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Rh Lathers, Richard, merchant, philauthropist, was born about 182U in Georgetown, S.C In 1847 he opened a coiumisiiiou business in New York city and ultimulely became president of the Great Western marine insurance company, retiring in 18(i7. In 1897 lie presented to the William college a fund, the interest of which shall be used to defray the cost of a gold medal to be iiwarded annually for the best essay advocating the duty of christians to government He was the author of isotes of a Life of Sixty Years. He died in 1903 in New York city.

Lathrop, Elsie, musician, journalist, auuas born in Sumter county, S.C. In she was musical (nlitor of the New York Telegram and has translated numerous stories and plays from Uerman, French uutl Italian. >She is the author of Wliere Shakespeare Set liis Stage; and Sunny thor,

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Days

in

Italy.

painter, artist, was Francis, iNirn June 22, 1849, near Hawaiian Islands, lie had devoted himself chiefly to mural painting, stained-glass windows, and other decon«ti-e designs for public and private

Lathrop,

New

buildings in Ikiston, York, Baltimore, iind other places. He furnished the illustrafor Clarence Cook's House Beautiful; sind for other artistic publications. li«uis

Lathrop, George

Parsons,

author, poet,

was l»orn Aug. 25. 1851, in Hawaiian Inlands. He was the author of Rose and Rooftree; Dreams and Days; Afterglow; An Echo of rnssiem; In the Distance; Newjjort; Would You Kill Him ? True Two Sides of a Story U»ve Wins; V.oUl of Pleasure; Behind Time. Other works are. A Study of Hawthorne; Spanisli Vistas; and A Storj- of Courage; Annals of the (Jeorgetown Convent. He dicil April m. 1808. in New York city. Latbrop, John, clergyman, was born May 17. 1740, ill Norwich, Conn. He tilled pastorates in Boston and I'rovidence, R.l. He Mas tlu' author of Biographical Memoir of the Rev. John Uitlirop; and Compendious History of the Late War. He ilie«l .Ian. 4.



SHI. in Boston. Mass. Lathrop, John, journalist, lawyer, author, lN)rn .Ian. l.J. 1772, in Boston. Mass. He was the author of a work entitled Pocket I.

was

Itrgisler

and

Freemasons' Anthology.

He

di«d Jan. 30. 1820, in (i»H)rgetown, D.C, Lathrop, John, soldier, lawyer, jurist, was l)orn Feb. 8. 18:{5. in Boston, Mass. During Hie civil war he was a captain. In 1874-88 lie was reporter of decisions of the supreme court of Massachusetts. In 1888-91 he was a jiistitt* of the superior court; and in l'8911900 was nn associate justice of the state snjirenie j-onrt of Massachusetts.

He died Dee.

3,

1820, in

West

Springfield,

.Mass.

Mary

Lathrop, Mrs.

T., educator, lecturer,

poet, was Ixirn in is;{8, in Concord, Mich. She taught in the Detroit public schools for a while. She went into evangelistic work in 1873; was a noted temperance lecturer; and for twelve years gave all her time to that and the Woman's foreign missionary society of the methodist episcopal church. She died -Ian. 3, 1895, in Jackson, Mich. Lathrop, Mrs. Rose Hawthorne, artist, autlior. was born May 20, 1851, in Lenox, .Mass. .She established St. Rose's free home for cancer and Rosary hill home. She is the Along the Shore, a volume of

author of pt>ein»;

Some Memories

of

Hawthorne; and

A

Story of Courage. Lathrop, Samuel, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1771 in Hampden county, Mass. In 1819-27 he was a representative from Massachusetts to the sixtiM'nth. seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth congresses, and was a member of the Massachusetts state st^nate for ten years and president of that Ijody in 1829-30.

He

died

II. 1H40, in West Springfield, Mass. Lathrop, Stanley E., soldier, clergyman, author. p(H't, was Ixirn May 7, 1843, in Orville. N.Y. In 1801 he enlisted and sen'ed through the civil war as a company commissary sergeant in the first Wisconsin cavalry. He is now pastor of the first congregational church of Washburn, W'is. He is the author of a volume of poems. Lathrop, William, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 17, 1825, ill (Jenesee county. N.Y. He was a menilior of the Illinois state legislature in 1850; and in 1M77-79 he was a representative fnmi Illinois to the forty-liflh congress as a re])iiblican. He died in 1907 in Rock-

•Inly

ford.

III.

Latimer,

Asbury

coiigreHsrnan, Isirn

I'liited

farmer, Churchwell, States srnator. waS

July 31, 1851, near Ix»wdesville, S.C. He was raised on a farm, and was educated in the common He has spent

schools. much of

his life in agricultural pursuits: and in 1880 bought a farm near Belton, S. C. He took an active part in the memorable campaign of 1870. 1890 94 he was In

Lathrop, John Hiram, educator, college president, was lM>rn Jan. 22. 1799, in Sherburne. N.Y. In 1840 lie was elected the first president of the university of the state of Missouri. He died Aug. 2, 1800, in Missouri.

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educator, clergj'man, Lathrop, Joseph, was born Oct. 20, 1731, in Norwich, Conn. He taught sch(N>| at Springtield, Mass., and at the same time studied theology. lu 175tM818 he was pastor of the congregational church in West Springfield, Mass. His published sermons were very numerous.

county chairman of the democratic party of his county;

and was

urgetl to

Ite

a can-