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Lomax, Tennent – Long, Eli

Lomax, Tennent

lawyer, was born April 29, 1858, in Montgomery, Ala. He received his education at the university of Alabama; studied law and has become prominent in his profession in his native city. He has served as solicitor for the county of Montgomery; has been secretary of the democratic state committee; and in 1896 was chairman of the Alabama delegation to the national democratic convention.

Lomen, Gudbrand J

lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 28, 1854, in Winneshiek county, Iowa. He received his education at the Luther college of Decorah, Iowa; and graduated from the law department of the Iowa state university. During 1878-85 he was clerk of the district court of Houston county, Minn.; and in 1891 served with distinction as a member of the Minnesota state legislature from St. Paul.

Long, Alexander

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1816, in Greenville, Pa. He was educated at Cary's academy (now Farmer's college), Ohio; and adopted the profession of the law.

He practiced law in Cincinnati; and was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1848 and 1849. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1864.

Long, Armistead Lindsay

soldier, author, was born Sept. 3, 1827, in Campbell county, Va. He was appointed major in the confederate army; and brigadier-general of artillery in 1863. He was the author of Memoirs of Gen. Robert E.

Lee. He died April 29, 1891, in Charlottesville, Va.

Long, Charles Chaille

soldier, author, was born July 2, 1842, in Princess Anne, Md. He was a soldier who served in the federal army during the civil war; became colonel in the Egyptian army in 1869; and in 1887 was American consulgeneral in Corea. He is the author of Central Africa; and The Three Prophets- Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi Pacha.

Long, Charles Dean

soldier, lawyer, jurist, college president, was born June 14, 1841, in Grand Blanc, Mich. During 1875-80 he was prosecuting attorney of Genesee county; and in 1885 was commander of the department of Michigan of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1887 he was elected justice of the supreme court of the state of Michigan; and in 1891 was elected president of the Detroit College of Law.

Long, Chester I

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1860, in Perry county, Pa. He was elected to the Kansas state senate in 1889; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Long, Clement

theologian, educator, was born Dec. 1, 1806, in Hopkinton, N. H. He was lecturer on intellectual philosophy and political economy at Dartmouth in 1851-52, and was professor of the same from 1854 until his death. He died Oct. 14, 1861, in Hanover, N. H.

Long, Crawford W

physician, was born Nov. 1, 1815, in Danielsville, Ga.

In 1851 he moved to Athens, Ga. He claimed that he performed, in 1842, the first surgical operation with the patient in a state of anæsthesia from the inhalation of ether. He died June 16, 1878, in Athens, Ga.

Long, Edward H

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1808, in Maryland. He served a number of years in the Maryland legislature; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1845 to 1847. He died in October, 1865, in Somerset, Md.

Long, Eli

soldier, was born June 16, 1837, in Woodford county, Ky. For his services during the civil war he was brevetted major-general in the regular army and major-general of volunteers, and having been mustered out of the volunteer service, Jan. 15, 1866, he was retired with the rank of major-general.