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 ilERKlNUSHAW'S LIURARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. etatc sentitor, wa« born Mareh 17, 1840, in iiiov<'i| to Canada. In Ih.'m» Ih> Ontario, Uiiiu; tlit'iici* tu Miii-

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volutit<t»r

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fantry,

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numerous

imblic otfici'S of trust: ami for fh'vcn y«'ars he stTV«'il tlu' huanl of i-duof hi.- township Minnesota. In 1H72 he was conimisHioned raptain in tli<' Minn<"*ota national (niard. In 187!) he movi-d tu (J rant eoiinty, Dakota, where he was township treasurer; and for six years was president of the board of edueutiun of his township. In 1888 he was A delegate to the constitutional convention, and again in 1885, which framed the present constitution of the state of South Dakota. In 189.3-07 lie was a member of the

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in

state senate of

South Dakota.

of

theolitjry in

Lutheran seminary

at

Ohio. In 1881 he was eketed president of Capital university. He has been editor of the Lutheran Standard since ISM; and in ISHi he ht-yan the puhlieatiun ul the ColumbUH Theoloyieal Ma^'a/iiH-. He is the

(Wmbus,

juithor

of

The

Doctiiti.'

»»f

.lustiJieation:

Kssay on the J^ife of Luther, translated; Ministerial Office; and Sermons on theOoBo p«ds.

Loyally George, naval

bom May

otilcer,

congressman,

1780, in Norfolk, Va. In 18I7-'27 he WHS a ineinher of the house of delegates of Virginia. In 1829 he was a member of the convention to amend the state e»»n.stitiiti('!i; and in lS2«t-.']l and ls:{3. .'17 lie was a rt pn-sentativc to the twentyfirst, twenty-tliini and twenty-fourth congrf '-< >*. In is.iT (!1 was navy npent at XorHe f(dk. Mth thv i(*-ption of two years.

was

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died in ittiinia. Loxier, Charlotte Irene, cator, X..F.

physician, edu-

was born March l'>. IH44. in Milbnrn, She was graduated in lSrt7 at the Ni w

York Medical college and hospital for women; and in 1868-70 filled the chair of physiolopy and hygiene in that iii-t itntion. which position she held until her deatii. >Slie died .fan. 3, 1870. in

Xew York

city.

Lozier, Clemence Sophia, i)liysi. ian, founder, was born l>ec. 11, 1812, in i'laintield, N. J. Tn 1860 she began a course of lectures on medical -uhjcrt^ in her own parlors: which in ISiWi re8ulted in the founding of the New York medical college and hospital ffir women, where she was dinifal professor of diseases of women and children, and also dean of the faculty, for more than

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.She died April 26,

1888, in

Ni'w >'nik rity.

Lubeck, Fiancis Richard, farnuT, mcrchu' t. governor, author, was born Uct. U', lhl.">. in Meaufort. S.C. He served as chief eh'ik in the Texas house of representatives. In 1861-65 he wok tin- seventh goernor of Texas; and has filled the olliee of state tr«*a8urer. In 1863 he entered the confederate army as an adjutant-general; and served on the staff of President Davis as colonel of ravaliy. He waai iht author of Six Decades in Texas. He died in lOOS in. T«-xas.

Lubin, David, merchant, author, was burn in HV.K He conducts a farm of twelve hun« dred and ninety two acres in Colusa county, ("a!.; and is vice-|>resident of Weinstock, Luhin and company of Sacramento, Cal. He has been president of the California museum af>sociation at Sacramento, and was the tonmler of the International institute of agriculture. He ia the author of Let

There Be Light. LublWr George

was

Ivy, Matfhiaa, thcoloiri«n, college president, aiithor, was horn March 17. 1S2M. in Cumberland county, l*a. After a pastorate of sixteen years, in 1865 he beeame professor

twenty years.

bor.i

In 1882-811

William,

Feb. 22.

184"),

was judge Mo.

lie

of St. Ldttis,

lawyer,

jurist,

in St. Louis, .Mo. of the circuit court

Luby, Thomas Clarke, litterateur, author, was born in 1822 in Ireland. Ue was an active Irish writer in the Fenian movementa; and after five years' imprisonment WaB exiled for the rest of his twenty years' sentence. In 1870 he came to America; and his lat"r years were passed in .Jersey City, N. .1. He was tile author of Lives of Illustrious and Keprc>ciitattve Irishmen; and

The

Life of Daniel O'Connell.

Lucas, Anthony scientist,

He

Francis,

was born Sept.

ft,

civil 185.1,

engineer, in

Aus-

discovered vari(»us deposits of r«)ck halt and petrndent at Harper's Ferry, where he died Mareh 4. 1868. Lucas,

in Virginia.

Lucas. Frederic Augustus, curator, scientist,

autiior.

was born March

2d,

18.^2,

in

In 1871-72 he was asW.ir l"- ii idiral m ience establisiiuu'nt of Ktwhester, N.V.; in 1882 was appointed osteologist in the United States national imiseum; was assistant curator in 1887-U3; and curator in iH'.KMitOl. Since 1904 he has been curatf the Brooklyn institute. He is the author of Animals of the Past; and

Plymouth, Mass. -i-faiit

in

Animals Before

Man

in

North America.

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