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also a member of the Artists' Fund society. He was married to Jennette Shepherd, daughter of James Harrison of New Haven, Conn. He exhibited The Italian Minstrel in tlie Paris Salon of 1868, and Aphrodite in the Centennial exhibition of 1876. Among liis more noteworthy- works, besides portraits of Gregory Thurston Bedell, Bishop of Ohio, the Hon. William G. Choate of New York, and Mrs. Timothy Porter of Stamford, Conn., are : Undine (1863); Clytie (1865); Tlie Improvisatrice (1869); Lake Maggiore (1870) ; The Wliite Rose (1871) ; Idle Fancies (1874) ; Venice (1875) ; ^none (1877) ; At the Spring (1879) ; Idyll of the Lake (1881) ; Herniia (1878); Love's Crown (1882); Marina (1878); Sum- mer Moon (1884); The Dreamer (1885). He died at Lake George, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1895.

LOOP, Jennette Shepherd (Harrison,) paint- er, was born in New Haven, Conn., March 5, 1840 ; daughter of James and Charlotte NicoU (Lynde) Harrison ; granddaughter of Philemon and Sarah (Wolcott) Harrison, and of John Hart and Elizabeth Deall (Nicoll) Lynde, and a de- scendant of the Rev. John Davenport of Plymouth, 1630 ; of Governors Roger and Oliver Wolcott, and of Nathaniel Lynde, Saybrook, Conn., 1680. She studied art with Louis Bail in New Haven and with Henry Augustus Loop in Rome, Paris and Venice. She married Henry Augustus Loop in 1865, and was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1875, being in 1901 one of the three women oil the list of associate national academicians. Slie became well known as a painter of portraits and a regular exhibitor at the academy. Her portraits of Professors Hadley and Learned of Yale college, Misses Alexander and Harriman, Mrs. Joseph Low, Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, De Witt Clinton Blair, Baroness Halkett of England, Judge Lynde Harrison and Mrs. Will- iam G. Choate, and ideal figures : Baby Belle, Little Runaway, Bouquet for Mamma, are named as especially noteworthy.

LOOS, Charles Louis, educator, was born in Woerth-sur-Saner, Lower Alsace, France, Dec. 22, 1823 ; son of Jacques G. and Katharine (Kull) Loos. He immigrated to the United States with his parents, who were Protestants, in 1834 and settled in New Franklin, Stark county, Ohio, where his father died soon after. In 1839 he commenced to teach school. He was graduated from Bethany college Va., in 1846 ; was an in- structor there, 1846-49, and was ordained to the ministry of the Christian church in 1849. He was married, July 6, 1848, to Rosetta E., daughter of Rev. John Kerr of Newry, Ireland. She died Jan. 31, 1893. He was pastor at Wellsburg, Va., 1849-50; at Somerset, Va., 1850-56; and at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1856-57 ; was president of Eureka college, Eureka, 111., 1857-58; professor

of ancient languages at Bethany college, Va., 1858-80 ; president of Kentucky university, Lexington, Ky., 1880-97, and professor of Greek there from 1897. He was president of the Foreign Christian Missionary society, 1888-1900. He re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from Butler univer- sity, Ind., in 1888. He edited the Disciple, 1853- 54; was associate editor of the Sower, 1855, and ot the Christian Age, at Cincinnati, 1856. He was also co-editor of the Millennial Harbinger with Prof. W. K. Pendleton, 1864-70, and con- tributing editor of the Christian Standard^ Cin- cinnati, 1868-88.^

LOOS, Isaac Althaus, educator, was born in Upper Bern, Berks county, Pa., Dec. 6, 1856; son of John and Sarah (Althaus) Loos, and grand- son of George Loos, and of Daniel Althaus and a descendant of German ancestors who settled in Eastern Pennsylvania as early as 1750. He was graduated from Otterbein university, "VVester- ville, Ohio, B.A., 1876, M.A., 1879; and from Yale university, B.D., 1881, where he was special fellow in theology and pliilosophy, 1881-82. He was a student in the college of France, Paris, 1882-83 ; and in the University of Leipzig, 1883- 84. He was professor of history and political science in Western college, Toledo, Iowa, 1884-89, and in 1859 was made professor of political science in the State University of Iowa, becoming in 1900 professor of sociology and political philosophy including municipal government and interna- tional law, and director of the school of political and social science. He was elected a member of the council of the American Economic association in 1889 ; a member of the American Academy of Political and Social science in 1891, and a member of the council of the Academy in 1901. He became associate editor of the World Revieu', Chicago, 111., in 1901. Penn college, Iowa, gave him the degree of D.C.L. in 1898. He is the author of : Outlines of the Industrial Revolution (1892); Studies in the Politics of Aristotle and the Repub- lic of Plato (1900), and contributions to current periodicals on political and social science ques- tions.

LOOTENS, Louis, R.C. bishop, was born in Bruges, Belgium, March 17, 1827. He was or- dained to the priesthood at Paris, France, by Bishop Demers, June 14, 1851, and was sent to California on a mission about 1858, and was at Sonora, Petaluma and San Rafael. At the latter place he erected St. Rafael's church and enlarged the school of the Sisters of St. Dominic. He was elected vicar apostolic of Idaho and was conse- crated titular bishop of Castabala, by Archbishop Alemany at San Francisco, Aug. 9, 1868. He was the first vicar-apostolic of Idaho and served until July 16, 1896, when he resigned, but re- tained the titular see. He died Jan. 13, 1898.