Lawrie, Alexander – Lazarus, Josephine
Lawrie, Alexander
artist, was born in 1828 in New York city. He has made upward of a thousand crayon heads, including likenesses of Richard H. Stoddard and Thomas Buchanan Read.
Laws, Gilbert Lafayette
soldier, manufacturer, journalist, congressman, was born March 11, 1838, near Olney, Ill. In 1861 he enlisted in the fifth Wisconsin volunteers; was infantry, wounded in the battle of Williamsburgh in 1862. He was appointed register of the United States land office at McCook, Neb., in 1883, and served in that official capacity till 1886. He was elected secretary of state in 1886, and re-elected in 1888. He was elected to the fifty-first congress to fill a vacancy.
Lawson, Albert Gallatin
clergyman, author, was born June 5, 1842, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. In 1866 he was elected chaplain and grand worthy patriarch of the state of New Jersey. He is the author of The Threefold Cord; Methods of Church Temperance Work; Temperance Literature; Ambition in the Ministry; and numerous other works.
Lawson, Alexander
engraver, was born Dec. 19, 1772, in Scotland. His first important works were four plates for Thomson's Seasons, executed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, which attracted much favorable notice. He died Aug. 22, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lawson, James
journalist, author, was born Nov. 9, 1799, in Scotland. He was a New York city journalist; and the author of Tales and Sketches by a Cosmopolite; Poems; and Giordana, a tragedy. He died March 20, 1888, in Yonkers, N. Y. was
Lawson, John
surveyor, author, was born in England. He was the surveyorgeneral of North Carolina, and burned at the stake by hostile Indians.
His entertaining travels were published with the title of History of North Carolina. He died in 1712 on the River Neuse, N. C. con-
Lawson, John D
merchant, gressman, was born Feb. 18, 1816, in Montgomery, N. Y. He was a merchant in New York for more than twenty-five years, and retired from business in 1868.
He was a delegate to the national republican conventions of 1868 and 1872; and was elected to the forty-third congress.
Lawson, John W
soldier, physician, surgeon, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 13, 1837, in James City county, Va. He enlisted as a private soldier in the thirty-second regiment Virginia infantry. He then entered the medical department Confederate States of America; and served as surgeon in charge of artillery battalion. He was elected to the house of delegates, and re-elected a second term. He was elected to the Virginia state senate and served four years; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Lawson, Leonidas Moreau
educator, physician, author, was born Sept. 10, 1812, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was the earliest writer of acknowledged ability on medical subjects in the valley of the Mississippi. He published an edition of Dr. James Hope's Morbid Anatomy; and Practical Treatise on Phthisis Pulmonalis, which was highly praised, and became a standard both in the United States and abroad. He died Jan. 24, 1864, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lawson, Louise
artist, was born in 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Among her works are the Rhodian Boy; Avaconara; and Il Pastore.
Lawson, Martin Emert
educator, lawyer, was born May 15, 1867, near Mercersburg, Pa. He is a successful lawyer of Liberty, Mo.; has been curator of the Woodson institute of Richmond, Mo.; and is prominent in religious and educational circles of his county and state.
Lawson, Mary Lockhart
poet, was born in Philadelphia, Pa. She published poems in the Knickerbocker and Graham's Magazine that were characterized by tender feeling and pleasing fancy. She occasionally wrote in the Scottish dialect.
Lawson, Richard Franklin
journalist, poet, lecturer, was born May 22, 1860, in Vandalia, Ill. He is the editor and owner of the Republican of Effingham, Ill.; and a poet and lecturer well known in the west.
Lawson, Thomas
soldier, surgeon, was born about 1781, in Virginia. He was brevetted brigadier-general for meritorious conduct as chief medical officer of the United States forces in the Mexican war. He died May 15, 1861, in Norfolk, Va.
Lawson, Thomas G
farmer, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1848, in Putnam county, Ga. He was elected to the Georgia legislature in 1861 and re-elected in 1863 and 1865. He was elected by the general assembly in 1878 judge of the superior court of the Ocmulgee circuit, and re-elected without opposition in 1882; and in 1886 retired from the bench to his farm. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and the fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.
Lawson, Victor Fremont
journalist, was born Sept. 9, 1850, in Chicago.
He is president and sole owner of the Daily News and the Record in Chicago, Ill.
Lawton, Alexander Robert
soldier, lawyer, railroad president, state senator, was born about 1818, in Beaufort county, S. C. He was president of the Savannah and Augusta railroad in 1849-54, and state senator in 1854-61. In 1861 he became brigadier-general in the provisional confederate army, and was put in command of the coast of Georgia.
Lawton, William Cranston
educator, lecturer, author, was born in 1853, in Massachusetts. He is a classical teacher and lecturer, formerly of Cambridge, now of Brooklyn, and professor in Adelphi college there. He is the author of Three Dramas of Euripides; Folia Dispersa, a book of verse; and Art and Humanity in Homer.
Lawyer, Thomas
congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly from Schoharie county in 1816; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1817 to 1819.
Lay, Alfred Morrison
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 20, 1836, in Lewis county, Mo. He was appointed United States attorney for the western district of Missouri. He resigned in 1861 and entered the confederate army, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of major. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortysixth congress. He died Dec. 9, 1879.
Lay, Benjamin
philanthropist, author, was born in 1681, in England. He was a benevolent and eccentric Quaker; and the author of several treatises and religious works, which were published by Benjamin Franklin. He died in 1760, near Abington, Pa.
Lay, George W
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born July 27, 1798, in Catskill, N. Y. In 1833 he was elected to the assembly of New York; and to congress in 1833-37. He died Oct. 21, 1860, in Batavia, N. Y.
Lay, Henry Champlin
bishop, author, was born Dec. 6, 1823, in Richmond, Va. He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Easton (Maryland), but from 1859 to 1869 the third bishop of Arkansas. He was the author of Studies in the Church; and The Church anu the Nation. He died Sept. 17, 1885, in Easton, Md.
Lay, James H
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Dec. 18, 1844, in Benton county, Mo. In 1875 and 1883 he was a member of the Missouri house of representatives from Warsaw. He was appointed judge of the circuit court in 1891 to fill a vacancy, and was elected to that office in 1892.
Lay, John L
civil engineer, inventor, was born Jan. 14, 1832, in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1867 he invented the submarine torpedo that bears his name, which has since become the property of the United States government.
Lay, Oliver Ingraham
artist, was born in 1845, in New York city. His works include portraits of Edwin Booth as Hamlet, Cyrus W. Field, Miss Fidelia Bridges, Henry A. Ferguson, and Winslow Homer, N. A.; Watching the Snow; and The Two Friends.
Layng, James D
civil engineer, railroad president, was born Aug. 30, 1833, in Columbia, Pa. In 1849 he graduated from the Western university of Pennsylvania; and has attained prominence as a civil engineer and railway manager, with headquarters in New York city. He has been chief engineer and superintendent of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis railway; general manager of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railway company; and president of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway company. He is now second vice-president and general manager of the West Shore Railway company; and vicepresident of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway company.
Layton, Fernando C
lawyer, congressman, was oorn April 11, 1847, in Anglaize county, Ohio. He was a county school examiner for several years; and was prosecuting attorney during 1875- 78. In 1863 he was captain of the Home guard; was captain of company G, Ohio national guard during 1878-83; and captain of the Knights of Pythias during 1886- 91. In 1890 he was elected to the fiftysecond congress was re-elected to the fifty-third and fiftyfourth congresses. He declined a fourth term, and settled down to the practice of law in Wapakoneta, Ohio. as a democrat; and
Lazarus, Emma
poet, was born July 22, 1849, in New York city. She was a talented Jewish writer of New York city who wrote much in verse and prose for the Century and other periodicals. She was the author of Alide, an Episode of Goethe's Life; Poems; Admetus, and Other Poems; Songs of a Semite; and Poems and Ballads Translated from Heine. She died Nov. 19, 1887, in New York city.
Lazarus, Josephine
author. She is the author of The Spirit of Judaism; and The Love-Letters of a Portuguese Nun, a translation from the French.