Lacey, John Fletcher – Laird, James
Lacey, John Fletcher
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born May 30, 1841, in New Martinsville, W. Va. In 1855 he moved to Iowa; enlisted in company H, third Iowa infantry, in 1861, and afterward served as a private in company D, thirtythird Iowa infantry, as sergeant-major, and as lieutenant in company C of that regiment. He was promoted to assistant adjutant-general on the staff of Brig.- Gen. Samuel A. Rice. He served in the Iowa legislature one term in 1870. He is a lawyer and author of Lacey's Railway Digest and Lacey's Iowa Digest. He was a member of the fifty-first, fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses.
Lacey, John W
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 13, 1848, in Randolph county, Ind. He enlisted in the union army at the breaking out of the civil war, serving in the one hundred and thirtyseventh, and subsequently in the one hundred and fifty-second Indiana volunteer regiments. In 1884 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Wyoming territory.
Lacey, William Brittainham
educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1781 in Wilmington, Del. He was a clergyman for thirteen years; subsequently became a teacher; and was the author of text-books for schools and colleges, among them a Rhetoric and a Moral Philosophy. He died Oct. 31, 1866, in Okolona, Miss.
Lachmund, Ernest
musician, composer, was born Jan. 24, 1865, in Lyons, Iowa. Since 1884 he has been a successful teacher of music in Minneapolis, Minn.; and during 1885 was solo 'celist in the Clara Louise Kellogg Concert company. Among his compositions are Christmas Suite; Vesper; and other songs and piano compositions.
Lackey, Arthur Carson
lawyer, was born June 16, 1868, in Allen's Cove, Pa. He attended the public schools, the State Normal school, and the Dickinson Law school. He is an able lawyer of Duncannon, Pa., where he has been city solicitor, township auditor, judge of election; and filled various other public positions of trust.
Lacock, Abner
state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1770 in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1811 to 1813; and United States senator from 1813 to 1819. He died April 12, 1837, in Freedom, Pa.
Lacombe, Emile Henry
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 29, 1846, in New York city. For three years he was corporation counsel for the city of New York; and in 1887 became United States circuit judge of the second district.
Lacy, Drury
college president, was born Oct. 5, 1758, in Chesterfield county, Va. He was president of Hampden-Sidney college from 1789-96. He died Dec. 6, 1815.
Lacy, Thomas J
lawyer, jurist. He was an early emigrant to Arkansas; and in 1834 was appointed a judge for that territory.
Ladd, Mrs. Catherine
educator, writer, poet, was born Oct. 28, 1809, in Richmond, Va. She is the oldest living writer and teacher in South Carolina; and for half a century has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press.
Ladd, George Trumbull
educator, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 19, 1842, in Painesville, Ohio. He is a congregational clergyman of prominence; and professor of philosophy at Yale university since 1881. He is the author of Principles of Church Polity; The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture; Philosophy of Mind; A Primer of Psychology; Psychology, Descriptive and Explanatory; Outlines of Psychological Psychology; Elements of Psychological Psychology; Introduction to Philosophy; and What is the Bible? He has translated Lotze's Philosophical Outlines, from the German.
Ladd, George W
merchant, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1818, in Augusta, Maine. He was elected a representative from Maine to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Ladd, Horatio Oliver
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 31, 1839, in Hallowell, Maine.
He has held various positions as an educator and clergyman; was pastor and professor in the Olivet college, Mich.; principal of the State Normal school of New Hampshire; president of the First Incorporated university of New Mexico; and rector of Grace church, Jamaica, N.
Y. As an educator he was prominent in founding Indian schools in the southwest, supported by the United States government. He is the author of three books on American History-The War With Mexico; The Story of New Mexico; and The Founding of the Episcopal Church in Dutchess County, N. Y. He has been an editorial writer on The Churchman, and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Ladd, Joseph Brown
poet, was born in 1764 in Newport, R. I. He published Poems of Arouet, and his poetry, with some of his prose writings, was collected into a volume, containing also a memoir of the author, by his sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth Haskins. He died Nov. 2, 1786, in Charleston, S. C.
La Dow, George A
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 18, 1828, in Cayuga county, N. Y. He moved to Wisconsin in 1851, and was elected district attorney, and held the office two years. He removed to Minnesota in 1862; and in 1867 was elected to the house of representatives of that state. He settled in Oregon in 1869; declined the nomination for state senator in 1870; and in 1872 was elected to the house of representatives of Oregon, and held the office until 1874, when he was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress. He died in May, 1875, in Oregon.
Ladreyt, Casimir
educator, author, was born in 1797 in France. He came to the United States about 1836, taught the French language, and published French Pronunciation; The Study of French Simplified; and other text-books. He died July 4, 1877, in Boston, Mass.
La Farge, John
landscape and figure painter, author, was born March 31, 1835, in New York city. He is a noted figure and landscape artist of New York city; and the author of a book entitled Lectures on Art.
La Fayette, Marquis De
soldier, was born in 1757 in France. He was commissioned major-general by the continental congress in 1777. He died in 1834 in France.
Laffoon, Polk
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1844, in Hopkins county, Ky. He enlisted in the eighth Kentucky confederate infantry in 1861, and was elected second lieutenant. He was elected county attorney in 1870, and served four years; and in 1884 was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Laflin, Addison H
manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born Oct. 24, 1823, in Lee, Mass. In 1837 he was elected to the senate of. New York. In 1864 he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-ninth congress, and was elected to the fortieth and fortyfirst congresses.
La Follette, Robert M
lawyer, congressman, was born June 14, 1855, in Primrose, Wis. He was elected district attorney of Dane county in 1880, and reelected in 1882. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses.
Lafonte, Aunet
educator, clergyman, was born Oct. 2, 1812, in France. He founded the French congregation in Canal street, New York, in 1842; introduced into this country the order of Christian Brothers; and harbored the first Jesuits that came to the United States. died Jan. 7, 1875, in New York city.
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La Fortune, John Samuel
journalist, poet, was born Aug. 22, 1862, in Elk Creek, Neb. In 1887 he became editor and proprietor of The Tulare Democratic Free Press. He is also the author of a number of poems.
Lagan, Matt D
merchant, manufacturer, congressman, was born June 20, 1829, in Ireland. He was elected to the fiftieth congress, and again elected as a democrat to the fifty-second congress.
Lahm, Samuel
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born April 22, 1812, in Leitersburg, Md. In 1835 he moved to Indiana and studied law; and then settled in Ohio. In 1837 he was elected master in chancery; and in 1842 a state senator. He was a representative in congress from 1847 to 1849.
Laidlaw, William G
naval officer, lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1840, in Scotland. He served two years in the United States navy during the war of the rebellion. He was district attorney of Cattaraugus county, New York, from 1872 till 1878. He was elected to the fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a republican.
Laighton, Albert
banker, poet, was born Jan. 8, 1829, in Portsmouth, N.
H. He was a banker of Portsmouth, N.
H.; and the author of Poems, a collection of quiet, thoughtful poetry published in 1878. He died Feb. 6, 1887, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Laing, George M
lawyer, state legislator, was born in 1850 in Canada. He has been president of the board of education of Windom, Minn.; in 1888 was appointed to revise and codify the probate laws of Minnesota; and in 1896 was elected a representative of the Minnesota state legislature. con-
Laird, James
soldier, lawyer, gressman, was born June 20, 1849, in Fowlerville, N. Y. He moved to Michigan; and served in the union army from 1862 to the close of the civil war. He settled at Hastings, Neb., in the practice of law.
He was elected a representative from Nebraska to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.