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Colors, an associate of the Xational Academy of Design, and a member of tiie Grolier club and the Centurv association. He received the honor- ary degree of A.M. from Yale in 1891. He illus- trated : ■• The History of Wood EIngraving," Hhis- trated London Xeics (1846-47); ■• Works of the De- ceased British Painters," London Art Union (1S60); J. G. Holland's •" Katrina '" (.1869), and Bryant's " Flood of Years " and '• Thanatopsis "(1878). He is the author of : Claribel and Other Poems (1865) ; TTie Flower and Star, which he illustrated and engraved (1378) ; Some Practical Hints on Wood Engraving (1879): History of Wood Engraving in America (1883); A Manual of Wood Engraving (1884, 2d ed., 1887): The Masters of Wood En- graving (1889): Poems and Translations (1889); Life of Whittier (1893); Reminiscences (1895). He also edited Bare Poems of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1882), and English Verse, with Richard H. Stoddard (5 vols., 1883). He died in New Haven. Conn., Dec. 29, 1897.

LINTON, William Seelye, representative, was born at St. Clair, ilich., Feb. 4, 1856; son of Aaron and Sarah (McDonald) Linton ; grandson of Joseph Winder and Eebecca (Seelye) Linton, and a descendant of John Linton, of Bucks county, Pa., who landed in Philadelphia about 1692. BLis parents removed to Saginaw, Mich., in 1860, where he received a pubUc school educa- tion. He was employed as a clerk in a general store at Farwell, Mich., in 1871, and subse- quently became manager of his father's saw-mill and lumber yard at FarweU. He engaged in the lumber business at Jonesville, Mich., and after- ward as a bookkeeper to lumber dealers in Sagi- naw, and was lumber inspector in the saw mills along the Saginaw river. In 1877 he became superintendent of a lumbering indvistry at Wells, Delta county, ilich. He was a member of the board of supervisors of Bay county for two terms ; engaged in the salt and lumber business at Sagi- naw in 1879 : was a member of the East Saginaw common council. 1883-87 ; a representative in the state legislature, 1887-88 ; candidate for lieu- tenant-governor on the Republican ticket in 1S90 ; mayor of Saginaw, 1892-94, and a Republican representative from the eighth district of Michi- gan in the 53d and 54th congresses. 1893-97. In congress he successfully opposed the appropria- tions of public moneys for sectarian purposes. He was appointed postmaster of Saginaw in 1897 ; elected president of the Michigan Associa- tion of Postmasters the same year, and president of the Michigan State League of Building and Loan associations in 1891.

LIPPLNCOTT, James Starr, agriculturist, was bom in Pliiladelphia. Pa., April 12, 1819; son of John and Sarah West (Starr) Lippincott. He attended Haverford college, Pa., 18^4-35, and

then devoted himself to teaching. He was a dele- gate to the World's Peace Conference, Frankfort. Germany, 1850. He devoted himself to scientific farming in Haddonfield, N.J., 1856-68, and pa- tented a •• vapor index" for measming the degree of moisttire in the air, which was adopted by the Smithsonian Institution. He was married in 1857 to Susan Haworth Ecroyd, and secondly in 1S81 to Anne E. Sheppard. He compiled : TJie Lippin- cotts of England and America, published after his death ; a Catalogue of the Books belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Fi'iends of Philadelphia (1853); edited the revised edition of Chambers's Encyclopaetlia (1870-71): and is the author of sis articles in the reports of the U.S. Department of Agrictilture, Washington (1862- 67), and of contributions to the Gardener's Monthly and other agricultural periodicals. He died in Greenwich. X.J.. March 17, 1885.

LIPPLNCOTT, Joshua Allan, educator, was born in Burlington county. X. J., Jan. 31, 1835; son of Crispin and Elizabeth Ann (Garwood) Lippincott ; grandson of Josh\ia and Ann (Cris- pin) Lippincott. and of Samuel and Ann (Crock- ford) Garwood, and a descendant of Richard and Abigail Lippincott, who came from Devonshire, England, to Boston, Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1639. but being Quakers, returned and resided at Plymouth. England, until 1663. when they came back to America, making their home in Rhode Island until 1669, and after that time in Shrewsbury, N.J. Joshua Allan Lippincott was graduated at Dickinson college. Carlisle, Pa., in 185-S. He was an instructor in mathe- matics in Pennington seminary, N.J.. 1858-62 ; principal of the high school, Scranton. Pa., and superintendent of the Scranton public schools, 1862-65. He was married. Dec. 24, 1862, to Harriet, daughter of the Rev. Joseph Barlow of Scranton, Pa. He was professor of mathematics in Dick- inson college, 1874-83 ; chancellor of the Univer- sity of Kansas. 1883-89 : pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal church in Topeka. Kan., 1889-92, and of the Arch Street church. Phila- delphia, Pa., 1892-96, and in 1896 became cor- responding secretary of the M.E. hospital in Philadelphia. He received the degree of D.D. from Franklin and Marshall college in 1882. and that of LL.D. from the University of 3Iichigan in 1887.

LIPPINCOTT, Joshua Baliinger, publislier. was born in Juliustown, N.J., March 18, 1813; son of Jacob and Sarah (Baliinger) Lippincott ; grandson of Levi Lippincott ; great-grandson of Jonathan Lippincott. great--grandson of James Lippincott, greats-grandson of Restore and Han- nah (Shattuck) Lippincott and great*-grandson of Richard and Abigail Lippincott. In 1824 he went to Philadelphia, Pa., where he was a clerk