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 HERRINQSHAW 8 LlUiiARV OF AMERICAN BIOORAPHY. He is the ami a professor of obstetrics. author «it' Tlu- Srti-iic<- aiul Art of Obstet-

idertitled

ami J'syiho-Therapy. Btfnon, John Fruidt Patch, civil enpiniMT, g«'oh)gist, author, was born Sept. 28,

American

Boston, Ma8«. Ue was educateil in the common and high achools of Ipawieh, Miili.: and at T^awrence acadoniy nf Croton. .Mass, in 1S87 he became connected with the Nicaragua canal; became chief Held en},Mneer; and afterward was a coniniistiioner of the Nicaraguan canal. Ue ha8 been chief engineer of over twenty-five railwayH, water works anonian institution at Washington, D.C. Ue is the author of fifty published boolcs.

La Blond, Francis C, lawyer, congressman, was born in Oliio. In is'il-").') he was a member of the Oliio state Icginhiture; and served as speaker of that body. In he was a represf ntativi- frimi Oliio tiiirty-eighth iukI thirty niutli He died in Celina, Ohio.

181)3-67

t<t the congresses.

Lebo, Thomas Coverley, soldier, wa«5 born Nov. 17. 1842. in Potters Mills. I'a. In isrtl he was appointed second lieutenant in the eleventh regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry; and in 1865 was mustered out. In 18G7 he was appointed first lieutenant in the tenth regiment United btates cavalry; and in 1005 was retired at his own reqin -f uitli tlu- rank of hrigather-fjeneral. Le Claire, Antoine^ pioneer, founder, won bom in 1707 In St. Joseph, Mich. In the treaty of 18.12. between Sac and Ihr Fox Indians and the United States he was the Interpreter. A grant of two sections of Innd was made to him by those tribes. One section is now embraced in the limits of Davenport and the other was where the town of ]a- (Malre has been built. He was one of the (Hinders of the cities of Davenport and r>> C laire, Iowa, the latter city bein«' nnined in honor. He died in September. I8<U. in Iowa. Le Claire, Isaac B., clergyman. misKionary, founder, was born ."^i-pt. 17. 1S.")4. in i

("nnadii.

In

18n.i

he

settled

in

Putnam,

Mini. ri'crived n tlioiough education in the secular and theological schoids of New (

.

England. He is an eminent French misvangilsionary and t

New

ist

of

In

18M he

ilia|nl

Mans.;

ICngland. built a at Janesville. and in 18U7

built another at ell, ^lass. Since he has tilled a

torate in Lowell, Mass.; and

is

Low18n2 pas-

prominently

af-

has cont rihiit«d ext^•n^ivldy to literature; and has tilled various

lie

fairs,

499

with religious and educational

positions of trust

and honor.

Le Clear, Thomas,

March

ufi-t

pointer,

mi>^

Oswego, N.Y. 1818, in compositions are The Reprimand: The Marhh' Pl.iyers; and Itinernnts. Of his n"»nin'imi> portraits one of the List is that of (i. r<_'»- Han<Toft at the Century

Among

(

his

New York

lub of

1H«2, in

iti

in

17,

Rutherford

Nov. 26,

][» died

City. i'lirk,

NJ. was bom

in 1823 Leclerq, Charles, actor, Ktiji;land. He came to tin T'liited States 1870, and after supporting Charles

Feohter as Gaderoosse in The Count of Monte Cristo, he joined tlu- company at Daly's theatre, with which he remained for fourteen years. He died Sept. 10, 1805, in Kev. Turk City. Lecompte, Joseph, congressman, was born In 1825-33 he in Woodford county. Ky. was a r<-pre>ientntivf from Kentucky to the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-lirst and twenty-second congresses. He died in New-

Ky

castle,

Lecompte, Samuel D., lawyer, jurist, was bora in Maryland. He was appointed chief justice of the l'nit»'d States court for the" territory of Kansas; and took a leading Sart in the affairs of that territory. Qe led in Kansas.

Le Conte, Jc^n, physician,

was bom

thor,

lounty.

i;a.

ITi-

Dec.

4,

naturalist, au1818, in Liberty of the uni1875-81; and pro-

was president

versity of talifornia in of piiyi^ics there before and after lii> itn'>'dency. He was the author of Philosophv of Medicine; Study of the Physical and Vital Statistics. He died Sciences April 2fi. iSiU. in Berkeley. Cal. fiMBsor

Le Conte, John Eatton, civil engineer, was born Feb. 22. I7H4. near Shn-wsbury, N.-T. In early life he served in the corps of army engineers with the rank of major. He was the author of naturalist, author,

Moniii:rapli> ot

North .Amt'rican

S])»-ci«'s

of

rtricularia, t^ratiola and Ruellia; and North American Rpecies of Viola. He died

Nov. 21. ison. in IMiilad. Ipliia. Pa. Le Conte, John Lawrence^ entomologist, author, was bora May 13, 182fi, in New York City. Tn 187S-H.1 he was chi.-f clerk of the I'nited ^ates mint in Philadelphia. He was the author of List of Coleopteni of North America, and other technical puUications. He died Nov. l.^i, 1883. in Philadelphia, Pa.

Le Conte, Lewis, born Aug.

He

jilantatinti

rich

4,

t.

1782, near

s< ii

nti^l,

was

Shrewsbury, garden on his

established a botanical in

in

(Jioru'ia.

wliirli

was

(•siH-cirtliy

bulbous plants from the Capo of in which he

Good Hope: and a laboratory te.stt^

his

discoveri»'s

the day. He died Jan. county, Oa.

of 0,

the

cluniisls

of

183H. in Liberty

uiyiiiziod

by

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