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Thomas Sanders Twiss (1802/1803 – 1870) was an American official and academic.^[1] He was an Indian agent who negotiated with the Cheyenne on the Upper Platte.^[2]^[3] He was a professor of mathematics at South Carolina College.^[4]

He was born in New York in 1802^[4]^[5] or 1803.^[6] He attended West Point.^[5] After graduating, he taught mathematics at West Point.^[4]

Career

He lived in the McCutchen House at South Carolina College from 1835 to 1846.^[4] He was on the faculty of South Carolina College until 1846.^[4] He worked Nesbitt Manufacturing Company from 1847 to 1850 before joining the Buffalo and New York City Rail Road Company as an engineer.^[4]

Twiss was nominated to be an Indian agent for the Upper Platte District by President Franklin Pierce on March 1, 1855.^[4] He resigned in 1861.^[4]

He was a critic of slavery, but also held slaves when he lived in Georgia prior to joining the faculty of South Carolina College.^[4]

Personal life and death

He was married to Elizabeth Sherrill Twiss, who died in 1866.^[4]

He lived in poverty for the last years of his life.^[4] He died in 1870.^[4]

References

↑ "Indian Agent Thomas Twiss, Man of Two Worlds". Wyoming Historical Society. 2022.
↑ Judd, Catherine Nealy (2024), Judd, Catherine Nealy (ed.), "Indian Agent Thomas Twiss, 1855–1871", Cheyenne Warriors, New Fort Kearny, and the Coming Plains Wars, 1856, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 161–198, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-76576-6_6, ISBN 978-3-031-76576-6, retrieved 2025-05-16
↑ Hoopes, Alban W. (1933). "Thomas S. Twiss, Indian Agent on the Upper Platte, 1855-1861". The Mississippi Valley Historical Review. 20 (3): 353–364. doi:10.2307/1886844. ISSN 0161-391X. JSTOR 1886844.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Bennett, Colin (2008). "Compacts and Compromises: Thomas S. Twiss and West Point Influence in the Antebellum South Carolina College". The South Carolina Historical Magazine. 109 (1): 7–37. ISSN 0038-3082. JSTOR 27570937.
1 2 Hill, Burton S. (1967). "Thomas S. Twiss, Indian Agent". Great Plains Journal.
↑ Chan, Amy (2017-10-05). "Thomas Twiss and His Twist of Fate". HistoryNet.

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