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Lansing, William E

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1822, in Sullivan, N. Y. In 1860 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican. He died July 29, 1883.

LANZA, MARCHIONESS CLARA [HAMMOND], author, was born in 1858, in Kansas. She is a novelist of New York city; and the author of Tit for Tat; Mr.

Perkins's Daughter; A Righteous Apostate; Tales of Eccentric Life; A Modern Marriage; David Morton's Transgression; and A Golden Pilgrimage.

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