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 LATHKOP

LATHROP

House, New York city (1880). He executed de- signs for the chancel of Trinity church, Boston; a marble mosaic in the Equitable Life Assurance company's building, New York city, entitled IVidotcsdiid Orjihdus (1887), and a stained glass window, representing the Miracle at the Pool of Bethesda, for the chancel of Bethesda cliurch, Saratoga, N.Y. He contributed illustrations for art i)ul)lic;itins.

LATHROP, George Parsons, autlior, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Aug. 25, 1851; eldest son of Dr. George Alfred and Frances Maria (Smith) Lathrop; grandson of Alfred and Mai'garet (Par- sons) Hubbard Lathrop, and of James and Han- nah (Pratt) Smith; great-grandson of William andCj-nthia (Elderkin) Lathrop and of Maj.-Gen. Samuel Holden Parsons (q.v.); greal--grandson of Jeremiah and Lydia (Armstrong) Lathrop; and a descendant from John Lathrop, who came from Kent, England, where he was pastor of the first Independent church in London, and settled in Scituate, Mass., in 1634, later removing to Barn- stable. Dr. George Alfred Lathrop was U.S. hospital surgeon at Honolulu, Hawaii, 1849-51, and was appointed U.S. consul there in 1851, re- turning to New York in 1858. George Parsons Lathi"op was educated in the private schools of Oswego and in New York city, 1858-67, and at Dresden, Germany, 1867-70. He entered Colum- bia law school in 1870, and was employed in the law office of William M. Evarts in New York city. Deciding to devote himself to literature he again went abroad, and was married. Sept. 11, 1871, in St. Peter's church, Clielsea, England, to Rose, daughter of Nathaniel and Sophia (Peabody) Hawthorne. He was assistant editor of the At- lantic Monthhj, 1875-77; editor of the Boston Courier, 1877-79, and editor of the Providence Visitor. In 1879 he purchased Nathaniel Haw- thorne's house, "The Wayside," in Concord, Mass., where he resided until 1883, when he re- moved to New York city, and subsequentlj' to New London, Conn. In 1881 he visited Spain and the articles prepared there for Harj^er's Magazine were subsequently published in book form. He founded the American Co^jy right League, was its secretary, 1883-85, and promoted the passage of the copyright law. He was a promoter and trustee of the Catholic Summer schools at New London, Conn., and at Plattsburg, N.Y.; a sup- porter of the Paulist inauguration of the Aposto- late of the Press in 1892, and a member of the Papyrus club of Boston; the Authors and Players clubs of New York; the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the Revolution; the St. Jolin's Liter- ary society of New" London, and an honorary member of the John Boyle O'Reilly Reading Circle of Boston. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by St. John's college, Ford-

ham, N.Y., in 1892. He is the author of: Rose and Ruoftree {ISl')); A Study of Haivthorne (1876); Afterglow (1877); Somebody Else (1878); Presi- dential Pills (1880); An Echo of Passion (1882); In the Distance (1882); Sjoanish Vistas (1883); His- tory of the Union League of Philadelphia (1883); Newport (1884): True and other Stories (1884); Behind Time (1886); Gettysburg, a Battle Ode (1888); Tu-o Sides of a Story (1889); Would You Kill Him? (1889); The Letter of Credit (^v\th^y. H. Rideing, 1890); Dreams and Days (1892). He edited A Masque of Poets (1878), and contributed to its contents, and an edition of Hawthorne's works, for which he wrot<' a brief biography and introductory notes in 18N-J. He also auajited a dramatization of Tennyson's " Elaine" in blank verse, wiiich was successfully staged and pro- duced in Boston, New York and Cliicago. With Rose Hawthorne Latlirop lie prepared: ^4 Story of Courage: An7ials of the Georgetown Convent of Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the MS. records (1894). He died in New York city, April 19, 1898.

LATHROP, John, jurist, was born in Boston, Mass., Feb. 8, 1835; son of the Rev. John T. and Maria Margaretta (Long) Lathrop; grandson of Jolin Lathrop (Harvard, 1789); great-grandson of the Rev. John Lathrop (College of New Jersey, 1763), minister of the Second church, Boston, 1768- 1816, and fellow of Harvard, 1778-1816; and a lineal descendant, in the eighth generation, of the Rev. John Lathrop, emigrant, 1634, and first minister of Scituate and Barnstable. His father was a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, and as chaplain in the U.S. navy, waj attached to the Princeton at the time of his death in 1843. John Lathrop attended the Boston public schools and was graduated at Burlington college, N.J., A.B., 1853, A.M., 1856, and from Harvard, LL.B., 1855. He was a student in the law office of Francis C. Loring, and was admitted to the bar in 1856, and to the bar of the U.S. supreme court in 1872. He was married, June 24, 1875, to Eliza D., daughter of Richard G. and Mary Ann (Davis) Parker. He was reporter of decisions of the state supreme court, 1874-88; in 1888 was appointed a justice of the superior court by Governor Ames, and in 1891 was appointed by Governor Russell a justice of the supreme judicial court, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Devens. He was lecturer on law at Harvard, 1871-72, and at Boston university, 1873, and 1880-83. He was a first lieutenant in the 35th Massachusetts volunteers, 1862, was promoted captain and resigned by rea- son of illness contracted in the field after one year's service.

LATHROP, John Hiram, educator, was born in Sherburne, Chenango county, N.Y., Jan. 22, 1799; son of John and Prudence (Hatch) Lath-