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 LISCUM

LISPENARD

professor of mathematics in the University of Georgia, 1856-86, and emeritus professor, 1886-94; and special instruction in Shakespeare under Cliancellor Andrew Adgate Lipscomb (q.v.). She was married Jan. 14, 1869, to Fran- cis Adgate Lipscomb, professor of belles letters and rhetoric in the University of Georgia, who died in 1875. She was a teacher in the Waverly seminary. Washington, D.C., 1876-79, and in 1879 declined the office of principal of the Lucy Cobb Institute, which office was accepted by her younger sister Mildred. She returned to Georgia in 1880 and assisted her sister as teacher of Shakespeare, pyschology and oratory in the Lucy Cobb Institute, assuming the duties of principal during two j'ears when lier sister was disabled. She was elected principal in 1894. She was elected a member or officer of various patriotic, religious, and other organi- zations.

LISCUM, Emerson Hamilton, soldier, was born in Huntington, Vt., July 16, 1841; son of John and Phebe (Hamilton) Liscum; grandson of Peletiah and Sally (Campbell) Liscum, and a descendant of Captain John and Rachel (Day) Liscum of Glouces- ter, Mass. Captain John Liscum was born at Gloucester, April 16, 1720; son of Peletiah and Ann (Bradley) Liscum. Tlie family removed to Burlington, where he attended school and became a cor- poral in the "How- ard Guards." On May 2, 1861, he was /> u \. mustered for three

(/fyj, I i-* CAA/'^^*'^'^' months' service in the 1st Vermont in- fantry, and was discharged Aug. 15, 1861. He enlisted soon after in the 12th U.S. infan- trj' and was promoted 2d lieutenant, Feb. 19, 1863; 1st lieutenant. May 4,1863; captain 2oth infantry, July 28th, 1866; major 22d infantry, May 4. 1892; lieutenant-colonel 24th infantry. May 23, 1896, and colonel of the 9th infantry, April 25, 1899. His battles in the civil war in- cluded Big Bethel, Va., June 10, 1861; Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 1862, where he was wounded; Gettysburg, Pa., July 1-3, 1863, where he was severely wounded; Bethesda church, Va., May 30, 1864, and the campaign before Richmond for which he was brevetted captain, Aug. 1, 1864. He married May daughter of Gen. A. S. Diven, (q.v.) and Amanda (Beersi) Diven of Elmira. N.Y. He was made a companion of the Military Order

of the Loyal Legion of the United States in 1891. In the war with Spain he was commis- sioned brigadier-general of volunteers, July 12„ 1898, and was honorably discharged, Dec. 13, 1898, after service in Cuba in the 3d brigade, 1st division, 5lh corps, his services including the battle of San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898, where lie commanded the brigade, led a bayonet charge and was wounded and sent home, but returned to duty in nine months for service in the Philip- pines in command of the 9th infantry. On July 12, 1899, he was appointed brigadier-general of U.S. volunteers and was assigned to the com- mand of the 1st bi-igade, 2d division, 8th corps, at Luzon from July 15, 1899, relieving General Funston, and again from Jan. 15, 1900, relieving General AVlieeler. When the troops were ordered to China in June, 1900, Colonel Liscum's regi- ment, 1350 strong, was selected, left Manila June 27, 1900, and readied Taku July 9. and the next day set out for Tientsin, reaching the walls of the city on July 13. Colonel Liscum had just seized the colors as they dropped from the hands of a wounded color sergeant, when he was shot. His last words were: " Keep up a hot fire into the loop-holed buildings — Do not retreat.'' He died at Tientsin, China, July 13, 1900.

LISPENARD, Leonard, merchant, was born in New York city in 1716; grandson of Anthony Lispenard, a Huguenot refugee, who came to New York about 1650. He was a leading New York merchant, an assistant alderman, 1750-55; an alderman, 1756-62, and a delegate to the first provincial congress which met in New York Oct. 7, 1765. He was a member of the New York assembly, 1765-67; a colonel of the New York militia by a commission from the crown; a treasurer of King's college, and also a governor, 1775-84. He was one of the city committee in 1775, a member of the provincial convention, and took an active part in all the patriotic proceed- ings just before the Revolutionary war. When the patriots left New York, however, he took the oath of allegiance and was re-instated in his office of governor and treasurer of King's college. When the provincial articles of peace wei-e signed he publicly declared himself a friend to the new government, and even took part in the cruelties inflicted upon the loyalists after the evacuation of the city of New York. He was one of the oiiginal members of the Society of the New York Hospital and one of its governors, 1770-77. He was married in 1741, to Alice, daugliter of Anthony Rutgers, who iiilierited from her father a third of the extensive grant made to him by George III. I^Ir. Lispenard purchased adjacent property from the other heirs juid the whole tract became the Lispenard Meadows. He died in New York city, Feb. 15, 1790.