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Rh with faithfulness and success. In 1755 the struc- ture known as Nazareth Hall was erected, and within its walls a boarding-school was opened in 1759 for boys of the Moravian church. Of this school Lembke was constituted the principal. Out of it grew, in 1785, that enlarged school which now, for more than a century, has been educating boys from all parts of the United States. Lembke was a learned divine, an able educator, and an eloquent preacher.

LEMCKE, Henry, clergyman, b. in Mecklen- burg, Germany, 27 June, 1796; d. in Carrollton, Cambria co., Pa., 29 Nov., 1882. His parents were poor, but he educated himself sufficiently to gain admission to the College of Schwerin, where he supported himself by giving private lessons. He entered the German array in 1813, afterward went to the University of Rostock to study for the Lutheran ministry, and was licensed to preach in 1819. He united with the Roman Catholic church, 21 April, 1824, and was ordained to its priesthood, 11 April, 1826. In 1833 he volunteered for mis- sionary duty among the Germans of the United States^ and labored first in Philadelphia and then as assistant to Father Demetrius Gallitzin in Lo- retto, Pa. He took up his residence at Ebens- burg, and purchased a farm near by, on which he afterward erected St. Joseph's church. He next bought 400 acres of land, on which he built a house and chapel in 1838, and in 1839 he laid out a town on it, which he wished to name after his friend Gallitzin, but, on the remonstrance of the latter, called it Carrollton. In 1840 he succeeded Father Gallitzin as pastor of Loretto, and was then the only priest in Cambria county, but he soon obtained the aid of others. After a successful visit to Europe in 1844 to collect money, he bought 800 acres of land, on which he intended to estab- lish a colonv of Benedictines, but they preferred to settle in Westmoreland county. He became a member of the order of St. Benedict on 2 Feb., 1852. performed missionary duty in Kansas, and founded the abbey of St. Benedict in Atchison, Kan. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1858, and after a visit to Germany labored in New Jersey till 1877, when he withdrew to Carrollton, Pa. lie wrote his own autobiography, part of which appeared in the jour- nals of Cambria county, and published translations of several controversial works in German, and " Le- ben und Werken des Prinzen Demetrius Augustin Gallitzin " (Munster, 1861).

LEME, Antonio Pires da Silva Pontes (lay'-meh), Brazilian scholar, b. in Minas-Geraes, Brazil, about 1756 ; d. there in 1807. He studied at the University of Coimbra, was graduated in 1777, and went to the East Indies, whence he returned to Lisbon, and in 1780 accompanied Dr. Lacerda, who was sent to Brazil by the gov- ernment of Portugal to study the question ^of boundaries with the Spanish colonies. In 1781 Leme explored Paraguay and the territories of Cazalvasco and Barbados, meanwhile making copi- ous notes on the geography of the country that were afterward published by the government of Brazil (1841). The commission finished its work in 1783, and returned to Portugal. Leme now drew a complete map of Brazil and a maritime guide of its coasts, for which, in addition to his other services, he was given a medal by the govern- ment of Portugal. In 1798 he was appointed by the king professor in the Academy of Lisbon, and on 29 March, 1800, he was appointed gov- ernor of the province of Espirito Santo, where he gave much attention to the civilization of the Indians, establishing for them a college and an industrial school. He retired from his office in 1804, and devoted himself to the completion of his works, but was obliged to abandon them on ac- count of illness. He published a work entitled " Construccao e Analyse das proposicces geometri- cas e experiencias practicas que serven de funda- mento a architectura naval " (1799).

LE MERCIER, Andrew (leh-mair'-se-ay'), cler- gyman, b. in Caen, France, in 1692; d. in Boston, Mass., 31 March, 1763. He was graduated at Geneva, and immediately afterward, in 1715, came to this country through the influence of Andrew Faneuil, to succeed Rev. Pierre Daille as pastor of the French Protestant church in Boston, over which he pre- sided till 1748. He built a house for the relief of shipwrecked mariners on the Isle of Sables, to which he sent provisions, and which was the means of saving many lives. He wrote "The Church History of Geneva, in Five Books, with a Political and Geographical Account of that Republic " (Boston, 1732), and a "Treatise against Detraction" (1733).

LE MERCIER, Francis, French missionary, b. in France early in the 17th century : d. in Mar- tinique, W. I., 12 June, 1690. He entered the Society of Jesus, 14 Oct., 1620, and was sent to Canada in 1635, where he was attached to the Huron mission until its destruction in 1649. He held the post of superior of the missions from 1653 till 1656, labored among the Iroquois till 1658, and was again superior from 1665 till 1670. After leaving Canada in 1673 he was sent to the West Indies as visitor. While he was superior in Canada he published six volumes of " Relations."

LE MOINE, James MacPherson, Canadian author, b. in Quebec, 24 Jan., 1825. He is the son of Benjamin Le Moine, a wealthy merchant of Quebec and a lineal descendant of Jean Le Moyne, seigneurof three fiefs, who was a near rela- tive of Baron Le Moyne de Longueuil. James received his preparatory educa- tion in St. Thomas, Lower Canada, at the home of his maternal grandfather, a Unit- ed Empire loyalist who fled from Phila- delphia in 1783. In 1838 James entered the Petit seminaire de Quebec, where he re- mained till 1845. He subsequently studied law, and was admitted to the bar of Quebec in 1850. In 1847 he became superintendent of inland revenue at Quebec, which post he still (1887) retains. He has been president of the Literary and historical society of Quebec, and was selected by the Marquis of Lome to preside over the first section of the Royal society of Canada. Mr. Le Moine is an enthusiastic student of Canadian history and ornithology, and at his residence. Spencer Grange, near Quebec, he has an extensive aviary, a museum of natural history specimens, and a large collection of books and curios connected with the early history of Canada. He has written on the subject of Canadian history with such impartiality as rarelv to challenge adverse criticism. His works include " L'Ornithologie du Canada " (Quebec, 1860) ; " Etude sur les navigateurs arctiques Franklin, McClure, Kane, McClintock" (1862); " Etudes sur Sir Walter Scott " (1862) ; " Legend-