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and of Abraham and Mary (Tolman) Capen. His father had four ancestors in the Mayflower com- pany, including Elder William Brewster and John Alden, and his mother was a descendant of Roger Clap of Dorc;hester. He attended the public schools of Weymouth, Mass., was graduated from Amherst college, A.B., 1873, and studied one year each at Clark university, at Harvard, and at Haverford college, Pennsylvania. He was Walker in- structor in mathematics at Amherst, 1873-76, and was elected professor of mathematics at Colorado college in 1877. He was married, July 13, 1882, to Mabel, daughter of Dr. Martin and Emma (Danforth) Wiley of Colorado Springs, Col. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and became a member of the American Mathematical society in 1891. He received the degree of A.M. from Harvard university in 1899 and that of Ph.D. from Haverford college in 1900. He published : An Introduction to Geometry on the Analytical Flan (1880) and contributed to various mathe- n^atical journals.

LOUDENSLAGER, Henry Clay, representa- tive, was born in Mauricetovvn, Cumberland county, N.J., May 22, 1852 ; son of Samuel Paul and Sarah (Haley) Loudenslager, and grandson of Jacob and Elizabeth Loudenslager. He re- moved with his parents to Paulsboro, N.J., in 1856, and received a common school education. He worked on his father's farm until 1872, and engaged in the produce commission business in Philadelphia, 1872-82. He was elected clerk of Gloucester county in 1882 ani re-elected in 1887, and was a Republican representative from the first district of New Jersey in the 53d-58th con- gresses, 1893-1905.

LOUQHLIN, John, R.C. bishop, was born in Drumboneff, county Down, Ireland, Dec. 20, 1817 ; son of a tenant farmer who came to the United States with his family in 1823, and settled in Albany, N.Y, John attended the public schools ; a boarding school at Chambly, Canada ; Mount St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md. ; taught at Mount St. Mary's for several years, and was ordained priest in St. Patrick's cathedral. New York city, by Bishop Hughes, Oct. 18, 1840. He was assistant in St. John's parish, Utica, N.Y., 1840-42 ; assistant priest at St. Patrick's cathe- dral, 1842-44; and rector there, 1844-53. He was appointed vicar-general of the diocese of New York in 1849, and in 1853 accompanied Archbishop Hughes to the first plenary council of Baltimore as his theologian. He was conse- crated bishop of the newly established diocese of Brooklyn, in St. Patrick's cathedral. New York, city. Oct. 30, 1853, by Archbishop Cajetan Bedini. assisted by Bishops Rappe and Fitzpat- I'ick, and was formally installed in St. James's VII. —3

church. Jay street, Brooklyn. He built one hundred and nine churches on Long Island, and established hospitals, homes, orphanages, convents, and academies. He purchased a city block of land on which to erect a new cathedral in 1860, and laid the corner stone June 21,

1868. He attended the council of the Vatican at Rome in

1869, and became domestic prelate to the pope. He made a second visit to Rome in 1880, ob- tained a special au- dience with the pope, and presented him with 33,000 francs as Peter's pence from the diocese of Brook- lyn. He was invited to attend the pope's golden jubilee, but sent one of the priests of his diocese in his stead with tlie gift of an album containing photo- graphs of all the churches and institutions of his diocese, with data of the progress of the church on Long Island. His own golden jubilee occurred in October, 1890, and was celebrated four day.s. He was presented with a purse of $37,000 with which he endowed St. John's Theological semi- nary. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 29, 1891.

LOUQHRIDGE, WiHIam, representative, was born in Youngstown, Ohio, July 11, 1827. He at- tended the public school, studied law, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1849. He practised in Mans- field, Ohio, 1849-52 ; and in Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1852-61. He was a member of the Iowa senate, 1857-60 ; was judge of the 6th judicial district of Iowa, 1861-67, and a Republican representative from the sixth Iowa district in the 40th, 41st and 43d congresses, 1867-71 and 1873-75. He died near Reading, Pa., Sept. 26, 1889.

LOUNSBURY, George Edward, governor of Connecticut, was born in Poundridge. West- chester county, N.Y., May 7, 1838 ; son of Nathan and Delia (Scofield) Louns- bury, grandson of Enos Lounsbury, and a descendant in the sixth generation of Richard Lounsbury, of Louns- bourgh, England, who settled at Stamford, Conn., about 1651. He removed with his parents to Ridgefield, Conn., wlien he was an infant. He prepared himself for college, was graduated from Yale with high lionors in 1863, from the Berkeley Divinity school. Middle- town, in 1866 ; and in 1867, with his brother