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Loomis, Elmer

soldier, agriculturist, legislator, was born July 25, 1834, in Fowler, Ohio. During the civil war he served in company D, one hundred and seventy-seventh Ohio infantry; and in 1869 moved to Kansas. He is a successful farmer and stock man of Girara; was a member of the state legislature in 1889, and in 1896 was again elected to the same office.

Loomis, Gustavus

soldier, was born Sept. 23, 1789, in Thetford, Vt. He served gallantly in the Mexican and civil wars; and in 1865 received the brevet of brigadier-general. He died March 6, 1872, in Stratford, Conn.

Loomis, Samuel Lane

clergyman, author, was born in 1856 in Massachusetts.

He is a congregational clergyman of Boston, and the author of Modern Cities and Their Religious Problems.

Loomis, Silas Lawrence

educator, physician, author, was born May 22, 1822, in Coventry, Conn. He received his education in the Wesleyan university and the Georgetown university. He is the author of Analytical Arithmetic; and Normal Arithmetic.

Lorain, Lorenzo

soldier, inventor, was born Aug. 3, 1831, in Phillipsburg, Pa.

In 1875 he became instructor of engineering at artillery school at Fortress Monroe. He invented a telescopic sight for large guns, and left a range finder uncompleted at the time of his death. He died March 6, 1882, in Baltimore, Md.

Loras, Mathias

bishop, was born in 1792, in France. In 1837 he was consecrated Roman catholic bishop of Dubuque, Iowa. He died Feb. 19, 1858.

Lord, Augustus Mendon

clergyman, poet, was born in 1861 in San Francisco, Cal. He is a clergyman of the First Congregational church of Arlington, Mass., and the author of A Book of Verses.

Lord, Benjamin

clergyman, author, was born May 31, 1694, in Saybrook, Conn.

From 1717 until his death he was a clergyman in Norwich, Conn. He published a Half Century Discourse; and several sermons. He died in April, 1784, in Norwich, Conn.

Lord, Charles Bachus

lawyer, jurist, was born July 13, 1810, in Thornton, Maine. He practiced law in Buffalo, N. Y., and removing to St. Louis, Mo., attained eminence in his profession. For many years he was judge of the land court, and subsequently of the circuit court of that city. He died Nov. 15, 1868, in St. Louis, Mo.

Lord, Daniel

lawyer, was born Sept. 2, 1795, in Stonington, Conn. He became one of the foremost lawyers of New York city, and for forty years previous to his death there were few great civil cases before the United States or New York state courts in which he was not retained.

He died March 4, 1868, in New York city.

Lord, David Nevins

merchant, author, poet, was born March 5, 1792, in Franklin, Conn. He was a merchant and importer of New York city, and the author of Exposition of the Apocalypse; Characteristics of Figurative Language; Louis Napoleon: is he to be Anti-Christ? and Visions of Paradise, an Epic. He died July 14, 1880, in New York city.

Lord, Eleazer

financier, author, was born Sept. 9, 1788, in Franklin, Conn.

He was a noted financier of New York city who was the founder of the Manhattan Insurance company. Among his rather numerous writings are, Credit, Currency, and Banking; Six Letters on a National Currency; The Epoch of the Creation; Analysis of Isaiah; and The Prophetic Office. He died June 3, 1871, in Piermont, N. Y.