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and three years later was made its mayor. In 18t52 lie moved to New L«>ndun, Conn., where In- died .luly 2."i, IS70. Lanman, Charles Rockwell, orientalist, educator, Hiitlior, was born July 8. 1H."»0, in citv;

Xorwicl., Conn. Siiiee 18S(» lie has lilled the chair of Sanskrit in the Harvard university. is the autlior of a Sanskrit (irammar, Il«> and several works on oriental subjeets.

Lanman, James, lawyer, jurist. States senator, was born dune 14,

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niled

17t5*.*,

in

Norwich, Conn. lie was a member of the convention which framed the first constituIn 1810 -2.'> he tion of Connecticut in ISIS. was I'nited States senator. He was a judge of tile supieme and superior courts of Conlie died

neclicut in 182(» -M). in Norwicli, Conn.

Aug.

7,

1H41,

Lanman, James Henry, hiwyer, autlior, was born Dec. 4. 1SI2. in Norwich, Conn, lie was the author of A History oi Michigan. wlii«-h was afterward issm-d under the title of History of .Michij^an Krom its KarliHe thed .Ian. 10, est Ccdoni/atioii to 1S42. 1S.S7.

in

.Midillelowii,

Conn.

Lanman, Joseph, naval .Inly

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ill

ollicer,

Norwich. Conn.

was born He wrved

in the Cnited States navy duriii<.' the civil war; and attained the rank of rear admiral.

died March 1:}. 1S74. in Nt»rwicli, Conn. Lanneau, John Francis, educator, mathe-

He

niaticiati, «Mdh'ne |>resident.

was

Ixirn in

18;{t5

in Charleston, S.C. In 18tl4 he was ea|>tain of cavalry: ami then lieutenant and captain of en;;ineers. In 18(KI he iHc.iine a professor of mathematics; in 1873-70 was president of the Alabama central f»'inale collejie; in 1870-88 was pri-sitlent of the Haptist female eoUefje of I^'xington, Mo.; and since I8!lit has been professor of applie<l mathematics and astronomy at Wake Forest, of

North Carolina. Lanner, Henry, lawyer, jurist. He is associate justice of the state supreme cotirt of Missouri; and resides in Sedalia, Mo.

He was Lanning, J. F., congn-ssman. to th«' sixtieth eoni^ress from the fourteenth district of Ohio for the term of 1007-00; and resides in Marietta, CHiio.

elected

Lanning, William Mershon, educator, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born .Ian. 1, In l872-8(» he 1840. in .Mercer county, N..I.

was engaged in educational work. He then became a justice of the peace «if his native township; and in 18S4 87 was city .solicitor ol Trenton, N..I. In 1887-01 he was city district judge; and in I8!t4 was a memlK'r of the constitutional commission. In I00;i-04 he was a r«'pres«'ntati ve from New .lersey to the fifty-eighth congress as a republican. Since IO04 lie has been judge of the United States district court for the district of New Jersey.

Lansdale, Maria was born in

thor,

Horner, translator, au1.8«!0

in

I'liiladel|diia,

Pa.

She has translated Morocco; aii<l After the Divorce from the Italian. She has edited

Florence. Rome and Vienna and the Viennesse. She is the author of I'aris. Its Sites, .Moniinients and History; Scotland, Historic ami Romantic; and the Cliateau.x of Touraiiie.

Lan.sil,

.Ma'cli

F., painter, artist, was born in Hangor, .Maine. He setwhere he has passed his pru-

Walter 184r»,

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tled in Itoston. fessi. in Albany, N.V. Lansing, Dirck Cornelius, clergyman, auot

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thor,

was

March 3. 178."). He was a trustee

b«»rn

in

Lansing-

of Auburn 1820-30; its vice-president in 1820-24; and professor of sacred rhetoric and pastoral theology in 1821 -2(i. He was the autlior of Sermons on Important Subj«-cts. He died .March 3, 178.'>, in I.Minsingburg. N.V. Lansing, Frederick, soldier, lawyer, conyressiiian. was born Feb. 16, 1838. in ManHe was educatetl at Little lieiin, N.V. Falls academy of NewYork; and 'in I860 was admitted to the practice of law. He has resided in Watertown since 18.'»tt. He

burg.

N.V.

seminary

in

served during the war the eighth New York cavalry; and was acting adjutant of that regiment in 186.3. In 1881-83 he was a member of the New York state senate. In 1880-01 he was a representative from New York to the lifty-tirst congress as a rt publican, and declined a renomination. He died Jan. 30. 1804, in Watertown, N.V. in

Lansing,

legislator, conGerrity, state was born in 178^}. in Albany, N.Y. served four years in the New York state le;:islature. In 1831-37 he was a representative from New Vtirk to the twenty -second, twenty-fourth congresses; t w«'nty-tliird and and was for many years chancellor of the board of regents of the university of New York. He 4. in

17S4-8S he

congress-

Albany. N.

was a delegate from New