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 LINTNER

LINTON

.graduated at Yale, A.B., 182G, A.M., 1829, and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, M.D., 1829. He was intern in the New York hospital, 1829-31; physician to a cholera hospital, 1832, and practised in partner- ship with Dr. William Minor, 1832-34, Dr. Wil- liam Baldwin, 1834-41, and alone, 1841-86. He was married in 1834 to Catharine Fisher Bald- win, of New York city. He retired to his home- .stead at Northford, Conn., in 1836. In 1853, with his wife, he was a guest of Commodore Vanderbilt on the steam yacht North Star, visit- ing England, Russia and the Mediterranean ports. He established the Noah and Jared Linsly Fund for supplying books to Yale college library, in memory of his uncle, Noah Linsly (Yale, A.B., 1791, A.M., 1794, and Williams, 1795; who is said to have founded the first free school in a slave state, and who died in 1814). Dr. Jared Linsly was a trustee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, one of the managers of the Ophthalmic and Aural institute, and held other offices. He was also a member of j^rominent medical socie- ties. He died in Northford, Conn., July 12, 1887. LINTNER, Joseph Albert, entomologist, was born in Schoharie, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1822; son of the Rev. George Ames and Maria (Waggoner) Lint- ner; and grandson of George Lintner, who came from Bavaria, Germany, and settled in Minden, N.Y., in 1766. He was graduated from the Scho- harie academy in 1837; engaged in mercantile pursuits in New York city, 1837-48, and in Scho- harie, N.Y., 1848-60; and as a manufacturer of woollen goods in Utica, N.Y., 1860-67. In 1848 he began to study entomology, and to collect insects. He was married, Oct. 2, 1856, to Frances C, daughter of Holmes Hutchinson of Utica, N.Y. He was assistant zoologist in the New York state museum at Albany, 1867-79; presi- dent of the department of natural science in the Albany Institute, 1879-98; was appointed state entomologist in 1880, and was re-appointed in 1881 under an act of the legislature establishing the office permanently. He became a member of the scientific staff of the New York state museum of natural history in 1883, and went to Europe in the latter part of 1897. He was a member or president of the principal scientific societies of America and Europe. The discovery of the clover midget and the clover beetle in New York state is credited to him. He received the degree of Ph.D. fx'om the regents of the Univer- sity of the State of New York in 1884. He is the autlior of over 400 papers, published in Amer- ican and European scientific journals; and offi- cially publislied thirteen annual reports on the Injurious and Other Insects of the State of New York (1883-85); Report of the State Entomologist ,<1883). He died in Rome, Italy, May 5, 1898.

LINTON, Edwin, naturalist, was born in East Bethleliem, Pa., March 14, 1855; son of Joseph and Naomi (Harry) Linton; grandson of Mahlon and Anne (Hilles) Linton and of Lewis and Maria (Griffith) Harry and a descendant of John Linton, a Quaker, who emigrated from England in or about 1682. He was graduated at Wash- ington and Jefferson college in 1879; was tutor of mathematics there 1879-81; post-graduate student at Yale, 1881-82, and in 1882 became professor of geology and biology in Washington and Jefferson college. He was married, July 5, 1885, to Margaret McKnight, daughter of Dr. James Irwin and Eleanor (Aclieson) Bi'ownson. He was elected to membership in the Academy of Science and xVrt, Pittsburg. Pa., in 1890 and in the American Society of Naturalists in 1892. He received the degree of Ph.D. from Yale in 1890. He wrote numerous papers mainly on entozoa, published in the Reports and Bulletins of the U.S. Fish commission and in the Proceed- ings of the U.S. National museum. He was awarded a diploma and a silver medal at the International Exposition, Paris, 1900.

LINTON, William James, engraver, was born in London, England, Dec. 7, 1812. He learned to draw and engrave on wood, and he established hin:iself in that profession in London, and in 1842 was employed on the London Illustrated News. He was a zealoxis Chartist and inti- mately acquainted with the chief politi- cal refugees. In 18- 48 he was deputed with J. D. Collett and Mazzini to carry to the provisional government at Paris the congratulatory address from English workmen. He was one of the founders of the London Lead- er in 1849, and soon after undertook the most important journalistic work of his life, the editing and publication of the English RejJxb- lic, which lie continued, 1850-52. He managed and edited Pen and Pencil in 1855, and was foi- several years a regular poetical contributor to the Nation. He was married in 1858 to Eliza Lynn, daughter of an Englisli clergyman, and the author of many books. He was legtilly separated from his wife in 1867. He came to New York city in 1867, and subsequentl}' settled in New Haven, Conn., where he established a large engraving business known as the Appledore Press. He was a member of the American Society of Painters in Wate''

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