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Latimer, William Kay

naval officer, was born Sept. 1, 1794, in Annapolis, Md. He was appointed a midshipman in 1809; and was promoted captain in 1843; and during the Mexican war was commandant of the navy-yard at Pensacola, Fla.

He was retired in 1855, and made a commodore on the retired list in 1862.

He died March 15, 1873, in Baltimore, Md.

LATROBE, CHARLES HAZLEHURST, soldier, civil engineer, was born Dec. 25, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. His most remarkable works were in Peru, about a dozen in all; among them the Arequipa viaduct, which was 1,300 feet long and 65 feet high, and the Agua de Verrugas bridge, 575 feet long and 263 feet high. This structure was built across one of the deepest gorges in the Andes, and was, when erected, the loftiest structure of its kind in the world.

LATROBE, FERDINAND CLAIBORNE, lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 14, 1833, in Baltimore, Md. He received a liberal education in the public schools, and at St.

James' college of Washington county, Md. He was admitted to the bar in 1860; was elected to the Maryland state legislature in 1867, and was speaker during 1870-72. In 1860 he was appointed judge advocate-general, and assisted in reorganizing the Maryland militia, under the act of 1868, of which he was the author. In 1875 he was elected mayor of Baltimore, and filled that important office for seven terms-fourteen years in all.

LATROBE, LATROBE, JOHN HAZELHURST BONEVAL, lawyer, author, poet, was born May 4, 1803, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Baltimore; and the author of History of Mason and Dixon's Line; Three Great Battles; Justices' Practice under the Laws of Maryland; Reminiscences of West Point; Odds and Ends, a book of verse; and History of Maryland in Liberia. He died Sept. 11, 1891, in Baltimore, Md.