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Little, Cyrus Harvey – Livermore, Abiel Abbot

Little, Cyrus Harvey

lawyer, legislator, was born Aug, 14, 1859, in Sutton, N. H. He entered into the active practice of law in Manchester, N. H. In 1896 he was elected a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives.

Little, Edward P

state legislator, congressman, was born in 1788, in Massachusetts. He was a state representative from 1829 to 1834, and from 1835 to 1838.

He was a representative in congress from 1852 to 1853; and was collector of Plymouth from 1853 to 1857.

Little, George

naval officer, author, was born April 10, 1754, in Marshfield, Mass. He was a United States naval officer who published The American Cruiser; and Life on the Ocean. He died July 22, 1809, in Weymouth, Mass.

Little, George Thomas

educator, author, was born May 14, 1857, in Auburn. In 1881 he was elected a member of the Maine Historical society, and in 1882 he published a genealogy of the Little family, an octavo volume of over six hundred pages.

Little, James Laurence

physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born Feb. 19, 1836, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1863 he was appointed clinical assistant to Dr. Willard Parker in the college of Physicians and Surgeons, and the following spring he began the delivering of a series of lectures, the first being on Fractures and their Treatment. He died April 4, 1885, in New York city.

Little, John

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1837, in Greene county, Ohio. In 1866 he was elected prosecuting attorney of his county, and was re-elected in 1868. In 1869 he was elected a representative in the state legislature, and resigned as prosecuting attorney. He was re-elected in 1871; and in 1873 was elected attorney-general of Ohio, and was re-elected in 1875. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.

Little, Josiah Stover

lawyer, legislator, railroad president, was born in 1801, in Minot. For four years he practiced law in Portland, Maine. He repeatedly represented Portland in the Maine state legislature, and was twice speaker of the house. He has also several times been a candidate for congress. He was associated with Judge Preble in organizing a railroad between Portland and Montreal; and in 1848 succeeded Judge Preble as president of the company, which position he held for seven years.

Little, Lewis Henry

soldier, was born in 1818, in Baltimore, Md. In 1861 he entered the confederate army; and was appointed adjutant-general of the forces in Missouri on the staff of General Sterling Price, and for his bravery at the battle of Elk Horn was promoted brigadier-general. He died Sept. 19, 1862, in Iuka.

Little, Peter

soldier, congressman, was born about 1775, in Petersburg, Pa. He removed to Maryland, and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813. In the latter year he was appointed colonel of infantry; and was again a representative in congress from 1816 to 1829. He died Jan. 5, 1830, in Baltimore, Md.

Little, William Augustus

state legislator, was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Talbot county, Ga. In 1882 he was a state representative from Georgia; in 1884 was elected speaker of the house, and was reelected in 1886.

Littlefield, Alfred H

manufacturer, state senator, governor, was born April 2, 1829, in Scituate, R. I. He served two years as a representative in the state legislature; and two years as a state senator. He was governor of Rhode Island from 1880 to 1883.

Livermore, Abiel Abbot

clergyman, college president, author, was born Oct. 30, 1811, in Wilton, N. H. He was a unitarian clergyman who was president of the Theological seminary at Meadville, Pa., from 1863 until his death. He was the author of Lectures to Young Men; Discourses; Commentaries on the Gospels, Acts, Romans, Corinthians to Philemon, Hebrews to Revelations; The Marriage Offering; and History of Wilton, New Hampshire. He died in 1892.