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tution and Java, Dec. 29, 1812. He was trans- ferred to the Washington, Commodore Hull, Sept. 14, 1814, and subsequently to the Boxer, Commodore John Porter. In 1818 he was granted a furlough and made voyages to the East Indies and various European and South American ports

as first officer of a merchant ship. In November, 1819, he was as- signed to the In- dependence, Com- modore Sliaw ; in February, 18- 23, to the sloop Hornet in the West Indies ; in November, 1823, to the sloop Peacock and went to the Pacific ocean ; and in 1824 to the government frigate United States, Commodore Hull, serving 1824-27. He was married June 1, 1829, to Mary D., daughter of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Folsom) Oilman of Exeter, Vt. He was at the Portsmouth navy yard, N.H., 1827-31 ; accompanied Commo- dore Downes on his cruise to the Pacific in the Potomac, 1832-34 ; resided at Portsmouth, N. H., 1884-87 ; commanded a rendezvous in Boston, Mass., 1887-39, and commanded the sloop Boston, 1840-43. He was promoted post-captain, March 2, 1849, and commanded the Mississippi when that vessel brought the Hungarian patriot Kos- suth to the United States in 1852, and was instru- mental in preventing Kossuth from compromis- ing the United States government by making revolutionary speeches at Marseilles.* He com- manded the Saranac, 1852-55, and during these years conducted the Brazilian minister, De Sodre, to his home, and the U.S. minister, Carroll Spence, to Constantinople. He commanded the Pacific squadron, U.S.S. Merrimac, fiagship, 1857-59. He was retired in 1*861, was promoted commodore on the retired list, July 16, 1862, and settled in Exeter, N. H. He died in North Con- way, N.H., Sept. 2, 1865.

LONQ, John Davis, statesman, was born in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, Oct. 27, 1838 ; son of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long); grandson of Thomas and Bathsheba (Churchill) Long, and of Simon and Persis (Temple) Davis ; and a descendant on the paternal side of Richard Warren of the Mayflower, and of Thomas Clark, one of the company of the Ann, which came to Plymouth in 1623 ; and on the maternal side of Dolor Davis, who came from Kent, England, to Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1634. 2Dadoc Long was the Whig candidate for representative in the 26th congress in 1838, but was defeated by Virgil D. Parris. John Davis Long was named for Governor John Davis (q. v.), a cousin of his ma-



temal grand father. He was prepared for college at Hebron academy, and was graduated at Har- vard, fourth in the class of 1857, and was class odist. He was principal of Westford academy, Mass., 1857-59; was a student at Harvard Law school in 1861, and was admitted to the bar at Boston, Mass., the same year. He practised in Buck- field, Maine, 1861-62, and in 1862 went to Boston. He made his home in Hing- ham, Mass., in 1869, and became associat- ed that year with Stillman B. Allen ia the law. He was a Republican represen- tative in the Massa- chusetts legislature, 1875-78, serving as speaker of the house, 1876, 1877 and 1878 ; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts, 1879 ; governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82 ; a dele- gate to the Republican national convention of 1884, where he nominated George F. Edmunds for President, and a representative from the second district of Massachusetts in the 48th, 49th and 50th congresses, 1883-89, declining renomina- tion in 1888. He was a candidate before the state legislature in 1878 for U.S. senator. At the close of his congressional term he returned to the practice of law in Boston, the firm being Allen, Long & Hemenway. On March 4, 1897, President McKinley made him secretary of the navy in his cabinet, and reappointed him March 5, 1901. He was twice married : first, in 1870, to Mary Woodward, daughter of George S. and Helen M. (Paul) Glover of Hingham, Mass. ; and secondly. May 22, 1886, to Agnes, daughter of the Rev. Joseph D. Peirce of North Attleboro, Mass., and their son Peirce was -born at North Attleboro^ Mass., Dec. 29, 1887. He was president of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received LL.D. from Harvard in 1880. He gave to the town of Buckfield in 1901 the Zadoc Long Free Library. He published a translation of the ^neid and a volume of after-dinner speeches. LONQ, Pierse, delegate, waa born in Ports- mouth, N.H., in 1739; son of Pierse Ix)ng, who came from Limerick, Ireland, to Portsmouth and engaged in the slnpping business. He entered partnership with his father and became interested in public affairs. He was a delegate to the pro- vincial congress of New Hampshire, 1775, and colonel of the 1st New Hampshire regiment, com- manding the regiment at Ticonderoga, July 1,