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LABAGH, Isaac Peter, clergyman, was born in Leeds, Greene county, N.Y., Aug. 14, 1804 ; son of the Rev. Dr. Peter and Magdalen (Van Alen) Labagh. His father (born in 1773, died in 1858), was a prominent minister of the Dutch Re- formed church. Isaac was graduated from Dick- inson college. Pa., in 1833, and from the Theo- logical Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1826, and held pastorates in Rochester and Gravesend, N.Y., until 1842. He was suspended from the ministry by the gen- eral synod for views expounded concerning the second advent and the Christian Sabbath. He took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1846 ; engaged in missionary work among the Jews in New York city, and organized and built Grace church, Gloucester, N.J., and St. Paul's church, Brooklyn, N. Y. He removed to Marengo, 111., in 1860, and there established a seminary for young women, which was destroyed by fire in 1862. In 1863 he removed to Cairo, 111., and built the Church of the Redeemer, and in 1864 removed to Fairfield, Iowa, and was pastor of St. Peter's church until his death. He is the author of : A Sermon on the Personal Reign of Christ (1846) ; Twelve Lectures on Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy (1859); Theoklesia ; or the Organiza- tion, Perpetuity, Conflicts and Triumphs of the One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church (1868). He died in Fairfield, Iowa, Dec. 29, 1879.

LABAREE, Benjamin, educator, was born in Charlestown, N.H., June 3, 1801 ; son of Ben- jamin and Hannah (Farwell) Labaree. He taught school in North Carolina and later studied at Kimball Union academy, Meriden, N.H., and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1828, and from Andover Theological seminary in 1831. He was ordained by the pres- bytery of Newburyport at Bradford, Mass., Sept. 26, 18- 31, and was sent on a tour through the soutliwest, by the American Education society, to enlist young men for the ministry. He was principal of the Manual Labor school at Spring Hill, Tenn., 1831-32, pro- fessor of ancient languages at Jackson college, Co- lumbia, Tenn., 1832-36, president of the institu- tion, 1836-37 ; secretary of the Central American Education society, New York city, 1837-40, and president of Middlebury college, Vt., 1840-66. During his administration the endowment of Mid- dlebury college was largely increased, and import- ant progress made in other directions. He resided in Andover, Mass., 1867-69 ; was pastor at Hyde

Park, and acting pastor at South Weymouth, 1869-70, and resided at West Roxbury, Mass., 1870-75, at Charlestown, N.H., 1875-80, and Wal- pole, N.H., 1880-83. He was lecturer on moral philosophy and international law at Dartmouth college, 1871-76, and at Middlebury college in 1874. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Vermont in 1841, and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1864. He was twice mar- ried ; first, Sept. 29, 1831, to Eliza Paul Capen of Dorchester, Mass., who died in Spring Hill, Tenn., Oct. 12, 1835, and secondly, Oct. 25, 1806, to Mrs. Susan (Freeman) Fairbank, of Cincinnati, Ohio. He died in Walpole, N.H., Nov. 15, 1883.

LACEY, Edward Samuel, representative, was born in Chili, N. Y., Nov. 26, 1835 ; son of Edward D. and Martha C. (Pixley) Lacey ; and grandson of Samuel Lacey, a major in the 1st Regiment of Vermont Militia in the war of 1812. He was taken by his parents to Eaton county, Mich., in 1842, where he attended Olivet college. He was in Kalamazoo, Mich., 1853-57, and then removed to Charlotte, Mich., where he was register of deeds, 1860-64. He was married, Jan. 1, 1861, to An- nette C, daughter of the Hon. Joseph Musgrave of Charlotte, Mich., and engaged in banking until 1889. He was interested in the construc- tion of the Grand River railroad in 1868. In 1871 he was elected the first mayor of Charlotte. He was a trustee of the Michigan Asylum for the In- sane, 1874-80 ; a delegate to the Republican na- tional convention in 1876 ; chairman of the Re- publican state committee of Michigan, 1882-84 ; a representative from the third district of Michi- gan in the 47th and 48th congresses, 1881-85, and a candidate before the Republican legislative caucus for U.S. senator in 1886. He was ap- pointed comptroller of the currency by President Harrison in April, 1889, and served until 1892, when lie resigned to become president of the Bankers' National bank of Chicago, 111.

LACEY, John, soldier, was born in Bucks county, Pa., Feb. 4, 1755. He was cai^tain in Col. Anthony Wayne's 4th Pennsylvania bat- talion and went with the battalion to Long Island, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1776, and on the Canada expedi- tion. In 1777 he was commissioned lieutenant- colonel and on Jan. 9, 1778, brigadier-general of Pennsylvania militia, serving in the efforts to prevent the occupation of Philadelphia by the British. He was a representative in the Penn- sylvania legislature, 1778, and a member of the council, 1779-81. He commanded a brigade of state militia from August, 1780, to October, 1781, and after the war removed to New Mills, N.J. ,