SILLOWAY, Thomas William, architect, born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, 7 August, 1828. He received a good education, especially in the arts of design, and devoted himself to the preparation of architectural plans for public buildings, in which business he established himself at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1851. In the course of the next twenty years more than 300 church edifices were built or repaired under his superintendence, besides other public buildings, including the capitol at Montpelier, Vermont (1857), the Soldiers' monument at Cambridge, Massachusetts (1870), and Buchtel college, Akron, Ohio (1872). After the earthquake in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886, he was called to that city professionally and restored six of the church edifices that had been partially destroyed. In 1852 he began to preach to Universalist congregations, and in 1862 he was ordained a clergyman of that faith. He has published "Theogonis, a Lamp in the Cavern of Evil" (Boston, 1856); " Text-Book of Modern Carpentry" (1858) ; "Warming and Ventilation " (1860) ; "Atkinson Memorial," a series of eighteen discourses (1861);" The Conference Melodist" (1863); "Cantiea Sacra" (1865) ; " Service of the Church of the Redeemer," at Brighton, Massachusetts (1867); and, with Lee L. Powers, " Cathedral Towns of England, Ireland, and Scotland" (1883). He edited, with George M. Harding, an improved edition of Shaw's "Civil Architecture" (1852).