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Alteii Phmuiwr, botLtmmoii, anist, illustrator, author, was born Sept. 3, She him IHH^, in New Glouce^iter, MAine. painted in watereoion mudi oi the flora of the Pacific slope; and her cnlh-ftion of

more than eighty

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premium at

the World'H exOn Orleans in 1884-85. lier di.Hcovery of u new gtnus of plunU in 1882, Dr. Asa Gray named it Ptuuiniera

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Canada.

Ijouisiana in 1U99-17U1. Ue was the firtit He died oolonial governor of Louisiana. July 22, 1701. in Hiloxi, Miss. Lemon, William Fletcher, railway manager, legislator, was born May 19, 1872, He received the nidi near Warsaw, Mo. nielit.1 of liis edueatiuu in the public schools of Missouri; and finished in llardwtHHl collie entered railway lege of Orange, Cal. service as assistant agent for the Southern Two Cnlifornia railway at OrangB, Cal. years later he entered the service of the Sijuthern Pacific railway as brakenian on freight; and went through all grades in the train service to passenger oonductor, which In
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the Califoruift stAte legislature from the seventy-sixth distriet; and was the author of and has jjasscd an trujdoyers* lialiility law, making railroad companies liable for He liuiuage to employees' hurt in serviei*. is particularly friendly to the laboring ami industrial chisaes; and r4»ides in San Bernardino, Gal.

land, Maine. He served throughout the dvil war; r«'turned to the stage and played leading rules in many dramas. Ue died in 190a ill New Yorlc city. Lempe, William J., soldier, brewer, financier, was born in 1836 in Germany. In 1848 he started a small brewery in St. Louis. Mo. .t the outbreak of the civil .ar he joined the third regiment United t^tates reserves; attained the rank of sergeant; and was nnisterod out in IHOl. In 18U2 he assumed full control of his father's business; and became one of the most extensive brewers in the e<jtintry.

Lenaban, John T., lawyer, congressman, was bora Nov. IS, 1862, in Luaerne eoaaty« Pa. In 1870 he gradnntefl fnim V'illanova college; and in 1873 was admitted to the practice of law. In 1893 he received the dtgrei' of LL.D. from Villanova college. In 1892 and 1896 he was a delegate lo the In 1907democratie national conventions.

he was a repre.sentative from Pennsylvania to the sixtieth congress as a democrat.

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L'Snfant, Peter Chariot, soldier, dTil enr, chit er u a-: H^rn in 175.5 in France, entered the continental army in the autumn as an engineer; and was made captain in 1778. He drew the plan for the city of

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Washington; and was architect of some of public buildings. He died June 14, 1826,

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(Jeor^'i-'s

county, Md.

L'Engle, Claude, journalist, congressman, wiiM iNirn in 1868 in Jacksonville, Fla. is the editor and projiriitor of Dixie I9I.1.15

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he was a member of the sixty-third

congress.

nnd starred as Mrs. Lorrimer in The Moth and the Klame. Lemoyne, William J., soldier, actor, was

Leniham, Mathias C, clergyman, bishop, wjis born Oct. ti, 1854, in Dubuque, Iowa. Since 1004 he has been Roman oatholie bishop of Great Kalis, Mont. Lenihan, Thomas Mathias, clergyman, lii>'linp, was bora May 12, 1845. Since 1897 he has Iw-en Roman catholic bishop of Cheyenne, Wyo. He died Dec. 15, 1901, in MarHhalltown, Iowa. Lennox, Charlotte Ramsey, atithor, poet, was born in 1720 in New York eity. She was the author of Poems on Several Occasion**; Memoirs of Harriet Stiiart; The Female Quixote; Henrietta, a novel that was mueh read; a translation of the Duke of Sully's Memoirs; Sophia, a novel; The Sisters, a comedy; Old City Manners, a (•(inn'<ly; Knphemia, a novel; and Memoirs of Henry Lennox. She died Jan. 4, 1804, in Kngland. Lenoir, William, sdldii-r, was born May 20, 1751, in Brunswick county, Va. Ue served in the revolutionary war and at* fained the rank of brigadier general. Dttring the last eighteen years of his life he was nmjor-general of the militia of North Carolina. He died May 6, 1839, in Fort Delianee, N.C. Lenox, Jamss, founder, phiknthropist,

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Le Moyne, Francis philanthropist,

Julius,

was bom

Washington, Pa.

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abolitionist, 4,

1798, in

In 1876 he erected near

cn-niatory in the I'nite.l •States, lie founded the public library in Washington, Pa.; gave twenty-five thousand dolhirs for a wdored normal action! luai ^lemphis, Temi.; and endowed professorships of agriculture and applied nathematies in W.I shin-ton college. He died Oct 14, I87f». in asliington. Pa. ^'iishington

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Le Moyne, J. V., lawyer, cmigresanan, was 1S28 in Wasliington county. Pa. In 1852 he moved to Chicago, III.; and com In 1875-77 he nteiiced the practise of law. was a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress as a democrat. iKirn in

Colw^ educator, ae22, 185!), in < v Vnrk In 1880 she appeared as Madeline in the Celebrated Case. For over thirty nightJi she |)layed the maid in The Hanker-t' DaughShe later gave reailings antl tiiiight ter. elocution. In 1898 she returned to the stagi* Le Moyne^ Sarah was born .fuly

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in ISai in Boston, Mass. Mis first professional appearance wa» in 1852 in Port-

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19, 1800, in New York city, collection of rare books, manu-

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