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624 studies, and served in the navy of that country till 1807. He returned to Chili in 1811, enlisted in the revolutionary army, and was appointed political and military governor of Valparaiso. He organized in that port the militia and naval reserve, and also established arsenals for its defence. In March, 1814, he was chosen supreme director of the state, which place he held till July, when he was deposed in consequence of the treaty of Lircai with the Spanish. After the defeat of Rancagua, 2 Oct., 1814, Lastra was taken prisoner and sent to the island of Juan Fernandez, where he suffered many privations. He was liberated after the victory of Chacabuco, re-entered the service, and, after attaining the rank of colonel, was for the second time appointed in 1817 governor and general commander of the navy of Valparaiso. He was nominated councillor of state in January, 1823, and a few days afterward intendant of the province, of Santiago, in which place he reconciled the parties that threatened the tranquillity of the country. In the same year he was commissioned by the government to arrange and organize the navy. In 1825 he was appointed for the third time governor of Valparaiso, and attained the rank of general of brigade. In 1829 he was charged with the general inspection of the army, and soon afterward appointed minister of war and the navy. He then retired from public life till 1839, and in 1841 became a member of the court of appeals. In 1843 he was elected deputy to congress, and one year afterward appointed councillor of state, which place he held till his death.

LATANE, James Allen, R. E. bishop, b. in Essex county, Va., 15 Jan., 1831. He was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1852 and studied law, but in 1854 entered the Protestant Episcopal theological seminary near Alexandria, Va., and in 1856 was made deacon by Bishop Meade at Millwood, Va. He was rector of a church at Staunton, Va., from 1857 till 1871, and then at Wheeling, W. Va., till January, 1874, when he formally withdrew from the Protestant Episcopal church and announced his adhesion to the Reformed Episcopal tenets. Returning to his early home, he founded a church in Essex county and one in King William county. He declined a bishopric in 1876 when elected to the office at Chicago, but accepted on being again chosen in 1879, and was assigned to the southern jurisdiction. At the general council of the church in Baltimore, in 1883, he was unanimously elected presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal church of the United States. He has resided in Baltimore, Md., since 1880, in charge of the Bishop Cumming memorial church.

LATHAM, Milton Scott, senator, b. in Columbus, Ohio, 23 May, 1827 ; d. in New York city, 4 March, 1882. He was graduated at Jefferson college in 1845, removed to Alabama, where he taught in Russell county, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and appointed clerk of the circuit court. He went to California in 1850, became clerk of the recorder's court in San Francisco, district attorney of Sacramento and El Dorado counties in 1850-'l, and in 1852 was elected to congress on the Democratic ticket. He declined a re-election, and in 1855 was appointed collector of the port of San Francisco, which office he held two years. He was elected governor in 1859, but resigned immediately after his inauguration, having been chosen IT. S. senator in the place of David C. Broderick. After the close of his term, which ended in March, 1863, he engaged in business in San Francisco, and became president of the London and San Francisco bank.

LATHROP, Francis, artist, b. at sea near the Hawaiian islands, 22 June, 1849. He was educated in New York city and Dresden, Germany, and studied in the Academy of art in the latter place and in the studios of Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones in England. He was also an assistant of R. Spencer Stanhope, and spent some time in William Morris's establishment for the manufacture of artistic household articles. He sent to the first exhibition of the Society of American artists in 1878 portraits of Ross R. and Thomas Winans. He was chosen secretary of this society in 1879, and treasurer in 1881. Mr. Lathrop has devoted himself chiefly to mural painting, stained-glass windows, and other decorative designs for public and private buildings in Boston, New York, Baltimore, and other places. He has executed &ldquo;Moses with the Tablets of the Law,&rdquo; a wall-painting in Bowdoin college chapel (1877), and &ldquo;Apollo,&rdquo; over the proscenium of the Metropolitan opera-house, New York city (1883). He assisted in the decoration of Trinity church, Boston, and made the designs for the chancel. In 1887 he designed &ldquo;Widow and Orphans,&rdquo; a marble mosaic in the Equitable life insurance company's building, New York city, and a stained-glass window for the chancel of Bethesda church, Saratoga, N. Y., representing &ldquo;The Miracle at the Pool of Bethesda.&rdquo; He also furnished the illustrations for Clarence Cook's &ldquo;House Beautiful,&rdquo; and for other artistic publications.—His brother, George Parsons, author, b. in Honolulu, Hawaiian islands, 25 Aug., 1851, received his education in New York city and in Dresden, Germany, where he remained from 1867 till 1870. After his return he attended Columbia college law-school, New York city, for one term, then adopted a literary life, and again went abroad. In 1871 he married in London, England, Rose, second daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. From 1875 till 1877 he was assistant editor of the &ldquo;Atlantic Monthly,&rdquo; and then till 1879 editor of the Boston &ldquo;Courier.&rdquo; In 1879 he purchased Hawthorne's former house, called the &ldquo;Wayside,&rdquo; in Concord, Mass., and resided there till 1883, when he removed to New York city. In that year he founded the American copyright league, of which he was the secretary until the summer of 1885. His first published volume was &ldquo;Rose and Rooftree,&rdquo; poems (Boston, 1875). In 1876 he issued a &ldquo;Study of Hawthorne,&rdquo; and the same year appeared his first novel, entitled &ldquo;Afterglow.&rdquo; In 1877 he edited &ldquo;A Masque of Poets,&rdquo; and contributed to its contents. He also edited an edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, for which he wrote a long biographical sketch and introductory notes (Boston, 1883). His other publications include &ldquo;An Echo of Passion&rdquo; (Boston, 1882); &ldquo;In the Distance&rdquo; (1882); &ldquo;Spanish Vistas&rdquo; (New York, 1883); &ldquo;History of the Onion League in Philadelphia&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1883); &ldquo;Newport&rdquo; (New York, 1884); and &ldquo;True&rdquo; (1884). He is also the author of a dramatic adaptation of Alfred Tennyson's &ldquo;Elaine,&rdquo; in blank verse, which was acted with success in New York, Chicago, and Boston in 1887.—His wife, Rose Hawthorne, author and artist, b. in Lenox, Mass., 20 May, 1851, was the second daughter and youngest child of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Her childhood from 1853 to 1860 was passed in England and Portugal. She studied painting in Dresden, Germany, and in 1870 at South Kensington, London, and was married in London in 1871. She has exhibited few pictures, her taste for authorship, developed in early years, having led her to devote her attention mainly to writing short stories and