Handy, Levi Irving
educator, journalist, lecturer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1861, in Berlin, Md. He attended public and private schools in Maryland and New York; taught school in Somerset county, Md., and came to Smyrna, Del., to teach in 1881. He was superintendent of free schools in Kent county in 1887- 90; was chairman of the democratic state central committee in 1892-96; and was editorial writer on Wilmington Every Evening in 1894-95. He is a popular lecturer and has since 1890 delivered lectures in lyceum courses in many sections of the country. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.