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civil war broke out, and he raised a battalion of cavalry and was commissioned captain in the U.S. volunteer service. He was promoted major and became judge advocate on the staff of Gen. Lew Wallace. He was mustered out at the close

of the war ; was graduated at the Al- bany Law school in 1866, and was admitt- ed to the bar, but in- stead of entering the practice of law ac- cepted a commission as lieutenant in the 2d U.S. cavalry. He served in the west and in Alaska, and resigned in 1868 to practise law in Salem, Ore. He served as state senator, 1878- 80 ; justice of the supreme court of Oregon, 1880-94, and governor of Oregon, 1895-99. He was married in 1880 to Juliette Montague, of Baltimore, Md. On April 18, 1899, President MoKinley appointed him U.S. minister to Persia as successor to Arthur S. Hardy, but he declined the appointment. On Oct. 23, 1899, he accepted the appointment of U.S. minister to the Argentine Republic as suc- cessor to William T. Buchanan, resigned.

LORD, Willb, educator, was born in Bridge- port, Conn., Sept. 15, 1809; son of Daniel and Anna (Choate) Lord, and great-grandson of the Rev. Benjamin Lord. He was graduated from Williams college in 1833, studied theology at Princeton Theological seminary, 1833, and was ordained Oct. 15, 1834. He was pastor at New Hartford, Conn., 1834-38; at Providence, R.I., 1838-40 ; at Philadelphia, Pa., 1840-50 ; at Cincin- nati, Ohio, 1850-54, and at Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855- 59. He was chosen by the general assembly of the Presbyterian church, professor of biblical lit- erature and pastoral theology at Lane Theologi- cal seminary, and served 1850-54 ; and professor of biblical and ecclesiastical history and McCor- mick professor of didactics and problematical theology at the Northwestern Theological semi- nary at Chicago, 111., and served 1859-70. He was president and Mercer professor of biblical instruction in the University of Wooster, 1870- 73; pastor at Denver, Col., 1875-76; at Colum- bus, Ohio, 1877-79 : resided at Colorado Springs, Col., 1879-83, and was president of the Presbyte- rian College of the Southwest, Del Norte, Cal., 188a-84. He was a trustee of Lafayette college, 1839-49, and of the University of Wooster, 1877- 79. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Lafayette college in 1847, and that of

LL.D. by the University of Wooster in 1873. He is the author of : Christian Theology for the Peo- ple (1874); The Blessed Hope, or the Glorious Com^ ing of Our Lord (1877). He died at Guilford, Conn., Oct. 28, 1888.

LORE, Charles Brown, representative, wa» born in Odessa, Del., ^larch 16, 1831 ; son of Eldad and Priscilla (Henderson) Lore. He was prepared for college in Middletown academy, Del., and was graduated at Dickinson in 1852. He studied law under Judge John K. Findlay of Philadelphia and Chancellor D. M. Bates of Wilmington, Del., was admitted to the bar in 1861, and settled in practice in Wilmington, Del. He was clerk of the Delaware house of representatives in 1857 ; commissioner of the draft for New Castle county for filling the quota of soldiers under the Presi- dent's call in 1862, and attorney-general of the state, 1869-74. He was married, July 7, 1862, to Rebecca A., daughter of Josiah Bates of Mt. Holly, N.J. He was a Democratic presidential elector in 1881 and again in 1893, and a representative from the state at large in the 48tli and 49th con- gresses. 1883-87. He was appointed chief justice^ of the state of Delaware in 1893, and re-appointed in 1897, for the term ending in 1909. He received the degree of LL.D. from Dickinson college in 1894 and from Delaware college in 1896.

LORIMER, George Claude, clergyman, was. born in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 6, 1838. He came to the United States in 1856 and settled in Louisville, Ky., where he joined the Baptist church. He was a student at Georgetown college, 1857-59, and was a trustee of that insti- tution, 1866-68. He was ordained pastor of the Baptist church, Harrodsburg, Ky., in 1859 and after several years went to the church at Paducah, and from there to Louisville, where he remained three years. In July, 1867, he was one of a committee of five appointed by the Kentucky gen- eral association of Baptists to protest against the action of the leg- islature in giving up the Agricultural and Me- chanical college to the control of the Campbel- lites thereby benefiting one sect and tending to the union of church and state. Leaving Kentucky he preached at the Baptist church, Albany, N.Y., 1869 ; theShawmut Avenue church, Boston, Mass., 1870-73 ; Tremont Temple, 1873-79 ; Immanuel. church and First church, Chicago, 111., 1879-91 »

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