Loich, John Edward – Longacre, James Barton
Loich, John Edward
merchant, chemist, was born March 10, 1858, in New York city. For many years he was a distiller and chemist with the firm of Skelley, Forgarty and Skelley of New York city; and is now president of the Emile G. Blot Malt Whiskey company.
Lomasney, Richard T
lawyer, bank examiner, was born Oct. 2, 1859, in Schenectady, N. Y. He attended the St.
John's Roman catholic school; and in 1881 graduated from the Union college.
He has attained success as an able lawyer of his native city; has served as clerk of the surrogate court of Schenectady county; and has filled with distinction the responsible office of state bank examiner for the state of New York.
Lomax, John Taylor
lawyer, jurist, author, was born in January, 1781, in Port Tobago, Va. He was a Virginia jurist; and the author of Digest of United States Real Property Laws; and Digest on the Law of Executors and Administrators.
He died Oct. 10, 1862, in Fredericksburg, Va.
Lomax, Tennent
lawyer, was born April 29, 1858, in Montgomery, Ala. He received his education at the university of Alabama; studied law and has become prominent in his profession in his native city. He has served as solicitor for the county of Montgomery; has been secretary of the democratic state committee; and in 1896 was chairman of the Alabama delegation to the national democratic convention.
Lomen, Gudbrand J
lawyer, legislator, was born Jan. 28, 1854, in Winneshiek county, Iowa. He received his education at the Luther college of Decorah, Iowa; and graduated from the law department of the Iowa state university. During 1878-85 he was clerk of the district court of Houston county, Minn.; and in 1891 served with distinction as a member of the Minnesota state legislature from St. Paul.
London, George Marion
farmer, merchant, state legislator, was born Jan. 21, 1864, in Twelve Mile, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools; graduated from Farmington college; and for three years was engaged in educational work. He is a successful farmer and merchant in the place of his nativity; and during 1888-92 prominently identified with the Farmers' alliance as an organizer and lecturer. He was elected and served with distinction as a member of the thirtyninth general assembly of Missouri. was
Long, Alexander
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1816, in Greenville, Pa. He was educated at Cary's academy (now Farmer's college), Ohio; and adopted the profession of the law.
He practiced law in Cincinnati; and was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1848 and 1849. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1864.
Long, Armistead Lindsay
soldier, author, was born Sept. 3, 1827, in Campbell county, Va. He was appointed major in the confederate army; and brigadier-general of artillery in 1863. He was the author of Memoirs of Gen. Robert E.
Lee. He died April 29, 1891, in Charlottesville, Va.
Long, Charles Chaille
soldier, author, was born July 2, 1842, in Princess Anne, Md. He was a soldier who served in the federal army during the civil war; became colonel in the Egyptian army in 1869; and in 1887 was American consulgeneral in Corea. He is the author of Central Africa; and The Three Prophets- Chinese Gordon, the Mahdi, Arabi Pacha.
Long, Charles Dean
soldier, lawyer, jurist, college president, was born June 14, 1841, in Grand Blanc, Mich. During 1875-80 he was prosecuting attorney of Genesee county; and in 1885 was commander of the department of Michigan of the Grand Army of the Republic. In 1887 he was elected justice of the supreme court of the state of Michigan; and in 1891 was elected president of the Detroit College of Law.
Long, Chester I
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1860, in Perry county, Pa. He was elected to the Kansas state senate in 1889; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Long, Clement
theologian, educator, was born Dec. 1, 1806, in Hopkinton, N. H. He was lecturer on intellectual philosophy and political economy at Dartmouth in 1851-52, and was professor of the same from 1854 until his death. He died Oct. 14, 1861, in Hanover, N. H.
Long, Crawford W
physician, was born Nov. 1, 1815, in Danielsville, Ga.
In 1851 he moved to Athens, Ga. He claimed that he performed, in 1842, the first surgical operation with the patient in a state of anæsthesia from the inhalation of ether. He died June 16, 1878, in Athens, Ga.
Long, Edward H
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1808, in Maryland. He served a number of years in the Maryland legislature; and was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1845 to 1847. He died in October, 1865, in Somerset, Md.
Long, Eli
soldier, was born June 16, 1837, in Woodford county, Ky. For his services during the civil war he was brevetted major-general in the regular army and major-general of volunteers, and having been mustered out of the volunteer service, Jan. 15, 1866, he was retired with the rank of major-general.
Long, Eli H
physician, surgeon, author, was born July 24, 1860, in Erie county, N. Y. He has filled the chairs of materia medica and therapeutics in the university of Buffalo, N. Y. He is the author of Tables for Doctor and Druggist, and numerous medical articles.
Long, Gabriel
soldier, was born in 1751. He was an officer in the revolutionary army and ultimately rose to the rank of major. He died Feb. 3, 1827, in Culpeper county, Va.
Long, Jefferson F
merchant, congressman, was born March 3, 1836, in Crawford county, Ga. He is a merchant tailor of Macon, Ga. He was elected to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Long, John
farmer, congressman, was born in Loudoun county, Va. He entered public life as a senator in the assembly in 1815, and in 1821 was elected to congress as a representative from North Carolina, where he remained until 1829.
Long, John Benjamin
congressman, was born Sept. 8, 1843, in Nacogdoches county, Texas. He moved with his parents to Rusk, Texas, in 1846, where he has since resided. He is overseer of the Texas State Grange and president of the Texas Farmer Co-operative Publishing association. He made the canvass and secured the nomination for the fiftysecond congress over some of the most prominent and best men of the state.
Long, John Davis
lawyer, congressman, governor, author, was born Oct. 27, 1838, in Buckfield, Maine. He served in the Massachusetts state house of representatives from 1875 to 1879, the last three years as speaker. He was lieutenant-governor of the state in 1879, and governor from 1879 to 1882. He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses.
In 1897 he was appointed secretary of the navy. He is the author of After-Dinner and Other Speeches, and a blank-verse translation of the Æneid.
Long, John Robert
soldier, educator, was born Nov. 15, 1839, in Pulaski county, Ky., on the banks of the classic Cumberland, near Somerset. In 1861 he enlisted in company A, fifth division, Missouri state guard; at the end of sixmonths he entered the regular confederate service as sergeant in company B, third regiment Missouri cavalry, acting as bodyguard to General Sterling Price, taking part in the wearisome marches, retreats and battles which made the name of Price illustrious. After the battle of Elkhorn, or Pea Ridge, the command was transferred to the east of the Mississippi, and at the battle of Black River Ridge he was captured by the gallant twenty-second Iowa, and for more than a year and a half was a prisoner of war. He has since been principally engaged in educational work, and since 1892 has been superintendent of city schools in Jacksonville, Ill.
Long, Owen Gibson
lawyer, soldier, jurist, was born March 3, 1845, in Jacksonville, Ill. During the war he held a position in government service with rank of captain, and afterward an office in the custom house of New Orleans until 1870. During 1873-74 he was judge of the city court in Kansas City, Mo., and 1886-90 was city magistrate.
Long, Pierce
congressman, was born in 1739 in Portsmouth, N. H. He was a delegate from New Hampshire to the continental congress from 1784 to 1786. He died April 3, 1789, in Portsmouth, N. H.
Long, Robert Carey
architect, author, was born about 1819. He was an architect of New York city who published a work on Ancient Architecture in America. He died in July, 1849, in New York city.
Long, Stephen Harriman
civil engineer, soldier, author, was born Dec. 30, 1784, in Hopkinton, N. H. He introduced Long's truss bridge; and was colonel and chief of topographical engineers United States army in 1861. He wrote Railroad Manual. He died Sept. 4, 1864, in Alton, Ill.
Long, Thomas B
jurist, translator, was born Oct. 25, 1836, in Mansfield, Ohio.
In 1870 he was unanimously nominated. by the democratic party, and elected by a large majority, as judge of the criminal circuit court of Indiana. He has translated into English heroic verse a great part of the Æneid of Virgil, besides some others of the minor productions of the Greek and Latin poets.
Longacre, James Barton
engraver, was born Aug. 11, 1794, in Delaware county, Pa. From 1844 till his death he was engraver to the United States mint, and designed all the new coins that were struck during this time, including the double-eagle, the three-dollar piece, and the gold dollar. He died Jan. 1, 1869, in Philadelphia.