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 HfiRKINQSHAW S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOaRAPHY. Commercial Advertiser, and of the Ni w Xork SpecUtor. He died Nor. 14, lb4U, In Biooklyn, N.T. Lewisohn, Adolph, capitalist and philanthropist, of 81 Broadway, New York City, was born on Hay 27, 1849, in Hamburg, Germauy. He is a member of tho ^Moat mrr cantile firm of Adolph Lewiiiohn and boat*. He la alM prcaidmt of th« General Devdop* meat corapanj- and othor corfvorations. He is laiigely eugaged in charitable work and is

Hebrew

preatdent of

aheltering

purdian

Orp'mn fisyhim. Ley burn, John, clergyman, author, was bora April 86, 1814, in Lexington, Va. He became secretary of the Presbyterian board of publication, changing the character of Its publications and enlarging its operations. After the civil war he settled in Baltimore, where he was pastor for twenty years of an indepmdent Presbyterian church, of which be is now paator emeritus. He is the autiior of The Soldier of the Cross; and lliuu to Youn;; Men from the Panble of the Prodigal Son. Lexow, Clarence, lawyer, state senator, was bom Sept. 10. 1832. in Brooklyn, N.Y. la 1890 he was a representative in cougrcaa; and In 1883 waa elected to the New York state senate. He died Dee. 30, 1810,

in Nyaclc,

N.Y.

Lc^rpoldt, FreflerldE,

was born Nov.

thor,

17,

bibliographer, au1835, in Germany.

He

published an American Catalogue for 1869, and in 1878 be began work on the .merican rataloRne proper, which was completed

in

188U.

His

I'ublisbers'

Uniform

Trade-List Annual was begun in 1873; The Literary News in 1875; the Library Journal in 1870, and the Index Medieus, a monthly medical biography, in 1880. He died

March

31.

1884, in

New York

City.

L'Heureux, Alfred J., educutor and^tutettnaan of Hartford, Conn., was born (Vt. 1. 1885, in Jewett <'ity, Cimn. He has been registrar of voters in the town of (iriawold. New London county and a teacher in the Newman school of Hackensack, N.J. He is now a representative to the general assembly of the state of Connecticut. He is stiU a teadier at the Newman acbool; and alao auditor for hia county.

L'HaBUnedieu, Ezra, lawyer, congrt^sman,

was

horn

1734, in Stronghold, N.Y. 11>' was a delegate from New York to the continental t'ongress from 1779 to 17H3. and again in 1787 and 1788. He died Sept. 28. 1811. in Stronghold, N.Y. Aiig.

30,

Libbey, Harry, lawyer, jurist, congressbom in 1843, in Wakefield, N.H. aettled in Elisabeth Cltj comity ; and in 1809 waa api>ointeil one of the presiding justices of the county. He was elected a repreaentatlTe from Vir^nia to the fortyeighth and forty-ninth congn-sscs. Ubbey, Laura Jean, author, was born in New York. Her gieateat work la Mias Middleton'a Lover, which la a daaric compaiable

with the finest production of any fovelgD or domestic pen. Libbey, WflUam, educator, was bom March 27, 1855. in Jersey City. N.J. Siiu1883 he has been professor of physical geography and director of the mtiaenm of gedlecy ami archaeology in Princeton university. Libby, James Albert, clergyman, poet, waa bora July 3, 1832, in Poland, Maine. He is an udvont rV-rgyman of ^Vest Poland, Maine. He is the author of a number of poems. Lichenberg, Leopold, musician, composer, was born Nov. 22, 1861, in San Francisco, Cal. A ancceaafnl tour in Holland waa followed by a Sf-ason in New York nnd other In 1899 he cities with Ttieodore Thomas. liecaint* head of the violin department in the York City. Conservatory New National of Liddell, Era. Louise^ author, was born in Boxford, Maaa. CHnce 1889 ahe baa been engaged in litcrnn,- work. She la the EOtbor of Polly Perkins' Adventures. Lidddi, Hafk Rarrey, edueator, author, was bom April 1. ISt'C. in Clearfield. Pa. Since 1897 he has been professor of English He is tlie author In University of Texas.

of Middl.- English. Kockport, of Lieb, Charles, statesman Ind., waa bora May 20. 1862, In Germany.

He was

a

member

of the state legislature;

1913 be became a member of congress. John William, mechanical engineer, was born Feb. 12. IHtiO, in Newark, N.J. In 1882 he was appointed first elecUician to the Edison Bteotrie Illomlnatinf Compjiny nf New York; and installed systems in Milan, for the Italian Edison Company, lie is now third vice-president of the New York K'lisoii f 'i>iiii>any and preaident of

and

in

Lieb,



the electric testing laboratories.

Lieber, Albert, brewer and bank preaiof Indianapolis, Ind.. wa.s iKirn Ang. He was edu13, 1863, in Indianapolis, Ind. cated in the public achoola and at the InHe is president dianapolis business college. of the Indianapolis Brewing company, president of The A. Lidier company, and a di> r«H'tor of the Indiana Trust and Of the lient

Merchants' National bank.

author, Lieber, Francis, educator, .Man-h 18, 1800, in Gfiiuany.

boin

waa

He

was an eminent publicist, professor of political economy in the unlverrity of South rjirolina in 1835-5fi. and subsequently at Columbia college. He was of the author of Reminiscencea of Niebuhr; The West, and Other Poems; Manual of Political

Uiws of Property; Civil Liberty Self-Government; Legal and Political

man, waa

I-thic-s;

He

Mini

Instructions for the Arniit»x the Field; The Character of the Gentleand Mis<>ellancouR Writinga. died 0, t. 2. 1872, in New York City. Ilt-rnii-neutieR



in

He

man

Guido Norman,

soldier,

author, wub born May 21, 1837, in Colttmbia» SX". Since 1895 he has been jadge>advoeata-fanLieber,

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