Home › L › Lounsberry, William

Lounsberry, William

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1831, in Stone Ridge, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly in 1868, and was elected mayor of Kingston in 1878, and served two years. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat. LOUNSBURY, THOMAS RAYNES- FORD, educator, author, was born in 1838 in New York. He has been a professor of English at the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale university since 1871, and the author of History of the English Language; Life of James Fenimore Cooper; and Studies in Chaucer.