TERHUNE, Edward Payson, clergyman, born in New Brunswick. N. J., about 1825. He was graduated at Rutgers in 1850, and, after the completion of his theological studies at New Brunswick seminary in 1854, was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church in Virginia, becoming pastor of the congregation at Charlotte Court-House (now Smithville). In 1859 he removed to Newark, New Jersey, and took charge of the 1st Reformed church, lie was the American chaplain at Rome, Italy, in 1876-'7, returned to the United States in 1878, and was pastor of a Congregational church in Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1879 till 1884, when he took charge of a Reformed church in Brooklyn, New York Rutgers gave him the degree of D. D. in 1869.--His wife, Mary Virginia, author, born in Amelia county, Virginia, about 1830, is a daughter of Samuel P. Hawes, a native of Massachusetts, who became a merchant in Virginia. She began to contribute to a weekly paper in Richmond at the age of fourteen, and two years later sent to a magazine a sketch entitled " Marrying through Prudential Motives," which was reprinted in England, translated for a French journal, retranslated into English for a London magazine, and then reproduced in its altered form in this country. In 1856 she married Mr. Terhune. She has been a large contributor of tales, sketches, and essays to magazines, edited a monthly called "Babyhood" for two years, besides conducting special departments in "Wide Awake " and "St. Nicholas," and in 1888 established a magazine called the "Home-Maker." Her first novel was "Alone: a Tale of Southern Life and Manners" (Richmond, 1853), which was issued under the pen-name of "Marian Harland," and attained great popularity. Her other works of fiction, some of which were also very successful, bear the titles of "The Hidden Path" (New York. 1855); "Moss Side" (1857) ; "Miriam "(1860) ; "Nemesis" (1860) ; "Husks" (1863) ; "Husbands and Homes," a series of stories (1865); "Sunnybank" (1866) ; " Helen Gardner's Wedding-Day" (18(!7) ; "The Christmas Holly" (1868) ; " Ruby's Husband " (1868); "Phemie's Temptation" (1869); "At Last" (1870) ; "The Empty Heart" (1871) ; "Eve's Daughters" (1881) ; "Judith" (1883); and "A Gallant Fight" (1888). She is the author also of a popular manual of domestic economy entitled " Common Sense m the Household" (1871)" "Breakfast, Luncheon, and Tea" (1875); "The Dinner Year-Book" (1878) ; " Our Daughters, and What Shall We Do with Them: a Talk with Mothers" (1880); and "Loiterings in Pleasant Paths," containing sketches of travel in Europe (1880).--Their daughter, CHRISTINE, born in Newark, New Jersey, 13 June, 1859, was educated abroad and at Smith college, and married James F. Herrick in 1884. She has published "Housekeeping Made Easy" (New York, 1888).