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 HEURINGSHAWS La Farge, John,

artist, author,

LIliRARY OF AMKKICAN UIOOUAIMIY. was born

Man

h :n. 18H5. in New York city. In 180U he liecanie a member of the National Acadof l)csiKn. lie Ik a nottnl figure and

emy

artist of New York city. He is the author of Lectures on Art ; and Letters lands<-a|>e

from Japan. La Fayette, Marquis De, Muldier, was born 1757 in France. He was commisMione<l major-Roneral by the continental congress in 1777. lie died in 1834 in France. Lafean, Daniel Franklin, manufacturer, c«»ngressnuin. was l)oni Feb. 7. lsr»l, in York, I'a. For nearly a qnarter of a ci'utury he has been engaped in the manufacturing busitn

ness



title

and and

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also |»n'sident of the Security In tnist company of York, I'a. is

he was a representative from Penn-

sylvania

and

tieth lican.

the

to

fifty-eighth,

sixty-first

fifty-ninth,

six-

congresses as a repub-

gres^^i-H.

prominent

lb'

died about

Byron, snldier, was htnn

in

was bn-vetted brigadier-general of lie was horioraltly mu-«tered out lie dii. 1001. in Hudson.

Wood F.iigravinu. Abraham Walter,

Ignited States was born June 10, 1875, in .udrain c<»unty. Mo. lie serv«^I three years with the rank of captain in the Missouri national guard and siuj-e W)'^ has |>racticeer of

the si.xty-second congresses as a republican.

and

si.ty-third

in M:l^sa•

In iS(>| he was major in th«> tliirty fourth regiment New York infantry; and lS<"i5

vohniteers. in

18(i3.

N.V. Follette,

gressman.

was

Isirn

I

Robert Marion, lawyer, con-

nitt'd

June

tem|H>ranee an<i philanthropii* movenjeiits. has lieen called the mother of the wonmn's christian temperance union of Washington. I ».('.. of which she was for many Siie spent many years presi<ient. years in building up the hope and helj) home, whieh was reeeiilly merged into the Fhm'uce Chiitenton mission. Laffan, William M., journalist, publisher, Biifhor. was iMirn .Ian. 2'J. 1H48. in Ireland. He is the publisher and part jiroprietor of the New York Sun. He is the author of .meri«-an

Herkimer,

in

Laflin, (hus<-tts.

in

congressman,

I'JOO

N.V.

La

La Fetra, Mrs. Sarah B., pliilanthropist, founder, was burn in Clinton. Ohio. She is

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clerk lu the I'nited States Indian bureau. He is the author of The .Middle Five. Laflin, Addison H., manufacturer, state •.enator. confrri-^snuin. was Iku'u Oct. 24, 1S2:}, in Lee. .Mass. In 1843 he fjratluated from Williams college; and l>ecaine interested in paper manufacture in Herkimer county. N.V. in 1S37 he was elected t<» the state senate of New York. In 18l».)-71 he was a representative from New York to the thirty ninth, fortieth and forty first con-

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Stales senator, gov«'rnor. 18.55, in Primrose. Wis. In IH74 he gradimted from the state university of Wisconsin:

studied

law

in

that

institution, anti practiced his profession in .Madi'son.

W

s. In he was disattorney for Dane county. Wis. In 18S7 0I he was a repres»'ntative from Wisconsin to the fiftieth i

lssil ,S4

trict

fifty first conand lie was governor of the state of Since isconsin for the terms of 100105. lOO.j he has l»een Tnite*! States senator from isconsin.

gresses,

W

La Inirn

Follette, William L., congressman, was in IJoone county. Ind., Nov. 30. I8t»0.

He engaged

Lafferty, John James, soldier, clergyman, inventor, author, was born in 1H:17 on the Itoat'oke. in Virginia. He served in the civil war as cidimel in the ('onfef a jtrocess of

He is a white whole wheat flour. the author of (ieouratdiy of Virginia: an<l Sketches of Virginia MetlMMlist Ministers. Laffoon, Polk, soldier, educat«»r. lawyer, <"«»nKressman. was born Oct. 24. 1844. in IIo|ikins county. Ky. He  in Omaha reservation. Neb. Since 1881 he has b<>en a

in fruit, grain, and stock raising for ihirtv vears, an<l servcil one term in the Washington legislature and on various appointive c<»nnnissions. In 1011-15 he was a JuenilM'r of the sixty second and sixtythird congresses as :i progii'ssj v*- rcpuldican. Lafonte, Aunet, e«Iucator. ch-rgyman. was born (».t. 2. ISI2. in France. In 1812 he founded the French coiigregal iini in Canal stn-ct. New York; introduced into .America the order of Christian Mrothers; and harbored the first .lesuits that came to the Cniled States. He died Jan. 7. 1875. in

New ^o^k

city.

La Ford, Corydon, educator. ]thysician. librarian, curator, was born .Aug. 20, I81;{. in Creeii •Miunty. N.V. In 1842 he was up pointed deinonst rat«ir of anatomy in the (Jeneva medical college; and for fifty-two years was engaged without interruption in teaching medicine in various institutions. For forty years lie taught anatomy in the university of Michigan: an<l for eighteen years was professor of anatomy in Long