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LANMAN

ed and did service in North Carolina and Vir- ginia, and in 1864, while in command of a block- ade-runner, his vessel was captured and he was imprisoned for five months at Point Lookout, Md., being released in February, 18C5. He filled

a clerksliip in Mont- gomery, Ala., 1865- 67, and was married in December, 1867, to Mary, daughter of Charles Day, of Ma- con, Ga. He had charge of a country academy in Pratts- ville, Ala., 1868, but in May, 1868, return- ed to Macon, Ga., suffering from a hem- orrhage of the lungs. He practised law with his father, 1868- 72; resided in San Antonio, Texas, from December, 1872, to April, 1873, but the climate not proving favorable, lie settled in Baltimore, Md., where he was flutist for the Peabody Symphony concerts, as his health permitted. He was a contributor of poems and articles to magazines, travelled from state to state in search of health, and in May, 1874, vis- ited Florida under an engagement to write a book for a raihvay company. He was selected, at the suggestion of Bayard Taylor, to write the can- tata for the opening of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876. the music being written by Dudley Buck. In the summer of 1876 he re- moved his family to Chester, Pa. In December, 1876, he visited Tampa, Fla., with his wife, spending the spring and summer of 1877 in Geor- gia and Pennsylvania, and on his return to Balti- more he resumed his place in the Peabodj- orches- tra, where he continued to play for three winters. He delivered a private course of lectures on Elizabethan verse, followed by a Shaksperean course, and in 1879 he was appointed lecturer on English literature at Johns Hopkins university. He also opened three lecture courses in young ladies' schools, and in 1880 renewed his lecturing at Johns Hopkins. After giving twelve of the twenty lectures scheduled, he was forced from illness to discontinue the course. In April, 1881, he made his last visit to New York, to arrange for the publication of liis books, and was there taken so seriously ill that in May he was removed to a camp near Asheville, N.C., and in August to Lynn, Polk county, N.C. His published works include: Tiger Lilies (1867); Florida: Its Scen- ery, Climate and History (1876); Poenis (1877); Some Highways and Byivays of American Travel (with others, 1878); The Boys' Froissart (1878);

Tlie Boys' King Arthur (1880); The Science of English Verse (1880); The Boys' Mabinogion (1881); The Boys' Percy (1882); The English Novel, and the Principle of its Development (1883); Poems (edited by his wife, 1684), besides many notable contributions to magazines. He died in Lynn, Polk county. N.C, Sept. 7,1881.

LANMAN, Charles, author and artist, was born in Monroe, Mich., June 14, 1819; son of Charles James Lanman (1769-1870), receiver of public money for the district of Michigan; and grandson of James Lanman, U.S. senator from Connecticut. He attended the Plainfield acad- emy, near Norwich, Conn., 1829-35. He was merchant's clerk in an East India house in New York city, 1835-45, and while tlms engaged he commenced the study of art under Asher B. Durand. He returned to Monroe. Mich., and was editor of the Gazette, 1845; removed to Cincin- nati, Ohio, where he was editor of the Chronicle in 1846; and returning to New York, he was en- gaged as assistant editor of the Express. 1847- 48. He visited Waslungton, D.C., in 1848 in the interest of that journal and became permanently identified as correspondent of the Xationid Intel- ligencer. He was librarian of the war depart- ment, 1849-50; and librarian of copj-riglits in the state department, 1850-51, resigning his official positions at Secretary Webster's request in 1851 to become his private secretary in the state de- partment. He was examiner of depositories for the southern states, 1853-55; librarian and chief of the returns office of the department of the in- terior, 1855-57; librarian of the house of repre- sentatives in 1860; secretary of the Japanese legation, 1871-72, and assistant assessor of the Dis- trict of Columbia in 1885. He was married in 1849 to Adeline Dodge. In 1846 he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design. He was an extensive traveller, liaving visited every state east of the Rocky mountains on sketch- ing trips, and was one of the first artists to pro- duce upon canvas the beauties of many loca- tions, tlien new to artists, especially in North Carolina and in the Saguenay region of Canada. Among his paintings are: Brookside and Home- stead (1880); Home in the Woods (1881); Fron- tier Home (1884) and a view of Fujiyama, Japan, which he painted in two weeks, and which was purcliased by the Japanese government. He was a frequent contributor to American and English publications, and is the author of: Essays for Summer Hours (1842); Letters from a Landscape Painter (1845); A Summer in the Wilderness (1847): .-1 Tour to the River Saguenay (1848); Letters from the Alleghany Mountains (1849),- Haiv-ho-noo, or Records of a Tourist (1850)*, Private Life of Daniel TTWwfer (18.52): Advent- ures in the Wilds of America (1856); Dictionary