Lispenard, Leonard – Littlejohn, John Martin
Lispenard, Leonard
congressman, was born in 1716, in New York city. He was a delegate from New York to the colonial congress, which met in New York city in 1765. He died Feb. 15, 1790, in New York city.
Lister, Edwin
manufacturer, state legislator, was born Sept. 10, 1829, in Newark, N. J. He has been president since 1887, and is now principal owner of the Lister Agricultural Chemical works. He has served as alderman in Newark three times, in 1872-76 and in 1882-84; and a member of the assembly in 1886.
Litchfield, Elisha
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1795, in Canterbury, Conn. He served five years in the New York legislature from Onondaga county; and in 1848 was speaker. He was many years a justice of the peace at Delphi, N. Y.; and was a representative in congress from New York from 1821 to 1823, and again from 1823 to 1825.
He died Aug. 4, 1859, in Cazenovia, N. Y.
Litchfield, Grace Denio
novelist, poet, was born Nov. 19, 1849, in New York city. For many years she has written both prose and verse for the leading newspapers and magazines in America; and her poems have been given a place in several standard works. She is also the author of several novels, the most notable of which are The Knight of the Black Forest; Only an Incident; Criss-Cross; A Hard Won Victory; Little He and She; and a volume of short stories under the title of Little Venice.
Littauer, Lucius Nathan
manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1859, in Gloversville, N. Y. He was engaged in the glove-manufacturing business of his father at Gloversville, N. Y., to which he succeeded in 1882; and is at present engaged extensively therein. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Littell, Eliakim
journalist, was born Jan. 2, 1797, in Burlington, N. J. He removed to Philadelphia in 1819, and established a weekly literary paper entitled the National Recorder, whose name he changed in 1821 to the Saturday Magazine.
He died May 17, 1870, in Brookline, Mass.
Littell, John Stockton
author, was born in 1806, in Burlington, N. J. He edited with biographical and historical notes Alexander Graydon's Memoirs of my own Times; and published a sketch of the Life, Character and Services of Henry Clay. He died July 11, 1875, in Philadelphia.
Littell, Squier
physician, author, was born Dec. 9, 1803, in Burlington, N. J.
He was a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Manual of Diseases of the Eye; and Illustrations of the Prayer Book. He died July 4, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Littell, William
lawyer, author, was born about 1780, in New Jersey. He was a lawyer of Frankfort, Ky.; and the author of Statute Law of Kentucky; Selected Cases; and Festoons of Fancy.
He died in 1825, in Frankfort, Ky.
Little, Cyrus Harvey
lawyer, legislator, was born Aug, 14, 1859, in Sutton, N. H. He entered into the active practice of law in Manchester, N. H. In 1896 he was elected a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives.
Little, Edward P
state legislator, congressman, was born in 1788, in Massachusetts. He was a state representative from 1829 to 1834, and from 1835 to 1838.
He was a representative in congress from 1852 to 1853; and was collector of Plymouth from 1853 to 1857.
Little, George
naval officer, author, was born April 10, 1754, in Marshfield, Mass. He was a United States naval officer who published The American Cruiser; and Life on the Ocean. He died July 22, 1809, in Weymouth, Mass.
Little, George Thomas
educator, author, was born May 14, 1857, in Auburn. In 1881 he was elected a member of the Maine Historical society, and in 1882 he published a genealogy of the Little family, an octavo volume of over six hundred pages.
Little, James Laurence
physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born Feb. 19, 1836, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1863 he was appointed clinical assistant to Dr. Willard Parker in the college of Physicians and Surgeons, and the following spring he began the delivering of a series of lectures, the first being on Fractures and their Treatment. He died April 4, 1885, in New York city.
Little, John
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1837, in Greene county, Ohio. In 1866 he was elected prosecuting attorney of his county, and was re-elected in 1868. In 1869 he was elected a representative in the state legislature, and resigned as prosecuting attorney. He was re-elected in 1871; and in 1873 was elected attorney-general of Ohio, and was re-elected in 1875. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Little, John S
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born March 15, 1853, in Jenny Lind, Ark. He was elected a representative to the Arkansas legislature in 1884; and in 1886 was elected circuit judge for a term of four years. In 1893 he was chosen as chairman of the state judicial convention; and in 1894 was elected, without opposition, as a democrat to fill the unexpired term of C. R. Breckinridge in the fifty-third congress. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Little, Joseph J
soldier, journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born June 5, 1841, in England. He served in the union army in 1862, in 1863 and 1864 as corporal, first sergeant and first lieutenant. He was a member of the board of education and chairman of committee on buildings at the time of his election to congress; and was an active member of the New York World's Fair committee.
He was named as one of the incorporators in the World's Fair bill passed by the New York legislature, as also in the congressional bill introduced on behalf of New York. He was elected to the fiftysecond congress as a democrat to fill a vacancy.
Little, Josiah Stover
lawyer, legislator, railroad president, was born in 1801, in Minot. For four years he practiced law in Portland, Maine. He repeatedly represented Portland in the Maine state legislature, and was twice speaker of the house. He has also several times been a candidate for congress. He was associated with Judge Preble in organizing a railroad between Portland and Montreal; and in 1848 succeeded Judge Preble as president of the company, which position he held for seven years.
Little, Lewis Henry
soldier, was born in 1818, in Baltimore, Md. In 1861 he entered the confederate army; and was appointed adjutant-general of the forces in Missouri on the staff of General Sterling Price, and for his bravery at the battle of Elk Horn was promoted brigadier-general. He died Sept. 19, 1862, in Iuka.
Little, Peter
soldier, congressman, was born about 1775, in Petersburg, Pa. He removed to Maryland, and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1813. In the latter year he was appointed colonel of infantry; and was again a representative in congress from 1816 to 1829. He died Jan. 5, 1830, in Baltimore, Md.
Little, Robbins
educator, lawyer, was born Feb. 15, 1832, in Newport, R. I.
In 1873 he became an examiner of claims in the war department at Washington, remaining in that office until 1878, when he was elected superintendent and later a trustee of the Astor library in New York city.
LITTLE, MRS. SOPHIA LOUISE [ROB- BINS], poet, was born Aug. 22, 1799, in Newport, R. I. She is a poet of Newport, R. I.; and the author of The Last Days of Jesus, and Other Poems.
Little, William Augustus
state legislator, was born Nov. 6, 1838, in Talbot county, Ga. In 1882 he was a state representative from Georgia; in 1884 was elected speaker of the house, and was reelected in 1886.
Littlefield, Alfred H
manufacturer, state senator, governor, was born April 2, 1829, in Scituate, R. I. He served two years as a representative in the state legislature; and two years as a state senator. He was governor of Rhode Island from 1880 to 1883.
Littlefield, Nathaniel S
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1804, in Wells, Maine. He was a member of the Maine senate in 1837-39; and president of the same a part of the time. He was a representative from Maine to the twenty-seventh and thirty-first congresses; and was a member of the Maine house of representatives in 1854.
Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk
bishop, author, was born Dec. 13, 1824, in Florida, N. Y. He is the first protestant episcopal bishop of Long Island; and the author of Conciones ad Clenem; Indi- Individualism; The Christian Ministry; and The Philosophy of Religion.
Littlejohn, De Witt Clinton
merchant, manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1818, in Bridgewater, N. Y. He was seven times elected to the assembly of New York, presiding as speaker during five terms. In 1862 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-eighth congress.
After retiring from congress he was again elected to the state legislature.
Littlejohn, John Martin
educator, college president, was born Feb. 15, 1867, in Glasgow, Scotland. He entered the Glasgow university, where he secured a prize for excellence in mental philosophy. In 1886 he was ordained as a minister, and in 1892 became university fellow in the Columbian university. In the summer of 1893 he visited the libraries of England and the continent for the purpose of investigating medieval literature; and in 1894 was elected to the presidency of Amity college, Iowa, where he has since labored with much zeal and success. During 1892-96 he was department editor of the Christian Nation of New York city; and is the author of numerous educational and scientific works.