
TIMON, John, R. C. bishop, b. in Conewago,
Pa., 12 Feb., 1797; d. in Buffalo, N. Y., 16 April,
1867. In 1802 he removed with his family to Balti-
more. He assisted his father, who was a merchant,
in his business, and was engaged in trade in Balti-
more, Louisville, and St. Louis till 1823, when he
entered the Lazarist seminary at the Barrens near
St. Louis. He was ordained a sub-deacon in 1824,
and accompanied Father (afterward Archbishop)
Odin in a missionary journey through Texas. He
was raised to the priesthood the following year,
appointed professor in the Barrens, and became a
member of the Lazarist order. He also did mis-
sionary work throughout a large district, and be-
came famous as a controversialist, sometimes meet-
ing as many as six clergymen of other creeds in
public debate. But his great achievement was es-
tablishing his order in the United States. Serious
differences had arisen between Bishop Rosati and
the Lazarists with regard to the tenure of property,
and Father Timon showed great tact in bringing
about a settlement. In 1835, at the assembly of
Lazarist deputies in Paris, it was decided to erect
the American mission into a province of the order,
and Father Timon was elected its first visitor. He
relieved the order from financial embarrassment,
reduced to submission many members who had be-
come disaffected, prevailed on others who had left
the community to return, and acquired property
of great value in St. Louis and other cities. In
1838, at the request of Bishop Rosati, he took
charge of the missions in Texas. He offered the
first mass in G-alveston. and erected the first altar
in Houston. In 1839 he was appointed coadjutor
bishop of St. Louis, but earnestly asked the court
to be allowed to decline, and the nomination was
cancelled. In 1840 Texas was separated from the
Mexican diocese of Monterey, and Father Timon
was appointed prefect apostolic of the republic,
where.he took measures to secure the restoration of
the church property that had been confiscated by
the Mexican government. He went to Paris in
1841 on business connected with the Lazarists of
the United States. His energy appeared to increase
with advancing years. Seminaries were given into
his charge in every part of the United States, which
he supplied with professors from the members of
his community. A narrative of the length of the
journeys that "be undertook in many western and
southern states, and of the difficulties that he over-
came, would seem incredible. The career of Father
Timon was marked by many acts of courage as well
as personal sacrifice and charity. His rescue of the
Sisters of the Visitation from a flood in Kaskaskia
had all the elements of romantic bravery. When
he was appointed bishop of Buffalo in 1847 he
showed reluctance to accept the office, but he
yielded to the pressure that was brought to bear
on him, and was consecrated by Bishop Hughes
in the cathedral of New York on 17 Oct., 1847.
At the beginning of his administration he de-
manded the transfer of the title of the property
of St. Louis's church, Buffalo, to himself. This
being refused by the trustees, they were excom-
municated, and he laid the church under an in-
terdict. The controversy, after being the subject
of discussion in the legislature, was finally settled
by his submission to the trustees in 1855. He in-
troduced the Sisters of Charity in 1848, began St.
Joseph's boys' orphan asylum in 1851, and after-
ward the New Catholic reformatory for boys. He
began the Foundling asylum in 1853, and subse-
quently founded the Deaf and dumb asylum, St.
Mary's German orphan asylum, the Providence
lunatic asylum, and many other charities. Among
the educational and religious institutions that he
founded or aided in establishing are the Seminary
at Suspension Bridge, the College and convent of
the Franciscan Fathers, the College of St. Joseph,
the Redemptorist convent of St. Mary, the Commu-
nity of missionary Oblate Fathers, and several sis-
terhoods. See his life bv C E. Deuther (1868). '
TIMROD, Henry, poet. b. in Charleston, S. C. r
8 Dec, 1829 ; d. in Columbia, S. C, 6 Oct., 1867.
His grandfather was a German, who emigrated to
this country before the Revolutionary war and
settled in Charleston. His father, William (1792-
1838), was a me-
chanic, but a man
of very poetic
temperament,who
wrote some fine
lyrics. He com-
manded a corps
in the Seminole
war, composed of
Germans and men
of German de-
scent residing in
Charleston, and
from the exposure
and hardships of
the service con-
tracted a disease
that resulted final-
ly in his death.
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Henry was educated at the University of Georgia, but took no degree. He was of scholarly tastes, and was a writer of verses from his childhood. After leaving the university he studied law in the office of James L. Petigru, but his enthusiasm for literature interfered with his studies, and he finally abandoned them and fitted himself for a college professor. William Gilmore Simms. who was then in the height of his fame, was in the habit of gathering round him those of the young men of Charleston that had literary proclivities, and lie did much to foster the genius of Timrod, Paul II. Hayne, and other voting southern writers. Timrod's first volume 'of poems (Boston, 1860) contained such fine work that it was hailed as an earnest of great excellence. In 1861 he began to write that series of war lyrics which made his name popular throughout the south. In 1862 a project was formed for having a volume of Timrod's poems brought out in London: but the pressure of great events interrupted this scheme,
