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Italy, and founded and was first rector of St. Paul's P. E. church there, 1859, and at about the same time established St. James's P. E, church in Florence. He returned to the United States in 1861; was rector of St. John's church, Havre de Grace, Md., 1863-66, and in 1867 re- turned to Florence, Italy, as secretary of the joint committee of the general convention of the Episcopal church charged to investigate the re- ligious and ecclesiastical aspects and results of the Italian revolution then in progress in regard to Catlioiic reform. He was transferred to Ge- neva, Switzerland, in 1873, when lie founded Em- manuel church and co-operated with religious re- forms in Germany, France and Switzerland. He was present at the Old Catholic congress at Cologne, 1873; at the congresses at Constance,

1873, and Fribourg, 1874, and an active member of the re-union conference at Bonn in 1874-75, He returned to the United States in 1875, and was rector of Christ churcli, Cambridge, Mass., 1876- 78, and of St. James's church, Bedford, Pa., 1883- 90. He retired in 1890 on account of his health, and resided with his son, Prof. Courtney Lang- don, of Brown university. Providence, R.I. He received the degree D.D. from Kenyon college in

1874. He is the autlior of: Some Account of the Catlioiic Reform Movement in the Italian Church (1868); The Defects in Our Practical Catholicity (1871); Seven Letters to the Baron Ricasoli in Italian (1874); Plain Papers for Parish Priests and People (1880-83); The Modern Crisis of Latin Christianity; The Conflict of Practice and Prin- ciple in American Church Polity (1883). He died in Providence, R.I., Oct. 38, 1895.

LANQDON, Woodbury, delegate, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1739; son of John Langdon, a farmer. He attended Major Hale's school at Portsmouth, and with his brother John engaged in the mercantile business. He was active in the pre-Revolutionary movements; was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1779-80, and a member of the executive council, 1781-84. In 1783 he was elected a judge of the superior court of New Hampshire, and was re-elected in 1786, holding the office until 1790. He died in Portsmouth, N.H.. Jan. 13, 1850.

LANQFORD, Laura (Carter) Holloway, au- thor, was born at Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 33, 1848; daughter of Samuel Jefferson Carter, born in Halifax, Va.; granddaughter of Robert Carter, 7th, born at Halifax, Va., and descended from Jolin Carter, who settled in Virginia in the seven- teenth century. She engaged in literary pursuits on her removal to New York about 1869, and her first book was " Ladies of the White House," of which over 100,000 copies were sold. She became associate editor of the Brooklyn Eagle and lield the chair for fourteen years, resigning in 1884

to make a year's tour of Europe. In 1887 she founded and became president of the Seidl So- ciety of Brooklyn, and resigned in 1898 on the death of Director Anton Seidl. She was co-editor with Mr. Seidl of the music department of the Standard Dictionary. Her published works in- clude: Ladies of the WJiite House; An Hour ivith Chai'lotte Bronte, or Floivers from a York- shire Moor; The Hearthstone, or Life at Home; The Mothers of Great Men and Women; Famous American Fortunes and the Men ivho have Made Them; The Home in Poetry; Chinese Gordon; Songs of the Master; Hoicard, the Christian Hero; Adelaide Neilson: A Biography; The Buddhist Diet Book; The Woman''s Story, as told by Famous American Women. She also edited Kuffereth's Parsifal, translated from the French; Tlie Bayreuth of Wagner, and made numerous contributions to the magazines and newspapers.

LANGLEY, John Williams, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 31, 1841; son of Samuel and Mary (Williams) Langley, and grand- son of Samuel Langley, of Roxbury, Mass., and of John Williams, of Boston. He was graduated from Harvard B.S. in 1861; studied in the med- ical departmeiat of the University of Michigan, 1861-63; was acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. navy, 1864-66, and assistant professor of physics at the U.S. Naval academj% 1867-70. He was married, Sept. 13, 1871, to Martica I. Carret, of Boston, Mass. He was professor of chemistry at the Western Universitj- of Pennsylvania, 1871-74; acting professor of general chemistry and physics at the Universitj^ of Michigan, 1875-76: professor of chemistry and pliysics, 1876-77; of general chemistrj-, 1877-88, and a non-resident lecturer on the metallurgy of steel in 1889. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1877, and that of Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1893. He was made professor of electrical engineering at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, Oliio, in 1893. He was a fellow and vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and corresponding member of the Brit- ish Association for the Advancement of Science and of the New York Academy of Science. He contributed to scientific journals and to period- icals, and is the author of numerous scientific papers.

LANGLEY, Samuel Pierpont, physicist, was born in Roxbury, IMass., Aug. 33, 1834; son of Samuel and Mary (Williams) Langley, and grand- son of Samuel Langlej', of Roxburj^, and of John Williams, of Boston. He attended the public schools of Roxbury and was graduated from the Boston Latin school. He subsequently practised engineering and architecture, and travelled in Europe, 1863-65; was assistant at the observatory