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Long, Eli H – Longley, Edmund

Long, Eli H

physician, surgeon, author, was born July 24, 1860, in Erie county, N. Y. He has filled the chairs of materia medica and therapeutics in the university of Buffalo, N. Y. He is the author of Tables for Doctor and Druggist, and numerous medical articles.

Long, Gabriel

soldier, was born in 1751. He was an officer in the revolutionary army and ultimately rose to the rank of major. He died Feb. 3, 1827, in Culpeper county, Va.

Long, Jefferson F

merchant, congressman, was born March 3, 1836, in Crawford county, Ga. He is a merchant tailor of Macon, Ga. He was elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.

Long, John

farmer, congressman, was born in Loudoun county, Va. He entered public life as a senator in the assembly in 1815, and in 1821 was elected to congress as a representative from North Carolina, where he remained until 1829.

Long, John Benjamin

congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1843, in Nacogdoches county, Texas. He moved with his parents to Rusk, Texas, in 1846, where he has since resided. He is overseer of the Texas State Grange and president of the Texas Farmer Co-operative Publishing association. He made the canvass and secured the nomination for the fiftysecond congress over some of the most prominent and best men of the state.

Long, Owen Gibson

lawyer, soldier, jurist, was born March 3, 1845, in Jacksonville, Ill. During the war he held a position in government service with rank of captain, and afterward an office in the custom house of New Orleans until 1870. During 1873-74 he was judge of the city court in Kansas City, Mo., and 1886-90 was city magistrate.

Long, Pierce

congressman, was born in 1739 in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress from 1784 to 1786. He died April 3, 1789, in Portsmouth, N. H.

Long, Robert Carey

architect, author, was born about 1819. He was an architect of New York city who published a work on Ancient Architecture in America. He died in July, 1849, in New York city.

Long, Stephen Harriman

civil engineer, soldier, author, was born Dec. 30, 1784, in Hopkinton, N. H. He introduced Long's truss bridge; and was colonel and chief of topographical engineers United States army in 1861. He wrote Railroad Manual. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Alton, Ill.

Long, Thomas B

jurist, translator, was born Oct. 25, 1836, in Mansfield, Ohio.

In 1870 he was unanimously nominated. by the democratic party, and elected by a large majority, as judge of the criminal circuit court of Indiana. He has translated into English heroic verse a great part of the Æneid of Virgil, besides some others of the minor productions of the Greek and Latin poets.

Longfellow, Samuel

clergyman, author, poet, was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine. He was a unitarian clergyman who held pastorates at Fall River, Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose latest years were spent in Cambridge. He was the author of Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns and Verses; Memoir of S. Johnson; and Essays and Sermons. With S. Johnson he edited Hymns of the Spirit.

He died in 1892.

Longley, Edmund

educator, was born April 1, 1819, in Sidney, Maine. This successful educator has taught for fifty years. He has been professor of mathematics, French, Spanish and Italian languages; of English literature and elocution. He is the author of several educational works, and now resides in Emory, Va. was