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 LADD

LADD

Thomas and Ann (Burnley) Lacy and of James and Margaret (House) Rice. His grandfather, Tlionias Lacy, came to America from England about 1685, His early education was meagre, but being de- barred from manual labor by the loss of his left hand from the explosion of a gun, he acquired sufficient knowledge of the classical languages to be appointed tutor in Hampden-Sidney col- lege in 1781. He studied theology under Dr. John Blair Smitli, president of Hampden-Sidney college, and was licensed to preach in September, 1787, and ordained in October, 1788. In 1788 he was elected vice-president of the college, and in 1791, on Dr. Smith's resignation, succeeded to the presidency. He was married, Dec. 25, 1789, to Anne Smitli, and became the father of three sons: William and Drury, who entered the ministry, and Horace, who was a physician; and two daughters: Elizabeth Rice, who married Samuel Davies Hoge and became the mother of Moses Drury and William James Hoge; and Judith, who married the Rev. James Brookes and became the mother of the Rev, James H. Brookes, D.D., of St. Louis, Mo, Mr. Lacy resigned from the presidency of Hampden-Sidney college in 1796, and during the rest of his life supplied neighbor- ing churches and taught a classical school. He was moderator of the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1809, and served as clerk of the Hanover Presbytery during a lai'ge part of his ministry. The loss of his hand was supplied by one of silver, and this fact, together with his clear and musical voice, gained for him the name of " Lacy with the silver hand and silver tongue," He died in Philadelphia, Pa,, Dec. 6, 1815.

LADD, Catherine, educator, was born in Rich- mond, Va., Oct, 28, 1809; daughter of James and Nancy (Collins) Stratton, and granddaughter of James and Catherine (Foulk) Collins of Philadel- phia. She was educated at Richmond, Va., in the same school that Edgar Allan Poe attended in 1821 and 1822, and in 1828 she married G, W, Ladd, a painter of portraits and miniatures. She established and was principal of a boarding school at Winnsborough, Fairfield county, S.C, 1841-61, and in 1851 through the press urged the necessity of procuring white labor and of engaging in the manufacture of cotton in South Carolina, During the progress of the civil war she nursed the sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, and at its close resumed teaching. She is said to have been the de- signer of the first Confederate flag. In 1880 she re- moved to a farm in Fairfield county, near Winns- boro, S.C, where she spent the remainder of her life. During her career as a writer, beginning in 1828, she wrote, besides articles on art and educa- tion, numerous stories and poems for the Floral Wreath and other periodicals. She died at Buena Vista, Fairfield county, S.C, Jan, 31, 1899.

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LADD, George Trumbull, teacher, was born in Painesville, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1842; son of Silas Trumbull and Elizabeth (Williams) Ladd: grand- son of Jesse, Jr., and Ruby (Brewster) Ladd; great-grandson of Wadsworth and Jerusha Brew- ster, of Chatham, Conn.; a descendant of Daniel Ladd who came to New Eng- land in the Mary and John, of London, in 1633, and was one of the original settlers of Haverhill, Mass.; and also a descend- ant of Elder William Brewster, of the Mayfloioer. He was graduated from Wes- tern Reserve college in 1864, and from Andover Theological seminarj', in 1869; was ordained to the Con- gregational ministry. May 26, 1870, and was acting pastor at Edinburg, Oliio, 1869-71; and pastor of the Spring Street church, Milwaukee, Wis., 1871-79, He was professor of mental and moral philosophy at Bowdoin college, 1879-81; lectured on church polity and systematic theology in the Andover Theological seminary, 1879-81, and was chosen professor of mental and moral philosophy at Yale in 1881, He was a lecturer in the Harvard Divinity school, in 1883, and a spe- cial lecturer on philosophy at the Doshisha, Kioto, Japan, before the students of the University at Tokio, and at the Summer school at Hakone, Japan, in 1892, During the academical year of 1895-96, he served on the faculty of Harvard university, conducting the graduate seminary in ethics; and in the summer of 1896 he lectured on ethics and the pliilosophy of religion in Chicago university. He was president of the American Psychological association in 1893. In the fall of 1899 he lectured before the Imperial Educational society, and the Imperial university of Japan. While in Japan he was decorated by the emperor with the third degree of the Order of the Rising Sun, for his services to the country, was ad- mitted to the Imperial audience and delivered addresses before other educational institutions, and before the Noble club. The following winter he lectured in Bombay and Calcutta, the jirin- cipal cities in India, and in Colombo, Ceylon. The lectures in Bombay were given under the auspices of the University of Bombay, and those in Madras at the Christian college, of Madras. On the return journey through Europe he attended the International congress of psychology as the delegate of the American Psychological associa-