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Rh ing a light battery in the Puerto Rico campaign. Previous to the Spanish- American war he had taken part in Indian campaigns, had been director of the national military school of Bogota, Colom- bia, with the local rank of colonel, and had rep- resente<l that country at the World's Columbian exposition. Capt. Lemly is the author of " Who was Eldora!" "Among the other Arapahoes," "The Story of Feather- 1 lead," "A West Point Romance," " Padra Anselmo," and "A Queen's Thoughts," and has translated into Spanish Gen. Emorv L'pton's " Infantry Tactics."

LEMMENS, John Nicholas, R. C. bishop, b. in Schimmert, province of Limburg, Holland, 3 June, 1850. He was educated in Holland and Belgium, ordained to the priesthood on 29 March, 1875, and went to labor among the Indians of Vancouver island. He was made rector of the cathedral in Victoria in 1882, was chosen to represent the dio- cese of Vancouver island at the third plenary coun- cil of Baltimore, Marylan<l, held in 1884, and was consecrated bishop on 5 Aug.. 1888.

LEIMMON, John Gill, botanist, b. in Lima, Mich., 2 June, 1892. He served three years as a private in the 4th Michigan cavalry, participated in the famous exjieriences of that regiment, was captured, and spent six months in southern pris- ons. He taught in California, anemmon has discovered more than 20 botanical species. He has published "Ferns of the Pacific" (San Francisco, 1882); " Discovery of the Potato" (1884); and "Memorial of Amila Hudson hem- mon " (Oakland. Cal.. 188.')).— His wife, Surah Al- len Pluninicr. botanist, b. in New Gloucester, Me., •i .Sept., lyyo. was educated at the Female college of Won'ester, Mass.. servcil as a hospital nurse during the civil war, and then studied at Coopt^r Union, New York city. In 186!l she removed to California, and in 1880, having married Mr. I^minon, began the study of botany, in which she has made several discoveries. She has also painted in water-colors much of the flora of the Pacific slofK), and her col- lection of more than eighty field sketches of Howcrs took the first premium at the World's ex|)osition in New Orleans in 1884-'.'). (Jn her disi^overy of a new genus of plants in 1882. Dr. Asa Gray named it Plummcra fioribunda. Mrs. Lemmon is the au- thor of the pajiers on "The Ferns of the Pacific Slope" (San Francisco, 1882); "Silk Culture in California" (1884); and " Marine Botanv" (1886).

LEMHAN, Thomas Mathias, R. C. bishop, b. 12 May, 1845. lie received his education at the ecclesiastical seminary at Cape Girardeau and at St. Francis's seminary, at Milwaukee. He was or- dained a priest at Dubuque. 19 Nov., 1868, and be- came pastor of St. Benedict's church, at l)ec'orali, Iowa, for several years. He was then appointed, in 1870, pastor of the Church of Corpus ('firisti at Fort Do<lge and the aiijacent missions, which ex- tended from Des Moines to the Minnesota line and from Ackley to Sioux City. He built many new churches and erected many new parishes. The same territory now has twenty-six priests laboring therein. He was appointe<l an irremovable rector and dean. These occupations continued until 181)7, when he became bishop of Cheyenne, and was consecrated as such in February of that year. LKNUIlt, Jo8«ph, Canadian poet, b. in St. Henri, near Montreal, 25 Sept., 1822 ; d. in Mont- real, U April, 1861. He was admitted to the bar in 1847, and, after practising for several years, was attached to the department of education. He was for some years one of the editors of the "Journal de I'lnslruction Publique." He wrote many poems that are very popular among the French Canadians. They include " Huron mou- rant," " La fete du Peuple," " Le genie des forets," "Le roi des Aulnes," and "La mere Souliotte." 5Iost of his popular poems have been collected and published in the " Repertoire National," the " Ruche Litteraire." and the " Litterature Cana- dienne" (Montreal, 1858-'64).

LEONARD, Abiel, P. E. bishop, b. in Fayette, Mo., 20 June, 1848. He is a great-grandson of Rev. Abiel Leonard, who was chaplain in the Revolutionary war. In 1870 he was graduated at Dartmouth, and in 1873 from the General theo- logical seminary. His entire ministry has been in the west. He was rector of Calvary church in Sedalia, Mo., for three years, and then of Trinity church in Hannibal, Mo., for four years. In 1881 he was called to Trinity church, -Atchison, Kan- sas, where he remained till 1887, when he was elected missir)nary bishop of I'tah and Nevada. During his residence in Kansas he was secretary of the diocesan convention, delegate to the gen- eral convention, and for four years a member of the standing committee of the diocese.

LESTER, Thomas Bryan, nhysician, b. in Charlotte county, Va.. 24 July, 1824 ; d. in Kansas City, Mo., 25 Feb., 1888. He removed to Illinois in early youth, and studied medicine at the Uni- versity of Missouri, leaving before graduating to serve as assistant surgeon in the Mexican war. He retumol and took his degree in 18.50, practised in Salem, 111., and from 1854 until his death in Kansas City. He was president of the Kansas C'ity medical society in 1860 and 1876, and of the Missouri me<licai society in 1870, a vice-president of the American medical association, professor of the principles and practice of medicine in the Kansas City college of physicians and surgeons for maiiv years, and president of its faculty in 1877-'88. At the time of his death he was theofdest medical practitioner in Kansas City. He wrote occasional paners for medical journals, which include " Pointsof Analogy between Typhoid Feverand the E.anthemata.'"(1860); "Malarial Poi.son " (1871) ; and "Chronic Pulmonary Consfiliilations of In- flammatory Origin, and their Terminations "(1875).

LEVENTHORPE, Collett, soldier, b. at Ex- mouth, Kiiglaud, 15 Jlay, 1816 ; d. at Walnut Foun- tain, N. v., 1 Dec, 1889. He was descended from an ancient family of Yorkshire. He was edu- cate<l at Winchester college, and afterward studied for several years under a private tutor. After" completing his studies he received in September, 1832, a commission as ensign in the British army, 14th regiment foot. Soon afterward he was pro- moted captain. The first three years of his mili- tary service were spent in Ireland, whence he was ordered to the British West Indies, where he re- mained several years. From the West Indies he was ordered to Canada. In 1842 he returned to Knglan<l. disposed of his commission in the army, and in the following year came to the United States, where he remained until his death. He chose North Carolina for his residence, and at the beginning of the civil war was appointed colonel of the 34th regiment North ("arolina state troops, and siibsecpiently upon the reorganization of the army he became colonel of the 11th North Carolina, known as the Bethel regiment, 20 Oct., 1861. He was severely wounded at Gettysburg and captured ; was exchanged after a year's imprisonment, and.