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Larner, John Bell

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 3, 1858, in Washington, D.

C. He has become prominent as a lawyer of ability in Washington, D. C. He is the author of an English translation of Alex. Dumas' Napoleon.

LA ROCHE, RENE, physician, author, was born in 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Pneumonia: its Supposed Connection with Autumnal Fevers; and Treatise on Yellow Fever. He died in December, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. LARRABEE, CHARLES HATHAWAY, soldier, lawyer, journalist, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1820, in Rome, N. Y. In 1847 he settled in Wisconsin, and became a member of the convention to frame a state constitution. In 1848 he was elected a circuit judge, and after serving ten years, resigned. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-sixth congress. He subsequently entered the army in the volunteer service, and had command as colonel of a regiment from his state. He died Jan. 20, 1883, in Tehachapi Pass, Cal.

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