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Loud, Marguerite St. Leon – Lovering, Joseph

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Loud, Marguerite St. Leon

author, poet, was born about 1800 in Wysox, Pa. She contributed poetry to the United States Gazette and to the monthly magazines of that city. A volume entitled Wayside Flowers was published in 1851.

Loudenslager, Henry C

public official, congressman, was born May 22, 1852, in Mauricetown, N. J. He engaged in the produce commission business in Philadelphia, Pa., and continued in it ten years. He was elected county clerk in 1882 and re-elected in 1887. He was elected to the fiftythird and fifty-fourth congresses and reelected to the fiftyfifth congress republican. H e a as He served on several important committees.

Loudon, De Witt Clinton

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in 1827 in Georgetown, Ohio. He served one year in the Mexican war; and during the civil war was colonel of the seventieth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry. He was a prominent lawyer of Ohio, and served ten years as judge in his district.

Loughborough, Mrs. Mary Web- Ster

author, was born Aug. 27, 1836, in New York city. She was a writer of Little Rock, Ark., and the author of My Cave Life in Vicksburg, an account of life in Vicksburg during the siege; and For Better, for Worse, and Other Stories. died Aug. 27, 1887, in Little Rock, Ark.

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Loughead, Mrs. Flora

(HAINES), author, was born July 12, 1855, in Milwaukee, Wis. She is a writer of Santa Barbara, Cal., and the author of The Libraries of California; The Man Who Was Guilty, a novel; Quick Cookery; The Abandoned Claim, a novel; Practical Handbook of Science; and Hebrew Folk-Lore Tales.

Loughlin, James Francis

clergyman, educator, lecturer, author, was born May 8, 1851, in Auburn, N. Y. He graduated from the high school of Toledo, Ohio, in 1867; he subsequently attended the Propaganda, Rome, Italy, and was ordained in 1897. Since 1892 he has been professor in the Theological seminary of Overbrook, Pa., and since 1892 has been its chancellor. He is the editor of the American Catholic Quarterly Review, and the author of a book of Sermons and Lectures.

Loughridge, William

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born July 11, 1827, in Youngstown, Ohio.

He was elected a member of the Iowa state senate from 1856 to 1860; and in 1861 was chosen judge of the sixth judicial district of Iowa, to serve until January, 1867. In 1866 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the fortieth congress, and was re-elected to the fortyfirst, forty-second and forty-third congresses as a republican.

Lounsberry, William

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 25, 1831, in Stone Ridge, N. Y. He was a member of the assembly in 1868, and was elected mayor of Kingston in 1878, and served two years. He was elected a representative from New York to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.

Lounsbury, Thomas Raynes- Ford

educator, author, was born in 1838 in New York. He has been a professor of English at the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale university since 1871, and the author of History of the English Language; Life of James Fenimore Cooper; and Studies in Chaucer.

Louttit, J. A

congressman, was a resident of Stockton, Cal. In 1884 he was elected a representative from California to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.

Love, Isaac Newton

physician, author, was born Sept. 13, 1853, in Barry, Ill. He is the author of a work entitled Practical Points on the Management of Some of the Diseases of Children.

Love, J. M

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born in 1820 in Fairfax county, Va. In 1833 he moved, with his parents, to Ohio. He served through the Mexican war. In 1850 he moved to Keokuk, Iowa; in 1852 was elected a state senator; and in 1855 was appointed United States district judge for the district of Iowa.

Love, James

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1833 to 1835.

Love, John

congressman. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1807 to 1811.

Love, Peter E

jurist, state senator, congressman, was born July 7, 1818, in Dublin, Ga. In 1843 he was chosen solicitor-general for the southern district of Georgia; in 1849 was elected to the state senate, and in 1853 was appointed a judge for the southern circuit of Georgia. He was elected a representative from Georgia to the thirty-sixth congress.

Love, Smoloff Palace

soldier, jurist, was born May 10, 1826, in Lincoln county, Ky. He served with distinction as lieutenant-colonel and colonel of the eleventh regiment Kentucky volunteers in the civil war on the union side. In 1866 he was elected county judge of his county, and served eight years in all. He resides in Greenville, Ky., where he has attained prominence as a lawyer and jurist.

Love, Thomas C

lawyer, jurist, congressman. He was judge of Erie county, N. Y., in 1828, and district attorney from 1829 to 1836. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1835 to 1837, and surrogate from 1841 to 1845. He died Sept. 17, 1853, in Buffalo, N. Y.

Love, William C

lawyer, congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1815 to 1817.

Love, William De Loss

clergyman, author, was born in 1819 in New York. He is a congregational clergyman; and the author of Wisconsin in the War of the Rebellion.

Love, William De Loss

clergyman, author, was born in 1851 in Connecticut.

He is a congregational clergyman, pastor in Hartford, Conn., since 1885, and the author of The Fast and Thanksgiving Days of New England.

Love, William Franklin

farmer, state senator, congressman, was born March 29, 1852, near Liberty, Miss. He was brought up on the farm, and is now engaged in agriculture. When twentyone years of age, he was elected to represent Amite county in the legislature, which position he held for ten years, and was then elected state senator for eight years. He was a delegate to the constitutional convention of Mississippi in 1890; and was chairman of the finance committee of the senate when elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Lovejoy, Elijah Parish

journalist, abolitionist, was born Nov. 9, 1802, in Albion, Maine. He began the publication of the St. Louis Observer; attacked slavery; and in 1836 his office was mobbed. He re-established his paper in Alton; and his press was destroyed in 1837. A third time his office was destroyed; and on Nov. 7, 1837, he shot one of his assailants, and was himself shot dead.

Lovejoy, Owen

clergyman, legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1811, in Albion, Maine. He was a clergyman of the congregational church at Princeton, Ill., from 1838 to 1854. He resigned his pastoral duties to take a seat in the Illinois legislature in the latter year. In 1856 he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fifth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth, thirtyseventh, and thirty-eighth congresses. He died March 25, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Lovelace, Francis

colonial governor, was born about 1630, in England.

He succeeded Richard Nicolls as governor of New York in May, 1667, and developed more fully the extortionate and arbitrary system of government that he found in practice there.

Lovell, Charles Swain

soldier, was born Feb. 13, 1811, in Hull, Mass.

He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at Gaines's Mills, colonel for Malvern Hill, and brigadier-general United States army for Antietam. He died Jan. 3, 1871, in Louisville, Ky.

Lovell, Frederick Solon

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Nov. 1, 1814, in Charleston, N. H. In 1857 he sat in the Wisconsin legislature, and was a commissioner to revise the state statutes, and in 1858 he was speaker of the assembly. He died May 14, 1878, in Kenosha, Wis.

Lovell, James

congressman, was born Oct. 31, 1737, in Boston, Mass. He was a delegate to the continental congress from 1776 to 1782. In 1786 he was collector of customs for Boston, and was subsequently naval officer for Boston and Charlestown, in which station he remained until his death. He died July 14, 1814, in Boston, Mass.

Lovell, Mansfield

soldier, was born Oct. 20, 1822, in Washington, D. C.

He served with distinction through the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of major-general.

Lovell, Vincent S

journalist. For many years he was connected with the Albany Argus as managing editor; he subsequently removed to Chicago and became associate editor of the Post and Mail. The last fifteen years of his life were spent in Elgin.

Loveman, Robert

author, poet, was born in 1864 in Ohio. He is a writer of Dalton, Ga., whose poetry displays much quiet beauty of thought and expression. He has published one volume entitled Poems.

Lovering, Henry B

soldier, state legislator, congressman, was born April 8, 1841, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1862 he enlisted in the eighth regiment of Massachusetts volunteer militia, and served a full term. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature in 1872 and 1874.

He was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress as a democrat.

Lovering, Joseph

physicist, educator, was born Dec. 25, 1813, in Boston, Mass. In 1836 he was appointed tutor in mathematics and physics in Harvard, and two years later was made Hollis professor of mathematics and natural philosophy.

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