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revisited England. She was married, Oct. 12, 1860, to Gen. Frederick West Lander at Sau Fran- cisco, Cal., and soon after liis death, with her mother she took charge of the hospital depart- ment at Port Royal. S.C, remaining there, 1862- 63, when she returned to her home in Massachu- setts, and on Feb. 6, 1865, re-appeared on the stage at Niblo'a Garden, New York, in her own translation of " Mesalliance." She appeared as Queen Elizabeth at the National theatre in Wash- ington, D.C., in April, 1867 ; and was the first to produce in the United States Browning's " Colombe," Reade's " Peg Woffington," and Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter." She also ap- peared in Scribe's '" Adrienne Lecouveur," Schil- ler's " Mary Stuart," Legouve's " Medea," and Geacomette's " Queen Elizabeth." She made her last appearance at the Boston theatre in the " Scarlet Letter," and on retiring from the stage made her home in Washington. She died in Lynn, Mass., Aug. 2, 1903.

LANDER, Louisa, sculptor, was born in Salem, Mass., Sept. 1, 1S2G ; daughter of Edward and Eliza (West) Lander. She showed remarkable talent in her youth in modelling likenesses of various members of her family and in executing cameo heads. She studied in Rome under Thomas Crawford in 1855, and produced " To-Day," a figure in marble emblematical of America ; "Galatea:" a bust of Governor Gore of Massa- chusetts ; a bust of Hawthorne ; a statuette of "Virginia Dare ; '" "Undine;" a life-size statue of " Virginia Dare :" " Evangeline ; " " Elizabeth, the Exile of Siberia;" "Ceres Mourning for Proserpine ; " " A Sylph Alighting ; " and " The Captive Pioneers," a group of three life-size figui'es, besides numerous jwrtrait busts. Her sister, Sarah West Lander (1819-1872), is the author of " Spectacles for Young Eyes," being sketches of foreign countries ; numerous transla- tions from the German, German songs set to music, translated into English verse, original hymns and sonnets.

LANDERS, Franklin, representative, was born in Morgan county, Ind., March 22, 1825. In 1847 he entered business as a mei'chant, but in 1853 purchased a large tract of land and laid out the town of Brooklyn, Ind., providing in the deed of every lot disposed of that no intoxicating liquor should be sold on pain of forfeiture. He estab- lished five churches of various denominations in the town and contributed largely to their sup- port. He engaged in farming there and in the retail dry-goods business and subsequently re- moved to Indianapolis, Ind., and established him- self in the wholesale dr\--goods business. He was state senator, 1860-64 ; declined a nomination for representative in congress in 1864, and was a Democratic representative in the 44th congress,

1875-77. He was the originator of the first motion made in congress to restore silver to free coinage, in 1876, the vote being 111 j-eas to 55 nays. He was Democratic candidate for governor of In- diana in 1880, but was defeated by Albert G. Porter, and turned his attention to farming.

LANDIS, Charles Beary, repi-esentative, was born in Millville, Oliio, July 8, 1858 ; son of Abra- ham and Mary (Kumler) Landis, grandson of Daniel Kumler, and a descendant of one of seven brothers who came to America from Germanj- in the seventeenth century. He attended the pub- lic schools of Logansport, and was graduated from Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1883. He was editor of the Logansport Journal, 1883- 87, and of the Delphi Journal, 1887-97. He was married, Oct. 23, 1887, to Cora B., daugliter of J. B. Chaffin, of Logaiisport. He was president of the Indiana Republican Editorial association, 1894-96 ; and a Republican representative from the ninth Indiana district in the 55th, 56th, 57tli and 58th congresses, 1897-1905.

LANDON, Judson Stuart, jurist, was born in Salisbury, Conn., Dec. 16, 1832; son of William and Phebe (Berry) Landon ; grandson of Aslibill Landon, and a descendant of James Landon, who came from England to Boston, Mass., in 1675. He attended Amenia and Cliarlotteville semina- ries, N.Y., was principal of Princeton (N.Y.) academy, studied at Yale Law school, 1854-55, was admitted to the bar in 1855 and practised in Schenectady, N.Y. He was district attorney, 1857-63 ; county judge, 1865-70 ; member of the constitutional convention of 1867 ; was elected a justice of the supreme court for the fourth district of the state of New York in 1873, and in 1900 was assigned to the court of appeals, by Governor Roosevelt. He was elected a trustee of Union college in 1878, and was president ad interim of Union, 1884-88, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Eliphalet Nott Potter and being in turn succeeded by Dr. Harrison E. Webster, LL.D., and was subse- quently made lecturer on constitutional law at the Albany Law school. He received the honor- ary degree of A.M. from Union in 1855 and that of LL.D. from Rutgers college, N.J., in 1885. He is the author of : The Constitutional History and Government of the United States, a Series of Lec- tures (1889).

LANDRETH, David, agriculturist and mer- chant, was born in 1802 ; son of David Landreth, a native of England, who immigrated to America in 1783, and settled in Philadelphia, where he established himself in the nursery and seed busi- ness. He was educated in private schools and then joined his father in business, to which he became heir. He conducted an extensive seed business, which was continued by his sons. He was one of the founders in 1827 of the Pennsylvania Horticul-