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captured Bald Hill, and subsequently held the same against repeated attacks of the Confederate army, the position being the key to the posses- sion of Atlanta. He marched with Sherman to the sea and through the Carolinas to Washing- ton, and was commissioned major-general of volunteers, Aug. 21, 1>?65. In ISC-j he returned to Zanesville, where for several years he was superintendent of a portable engine works. He was U.S. commissioner of patents, 1871-75, and then engaged in the practice of patent law in Cleveland. Ohio. He was an organizer of the Brush Electric company and became its presi- dent in 1SS4. He was twice married : first, July 9, 1S44, to Marilla. daughter of Absalom and Manila "Wells of Montville, Ohio, and secondly to "Weltha. daughter of H. C. and Sylvia Post of Sandusky. Ohio. He is the author of : -.4 Dream of a Modest Prophet, and many pamphlets. He die-i in Cleveland. Ohio, Jan. 6. 1896.

LEHV, John F., educator, was born in Boyal- ston. Mass., Nov. 7. 1850: son of Geoffrey and Elizabeth (Kelly) Lehy. He attended the public schools of Royalston and Holy Cross college at "Worcester, ^lass. He entered the Society of J^us. Sept. 16, 187-1 ; made his novitiate at Frederick, Md., 187-1-76 ; studied philosophy at "Woodstock college 1876-79, and theology, 1884- 87, and was ordained priest in 1887. He was professor of mathematics at Holy Cros college. 1879-84 and 1887-88 ; and at Georgetown univer- sity, 1888-89 ; was vice-president of Gonzaga college, 1889-90 ; profe^or at "Woodstock semi- nary, 1892-93 ; vice-president of Holy Cross col- lege, l8'93-95 : and president of that college, 189.5-1901.

LEIB, .Michael, senator, was born in Philadel- phia. Pa., in 1759. He practised medicine in Philadelphia. He was a representative in the state legislature for several years ; a Democratic representative in the 6th, 7th. 8th and 9th con- gresses, 1799-1807 ; and presidential elector on the ^ladison and Clinton ticket in 18<;>9. He was elec- ted U.S. senator to fill the unexpired term of Samuel Maclay, who resigned in 18(«S, and was elected for a full term as his successor, but re- signed in 1814 and was succeeded by Jonathan Rol>erts. He was appointeil pc>srmaster of Phila- delphia by President Monroe, serving. 1817-22. He died in Phladelphia. Pa.. Dec. 22, 1822.

LEIDY, Joseph, scientist, was born in Phila- delphia. Pa.. Sept. 9. 1823 ; son of Philip Leidy, and of German ancestry. He left school at the age of sixteen to become a draughtsman, but en- gaged as a clerk in a drug store, giving his leisure to the study of botany, mineralogy and compara- tive anatomy. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. M.D.. in 1844. be- came an a.ssistant in the chemical laboratory of

the college and practised his profession for a short time. He was prosector to the chair of anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania, 1845, and was demonstrator of anatomy in Franklin Me<lical college, 1846. In l&47-tS he visited European hospitals with Dr. Charles Hor- ner and in 1849 he lectured upon micro- scopic anatomy at the 3Iedical Insti- tute. He served in the chair made va- cant by Dr. Homer's illness. 18.52, and up- on the latter "s death was elected his sue- ' "

cessor. He again vis- ^ _ ,

ited Europe in 1850 •, "*s

with Dr. George B. n

"Wood, collecting ma- oA^v-c^K-^^i..^.'^^^ terial which was af- terward placed in the museum of the University of Pennsylvania: and made the notable dissections and drawings for Dr. Amos Binney's work upon the terrestrial air-breathing mollxisks. For a short time during the civil war he served as a surgeon at the Slatterlee hospital. Philadelphia. In 1871 he accepted the chair of natural history at Swarthmore college. In 1880 his •' Description of "Vertebrate Remains. Chiefly from the Phosphate Beds of South Carolina " won the "Walker prize of SIOOO from the Boston Society of Natural History. He was also awarded the Lyall medal with the sum of £2-5 by the Geological Society of London for scientific work. Dr. Leidy first ad- vanced the theory that the trichinae bacilli, dis- covered by .Sir Richard Owen, infested pork and were thus transferred to the human organism. He founded the department of biology in the L""niversity of Pennsylvania in 1886. He enjoyed the friendship of foreign scientists, and Huxley's one visit while in the United States was to the quaint Spruce Street house of Professor Leidy in Philadelphia. He was a fellow or member of the prominent scientific societies of the United States and Europe, being at the time of his death president of the Academy of Natural Sciences and vice-president of the Anthopometric society. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Harvard in 1886. He published nearly one thousand books and pamphlets on his specialty. His brcaher Phihp Leidy. Jr.. University of Penn- sylvania. M.D.. 1859. died within thirty-six hours of Joseph Leidy "s death and their bodies were cremated simultaneously at Germantown. Pa. The brains of both were left by their wills to the Anthopometric society and by the examination it was found that thev were below the normal