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Lancaster, Columbia – Landram, John James

Lancaster, Columbia

congressman. He was a delegate to congress from the territory of Washington during the years 1854 and 1855.

Lancaster, Joseph

educator, author, was born Nov. 25, 1778, in London, England. He was the author of The British System of Education. He died Oct. 24, 1838, in New York.

Lance, William

lawyer, author, was born in 1791, in Charleston, S. C. He was a lawyer and political writer of Charleston, who published a Life of Washington in Latin. He died in 1840, in Texas.

Land, Max Emmel

lawyer, was born April 3, 1872, in Maple Brook, Ga. He attended the public schools, Jackson institute, the Georgia Military and Agricultural college; and was admitted to the bar in 1893. He has served as prosecuting attorney for Wilcox county; is a member of the democratic executive committee of that county; and city attorney of Abbeville, Ga.

Lander, Louisa

sculptor, was born Sept. 1, 1826, in Salem, Mass. Among her works are a bust of Governor Gore of Massachusetts; a bust of Hawthorne; and a statuette of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America.

Lander, Sarah West

author, was born Nov. 27, 1819, in Salem, Mass. She was a writer of Salem, Mass., whose Spectacles for Young Eyes, a series of volumes of travel, was very popular. She died Nov. 15, 1872, in Salem, Mass.

Landers, Franklin

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born March 22, 1825, in Morgan county, Ind.

In 1860 he was elected state senator; and in 1874 was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress from Indiana.

Landers, G. M

manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1813, in Lenox, Mass. He was a representative in the Connecticut state legislature in 1851, 1867, and 1874; was state senator in 1853, 1869, and 1873; and was appointed bank commissioner for Connecticut in 1875. He was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress; and re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Landes, Silas Z

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 15, 1842, in Augusta county, Va. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyninth congress, and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat. In 1891 he was elected for six years judge of the circuit court of Illinois.

Landis, Charles B

journalist, congressman, was born July 9, 1858, in Millville, Ohio. He served for four years from 1883 to 1887 as editor of the Logansport Journal of Indiana; and at the time of his nomination to congress was the editor of the Delphi Journal. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Landis, John H

legislator, was born Jan. 31, 1853, in Lancaster county, Pa.

He received his education in the common schools, at the county lyceums, and the Millersville State Normal school. During 1878-84 he was a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives; supervisor of census in 1890; and served with distinction in the Pennsylvania state senate during 1892-96. He was a presidential elector in 1896; and since 1891 has been secretary of the Farmers' Protective Tariff league of Pennsylvania.

Landram, John James

soldier, state senator, was born Nov. 16, 1826, in Warsaw, Ky. At the opening of the civil war he aided in recruiting and organizing for the national government the eighteenth Kentucky regiment, of which he became lieutenant-colonel. He was elected to the Kentucky state senate in 1863.