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securing appropriations for the construction of harbors of refuge for storm-distressed vessels on the coast of Massachusetts. He supported the Democratic party after 1856 and was one of the editors of the Boston Courier, 1856-65. He mar- ried Sarah Miles Greenwood. He is the author of: Leisure Hours (1826) ; The Grave of Byron, with other Poems (1836) ; Poeiiis (1839) ; The Age of Gold (1843) ; TJie Dove and the Eagle (1851) ; Lyric Poems (1854) ; Julia (1855) ; Eastford, or Household Sketches (1855) ; TJiree Eras of New England (1857) ; Radicalism in Re- ligion, Philosophy and Social Life (1858) ; The Union, a Poem (1860) ; The Origin of the Late War (1866) ; Old New England Traits (1873) ; Mis- cellanies, Poems, etc. (1884), and orations and ad- dresses. He died in Boston, Mass., May 17, 1885.

LUNT, Orrington, philanthropist, was born at Bowdoinham, Maine, Dec. 24, 1815 ; son of William and Matilda Lunt. He was an a ;sistant in his father's store, becoming a partner in 1836 and sole proprietor on the retirement of his father shortly afterward. He was married Jan. 16, 1842, to Cornelia A. Gray of Bowdoinham, and in the same year he disposed of his business and re- moved to Chicago, 111., where he became an operator in grain in 1844. During the civil war he raised and equipped the first regiment to start for Cairo, 111. , and also provided the army with supplies in large amounts throughout the war. He left the United States in 1865, being in ill health, and travelled in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land for several years. Shortly after his return to Chicago the great fire occurred, in which he suffered severe losses, which his extraor- dinary energy soon retrieved. He was associated with John Evans and others in founding the city of Evanston, 111., and in establishing the corpora- tion known as Trustees of the Northwestern University in 1851, chartered Feb. 23, 1867, as Northwestern University and also its theological department, the Garrett Biblical institute. He was an original trustee, a member of the executive committee, 1851-97, and vice-president and pres- ident of its board of trustees, 1875-97. He also served as secretary and treasurer of the Garrett Biblical institute for over thirty years. He gave the university about $200,000 during his lifetime, which included nearly $100,000 for the Orrington Lunt library building in 1894. He was water commissioner of the southern division of Chicago, 1855-62 ; treasurer and president of the board of public works of Chicago, and auditor of the board of directors of the Galena and Chicago Union railroad, and its vice-president for two years. He died in Evanston, 111., April 5, 1897.

LUPTON, Nathaniel Thomas, educator, was bom near Winchester, Va., Dec. 19, 1830. He was graduated from Dickenson college A.B.,

1849, A.M., 1852, and at the University of Heidel> berg, Germany, where he studied chemistrj un- der Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, 185&-56. He was professor of chemistry and geology at Randolph- Macon college, 1857-58, and at the Southern University, Greensboro, Ala., from its organization, Oct. 3, 1859, to July, 1871, when he resigned. He was president, and professor of chemistry at the University of Alabama, 1871-74; attended the con- gress of Orientalists in Lon- don, England, in 1874 ; was professor of chemistry and dean of the faculty of pharmacy at Vanderbilt university, Tenn., 1874-85; chemist for the state of Alabama, 1885-93, and professor of chemistry in the Agricultural college of Alabama, 1885-98. He was chairman of the chemical section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1877, vice-president of the association in 1880, and vice-president of the American Chemical society in 1889. He received the hon- orary degree of M.D. from Vanderbilt university and that of LL.D. from the University of Ala- bama in 1875. He is the author of : The Element- ary Principles of Scientific Agriculture (1880). He died in Auburn, Ala., June 12, 1893.

LUQUIENS, Jules, educator, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan. 24, 1845. He was graduated from the University of Geneva ; im- migrated to America in 1868 ; was a teacher in Charlier's institute for boys in New York city, in the Wesleyan college for women, Cincinnati, Ohio, and took a post-graduate course at Yale university under Prof. W. D. Whitney, 1868-78, receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1873. He was instructor in the University of Cincinnati, 1873- 74 ; a teacher in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1874-92, and professor of romance languages at Yale, 1892-99. He was married, Jan. 27, 1875, to Emma, daughter of William Henry and Mary (Boileau) Clark, and their son, Frederick Bliss Luquiens, became an instructor in French language in Yale university. He was a member of the American Oriental society and of the Modern Language society, fie is the author of: French Prose of Popular Science ayid Descriptive Literature (1885) ; A Second Yearns Course in French Grammar (2 parts, 1887) ; Places and Peoples ( 1895), and numerous articles for philosophical and scientific magaanea He died in Salem, Ohio, Aug. 23, 1899.

LURTON, Horace Harmon, jurist, was bora in Newport, Ky., Feb. 26, 1844; son of Lycurgus Leonidas and Sarah (Harmon) Lurton and grand- son of William Lurton of Scott county, Ky. He was graduated from Cumberland university, Lebanon, Tenn., in 1867, was admitted to the