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Rh studied law and served as a volunteer during the English invasion of 1806-7. In 1810 he was sec- retary to Col. Ortiz de Ocampo, with whom he marched to Chuquisaca, and in September, 1811, he was chosen secretary of the 1st triumvirate of Chiclana, Sarratea, and Passo. He was successive- ly deputy to the constituent general assembly, sec- retary of the director Puyrredon, prefect and founder of the classic department when the uni- versity was established, founder of its topographi- cal department, member of congress in the years 1819 and 1825, founder of the statistical register, provisional president of the republic from 5 July to 13 Aug., 1827, minister of the treasury in 1828, and president of the supreme court of justice till the fall of Rosas in 1852. Gen. Urquiza charged him with the provisional government, and after- ward he was appointed governor of the province of Buenos Ayres. He wrote the "Argentine Na- tional Hymn " and other poetical works.

LOQUILLO, or LUQUILLO (lo-keel'-yo). West Indian cacique, b. about 1478 ; d. about 1525. He took a principal part in the first insurrection of the natives against the Spanish conquerors of Porto Ri- co as one of Agueinaba's lieutenants, and, after this chief was routed and killed in 1511, withdrew with some followers to the wildest part of the country, whence he constantly harassed his foes. In 1515 he planned with the caciques Humaeao and Dagu- ao another general rebellion, which soon met with disaster. Humaeao and Daguao submitted to the conqueror, but their companion refused to do so, and retired with the natives that followed him to the highest mountain of the island, which still bears his name. There he established his strong- hold, and frequently fell upon the Spaniards, kill- ing them, burning their farms, and taking their cattle. He died a free man, while most of his countrymen were either dead or slaves.

LORAIN, Lorenzo, soldier, b in Philipsburg, Centre co.. Pa., 3 Aug., 1831 ; d. in Baltimore. Md., 6 March, 1882. He had early showed much me- chanical skill, and had declined the superintendency of large machine-works to follow civil engineering, when he was appointed to the U. S. military acad- emy. After his graduation in 1856 he was on the frontier till the civil war, in the early part of which he was disabled by a wound at Blackburn's ford, and saw no further active service. He was pro- moted to a captaincy on 28 Feb., 1862, and served as assistant professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and geology at West Point till 1870. He was then on gar- rison duty, with the exception of a year in 1871-'2, when he held the chair of physics at Lehigh uni- versity till 1875, at which time he became instructor of engineering in the artillery-school for practice at Fort Monroe. Here he placed his department on a practical footing, obtaining new instruments, introducing field reconnoissances, and establishing a photographic department. He held this post till his promotion to major in 1881. He invented the " Lorain telescopic sight " for large rifled guns, and left a " range-finder " that he had not perfected at the time of his death.

LORANGER, Thomas Jean Jacques, Cana- dian jurist, b. in Sainte Anne d'Yamachiche, Que- bec, 2 Feb., 1823 ; d. on the Island of Orleans, 18 Aug., 1885. He was educated at Nicolet college and admitted to the bar in 1844. In 1854 he be- came queen's counsel, and in that year was elected to parliament for Laprairie, which he represented till his appointment as puisne judge of the su- preme court of Quebec in 1863. In 1855 he argued the seigniorial cause before the court that was es- tablished for that purpose, and was the first colo- nial lawyer that was admitted to argue a case be- fore the judicial conmiittee of the privy council in London. Mr. Loranger held office in the Mac- donald-Cartier government from November, 1857, till July, 1858, and until the latter date served as a commissioner for consolidating the statutes. In 1877 he was appointed professor of law in Laval university, and was created by the pope a com- mander of the order of Pius IX. In 1883 he re- tired from the bench, and subsequently was en- gaged in consolidating the statutes of Quebec. At the semi-centenary of St. Jean Baptist association in 1884 he was chosen its president. He was chief editor of " La Themis," wrote a work on the civil code, and several pamphlets on legal and constitu- tional subjects. — His brother, Louis Onesime, Canadian jurist, b. in Sainte Anne d'Yamachiche, Quebec, 10 April, 1837, was educated at Montreal and admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1858. He was president of the special committee to super- intend the national demonstration of the St. Jean Baptist society in 1875, was elected to the parlia- ment of Quebec in that year, was re-elected, and became a member of the executive council in 1879. He was appointed puisne judge of the superior court of the province of Quebec in 1882, and revising-officer in 1885.

LORAS, Mathias, R. C. bishop, b. in Lyons, France, in 1792; d. in Dubuque, Iowa, 19 Feb., 1858. He was descended from a noble family, and his father perished on the scaffold during the reign of terror. He studied for the priesthood, was or- dained about 1817, and soon afterward appointed superior of the ecclesiastical seminary of Largen- tiere. In 1830 he accompanied Bishop Portier, who was seeking priests in France for his diocese of Mobile, Ala., to the United States. Father Loras was appointed vicar-general on his arrival, and made president of the College of Spring Hill, near Mobile. In 1837 the diocese of Dubuque was creat- ed, comprising Iowa and Minnesota, and Father Loras became its bishop. After a visit to France to obtain missionaries he went to his diocese in April, 1839, and in June following he made his first visitation, also founding missions at Fort Snelling and Prairie du Chien. On 15 Aug. of the same year he consecrated the cathedral of Dubuque, and shortly afterward built a church in Davenport. He also established missions among the Sioux, Foxes, and Winnebagoes. built churches and schools in every part of his diocese, and expended large sums of money in employing teachers, as well as boarding and educating many poor children at his own expense. He introduced the Sisters of Charity into his diocese, established a seminary at Mount St. Bernard, and founded a convent of Trappist monks and another of visitation nuns. In 1851 Minnesota was erected into a separate see. He built a hospital in 1857, and during the same year was compelled to apply for a coadjutor, owing to failing health. Bishop Loras paid much attention to the question of emigration, and under his en- couragement and guidance Roman Catholic settlers came to lon'a in large numbers after 1850.

LORD, Benjamin, clergyman, b. in Saybrook, Conn., 31 May, 1694 ; d. in Norwich, Conn., 31 March, 1784. He was graduated at Yale in 1714, was tutor there the next year, and in 1717 was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Norwich, in which charge he continued until his death. He was a trustee of Yale in 1742-'72, and received the degree of D. D. from that college in 1774. His numerous sermons include " The Faithful and Approved Minister, a very Blessed Man " (New London, 1727) ; "Two Sermons on the Necessity of Re-