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Luers, John Henry

Roman catholic bishop, was born Sept. 29, 1819, in Westphalia. In 1857 the diocese of Fort Wayne was created, comprising the north- ern part of Indiana, and Father Luers was, selected as its first bishop, and consecrated in 1858. He died June 20, 1871, in. Cleveland, Ohio.

Lukens, Henry Clay

journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1838, in.

Philadelphia, Pa. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty; Story of the Types; and Jets and Flashes.

Lull, Edward Phelps

naval officer, was born Feb. 20, 1836, in Windsor, Vt. He was promoted midshipman in 1855, and lieutenant in 1860. In 1862, he had been promoted lieutenant-command-- er, and in 1863 he was ordered to active service, participating in the battle of Mobile Bay and subsequent engagements. He died March 5, 1887, in Pensacola, Fla.

Lum, Daniel Dyer

author. He was the author of The Spiritual Delusion; Early Social Life of Man; and Utah and Its People.

Lummis, Charles Fletcher

author, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts.

He is a Los Angeles writer; and the author of The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon; Indian folk-lore stories; Some Strange Corners of Our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand Chimú; and A New Mexico David, and Other Stories.

Lumpkin, Joseph Henry

lawyer,. jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1799, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He became one of the foremost lawyers of the south, and an able jurist. He took an active part in the public and political affairs of his county and state; and contributed extensively to periodical press on current and judicial subjects.

The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Georgia the State university. He died June 4, 1867, in Athens, Ga.

Lumpkin, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 12, 1848, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. In 1877 he was elected state senator of Georgia, and in 1884 was elected judge of the supreme court of the northern district; and in 1890 became associate justice of Georgia.

Luna, Tranquilino

congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1849, in Los Lunas, N. M. He was elected the delegate from New Mexico to the forty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. LUND, MRS. MARY DWINELL (CHEL- LIS), author, was born in New Hampshire. She is a prolific writer of Sundayschool fiction, among whose works are, All for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge; and Father Merrill.

Lundy, Benjamin

philanthropist, was born Jan. 4, 1789, in Hartwick, N. Y.

As early as 1815 he founded an anti-slavon ery association called the Union Humane society. In the cause to which he was devoted he journeyed more than five thousand miles foot, and over twenty thousand miles in other ways. He was the first abolitionist editor and lecturer in America. His Life, Travels and Opinions, by T. Earl, appeared in 1847. He died Aug. 22, 1839, in Lowell, Ill.

Lungren, Samuel Smith

physician, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 22, 1827, in Philadelphia. He has contributed numerous articles to the medical press, and is the author of a memoir on the Cæsarean Section.

Lunt, Edward Clark

author. He is a writer on economics, and the author of The Present Condition of Economic Science.

Lunt, George

lawyer, author, poet, was born Dec. 31, 1803, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a lawyer of Newburyport, and later a resident of Scituate, among whose writings in poetry and prose are, The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems; Sonnets and Miscellanies; Old New England Traits; and Three Eras of New England. The latest collection of his poems was made in 1883. He died May 17, 1885, in Boston, Mass.

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