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the rank of major-general for conspicuous serv- ices. He commanded the department of Santi- ago and succeeded to the command of the 4th army corps. He accompanied tlie President on his tour of the states after peace was declared, and was ordered to the Philippines, Dec. 29, 1898, where he was second in command. General Otis being first. On March 18, 1899, he assumed command of the 1st division, 8th army corps ; captured Santa Cruz, April 10 ; led the expedi- tion to San Isidro, April 22-May 17, and com- manded the army operating in the Morong prov- ince, June 1. His expedition through the prov- inces of Laguna and Balacan resulted in the capture of 28 towns after 22 separate engage- ments. He marched south to Imus, June 10-19, fighting the battle of Zapote Bridge, June 13 ; and then advanced up the Rio Grande, through the provinces of Pampana and Nueva Ecija, the expedition in its relentless march destroying the strongholds of the Philippine army and materi- ally weakening its power. He returned to Manila, Dec. 16, and left there Dec. 18, 1899, for San Mateo for the purpose of capturing the place, where lie was confronted by 300 intrenched Philijjpine sharpshooters. On drawing up his force, made up of battalions of the 27th and 29th infantry and the 11th cavalry, in front of the line of battle, he was shot in the breast and instantly killed. His body was conveyed to the United States and buried with military honors at Arling- ton, Va. He was married in 1881 to Mary Craig, of Louisville, Ky., and his family of four chil- dren — three daughters and one son — were with him in the Philippines, his son being on his staff, although but a mere boy of twelve years. On the news of his death a fund of $98,407.70 was raised and turned over to Mrs. Lawton through Adju- tant-General Corbin. General Lawton died at San Mateo, Luzon, Philippine Islands, Dec. 19, 1899.

LAWTON, William Cranston, educator and author, was born at New Bedford, Mass., May 22, 1853 ; son of James Madison and Sarah Greene (Cranston) Lawton, and grandson of James Law- ton and of William Cranston. He was grad- uated from Harvard, A.B., in 1873; studied at the University of Berlin, Germany, 1882-83 ; taught at the High school. New Bedford, Mass., 1873-79, and was a teacher of classics at the Shaw school, Boston, Mass., 1883-89. He was married, Jan. 24, 1884, to Alida Allen, daughter of James Beattie, of New Bedford, Mass. He was acting professor of Greek at Boston university, 1890-91 ; Winkley professor of Latin language and litera- ture at Bovvdoin college, 1891-92 ; of Greek and Latin literature at Bryn Mawr college, Pennsyl- vania, 1892-94 ; secretary of the Archgeological Institute of America, 1890-94 ; lecturer on Greek literature in Columbia college and staff lecturer

of the University Extension society, 1894-95, and in 1895 he was elected professor of the Greek language and literature at Adelphi college, Brooklyn, N.Y. He is the author of : Three Dramas of Euripides (1889); Folia Dispersa, verse (1896) ; Ai't and Humanity in Homer (1896) ; Netv England Poets (1898); Successors of Homer (1898); Art of Rudyard Kipling (1899); numer- ous i^apers on classical literature published prin- cipally in the Atlantic Monthly and the Chautau- qua, and classical editor and chief classical con- tributor to Charles Dvidley Warner's " Library of the World's Best Literature."

LAY, George Washington, representative, was born at Catskill, N.Y., July 26, 1798 ; son of John and Phoebe (Lee) Lay ; grandson of Jonathan and Mary (Spencer) Lay ; great-grandson of Robert and Mary (Grinnell) Lay, and a descend- ant of Robert Lay, who was in Say brook. Conn., as early as 1647. His father, John Lay (Yale, A.B., 1780, A.M., 1783), removed from Saybrook, Conn., to Clinton, N.Y., and served two terms as a Federalist member of. the assembly. George W. Lay was graduated from Hamilton college in 1817 ; was admitted to the bar in 1820, and prac- tised in Batavia. He was married, July 26, 1821, to Olive, daughter of Jolm Foot, of Hartford, Conn., and of their three sons, John Foot, of Batavia, is the author of the Lay Genealogy, George Washington became a resident of Batavia, N.Y., and Asa Tracy, a resident of Cliicago, 111. He was judge-advocate of the 4th brigade of cavalry ; treasurer of Genesee county, 1825-31. He was a leader in the political movements based on the abduction of William Morgan from Batavia by the Free Masons in 1826. He was a Whig representative in the 23d and 24th con- gresses, 1833-37 ; a member of the assembly, 1840 ; and chairman of the canal committee and made a report on the completion of the enlargement of the Erie canal, and was appointed by President Tyler charge d'affaires to Sweden, serving from May 12, 1842, to Oct. 29, 1845. He died at Batavia, N.Y.,Oct. 21, 1860.

LAY, Henry Champlin, first bishop of Easton, and sixty-ninth in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Richmond, Va., Dec. 6, 1823. He was graduated from the University of Virginia, A.B., 1842, A.M., 1845, and from tlie Tlieological seminary of the Diocese of Virginia in 1846. He was made a deacon July 10, 1846. in Christ church, Alexandria, by Bishop Meade, serving inLynnhaven parish, Va. ; and in charge of the Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, Ala., 1847-48 ; was ordained priest, July 12, 1848, by Bishop Cobbs, and was rector of the Church of the Nativity, 1848-59. He was elected missionary bishop of Arkansas and Indian Territory, and was consecrated, Oct. 23, 1859, in St. Paul's church,