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LITTLE, George, naval officer, was born in Llarshfield, Mass., April 10, 1754. In 1799 he served as 1st 1 ieutenant under Capt. John Foster Williams on the Protector, taking part in the engagement with an English letter-of- marque of thirty guns, June 9, 1780, in which the enemy's ship was blown up. On another cruise the Pro- tector was overpowered by two English cruisers, taken into New York, and Captain Williams and

Lieutenant Little were carried to Eng- land where Little bribed a sentry and tbiis escaped to France. He return- ed to America and was given command of the sloop-of-war Winihrop. He was commissioned cap- tain in the newly established navy ^^■t^^r _ March 4, 1799, and in April was given command of the Boston, a fri- gate of twenty-eight guns, then on the stocks at Boston. The Boston was launched at Hart's yard Miiy 20, and on July 25 sailed from Boston on a cruise. Captain Little captured several arm- ed French privateers, including the Berceau after a severe engagement. On the establishment of peace with France he was discharged from active service, Oct. 2, 1801, and passed the re- mainder of his life on his farm at Weymouth, Mass. He is the author of: The Aynerican Cruiser, and Life on the Ocean, or Ttventy Years at Sea (1844-45.) He died at Weymouth, Mass., July 22, 1809.

LITTLE, George Thomas, librarian, was born in Auburn, Maine, May 14. 1867; son of Edward Toppan and Lucy Jane (Bliss) Little; grandson of Edward and Hannah (Brown) Little and of Zeba and Lepha (Peck) Bliss, and eighth in des- cent from George Little, who emigrated to New- bury, Mass., in 1640, and fourth from Col. Moses Little, a Revolutionary soldier. George prepared for college at the Edward Little liigh school, Auburn, Maine, and was graduated from Bow- doin college, A.B.. 1877, A.M., 1880. He trav- elled and studied abroad, 1877-78; was teacher of Latin at Thayer academy, Braintree, Mass., 1877-82; professor of Latin at Bowdoin, 1882-86, and was appointed librarian of Bowdoin college in 1883. He was married Dec. 18, 1884, to Lilly Thayer Wright, daughter of George H. and Sarah (Weeks) Lane of Braintree, Mass. He was elected a member of the Maine Historical society in 1879, and of the Minnesota Historical society in 1896. The honorary degree of Litt.D. was conferred on him by Bowdoin in 1894. He is the

author of: Descendants of George Little of Neio- bury, 1640 (1877, enl. ed., 1882): Memorial of Alpheus Spring Packard (1885); Historical Sketcli of Boicdoin College (1894.)

LITTLE, James Lawrence, surgeon, was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 19, 1836; son of George W. and Eliza (Cleland) Little, and grandson of George and Mary (Wakeman) Little. He was married in 1858 to Elsie A., daughter of John Charlotte of Newbern, N.C. He was graduated from the College of Pliysicians and Surgeons. New York city, 1860; was connected with the New York hospital, 1860-62. and in 1862 became surgeoi> in-charge of the Park Barracks. He introduced into the United States the plaster of Paris splint treatment of fractures in 1861. He served in the civil war in the temporary hospital erected at Washington, D.C., and in field service at White House on the Pamunkey river in 1862-63. He was influential in establishing the New York state board of health in 1864. In 1863 lie was appointed clinical assistant to Prof. Willard Parker in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons; delivered a course of lectures on fi-actures and their treatment, 1864-68, and lectured in the summer school of that institution, 1868-78. He was non-resident professor of surgery in the Uni- versity of Vermont, 1875-85, and consulting surgeon to the Northwestern dispensary and at- tending surgeon to St. Luke's and St. Vincent's hospitals. He was i)rofessor of clinical surgery in the University of the City of New York in 1880, and professor of surgery in the New York Post Graduate Medical School, 1882-85, of which he was one of the founders. He was a member of numerous medical associations. He died in New York city, April 4, 1885.

LITTLE, John, representative, was born in Ross township, Greene county, Ohio, April 25, 1837; son of Robert and Elizabeth (Hiatt) Little, and grandson of John and Elizabeth (Ritenour) Little and of Jeremiah and Lucinda ^Kidwell) Hiatt, all natives of Virginia. He was graduated at Antioch college in 1862; tauglit school, and was admitted to the bar in 1865. He was mar- ried Oct. 19, 1865, to Barbara J. Slieets of Troy, Ohio. He was prosecuting attorney of Greene county, 1867-69; representative in the state leg- islature, 1870-74; attorney-geuei'al of Ohio, 1874- 78, and in 1877 visited Florida, where lie wrote the argument that gave to Hayes the vote of tiie state as decided by the returning board. He was Republican representative in the 49th con- gress, 1885-87, and president of the U.S. com- mission on Venezuela claims, appointed by Presi- dent Harrison, and of the Ohio state board of arbitration, appointed by Governor McKinley. He was a trustee of Antioch college, 1880-1900. He died in Xenia, Ohio, Oct. 18, 1900.