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completed furnished it with books, pictures and sculpture valued at over one million dollars. He also gave the land and one niilHon of dolhirs in money to found the Presbyterian hospital, and gave liberally to the American Bible society of which he was president for many years. To the Presbyterian church on 73d street. New York, he gave the land on which it was built, valued at §100.000, and he also gave the land for the Presbj'terian home for aged men, worth ■SG4,000. He was a liberal patron of the College of New Jer- sey, and of Princeton Theological seminary, and was a trustee of the former, 1833-57, and of the latter. 1835—47. He received from the College of New Jersey the honorarj^ degree of A.M. in 1821, and that of LL.D. in 1867, and from Columbia college that of LL.D. in 1875. He was a member of the New York chamber of commerce, 1830- 80. Mr. Lenox never married. He died in New York city, Feb. 18. 1880.

LENTZ, John Jacob, representative, was born near St. Clairsville, Ohio, Jan. 27. 1856; son of Simon and Anna (Meyer) Lentz, and grandson of John Lentz, of Bavaria, Germany, and of Jacob Meyer, of Monroe county, Ohio. He attend- ed the district schools and the St. Clairsville liigh school; was a teacher for four years, and was graduated from the National Normal university at Lebanon, Ohio, in 1877. He studied at the University of Wooster, 1877-78, and was gradu- ated from the University of Michigan, A. B., 1882, and from Columbia college, N. Y. city, LL.B., 1883. He was admitted to the bar in October, 1883, and practised at Columbus, Ohio. He was teachers' examiner for five years of the city of Columbus; a trustee of Ohio university; was elected national president of the American Insur- ance union, September, 1896, and repeatedly re- elected; and was a Democratic representative from the twelfth district of Ohio in the 55th and 56th congresses, 1897-1901.

LEONARD, Abiel, jurist, was born in Wind- sor, Vt., May 16, 1797; son of Capt. Nathaniel Leonard, of Woodstock, Conn., who served in the war of 1812, and commanded Fort Niagara at the time of the capture by the British in 1813; and grandson of the Rev. Dr. Abiel Leonard (Har- vard, 1759), a chaplain in Washington's army. His mother was a granddaughter of Gen. Natha- nael Greene. Abiel attended Dartmouth college, 1813-16, leaving on account of failure of eyesight. He studied law with Gould & Sill in Whites- boro, N.Y., and was licensed to practise in 1818. He made the journey of 1200 miles to Franklin, Mo. Ty., in 1818, where he established aschool and at the end of six months a law office. In 1823 he became circuit attorney. In 1824 he fought a duel with Maj. Taylor Berry whom he mortally wounded. He was married in October, 1830, to

Jeanette, daughter of Col. B. H. Reeves, of Kentucky; returned to Fayette, Mo., and was a representative in the Missouri legislature in 1835, where he carried through the liberal public school system of the state. He was one of the three justices of the supreme court of the state, 1855- 57, filling out the unexpired term of Hamilton R. Gamble, who resigned to become governor of the state; and practised law in Fayette and St. Louis, 1857-61, when he retired owing to ill health. He died in Fayette. Mo.. March 28, 1863.

LEONARD, Abiel, missionary bishop of Salt Lake and 145th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Fayette, Mo., June 26, 1848; sonof Abiel and Jeanette (Reeves) Leonard. He was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1870, A.M., 18- 73, and from the Gen- eral Theological sem- inary in 1873. He was ordered deacon in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York city, by Bishop Robertson, June 29, 1873, and was ad- vanced to the priest- hood at St. Mary's church, Fayette, Mo., Nov. 4, 1874. He was rector of Calvary church, Sedalia, Mo., 1873, Trinity church,

Hannibal, Mo., 1877-81, Trinity church. At- chison, Kan., 1881-88 and held various official positions in the dioceses where his work was located. He was married, Oct. 21, 1875, tO' Flora T., daughter of A. H. Thompson of Sedalia, Mo. He was chosen missionary bishop of Nevada, and Utah in 1887 and was consecrated in Christ church, St. Louis, ]\Io., Jan. 25, 1888, by Bishops Vail. Quintard, Tuttle, Perry, Burgess, Seymour, Walker, Thomas and Talbot. The diocese of Western Colorado was added to his jurisdiction in 1895, which changed his title to missionary bishop of Nevada, Utah and Western Colorado, and in 1899 to missionary bishop of Salt Lake. He received the degree of D.D. from Griswold college, Davenport, Iowa, from Bethany college, Topeka, Kan., in 1887, and from the General Tlieological seminary in New York in 1894. He published sermons and addresses.

LEONARD, George, jurist, was born in Taun- ton, JIass., JIarch 4, 1698; son of Maj. George and Anna (Tisdale) Leonard; grandson of Thomas and Mary (Watson) Leonard; and great grandson of James and Margaret Leonard who emigrated from Wales with Henry Leonard, brother of James, in 1652, and settled in Taunton,