Sweet, Alexander Edwin, Canadian, born 1841. After an adventurous youth he became editor of the San Antoine Express in 1869, and later, with Colonel Knox, conducted Texas Siftings. For a time the weekly was published in Texas, but afterwards the office was moved to New York.
Thompson, Benjamin (1640-16—). A native of Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard, and generally credited with being the first poet born in America. He wrote in satirical vein New England’s Crisis.
Thompson, Daniel Pierce (1793-1868). Began his literary career with a satirical novel entitled, The Adventures of Timothy Peacock, Esq.; or, Freemasonry Practically Illustrated, which caused quite a stir among Freemasons and others in 1835.
Thompson, Maurice (1844), author of Songs of Fair Weather, By-Ways and Bird Notes, Sylvan Secrets, etc. An intense lover of nature and out-door life, as his poems show. See Professor Roberts’ Poems of Wild Life, “Canterbury Poets.”
Thompson, Mortimer H. (1830-1875). Wrote under the nom de guerre “Q. K. Philander Doesticks.” His work for a time was popular in the newspapers of “the States.” Author of The Dodge Club.
Thompson, William Tappan (1812-1882). He wrote a number of articles known as the “Major Jones’ Series,” in which the humour is plentiful. He was the first white child born in the Western Reserve.
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), one of the best known of the New England “transcendentalists.” He has a fine vein of ironic humour. His Walden and A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers have had a wide circulation in England.
Timothy Titcomb. See Holland.
Trowbridge, John Townsend (1827). The most popular writer of stories for boys in America. His work usually appears in the Youths’ Companion, Boston. His pathetically humorous poem, “The Vagabonds,” is a favourite with reciters in England as well as America.
Trowbridge, Robertson, a verse-writer whose work has appeared in the Century Magazine.