Lapham, Henry Griffith – Larremore, Richard Ludlow
Lapham, Henry Griffith
leather merchant, was born Feb. 24, 1822, in Canby, Vt. He was principally engaged in the tanning and lumber business in New York and Pennsylvania, and engaged in the manufacture of leather and lumber in northwestern Pennsylvania. Later he took an active part in the production of petroleum in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was also interested in ranching in Mexico. The United States Leather Co. is one of the greatest corporations in America. He died Jan. 28, 1881, in New York city.
Lapham, Increase Allen
scientist, author, was born March 7, 1811, in Palmyra, N. Y. He was a prominent scientist of Milwaukee; and the author of Antiquities of Wisconsin; Wisconsin: its Geography, Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy. He died Sept. 14, 1875, in Oconomowoc, Wis.
Lapham, Marshall
financier, was born July 3, 1867, in Kalamazoo county, Mich. In 1887-90 he was auditor of the Chicago and Calumet Terminal railway; and since 1893 has been secretary and treasurer of the Chicago, Joliet and Southwestern railway.
Lapham, Oscar
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born June 29, 1837, in Burrillville, R. I. He was first lieutenant, adjutant, and captain in twelfth Rhode Island volunteers, and served in Virginia and Kentucky, in army of Potomac and department of Ohio. He represented the city of Providence in the Rhode Island state senate in 1887-88. He was democratic candidate for congress in 1882, 1886 and 1888, and was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses.
Lapham, William Berry
physician, journalist, author, was born Aug. 21, 1828, in Greenwood, Maine. He was an agricultural editor of Maine, who published several histories of Maine localities, including Woodstock, Paris, Norway, Bar Harbor, and Mount Desert Island.
Laporte, John
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837.
Larcom, Lucy
author, poet, was born in 1826, in Beverly, Mass. She was a popular verse and prose writer of Beverly, Mass., who in early life worked in the Lowell factories, and was a contributor to the noted Lowell Offering. Her writings in verse include, At the Beautiful Gate; Childhood Songs; Wild Roses of Cape Ann; An Idyl of Work; Easter Gleams; Complete Poems. Skipper Ben and Hannah Binding Shoes are her best known lyrics. Her original work in prose comprises, Ships in the Mist, and Other Stories; The Sunbeam; Similitudes; Leila among the Mountains; The Unseen Friend; As It is in Heaven; and A New England Girlhood, an autobiographic work. She died in 1893.
Lardner, James L
naval officer, was born in 1802, in Pennsylvania. He served through the Mexican and civil wars in the United States navy, attaining the rank of rear admiral. He died April 13, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Large, George Hall
lawyer, state senator, was born Dec. 1, 1850, in Washington, D. C. During 1885-88 he was a member of the New Jersey state senate, and in the latter year was president of that body.
Larimer, William
soldier, merchant, banker, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 24, 1809, in Westmoreland county, Pa. In 1855 he went to Nebraska; and served in the territorial legislature in 1856. In the beginning of the civil war he raised a regiment of volunteers in Colorado and was commissioned colonel. He served in Kansas, Indian territory, and Arkansas, and was mustered out in August, 1865. He died May 16, 1875, near Leavenworth, Kan.
Larkin, Daniel Charles
civil engineer, was born July 29, 1849, in Sandusky, Ohio. Up to 1875 he was connected with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; and was one of the founders of the Gem city assembly Knights of Labor.
Since 1880 he has been chief of the fire department of Dayton, Ohio; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. He also contributes to newspapers and magazines.
Larkin, John
college president, was born in 1801, in England. In 1851 he became president of St. John's college in Fordham, N. Y., resigning in 1854. He died Dec. 11, 1858, in Fordham, N. Y.
Larkin, Lucien A
journalist, lawyer, was born Nov. 22, 1865, in Lynchburg, Va. He received a liberal education in the common schools, and at Bethel Military academy. For many years he was editor and owner of The Gazette of Manassas, Va., where he now practices his profession of law, and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Larned, Augusta
journalist, author, poet, was born April 16, 1835, in Rutland, N. Y. She is a journalist of New York city; and the author of Home Story Scenes; Talks with Girls; Old Tales from Grecian Mythology; Tales from the Norse Grandmother; Village Photographs; and In Woods and Fields, a book of verse.
Larned, Charles William
soldier, educator, philologist, was born March 9, 1850, in New York city. In 1870 he graduated from the United States Military academy of West Point. He has been first and second lieutenant of the seventh New York cavalry, and served on frontier in Kansas; then on reconstruction service in Kentucky and Tennessee. In 1873 he was in the Dakota expedition against Sitting Bull, under Stanley and Custer, and was in the fight at the mouth of the Big Horn. Since 1876 he has been professor of topographical and mechanical drawing in the United States Military academy. He is a member of the American Philological association, and other scientific bodies; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Larned, Ebenezer
soldier, congressman, was born April 18, 1728, in Oxford, Mass. In 1774 he was a delegate to the provincial congress at Concord, Mass.
He served through the revolutionary war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general in 1777. He died April 1, 1801, in Oxford, Mass.
Larned, Edwin Channing
educator, lawyer, author, was born July 14, 1820, in Providence, R. I. He was appointed United States district attorney for the northern district of Illinois in 1861. He died Sept. 18, 1884, in Lake Forest, Ill.
Larned, Ellen Douglas
author, was born July 13, 1825, in Thompson, Conn. She is the author of a History of Windham County, Conn.; and of a History of the Town of Woodstock, Conn.
Larned, Joshua Nelson
author, was born in 1836, in Canada. He is the superintendent of the public library at Buffalo; and the author of History for Ready Reference; and Talks About Labor.
Larned, Simon
soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1753, in Thompson, Conn. He served as colonel of militia; was, for a time, sheriff of Berkshire county; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts to fill a vacancy. He died Nov. 16, 1817, in Pittsfield, Mass.
Larned, Walter Cranston
lawyer, author, was born in 1850, in Illinois.
He is a lawyer and littérateur of Lake Forest, Ill.; and the author of Churches and Castles of Mediæval France.
Larned, William Augustus
educator, author, was born June 23, 1806, in Thompson, Conn. In 1839 he became professor of rhetoric and English literature at Yale, which post he held until his death. In the later years of his life he prepared and printed, but did not publish, a valuable edition of the Oration of Demosthenes on the Crown, with philological and rhetorical notes. He died Feb. 3, 1862, in New Haven, Conn.
Larner, John Bell
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 3, 1858, in Washington, D.
C. He has become prominent as a lawyer of ability in Washington, D. C. He is the author of an English translation of Alex. Dumas' Napoleon.
La Roche, Rene
physician, author, was born in 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Pneumonia: its Supposed Connection with Autumnal Fevers; and Treatise on Yellow Fever. He died in December, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Larrabee, Charles Hathaway
soldier, lawyer, journalist, jurist, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1820, in Rome, N. Y. In 1847 he settled in Wisconsin, and became a member of the convention to frame a state constitution. In 1848 he was elected a circuit judge, and after serving ten years, resigned. He was elected a representative from Wisconsin to the thirty-sixth congress. He subsequently entered the army in the volunteer service, and had command as colonel of a regiment from his state. He died Jan. 20, 1883, in Tehachapi Pass, Cal.
Larrabee, William
governor of Iowa, was born Jan. 20, 1832, in Ledyard, Conn. He served in the Iowa state senate in 1868-85; and since 1885 has been governor of the state.
Larrabee, William Clark
educator, clergyman, author, was born Dec. 23, 1802, in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. He was a once prominent methodist clergyman and educator of Indiana; and professor in De Pauw university for a number of years.
He was the author of Scientific Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion; Wesley and his Co-Laborers; Asbury and his Co-Laborers; and Rosebower, a volume of essays. He died May 4, 1859, in Greencastle, Ind.
Larremore, Richard Ludlow
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 6, 1830, in Astoria, N. Y. In 1870 he was elected a justice of the court of common pleas of New York for fifteen years, and re-elected in 1885, when he became chief justice.