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lished the New York Society library in 1754. He was a member of the provincial assembly from Livingston manor, 1759-6L He published articles in the Weekly Post Boy denouncing the stamp act. In 1760 he purchased a farm at Elizabeth- town, N.J., to which he removed in 1773. On June 11, 1774, he was appointed to represent Essex county in a committee of correspondence to select delegates for election to the first Continental congress, July 23, 1774. He was a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental congress, 1774-76, and served on many important committees. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the New Jersey militia with the rank of brigadier-general in June, 1776; was governor of New Jersey, 1776- 90, and was nominated in Januar}^ 1785, one of the commissioners to superintend the construc- tion of the Federal buildings, but declined the honor as he diJ that of U.S. minister plenipoten- tiary to the Hague, June 23, 1785, owing to his advanced age. It was largely through his efforts that the legislature of New Jersey passed the act forbidding the importation of slaves, Marcli 2, 1786. In 1787 he was a delegate to the Philadel- phia convention that framed the U.S. constitu- tion, and he signed the instrument Sept. 17, 1787. He was a member of the American Philosophical society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Yale college in 1788. He published, in conjunction with William Smith, Jr., A Digest of the Laics of New York, 1691-1702 (2 vols., 1752-62. ) He is the author of: Philosophic Solitude, or the Choice of a Rural Life (1747); A Review of the Military Operations in North America (1757); Observations on Government (1787). He died at "Liberty Hall," Elizabeth- town, N.J.. July 25, 1790,

LIVINGSTON, William, educator, was born in Unity, N.H., Oct. 12, 1815; son of James and Hannali (Clifford) Livingston. His early life was spent on a farm and he was graduated from Norwich university in 1839 and taught school in Cavendish and Unity Center. He received the fellowship of the Green Mountain association of Universalists in June, 1843; was ordained in Hartford, Vt., Jan. 8, 1846, and preached in various places in New Hampshire and Vermont. In 1855 he became professor of natural science at Lombard university, Galesburg, 111.; was chosen provisional president in 1872 and financial secre- tary of the university in 1875. He was twice married, first in 1842 to Eliza A. Pierce, who died in 1855 and secondly in 1858 to Lucinda A. Still- man of Chillicothe, 111., who died in 1887. Mr. Livingston died at Galesburg, 111., Dec. 29, 1879.

LLOYD, Arthur Selden, clergyman, was born at Mount Ida, Alexandria county, Va., May 3, 1857; son of John Janney and Eliza Armisteail

(Selden) Lloyd, and grandson of John and Rebecca (Janney) Lloyd and of Wilson Cary and Mary (Armistead) Selden. He attended the Potonuic academy at Alexandria, Va.; studied at the Uni- versity of Virginia, 1874-77, and was graduated from the Theological Seminary of Virginia in 1880. He was married June 30, 1880, to Lizzie Robertson, daughter of William Willis and Marj' (Robertson) Blackford. He was ordered deacon in 1880; ordained priest in 1881, and serve^l as a missionary in the diocese of Virginia. 1SN0-S5. He was rector of St. Luke's, Norfolk, Va., 18«5- 99, and was elected general secretary of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Churcli in the United States of America in October, 1899. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Roanoke college in 1898.

LLOYD, Edward, governor of Maryland, was born in " Wye House," Talbot county, Md., July 22, 1779; son of Edward and Elizabeth (Taylor) Lloyd. His father inherited and acquired an es- tate approxi- OLP 5TATE HOUSE,-

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mating 12,- 000 acres of land. The 5th Edward was a dele gate to the state legis lature, 1880- 05; and was elected i e- presentati\e^J'^ in the 9th ^^ U. S. con- - " gress, to fill -^- the unexpu- C ed term of Jc^eph H Nicliolson, resigntd, and re-elected to the 10th congi<rSo, seiving fiom Dec. 1, 1806 to March 3, 1809. He was governor of Maryland, 1809-11; state senator, 1811; presiden- tial elector, 1813, voting for James Madison; U.S. senator, 1819-26, having been re-elected in 1824 and resigned his seat in February, 1826, when he was succeeded by E. F. Chambers. He was a state senator, and president of the body 1826-31. He was married Nov. 30, 1797, to Sally Scott, daughter of Dr. James and Sarah (Mayna- dier) Murray and their son Edward was state sen- ator and president of the senate, 1851-54. Gover- nor Lloyd died in Annapolis, Md., June 2, 1834.

LLOYD, Henry, governor of Maryland, was born in Hambrooke, Dorchester county, Md.. Feb. 21, 1852; son of Daniel and Kitty (Henry) Llo3-d; grandson of Edward and Sally Scott (Murray) Lloyd and of Campbell Henry, and great grandson of John Henry (q.v.), governor of Mary- land. He spent his childhood at Cambridge, Md.,