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Doom. Leggett, Francis H., merchant, founder, was born March 27, 1840, in New York city.

He

received an academic educjition. and in 1856 entered a pro-

duce commission house as clerk. lu 18G2 he and his brother formcopartnership; e<] a the business grew so rapidly that it was not long before they were otvupying three stores on Reade street: and in 1880 the land was bought and the pnwnt im^ raense was building onH'tod, The bu.siness of the house amounts to nearly ten million doUai-s annually, and nearly five hundred ihtscjus are employed in the establishment and the firm of Francis II. I^ggett and company is one of the larg;

est

wholesale grocery houses in

He

city.

New York

died Aug. 29. 1909.

Leggett, Mortimer Dormer, soldier, public was born April 19, 1851, in Ithaca. He was superintendent of public schools until 18G1 in Zanesville, Ohio. He raised the seventy-eighth Ohio infantry and was made colonel in 1802. He was brevet major-general in 1804; and major-general in 1865. He was appointed Unitetl States commissioner of patents in 1871. He died Jan. 8, 1896, in Cleveland. Ohio. Leggett, William, journalist, author, was born in 1802 in New York city. He was a journalist once prominent in New York city. He was tke author of Leisure Hours at Sea Tales by a Country Schoolmaster Naval Stories; and Political Writings. He die<l official,

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May

29.

1839. in

New

Itochelle.

N.Y.

L*Kttt, William Henry, lM)taniHt, jourwas born Feb. 24, 1816. in New York

nalist,

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city. letin,

founded the Torrcy Botnnicnl Buland was its sole editor and publisher

in 1870-80.

York

He

died in April. 1882, in

New

city.

Legler, Henry Eduard, legislator, librarian, author, was Ijorn June 22, 1861, in Italy. In 1889 he was a representative in the Wisconsin slate legislature; and in 1890-1904 was secretary to the Milwaukee school board. Since 1904 he has been siH-rotary to the Wisconsin library commission. He is the librarHe is ian of the Chicam» public library. author of Lending Kvon(s of Wisconsin History Early Wisconsin Imprints; and The Oenosis of Poe's Haven. Legreid, Christopher, inanufaeturer, statesman, was born Jan. 27. 1857, in IVerfield. Wis. He is a succes-sful manufacturer of Cambridge. Wis. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly and is prominent in public affairs.

Leblbach, Herman, civil engineer, congressman, was born July 3, 1845, in tJermany. He was a member of the house of assembly of New Jersey in 1884. In 188591 he was a representative from New Jersey to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-tirMt congresses as a republican. He died in 1904 in Newark, N.J.

Lehman, Ambrose Edwin,

civil

and mining

was twrn May 23. 1851. in Lebanon, Pa. He was educated by private tutors and abroad; receiving a technical education in Paris. In 1874-86 he was geological engineer and topographer of the survey of Pennsylvania. He has been an assistant engineer of the Intcrocean railway of Mexico chief engineer of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg railroad; and chief engineer of engineer, author,



he Hrotiklyn. Bath and Coney island railroad. In 1889-93 he was consulting engineer of the Great Falls water ivower company of .North Carolina. He has mappe<l topography and geologic sections of the South mountains in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Explorations of the Source and Upper Waters of the St. Louis River. I

Lehman, Emma A., educator, poet, was born in 1841 in Bethania, N.C. She is a sucand for thirty years has tilled the chair of English literature and composition in the oldest female college of the south at Salem, N.C. She is the author of Sketches of European Travel; and Sunset on Pilot Mountain, a poem. cessful educator;

Lehman, William £., lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed by President Polk, an examiner of postoffices in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1861-63 he was a representative from Pennsvlvania to the thirtyseventh congress. In 1863-65 he was I'nitetl States provost marshal. Lehman, Ernst J., founder, was born in 1849. He was the originator of the department store enterprises in Chicago, 111.: and was owner of The Fair. He died Jan. 5, 1900, in White Plains, N.Y.

Lehmann, George,

violinist,

musician, com-

Ixirii July 31. 1865, in New York traveled until 1893 as a soloist and with his quartet party, the Lehmann quartet. He lives in New York as a shloist, teacher, editorial writer, and critic on the stall of Musical America. He is the author of True Principles of the Art of Violin Playing. Lehnerts, Edward M., educator and scientist of Minneapolis, Minn., was iMirn March 29, 1873, in Winona, Minn. He has received the degrees of B.S. and A.M. Since 1907 be has been assistant professor of geography and geolog' in the university of Minnesota. In 19(Hl-02 he was director of the American

poser, wa.s

city.

He

bureau of geography: and in 1902 05 editor of The .Journal of Geography. Lehy, John

was

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Nov. 7, 1850, in South Royalston, Mass. In 1889 he was orF.,

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