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Leib, Owen D – Leiter, Benjamin F

Leib, Owen D

physician, congressman, was born in Schuylkill, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1847. He died June 17, 1848.

Leidy, Joseph

naturalist, scientist, author, was born Sept. 9, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia scientist of distinction who was a constant contributor to scientific periodicals.

Among his writings are: The Extinct Species of the American Ox; Ancient Fauna of Nebraska; Cretaceous Reptiles of the United States; and Elementary Text-Book on Human Anatomy. He died Jan. 30, 1891, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Leidy, Paul

lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 21, 1813, in Hemlock, Pa.

He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from Pennsylvania.

Leigh, Benjamin Watkins

lawyer, United States senator, was born June 18, 1781, in Chesterfield county, Va. From 1829 to 1841 he was a reporter of Virginia; was frequently a member of the house of delegates; and was a member of the convention of 1830 for revising the state constitution; and was a senator in congress from 1834 to 1837. He died Feb. 2, 1849, in Richmond, Va.

Leigh, Count De Hamong

palmist, author, was born in 1868. At the age of eleven years he began the study of the hand; and has visited almost every country in the world. His books on the subject have been translated into French, German, Russian, Spanish and Hindustani. His professional name is Cheiro; and he has made tours in Europe and America as a palmist.

HERRINGSHAW'S ENCYCLOPEDIA CF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.

Leigh, Hezekiah Gilbert

clergyman, was born Nov. 25, 1795, in North Carolina. In 1829 he was a founder of Randolph Macon college, Virginia, and subsequently he was one of its principal supporters. In 1849 he was an organizer of the methodist episcopat church south.

He died Sept. 18, 1858, in Mecklenburg county, Va.

Leighton, Harriet W

poet, temperance advocate, was born March 15, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. She has been state corresponding secretary for Nebraska of the Woman's Christian Temperance union; for three years was secretary of the Lincoln Woman's Christian Temperance union, and for one year its president. She also is prominent in various other organizations, and contributes both prose and verse to current literature.

Leighton, William

author, poet, was born June 22, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a writer of Wheeling, W. Va.; and the author of The Sons of Godwin, a tragedy that appeared simultaneously with Tennyson's Harold on the same theme; At the Court of King Edwin, a drama; Shakespeare's Dream; Change; and The Subjection of Hamlet. on

Leiper, George Gray

congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1786, in Delaware county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831. He died Nov. 17, 1868, in Delaware county, Pa.

Leiper, William D

soldier, educator, journalist, was born Feb. 13, 1823, in Frankfort Springs, Pa. He served as a soldier; and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1874. He is the editor and owner of the Arkansas Meteor.

Leisenring, John

civil and mining engineer, congressman, was born June 3, 1853, in Ashton, Pa. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican from Pennsylvania.

Leiter, Benjamin F

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Leitersburg, Md. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1848. In 1849 he was re-elected, and chosen speaker.

In 1854 he was elected to congress; and reelected to the thirty-sixth congress.