Longfellow, Ernest Wads- Worth – Loomis, Eben Jenks
Longfellow, Ernest Wads- Worth
artist, was born in 1845 in Cambridge, Mass. He paints with a firm hand and brilliant but harmonious scheme of color, and is favorably known for such effective landscapes and compositions as Old Mill at Manchester, Mass.; Italian Pines; Love Me, Love My Dog; Misty Morning; and John and Priscilla.
Longfellow, Henry Wads- Worth
poet, was born Feb. 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. The most widely read of American poets.
He was professor of modern languages at Bowdoin college, 1829-35, and filled the same position at Harvard university, 1835-54, his home being at Cambridge from 1835. He was the author of Coplas de Manrique, a verse translation from the Spanish; Outre-Mer, a prose volume of travels; Hyperion, a prose romance; Voices of the Night; Ballads, and Other Poems; Poems on Slavery; The Spanish Student; The Belfry of Bruges, and Other Poems; Evangeline; Kavanagh, a prose tale; Seaside and Fireside; The Golden Legend; Hiawatha; The Courtship of Miles Standish; Tales of a Wayside Inn, first series; Flower de Luce; New England Tragedies; Dante's Divina Commedia, a translation; The Divine Tragedy; Three Books of Song; Aftermath; The Masque of Pandora; Kéramos; Ultima Thule; In the Harbor; and Michael Angelo. He died March 24, 1882, in Cambridge, Mass.
Longfellow, Samuel
clergyman, author, poet, was born June 18, 1819, in Portland, Maine. He was a unitarian clergyman who held pastorates at Fall River, Brooklyn, and Germantown, but whose latest years were spent in Cambridge. He was the author of Life of H. W. Longfellow; Hymns and Verses; Memoir of S. Johnson; and Essays and Sermons. With S. Johnson he edited Hymns of the Spirit.
He died in 1892.
Longfellow, Stephen
lawyer, congressman, was born June 23, 1775, in Gorham, Maine. From 1817 to 1836 he was a member of the corporation of Bowdoin college. He was a representative in congress from Maine from 1823 to 1825; and a representative in the Maine legislature in 1826. He died Aug. 2, 1849, in Portland, Maine.
Longfellow, William Pitt Pre- Ble
architect, author, was born in 1836 in Maine. He is an architect of note, and editor of the Cyclopædia of Architecture in Italy, Greece and the Levant.
Longley, Edmund
educator, was born April 1, 1819, in Sidney, Maine. This successful educator has taught for fifty years. He has been professor of mathematics, French, Spanish and Italian languages; of English literature and elocution. He is the author of several educational works, and now resides in Emory, Va. was
Longnecker, Henry Clay
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, born April 17, 1820, in Allentown, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress. He was colonel of the ninth Pennsylvania infantry, commanded a brigade in western Virginia at the commencement of the rebellion in 1861; and subsequently commanded a brigade of militia at the battle of Antietam. In 1867 he was appointed an associate judge of Lehigh county. He died Sept. 18, 1871, in Allentown, Pa.
Longshore, Hannah E
physician, was born May 30, 1819, in Maryland. She was the first woman to put up a professional sign in Philadelphia, and one of the ten members who composed the first graduating class of the Woman's Medical college in Pennsylvania.
Longshore, Joseph Skelton
physician, author, was born Sept. 18, 1809, in Bucks county, Pa. He is the author of a work entitled Principles of Nursing; and a work on obstetrics. He died in December, 1879.
Longstreet, Augustus Bald- Win
educator, jurist, college president, author, was born Sept. 22, 1790, in Augusta, Ga. He was a jurist and educator of Georgia who bemethodist minister in 1838, and was subsequently president of several southern colleges.
He is remembered came a for his genuinely humorous Georgia Scenes. Among his other works are, Master William Mitten; and Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts. He died Sept. 9, 1870, in Oxford, Miss.
Longstreet, James
soldier, statesman, author, was born Jan. 8, 1821, in Edgefield, S. C. He served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major-general. He was appointed United States marshal for the district of Georgia, and in 1880 was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkey. He was the author of From Manassas to Appomattox.
Longstreth, Miers Fisher
astronomer, was born March 15, 1819, in Philadelphia. During the early part of his life he was a merchant, but devoted his leisure to the study of astronomy, having charge of the Friends' observatory in Philadelphia till 1856.
Longyear, John Wesley
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 22, 1820, in Shandaken, N. Y. He was elected a representative from Michigan to the thirty-eighth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention of 1866, and in 1870 became a judge of the district court of Michigan. He died March 10, 1875, in Detroit, Mich.
Lookabaugh, Ira Holmes
lawyer, was born Feb. 5, 1868, in Pittsburg, Pa.
He received his education at the Campbell university of Holton, Kan., and at the Kansas university of Lawrence. He graduated from the commercial and scientific course at Campbell university, and from the art and law departments at the Kansas university. He has been cashier of a bank, traveling salesman, and a school teacher. In 1892 he was admitted to practice in the supreme court of Kansas and has attained prominence in his profession in Oklahoma territory at Watonga, where he takes an active part in the public affairs of that territory.
Looker, Othniel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, governor, was born Oct. 4, 1757, on Long Island, N.Y. He served five years in the revolutionary army; and also served in both branches of the New York legislature. In 1804 he moved to Ohio, where he served for many years in the state senate. In 1814 became governor by virtue of his office as speaker of the senate, and was for seven years a judge of the court of common pleas. He died April 5, 1845, in Palestine, Ill.
Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus
lawyer, author, was born June 10, 1831, in Bennington, Vt. He was a physician of New York city, and professor in the university of the City of New York in 1865. He was the author of Lessons in Physical Diagnosis; Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Lectures on Fevers; Diseases of Old Age; and Text-Book of Practical Medicine. He died Jan. 24, 1896, in New York city.
Loomis, Annie Elisabeth
educator, author, was born Sept. 24, 1850, and is the daughter of Silas L. Loomis, a noted physician of Florida. She received her education at the Wesleyan academy and the Wesleyan Female college; and in due course received the degrees of A. B. and A.
M. She has taught with success in the Kimball Union academy and the Hagerstown Female seminary, in music and modern and ancient languages, and since 1895 has been principal of the Mount Pleasant public school of Washington, D. C. She is the author of a score or more of published works.
Loomis, Arphaxad
congressman, was born April 9, 1798, in Winchester, Conn. He was for three years a member of the legislature of New York from Herkimer county, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839. He died Sept. 15, 1885, in Little Falls, N. Y.
Loomis, Augustus Ward
clergyman, missionary, author, was born in 1816 in Connecticut. He is a presbyterian clergyman, and for many years a missionary among the Chinese of California. He is the author of Learn to Say No; Scenes in Chusan; Scenes in the Indian Country; The Profits of Godliness; Confucius and the Chinese Classics; and English and Chinese Lessons.
Loomis, D. Alden
physician, surgeon, was born June 14, 1837, in Westfield, N. Y. He was educated in the classics and higher mathematics at the Fredonia academy, N. Y. For many years he was engaged in educational work, entered the Philadelphia college of Medicine and Surgery in 1862, and graduated two years later. He was commissioned assistant surgeon in the ninety-third regiment, New York volunteer infantry, and was on the staff of General Butler. After the war he was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in his alma mater. A few years later he was appointed to the chair in the Medical college of St. Louis. In 1896 was elected to the chair of histology in the college of Physicians and Surgeons, in Indianapolis, Ind. He is the author of Among the Hollyhocks, and has contributed extensively to medical and periodical literature.
Loomis, Dwight
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 27, 1821, in Columbia, Conn. In 1847 he practiced law in Rockville, Conn., and in 1851 was elected to the Connecticut legislature. He was a state senator in 1857. He was elected a representative from Connecticut to the thirty-sixth congress, and re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. He was subsequently placed upon the bench of the supreme court of Connecticut.
Loomis, Eben Jenks
astronomer, author, was born in 1828 in New York. He is an astronomer of Washington city, senior assistant in the Nautical Almanac office. He is the author of Wayside Sketches; and An Eclipse Party in Africa.