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606 LANDRY, Anguste Charles Phi11ipe Robert, Canadian author, b. in Quebec, 15 Jan., 1846. His father was a surgeon of the province of Quebec, one of the founders of Laval university, in which he was a professor for nearly thirty years. The son graduated at Quebec seminary, studied at St. Anne agricultural college, was assistant professor of chemistry in Laval university in 1865-'7, and afterward became a farmer. He was an unsuccess- ful candidate in 1873 for the local house, and was first elected to the Quebec legislative assembly for Montmagny in 1875. He was unseated, 29 May, 1876, by judgment of the superior court, and elected for Montmagny to the Dominion parliament in 1878, and again in 1882. In 1885 Mr. Landry, though a Conservative, introduced a motion cen- suring the government of Sir John A. Macdonald for the execution of Louis Riel. He is a member of the Entomological society of Canada, president of the Quebec Conservative association, and a knight of the Order of Gregory the Great. He is the author, among other works, of " Boissons al- cooliques et leurs falsifications " (Sainte Anne de la Pocatiere, 1867) ; " Ou est la disgrace % Repense a une condamnation politique " (Quebec, 1876) ; " Traite populaire d'agriculture theorique et prac- tique " (Montreal, 1878) ; " L'Halie, ses beautes et ses souvenirs " (Quebec, 1880) ; " L'eglise et l'etat " (Rome, 1883); "Cette enquete" (Quebec, 1883); " Les six raisons du Dr. Verge contre le cercle Catholique de Quebec " (1884) ; and various scien- tific, literary, and political pamphlets.

LANDRY, Pierre Armand, Canadian lawyer, b. in Dorchester, N. B., 1 May, 1846. He was edu- cated at St. Joseph's college, Memramcook, and was admitted to the bar of New Brunswick in 1870. He was elected to the legislative assembly of New Brunswick in 1870, 1878, and 1882, and appointed a member of the executive council and chief com- missioner of public works, 13 July, 1878. He re- signed this portfolio, 25 May, 1882, and on the same day was appointed provincial secretary. He resigned his seat in the legislative assembly in August, 1883, and was elected to the Dominion parliament, to which he was chosen again in Feb- ruary, 1887. He became queen's counsel in 1881, and refused a judgeship in 1885.

LANE, Amos, lawyer, b. near Aurora, N. Y., 1 March, 1778 ; d. in Lawrenceburg, Ind., 2 Sept., 1849. He received a public-school education, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Lawrenceburg, Ind., having removed to the Ohio river in 1807. He was a member of the state legis- lature, in which he served one session as speaker, and was afterward elected to congress as a Demo- crat, serving from 1833 till 1837. — His son, James Henry, soldier, b. in Lawrenceburg, Ind., 22 June, 1814; d. near Leavenworth, Kansas. 1 July, 1866, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, and elected to the city council of Lawrenceburg. In May. 1846, he enlisted as a private in the 3d Indi- ana volunteer regiment, organizing for the Mexi- can war, was chosen colonel, and commanded a brigade at Buena Vista. He became colonel of the 5th Indiana regiment in 1847, and in 1848 was chosen lieutenant-governor of Indiana. From 1853 till 1855 he was a representative in congress, hav- ing been chosen as a Democrat, and voted for the repeal of the Missouri compromise. In 1855 he went to Kansas, where he took an active part in politics as a leader of the Free-state party, and was made chairman of the executive committee of the Topeka constitutional convention. He was elected by the people major-general of the free- state troops, and was active in driving out the Missouri invaders. In 1856 he was elected to the TJ. S. senate by the legislature that met under the Topeka constitution : but the election was not recog- nized by congress, and he was indicted in Douglas county for high treason and forced to flee from the territory. In 1857 he was president of the Leaven- worth constitutional convention, and again made major-general of the territorial troops. In 1858 he shot a neighbor named Jenkins in a quarrel about a well, for which he was tried and acquitted. On the admission of Kansas to the Union in 1861, he was elected to the IT. S. senate, serving on the com- mittees of Indian affairs and agriculture. In May, 1861, he commanded the frontier guards that were organized for the defence of Washington, and on 18 Dec. he was made brigadier-general of volun- teers; but the appointment was cancelled, 21 March, 1862. He commanded the Kansas brigade in the field for four months, rendering good service in western Missouri. He narrowly escaped from the Lawrence massacre in August, 1863, and was an aide to Gen. Curtis during Gen. Sterling Price's raid in October, 1864. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1864. He was re-elected to the United States senate in 1865, but in the following year, while on his way home, he was at- tacked with paralysis, his mind became unsettled, and he committed suicide.

LANE, Ebenezer, jurist, b. in Northampton, Mass., 17 Dec., 1793; d. in Sandusky, Ohio, 13 June, 1866. He was graduated at Harvard in 1811, studied law under his uncle, Matthew Griswold, of Lyme, Conn., in 1814 was admitted to the bar, and, after practising for three years in Connecticut, removed to Ohio and settled in Norwalk, Huron co. He became judge of the court of common pleas in 1824, and from 1837 till 1845 was judge of the supreme court of Ohio. After his retirement from the bench he resumed his profession, and was afterward engaged in various relations with the western railroads, withdrawing from active employment in 1859.

LANE, George, clergyman, b. in Ulster county, N. Y., 13 April, 1784; d. in Wilkesbarre, Pa., 6 May, 1859. He joined the Philadelphia confer- ence of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1805, and was itinerant missionary in central and west- ern New York, and in Virginia and in Maryland, subsequently settling near Wilkesbarre, Pa. He became agent for the Methodist book concern in 1836, and for many years was treasurer of the Methodist missionary society. Under his manage- ment the book concern doubled its business, and the missionary society was relieved of a debt of $60,000. — His son, George Washington, educa- tor, b. in Wilkesbarre, Pa., 15 Jan., 1815 : d. in Oxford, Ga., 21 Sept., 1848, was licensed to preach in the Methodist ministry in 1834, and, removing to Georgia, was for ten years professor of languages in Emory college, Oxford.

LANE, Joel, pioneer, b. in Halifax county, N. C, in 1740; d. in Wake county, N. C, in 1795. He removed with his two brothers, Joseph and Jesse, from Halifax to Wake county N. C, was one of the first settlers in that region, and amassed a large fortune. In 1775 he was a member of the Provincial congress that met at Hillsborough, N. C, and in 1781 he served in the general assembly, which was held in his own house. In April. 1792, he gave to the state of North Carolina 1.000 acres of land, upon which the city of Raleigh was built. — His great-nephew, Joseph, soldier, b. in Buncombe county. N. C, 14 Dec, 1801 ; d. in Oregon, 19 April, 1881, removed with his parents to Henderson county, Ky., in 1804,