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 HERRTNGSHAW was

MIUlAItY OF AMKIIK'AN

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chair of hiHtoUtgy in the college of phyHieians aiiU'ct4-(i

to

tlu*

was

lH>rn July 27. 1821, in Columbia, In 1H47 he practiced law in Ko<'kConn.; and in 18,")l was elected to the Connecticut legislature. He was a state niaii,

I'tinn.

villc.

1S."»7. In 1H.V.M»;{ he was a representative from Connecticut to the thirtysixth and thirty-seventh congresses. He was jinlge of the superior court in lSU4-7.">; judge of the supreme court of I'onnecticut 18!ll became state refIS7")-01; and in in ere*. He died in VMKi in Hartford, Conn.

senatt>r in

Loomis, Eben Jenks, astronomer, author, was born Nov. 11, 1828, in Oppenlu-im. N.Y. He is an astr«m«»mer; and in 18.V.»-1!MMI was in the Nautical Almanac Wayside of the author Kclipse I'arty in Africa; an«x>ks in thirteen volumes, anuing which are, I'lane and Spheri-

senior otiice.

assistant

He

Sketches;

is

An

Trigonometry; Treatise on AstrontMuy and Treatise on Meteorology. He died Aug. 1.'), 188!», in New Haven, Conn. Loomis, Francis Butler, journalist, diplo mat, was l>orn July 27, 18«1, in Marietta, Ohio. In 1885-87 he was state librarian of cal

Ohio. was

In 18{)3-mi he editor-in-chief

the

Cincinnati Daily Tribune; and has written extensive (ports on labor situations in Kurope. In of

I8!»0l!»l>.i

he

was

Lnited .States consul France; in 181>7-

to

envoy

extraordinary an*l minister plenip«>tentiary o f the I'nited States to 1!>01

Venezuela

in

l!M)l-n.3

IIU

>< !

The

of .Atliens,

musical compositions.

He

has com-

Y.

liurglar's Mritle; (ioing I'p;

22,

11W)7,

in

New York

City,

Loomis, Justin Rudolph, educator, college was born Aug. 10, 1810, in Uennington, N.Y. He is an educator of president, author,

Penn'*ylvania presidi-nt of l>«'wisburg university in 1858-78. He is the author of (ieology; and of Klements of .iiatomy. Loomis, Lafayette Charles, educator, phy;

Klements

sician, author, was born July 7, 1824, in Coventry, Conn. He was educated at the

Wcsleyan aca; and Index (Juide to 'Kravi'l and Art Study in versity,

He was

Furo]ie

H«' died in

IMOU in the District of

Columbia. Loomis, Samuel Lane, clergyman, author, was born .Aug. K'l, IS.'iO, in Littleton. .Mass. He is a congregational clergyman of L'nion church of Hoston. He is the author of M«)»lern Cities and Their Religious Problems.

Loomis, Silas Lawrence, educator, physisurgeon, author, was born May 22.

cian,

1822, in Coventry, Conn.

He was

educatetl

the public .sehools New Kngland; at Wcsleyan academy; at the (Jeorgetown university: and at a medical college. He attained success in the of practice medicine and traveled extensively throughthe south. «>ut He in

of the

envoy extraonlinary

.">,

his

I

and The Hey of Halba; and also the grand opera I.a Canzone Fatale. Loomis, Henry P., piiysician, author, was born .April 211, 18.VJ. in New York City. In 1887-!>.'» he was professor of pathology at the university of eitv of New York. He was the author of Uriglits' Disease; and si'Veral medical Monographs. He died Dec.

and to ment;

loi

A I'l

tit

was minister (denipotentiary to Portugal; in l'.>0.'i was special ambassador to France to bring back the body of John Paul Jones receive it from the French governl!K(2.(MJ assistant secretary of state of tin- l nited States; ami in * li)(l8 was «-oiiimis^ionei' general of the I'nited States •.'overnmeiit u the international exposition, Tokyo, .lapan. Loomis, Gustavus, soldier, was born Sept. I7S!». Ihetford, Vt. 2:{, Ill He served in the Mexiean and civil wars; and in 18fM ree«'ived tin* brevet of brigaorn Feb. I8(»."», in nr(M)kIll' has n-ceived many prizes lyn. N.V.

Ft

the Test; In Old New Amsterdam: and four coniic o|>eras, The .Maid

posed Put

•

jirofessor

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^^^^^ h'ge;

ami

lille«l

^

of

at t h e medieal colthe same chair at the How(J

c

in

(Jeorgia

anl metlical college of Washington, D.C. He was the author of .Analytical .Aritlimetic; and Nornial Arithmetic. He die«l June 22, 189(1, in Fernandijia. Fla. Looney, Louisa Preston, litterateur, autiicr,

was born

in

Memphis,

Tenii.

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