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 UERRINOSHAW'S LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOQRAPHY. Linn, E. G., merchant and banker of KimNeb., was born Dec. 6, 1802, in Sweden. is president of the Bank of Kimball. Linn, James, congroasman, was born in 17S0, in New Jersey. He was a representative in congress from New Jersey from 1790 to 1801, when he was appointed supervisor of the revenue. For many years he also held the office of secretary of state of New Jersey. He died Dec. 29, 1820. in Trenton, '

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NJ. Linn, John, state legislatcr, congressman, in New Jersey, He was for many member of the New Jersey assembly; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1817 to 1821. He died Jan. 6. 1821.

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Linn, John Blair, clergyman, author, poet, was born March 14, 1777, in Sliippensburg. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of The Power of (tenius, a Poem; Valerian, a Poem; The Gallic Orphan, a drama; and Miscellanea.

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Linn, William, lawyer, author, was born Aug. 31. 1790. in New York City. He was a lawyer of Ithaca; and the author of Life

Thomas Ji-fferson The Roorback Papers; Legal and Commercial Commonplace Hook. H«' died Jan. 14, 1807, in Ithaca, N.Y. Linn, William Alexander, banker of Hackensack, N..I.. was born Sept. 4, 1840, in Sussex, N.J. He is president of the People's National bank. Linnen, Edward Bangs, government oilicial of Washington. D.C., M'as born March 21, 1S(14. in Minnesota. He is inspector in the of



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Linn, William, clergyman, author was born Feb. 27. 17">2, in Shippen.sburg, Pa. H«' was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; famous in his day as a preacher; and the author of Discourses on Leading Personages of Scripture History; Signs of His sermon on the death of the Times, Washington was formerly much quoted. He died in January, 1808, in Albany, N.Y,

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Linney, Romulus Z., soldier, lawyer, state congn-Hsnian, was bom Dec. 26, 1841, in Hutherford county, N.C. He served in the confederate army as a private soldier until the bat-

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Linn, John Blair, lawyer, ntithor, was born He is a ir>, 1831, in Ix'wisburg, Pa. Pennsylvania lawyer; and the author of Annals of Buffalo Valley; Pennsylvania Archives; and History of Centre and Clinton Counties. Linn, Lewis Fields, lejjislHtor, United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 17fM], in He studied medicine in Louisville, Ky. 1809; removed to Missouri; and in 1814 helped to fight the battles of his country, after successfully practicing his profession. He was elected to the Missouri state legiblalure in 1 8 2 7. In 1833 lie was elected a senator in congress, in which capacity he served until his death. He died Oct. 3, 1843, in St. Genevieve, Mo, Linn, Paul Hinkle, college president, was born Dee, 12, 1873, in Huntsville, Mo. Since 1{U3 he has l)een president of Central colh'ge. Missouri. Linn, Robert George, lawver. was born .April 6, 1841). in (Jlennviile'. W. Va, In 1870 he was admitted to the bar, after liaving attended the Cincinnati law school. He was prosecuting attorney for (Jilmore counts' for two years; and for twi-lve years was prosecuting attorney for Calhoun county.

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He was elected to the state senate in 18701882; and was elected to the fifty- fourth, and re-elected to the tiftylifth congress as a republican. Linsley, Edward Baldwin, business president and statesman of Three Rivers, Mich., 73. nn.l again

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was born July 27, 1847. in Henrientta. MonHM? county. N.Y. He is manager of the Shertield Car company of Three Rivers, .Mich. For four years he was state senat«ir from the sixth district of Michigan. Linsley, George Thomas, clergyman of 92 Hartford, Conn., was born 4. 1804. in New Haven. Conn. Since he has been rector of the Church of

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The Good Shepherd. Linsley, James Harvey, naturalist, author, was born May f). 1787, in Northford, C«»nn. He ])repared a series of- papers on the zoology of Connecticut for the Yale Natural History society that were published under the title of Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut in the American Journal of Science and Arts, and also contributed to that magazine Catalogues of the

Fishes and Reptiles of Connecticut, with Notes. He died Dec. 26, 1843, in Stratford, Conn. Linsley, Joel Hervey, lawyer, clergyman, eoll«'go president, was born July 16, 1790. in Cornwall. Vt. In 1835-4.^ he was president of Marietta college, raising a large endowment for that institution. He died March 22. 1808. in Greenwich. Conn. Linsley, Joseph Hatch, physician, author, was born May 2l». 1850, in Windsor, Vt. In 1881-84 he was city physician of Burlington; and he was health cflicer in 1885-1888, when he was appointed instructor in chcmBirds.

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