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LlHltAIlY

in Lnwr-'iue county. Misn. In 1876 liogriulcollege and UAted frum the MiMHissippi studied law at the university of Virginia. In 1S76-80 lu' was oU-rk <>f tlic cimiil and cltanciTV courts Lawn-ncc county, for Misg. and in 1880-B4 was a member of

tlu-

trict

MisRistsippi state Benafc. lie was disattorney for the soiitlicru diHtrict of

Missianippi; and

in

was ehaneellor he was governor

ls*)4-<)ii

In 194 state of MiMHiMtippi.

of that district. of the

Longley, Edmund, ^>ducator, author, was born April 1, 1819, in Sidney, Maine. Ue has tauf;ht for fifty years. He has been profl'^^Ho^ of mathematics, French. Spanish and Italian languages; and of English literature and elocution. He is the antlior of s. vi rul educational worka; and now reaidea in timory, Va, LoBgneeker, Henry Clay, soldier, lawyer, April 17, jurint. coii^Trs-^man, wa« born In 185U-61 he whh 182U, in AUentown, I'a. a representative from Pennsylvania to the of tliirt v sitl) conyn H8. He was cohiru l

the nintli Pennsylvania infantry, cotiiiiuindwestern Virginia at the ed a brigade in pommcncenient of the relH'Uion in IHHl and commandLHl a brigade of subsequeiitiv In 1HK7 militia at the battle of Antietam. lie was appointe<l an associate judge of Lehigh county. He died Sept. 18, 1871. in

Allcntown. I'a. Longahore, Hannah

Imm May

was

physician,

Maryland. She was up a professional sign in Philadelphia; and one of the ten members who composed the firat graduating th(

class

lirst

of

30, 1810, in

woman the

to mt

WiMiiJin's

Pennsylvania.

.Site

iiuMlical

died in

c<)ne;,'e

I'JUl

in

in

OK AMEltlCAN BIOORArHi.

(81

was appointed l'niteotentiary of the I'nited States to Turkey. He wab the author of From Manassas to Appomattox. He died Jan. 2,

in

<

Jaiiiesville.

(ia.

Longstreet, William, inentur, was born Oct. 0, 17')!), in .< w ,Ierf(y. He launched a stenm boat on the Savannah river, which moved against the current at the rate of live miles an hour. This was in 1807, a few days after Fulton had made a similar* ly auceeeafttl experiment on the Hudson, ll^'sides this invention, he patented a valuable improvement in cotton-gins, called the

breast roller, moved by horse power, wbieh superseded the oM method. He died Sept. 1, 1814, in Augusta, Cia. Longstreth, liters Ffaher, physician, aatronorner, was born March, 1S19, in Philadelphia. During the early port of his

<'ntirely

life be was a nerehant; be devoted his leisure to the study of asf ronorny and had charge of the Friends' observatory in Phil* ndelphia until 18A6. Longworth, Nicolas, horticulturist, au thor, was born Jan. Itl, ITSi. in Newark, X,J. After twenty-five year^' practice he retirwl from law in order to devote himself to the cultivation of the grape with a view to manufacturing wine. He had twc hundred acres of vineyards, and a large wine-house in the vicinity of Cincinnati; and left a fortune of ten million dollars. He was the author of Buchanan's Treatise on the Grape. He died Feb. 10.

isr»3.

in

Cincinnati. Ohin.

Long worth, Nicholas, lawyer, state

I'hila-

aeatL-

bom

delphia, Pa.

Longshore, Joseph Skelton, physician, author, was horn Sept. IH, ISOtt. in llucks He was tiie author of Princounty, I'a. ciph's of Nursing: and a work on (djstetricM. He a.

_

.

educated in the pub* -He schools, academics and theological seminary. Ue was a jurist and educator of (teorgia;

became

methodist

minister in

1838;

and waa sub-

scijucntly of several colleges.

author

a

president

southern

He was of

the

(jcor^ia

Scenes; Master William Mitten; and Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts. He dietl Sept. 0. 1870, in Oxford. Miss. Longstreet, James, soldier, diplomat, author, was born Jan. 8, 1821, in Edgefield, S.C. He served throughout the dvu war, rising to the rank of nMjor-|pencTal. He

tor, congreaaman, wan Nov. 6, 1880. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sinee 1894 he has been

a

auocessful lawyer of Cincinnati, Ohio. In

18II0-I0O1 he waa a member of the Ohio le^'islature; and in 1001-03 was a member of the state senate. In 1003-11

state

he was a repres«'ntative from Ohio to the lifty-eighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and aizty* first congresses as a republican. Loncyctr, lalia Wesley, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was bom Oct. 22, 1820, in Shnndaken, N.Y. In 18ti3-67 he was a representative from Micliipan to the thirty-

eighth and thirty>ninth congresses. He waa a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists* invention in 18Cfi; an»l in 187U became district judge of the district court of Michi^n. He died March 10, 1875, In Detroit, (

Mi.

li.

Looker, Othniel, lawyer, jurist, state senntor. governor, was bom Oct. 4, 1787, on He served five years in Lonji IsImtkI. N.Y. tlic revolutionary arn»y; and also serveil in both branches of the New York state legislature. In 1S(»4 he moved to Oliio,

where he served for many years in the senate; and in 1814 waa acting governor of Ohio. He was for seven years a judge of the court of common pleas. He died April 6, 1846, in Palestine, lU. Ntat«-

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