TWING, Alvin Tabor, clergyman, born in Top-sham, Vermont, 9 February, 1811; died in New York, 11 November, 1882. He was educated at Kimball union academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, at the University of Vermont, and studied theology under the direction of Bishop John H. Hopkins, by whom he was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal church in 1837. He was afterward rector of St. Paul's church, Vergennes, Vermont, and of Trinity church, West Troy, New York, and in 1840 took charge of Trinity church, Lansingburg, New York, where he continued twenty-three years. In November, 1863, he was appointed to present the claims of the domestic mission field throughout the country, and in August, 1866 he became secretary and general agent of the domestic committee of the board of missions, continuing as such till 1877, when the office of general agent was discontinued, and he was elected secretary. He organized a domestic missionary army in 1865, which enrolled many thousands of children, in 1867 established " The Young Christian Soldier," in 1868 organized " The ladies' domestic missionary relief association," and in 1870 he introduced "mite-chests," which in a few years brought into the treasury of the domestic committee $74,000. He succeeded in infusing a spirit of enthusiasm for missions into a large part of the church. In 1864 Hobart college gave him the degree of D. D.