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plenary council of Baltimore, Md., ki 1866. He died of apoplexy, having just finished conferring holy orders, at Cleveland, Ohio, June 29, 1871.

LULL* Edward Phelps, naval officer, was born in Windsor, Vt., Feb. 20, 1836. His father died, and his mother, with a large family of children, removed to Wisconsin when he was a child and obtained for him in 1851 an appointment to the U.S. Naval academy. He was graduated, June 9, 1855; was attached to the Congress, Mediterra- nean squadron, 1856-58, and was assistant fenc- ing master and professor of ethics at the Naval academy, 1859-60. He was promoted passed mid- shipman, April 15, 1858 ; master, Nov. 4, 1858, and lieutenant, Oct. 30, 1860. He was attached to the Roanoke of the home squadron, 1861, taking part in the engagement with the forts at Hatteras In- let, July 10, 1861. He received pro- motion to lieu- tenant comman- der, July 16, 1862, and was com- mandant of mid- ^shipmen and ex- •*^^^;-^ ^^ -^^ >C^ecutive officer of Ithe U.S. Naval academy, New- port, R.I., 1862-63 ; and was attached to the Brooklyn, Capt. James Alden, West Gulf blockading squadron, 1864. He participated in the passage of the forts in Mobile Bay and the engagement with the Confederate gunboats, August 5, the bombardment of Fort Morgan, August 14, and commanded the cap- tured iron-clad Tennessee at the second bom- bardment of Fort Morgan, Aug. 22, 1864. He subsequently commanded the Seminole in the blockade at Galveston, Texas ; the iron-clad La- fayette in the Red River blockade, 1865, and the steamer Swatara on the West India station in 1866, and was at the Naval academy at Annapolis, 1867-69. He was promoted commander, June 10, 1870 ; commanded the store-ship Ouard, 1871 ; served in the bureau of Yards and Docks in 1872, and on the Nicaragua survey expedition, 1872-73. He served at Torpedo station, and was a member of the interoceanic ship-canal commission, 1873- 74, and had charge of a special survey of the Panama canal route, 1874-75. He was hydro- graphic inspector of coast survey, 1875-80 ; was promoted captain in 1881, and was in command of the Pensacola navy yard at the time of his death. He received the honoraiy degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1868. He died at the navy yard, Pensacola, Fla., March 5, 1887. LUMMIS, Charles Fletcher, author and journalist, was Immii in Lynn. Mass., March 1, 1859; son of the Rev. Dr. Honry and Harriet

(Fowler) Lummis ; and grandson of William Lummis and of Oscar F. Fowler. He was edu- cated at home, and at Harvard in the class of 1881, leaving college with brain fever three days before the completion of his course. In 1882 he removed to Chilli- cothe, Ohio, wliere he edited the Scioto Gazette. In 1884 he walked from Cincin- nati to Los Angeles, Cal., by a roundabout route, for adventure and observation, cov- ering 3507 miles in 143 days. He was city editor of the Los Angeles Daily Times three years, and its ^ ^^.^^ correspondent in the ^i(Lc^. '/yi***'Ut>utyt.'^^ Apache war of 1886, ^

being the only news- paper man in the field. He was selected by General Lawton as chief of scouts for the cam- paign which captured Geronimo, but was re- called by the reorganization of the Times, of which he became one of the owners. Stricken by paralysis in 1888, he recovered his health in New Mexico, living five years in the Indian pueblo of Isleta, studying intimately the Indian customs and languages of the territories and travelling on horseback and on foot over the whole of the southwest. He thus explored practically the whole continent from Canada to Chile, and be- came a recognized authority on Spanish- American history and ethnology. He edited and conducted after 1893 the Land of Sunshine, " a magazine of the west," issued monthly at Los Angeles, and largely devoted to the publication of old historical documents. His books, mostly on Spanish-Amer- ican themes, include : A New Mexico David (1891); A Tramp across the Continent (1892); Some Strange Comers of Our Country (1892); The Land of Poco Tiemjw (1893); The Spanish Pioneers (1894); The Man Who Married the Moon, and other Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories (1894); Tlie Oold-Fish of Oran Chimu (1896); The Enchanted Burro (1897); The King of the Broncos (1897); TTie Awakenirig of a Nation, Mexico of To-day (1898). He is also the author of contributions to the leading periodicals and in 1901 had in preparation critical editions of Bena- vides's "Memorial of New Mexico in 1630," and Villagran's " Conquest of New Mexico in 1598," and an economic and historical study of Cali- fornia.

LUMPKIN, John Henry, jurist, was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., June 13, 1812; son of George and Sarah (Pope) Lumpkin ; grandson of