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Leslie, Thomas Jefferson

soldier, was born Nov. 2, 1796, in England.

In 1865 he was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general for faithful performance of duty during a continuous period of fifty years. He died Nov. 25, 1874, in New York city.

Lesquereux, Leo

paleontologist, author, was born Nov. 18, 1806, in Switzerland. He was a Swiss paleontologist who came to America in 1848 and settled in Columbus, Ohio. He was the author of Catalogue of the Mosses of Switzerland; Musci Americani Exsiccati; Icones Muscarum; Land Plants in the Lower Silurian; The Tertiary Flora; and The Coal Flora; Manual of North America. He died in 1889.

Lester, Charles Smith

lawyer, jurist, was born March 15, 1824, in Worcester, Mass. He was district attorney in 1859-62 at Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; county judge in 1870-76; and has been also supervisor of the town of Saratoga, president of the village of Saratoga Springs, and president of the board of education.

Lester, Nicholas

soldier, poet, was born March 29, 1842, in Canada. During the civil war he served in the one hundred and tenth New York volunteers. He is the author of a number of poems.

Lester, Posey Green

clergyman, journalist, congressman, was born March 12, 1850, in Floyd county, Va. In 1876 he was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry in the Primitive or Old School Baptist church, since which time he has been principally engaged in traveling and preaching in eighteen states. Since 1883 he has been associate editor of Zion's Landmark, one of the periodicals of his church. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second congresses as a democrat.

Lester, Rufus E

soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 12, 1837, in Burke county, Ga. He entered the military service of the confederate states in 1861; and remained in the service till the end of the war. He was state senator from the first senatorial district of Georgia in 1870-79; and was president of the senate during the last three years of service. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Letcher, Greenlee D

lawyer, legislator, was born July 19, 1867, in Lexington, Va. In 1889 he was elected a member of the Virginia legislature, and received the re-election in 1891.

Letcher, John

journalist, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born March 29, 1813, in Lexington, Va. In 1839 he edited the Valley Star; was a presidential elector in 1849; and was a member of the convention for reforming the constitution of Virginia in 1850. He was elected a representative in the thirty-second, thirty-third, thirty-fourth, and thirtyfifth congresses; and was governor of Virginia from 1860 to 1864. He died Jan. 26, 1884, in Lexington, Va.

Letcher, Robert Perkins

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 10, 1788, in Goochland county, Va. He served a number of years in the Virginia state legislature, and was at one time elected speaker of the house. He was a representative in congress from 1823 to 1835; and a presidential elector in 1837. He was governor of Kentucky from 1840 to 1844; and in 1849 was appointed minister to Mexico.

He died Jan. 24, 1861, in Frankfort, Ky.

Leutze, Emanuel

historical painter, was born May 24, 1816, in Germany. Being obliged to leave Germany on account of political opinions, he made Philadelphia his home. His Western Emigration is conspicuous in the national capitol, and Washington Crossing the Delaware is everywhere familiar through engravings.

He died July 18, 1868, in Washington, D. C.