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 HKRRINGSHAWS LIMHARV OF AMKRICAN BIOGRAPHY.

490

and

year as state

treasurer. lu 1841-42 he was a represeiituiViiiisylvania to the niii»'teeiith, twentieth and twenty-seventh foii;:resses as He died April 17, 1H42, in a democrat. Wash ill lit on. !».<'. Lawrence, Mrs. Margaret Oliver, author,

er.

oiu*

1825-29 and

from

tivo

was born Ihe

1813

in

of

aiitlior

Kading Marion

Fli>vers

She is Dark River; ami

in .Massacliiisftts.

I.ifjht

The

on

the

She died

iiraliani

l'rol)hMn

T«»haec-ii

in



Massaehii-

hftts.

Lawrence, Myron, lawyer, state senator, statesuian. was h«irn May 18. 1799. in Middh-hnrg. 't. He received the rudiments of liis education in the scliools (»f liis native

town;

and

in

^rasioner insolvency; and

then was commissioner of l»iinkrnj»tcy for a numl)er of years. 182<»

In

he was chosen u representative in the

then lu'canu" onneet icut state Icfjislat »ire a slate M-nator: and in 1S;{S 40 was presilie was a success»lent of the state senate. ful lawyer; and a puhlic orator of «?reat forc4'. In IS.Vl he presided at the meeting of Kaneiiil llall which welcome«l to Hoston (



I.ouis triot.

the great Hungarian paIn lSr)2 he delivered the semi centen

KoHNuth.

nial a(hlr«'ss at Middlelmry ccdleg*-. of which college he was a trustee. He died Nov. 7, 1S,12. His portrait hangs in the pre-^ident's room in the Miissachusetts hou.se of representat Ives.

Lawrence, Philip K., lawyer, jurist. Fie a citi/en of Louisiana; and ahout the

was

year

I8:{8

was appoint<>d

I'niled ."states dis-

judge for the two judicial districts of Louisiana, residing at Xew <)rleaiis. He died in New (Cleans. La. trict

Lawrence, Robert

was

May

Means, physician, au-

1847. in Hoston. a^-s. He is the author of The Ma«»ic of (he Horse Shoe; and Historical Sketelu's of Slime .Mi-mliers of the l^iwreiice Family. clergyman, bishop. Lawrence, S., In 1.8K9 hr became roman catholic bi^iiop of Salt Lake City. I tah. thor,

iMirn

14.

Lawrence, Samuel, congressman, was Imrn ill New i>rk. He served si-ven years in the New York state assembly; and in lS2;i 2."> he was a representative to the eighteenth congress. He died in .lohnson's setIh-ment. N.^'.

Lawrence, horn

in

William

Henry,

MassaclMHetls.

In

soldier, IS(>|

lieutenant and adjutant in reginn-nt .Massachusetts infantry; lir>t

wa.s

he

was

the

first

and was

regularly promoted; and in 1805 attained the rank of brig;idicr-g«'ncral of volunteers. He died Nov. 22. 1874.

Lawrence, William Hudson, »oldier, was

New .lersey. In 1803 he was colonel in the thirty fourth regiment New Jersey infantry; and in 18ti5 was brevetled major and brigjidier-general of volunteers. iKtrn in

Mangam,

William

Lawrence,

hcturer,

was born .May 11. 1848. in Washington. I).(". In 1871 he was ordained to the nnnistry; and has filled pastorates at .Amsterdam, N.V., i'hiladelphia and Chicago; and since 1905 has jireachcd at Orange, N..L He has been president <»f the divinity school of the university of Chicago; and is president of the l»oard of trust«*cs at Colgate university. clergA inan.

William

Lawrence,

R.,

lawyer,

jurist.

1!M(5 he has been jtnlge of the I'nited .aie> district cotirt for the western district of Indian territory. In 1904 he was a «lelpgale to the universal congress of lawyers and jurists at St. Louis. Mo.

Since .

Lawrence, William

T., soldier,

lawyer, jurist. <*ongrcssman, 7.

1788.

in

New

Ytf»rk

city.

merchant,

was Imrn May

He

served in

war

of 1812 as a militia captain of arIn 18.18 he was chosen county judge of New York: and in 1847-49 he was a representative frouj New York to the thirtieth congress. He died in Caytita. N.Y.

the

tillery.

Lawrence, William W., lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Florida; and was appointed jtidge of the I'nited States district court of that state.

He

died in Flori-

da.

Lawrie, Alexander, painter, artist, was Imrn in 1828 in New York city. He has made upward of a thousand crayon heads, including liki'uesscs of Richard H. Stoddard atid Thomas Hnchannn Read. officer, was born Laws, Elijah, naval March 20. ]8.M, in Philadelphia. Pa. In 1858 he was a|>pointed third assistant engineer in the I'niled States navy; and in 1900 was retired with the rank of rear-admiral for rerviccs during the civil war. Laws, Gilbert Lafayette, soldier, manufacturer,

journalist, coiigressnian, was }K>rn near Oiney. HI. In 1801 he

.Mar.'h II. 1838.

infantry. Wisconsin volwounded in the battle of 1802. In 1883-80 he was register of the I'nited States land office at M<*Cook. Neb. He was Rccretarv of state in 1880-90; and in 1889 91 he wai a representative {rum Nebraska to the fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy. He died in 190" in Lincoln. Neb. enlisted in

tlic fifth

unteers: and was

Williamsburg

in

Laws, Samuel Spahr, clergyman, educaauthor, was born March 23, 1824. in Ohio county. Va. In 1870-89 hv was president of the Missouri slate university, lie was the inventor and iiil roilucer of the system of simultan<H)us telegraphing of market reports, called tickers. He is the author of Metaphysics. tor, inventor, colletr,. president,

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