TIMAYENIS, Telemaque Thomas

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Telemaque T. Timayenis, who was lodged in Ludlow Street jail recently u pon the charge of fraudulently btaining money from Peter N. Ramsey, ha s been released on bail. The complainant charges that Timayenis made fa lse representations as to the profits of the Minerva Publishing Company a nd thereby induced him to invest. Timayenis declares that a contract wa s made between them, and Ramsey advanced $4000 to bind the bargain. Ram sey afterward failed, and Timayenis had paid him back ft 500of that amo unt. Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, PA. 1892 Something about Mr. Timayenis Telemaque T. Timayenis, author of "The American Jew" and "The Original M r. Jacobs," was brought up in the Tombs Police Court before Justice Smi th yesterday morning on a charge of grand larceny preferred against him b y Mrs. Emma Dickson, his partner in the Minerva Publishing Company. He i s said to have "doctored" the books of the concern, and an entry of $20 0 paid to Rand, Avery & Co., and one of $10 to George Hastings have bee n proved to be false. He pleaded not guilty and was released on $500 b ail furnished by H.H. Brockway, proprietor of the Ashland House. The c ase will come before Justice Patterson at 2 o'clock today. Timayenis, although he denies it on every possible occasion, is said to h ave been born a Jew, and his noted enmity against the people of his own r ace is occasioned simply by a desire for notoriety. He is rather a fin e-looking man, and came to America from his native country, Greece, som e 10 years ago. He is well educated, and shortly after his arrive here b rought out some text books on modern Greek that gained him a tutorship a t Harvard College. He held this for but a short time, and then became a c lerk in the Greek Consul's office at Boston, and picked up a little mon ey outside of that by selling rugs of his own importation. About this t ime he wrote, "The History of Greece from the Time of Homer," which sch olars pronounced to be but a collection of plagiarisms, and a Greek pla y, "The Wife of Miletus," which was bought by John McCullough. He cond ucted a school of languages with varying success in this city for some y ears, and finally made the hit of his life in establishing the Minerva P ublishing Company and issuing a series of startling books. He has been l iving on Pelham Avenue, in Fordham, since June last, and, it will be re membered, applied for police protection last summer, claiming that the H ebrews, whom he had insulted in two of his books, had threatened his li fe." The New York Times, December 14, 1888

Telemaque married JOHNSON, Mary in Jul 1890 in London, London, England. Mary was born in Jun 1853 in Ogdensburg, NY; died on 21 Apr 1906 in Springfield, MA; was buried on 23 Apr 1906 in Holyoke, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. TIMAYENIS, Alfred Thomas was born on 9 May 1878 in Holyoke, MA; died before 1945 in MA.