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sively in the United States in 1833-34, and spent a part of lier time in Washington, D.C., where she made personal friends of Clay, Calhoun and Webster, whose congressional debates she often reported, and so accurately that she was fre- quently called to read them. She was married in 1836 to Dr. Henry S., son of Dr. Claude Le Vert, fleet surgeon under Rochambeau, and resided in Mobile, Ala. She visited Europe in 1853 and again in 1855, and was presented at court. About this time she commenced her literary work. After the death of her husband in 1860 she remained in Mobile, where she nursed the soldiers in the hos- pital throughout the war. She used her influence in securing a pardon for General Beauregard, and visited the national capital in liis interests. She appeared as a public reader in the principal cities of the United States in 1874-75. She translated Dumas's Musketeers and The Pope and the Con- gress, and is the author of Souvenirs of Travel (1858); Souvenirs of Distinguished People (MS.), and Souvenirs of the War (MS.). She died in Augusta, Ga., March 13, 1877.

LEVIN, Lewis C, representative, was born in Charleston, S.C, Nov. 10, 1808. He was grad- uated from South Carolina college, Columbia, S.C. ; was admitted to the bar and practised in Maryland, Louisiana, Tennessee, and finally in Philadelphia, Pa. To him is generally credited the organization of the Native American party in 1843. He was a Native American representative from Philadelphia in the 29th, 30th and 31st con- gresses, 1845-51, and served in congress as a mem- ber of the committee on naval affairs. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., March 14, 1860.

LEVY, David. See Yulee, David Levy. LEWELLINQ, Lorenzo D, governor of Kansas, was born at Salem, Iowa, Dec. 21, 1846 ; son of William and Cyrena (Wilson) Le welling. His ancestors were among the pioneer settlers of Virginia and his father was a Quak- er preacher. Loren- zo was left an o/phan at an early age, and worked on a farm, attending a district school in the winter. He was employed as a laborer on the Bur- lington and Missouri railroad ; as a cattle herder in the quart- ermaster's depart- ment, St. Louis, Mo., a member of the bridge build- Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863-65. the war he attended Knox

1861-63, and as ing corps at At the close of

college, Galesburg, 111., and subsequently East- man's business college at Poughkeepsie, N.Y. He returned to Salem, Iowa, in 1866 ; was em- ployed in bridge building near Ottumwa, and was graduated from Whittier college. He was a teacher in the preparatory department of Whit- tier college ; was connected with the state reform school as teacher and assistant superintendent for many years, and was president of the board of trustees of the state normal school. He founded the Register at Salem, Iowa, a weekly Republican journal, and in 1880 the Capital at Des Moines, Iowa, which he edited until December, 1882. He was a candidate for the Re- publican nomination for secretary of state, but was defeated by Frank D. Jackson. He removed to Wichita, Kan., in 1887, and in 1892 was elected by the Populist party governor of Kansas. He was renominated in 1894, but a woman suffrage plank in the platform defeated the party, the Democrats refusing to give it their support. In 1896 he was elected state senator, and in 1897 was appointed a state railway commissioner. He died in Arkansas City, Kan., Sept. 3, 1900.

LEWIS, Abram Herbert, clergyman and au- thor, was born in Scott, N.Y., Nov. 17, 1836; son of Datus Ensign and Tacy (Maxson) Lewis ; grand- son of Abel and Abigail (Greene) Lewis and of Caleb and Mary (Bliss) Maxson, and a direct de- scendant of John Lewis, M^ho settled in Westerly, R.I., in 1661. He was a student at Ripen college, and was graduated from Milton college, A.B., 1860, and from Alfred university, A.B., 1863, A.M., 1866. He was married in 1855 to Augusta M., daughter of Thomas Olney and Ann (Tanner) Jolmson, of Natick, R.I. He was pastor of Seventh-day Baptist churches in Westerly, R.L, 1864-67, and New York city, 1867-68 ; professor of church history and homiletics, Alfred univer- sity, 1868-94 ; general agent of the American Sabbath Tract society, 1869-72 ; pastor of Seventh- day Baptist church, Plainfield, N.J., 1880-96, and in 1896 became corresponding secretary of the American Sabbath Tract society. He took a post graduate course in church history at Union Theo- logical seminary. New York, 1870-71, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Alfred univer- sity in 1881. He edited the Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly, 1882-96, when he took charge of the Sabhath Recorder. He is the author of : Sabbatli and Sunday — Argument and History (1870); Bib- lical Teachings concerning the Sabbath and the Sujiday {1884) ; Critical History of the Sabbath and the Sunday in the Christian Church {188Q) ; Critical History of Sunday Legislatio7i from 321 to 1S88 A.D. (1888); Paganism Surviving in Chris- tianitji (1892) ; The Catholicization of Protestant- ism on the Sabbath Question (1894); Stvift Deca- dence of Sunday: What Next? (1899, 2d ed..