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commissioned by congress lieutenant-colonel, and soon after, colonel commanding artillery. He received instructions to raise a regiment, and authority from General Knox to appoint under him one major, six captains and twenty-five sub- alterns, Jan. 22, 1777, and on April 10, he proceeded to Fishkill, where he remained for some time ar- ranging the affairs of his regiment. He served througli the war, and in 1788 was chosen a mem- ber of the New York assembly by the Whig party. He was chairman of the committees on the regu- lations of trade and of the militia. He was ap- pointed collector of customs for the port of New York by President Washington, Aug. 6, 1789, for which he resigned his seat in the legislature. The embezzlements of a trusted clerk in his em- ploy in the custom-house ruined him financially and he resigned the office a short time before his death. He was a member and at one time vice- president of the Society of the Cincinnati. He died in New York city, May 31, 1800.

LAflB, John, representative, was born in Sus- sex county, Va., June 12, 1840; son of Lycurgus Anthony and Elizabeth (Christian)Lamb; grand- son of John and Mary (Emory) Moody Lamb and of the Rev. James Hendricks Christian, both of Charles City county, Va., and a descendant in the fourth generation from Joseph Christian, an offi- cer in the American Revolution. His father, a school teacher, removed in 1845 with his parents to their home " Rural Shades " Cliarles City county, where the family had been established since about 1650. In 1855, upon the death of his father, John became the sole support of his mother, left with a large family of children. He engaged in the study of civil engineering during his leisure time. At the outbreak of the civil war he volunteered in the Confederate army as a pri- vate in the Charles City troop, which afterward became Company D, in the 3d Virginia cavalry, attached to Wickham's brigade. He served throughout the war and was twice severely wounded, and surrendered at Appomattox as captain of his company. He returned to Charles City county and engaged in farming. He was sheriff of the county, and was successively county treasurer, county surveyor and chairman of the Democratic county committee. He was a Demo- cratic representative from the third district of Virginia in the 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th con- gresses, 1895-1905.

LAMB, Martha Joanna Reade Nash, historian, was born in Plainfield, Mass., Aug. 13, 1829; daughter of Arvin and Lucinda (Vinton) Nash, and granddaughter of Jacob and Joanna (Reade) Nash. Her first paternal ancestor in America came over in the Mayfloiver in 1620, and her ma- ternal ancestors were French Huguenots, who settled in America about 1640. She was well

educated and at an early age wrote poetry and stories and became interested in liistorical re- search. She was married in 1852 to Charles A. Lamb of Ohio, and resided in that state until 1858, when she removed to Chicago, 111. Slie was influential in found- ing the Home for the Friendless and the Half Orphan asylum in Chicago, and was made secretary of U.S. Sanitary fair, in 1863. In 1866 she removed to New York city, where she de- voted herself to his- torical and literary work, and edited the Magazine of Ameri- can History, 1883-93. She was a member of many historical

and learned societies in America and Europe. Her most important work is: The History of the City of Neio York (2 vols., 1877-81). She is also the author of eight books for children (1869-70); Spicy, a novel (1873); Lyme, a Chapter on Chief -Justice Waite a7id His Home (1876); State and Society in Washington (1878); The Homes of America (1879); Mevwrial of Dr. J. D. Russ (1880); The Christmas Owl (1881); Snoxo and Sunshine (juvenile, 1882); The Christmas Basket (juvenile, 1882); Wall Street in History (1883); Historical Sketch of Neio York (tenth census, 1883). She died in New York city, Jan. 2, 1893. LAMBDIN, Alfred Cochran, editor, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 29, 1846; son of James Reid and Mary (Cochran) Lambdin. He was educated in private schools and was graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1866. He practised medicine at Germantown, Pa., 1866-70, and then engaged in journalism. He was editor of the German- town Chronicle, an independent paper, 1870-75, and managing editor of the Philadelphia Times from 1875. He was married, June 11, 1872. to Katherine Lingen, daughter of Robert Lindsay and Ellen (Oldmixon) Mcllwaine of Philadel- pliia. Pa. He is the author of: A7i Account of the Battle of Oermantoum (1877).

LAMBDIN, George Cochran, artist, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 6, 1880; son of James Reid and Mary (Cochran) Lambdin; grandson of James and Prudence (Harrison) Lambdin and of George and Eleanor (Connor) Cochran. He stud- ied art with his father and at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts until 1855, when lie at- tended the art academies at Munich and Paris. On his return in 1857 he settled in Philadelphia,