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of Wood Yolk: Bejwta of the Field; Fowls of the Air; Following the Deer; School of the Woodn; A Little Brother to the Bear: and Northern Trails.

Longacre, James Barton, enpraver, was Aug. 11, 171)4. in Delaware county, l*a. 1H44-69 he was engraver to the United States mint; and designed all the new c<»inH that were struck during this time, including the double-eagle, the three-dollar He died Jan. 1, piece, and the gold C»-;V2 he taught in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pa.; and in 185,3 graduated from the state law school of New York. In 1855-58 he was a representative in the legislature; and waa Pennsylvania state speaker of the house in the last session. In 1858-63 he was a notary public; and in l86-6i)

was

secretary

recording

of

the

Pennsylvania agricultural society. In 1862 he was elected a director of the Montgomery county bank; and in 1864-65 wa« presIn 1867 he waa ident of that institution. »p|M>inted collector of revenue; and in 1868 was elected president judge of all the courts com|M)8ed of the counties of Lehigh and Northampton for a term of t4;n years. He is the author of a History of the Longaker Family. olficer, was naval Longnecker, Edwin, In 1865 he gradborn in Pennsylvania. uatev« been rear admiral United States navy. Longfellow,

Alexander Wadsworth,

de-

signer, architect, was born in 1854 in PortHe is a noted architect of land, Maine. Boston, Mass.; and designe*! the Brunswick and Yarmouth niemorial library.

Ernest Wadsworth, artist, 2.'1. 1845, in Cambridge, Mass. favorably known for such elTective landscapes an«l compositions as Old Mill at Manchester, Mass.; Italian Pines; Love Me, Longfellow,

was born Nov.

He

is

My

Ix>ve

and

Dog; Misty Morning; and John

Priscilla.

Longfellow, Samuel, clergyman, author, was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, He was a unitarian clergyman, and held pastorates at Fall River, Brooklyn and <;ernuintown. He was the author of Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns and Verses; poet,

Memoir

of

S.

He

Johnson; died

in

and Essays and

1892 in Cambridge,

and

in

t

in

filled

same position at university

lK34-.>4,

being

his

home

Cambridge 1835. He was at

from the author of Copla,s de Manrique, a v«T«e translation from the Spanish; Outre-Mer, a prose volume of travels; Hyperion, a prose romance; Voices of the Night; Ballads, and Other Po<»m8; Poems on Slavery; The Spanish Student; The Ik'lfry of Bruges, and Other Poems; Evangeline; Kavanagh, a prose tale; Seaside and Fireside: The <<olden Iv«'gend; Hiawatha; The Courtship of Miles Standisli; Tales of a Wayside Inn. first series; Flower de Luce; New England Tragedies; Dante's Divina Conimedia, a translation;

The Di-

vine Trageily; Three Books of Song; Aftermath; The Masque of Pandora; KSramos; Ultima Tliule; In the Harbor; and Michael Angelo. He died March 24, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.

lawyer, congressLongfellow, Stephen, lK)rn June 23. 1775, in Gorhara. Maine. In 1817 he was a member of the corporation of Bowdoin college. In 182325 he was a representative to the eighteenth congress from Maine; and a repre-

man, was

sentative in the Maine legislature in 1826. He died Aug. 2, 1849, in Portland, Maine. archiLongfellow, William Pitt Preble, author, was born Oct. 25. 1836, in He is an architect of Portland, Maine. Cyclopaedia of note; and editor of the Architecture in Italy, Greece and the Ix*vant. He is the author of The Column and the Arch; and other works. tect,

Longford, William G., soldier, lawyer, jurAug. 10, 1834. in Greene ist, was born county. Ohio. In 1856 he served as a volIn 1863 he reunteer in the Indian war. moved to Walla Walla, Wash: and in 186467 he was a repres«»ntative in the terriIn 1875 he located in torial legislature. and was elected to the Ix' wist on. Idaho: upper house of the Idaho legislature. He removetl to Walla Walla again; was elected and was four times recity attorney; elected. In 1885 he was appointed an asttociate justice of the supreme court of Wasliington territory.

Maine.

Sermons.

college

182U-35,

Harvard

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a

Bowdoin the

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languages

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Longhead, Mrs. Flora Haines, journalist. was born -July 2, 1855, Milwaukee, Wis. She is the author' of

«lramati«t, author, in

The Man Who The Abandoned Claim; The Bh Man from Nowhere; San

Libraries of California: (lUilty;

Curtain: The

Mas.s.

Brother.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, poet, was born Feb. 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. The

senator, governor,

Longino, Andrew Houston, lawyer, staSte was born May 16, ISin*.