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Lothrop, George Van Ness

lawyer, diplomat, statesman, was born Aug. 8, 1817, in Easton, Mass. He was attorneygeneral of Michigan from 1848 to 1851; was recorder of the city of Detroit from 1851 to 1853; and was general counsel for the Michigan Central Railroad company from 1854 to 1880, when he resigned the position. In 1882 he was made a member of the commission in whose charge the public library of Detroit was placed. He is a director of the First National bank of Detroit, Mich.

LOTHROP, MRS. HARRIET MUL- FORD, author, was born June 23, 1844, in New Haven, Conn. She is a popular writer of juvenile literature, living at Concord, Mass.; and the author of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew; The Pettibone Name; So as by Fire; Half Year at Bronckton; What the Seven Did; Rob; The Golden West; How They Went to Europe; and Hester, and Other New England Stories.

LOTHROP, THORNTON KIRKLA lawyer, author, was born in 1830 in North Carolina. He is a lawyer of Boston, and the author of The Life of William H.

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