Lemmon, John Gill
botanist, author, was born June 2, 1832, in Lima, Mich. He is a botanist attached to the California department of forestry since 1880; and the author of Ferns of the Pacific Coast; and Discovery of the Potato. LEMMON, SARAH ALLEN PLUM- MER, botanist, author, was born Sept. 3, 1836, in New Gloucester, Maine. She has painted in watercolors much of the flora of the Pacific slope, and her collection of more than eighty field sketches of flowers took the first premium at the World's exposition in New Orleans in 1884-85. On her discovery of a new genus of plants in 1882, Dr. Asa Gray named it Plummera floribunda. Mrs. Lemmon is the author of the papers on The Ferns of the Pacific Slope; Silk-Culture in California; and Marine Botany.
LE MOINE, SAUVOLLE, governor, was born about 1671 in Canada. He was appointed governor of Louisiana in 1699, and he retained the office till his death. He was the first colonial governor of Louisiana. ana. He died July 22, 1701, in Biloxi, in what is now Mississippi.
LE MOYNE, FRANCIS JULIUS, abolitionist, philanthropist, was born Sept. 4, 1798, in Washington, Pa. He erected in 1876, near Washington, Pa., the first crematory in the United States. He founded the public library in Washington, gave $25,000 for a colored normal school near Memphis, Tenn., and endowed professorships of agriculture and applied mathematics in Washington college. He died Oct. 14, 1879, in Washington, Pa.
LE MOYNE, J. V., lawyer, congressman, was born in 1828 in Washington county, Pa. In 1852 he moved to Chicago, Ill., and commenced the practice of law; and served as a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress.