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Lane, William Alfred – Lanier, Clifford Anderson

Lane, William Alfred

physician, journalist, jurist, author, was born March 1, 1845, in Convis, Mich. For a quarter of a century he has been editor and owner of the Homer Index; and is the author of Homer and Its Pioneers. He is judge of the probate court of Carlisle county, Mich.

Lane, William Carr

soldier, physician, governor, was born Dec. 1, 1789, in Westmoreland, Pa. He served as a surgeon in the war of 1812 and the Mexican war. In 1852 he was appointed governor of New Mexico, resigning in 1853, when he resumed the practice of medicine in St. Louis.

Lang, Benjamin Johnson

pianist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Salem, Mass. He is the author of Marseillaise; Chadwick; The Viking's Last Voyage; and Henry of Navarre.

Lang, Margaret Ruthven

author, was born Nov. 27, 1867, in Boston, Mass. She is the author of Dramatic Overture; Witichis; and Totila.

Langdon, Chauncey

lawyer, legislator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1815 to 1817; served seven years in the legislature of the state; and was a state councilor for nine years. He died in 1830.

Langdon, Woodbury

jurist, congressman, was born in 1739, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress in 1779 and 1780; was a counselor from 1781 to 1784; and a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire in 1782, and from 1786 to 1790. He died Jan. 13, 1805, in Portsmouth, N. Η.

Langley, John Williams

chemist, was born Oct. 21, 1841, in Salem, Mass.

His scientific work has been principally in connection with the development of the chemistry of iron-ores, and his results have been published in the American Journal of Science and elsewhere.

Langley, Samuel Pierpont

astronomer, author, was born in 1834, in Massachusetts. He is an astronomer of eminence, the secretary of the Smithsonian institution since 1887; and the author of Researches on Solar Heat; and The New Astronomy.

Langston, Asa Henry

lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 4, 1868, in Leake county, Miss. He received his education in the common schools, the Mississippi Central Normal school, and at the Iuka Normal institute. In 1896 he was elected a representative in the Mississippi state legislature for the term of four years. He is prominent in literature and history, and in the science of government; and a prominent lawyer of Carthage.

Langworthy, Edward

congressman. He was a delegate from Georgia to the continental congress from 1777 to 1779, and was one of the signers of the articles of confederation.

Lanham, Samuel W. T

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born July 4, 1846, in Spartanburg district, S. C. He entered the confederate army when a boy. He settled in Weatherford, Tex.; was district attorney; and was elected a representative from Texas to the forty-eighth congress. He was re-elected to the fortyninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Lanier, Clifford Anderson

author, poet, was born April 24, 1844, in Griffin, Ga. He is the author of Two Hundred Bales; and Thorn-Fruit.