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side, ami the New York, Woodhaven and Rock- away railroads, N.Y., and from lb84 was associ- ated with Robert A. Waters in surveying the park system beyond the Harlem river, New York, He edited Azak El Emir (1882), and is the author of: Man and His Surroundings (1882). He died in New York city, Dec. 12, 1888.

LANE, James Henry, soldier, was born in Lawrenceburg. Ind. Ter., June 22, 1814; son of the Hon. Amos Lane. He was admitted to the bar in 1840, and was subsequently elected a member of the council of the city of Lawrence- burg. He enlisted as a private in the 3d Indiana volunteers in May, 1846; was commissioned col- onel and commanded a brigade at Buena Vista, Feb. 23, 1847, where he was wounded. He was transferred to the 5th Indiana volunteers as colonel in 1847. He was lieutenant-governor of Indiana in 1848, and was a Democratic representative in the 33d congress, 1853-55, voting for the repeal ■of the Missouri compromise. He removed to Kansas Territory in 1855; took an active part in politics as a member of the Free-state party, and was a member of the Topeka constitutional con- vention, and chairman of the executive com- mittee. He was elected by the people, major- general of the territorial troops raised to repel the Missouri invaders; and was elected to the U.S. senate by the legislature that convened under the Topeka constitution, but the legislature was not recognized by congress. He was indicted for high treason, and obliged to leave the territorj' for a time. He was president of the constitutional convention that met at Leavenworth in 1857, and was again chosen major-general of the territorial troops. Upon the admission of Kansas as a state in 18G1, he was elected to the U.S. senate, and he was given command of the frontier guards, or- ganized for the defence of Washington, in May, 18G1. He was commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers, Dec. 18, 1862, but his commission was recalled, March 21, 1862. He led a Kansas brig- ade in western Missouri; was severely wounded in the Lawrence massacre of August, 1863, and opposed the advance of the troops of Gen. Sterling Price in October, 1864, serving as aide to General Curtis. He was a delegate to the Rej)ublican na- tional convention at Baltimore, June 7, 1864, and was elected to the U.S. senate in 1865. He was attacked with paralysis while returning to his Kansas home in 1866, and his mind becoming un- settled, he died by his own hand, near Leaven- worth, Kans.as, July 1, 1866.

LANE, James Henry, soldier and educator, was born in ]\Iathews county, Va., July 28, 1833; .son of Walter G. and Mary A. H. (Barkwell) Lane; grandson of William Lane, and a descend- dant of Ezechael Lane. He was graduated from the Virginia Military institute in 1854, and from

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the University of Virginia in 1857. He was assist- ant professor of mathematics at the Virginia Mili- tary institute, 1858, professor of mathematics in the state seminary at Tallahassee, Fla., 1860, pro- fessor of natural philosophy and instructor of mil- itary tactics in the North Carolina Mili- tary .school, 1861. At the outbreak of the civil war he was ad- jutant of the first camp of instruction of North Carolina militia and was elect- ed major of the 1st North Carolina vol- unteers. May 11, 18- 61, was promoted lieu- tenant-colonel Sept. 1, 1861, and elected colonel of the 28th North Carolina volun- teers, Sept. 21, 1861. He was promoted brigadier- general Nov, 1, 1862, and on Dec. 13, 1862, at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., he commanded the 4th brigade of Gen, A, P, Hill's light division, Jackson's 2d corps, and it was between his brig- ade and that of General Archer that the Federal troops forced their way to the weak point in Jackson's line, and after Gregg fell, the two brigades rallied, forced the victorious Federal forces back and recovered the lost ground. At Gettysburg his brigade, with that of Genera' Scales, formed a part of W. D. Pender's division and took part in the futile charge with Pickett's division on Cemetery Ridge, July 3, 1863, When Pender was mortally wounded on the 2d Lane succeeded to the command of the division imtil relieved by Maj,-Gen, Isaac R, Trimble on the 3d, and when he in turn was wounded in the charge and captured. Lane again assumed com- mand of the division. He then served through the Wilderness campaign, and at Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, his brigade checked Hancock's advance in the bloody angle, and in the liand to hand fight his brigade was on the right of Stewart's and bravely withstood the terrible onslaught made by the Federal troops. He was with Lee's army in the Appomattox campaign, his brigade still forming part of Wilcox's divi- sion, A, P. Hill's 3d army corps, and surrendered at Appomatox. He was married, Sept, 13, 1869, to Charlotte Randolph, daughter of Benjamin L, and Jane E, Meade, of Richmond, Va, After the close of the war he engaged in teaching in North Carolina and Virginia; was commandant and professor of natural philosophy in the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical college; and in 1882 was elected professor of civil engineering