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this body, and commanded during the " Dorr war" in 1842, being elected lieutenant-colonel of the corps in 1842 for his services. In 1862 he was commissioner for enrolling and drafting the state's quota for the civil war. He was governor of Rhode Island. 187.5-77. He died in Providence, R.I.. June 5. 1891.

LIPPMANN, Julie flathilde, autlior, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., June 27, 1864; daughter of Adolpli and Marie Sophie (Polk) Lippmann, natives of Aix la Chapelle, Prussia. .She was educated at a private school in Brooklyn and when fourteen began to write for the Golden Age, Philadelphia, in both prose and verse. She also wrote for the YouWs Companion, Century, Harper s, Atlantic and in fact most of the lead- ing magazines and first class periodicals. She is the author of: Jock O'Drea-ms (1891); Miss Wild- fire (1897); Dorothy Day (ISQS), and comediettas: A Fool and His Money (1897); Cousin Faithful (1897); The Facts in the Case (1897); Through Shuubertou-n and Wakeland.

LIPSCOMB, Abner Smith, jurist, was born in Abbeville, S.C, Feb. 10, 1789; son of Joel and Elizabeth (Childs) Lipscomb. His father was a Revolutionary officer, and both parents were natives of Culpeper county. Va. He studied law with John C. Calhoun and George Bowie at Abbe- ville. S.C, and settled in the practice of law in 181 1 at St. Stephens (Ala.), at that time in Mississippi Territory. He served as captain of volunteers in the expedition against the Indians in the war of 1812. He was a member of the Alabama ter- ritoi'ial legislature, 1817-19; judge of the supreme court of the state of Alabama, 1820-24. and chief justice, 1824-35. He was a representative from the Mobile district in the Alabama legislature, 1838. and in 1839 he removed to Texas. He was secretary of the republic under President Lamar, 1839-41. and a member of the convention of 1845 that accepted the terms of annexation proposed by the United States and framed the constitution of the state. He was an associate justice of the supreme court of the state, 1846-57. Lipscomb county, Texas, was named in his honor. He received the honorary degree LL.D. fromtheUni- versity of Alabama in 1834. His opinions are pub- lished in Elinor's, Stewart's, and Stewart and Porter's reports, and in " Texas Law Rejiorts " Vols. I. to XVII. and his der^isioiis are quoted by the supreme courts of Iowa. ^la.ssachusetts and other states and by the L'nited States supreme court. He ilied near Austin. Texa.s, Dec. 3, 1857.

LIPSCOMB, Andrew Adgate, educator, was born in Georgetown. D.C., Sept. 6. 1816; son of the Rev. "William Corrie and Phcebe (Adgate) Lipscomb, and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Degge) Lipscomb. He was a student at the^Iil- itarv academv and at a clas.sical scliool at

Georgetown. He entered the Methodist ministry in 1834; was pastor in Baltimore, Md., Ak-x- andria, Va., and in Washington, D.C.. 1834-42, and then removed to Montgomery, Ala., where he was elected president of the Alabama con- ference. He was married twice, first to Blanche Henrietta Richardson, daughter of the Rev. Ben- jamin Richardson of Baltimore; and .secondly to Susan Dowdell of Alabama. Francis Adgate, his only .son b}' the first marriage, was adjunct professor of ancient languages, 1869-72, and pro- fessor of belle-s-lettres and rhetoric in the Uni- versity of Georgia, 1872-73, and died in 1875. Owing to ill health Dr. Lipscomb established and conducted the Metropolitan Institute for Young Ladies in Montgomery, Ala., which was soon after destroyed by fire. He was president of the Female College at Tuskegee, Ala., 18o7-.59, and chancellor of the university of Georgia, 1860-63 and 1860-74, the intervening years being years of war during which the university was closed. He then went to Vanderbilt university. Nashville, Tenn., where he was professor and professor emeritus of philosophy and criticism, 1875-80, 1880-90. He contributed editorials to Harper's Magazine, and articles regularly for more than forty years to the Independent, Metho- dist Recorder, and Christian Advocate. He re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from the L'ni- versity of Alabama in 1851 and that of LL.D. from Emory college in 1853. He was a superior Shaks- pearian sc-liolar and critic. He is the author of: Our Country, The Social Spirit of Christianity, Christian Heroism, Lessons in the Life of Saint Peter, Studies in the Forty Days. He died in Athens, Ga.. Nov. 23, 1890.

LIPSCOMB, nary Ann (Rutherford), educator, was born in Athens, Ga.. Dec. 23, 1848; daughter of Williams and Laura Battaille (Cobb) Ruther- ford, and granddaughter of Williams and Eliza (Boykin) Rutherford, and of John Addison and

LUCY COBB INSTITUTE..

Sarah Reed (Rootes) Cobb. She entereil the Lucy Cobb Institute in 1858. and completed the course: studied under professors of the L^niver- sity of Georgia; received special instruction in higher mathematics under her father who was