TEFFT, Benjamin Franklin, clergyman, born in Floyd, Oneida County, New York, 20 August, 1813; died in Brewer, Penobscot County, Maine, 16 September, 1885. He was graduated at Wesleyan university in 1835, taught four years in Maine Wesleyan seminary, and then, entering the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church, was pastor at Bangor, Maine, in 1839-'41. He then taught in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and in 1842 accepted a charge in Boston, but his health failed in 1843, and after travelling in the south and west he was for three years professor of Greek and Hebrew in Indiana Asbury (now De Pauw) university. In 1846 he became editor of the books and magazines of the Methodist book concern in Cincinnati, where he conducted the " Ladies' Repository" in 1846-'52, and in 1851-'4 he was president of Oenesee college, Lima, New York, also editing in 1852-'4 the "Northern New Yorker," published at Canandaigua. He was pastor of different churches in Bangor, Maine, from 1858 till 1861, when he was made United States consul at Stockholm and acting minister to Sweden, and in 1864 he was commissioner of immigration from the north of Europe for the state of Maine. In 1866 he became pastor of a church in Portland, and from 1873 till 1878 he edited " The Northern Border," published at Bangor, Maine. During the last two years of his life he was in feeble health. Ohio Wesleyan university gave him the degree of D. D. in 1846, and Madison university that of LL. D. in 1852. Besides pamphlets, lectures, addresses, and contributions to current literature, Dr. Tefft was the author of "Prison Life," based on data furnished by Reverend James B. Finley (Cincinnati, 1847) ; "The Shoulder-Knot, a Story of the Seventeenth Century" (New York, 1850) ; "Hungary and Kossuth" (Phila-dellohia, 1852); "Webster and his Masterpieces" (2 vols., Auburn, New York, 1854);"Methodism Successful, and the Internal Causes of its Success," with an introductory letter by Bishop Janes (New York, 1860) ; " Our Political Parties" (Boston, 1880); and "Evolution and Christianity" (1885). He edited Erwin House's "Sketches, Literary and Religious" (Cincinnati, 1847), and Dr. Charles Elliott's " Sinfulness of American Slavery" (1850).