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 LATCHAW

LATHROP

U.SS HARTFORD.

William Penn, on his second voj-age, and the Wakelings in 1793. Edward attended the machin- ery and draughting departments of the Norris Locomotive works and was appointed third as- sistant engineer in the U.S. navy in September,

1858. He served on the steamers Atlanta on the Paraguay expe- dition and Siwi- ter on the west coast of Africa, 1860-61. He was pi'omoted sec- ond assistant engineer, Oct. 8, 1861, and served on the flagship Hartford under Admiral Farragut, participating in the engagements of Forts Jack- son and St. Philip, the Chalmette and Vicksburg batteries, at the affair of the ram Arkansas and at the surrender of Port Hudson. He was pro- moted first assistant engineer, March 17, 1863, was in charge of the Hartford as chief engineer, and was at the battle of Mobile Bay. He subsequently served in the East India squadron and at the U.S. Naval academy and was promoted chief engineer, March 21, 1870. He was on special service on the Congress, 1870-72; a member of the board of inspection, 1873-75; on sick leave, 1876-77, and was retired, Nov. 22, 1878. He removed to Merion, Pa., and devoted himself to literary work. He is the author of: Review of the Holy Bible (1884); Indications of the Book of Job (1889), Genesis (1890), and Exodtis (1892); Mosaic System and Great Pyramid of Egypt (1895); Mosaic Sys- tem and Stonehenge (1895); Mosaic System and Gettysburg Stone (1896; 2d part, 1897); Mosaic System and the Macrocosmic Cross (1897); Mosaic System and the Codex Argenteus (1898); and in October, 1899, he established The Greater Light, a monthly periodical.

LATCHAW, John Roland Harris, educator, was born in Venango county. Pa., Sept. 7, 1851; son of Samuel and Ann (Ross) Latchaw; grandson of John and Nancy Latchaw, and a descendant of John, a soldier in the war of 1812, and Jane (Ayers) Ross. He w^as married, April 27, 1875. to Zella Amanda, daughter of Charles Kimball of Rochester, Minn. He was graduated from Hills- dale college, Mich., A.B., 1881, and A.M., 1884. He founded an academy at Barkeyville, Pa., in 1881, and directed it until 1884, when he became president of Findlay college, Ohio. He served as president and as a lecturer on psychology and theology there, 1884-93; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Zanesville, Ohio, 1893-95; Bethel Baptist church, Chicago, 111., 1895-96; was a student in the divinity school of the University of Chicago, 189.5-96; pastor of the First Baptist church, Defiance, Ohio, 1896-97, when he resigne-'

and organized the Christian Assembly at Defiance, Ohio. He was elected president of Defiance col- lege in 1896, and received the honorai-y degree of D.D. from Hills.lale college in 1891. He was editor and publislier of The Truth Seeker, 1897. and joint editor of The Unity Herald, 1898. H.' is the autlior of: Outline Lectures in Theology (1890); TJienry and Art of Teaching (1890): Citi- zenshixi in the Northwest Territory (1895); Out- lines of Psychology (1899). He was elected presi- dent of Palmer university, Ind., in 1902.

LATHAM, riilton Slocum, senator, was born in Columbus, Ohio, May 23, 1827; son of Bela Latham. He was graduated from Jefferson col- lege, Pa., in 1845, and soon afterward removed to Russell county, Ala., where he taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and was appointed clerk of the circuit court for Rus- sell county. He removed to California in 1850, and was clerk of the recorder's court in San Fran- cisco; district attorney of Sacramento and El Dorado counties, 1850-51; a Democratic represent- ative in the 33d congress, 1853-55; declined re- nomination and was collector of the port of San Francisco, 1855-57. He was elected governor of California in 1859; w^as inaugurated in January, 1860, but three daj's after his inauguration he re- signed, having been elected U.S. senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David C. Broderick, Sept. 16, 1859. He took his seat im- mediately and continued in office until March 3. 1863, serving on the committees on military affairs and post-offices and post roads. At the close of his senatorial term he engaged in the pi-actice of law in San Francisco, and was president of the London and San Francisco bank. He died in New York city, March 4, 1882.

LATHROP, Francis, artist, was born at sea near the Hawaiian islands, June 22, 1849; son of Dr. George Alfred and Frances Maria (Smith) Lathrop. He was educated in New York city, and com- pleted his classical studies at Dresden, 1867- 70. He studied painting in London at the Acad- emy of Art, and under Burne-Jones and Ford Maddox Brown. He was engaged as an assistant to R. Spencer Stanhope, and subsequently in William Morris's manufacturing establishment in London. He returned to the United States in 1873, and engaged in portrait painting, mural decorating, executing stained glass windows and other general decorative work. He was a mem- ber of the Society of American Artists, and con- tributed the portraits of Ross R. and Thomas Winans to the first exhibition held by that society in 1878. He w^as elected secretary of the society in 1879 and treasurer in 1881. Among liis mural paintings are: Moses toith the Tablets of the Law in Bowdoin college cliapel (1877), and Apollo over, the proscenium of the Metropolitan Opera