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Ladd, Mrs. Catherine – Lakey, Emily Jane

Ladd, Mrs. Catherine

educator, writer, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1809, in Richmond, Va. She is the oldest living writer and teacher in South Carolina; and for half a century has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.

Ladd, George Trumbull

educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1842, in Painesville, Ohio. He is a congregational clergyman of prominence; and professor of philosophy at Yale university since 1881. He is the author of Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; and What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze's Philosophical Outlines, from the German.

Ladd, George W

merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1818, in Augusta, Maine. He was elected a representative from Maine to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.

Laffoon, Polk

soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1844, in Hopkins county, Ky. He enlisted in the eighth Kentucky confederate infantry in 1861, and was elected second lieutenant. He was elected county attorney in 1870, and served four years; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.

Lagan, Matt D

merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born June 20, 1829, in Ireland. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and again elected as a democrat to the fifty-second congress.

Lahm, Samuel

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 22, 1812, in Leitersburg, Md. In 1835 he moved to Indiana and studied law; and then settled in Ohio. In 1837 he was elected master in chancery; and in 1842 a state senator. He was a representative in congress from 1847 to 1849.

Laidlaw, William G

naval officer, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1840, in Scotland. He served two years in the United States navy during the war of the rebellion. He was district attorney of Cattaraugus county, New York, from 1872 till 1878. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.

Laighton, Albert

banker, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Portsmouth, N.

H. He was a banker of Portsmouth, N.

H.; and the author of Poems, a collection of quiet, thoughtful poetry published in 1878. He died Feb. 6, 1887, in Portsmouth, N. Η.

Laing, George M

lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1850 in Canada. He has been president of the board of education of Windom, Minn.; in 1888 was appointed to revise and codify the probate laws of Minnesota; and in 1896 was elected a representative of the Minnesota state legislature. con-

Laird, James

soldier, lawyer, gressman, was born June 20, 1849, in Fowlerville, N. Y. He moved to Michigan; and served in the union army from 1862 to the close of the civil war. He settled at Hastings, Neb., in the practice of law.

He was elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.

Lake, William A

lawyer, state senator, congressman. He served in the legislature of Maryland. He moved to Mississippi; and was elected to the senate of that state. He was a representative in congress from Mississippi during the thirty-fourth congress.

Lakey, Emily Jane

artist, was born June 22, 1837, in Quincy, N. Y. She turned her attention to painting, and exhibited her work first in Chicago, and in 1873 at the National Academy of Design.

Her best known paintings are Leader of the Herd; An Anxious Mother; and Right of Way.