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 LOUNSBURY

LOVE

Phineas C. Lounsbury (q. v.), engaged in the shoe manufacturing business in South Nor- walk, Conn. In 1«95 he was elected as a Republican a state senator, and was re-elected in 1897, serving as chairman of the committees on finance and humane institutions. In lby« he was elected governor of Connecticut, and served for two years, untilJanuary, 1901, when he was suc- ceeded by George P. McLean. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Wesleyan uni- versity in 1900. He became an acknowledged authority on the history and legislation of the state.

LOUNSBURY, Phineas Chapman, governor of Connecticut, was born in Kitlgelirld, Conn.. Jan. 10, 1841; son of Nathan and Delia (Scofield) Lounsbury. His father was a farmer. He was educated in the public schools of Ridgefield, and

enlisted as a private in the 17th Connec- ticut volunteer in- fantry in 1861. He was obliged to retire from the army on ac- count of serious ill- ness, and with his brother, Greorge E. Lounsbury, he en- gaged in the shoe manufacturing busi- ness in New Haven "'^_^ ^"^^ South Norwalk,

/^'^'iic4iy^^^^^tirn4!^c4^ Conn. He was mar- — ^..^ ^ Cy^ ried in 18^7 to Jennie, daughter of Neziah Wright. In 1885 he became president of the Merchants' Exchange National bank of New York city, of which he had been a director for some years. He was electees, Pro- hibitionist, and 2793 for H. C. Baker, labor can- didate. There being no choice by the people, a majority being necessary, the legislature elected the Republican state ticket, and Mr. Lounsbury served as governor, 1887-89. He was elected a trustee of Wesleyan university in 1880, and re- ceived the degree of LL.D. from there in 1887.

LOUNSBURY, Thomas Raynesford, teacher, was born in Ovid, N.Y., Jan. 1. 1838; son of the Rev. Thomas Lounsbury, D.D. (1789-1867), a graduate of Union. 1817, and Princeton Theolog- ical seminary, 1818; pastor at Ovid. N.Y., 1823- 49, and later agent for the American Bible so- ciety. Thomas R. Lounsbury was graduated from

Yale in 1859, and was engaged editorially on Ap- pletons *' American Cyclopaedia," 1859-62. He was a volunteer officer in the civil war, 1862-65; an instructor in English at Yale, 1870-71; profes- sor of English there from 1871, and librarian of the Sheffield Scientific school from 1873. He re- ceived the degree of A.M. from Yule in 1877; that of LL.D. from Yale in 1892 and from Harvard in 1893; that of L.H.D. from Lafayette- in 1895, and that of Litt.D. from Princeton in 1896. He edited Chaucer's " Parliament of Foules" (1877), and is the author of: History of the English Language (1879); Biography of James Fenimore Cooper (1883); Studies in Chaucer (3 vols., 1891).

LOVE, Qeorge Maltby, soldier, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., Jan. 1, 1831. He served three months in the 21st N.Y. militia, May-August, 1861; one year in the 44th N.Y. volunteers as lieutenant, participating in the battles from Hanover Court House to Malvern Hill; and as major and colonel of the 116th N.Y. volunteers from Sept. 5, 1862, to the close of the war. He commanded the regiment in the Department of the Gulf, at the battle of Plain's Store, La., May 21, 1863. and at the assault on Port Hudson, La., May 27, 1863, where lie was severely wounded. He was promoted to the rank of colonel, July 16, 1863, and engaged in the Red River campaign, hia regiment being assigned to the 1st brigade, Ist division, 19th army corps, Gen. W. B. Frank- lin, taking part in the battles of Sabine Cross- Roads, April 8, 1864, Pleasant Hill, April 9, and Cane River, April 23, 1864. The 19th corps. Gen. W. H. Emory, was then ordered to join the Army of the Potomac, and arrived in Washington in time to take part in repelling the invasion of Early. He took part in the battles of Winches- ter, Sept. 19, Fisher's Hill, Sept. 22, and Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. He was brevetted briga- dier-general of volunteers, March 7, 1865, for gal- lant and meritorious services at the battle of Cedar Creek, Va., and also received a bronze medal of honor from the secretary of war. He was mustered out of the volunteer service, June 8, 1865, and entered the regular service, Marcli 7, 1867, as 2d lieutenant in the 11th infantry. He was brevetted 1st lieutenant, March 7, 1867, for Plain's Store; captain for Port Hudson; major for Cedar Creek, and lieutenant-colonel for gal- lant and meritorious services during the war. He was transferred to the 16th infantry, April 14, 1869; promoted 1st lieutenant, March 1, 1875; and was retired, March 15, 1883, for disability in- curred in the line of duty. He died in Buffalo, N.Y., March 19, 1887.

LOVE, James Madison, jurist, was born at Fairfax Court House, Va., March 4, 1820; son of John T. and Mary (Vermillion ) Love. His father died while he was a mere lad and his mother re-