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Lay, James H – Lea, Luke
Lay, James H
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 18, 1844, in Benton county, Mo. In 1875 and 1883 he was a member of the Missouri house of representatives from Warsaw. He was appointed judge of the circuit court in 1891 to fill a vacancy, and was elected to that office in 1892.
Lay, John L
civil engineer, inventor, was born Jan. 14, 1832, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1867 he invented the submarine torpedo that bears his name, which has since become the property of the United States government.
Lay, Oliver Ingraham
artist, was born in 1845, in New York city. His works include portraits of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, Cyrus W. Field, Miss Fidelia Bridges, Henry A. Ferguson, and Winslow Homer, N. A.; Watching the Snow; and The Two Friends.
Lazarus, Emma
poet, was born July 22, 1849, in New York city. She was a talented Jewish writer of New York city who wrote much in verse and prose for the Century and other periodicals. She was the author of Alide, an Episode of Goethe's Life; Poems; Admetus, and Other Poems; Songs of a Semite; and Poems and Ballads Translated from Heine. She died Nov. 19, 1887, in New York city.
Lazarus, Josephine
author. She is the author of The Spirit of Judaism; and The Love-Letters of a Portuguese Nun, a translation from the French.
Lazear, Jesse
congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1804, in Greene county, Pa.
In 1860 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh congress; and in 1862 was re-elected to the thirty-eighth congress.
Lazelle, Henry Martyn
soldier, author, was born Sept. 8, 1852, in Enfield, Mass. He is a United States army officer, since 1887 in charge of the bureau of war records, and the author of One Law in Nature; and Improvements in the Art of War.
Lazenby, William Rane
horticulturist, educator, was born Dec. 5, 1852, in Benton, N. Y. In 1881 he was called to the chair of botany and horticulture in the Ohio state university, and in 1883 he received the additional appointment of director of the Ohio experiment station.
Lea, Henry Charles
journalist, publisher, author, was born Sept. 19, 1825, in Philadelphia. He is a prominent writer and publisher of Philadelphia, and the author of Superstition and Force; An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church; Chapters from the Religious History of Spain; Studies in Church History: Translations and Other Rhymes; and History of the Inquisition.
Lea, Isaac
journalist, naturalist, author, was born March 4, 1792, in Wilmington, Del. He was a publisher and naturalist of Philadelphia, and the author of Contributions to Geology; Observations on the Genus Unio, in thirteen volumes; and Fossil Footmarks in the Rea Sandstones of Pottsvme. He died Dec. 8, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lea, John M
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 25, 1818, in Knoxville, Tenn. He was appointed United States district attorney in 1842; and in 1850 elected mayor of Nashville. He accepted the appointment of judge of the circuit court of Tennessee. In 1875 he was elected to the Tennessee state senate, where he opposed every suggestion for repudiation of the public debt. He is president of the Tennessee historical society.
Lea, Luke
soldier, congressman, was born Jan. 26, 1782, in Surry county, N. C.
He served gallantly in Florida and in the Creek county under General Jackson in the Indian wars. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1833 to 1837. For thirty years he discharged the duties of cashier of the state bank, and register of the state land office of Tennessee. He died June 17, 1851, near Fort Leavenworth, Kan.