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LUnPKIN, Wilson, governor of Georgia, was bora in Pittsylvania county, Va., Jan. 14, 1783; son of John and Lucy (Hopson) Lumpkin, both natives of Virginia, who had eight sons and one daughter, all citizens of Georgia. His ancestors

were English. Wil- son settled with his parents in the Wil- derness, which after- ward formed Ogle- thorpe county, Ga., in 1784, and received a very limited educa- tion as there were no established schools. At the age of four- teen he was em- ployed as a copyist in the superior court of Oglethorpe coun- ty, of which his father was clerk. He was admitted to the bar and settled in prac- tice at Athens, Ga. He represented Oglethorpe county in the state legislature and was state senator at various times between 1804 and 1815. He was a representative from Georgia in the 14th congress, 181.>-17, and in the 20th and 21st con- gresses, 1827-31 ; and was governor of Georgia for two terms, 1831-35. During his administration the Cherokee Indians were removed beyond the Chattahoochee river and the territory they had occupied was made into thirteen counties, and the town and county of Lumpkin was named for him. He was elected U.S. senator, serving from Dec. 13, 1^37, to March 3, 1841, filling the vacancy caused by the resignation of John P. King. He was commissioned by President Monroe to ascertain and mark the boundary line between Georgia and Florida in 1823, and was appointed one of the first commissioners under the Cherokee treaty by President Jackson in 1835. He served as a member of the first board of public works of Georgia, and as state sur- veyor laid out nearly all the early lines of rail- way in Georgia. He was a delegate to the south- ern commercial convention in Montgomery, Ala., in 1858. He died in Athens. Ga., Dec. 28, 1870.

LUNDY, Benjamin, abolitionist, was born at Hanlwick, N.J., Jan. 4, 1789 ; son of Joseph and Elizabeth (Shotwell) Lundy ; grandson of Thomas and Joanna (Doan) Lundy and of Benjamin and Anne (Hallett) Shotwell, and a descendant of Richard Lundy, a Quaker, who came from Devon- shire, England, and settled in Bucks county. Pa., in 1685. He was a saddler at Wheeling, Va., 1808-12 ; removed to St. Clairsville, Ohio, in 1812, and in 1815, he organized the first anti-slavery assofjiation in tiie United btales, called the Union

Humane society. He contributed articles on slavery to the Philanthropist, and joined Charles Osborne at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, in the publication of tliat i)aper. At that time he decided to sell his property, dispose of his trade and devote his energies to the cause of anti-slavery. He went to St. Louis, Mo., in 1819, and while there agi- tated the slave question in the Missouri and lili nois papers. On his return to Mt. Pleasant in 1821, he established Tlie Genius of Universal Emanci- pation, and in 1822 removed the journal to Jonesboro, Tenn., travelling the five hundred miles on foot. There he issued a weekly news- paper and an agricultural monthly besides his own palmer, and he transferred the journal to Baltimore, Md., in 1824. He had agents in the slave states and between 1820-30 visited nineteen states of the Union, and held more than two hundred public anti-slavery meetings. He visited Hayti in 1826 and 1829, Canada in 1830, and Texas in 1830 and 1833, for the purpose of forming settlements for emancipated and fugi- tive slaves, but the events preceding the annex- ation of Texas interfered with his plans for the establishment of colonies under the anti-slavery laws of Mexico. In September, 1829, he invited William Lloyd Garrison to Baltimore, where to- gether they printed The Genius of Emaneij)ation until March, 1830, when the partnership was dis- solved. During Garrison's imprisonment Lundy was fined repeatedly and heavily, and was also imprisoned. Being obliged to leave Maryland by order of the court at Baltimore, he removed his paper to Washington in October, 1830, and he printed it there until 1834, when he removed it to Philadelphia, and changed its name to the National Inquirer. It was subsequently merged into the Pennsylvania Freeman, and his office was destroyed in the burning of Pennsylvania Hall, which was fired by the mob in May, 1838. He then removed to Lowell, La Salle county. 111., and printed his paper under its old name, The Genius of Emancipation, for a few months. HemarrittI a Miss Lewis, and had five children, lie died at Lowell, 111., Oct. 22, 1839.

LUNT, George, author, was born in Newbury- port, Mass., Dec. 31, 1803 ; son of Abel and Plicebe (Tilton) Lunt. He was grad dated from Harvard in 1824, was admitted to the bar in 1831, and practised in Newbury jx)rt, 1831-48. lie was a Whig representative in the general court of Massachusetts and a state senator from Essex county. He was a delegate to the Whig national convention at Philadelpliia, June 7, 1848, and was appointed U.S. district attorney for Massa- chusetts by President Taylor in 1849. He was retained by President Fillmore, serving 1849-53. He removed to Boston. Mass., in 1848. where he practised law and later in life devoted himself t<.>