Linn, William – Lipscomb, Lawrence Yancey
Linn, William
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 27, 1752, in Shippensburg, Pa. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; famous in his day as a preacher; and the author of Discourses on Leading Personages of Scripture History; and Signs of the Times. His sermon on the death of Washington was formerly much quoted. He died in January, 1808, in Albany, N. Y.
Linn, William
lawyer, author, was born Aug. 31, 1790, in New York city.
He was a lawyer of Ithaca; and the author of Life of Thomas Jefferson; The Roorback Papers; and Legal and Commercial Commonplace Book. He died Jan. 14, 1867, in Ithaca, N. Y.
Linney, Romulus Z
soldier, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in Rutherford county, N. C. He served in the confederate army as a private soldier until the battle of Chancellorsville, where he was severely wounded. Having been discharged from the army because of his wound, he returned to Taylorsville, N. C., where he has attained eminence at the bar. He was elected to the state senate in 1870, 1873, and again in 1882; and was elected to the fiftyfourth, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Linsley, James Harvey
naturalist, author, was born May 5, 1787, in Northford, Conn. He prepared a series of papers on the zoology of Connecticut for the Yale Natural History society that were published under the title of Catalogue of the Mammalia of Connecticut in the American Journal of Science and Arts, and also contributed to that magazine Catalogues of the Birds, Fishes and Reptiles of Connecticut, with Notes. He died Dec. 26, 1843, in Stratford, Conn.
Linsley, Joel Hervey
lawyer, clergyman, college president, was born July 16, 1790, in Cornwall, Vt. In 1835-45 he was president of Marietta college, raising a large endowment for that institution. He died March 22, 1868, in Greenwich, Conn.
Lintner, Joseph Albert
entomologist, was born Feb. 8, 1822, in Schoharie, N. Y. In 1867 he became the zoölogical assistant in the New York State Museum of Natural History in Albany.
Linton, Irwin Breece
lawyer, public official, was born Sept. 4, 1852, in Norristown, Pa. He received his education in the public schools of Washington, D. C., and graduated from the law school of the Columbian university. He is a successful lawyer of Washington, D. C.; was clerk of the congressional committee which impeached Hon. W. W. Belknap, secretary of war; and was also clerk of the Potter congressional committee, which investigated the alleged Hayes- Tilden election frauds of 1876. For many years he served as secretary of Justice Field of the United States supreme court.
Linton, William James
engraver, author, poet, was born in 1812, in London, England. He is an English engraver and poet who came to the United States in 1867 and settled in New Haven. Besides ably editing several poetical anthologies, he is the author of Claribel, and Other Poems; Life of Thomas Paine; a valuable History of Wood Engraving in America; 1 The English Republic; The Flower and the Star, and Other Stories; Practical Hints on Wood Engraving; Wood Engraving, a Manual of Instruction; Poems and Three Score and Ten Translations; Years; and Life of Whittier.
Linton, William Seelye
manufacturer, congressman, was born Feb. 4, 1856, in St. Clair, Mich. In 1883 he was elected a member of the East Saginaw common council, serving two terms, at the end of which was elected a representative to the Michigan legislature of 1887-88. He was for three years president of the People's Building and Loan association of Saginaw county, the strongest financially and in membership of any in the state.
In 1890 he was the candidate for lieutenant-governor on the republican state ticket. He has been president of the Saginaw water board; was mayor of the city of Saginaw for two years, 1892-94; and was elected to the fifty-third, and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Lippard, George
author, was born April 10, 1822, near Yellow Springs, Pa.
He was a sensational romancer of Philadelphia, among whose now nearly forgotten tales are, Blanche of Brandywine; Legends of Mexico; and The Ladye - Annabel. He died Feb. 9, 1854, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Lippe, Adalbert Vonder
clergyman, theologian, was born March 17, 1827, in Germany. He descended from the German nobility. In 1854 he moved to America; in 1858 he graduated from the Danville Presbyterian Theological seminary, and did missionary work among the Germans in Gasconade county, Mo. For twenty-eight years he filled a pastorate in the German presbyterian church of St. Louis; then filled the chair of theology and languages in the Presbyterian seminary of Dubuque, Iowa, where he died July 9, 1894.
LIPPINCOTT, MRS. ESTHER J.
J. [TRIMBLE], educator, author, was born in 1838, in Pennsylvania. She was an educator of Pennsylvania, professor of literature in the Westchester Normal school; and the author of Handbook of English and American Literature; and Short Course in Literature. She died in 1888.
Lippincott, James Starr
agriculturist, author, was born April 12, 1819, in Philadelphia. He patented a vapor index for measuring the amount of moisture in the atmosphere, which has been used in the Smithsonian institution and elsewhere. He was the author of six treatises, published in the Reports of the Agricultural Department. He died March 17, 1885, in Haddonfield, N. J.
Lippincott, Oliver W
educator, clergyman, was born June 10, 1856, in Lee county, Iowa. He graduated from the Dexter Normal college, and received the degrees of B. Sc., and bachelor of didactics. For many years he taught in the public schools of Iowa, and in a government Indian school in Nebraska. During the past ten years he has filled five pastorates in the Des Moines conference of the methodist episcopal church.
Lippincott, Mrs. Sara Jane
[CLARKE]-Grace Greenwood-author, was born Sept. 23, 1823, in Pompey, N. Y. She is a popular littérateur of Philadelphia who has written much in the line of newspaper corresponda ence, but whose early fame was gained as writer for young people. She is the author of Greenwood Leaves; Records of Five Years; Poems; Life of Queen Victoria; New Life in New Lands; Recollections of My Childhood; and Merrie England.
Lippincott, William Henry
artist, was born Dec. 5, 1849, in Philadelphia.
He exhibited Lolette and two portraits at the Paris salon of 1878, and The Duck's Breast at the centennial exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. His other works include The Little Prince; various portraits; Infantry in Arms; and numerous etchings.
Lippitt, Charles Warren
governor, was born Oct. 8, 1846, in Providence, R. I. In 1875-76 he also served as colonel and chief of the personal staff, during the term of Henry Lippitt, his father, as governor of Rhode Island. In 1881-82 he was president of the Providence board of trade. Since 1891 he has been president of the Social Manufacturing company; and since 1896 president of the Rhode Island National bank of Providence. In 1895 he was elected governor of Rhode Island.
Lippitt, Christopher
soldier, was born in 1744, in Cranston, R. I. In 1776 he was commissioned colonel in the continental army; and was made brigadiergeneral of the Rhode Island militia. He died June 18, 1824, in Cranston, R. I.
Lippitt, Francis James
soldier, author, was born in 1812, in Rhode Island.
He is a soldier who served in the federal army during the civil war, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. He is the author of A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms; Treatise on Entrenchments; Special Operations of War; Field Service in War; Massachusetts Criminal Law; and Physical Proofs of Another Life.
Lippitt, Henry
manufacturer, governor, was born Oct. 9, 1818, in Providence, R. I. He is now head of the firm of Henry Lippitt and Co., and the Lippitt Woolen Co., in Providence, R. I. He is also president of the Rhode Island National bank. In 1875-76 he served as governor of Rhode Island.
Lippmann, Julie Mathilde
author, poet, was born in 1864, on Long Island. She is a writer of Brooklyn; and the author of Through Slumbertown and Wakeland, a book for juvenile readers.
Lipscomb, Abner Smith
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Feb. 10, 1789, near Abbeville, S. C. For several years he was a member of the Alabama legislature; became judge of the supreme court in 1819, and in 1823-35 was chief justice of Alabama. He died Dec. 3, 1857, near Austin, Tex.
Lipscomb, Andrew Adgate
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 8, 1816, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a methodist clergyman and educator of Tennessee, who was professor in Vanderbilt university. He was the author of Studies in the Forty Days; Supplementary Studies; Our Country; and Christian Heroism. He died Nov. 24, 1890, in Athens, Ga.
Lipscomb, Lawrence Yancey
lawyer, legislator, was born March 16, 1855, in Sumter county, Ala. He is a descendant of the Virginia branch of the Lipscomb family, and received his education at the Cooper institute of Mississippi. He has attained success in the profession of law in his native state at Bessemer, and has served with distinction as a member of the legislature of Alabama for two terms.