Leigh, Hezekiah Gilbert – Leonard, Chatfield
Leigh, Hezekiah Gilbert
clergyman, was born Nov. 25, 1795, in North Carolina. In 1829 he was a founder of Randolph Macon college, Virginia, and subsequently he was one of its principal supporters. In 1849 he was an organizer of the methodist episcopat church south.
He died Sept. 18, 1858, in Mecklenburg county, Va.
Leighton, Harriet W
poet, temperance advocate, was born March 15, 1839, in Albany, N. Y. She has been state corresponding secretary for Nebraska of the Woman's Christian Temperance union; for three years was secretary of the Lincoln Woman's Christian Temperance union, and for one year its president. She also is prominent in various other organizations, and contributes both prose and verse to current literature.
Leighton, William
author, poet, was born June 22, 1833, in Cambridge, Mass. He is a writer of Wheeling, W. Va.; and the author of The Sons of Godwin, a tragedy that appeared simultaneously with Tennyson's Harold on the same theme; At the Court of King Edwin, a drama; Shakespeare's Dream; Change; and The Subjection of Hamlet. on
Leighty, Jacob D
soldier, congressman, was born Oct. 15, 1839, in Westmoreland county, Pa. He was a private in company E, eleventh Indiana volunteer infantry; and was promoted to second lieutenant and afterward to first lieutenant. Returning home he engaged in general merchandising, and is interested in several manufacturing enterprises. He was elected to the Indiana house of representatives in 1886; and elected in 1894 to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed United States pension agent for Indiana.
Leiper, George Gray
congressman, was born Feb. 3, 1786, in Delaware county, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831. He died Nov. 17, 1868, in Delaware county, Pa.
Leiper, William D
soldier, educator, journalist, was born Feb. 13, 1823, in Frankfort Springs, Pa. He served as a soldier; and was a member of the constitutional convention of 1874. He is the editor and owner of the Arkansas Meteor.
Leisenring, John
civil and mining engineer, congressman, was born June 3, 1853, in Ashton, Pa. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican from Pennsylvania.
Leiter, Benjamin F
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 13, 1813, in Leitersburg, Md. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1848. In 1849 he was re-elected, and chosen speaker.
In 1854 he was elected to congress; and reelected to the thirty-sixth congress.
Leland, Aaron
clergyman, jurist, legislator, was born May 28, 1761, in Holliston, Mass. He sat in the Vermont legislature from 1801 till 1811, during which period he was thrice elected speaker. He was a councillor for four years, and for five successive years elected lieutenantgovernor of Vermont. He also served as an assistant justice of the county court for eighteen years. He died Aug. 25, 1833, in Chester, Vt.
Leland, Charles A
lawyer, legislator, was born in 1860 in Sharon, Ohio. For several years he was prosecuting attorney of Noble county, Ohio; and in 1896 was elected a member of the Ohio state legislature.
Leland, Charles Godfrey
author, poet, was born Aug. 15, 1824, in Philadelphia. He is a very versatile Philadelphia author, who has lived much in Europe, and is considered an authority upon Gypsy lore. He is the author of Hans Hans Breitmann Ballads; The Music Lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems; Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land; The English Gypsies and Their Language; Origin of the Gypsies; The Gypsies; The Algonquin Legends of New England; Egyptian Sketch Book; Abraham Lincoln and the Abolition of Slavery; Practical Education; Manual of Wood Carving; and Memoirs.
Leland, Henry Perry
soldier, author, was born Oct. 28, 1828, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia writer who served as lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment during the civil war; and was the author of The Americans in Rome; and The Grey Bay Mare, and Other Humorous Sketches. He died Sept. 22, 1868, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Leland, Samuel Phelps
lawyer, lecturer, poet, was born March 4, 1839, in Huntsburg, Ohio. After being admitted to the bar in LaGrange county, Ind., he moved to Chicago in 1863, and thence to Aurora, Ill. About this time he published a volume of poems, which passed through two editions; and since that time has contributed numerous meritorious poems to the periodical press. During 1867-80 he practiced law in Charles City, Iowa; and after a sojourn in Europe, he entered the lecture field, in which he has attained a national reputation.
Lemcke, Henry
clergyman, was born June 27, 1796, in Germany. He performed missionary duty in Kansas, and founded the abbey of St. Benedict in Atchison, Kan. He returned to Pennsylvania in 1858, and after a visit to Germany labored in New Jersey till 1877, when he withdrew to Carrollton, Pa. He died Nov. 29, 1882, in Carrollton, Pa.
Lemmon, John Gill
botanist, author, was born June 2, 1832, in Lima, Mich. He is a botanist attached to the California department of forestry since 1880; and the author of Ferns of the Pacific Coast; and Discovery of the Potato.
Lemmon, Sarah Allen Plum- Mer
botanist, author, was born Sept. 3, 1836, in New Gloucester, Maine. She has painted in watercolors much of the flora of the Pacific slope, and her collection of more than eighty field sketches of flowers took the first premium at the World's exposition in New Orleans in 1884-85. On her discovery of a new genus of plants in 1882, Dr. Asa Gray named it Plummera floribunda. Mrs. Lemmon is the author of the papers on The Ferns of the Pacific Slope; Silk-Culture in California; and Marine Botany.
Le Moine, Sauvolle
governor, was born about 1671 in Canada. He was appointed governor of Louisiana in 1699, and he retained the office till his death. He was the first colonial governor of Louisiana. ana. He died July 22, 1701, in Biloxi, in what is now Mississippi.
Le Moyne, Francis Julius
abolitionist, philanthropist, was born Sept. 4, 1798, in Washington, Pa. He erected in 1876, near Washington, Pa., the first crematory in the United States. He founded the public library in Washington, gave $25,000 for a colored normal school near Memphis, Tenn., and endowed professorships of agriculture and applied mathematics in Washington college. He died Oct. 14, 1879, in Washington, Pa.
Le Moyne, J. V
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1828 in Washington county, Pa. In 1852 he moved to Chicago, Ill., and commenced the practice of law; and served as a representative from Illinois to the forty-fourth congress.
Lennox, Charlotte Ramsay
author, was born in 1720 in New York city.
She published a volume of Poems on Several Occasions. Her other works include Memoirs of Harriet Stuart; The Female Quixote; Henrietta, a novel that was much read; a translation of the Duke of Sully's Memoirs; Sophia, a novel; The Sisters, a comedy; Old City Manners, a comedy; Euphemia, a novel; and Memoirs of Henry Lennox. She died Jan. 4, 1804, in England.
Lenoir, William
soldier, was born May 20, 1751, in Brunswick county, Va.
He served with distinction in the revolutionary war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general. He died May 6, 1839, in Fort Defiance, N. C.
Lent, James
congressman. He was a member of congress from New York from 1829 to 1833. He died Feb. 24, 1833, in Washington.
Lentz, John Jacob
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1856, near St. Clairsville, Ohio. For five years he was one of the examiners of the city teachers, and was appointed a trustee of Ohio university by Governor McKinley. He was elected from Ohio to the fifty-fifth cońgress as a democrat.
Leonard, Charles Henri
physician, journalist, author, was born March 28, 1850, in Akron, Ohio. His preparatory education was obtained at Hiram college, Ohio; Genesee college of Lima, N.
Y.; and the Union college of Schenectady, N. Y., from which latter institutution he received the degree of A. B. in 1872, and A. M. in 1882. In 1874 he graduated in medicine from the medical department of the university of Wooster, of Cleveland, and subsequently took a post-graduate course at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York city. He has attained success in his profession at Detroit, Mich.; and has been professor of gynecology in the Detroit College of Medicine since 1879. He is the author of a Pocket Anatomist; and other works. He is the editor and owner of Leonard's Illustrated Medical Journal, which has been published continuously since 1877.
Leonard, Chatfield
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 13, 1848, in Roseboom, N. Y. Since 1874 he has been justice of the peace in Cooperstown, N. Y. He was justice of sessions during two terms; and in 1894 was appointed surrogate.
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