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 LATTIMORE

LAURENS

chemist to the board of water commissioners of Rochester, N.Y., in 1872, a commissioner of the annual assay of the U.S. mint in 1877, and a^ain in 1900; chemist to the New York state board of health in 1881; chemist to the New York state department of agriculture in 1886, and was ap- pointed university examiner in chemistry by the regents of the University of the State of New York in 1894. He received the honorary degree of A.]\I. from Ohio Weslej'an university in 1853, that of Ph.D. from Indiana Asbury university and Iowa "Wesleyan university in 1873, and that of LL.D. from Hamilton college. New York, in 1873. He was an active member of the American Chemical society, and of the Rochester Academy of Medi- cine, and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

LATTinORE, William, delegate, was born in Norfolk, Va., Feb. 9, 1774. He became a physi- cian, and removed to Natchez in the Soutliwest Territory. On tiie formation of Mississipi Terri- tory in 1798, he took an active part in the organ- ization of a government and was elected the first delegate from the territory to the U.S. congress, serving in the 8th and 9th congresses, 1803-07, when George Poindexter succeeded him as dele- gate, serving, 1807-13, and Lattimore was again delegate to the 13th and 14th congx-esses, 1813-17. He was a member of the first state constitutional convention in 1817, and on the admission of the state returned to the jjractice of his profession. He died at Natchez, Miss., April 3, 1843.

LAUGH LIN, James Laurence, political econo- mist, was born at Deerfield, Ohio, April 2, 1850; son of Harvey and Minerva (Mills) Laughlin; grandson of James Laughlin; and of Scotch Pres- byterian ancestry. He was graduated from Har- vard, A.B., with highest honors, in 1873, and A.xM. and Ph.D., 1876. His thesis "Anglo-Saxon Legal Procedure" was published in "Essays of Anglo-Saxon Law" (1876). He was a teacher in Hopkinson's Classical school, Boston, 1873-78, instructor in political economy at Harvard, 1878- 83, and assistant professor of political economy, 1883-88. He was the founder of the Finance club of Harvard, helped establish the Quarterly Jour- nal of Economics, and projected the Political Economy club, of which he was secretary and treasurer. In the winter of 1887-88 he resigned on account of ill health and went to the West Indies. He was then engaged as secretary and president of the Pliiladeli)hia IManufacturers' j\Iu- tual Fire Insurance company, 1888-90. In 1890 he accepted the chair of political economy and finance in Cornell university, which he resigned in 1892 to accept the position of head professor of political economy in the University of Chicago. In 1894-95 he prepared a scheme of monetary re- form for the government of Santo Domingo which

was adopted later. He was elected a member of the International Institute of Stati.stics, was a member of the Indianapolis Monetary commission in 1897, and a contributor to the leading American magazines. He was made editor of the Journal of Political Economy; edited Mill's "Principles of Political Economy" with notes and a sketch of the history of political economy, for university use (1884); is the author of: Study of Political Economy (1885); TJie History of Bimetallism in the United States (1885); The Elements of Political Economy icitJi some Applications to the Question of the Day (1887); Facts about Money (1K90); The Report of the Monetary Commission of the Indian- apolis Convention of Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce and other Similar Bodies of the United States (1898); EUstaetter's The Indian Silver Currency (translated); Gold and Prices since 1S73.

LAUflAN, Jacob Gartner, soldier, was born in Taneytown, Md., Jan. 23, 1813. He removed with his parents to York county, Pa., where he was educated, and in 1844 engaged in business in Bur- lington, Iowa. He was colonel of the 7th Iowa volunteer regiment in 1861. He was severely wounded at Belmont, Nov. 7, 1861; commanded a brigade in C. F. Smith's division at Fort Donel- son, and was promoted brigadier-genei-al of volun- teers, March 21, 1862. He commanded the 3d brigade, 4th division. Army of the Tennessee, at the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, and the 4th division of the 16th army corps during the Vicks- burg campaign. He was relieved of his com- mand bj' General Sherman, July 16, 1863, and re- turned to Burlington, Iowa. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1805. He died in Burlington, Iowa, in Feliruary, 1867.

LAUNITZ, Robert Eberhard, sculptor, was born in Riga, Russia, Nov. 4, 1S06. He studied the art of sculpture under his father, who assisted Thorwaldsen in restoring the ^ginetan Marbles, and was himself a pupil of Thorwaldsen. He came to the United States in 1828, and settled in New York city, where he was the first instructor of Thomas Crawford. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1833, and was recognized as the father of monumental art in America. He executed the Pulaski monument in Savannah, Ga., the battle monument at Frank- fort, Ky., the statue of Gen. George H. Thomas at Troy, N.Y., and numerous monuments in Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. He died in New York city, Dec. 13, 1870.

LAURENS, Henry, statesman, was born in Charleston, S.C, in 1724. His first ancestors in America were French Huguenots. Henry at- tended school in Charleston and received a practi- cal commercial training in the counting house of Mr. Crockett in London, England. He engaged.