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tion. In the autumn of 1900, lie resumed his professional work at Yale university. He was twice married, first, in December, lbG9, to Cor- nelia A., daughter of John Tallman, of Bridge- port, Ohio, who died in October, 1893; and, secondly, in December, 1895, to Frances V., daughter of Dr. George T. Stevens, of New York city. He received the honorary degrees of D.D. in 1881 and LL.D. in 1895, from Western Reserve college, and that of LL.D. from Princeton in 1896. He is the autlior of: Principles of Church Polity (1881); Doctrine of Sacred Scripture (1883); Elements of Physiological Psychology (1887); Outlines of Physiological Psychology (1890); A Translation of Lotte's PJiilosojihical Outlines (1884-87); What is the Bible? (1885); Introduction to Philosophy (1890); Primer of Psy- chology (1894): Psychology, Descriptive and Ex- planatory (1894); Philosophy of Mind (1895); Philosophy of Knowledge (1897); Outlines of De- scriptive Psychology (1898); Essays on Higher Education (1899); A Treaty of Reality (1899). All these books were republished in England, several were translated into Japanese and some printed in raised letters for the blind.

LADD, Horatio Oliver, educator, was born in Hallowell. Maine, Aug. 31, 1839; son of Gen. Samual Greenleaf and Caroline (Vinal) Ladd; grandson of Dudley and Bethala (Hutchins) Ladd, and a descendant of Daniel Ladd, -who came from London in the Mary and Jane, and w^as one of the first settlers of Ipswich, Mass., 1634. He was graduated from Bowdoin college in 1859; was principal of an academj- at Farmington, Maine, 1859-61, and was graduated from Y''ale Divinity school in 1863. He was pastor of the Congrega- tional church and professor of rhetoric and ora- tory at Olivet college. Olivet, Mich., 1868-69; pastor at Romeo, Mich., 1869-73; and principal of the State normal school, Plymouth, N.H., 1873- 76. In 1881 he founded the University of New- Mexico, at Santa Fe, N.M., and was its president until 1889, when the territorial legislature incor- porated and endowed the State Universitj' of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. He founded the Ramona Indian school and the U.S. Indian school at Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was appointed and confirmed by the U.S. senate as supervisor of the census of New Mexico, in 1889, which office he resigned in 1890. He was pastor of the Con- gregational church, Hoi)kinton, Mass., 1890-91. In 1891 he took orders in the Protestant Epis- copal church, and was rector of Trinity church, Fishkill, N. Y., until 1896. when he accepted the rectorship of Grace church, Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. He was married, Aug. 6, 1863, to Harriet Vaughan, daughter of John S. C. Abbott, D.D., of Fair Haven. Conn. He "is the author of: The Memorial of John S. C. Abbott (1878); The Wq^-

u'ith Mexico (1881); Ramona Days (1889); The Story of Neiv Mexico (1891); The Founding of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess County, N.Y. (1895), and many contributions to periodicals.

LAOD, William, philanthropist, was born at Exeter, N.H., May 10, 1778. He was graduated from Harvard, in 1797, and shipped on one of his father's vessels as a common seaman and .soon became one of the most successful of his father's captains, subsequently commanding vessels own- ed jointly by himself and brothers. In 1801 lie made a trip to Florida, having conceived the idea of undermining slavery by the introduction of free white laborers. This experiment was en- couraged by the Spanish governor of the prov- ince, who offered a piece of land to every laborer introduced. Mr. Ladd transported a number of Dutch immigrants, who were redemptioners, from Philadelphia, but the project failed and was abandoned in 1806. He returned to Portsmouth, and once more followed the sea with much suc- cess, until the business was stopped by the war of 1812, when he retired to Minot, Maine, and de- voted himself to agricultural pursuits. He was instrumental in the organization of the American Peace society in 1828, and for several years sus- tained it, almost alone. Finding it diflficult to collect an audience during the week, he obtained from an association of Congregational ministers in Maine a commission as a preacher of the gospel, for the purpose of facilitating his labors in the cause of peace. He edited the Friend of Peace established by Dr. Noah Worcester, and the Harbinger of Peace which succeeded it as the official organ of the society. He published an Address to the Peace Society of Maine (1824); Ad- dress to the Peace Society of Massachusetts (1825); An Essay on the Congress of Nations (1840). He died in Portsmouth, N.H., April 9, 1841.

LADUE, Pomeroy, educator, was born in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 23, 1868; son of George Norton and Sarah Scarborough (Pomeroy) Ladue; grandson of John and Mary (Angel) Ladue, and of Dr. Thomas Fuller and j\Iary Ann (Hoadley) Pomeroy, and a descendant of Pierre Ladoue, one of the Huguenot settlers of the town of New Rochelle. N.Y''., in 1688. He was graduated from the University of Michigan, B.S., in 1890. was admitted to the bar, and practised in Detioit, 1891-92. He was an observer in the U.S. weather bureau, 1892-93, and an instructor in mathemat- ics at the University of Michigan, 1893-94, when he accepted the professorship of mathematics at the New Y^'ork university, acting also as secretary of the faculty of the graduate school and of the faculty of the school of applied science. He be- came a member of the council of the American Mathematical society and was elected its librarian in 1895.