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TEFFT, Thomas Alexander, architect, born in Richmond, Rhode Island, 3 August, 1826; died in Florence, Italy, 12 December, 1859. He was graduated in the scientific course at Brown in 1851, and after studying architecture in Providence furnished designs for many private and public buildings. In 1856 he went to Europe in order to study art and to announce his ideas of a uniform currency for all nations, on which subject he read a paper before the British institute of social science. After his death the principal features of his scheme were incorporated in the plan that was agreed upon by an international conference at Paris in 1867, at which nineteen nations were represented. He contributed papers on architecture to the "New York Crayon," and "Letters from Europe" to the "New York Times" in 1857-'8, and published "Our Deficiency in Art Education" (Providence, 1852), and " Universal Currency: a Plan for obtaining a Common Currency in France, England, and America, based on the Decimal System" (London, 1858). See "Memoir" by the Reverend Edwin Martin Stone (Boston, 1869).
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