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Longnecker, Henry Clay – Loomis, Elias

Longnecker, Henry Clay

soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, born April 17, 1820, in Allentown, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress. He was colonel of the ninth Pennsylvania infantry, commanded a brigade in western Virginia at the commencement of the rebellion in 1861; and subsequently commanded a brigade of militia at the battle of Antietam. In 1867 he was appointed an associate judge of Lehigh county. He died Sept. 18, 1871, in Allentown, Pa.

Longstreet, James

soldier, statesman, author, was born Jan. 8, 1821, in Edgefield, S. C. He served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major-general. He was appointed United States marshal for the district of Georgia, and in 1880 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey. He was the author of From Manassas to Appomattox.

Longstreth, Miers Fisher

astronomer, was born March 15, 1819, in Philadelphia. During the early part of his life he was a merchant, but devoted his leisure to the study of astronomy, having charge of the Friends' observatory in Philadelphia till 1856.

Longyear, John Wesley

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1820, in Shandaken, N. Y. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-eighth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, and in 1870 became a judge of the district court of Michigan. He died March 10, 1875, in Detroit, Mich.

Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus

lawyer, author, was born June 10, 1831, in Bennington, Vt. He was a physician of New York city, and professor in the university of the City of New York in 1865. He was the author of Lessons in Physical Diagnosis; Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of Old Age; and Text-Book of Practical Medicine. He died Jan. 24, 1896, in New York city.

Loomis, Arphaxad

congressman, was born April 9, 1798, in Winchester, Conn. He was for three years a member of the legislature of New York from Herkimer county, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He died Sept. 15, 1885, in Little Falls, N. Y.

Loomis, Augustus Ward

clergyman, missionary, author, was born in 1816 in Connecticut. He is a presbyterian clergyman, and for many years a missionary among the Chinese of California. He is the author of Learn to Say No; Scenes in Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; The Profits of Godliness; Confucius and the Chinese Classics; and English and Chinese Lessons.

Loomis, Dwight

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 27, 1821, in Columbia, Conn. In 1847 he practiced law in Rockville, Conn., and in 1851 was elected to the Connecticut legislature. He was a state senator in 1857. He was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was subsequently placed upon the bench of the supreme court of Connecticut.

Loomis, Eben Jenks

astronomer, author, was born in 1828 in New York. He is an astronomer of Washington city, senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac office. He is the author of Wayside Sketches; and An Eclipse Party in Africa.

Loomis, Elias

astronomer, author, was born Aug. 7, 1811, in Willington, Conn. He was an astronomer and mathematician who was professor at Yale university from 1860. He published a series of text-books in thirteen volumes, among which are, Plane and Spherical Trigonometry; Treatise on Astronomy; and Treatise on Meteorology. He died Aug. 15, 1889, in New Haven, Conn.