Landy, James – Lange, Louie A
Landy, James
merchant, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1856 he was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from Pennsylvania. He died July 24, 1875, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lane, Albert Grannis
educator, was born March 15, 1841, in Chicago, Ill.
For eleven years he was principal of the Chicago Franklin school, county superintendent of schools for eighteen years; and since 1891 has been superintendent of the Chicago schools.
Lane, Amos
lawyer, legislator, was born March 1, 1778, near Aurora, N. Y.
He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1833 to 1839, having previously been a member of the state legislature, and served one session as speaker. He died Sept. 2, 1849, in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
Lane, Ebenezer
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 17, 1793, in Northampton, Mass.
He moved to Norwalk, Ohio; became judge of the court of common pleas in 1824; and from 1837 till 1845 was judge of the supreme court of Ohio. He died June 13, 1866, in Sandusky, Ohio.
Lane, Edward
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 27, 1842, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received an academic education, afterwards read law, and was licensed to practice by the supreme court of the state of Illinois in February, 1865, and has since practiced his profession. He was elected judge in 1869, and served one term. He was elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, and fifty-third congresses as a democrat.
Lane, George W
lawyer, jurist. He was appointed a United States district judge in Alabama. He died Nov. 12, 1863, in Louisville, Ky.
Lane, Henry S
soldier, legislator, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in Montgomery county, Ky. In 1837 he was elected to the Indiana legislature; and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1841 to 1843. He served as a lieutenantcolonel of volunteers in the war with Mexico in 1846. In 1861 he was elected governor of Indiana; and two days after his inauguration was again elected a senator in congress from Indiana for the term ending in 1867. He died June 18, 1881, in Crawfordsville, Ind.
Lane, James Henry
soldier, statesman, was born June 22, 1814, in Lawrenceburg, Ind. In 1849 he was lieutenant-governor of Indiana; and was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1853 to 1855. He settled in Kansas; and was elected by the people major-general of the free state troops. On the admission of Kansas into the union, he was chosen a senator in congress; and was reelected for the term ending in 1871. He died July 1, 1866, in Leavenworth, Kan.
Lane, John Watson
physician, philosopher, was born March 6, 1830, in Ripley, Ohio. He graduated in medicine from the Cincinnati Medical college, and is a prominent physician of Hamilton, Ill.
He has written extensively concerning the Truths of Religion, freed from Dogma; and is the author of a number of poems.
Lane, Jonathan H
journalist, scientist, was born Aug. 9, 1819, in Geneseo, N. Y. He published papers on Electricity; On the Law of Electric Induction in Metals; and On the Law of Induction of an Electric Current on Itself. He also published Theoretical Temperature of the Sun; and Description of a New Form of Mercurial Horizon. He died May 3, 1880, in Washington, D. C.
Lane, Joseph
soldier, legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 14, 1801, in Buncombe, N. C. He was a member of the legislature of Indiana in 1822, serving in that capacity, with occasional intervals, until 1846. He participated in the war with Mexico; and was appointed a brigadiergeneral. In 1849 he was appointed governor of the territory of Oregon. He was elected a delegate to congress in 1851, where he was retained by his constituents until the admission of Oregon as a state in 1859, when he took his seat as a senator in congress, serving until 1861. He died April 19, 1881, in Oregon.
Lane, La Fayette
legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 12, 1842, in Vanderburg county, Ind. He was elected to the legislature of Oregon in 1864; and in 1875 was elected a representative to the forty-fourth congress. He died Nov. 24, 1896, in Roseburg, Oregon.
Lane, Lemuel M
lawyer, was born Nov. 4, 1854, in Fillmore, Mo. After receiving the rudiments of his education in the common schools, he attended the Illinois State Normal school. He has been mayor of Maryville, Mo., and twice its city attorney. He was twice prosecuting attorney of Nodaway county, Mo.; and was one of the founders of the Methodist college of Maryville. He is now practicing his profession with success in King Fisher, Oklahoma; and is prominent in the public affairs of that territory.
LANE, SAMUEL. He was one of the first men appointed superintendent or commissioner of public buildings for the District of Columbia, but the date of his appointment does not appear on the public records.
Lane, William Alfred
physician, journalist, jurist, author, was born March 1, 1845, in Convis, Mich. For a quarter of a century he has been editor and owner of the Homer Index; and is the author of Homer and Its Pioneers. He is judge of the probate court of Carlisle county, Mich.
Lane, William Carr
soldier, physician, governor, was born Dec. 1, 1789, in Westmoreland, Pa. He served as a surgeon in the war of 1812 and the Mexican war. In 1852 he was appointed governor of New Mexico, resigning in 1853, when he resumed the practice of medicine in St. Louis.
Lang, Benjamin Johnson
pianist, author, was born Dec. 28, 1837, in Salem, Mass. He is the author of Marseillaise; Chadwick; The Viking's Last Voyage; and Henry of Navarre.
Lang, Margaret Ruthven
author, was born Nov. 27, 1867, in Boston, Mass. She is the author of Dramatic Overture; Witichis; and Totila.
Langdale, Thomas Guy
clergyman, was born Oct. 28, 1866, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1888 he received the degree of A. B. from the university of Cincinnati; and in 1891 the degree of B. D. from the Chicago Theological seminary. He has filled pastorates in South Dakota; and since 1896 has filled a pastorate in DeSmet.
In 1893-94 he was secretary of the South Dakota Christian Endeavor union, and since 1895 has been its president.
Langdell, Christopher Colum- Bus
lawyer, author, was born May 22, 1826, in New Hampshire. He is a legal writer of distinction, dean of the Harvard Law school; and the author of Cases on the Law of Contracts; Summary of Equity Pleading; Cases in Equity Pleading; and Elementary Treatise on the Law of Contracts.
Langdon, Chauncey
lawyer, legislator, congressman. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1815 to 1817; served seven years in the legislature of the state; and was a state councilor for nine years. He died in 1830.
Langdon, John
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born June 25, 1741, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1775 and 1776 he was chosen a delegate to congress from New Hampshire. He commanded a company of volunteers in Vermont and Rhode Island. In his own state he was in 1776 and 1777 speaker of the house of representatives and judge of the court of common pleas. In 1783 he was again appointed a delegate to congress; and was afterwards repeatedly a member of the legislature, and speaker. In 1788 he was chosen governor of the state; and from 1789 to 1801 was senator of the United States. From 1805 to 1808, and again in 1810 and 1811 he was governor of the state. He died Sept. 18, 1819, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Langdon, William Chauncey
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1831, in Burlington, Vt. He is an episcopal clergyman of Bedford, Pa.; and the author of The Defects of our Practical Catholicity; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic Reform Movement in the Italian Church; and Conflict of Practice and Principle in the American Church. He died in 1895.
Langdon, Woodbury
jurist, congressman, was born in 1739, in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress in 1779 and 1780; was a counselor from 1781 to 1784; and a judge of the supreme court of New Hampshire in 1782, and from 1786 to 1790. He died Jan. 13, 1805, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Lange, Louie A
journalist, legislator, was born May 31, 1854, in Chicago, Ill. He moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1856, settling in Fond du Lac; and in 1861 moved to Milwaukee, where he was educated in the public schools and at Engelman's academy. In 1870 he returned to Fond du Lac, and learned the printing business. In 1874 he was city editor of The Chronicle of La Porte, Ind.; and was city editor of the Fond du Lac Commonwealth in 1877. For a while he was engaged on the Evening Wisconsin; in 1883 became part owner of the Reporter of Fond du Lac, also establishing a daily; two years later purchased the entire plant; and is now proprietor of the Reporter Printing house. Since 1891 he has been a director of the public library; and was alderman and president of the common council and board of education for four years. In 1892 he was elected to the assembly of the Wisconsin state legislature, and received the re-election in 1894 and in 1896. LANGERFELDT, THEODORE Otto, artist, was born March 2, 1841, in Germany. One of his architectural paintings was awarded a prize at the centennial exhibition of Philadelphia in 1876.