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and doing much of the engraving. In 1868 he retired to a farm near Dover Plains, N.Y., and devoted himself to historical research. He was made an honorary life member of the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, New York city, in 1844. He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Ham- ilton college in 1856 and from Columbia in 1869, and that of LL.D. from the University of Mich- igan in 1872. Besides numerous illustrated con- tributions to American and foreign periodicals, chiefly on the history and legends of the Hudson river, he compiled, with Edwin Williams, " The Statesman's Manual " (4 vols., 1868); editedand an- notated the " The Diaries of Washington " (1859), and " Recollections and Private Memoirs of Wash- ington " by G. W. P. Custis (1860), and is the author of a large number of books, among the more important of which are : History of the Fine Arts (1840); Lives of the Presidents (1847); Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six (1847) ; lives of Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott (1847); The New World (1847) ; Biographies of the Sign- ers of the Declaration of Independence (1848) ; History of the United States {X^vtA); Our Coun- trymen (1855); Mount Vernon (1859); Life of Philip Schuyler (2 vols., 1860); History of the Civil War{^ vols., 1866-69); Home of Washing- ton (1867); Vassar College and Its Founder (1867); The Hudson River (1867) ; Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 (1868) ; 3Iary and Martha Wash- ington (1868) ; Two Spies : Nathan Hale and John Andre (1886) ; The Empire State (1887). He died at Dover Plains, N.Y., June 8, 1891.

LOTHROP, Daniel, publisher, was born in Rochester, N.H., Aug. 11, 1831 ; son of Daniel and Sophia (Home) Lothrop ; grandson of Solomon and Mehitable (White) Lothrop, and of Deacon Jeremiah Home, of Rochester, Vt., and a de- scendant of Mark Lothrop, a native of England, who immigrated to America, settling in Salem, Mass., in 1643 and in Bridge water, Mass., in 1656. He was prepared for college, but in 1845 engaged in the drug business in Newmarket, N.H., and in 1848 established two drug stores, one in Newmarket and one in Laconia. He also bought a book-store in Dover, N.H., in 1850, and developed in his three stores a large retail book trade, adding to it a jobbing trade and a small publishing business. He opened a drug store in St. Peter, Minn., shortly afterward, and estab- lished a banking house there, but returned east in 1857. He entered business in Boston, Mass., as a publisher in 1868, making a specialty of literature for children and youth by American authors. He also elevated the standard of Sunday-school literature. In the fire of 1872 he lost heavily. Wide Aivake, Babyland, The Pansy, Our Little Men and Women. Chautauqua Young Folks' Journal, and Best Things, were his

contributions to periodical literature for youth. He was influential in organizing the American Institute of Civics. He was married July 25, 1860, to Ellen J., daughter of Joseph and Nancy Morrill, of Dover, N.H., and secondly Oct. 4, 1881, to Harriet Mulford, daughter of Sidney m! and Harriet (Mulford) Stone, of New Haven, Conn. He died in Boston, Mass.. March 18, 1892.

LOTHROP, George Van Ness, diplomatist, was born in Easton, Mass., Aug. 8, 1817 ; son of Howard and Sally (Williams) Lothrop, and a descendant of Mark Lothrop, who came from England to Salem, Mass., then to Duxbury, and then to Bridgewa- ter, previous to 1660. He passed his fresh- man year at Amherst, and was graduated from Brown, A.B., in 1828. He studied at the Harvard Law school for nearly a year, and in 1839, owing to ill health, joined. his brother, the Hon. Edwin H. Lothrop, on his farm at Prairie Ronde, /^ ^^yu y//^ Kalamazoo, Mich. In ^^^^^^- ± 1843 he resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the Detroit bar in 1844. He practised in Detroit, Mich., 1844-56 ; was attorney-general of Michigan, 1848-51 ; recorder of Detroit, 1851 ; led the Michigan delegation at the Democratic national convention at Charleston, April 23, 1860, and wa» a member of the state constitutional convention in 1867. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for U.S. senator three times, and for representative in congress twice. He was ap- pointed U.S. minister to Russia by President Cleveland in 1885, and resigned on account of ill health in 1888. He was married May 13. 1S47, to Almira, daughter of Gen. Oliver and Anna (Chapin) Strong, of Rochester, N.Y., and of their two daughters, Anne married Baron Bartholdi Hoyningen-Huene, of St. Petersburg. Russia, an officer of the Chevalier Guards, and Helen married the Rev. Dr. William Prall. of Detroit, Mich. Mr. Lothrop received the degree of LL.D. from Brown in 1873. He died at Detroit, Mich., July 13, 1897.

LOTHROP, Harriet Mulford, author, was born in New Haven, Conn., June 22. 1844 ; daugh- ter of Sidney M. and Harriet (Mulford) Stone, and a descendant in the eighth generation from the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Connecticut. She began to contribute to juvenile periodicals in 1877. She adopted tlie i)en name " Margaret Sidney " and directed her literary work to the