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Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate

educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1816, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a methodist clergyman and educator of Tennessee, who was professor in Vanderbilt university. He was the author of Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary Studies; Our Country; and Christian Heroism. He died Nov. 24, 1890, in Athens, Ga.

LIPSCOMB, LAWRENCE YANCEY, lawyer, legislator, was born March 16, 1855, in Sumter county, Ala. He is a descendant of the Virginia branch of the Lipscomb family, and received his education at the Cooper institute of Mississippi. He has attained success in the profession of law in his native state at Bessemer, and has served with distinction as a member of the legislature of Alabama for two terms.