Ladd, Joseph Brown
poet, was born in 1764 in Newport, R. I. He published Poems of Arouet, and his poetry, with some of his prose writings, was collected into a volume, containing also a memoir of the author, by his sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Haskins. He died Nov. 2, 1786, in Charleston, S. C.
LA DOW, GEORGE A., lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 18, 1828, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1851, and was elected district attorney, and held the office two years. He removed to Minnesota in 1862; and in 1867 was elected to the house of representatives of that state. He settled in Oregon in 1869; declined the nomination for state senator in 1870; and in 1872 was elected to the house of representatives of Oregon, and held the office until 1874, when he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress. He died in May, 1875, in Oregon.