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Georgia and Alabama. He was brevetted major- geiieiai of volunteers, March 26, 1865, and alter his brigade had been mustered out was ordered to New Orleans by General Sherman, where he served until the affairs of the French in Mexico were settled, and he returned to Lawrenceburg, Ind., in January, 1866. He was employed in the U.S. revenue service, 1875-81 ; was postmaster of Lawrenceburg, 1881-85, and was an unsuccessful candidate for representative in congress on the Republican ticket in 1886.

LUCE, Alice Hanson, educator, was born in Wiiithrop, Maine, June 24, 1861 ; daughter of George Gorman and Hannah Jane (Carr) Luce, and granddaughter of Gorham and Sabrina (Joy) Luce and of Daniel and Patience (Noyes) Carr. vShe attended the Edward Little high school at Auburn, Maine, and was graduated from Welles- ley college, B.A., 1883. She was a teacher at the Putnam, Conn., high school, 1883-84 ; the Wellesley high school, 1884-85 ; the Girls' Latin school, Boston, Mass., 1885-93 ; studied in Leipzig university, 1893-95, and was regularly matricu- lated at Heidelburg university, in 1895. She was the first American woman to receive the doctor's degree from the philosophical faculty of Hei- delberg university, it being conferred on her in 1896. She was teacher in the English depart- ment of Smith college, 1896-97 ; in the depart- ment of English literature at Wellesley college, 1897-1900. and was appointed dean of women and full professor of English literature at Oberlin •college, April 14, 1900, She is the author of : The Countess of Pembroke's Antonio " (1897), her inaugural dissertation presented to the philoso- p'lical faculty at Heidelberg, for the degree of Ph.D.

LUCE, Cyrus Gray, governor of Michigan, was bjrn in Windsor, Ohio, July 2, 1824 ; son of Walter and Mary (Gray) Luce ; grandson of Cyrus Gray, whose ancestors came from England and settle 1 near Winchester, Va., about 1750, and •of Joshu.i Luce who settled in Tolland, Com.., -early in 1700, his ancestors being early settlers in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., about 1650. His fatlier, a native of Tolland, Conn., was a soldier in the war of 1812 and at its close went to Aslita- bula county, Oliio, where he married jMary Gray, a Virginian. They removed to Steuben county, Ind., in 1836 with their six boys, and cultivated a farm amid the hardsliips of frontier life. Cyrus attended the log schoolhouse ; the Northeastern Indiana Collegiate institute for one year ; was •employed in a wool-carding and cloth- dressing establishment, 1842-48 ; purchased land in Gilead, Mich, in 1848, and after 1849 engaged in farming. He was supervisor of the town of Gilead for twelve years ; representative in the state legisla- ture, 1854-56 ; treasurer of Branch county, 1858-

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62 ; state senator, 1865-«9 ; state oil in8|jector, 1877-83 ; and governor of Michigan, 1887-91. lie was married, Aug. 29, 1849, to Julia A. Dickin- son, a native of Amherst, Mu8s., who removed to Gilead, Ind., in 1836, and died Aug. 13, 1882. and secondly Nov. 8, 1883, to Mrs. Mary E. Thonii>- son, of Bronson, Mich.

LUCE, Stephen Bleecker, naval oftirer, was born in Albany, N.Y., March 25, 1827 ; .s<jn of Vinaland Charlotte (Bleecker) Luce ; grandson of Cornelius and Olive (Foster) Luce.^nd a descend- ant of Jan Jansszen Bleecker, Albany, Ittott. He was appointed a mid- shipman in the U.S. navy, Oct. 19, 1841 ; was promoted passed midshipman, April 1, 1848 ; circumnavi- gated the globe in the Cohimbus, 74, -Com- modore James Bid- die, 1845-48, visiting Japan ; served on the coast of California during the Mexican war, 1846-47 ; was attached to the as- tronomical party un- der Lieut. James M.

Gilliss in December, 1852, and to the U.S. coast survey, 1854-57. He was married Dec. 7. 1854, to Eliza, daughter of Commodore John Dandridge Henley, U.S N. He was promoted limitenant, Sept. 16, 1855 ; was assistant instructor at the U.S. Naval academy, 1860-61 ; third lieutenant of the Wabash, flagship, attached to the bl(K-k- ading squadron off the coast of South Carolina, 1861, and participated in the battle of Port Royal, Nov. 13, 1861. He was ordered to the naval academy at Newport, R.I., Jan, 10, 1862. was commissioned lieutenant-commander, July 16, 1862 ; to(jk command of the practice ship Mace- donian on a European cruise, June 1, l&iii ; commanded the Nantucket, Sonoma, Canandaigua and Pontiac of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, 1863-65, and during this time engaged with the Confederate forts Sumter, Moultrie and Battery Marshall. He reported to General Sherman at Savannah, Ga.. for duty in connec- tion with the army, December. 1864, and with the Pontiac he guarded the i)ontoon bridge at Sister's Ferry on the Savannah, while General Slocum's division crossed into South Carolina. He was ordered to the naval academy at Aniui- polis, Md., in September, 1865; relieved Com- modore Fairfax as commandant of midshipmen in October, 1865 ; was commissioned as com- mander, July 25, 1866 ; commanded the practice squadrons of the naval academy, the Mohongo,