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1887. He was U.S. marslial for the district of Massacliusetts, 1888-91 ; president of the 3d Mas- sachusetts Cavalry association, 1888-89 ; warden of the Massachusetts state prison, 1891-93, and U.S. pension agent at Boston, Mass., 1894-98. He became a member of the corporation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Boston.

LOVERINQ, Joseph, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Dec. 25, 1813 ; son of Robert and Eliz:ibeth Simonds (Young) Lovering. He was graduated with honors from Harvard, A.B., 1833, A.M., 1836 ; was a teacher in Charlestown, Mass.,

1833-35 ; studied at Harvard divinity school, 18.35-37 ; was instructor of mathe- matics at Harvard, 1835-38; tutor and lecturer on mathema- tics and natural his- tory. 1836-38 : and succeeded Professor Farrar as Hollis pro- fessor of mathematics and natural philoso- phy, serving, 1838- 88, when he resigned and was made pro- fessor emeritus. He was regent pro tempore of the college, 1853-54 ; mcceeded Professor Cornelius Conway Felton as regent, serving. 1857-70 ; and was director of tlie Jefferson physical lal)oratory, 1884-88. He was connected with the U.S. coast survey, 1867-76, Imving charge of the computations for determin- ing transatlantic longitude from telegrapliio observations on cable lines. He was a member of the American Philosophical society, and of the National Academy of Science ; was elected sec- retary of the AmerioAn Association for the Ad- vancement of Science in 1854, and president in 1873 ; corresponding secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1869-73, vice- president, 1873-80, and president. 1880-87 ; and was also a member of the Pealjody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1879. He delivered 108 lectures on astronomy and physics before the Lowell Institute in Boston, and shorter series in Baltimore, Washington, and various New England towns. He prepared a new edition of Farmr's ** Electricity and Magnetism" (1842) ; fifteen volumes of the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; was a.ssociated with Benjamin Pierce in the publication of the Cambridge Miscellany of Mathematics and Physics, and is the author of Aurora Borealis (1873). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 18, 1892.

LOVERINQ, WllUam C, representative, was born in Woonsocket, R.I., where his parents were temporarily residing, in 1835 ; son of Willard (1801-67) and Susan (Loughead) Lovering of Taunton, Mass., and grandson of William and Mehitable (Clafflin) Lovering of HoUiston, Mass. He was educated at Taunton, the Cambridge high school and the Hopkins classical school, and en- gaged in the manufacture of cotton goods with liis father and brothers Charles L. and Henry M. in Taunton, Mass. On the retirement of his father in 1864 he became president and manager of the Whittenton Mills which in 1880, was incor- porated as the Whittenton Manufacturing Co. of Taunton. He was also interested in several other manufacturing industries. He was a volunteer in the U.S. engineer corps at Fort Monroe dur- ing the civil war, but left the service on ac- count of ill health. He was state senator, 1874-75; a delegate to the Republican national convention in Chicago, June 2, 1880; and was a Republican representative from the twelfth district of Ma.ssachusetts in the 55th. 56th, 57tli and 58tii congresses, 1897-1905.

LOVETT, John, representative, was born in Newent Society, Norwich (now Lisbon), Conn., alx)ut 1760 ; a descendant of an English family that settled as early as 1640 on the Quinnebaug river, Connecticut. He was prepared for college at Lebanon academy, and was graduated at Yale in 1782. He studied law in Albany, N.Y., and was a lawyer at Fort Miller, N.Y. He was mar- ried about 1786 to Nancy, daughter of Gen. Samuel McClellan, of Woodstock, Conn. He removed to Lansingburg, N.Y, and thence to Argyle, Washington county, where he practised law, 1789-1807. He was a member of the state assem- bly for Rensselaer county before 1789. and in 1807 removed to Albany, N.Y., where he continued the practice of law, and was clerk of the common council of the city. In 1812 lie became aide and military secretary to Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, serving in the Northwest. He was a represen- tative in the 13th and 14th congresses, 1813-17. He then removed to Fort Meigs, Ohio, where, in connection with Dr. Josephus B. Stewart he built the first steamboat that navigated Lake Erie. He purchased the site and commenced the settle- ment of Perrysburg, near Fort Meigs, Ohio, where he died Aug. 12, 1818.

LOW, Abiel Abbot, merchant, was born in Salem, Mass., Feb. 7, 1811 ; son of Seth and Mary (Porter) Low. He attended the public schools of Salem, and was employed in the mercantile house of Joseph Howard & Co. In 1829 he re- moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., where his father had already settled, and became associated with him in the importing business. In 1833 he went to China, became a clerk in the firm of Russell &