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Lathbury, Mrs. Mary A – Latta, Samuel Arminius

Lathbury, Mrs. Mary A

author.

She is the author of That Sweet Story of Old; Bethlehem and her Children; Child's History of Paul; Fleda and the Voice; and From Meadow Sweet to Mistletoe.

Lathrop, Francis

artist, was born June 22, 1849, near Hawaiian Islands. He has devoted himself chiefly to mural painting, stained-glass windows, and other decorative designs for public and private buildings in Boston, New York, Baltimore, and other places. He furnished the illustrations for Clarence Cook's House Beautiful, and for other artistic publications.

Lathrop, John

journalist, lawyer, author, was born Jan. 13, 1772, in Boston, Mass. He is the author of a work entitled Pocket Register and Freemasons' Anthology. He died Jan. 30, 1820, in Georgetown, D. C.

Lathrop, John Hiram

college president, was born Jan. 22, 1799, in Sherburne, N. Y. In 1840 he was elected the first president of the university of the state of Missouri. He died Aug. 2, 1866.

Lathrop, Mrs. Mary T

educator, lecturer, poet, was born in 1838, in Concord, Mich. She taught in the Detroit public schools for a while; went into evangelistic work in 1873; and for twelve years gave all her time to that and the Woman's Foreign Missionary society of the methodist episcopal church.

LATHROP, MRS. ROSE [HAW- THORNE], artist, author, was born May 20, 1851, in Lenox, Mass. She is the author of Along the Shore, a volume of verse; and Some Memories of Hawthorne.

Lathrop, Samuel

lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1771, in Hampden county, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1818 to 1826; and was a member of the Massachusetts senate for ten years, and president of that body in 1829 and 1830. He died July 11, 1846, in West Springfield.

Lathrop, Stanley E

soldier, clergyman, author, poet, was born May 7, 1843, in Orville, N. Y. In 1861 he enlisted and served through the civil war as a company commissary sergeant in the first Wisconsin cavalry. He is now pastor of the first congregational church of Washburn, Wis.; and is the author of a volume of poems.

Lathrop, William

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 17, 1825, in Genesee county, N. Y. He removed to Illinois and was a member of the legislature of that state in 1856; and was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-fifth congress as a republican.

Latimer, Asbury

agriculturist, congressman, was born July 31, 1851, near Lowndesville, S. C. He moved to Belton, S. C., in 1880, and devoted his energies to his farm. He was elected county chairman of the democratic party of his county in 1890; and re-elected in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-third, fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Latimer, Charles

civil engineer, author, was born Sept. 7, 1827, in Washington, D. C. He is an engineer of note who has published Roadmaster's Assistants; The Divining Rod; and Battle of Standards. He died March 25, 1888, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Latimer, George

statesman, was born in 1750 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention that ratified the constitution of the United States in 1787; a member of the lower house of the legislature in 1792-99; and its speaker for five years. He died June 12, 1825, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Latta, Samuel Arminius

clergyman, physician, author, was born April 8, 1804, in Muskingum county, Ohio. He was a methodist clergyman of Ohio, subsequently a physician in Cincinnati, who published The Chain of Sacred Wonders.

He died June 28, 1852, in Cincinnati, Ohio.