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 HERRINGSHAWS LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. forty years he devoted himself to the study of the science of heat and ventilaly

tion.

He

died in Cincinnati. Ohio. philanthro-

Loubat, Joseph Florimund, was bom Jan. 21,

pist, author,

York

City.

He

inherited

1831, in

New

a large fortune

and has made many gifts to public institutions; an endowment of pro|H«rty worth one million dollars to the Columbia university library; besides gifts of books and manuscripts. He is the author of Medallic History of the I'nited States. Loud, Eugene Francis, soldier, legislator, congreH.sman. was lK»rn March 12. 1847. in Abington, Mass. He was with the army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the

Shenandoah Valley until the war. Ho was a membt»r

close of the of the Calistato legislature in 1884; and in 18JM-15MI.S he was a reproMentative from fifty-third, California to the fifty-second, fifty-fourth, fifty-fifth! fifty-Hi.th and fiftyseventh congresses as a republican. Loud, George Alvin. lumberman, congrt^ssman. was born June 18, 18.V2, in BraceOhio. Ho is a partner in his britlge, father'.s large lumlx-r business of H. M. Lou«rs Sons' company; and vice-president «'c. 11. anthropist, was born Westhampton, Mass. He is president of the Au Sable and Northwestern r a i 1 -

civil

fornia

way

and has

been years for several president of the Ver;

and Grand Morris Iron company, having its offices in 1) u u t h. Notwithstanding these important and extensive million

1

business interests, giving employment to au aggregate of over eight hundred men, he has served as mayor of the city of Au Sable, Mich., and also accepted the republican nomination for congress. He gave fifty thousand dollars as an endowment to Albion college; and to the Weslfvan guild of Ann Arbor he gave fifteen thousand dollars to establish the

Henrv Martin I^ud

lectureship.

He

died

UK If) in Au Sable. Mich. Loud, John Hermann, organist, choir director, was born Aug. 26, 187.1, in Weymouth. Mass. He was educatf-d in the pubschools of Weymouth, lic attended the Berkeley srh(K»| of Boston and graduate; and since 1905 has been organist and choir director in the First Baptist church of Newton Center. Mass. He is also a •*ueces»ful teacher of organ, harmony and piano. Loud, Marguerite St. Leon, author, poet, was born about 18(^) in Wysox, Pa. She contributed poetry to the United States Slu' was the author of a volume (Jazette. entitled Wayside Flowers. She died in i'hihulelphia. Pa.

Louden, James Arlington, soldier, merchant, was born in Covington, Ky. At the outbreak of the civil war he entered the confederate army as a private soldier; and battles of Belmont, participated in the Holly Spring, Denmark and at the siege of Corinth. He then iM'came a planter on the shoH's of the Arkansas river; and later near Memf)hi». T<'nn. Loudenslager, Henry Clay, merchant, congressman, was born ricctown, N.J.

In

May

22.

1872-82

in

18.*)2,

he was

Mauin

the

commission

produce business phia.

in PhiladelIn 1882-1)0 he

was county

clerk. In 189.3 1911 he was u representative from New Jersey to the

fifty-second, fiftythird, fifty-fourth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fiftyeighth, fifty-ninth, sixtieth and sixtyfifty-fifth,

republican.

In

first congresses as a the fifty-fifth congress he

chairman of the committee on pensions. He died Aug. 12. 1911. in Paulsboro, NJ. Loudon, De Witt Clinton, soldier, lawyer, jiiri^t. was born in 1827 in fieorgetown, Ohio. H" served «»ne year in the Mexican w;i.-; and during the civil war was colonel of the seventieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was a prominent lawyer and statesman of (Hiio; and served ten years v;i.s

as judge

ill

liis

district.

He

died Sept. 19,

ill Ceorgetown, Ohio. Loudon, James, farmer, soldier, journalist, statesman, was Ixirn t)ct. 21, 1796, in Henry county, Ky. In 1806 he settled in Ohio; and was one

lS!t7.

of the last survivors of the daring race of men who carried on

commerce

in

the Ohio

valley in keel-boats. In '820 he edited the

Benefactor, the pioneer newspaper of Brown county, Ohio. In 1822 he taught a

country

school

in

was

182.*J



and

elected

coroner o f Brown county. In 18,34-37 he wa« a member of the Ohio house of representatives; and in

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