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32 named orator. An effort that the English party made to abolish the use of the French language in the legislature was defeated by his efforts. By his conciliatory attitude he gained the esteem of all parties, and his influence with the governor, Sir George Prevost, was successfully used to obtain for tiie French Canadians a larger share in the ad- ministration of affairs.

LOTHROP, Charles Henry, surgeon, b. in Taunton, Mass., 3 Sept., 1831. He was educated at Brown, and graduated in medicine at the Uni- versity of New York in 1859, and established him- self in pi'actice at Lyons, Iowa. He has success- fully performed many difficult surgical operations, and is the inventor of an ajjparatus for treating fractures of the leg, and of a rubber appliance for club-foot. He served during the civil war as sur- geon of the 1st Iowa cavalry, and has been an ex- amining surgeon for pensions since 1868. In 1876 he edited the " Southern Medical Record."

LOTHROP, George Van Ness, lawyer, b. in Raston, Bristol co., Mass., 8 Aug., 1817 ;"d. in De- troit, 12 July, 1897. He was graduated at Brown in 1838, and entered the Harvard law-school, but joined his brother in 1839 on a farm near School- craft, Mich. In March. 1843, he went to Detroit, completed his preparation for the bar. and began practice in the following spring. He was attorney- general of Michigan in 1848-'51, recorder of the city in 1851-'3, an unsuccessful candidate for con- gress in 1836 and 1860, and in 1860 a delegate to the Democratic national convention in Charleston, S. C, where he supported the nomination of Ste- phen A. Douglas. He was also nominated three times by the Democratic party for U. S. senator, and was a delegate to the State constitutional con- vention in 1867. From 1854 till 1880, when he re- signed, he was general counsel for the Michigan Central railroad company. In May, 1885, he was appointed U. S. minister to Russia.

LOTHROP, Harriett Mulford, author, b. in New Haven, Conn., 22 June, 1844. Her maiden name was Stone. She was educated at seminaries near her home, travelled extensively in the United States, and early began to practise literary composition, but published nothing before about 1877, when she began to contribute stories and sketches to the magazines. Before her third work was issued in book-form she married Daniel Lothrop, a publisher of Boston. All her writings have appeared under the pen-name of &ldquo;Margaret Sidney.&rdquo; Mrs. Lothrop's summer residence is at Concord, Mass., in Nathaniel Hawthorne's old home, which he called &ldquo;The Wayside.&rdquo; Her published works are &ldquo;So as by Fire&rdquo; (Boston, 1881); &ldquo;Five Little Peppers, and How they Grew&rdquo; (1882), a juvenile story, which first appeared in the &ldquo;Wide Awake&rdquo; magazine; &ldquo;Half Year at Bronckton&rdquo; (1882); &ldquo;The Pettibone Name,&rdquo; a novel of New England life (1883); &ldquo;What the Seven Did&rdquo; (1883); &ldquo;Who told it to Me&rdquo; (1884); &ldquo;Ballad of the Lost Hare&rdquo; (1884); &ldquo;The Golden West&rdquo; (1885); &ldquo;How they Went to Europe&rdquo; (1885); &ldquo;Hester, and other New England Stories&rdquo; (1886); &ldquo;The Minute-Man&rdquo; (1886); &ldquo;Two Modern Little Princes,&rdquo; (1887); and &ldquo;Dilly and the Captain&rdquo; (1887).

LOTHROP, Samuel Kirkland, clergyman, b. in Utica, N. Y., 13 Oct., 1804; d. in Boston, Mass., 12 June, 1886. He was graduated at Harvard in 1825, and at the divinity-school there in 1828. In 1829 he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian church in Dover, N. H., and on 17 June, 1834, took charge of the Brattle square church in Boston, Mass. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1852. He was a delegate to the

State constitutional convention of 1853. His society removed to a new building in 1873, but dissolved in 1876, when Dr. Lothrop resigned the pastorate. He was a member of the Boston school committee for thirty years, and chairman of its committee on the English high-school for twenty-six. Among his literary works are a life of his grandfather, Samuel Kirkland, included in Sparks's &ldquo;American Biography,&rdquo; and a &ldquo;History of Brattle Square Church.&rdquo;

LOTHROP, Thomas, soldier, b. in England; d. near Bloody Brook, Deerfield township, Mass., 29 Sept., 1675. He resided for many years in Salem, of which town he became a freeman in or before 1634. He was a representative in the general court in 1647, 1653, and 1664. Subsequently he removed to Beverly, and with others organized a church there, and represented the town for four years in the general court. In the beginning of King Philip's war he was chosen captain of militia. He had a severe battle with the Indians near Hadley in August, 1675, and after the burning of Deerfield, while guarding the road to Hadley, was killed, with seventy of his men, only eight escaping.

LOTT, John A., jurist, b. in 1805; d. in Flatbush, L. I., 20 July, 1878. He was graduated at Union in 1823, studied law, and began practice in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1835. In 1838 he was elected county judge of Kings county, which office he held for four years. In 1841 he was a member of the state assembly, and in 1842-'6 a state senator. He was justice of the supreme court in 1857-'65, and judge of the court of appeals in 1869. He was also a member of the commission of appeals from 1870 until it completed its labors in 1875. In the latter year he was appointed on a commission to draft a uniform law for the government of cities in the state. Until a short time before his death he was president of the Flatbush and Coney Island railroad. He received the degree of LL. D. from Union college in 1859.

LOTTENSCHIOLD, Mathias (lot'-ten-ske-old), German explorer, b. in Greifenberg, Pomerania, in 1729; d. in Arolsen, Waldeck, in 1782. He was a Jesuit, and was employed for fifteen years in the missions of Uruguay and Paraguay, where he had special charge of the manufacturing that was done by the Indians for the company. After the expulsion of the order in 1767, he remained in the country as a teacher, and severed his connection with his former colleagues, becoming converted to Protestantism toward the close of his career. As he was in comfortable circumstances, he devoted several years to the exploration of South America before returning home, visited Peru, Chili, and Central America in 1770-'4, and published &ldquo;Metallurgische Reisen durch Amerika&rdquo; (2 vols., Leipsic, 1776); &ldquo;Geognostische Bemerkungen über die basaltischen Gebilde der Cordilleren von Peru&rdquo; (Dresden, 1779); &ldquo;Reise auf dem La Plata- und Paraguay-Flusse&rdquo; (2 vols., Leipsic, 1780); &ldquo;Umgebungen von Rio de Janeiro&rdquo; (1780); &ldquo;Geschichte der Entdeckung von Paraguay&rdquo; (1781): &ldquo;Geschichte und Zustände der Indianer in Süd-Amerika&rdquo; (2 vols., 1782); and several less important works.

LOTTER, Friedrich August, German botanist, b. in Kleinaupe, Moravia, in 1741; d. in Gotha in 1806. He studied in Prague, and in 1789 was attached as botanist to the expedition that was sent by the Spanish government around the world under command of Capt. Malaspina. Lotter being taken sick in Concepcion, Chili, was unable to accompany the expedition. He rejoined it at Acapulco in 1791, but soon left it again and explored the interior of Mexico as far as Lower