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tural society, the first association of its kind in America, and he served as its corresponding sec- retary, 1820-38. He was a member of the Philadel- phia Society for the Promotion of Agricultnre, the first formed agricultural society in America, and served as its president for two years. In 1832 he established and published the Illustrated Floral Magazine, wliich was remarkable for accuracy and beauty of illustration. In 1847 he edited, v.itli additional notes, Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Gardening, besides contributing articles on agriculture and horticulture to periodicals. He died at Bloomsdale, Bristol. Pa., in 1880.

LANDRETH, Olin Henry, engineer and edu- cator, was born in Addison, N.Y., July 21, 1852 ; son of the Rev. James and Adelia (Comstock) Lan- dretli, grandson of Henry and Catharine (Kelly) Landreth, and of Anson and Rachael (Hitchcock) Comstock. His grandfather, Henry Landreth, was a native of Alsace-Lorraine, and came to Brockville, Canada, in 1827. He was graduated from Union college, C.E., 1876, A.B., 1877, A.M., 1881. He was assistant astronomer at the Dudley observatory, Albany, N.Y., 1877-79 ; professor of engineering at Vanderbilt university, Nashville, Tenn., 1879-94, and dean of the engineering de- partment of that university. 1886-94. He was married, Aug. 20, 1879. to Eliza, daughter of Wil- liam Boj-d Taylor of Canisteo, N.Y. He engaged as a consulting engineer in 1884, and served in that capacity for the new water supply of Nash- ville, Tenn., 1884-85; filled other shorter engi- neering engagements, and in 1896 became con- sulting engineer for the New York state board of health. He was elected professor of engineering in Union college, N.Y., in 1893. He became a member of the American Society of Civil Engin- eers ; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the author of : Metric Tables for Engineers (1883), and frequent contributions to scientific and technical journals.

LANE, Amos, representative, was born near Aurora, N.Y., March 1, 1778. He was admitted to the bar in Lawrenceburg, Ind. Ter., and prac- tised 1807-49. He helped in the organization of a state government, was a representative in the state legislature, serving one term as speaker of the house, and was a Democratic representative in the 23d and 24th congresses, 1833-37. He died in Lawrenceburg, Ind., Sept. 2, 1849.

LANE, Ebenezer, jurist, was born at North- ampton, Mass., Sept. 17, 1793 ; sonof Capt. Eben- ezer and Marian (Griswold) Chandler Lane, grandson of Deacon Ebenezer Lane of Attlebor- ough, Mass., and of Governor Matthew Griswold of Lyme, Conn., and a descendant of AVilliam Lane, who immigrated to Dorchester, Mass., from England, in 1635. Ebenezer Lane was

graduated at Harvard in 1811 ; studied law in the office of his uncle. Judge Matthew Griswold, at Lyme Conn., 1811-14, and was admitted to the bar in 1814. He practised successively at Norwich, East Windsor, and Windsor Hill, Conn., 1814-17, and in 1817, removed to Ohio with his stepbrother, Heman Ely, the founder and prin- cipal proprietor of Elyria. He was married, Oct. 11, 1818, to Frances Ann, daughter of Governor Roger Griswold, of Lyme, Conn. He engaged in farming and in the practice of law at Elyria un- til 1819, when he removed to Norwalk, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney for Huron county in 1819 ; was admitted to practice in the U.S. cir- cuit court at Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 8, 822, and was judge of the court of common pleas for the second circuit of Ohio, 1824-30. He was judge of the supreme court of Ohio, 18.30-45, when he re- signed. He removed to Sandusky, Ohio, in July, 1842, and in 1845 became president of the Colum- bus and Erie, and other railroads. He was coun- sel and resident director of the Central Railroad of Illinois, 1855-59. He visited Europe in 1859, and on his return retired from active business, settled in Sandusky, Ohio, and devoted himself to study. He received the degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1850, was elected a member of the New England Historic Genealogical society. Sept. 3, 1823, and was a member of the New York, the Ohio, and the Chicago historical societies. He died in San<]usky. Ohio, June 12, 1866.

LANE, Edward, rejiresentative, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 27, 1842 ; son of John and Catharine Lane. He removed to Illinois in 1858. where he was educated ; was admitted to the bar bj- the supreme court of the state. Feb. 5, 1865, and practised in Hillsboro. He was elected judge in November, 1869, serving one term, and was a Democratic representative from the seventeenth district of Illinois in the 50th, 51st, 52d and .53d congresses, 1887-95.

LANE, George Martin, teacher of Latin, was born in Charlestown, Mass., Dec. 24, 1823 : son of Martin Lane, whose ancestors came from Eng- land in 1636. He was graduated at Harvard. A.B.. 1846, A.M., 1849, and was a tutor there. 1846- 47. He studied philology at the universities of Berlin and Gottingen. Germany, 1847-51. and re- ceived the degree of Ph.D. from Gottingen in 1851. He returned to Cambridge, Mass., was university professor of Latin at Harvard, 1851-69; Pope professor of Latin, 1869-94, and Pope professor emeritus of Latin, 1894-97. On his resignation from active work and his election as professor emeritus, he was voted a retiring allowance of two-thirds of his salary, a striking departure in the annals of the university. He exerted an in- fluence upon the instruction of Latin, not only at Harvard, but upon the schools throughout the