Page:Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography - volume 3.pdf/479

 ICS

.

was horn

HKRRINGSIIAW'S

Anj,'.

HI.

17!»S.

l^iiisvillo, (Ja.

in

iiuiv«-ii

Ill-

t«»

and

ls:t.');

RY OF AMERICAN RIOGRAPFIY.

I.inU

Ti'as

ill

coiiiiiiaiult'.l

a i-avnlry coinpany at I

lie

l»attl«'

<»f

and

finti>.

San

clFoctivo

servici'.

HM

was

he

-Fa

n*iid<'n'il

In

«l.'cte«l

of Tfxa.H. Iiavinf; for soinc vic«'-pri'sidi-iit

first

iiiontlis

j>r«'vioiis

liold

the rank of majorgenoral. In 18:W-4I he was pr«*sid«*nt of Tt*xa«, He was the iiiithnr ot a voiiiiiM' of poems entitled Verse Meinoriaii.-v. He «lied Dec. 10, 18.")!», in An;;ii>ta.

William Bailey, lawyer, jurist, roM^'ie>siiiati, was born dune 1-, 1H.5;J, in

Lamar,

1883-86 he was county, Kia. In judf^> I8S8-i]Hi4 he was attorney general of FlorIn 1!H):J-(H» he was a represrntative ida. from Florida to the fifty eighlh, lifty-ninlli and sixtieth emiyresx-H as a democrat. county,

.IfllersDu

i)f

In

Khi.

.Jefferjion

Lamb, Alfred W., eongressman, was born In 1853-.')5 he was a reprein New York. MMitative from Missouri to the thirty tliird rongress as a ileniocrat. He dit'«l May 21, ISSS. ill Hannilial, .Mo. Lamb, Artemus, railroad president, was iKirn Sept. 11, 1S40, in SteiilK'ii eounty. X. II. He is president of the Crestvnt Springs railroad and of the Northern Mississippi railroa*!

«if

Minnesota.

Lamb, Charles Rollinson, arehiteet, artist, was Iwirn in New York. He has made a sprtialtv of ecclesiastical architecture, meiiMirial and historical art He ilesigiied the

Dewey

New

arch

i^rected

in

Madisun

Square,

Lamb, Daniel Smith, soldier, physician, i^cientist. author, was Ixirn -May 20, 18-13, in Pa.

I8.)JI he graduated with the «legree of from ThilaA.B. delphia high scliool; graduaiul in 18»i7 atelates army, on duly at the army medical miixfiim: and since 18H2 has Imimi patliologi-t to the army mediral iiiurof»'s>,or of materia mediea

and

tv.

He

at Howard liniversia fellow of the .American associ-

thi-n is

Tre-ideiit

Slates

(iartield.

.Senator

He i> editliingti>n Medi<-al Annals. He is tiie author of Hi'^tory of the Medical I>partnienl <»f Howard I Diversity : and numerous medical moiio-

(iiiiteau.

graph>.

Lamb, Edward, actor, was born Oct. He playe.l in New York city.

182S,

18.

his

most successful engagement at the old Park theater in Brooklyn, of which he was lessee and manager. He died .lulv o. 18S7. in llro'.klyn. N.Y.

Lamb, Henry Whitney, manufacturer, pocconoiiiist was lM>rn in 18.'»3 in Bos.las>. He was educated in the public schoiils of his native city; and at the Maslitical

.

sachusetts institute of technidogy. He is a successful nianiifRcturer of slu-ct metal and a notable political reformer, -peaker and writer of >yiidicali' articles. He has Ix-en president of the American free traile league; was president «»f the democratic cluli of .Massachusetts; was c(7nini(Mlore «»f the Kastern yacht club; president Puritan club of Bt»ston and one of tile vice-presidents of the anti-imperialist league for .Massiu-liusetts. gds of Boston. Mass.;



Lamb, Isaac Wixom, clergyman. inv«>ntor. was born .Ian. H, 1S40. in Saiem, .Mich. The Lamb knitting machine manufacturing com paiiy was «u-gaiiized in Springfield, .Mass.; and in 18 their manufai-tory was reniove«l to Chicoivee Falls. .Mas«. His machine pro duces more than thirty kine«l. llv diegislator.

New

1735, in

1,

He

Y«>rk city.

was promoted to major and mionel of artillery; and n-iideied g(MKl service throughout the revfdiitionary war. He was sul>s«H]iiently elected to the New York legislature; an county ami took up the biisinCMS of fanning; was S4x>n i

elected

sln'rilF

county.

and

•lUenlly

serve<l

peojde

of

subsehis

as

treasurer, surveyor and chairman of the ^<k)untv deino-

Digitized by

Google