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Leftwich, Joel – Leib, Michael
Leftwich, Joel
soldier, jurist, state legislator, was born in 1759 in Bedford county, Va. He was major-general of militia, often a member of the Virginia legislature, and for many years a justice of the peace of Bedford county. He died April 20, 1846, in Bedford county, Va.
Leftwich, John W
merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 7, 1826, in Bedford county, Va. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth congress. He died in June, 1870, in Lynchburg.
Legare, Hugh Swinton
lawyer, journalist, statesman, was born Jan. 2, 1797, in Charleston, S. C. From 1837 to 1839 he was a representative of his native state in congress. In 1841 he was appointed attorney-general of the United States, and also acting secretary of state.
He was the author of Constitutional History of Greece; Essay on Classical Learning; and Essay on Roman Literature. He died June 20, 1843, in Boston, Mass.
Legare, James Matthews
inventor, poet, was born in 1823 in South Carolina. He was an inventor; and the author of Orta-Undis, and Other Poems.
He died in 1850.
Leggett, Mortimer Dormer
soldier, public official, was born April 19, 1851, in Ithaca, N. Y. He was superintendent of public schools until 1861 in Zanesville, Ohio. He raised the seventyeighth Ohio infantry, and was made colonel in 1862. He was brevet major-general in 1864; and major-general in 1865. He was appointed United States commissioner of patents in 1871.
Leggett, William
journalist, author, was born in 1802 in New York city. He was a journalist once prominent in New York city; and the author of Leisure Hours at Sea; Tales by a Country Schoolmaster; Naval Stories; and Political Writings. He died May 29, 1839, in New Rochelle, N. Y.
Leggett, William Henry
botanist, journalist, was born Feb. 24, 1816, in New York city. He founded the Torrey Botanical Bulletin, and was its sole editor and publisher from 1870 till 1880. He died in April, 1882, in New York city.
Legreid, Christopher
manufacturer, state legislator, was born Jan. 27, 1857, in Deerfield, Wis. He is a successful manufacturer of Cambridge, Wis.; and has filled numerous public offices of trust in his city, county and state. In 1897 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state assembly, and has taken an active part in the deliberations of that body.
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Lehlbach, Herman
civil engineer, congressman, was born July 3, 1845, in Germany. He was a member of the house of assembly of New Jersey in 1884. that year he was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Lehman, Emma A
educator, poet, was born in 1841 in Bethania, N. C. She is a successful educator, and for thirty years has filled the chair of English literature and composition in the oldest female college of the south at Salem, N. C. She is the author of a volume entitled Sketches of European Travel. The most notable of her poems is Sunset on Pilot Mountain, which has been extensively copied in current publications.
Lehman, William E
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 21, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed by President Polk an examiner of postoffices in New York and Pennsylvania. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-seventh congress.
Leib, Michael
United States senator, was born in 1769 in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1799 to 1806. He was a senator of the United States from 1808 to 1814; and in the latter year was appointed postmaster of Philadelphia. He served in the legislature of Pennsylvania both before and after his election to congress. He died Dec. 28, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pa.