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rop ; grandson of Melatiali and Mercy (Hatch) Lathrop and of Eleazer and Thankful Hatch, and great-grandson of Hope and Elizabeth (Lathrop) Lathrop. He attended Hamilton college, and was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1819, A.M., 1823; taught school, 1819-32; and was a tutor and student of law at Yale, 1833-36. In 1826 he was admitted to the practice of law. He was principal of the Lyceum at Gardiner, Maine, 1837-38 ; professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Hamilton college, 1838-34 ; Maynard professor of law, civil polity, and political economy, 1835-37, and pro- fessor of political and historical jurisprudence,

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1837-40. He was married, Aug. 15, 1833, to Frances E., daughter of John H. Lathrop, of Utica, N.Y. He was the first president of the University of the State of Missouri, Columbia, 1840-49 ; chancellor of the University of Wiscon- sin, 1849-59 ; president of the Indiana State uni- versity, Bloomington, 1859-60 ; professor of Eng- lish literature at the University of the State of Missouri, 1860-65 ; and was again its president, 1865-66. He was president of the African Colo- nization society for several years, and a member and secretary of the board of examiners for the U.S. Military academy in 1851. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Hamilton college in 1845. He died at Columbia, Mo., Aug. 3, 1866. LATHROP, Joseph, clergyman, was born in Norwich, Conn., Oct. 20, 1731 ; son of Solomon and Martha (Perkins) Todd Lathrop ; grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Waterhouse) Lathrop, and of Deacon Joseph and Martha (Morgan) Perkins, and a descendant of the Rev. John Lathrop of Egerton, Kent county, England, who served as pastor of the First Independent church in Loudon, and in 1634 came to America and settled as a minister in Scituate, Mass., and removed to Barn- stable, where he died in 1653. Joseph was pre- pared for college by the Rev. Mr. White of Bolton, Conn., and was graduated at Yale in 1754. He was principal of a grammar school in West Springfield, Mass., and studied theology under the Rev. Robert Breck, 1754-56. He was or- dained, Aug. 25, 1756, and was pastor of the church at West Springfield, Mass., to March, 1818, a term of sixty-two years. In 1816 the Rev. William

Buell Sprague became his assistant. He was married in May, 1759, to Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Seth Dwight of Hatfield, and had six chil- dren. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1793, and de- clined the professorship of divinity in Yale col- lege in 1793. He received the degree of D.D. from Yale in 1791, and from Harvard in 1811. In 1772, during the controversy on the subject of baptism in his parisli, he preached several sermons, which were afterward published and passed through many editions. His newspaper contributions were published in a small volume, entitled : A Miscel- laneous Collection of Original Pieces, Political, Moral and Entertaining (1786), and his sermons in seven volumes (1796-1821), the last of which contains his autobiography. He died in West Springfield, Mass.. Dec. 31, 1820.

LATHROP, Rose Hawthorne, author, was born in Lenox, Mass., May 30, 1851 ; daughter of Nathaniel and Sophia (Peabody) Hawthorne. Her early life was passed in Europe during her father's consulate at Liverpool and his travels on the continent, 1853- 60. She studied paint- ing in Dresden, Ger- many, and at South Kensington, London, in 1870, and engaged in literature. She was married, Sept. 11, 1871, in Chelsea, England, to George Parsons Lathrop. In 1891 she gave up the faith of her ances- tors, joined the Ro- man Catholic church with her husband, and in 1897 devoted herself to the care of poor women suffering from incurable cancer, the idea being sug- gested to her bj^ the hospitals of that kind in Europe, particularly the one in Lyons, France, conducted by the Women of Calvary. In order to fit herself for this work she took a three- months' course of training at the New York can- cer hospital. With two associates she established a society called Servants of Relief, which, al- though Roman Catholic in faith, was not con- nected with any order, and no vows were en- joined upon the members, although all intercourse with home life was necessarily broken. She also founded the Free Home for Incurable Cancer Suf- ferers in New York city. She was received into the Third Order of the Sisters of St. Dominic irj 1899. She is the author of : Along the Shore {\8S8y, Memories of Hau'thorne (1897), and in collabora- tion with her husband, A Story of Courage (1894).