Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography

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Lundy, John Patterson

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in Danville, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city, and the author of Review of Bishop Hopkins's Bible View of Slavery; Monumental Christianity; and Forestry. He died in 1892.

LUNGREN, CHARLES MARSHALL, journalist, inventor, was born Dec. 13, 1853, in Hagerstown, Md. He has studied the problems connected with artificial illumination, and has invented several appliances that have come into extensive use, notably a regenerative gas-lamp. He is a member of scientific societies, and, besides writing magazine articles, has edited the American edition of Alglave and Boulard's Electric Light.

LUNGREN, FERDINAND HARVEY, artist, was born Nov. 13, 1857, in Toledo, Ohio. He has made many illustrations, principally for the Century and Wide Awake; and his paintings include Shadows on the Snow.

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