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pointed in 1871 to investigate alleged frauds under the treaties with the Cliippewa Indians, and a member of the Ohio constitutional convention of 187^-73. He was a Republican representative from the eleventh district of Ohio in the 4.jth, 46tli and 47th congresses, 1877-83, and served as chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia and as a member of the committee on territories. He was solicitor of the U.S. treasury, 1883-85. He was married in 1861 to Mary J., daughter of John Campbell, an iron manufacturer of Ironton, Ohio, and secondly to Mrs. L. C. Gibbs of Zanesville, Ohio. He was a resident of Ironton in 1902.

NEAL, John, author, was born in Portland, Maine, Aug. io, 1793. His parents were mem- bers of the Society of Friends and he remained in that body until 1818. He attended school until 1805 when he obtained employment in a mercan- tile house, and afterward tauglit penmanship, drawing and painting. He engaged in the dry goods trade in Boston. Mass., and subsequently with John Pierpont in Baltimore, Md., and upon the failure of the house in 1816, studied law and engaged in literature. He was admitted to the Maryland bar in 1819 and practised until 1823, when he visited England, where he succeeded in drawing the attention of the English public to American literature, hitherto practically ignored in the old world. He was the first American writer to contribute to the English and Scotch quarterlies and his sketches of the five American Presidents and of the five unsuccessful candi- dates, which appeared in Blacktcood's Magazine, established his reputation. He became a secretary to Jeremy Bf'ntham at whose house he met the notable English literary men of that day. In 1827 he returned to the United States and opened a law office in Portland. He made a stud}' of physi- cal training, established the first gymnasium in America and gave lessons in boxing, fencing, and other physical exercises. He founded The Yankee and was its editor, 1823-76; contributed largely to magazines and newspapers, and is the author of: Keep Cool (1817); The Battle of Niagara (1818); Goldan and other Poems (1818); Otho.a Tragedy (IS\9); JE:n-afa (1823); Randolph {\S23); Seventy-Sijc {\S2S); Logan (1823); Brother Jonathan (1825); Rachel Dyer (1828); Ben- tham's Morals and Legislation (1830); The Down Easters (1833); One Word More (1854); True Womanhood (1859); Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life (1869). and Great Mysteries and Little Plagues (1870). He died in Portland, Maine, June 21, 187G.

NEAL, Joseph Clay, satirist, was born in Greenland, N.H., Feb. 3, 1807; son of a retired clergyman and schoolteacher, who died in 1809. Joseph attended s'jhool in Pottsville, Pa., and

after 1830, in Philadelphia. He published articles in various periodicals; edited the Penn- sylvanian, 1831-44; traveled in Europe for his health, 1842, and on liis return established and edited Xeal's Saturday Gazette. He was married in 1846 to Alice Bradley (see Haven, Alice Brad- ley). He contributed satirical sketches to the Democratic Review and is the author of: Charcoal Sketches or Scenes in a Metropolis (1837); Peter Ploddy and other Oddities (1844), and Charcoal Sketches (2d series, 1849). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 18, 1847.

NEAL, Lawrence Talbott, representative, was born in Parkersburg, Va., Sept. 22, 1844; son of Lawrence Perry and Mary Hall (Talbott) Neal. His great grandfather. Captain Neal, built a block- house known as Neal's Station on the site of Parkersburg. Lawrence T. Neal attended the public schools and in 1862 obtained employment in a dry goods store. He studied law with Judge W. H. Stafford at Chillicothe, Ohio, 1863-66; was admitted to the bar in 1866, and entered into practice at Chillicothe in 1867. He was city solic- itor, 1867-68; a Democratic representative in the state legislature, 1868-69, and prosecuting attor- ney for Ross county, 1869-72. He was a Demo- cratic representative from the seventh district of Ohio in the 43d and 44th congresses, 1873-77, and was defeated in 1876 and 1878 for the 45th and 46th congresses. He was also defeated for state senator in 1887. He was a delegate from Ohio to the Democratic national convention of 1888, and one of the four delegates-at-large from that state to the Democratic national convention in 1892. He was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1893, being defeated by William McKinley. He retired from active polit- ical life and continued the practice of law in Chillicothe.

NEALE, Leonard, archbishop, was born near Port Tobacco, Charles county, Md., Oct. 15, 1746; a descendant of Capt. James and Ann Neal, who came from England to Maryland before 1642. He purchased the vast tract of land known as Cob Neck and was prominent in colonial affairs, a member of the governor's council and of the colonial legislature. Leonard attended the col- lege of St. Omer, France, and the theological seminaries at Bruges and Liege. He became a member of the Society of Jesus at Ghent, Sept. 7, 1707; was ordained priest, June 5, 1773, at Liege, Belgium; was a professor in the Jesuit college, Bruges, when it was seized by the Austro-Belgian government, and was expelled with the otiier Jesuits. He had charge of a small congregation in England and in 1779 was .sent as a missionary to Demerara. British Guiana, where he labored until 1783, when he returned to Maryland. He had charge of the congregation at St. Thomas