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ti) tlie ^Ist congress in 1898, but dii-d Ijcfore tak- ing liis seat, and his term was filU-d hy Gilbert L. Laws, secretary of state, 1887-8'J, elected Nov. 5, 188!). He died in Hastings, Neb., Aug. 17. 1889.

LAKEY, Emily Jane, artist, wfis born in Quincy, N.Y., June 22, 1831 ; daughter of J.ames Jackson. She was educated by private teachers, taught scliool in Ohio and Tennessee, and took up the study of the art of painting. She exhib- ited her paintings first in Chicago, 111., in 1870, and at the National Academy of Design in 1873. She studied in Europe with Emile van Marcke in Paris, and in the galleries there and in Florence and London. After her return to New York city in 1887 she devoted all her time to art, making a specialty of domestic animals. She was married in 1865 to Charles D. Lakey, of New York. Among her important works are : Leader and Herd (1882), The Right of Way (1886), both ex- hibited at Goupils, in London ; TJie Anxious Mother (1882) ; Aloiie (1885) ; Fro7n Pasture to Pool (1890). She died in Cranford, N.J., Oct.22, 1896.

LALOR, Teresa, educator, was born in county Queens, Ireland, in 17G6. She immigrated to the United States with her parents in 1797, and they settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where, in connection with two other young women, she opened a school for girls under the direction of the Rev. Leonard Neale. After the school was established yellow fever broke out in Philadelphia, and her two companions died with the fever. She re- mained at her post of duty and nursed the sick, although urged to leave the city. In 1799 Father Neale, who had become president of Georgetown college, decided to open a school for girls there, and invited Miss Lalor to take charge. This school was the foundation of the first permanent Roman Catholic school for girls in the Atlantic States. Bishop Neale purchased the deserted con- vent of the Poor Clares in 1805, and settled in it the Pious Ladies, who afterward became the Visitation Nuns. This property was transferred to Miss Lalor in 1808, and shortly afterward, by order of the pope, it became officially known as the Convent and Academy of the Visitation, and she was made the first mother superior. Five convents of her order were established in the United States during her life. She died in Georgetown, D.C., in 1840.

LAflAR, Henry Gazaway, representative, was born in Putnam county, Ga. He wiis a nephew of Zachariah and John Lamar, and a cousin of President ]\I. B. Lamar, Judge L. Q. C. Lamar and Col. John B. Lamar. He became a lawyer in Macon, Ga., and was a representative from that district in the 21st and 22d congresses, 1829-33, and a judge of the superior court of Georgia. No record of the date of his birth or death or of his parents' names could be found.

LAMAR, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, jurist, was born near Eatonton, Putnam county, Ga., July 15, 1797 ; the eldest .son of Jolin Lamar, a wealthy planter. He was a student at Franklin college. University of Georgia. He studied law in the office of Joel Crawford at Milledgeville, Ga., in 1816, and at the law school, Litchfield, Conn., 1817-18 ; was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1819, and settled in practice at Milledgeville. In 1821 he became a law partner with Joel Craw- ford, his former instructor. In 1828, on the resig- nation of Judge Shorter from the justiceship of the superior court of Georgia, Mr. Lamar refused to become a candidate for the office in ojtposition to Thomas W. Cobb, Vmt <'n the death of Judge Cobb, in 1830, he was elected judge of the superior court, filling the position until his death. His decisions were considered the highest authority in Georgia. He was married in 1819 to a daugh- ter of Dr. Bird, of Milledgeville, Ga. He revised Augustine S. Clayton's " Georgia Justice." pub- lished in 1819, and was chosen by the legislature of Georgia to compile the laws of Georgia from 1810 to 1820, published in 1821. During a tem- porary condition of insanity he took his own life in Milledgeville, Ga., July 4, 1834.

LAMAR, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, states- man, was born near Eatonton, Putnam county, Ga., Sept. 1, 1825 ; son of Judge Lucius Q. C. La- mar (q.v.). He was graduated at Emery college. Oxford, Ga., in 1845 ; studied law in Macon in the office of A. H. Cliap- pell, and was admit- ted to the bar in 1847. He began practice in Macon, but failing to secure the hand of Miss Henrietta Dean, who subsequently married Gen. "Will- iam I. Holt, he ac- cepted the position of adjunct profes.sor of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Missis- sippi, Oxford, and while thei'e became a

contributor to the Southern Revieiv, of which Prof. Alfred T. Bledsoe (q.v.) was editor. He re- mained at the university, 1850-52, was married to a daughter of the Rev. A. B. Longstreet, the president, and returning to Georgia, practised law at Covington. He represented Newton county in the .state legislature in 1853, having been elected as a Democrat, although the county Iiad a large "Whig majority, and he became at once a Ipader in the assembly. He returned to Mississippi in 1854, and made his residence on his

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