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 HERRINQSHAW'S LIBRARY OP AMERICAN BIOGRAPHT. Lamont, George

D.,

luwyer.

jurist,

was

In in V«-sti'rn New York. ap{K>inted Lnitod States jutlgf in (or tliu provisional court of Louisiana, 1871 he was elected a ju lgc of the supreme court of New York for fourteen yi'iirs. He tlied Jan. Id, 1870. in Lockport, >i.Y. Lamoiit* Hmmoiid, educator, journalist, author. wuH Iwrn Jan. IH. 184. in Monticello, N.Y. In 1808- 19UU kc was professor of riietorie at Brown college. In 1006 was managing editor of the New Yoiiition.

He was the author of English ComHe died May 0, 1909, in New York

city.

Lamoma,

Silas Wright,

h'gislator, was horn ison county, .Y.

March He was

lawyer, jurist,

8.

184.'$.

in

Mini-

president of the

MayviHe exchange bank for four years; and county judge for sixteen year-*. He serve4 lie was brevetted colonel of volunteers; in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteer';. Tie .lie.l May '24.

and

La Mountain,

John, aeronaut, was born in 1830, in ^ avne county, N.Y. In 1862 he wa.<? appointed aeronntit engineer to the Army of the Potomac, and in that capacity made several ascttisions. The honor of planning and executing the {rre.Ttest of all aerial journeys is due to r.a .Moiuitain alone, nl (hough the credit for it lias been rlaiiind by others. He died in 1878 in Lansiugburgh, N.Y. Lamport, William H., farmer, congressman, was born May 27, 1811, in Pittsfown. N.Y. Tn 1848-40 he was supervi.sor of Horh.TTn, y.V. Tn TSfil he wa-; <]<•, ted sheriff of Orange county; and in 1854 was elected a state aMemblyman. Tn 1866-67 he was president nf tin vill iL'< of Canandiagua. Tn 187175 he was a representative from New York to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses n<i a rrpuhliean. He died July 2, 1891, in Canamlaigua. N.Y. Lampson, Blbert t», lawyer, state senator, lieutenant governor was born Tiily 30. IS.IJ, in Windsor. Ohio. He served twice as a member of the Ohio house of representatives: was speaker of the house; ^tate senator, and president of the senate. TTe has filled the iif lii lit nant-governor off)' of Oliio. Lampton, William James, journalist, author, was born in I^wrence county, Ohio. For several years he has been ettfp^ged in writing Y'awps for New York newsp.ipers. He is the author of Yawps and Other Things rnnfesHions of a Husband; and Mrs. Brown's Opinions. tanifloii, Alvan, clergyman, author, was bom Nov. 18, 1792, in Weston, Mass. He !•

466

unitiirian clergj'man of iVdham in 1818-60. He was the author of History of the First Church in Dedhani; Sermon.s; and The Church of the First Three Centuries.

was a

He died July

17, 18G4, in Dedbam, Mass. Lamioa, Daniel Lowell, physician, ventor, author, was bom .Tune IS, 18;M,

iniu

Ilopkinton,

Muss. In 1802 be settled in Maine: and in 18G4 was appointed United States pension exniuinini: surgeon. He has invented an adjustable >:au;:e spring-vaecinntor. He is the author of Lectures; and Differential Diajcnosis of Diseases.

He

died

about 1900 in Frj'eburg. Maine. lamsOII, Charles Henry, merchant, inventor, was bom Sept. 17, 1847. in Augusta, He has engaged iu business as a Maine.

He is the In* watchmaker and optician. ventor of luggage carriers for bicycles; neroplanes for flying machines, and also novel types of kites and aeroplanes for use in meteorolo::ii-nl

filwtTvn

iiio*;.

t

Lamson, Charles Marion, clergyman, was May Hi. 1843. in North Hadley. Mass.

born

18<58-93

In

he

filltMl

pastorates in Hrockton

and St. Juhnsbury, In 18!)7 he was elected president of Vt. the Ameri<-an board of commissioners for He died Aug. 8, 1899, in foreign missions. and Worcester. Mass.

St



Johnsbucy, Vt.

Lamson, Mrs. Mary Swift, educator, auwas burn iu 1822 iu Massachusetts. She was for five years a teacher of Laura Hridginnn, the noted blind deaf mute; and thor,

for lliiee years in entire charge of her education. She was the author of IJfo and I'Mucation of Laura Dewey Bridgoun. She in Massachusetts. Lamson-vScribner, Frank, scientist, author, .pril 19. 1851, in Cambridgeport, Mass. Since 1894 he has been chief of the division of .gro8tology in the United States department of asriculture. He Is the author of Funinis Disease of Plants; The die«l

was bom

Fungus

Disea.ses

of

tin-

firapf

A'iin'



The

Fungus Diseases of the Urape and Other Plants and Their Treatment: Ornamental Cirisst»^ of ami T's. fiil IM;uits of ATaiiu' Tennessee; and Amerieau Urasses, Illus:

trated.

Lamy, John, clergyman, archbishop, was lie was pastor o£ in 1814, in France, St. Mary's church of Covington. Ky. In IH.'iO he wns consecraterexico.

congressman.

He

Helena. Wash. he was a delegate fnun Wash-

ta! lo<>al offices at St.

18.'j;{-.'»;»

ington territory to the thirty-thinl rongress. died in Washinuion Lancaster, Ellsworth Gage, clergyman, col* lege president, author, was bom June 18, He w.is .xltuated 1801. in DixfieUl. Maine. at the Augusta high school, at Amherst college, at the Andover theological seminary and at Clarlc uniTerrity; and has received

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