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Phelps, imval oflTicer, was He 1836, in Windsor. Vt. and promottMl midsbipman in 18.55 lieutenant in 18G0. In 18<I2 be bad been promoted lieulenant-connnander and in 18G3 was ordered to active service, participating in the battle of Mobile Bay and 8ub8e<pient He died Marcb 5, 1887. in cngacemetits. IVnsacola, Fla, Lum, Daniel Dyer, litterateur, autbor. lie was the autbur of Tbe Spiritual Delusion; Early Social Life of Man; and Utah and Its People. Lumbrozo, Jacob, colonist, pbysieian. He is a native of Lisbon. Portugal. In 1650 lie establisluHl himself in Maryland and acHe (|uired a plantation in Charles county. was one of the earliest physii-ians in MaryHe died in ItitSfJ in Maryland. land. Lummis, Charles Fletcher, explorer, author, was born March 1. 1859, in Lynn, Mass. In 1881 be graduate<l from Harvard university and received the degree of Litt. D. from Santa

Edward

Lull,

born Feb. 20.

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Clara college and A.B. from Harvard univerHe has travele<l

sity.

in Mexico and South .merica and is eilitor of Land and Sunshine of I^os

extensively

Angelfs. Cal.; aiul editor of

Out West Mag-

Since 1905 be has been librarian of

azine.

He is tbe Los Angeles public library. A author of The Land of Pwo TieraiK) Tramp .Across the Continent The Spanish tbe





IMoneers Tbe .Man Who Marriinl the Sloon Indian folk-lore stories; Some Strange CorTbe Gold Fish of ners of Our Country





Grand Chimu New Mexico David; The King of the Bronchos; and The Awakening

court of Georgia. In 1903-1905 be was judge of the superior court of the Atlanta circuit junl since 1905 has l)een an associate justice of the supreme court of Georgia.

Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1799, in Oglethorpe coun(ia. He was educated at the university Georgia and in of 1819 graduateon Heal Estate in Massachusetts.

Lumpkin, John Henry, lawyer, was born June 13.

legislator,

1812, in ionnty. (ia. He serve:hth.

tieth

twenty-tiinth, thirFor three of .Ttiilge of the He died June 6,

and thirty-fourth congresses.

yenrs he held the «»rtice Chei-okee circuit court.

Home. (»«. Lumpkin, Joseph Henry, lawyer, jurist, was born about 1S4S in .thens. (Ja. In IS77-82 be was an assistant reporter; and in 1882-88 was reporter of the supreme IStiO.

in

Princeton college. 1820-44 he prac-

ticed

law at LexingGa. In 1845 when

ton.

the supreme court of (Jeorgia was reorgananize<l he was appointed and justice: 1846-67 was chief in justice of that court. He was a profes-sor of law at the Lumpkin law school of the utiiversity of Georgia which was named in his honor. In 1855 he decline<l a seat on the bench of the court of claims; and also declined the chancellorship of the university of Georgia. He was an advocate of the cause of temperance; ami for many years was a trustee of the state university. In 1833 he was one of the compilers of the penal co<le of Georgia. He ilied Jiuie 4. 18(!7. in Athens. Ga.

Lumpkin, Samuel, lawyer, jurist, state was born Dec. 12, 1848, in Oglethorpe county. (!a. In 1872-76 he was solicitor-general northern circuit in Georgia; and in 1877 was electeil state senator of (Jeorgia. In 1884 be was elected judge of the superior cotirt of the northern circuit; in 1890 became associate justice of the supreme c«jurl and was presiding justice of the Hi'cond division of that tribunal. He died in 1903 in Oglethorpe, (ta. senator,





of n Nation.

the In

Lumpkin,

lawyer,

Wilson,

governor,

States senator, was l)orn 1783, in Pittsylvania c<»unty. Va.

I'liited

.Ian.

14,

In 1815-

and 1827-31 be was a representative to tbe fourteenth. tw«-ntieth and Iwenly-lirst congresses, and in 1831-35 he was the seventi-enth governor of (Jeorgia. In 1823 be was appointed to mark out the iMundary line between (JiKirgia and Florida. He was appointe«i a ctunmissioner under the Cherokee treaty of 1835; was also a menilKT of the iMuird of public works; and in 1837-41 In17

was

I

nited

States senator.

He

dietl

l>w.

1H70. in Athens, Ga. Luna, Tranquilino, congressman, was born I'ei). 23. 184!>. in l-os Lunas. X.M. In 18HI85 be was a territorial delegate from New Mexico to the forty-seventh and forty-eighth 28.

congres.ses as a n'publican.

Lund,

C.

N.,

ch'rgyman.

bishop. lie was a Pleasant. I tab. ,He

state senator, semitor of Mt. a noted bishop of tbe

state is

Mornuui rimrch. Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell, litti-rateur. auwas born in New lanip'^hire. She is

tlinr.

a

iiridific

I

writer of .Sunday-school

fiction;

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