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instruction and amusement of children. She was married Oct. 4, 1881, to Daniel Lothrop (q. v.), and made her summer home at *' The Wayside," Concord, Mass. She was the founder and first president of the National Society of the Children of the American Revolution. She is the author ot.Soas by Fire (1881); Five Little Pejipers and How they Grew (1882); Half Year at Bronckton, (1882); The Pettibone Name (1883); Wluit the Seven Did (1883); Who told it to Me (1884); Ballad of the Lost Hare (1884); The Golden West (1885); How They Went to Europe (1885); Hester, and other New England Stories (1886); The Minute-Man (1886); Two Modern Little I^inces (1887); Dilly and the Captain (1887); An Adirondack Cabin; Whittier ivith the Cliil- dren; Old Concord, Her Highwaijs and Byways; . I Little Maid of Concord Tovm; A Historical Romance of the American Revolution; and many poems.

LOTHROP, Samuel Kirkland, clergyman, was born in Whiteslwro, N.Y.. Oct. 13, 1804; son of John Hosmer and Jerusha (Kirkland) Lothrop; grandson of the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, mission- ary to the Oneida Indians, who married Jerusha Bingham; great-grandson of the Rev. David and Hannah (Perkins) Kirkland, and a descendantof the Rev. Jolm Lothrop, who came from England in 1634 and settled first in Scituate and afterward in Barnstable, Mass. He was virtually adopted by his uncle, the Rev. Dr. John T. Kirkland (q.v.), who assumed the charge of his education, and he was graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1825, and B.D., 1828. He preached in Washington, D.C., 1828; in Beverly, Mass.; and was "pastor of the new Unitarian society at Dover, N.H., 182&- 84. He was married, June 3, 1829, to Mary Lyman Buckminster. In June, 1834, he was inducted as pastor of the Brattle Scjuare church, Boston, Mass., as successor to the Rev. Dr. Palfrey, and served until 1876, when he resigned. Mrs. Lothrop died Jan. 20, 1859, and he married secondly, Nov. 22, 1869, Alice Lindsay, daugliter of the Rev. Abner and Catherine (Sedgwick) Webb. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts constitu- tional convention in 1852, a member of the Boston school committee for twenty years, and chair- man of the charitable society for the relief of the widows and children of Congregational ministers in Massachusetts and Maine. He was an overseer of Harvard, 1847-54; a lecturer in the Harvard divinity school, 1871-72; was elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical society in 1854; and served as corresponding secretary and as president of the Massachusetts Humane society and as a member of the Society of the Cin- cinnati and of the most im|X)rtant societies con- nected with the Unitarian church. He received the degree of D.D. from Harvard in 1852, and

that of LL.D. from Hamilton in 1885. He is the author of: Life of Samuel Kirkland, Missionary to the Lidians, in Sparks's "American Biogra- phy," and The History of the Church in Brattle Square. He died in Boston, Mass., June 12, 1886.

LOTT, John Abraham, jurist, was born in Flatbush, L.I., N.Y., Feb. 11, 1806; son of Abra- ham and Maria (Lott) Lott; grandson of Jo- hannes E. and Catharine (Vanderbilt) Lott; great grandson of Englebertand Maritie (Ditmas) Lott, and a descendant of Peter Lott, who came from Europe in 1652, settled in Flatbush, and was one of the patentees named in the patent granted by Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Dongan in 1685. He was prepared for college at Erasmus Hall academy, Flatbush, and graduated from Union college in 1823. He was married to his cousin, Catharine, daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia (Lloyd) Lott. After practising law in New York city a short time he formed a partnership with Henry C. Murphy, transferred his office to Brook- lyn and Judge John Vanderbilt was afterward admitted to the firm. He was county judge of Kings county, 1838-42; a member of the state as- sembly, 1841; state senator, 1843-47; judge of the supreme court of the state to fill the unexpired term of Judge Rockwell, 1857-61, and by re-elec- tion without opposition, 1861-69. In 1869 he was elected a judge of the court of appeals, and not long after, when a commission of appeals had been authorized to clear away the ac(uniulation of cases in this court he was made the chief com- missioner, an office which he held until 1875, when the commission expired by limitation. He was appointed in 1875 a member of a committee to draft a uniform law for the government of cities in the state of New York. He received the degree of LL.D. from Union college in 1859. He was a member of the leading learned societies of Brooklyn and an officer of various corijorations. He died in Flatbush, L. I., N.Y., July 20, 1878.

LOUD, Eugene Francis, representative, was born in Abingtoil, Mass., March 12, 1847. He went to sea in 1860, and was in California in 1862, where he enlisted in a cavalry batallion, which was joined to the 2d Massachusetts cavalry, and served in the Army of the Potomac and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah valley. At the close of the war he returned to California; studied law; was in the customs service; and engaged in mercantile business. He was a representative in the state legislature in 1884; cashier of the city and county of San Francisco and a Republican representative from the fifth district of California in the 52d-57th congres.^es. 1891-1903.

LOUD, Frank Herbert, educator, was born in Weymouth, Mass., Jan. 20, 1852; son of Francis Elliot and Mary Tolman (Capen) Loud, and grandson of Joseph and Thankful (Bates) Loud