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36 the death of Henry Flint (1760).— James's son, James, soldier, b. in Boston, Mass., 9 July, 1758 : d. in St. Matthews, S. C, 10 July, 1850, was gradu- ated at Harvard in 1776. He joined the Revolu- tionary army as adjutant of Henry Jackson's Massachusetts regiment in the beginning of 1777, fought in many battles, and was severely wounded. In 1779-'83 he served as adjutant of Gen. Henry Lee's southern legion, with the rank of major. — The second James's son, Joseph, physician, b. in Boston, Mass., 23 Dec, 1788; d. in Washington, D. C, 17 Oct., 1836, was graduated at Harvard in 1807. studied medicine, and on 15 May, 1812, was appointed surgeon of the 9th U. S. infantry. He served on the Niagara frontier, and on 30 June, 1814, was appointed a hospital surgeon there. On 18 April, 1818, he became surgeon-general of the U. S. army. — Joseph's son, Mansfield, soldier, b. in Washington, D. C, 20 Oct., 1822 ; d. in New York city, 1 June, 1884, was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1842, appointed a lieutenant of artillery, and served in the occupation of Texas in 1845-'6, and in the war with Mexico was aide to Gen. John A. Quitman and assistant adjutant- general of his division, being promoted 1st lieu- tenant on 16 Feb., 1847. He was wounded at Monterey, brevetted captain for bravery at Chapul- tepec, and severely wounded at the Belen Gate. After the war he served on the Kansas frontier for two years. On 18 Dec, 1854, he and his classmate, Gustavus A. Smith, resigned in order to take high commands in Gen. Quitman's projected Cuban expedition. After the failure of the project they found employment in connection with Cooper and Hewitt's iron-works at Trenton, N. J. In April, 1858, Lovell was appointed superintendent of street improvements in New York city, and in November of that year deputy street-commissioner under his friend Smith. At the beginning of the civil war he went to the south with Gen. Smith, was commissioned as a brigadier-general in the Confederate service, and on 9 Oct., 1861, was made a major-general and placed in command at New Orleans, relieving Gen. David E. Twiggs. When the forts were captured by the National forces he withdrew his troops, ancl, on the com- plaint of the mayor that he had left the citizens without military protection, explained that it was for the purpose of saving the town from a bom- bardment, offering to return if the citizens desired to continue the defence. After the surrender of New Oi'leans to Farragut, 26 April, 1862, he joined Gen. Beauregard in northern Mississippi, and com- manded one of the divisions that were routed by Gen. William S. Rosecrans at Corinth, 4 Oct.. 1862. At the battle of tlatchie his division constituted the rear-guard of the retreating army. He com- manded the Confederate forces at the battle of Coffeeville. When Gen. Leonidas Polk was killed, 14 June, 1864, Lovell succeeded to the command of the corps, and on 27 J une repelled Gen. Sherman's attack on his intrenchments at Kenesaw. When the war was ended he retired to a rice-plantation near Savannah, Ga., but not long afterward went to New York city, and was engaged as an assistant engineer under Gen. John Newton in removing the East river obstructions at Hellgate.

LOVERING, Joseph, physicist, b. in Boston, Mass., 25 Dec, 1813; d. in Cambridge, 18 Jan., 1892. He was graduated at Harvard in 1833, and after teaching for a year in Charlestown spent two years in Harvard divinity-school. In 1836 he was appointed tutor in mathematics and physics in Harvard, and two years later was made Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, which chair he held until 1888, becoming also in 1884 director of the Jefferson physical laboratory. In addition to his college work, he had given nine courses, each of twelve lectures, on astronomy or physics before the Lowell institute of Boston. Five of these courses were repeated, on the days following those of their first delivery, to another audience, according to the original practice of that institution. He had delivered shorter courses of lectures at the Smithsonian institution, the Peabody institute of Baltimore, and the Cliaritable meclianics' institution of Boston, and one or more lectures in many towns and cities of New England. During 1867-'76 he was connected with the U. S. coast survey, and had charge of the computations for determining trans- Atlantic longitudes from tele- graphic observations on cable lines. Prof. Lever- ing received the degree of LL. D. from Harvard in 1879, and was regent of that college in 1853-'4 and in 1857-'70, an office now merged into that of dean. He was a member of the American philo- sophical society and of the National academy of sciences. During 1854-'73 he was permanent sec- retary of the American association for the advance- ment of science, and edited fifteen volumes of its proceedings, becoming in 1873 its president. In 1839 he was elected a member of the American academy of arts and sciences, and he was its corresponding secretary in 1869-'73. its vice-president in 1873-"80, and president in 1880-'7. Prof. Lovering had been an indefatigable contributor of scientific arti- cles to contemporary literature, and, in addition to special memoirs on the aurora, terrestrial magnet- ism, and the determination of trans-Atlantic longi- tude, which were published by the American acad- emy, he had prepared a volume on the " Aurora Borealis" (Boston, 1873), and edited a new edition of Farrar's " Electricity and Magnetism " (1842).

'''LOVEWELL. John''', centenarian, b. in England, about 1634 : d. in Dunstable, Mass., about 1754. He was an ensign in Oliver Cromwell's army about 1653, afterward emigrated to New England, settled in Weymouth, Mass., and was with Capt. Benjamin Church during King Philip's war and in the Narragansett Swamp fight of 19 Dec, 1675. He removed to Dunstable, where he was still constant in attendance at church at the age of 110, and when 117 years old used to chase boys out of his orchard with a cane. — His son, John, Indian fighter, b. in the border part of Dunstable, Mass., which subsequentlv fell within what is now Nashua, N. H., 14 Oct., 1691 ; d. in the Pigwacket wilderness, near Ossipee lake, 8 May, 1725, was, like his father, a man of remarkable courage and physical vigor, and fond of adventurous enterprises ; and in time of war engaged in exploring the wilderness to find the lurking-places of the Indians. At the head of a company of thirty men. attracted by a bounty of £100 that had been offered for every Indian scalp, he marched to the north of Winnipiseogee lake on 19 Dec, 1724, and returned with one scalp and a boy piisoner. With forty men he surprised ten Indians near Tamworth, N. H., on 20 Feb., 1725, and marched into Dover with their scalps exhibited on poles. In his third and last expedition he led forty-six men to attack the Indian town of Pigwacket, the village of the Ossipee or Pigwacket tribe. After leaving twelve men in a fort that he built near Ossipee lake, he marched to the north of the lake with his command, reduced to thirty-four. While at morning prayers the company were alarmed by the report of a gun and the discovery of an Indian. They left their packs, and advanced, seeking the enemy in front; Imt the Indians had gained their rear, and took