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Lawson, Louise – Lay, Henry Champlin

Lawson, Louise

artist, was born in 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Among her works are the Rhodian Boy; Avaconara; and Il Pastore.

Lawson, Martin Emert

educator, lawyer, was born May 15, 1867, near Mercersburg, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of Liberty, Mo.; has been curator of the Woodson institute of Richmond, Mo.; and is prominent in religious and educational circles of his county and state.

Lawson, Mary Lockhart

poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She published poems in the Knickerbocker and Graham's Magazine that were characterized by tender feeling and pleasing fancy. She occasionally wrote in the Scottish dialect.

LAWSON, RICHARD FRANKLIN, journalist, poet, lecturer, was born May 22, 1860, in Vandalia, Ill. He is the editor and owner of the Republican of Effingham, Ill.; and a poet and lecturer well known in the west.

Lawson, Thomas

soldier, surgeon, was born about 1781, in Virginia. He was brevetted brigadier-general for meritorious conduct as chief medical officer of the United States forces in the Mexican war. He died May 15, 1861, in Norfolk, Va.

Lawson, Thomas G

farmer, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1848, in Putnam county, Ga. He was elected to the Georgia legislature in 1861 and re-elected in 1863 and 1865. He was elected by the general assembly in 1878 judge of the superior court of the Ocmulgee circuit, and re-elected without opposition in 1882; and in 1886 retired from the bench to his farm. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and the fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.

Lawson, Victor Fremont

journalist, was born Sept. 9, 1850, in Chicago.

He is president and sole owner of the Daily News and the Record in Chicago, Ill.

LAWTON, ALEXANDER ROBERT, soldier, lawyer, railroad president, state senator, was born about 1818, in Beaufort county, S. C. He was president of the Savannah and Augusta railroad in 1849-54, and state senator in 1854-61. In 1861 he became brigadier-general in the provisional confederate army, and was put in command of the coast of Georgia.

Lawton, William Cranston

educator, lecturer, author, was born in 1853, in Massachusetts. He is a classical teacher and lecturer, formerly of Cambridge, now of Brooklyn, and professor in Adelphi college there. He is the author of Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia Dispersa, a book of verse; and Art and Humanity in Homer.

Lawyer, Thomas

congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly from Schoharie county in 1816; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819.

Lay, Alfred Morrison

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 20, 1836, in Lewis county, Mo. He was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Missouri. He resigned in 1861 and entered the confederate army, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of major. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortysixth congress. He died Dec. 9, 1879.

Lay, Benjamin

philanthropist, author, was born in 1681, in England. He was a benevolent and eccentric Quaker; and the author of several treatises and religious works, which were published by Benjamin Franklin. He died in 1760, near Abington, Pa.

Lay, George W

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 27, 1798, in Catskill, N. Y. In 1833 he was elected to the assembly of New York; and to congress in 1833-37. He died Oct. 21, 1860, in Batavia, N. Y.

Lay, Henry Champlin

bishop, author, was born Dec. 6, 1823, in Richmond, Va. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Easton (Maryland), but from 1859 to 1869 the third bishop of Arkansas. He was the author of Studies in the Church; and The Church anu the Nation. He died Sept. 17, 1885, in Easton, Md.