Lowry, Robert – Luce, Moses A
Lowry, Robert
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1824 in Ireland. In 1843 he moved to Fort Wayne, Ind., and was elected city recorder. In 1852 he was appointed circuit judge to fill a vacancy, and was a candidate for congress in 1866, and also in 1868. In 1860 he was president of the democratic state convention; and was a delegate to the democratic national convention. In 1864 he was elected circuit judge for a term of six years. During 1846-67 he resided in Goshen, and in the latter year returned to Fort Wayne. In 1870 he was elected circuit judge without opposition; and was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1872. He was appointed judge of the then recently created superior court, and in 1878 was elected to that position for a term of four years. In 1879 was elected the first president of the Indiana State Bar association. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-eighth congress, and was reelected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Lowry, Robert J
banker. He is the president of the Lowry Banking company of Atlanta, Ga., and in 1897 was elected president of the American Bankers' association.
Lowry, Samuel E
poet, was born Aug. 23, 1863, in West Salem, Ohio. He is the author of a number of poems.
Lowry, Thomas
railroad president, was born in 1843 in Southern Illinois. He is president of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railway.
Loy, Matthias
theologian, college president, author, was born March 17, 1828, in Cumberland county, Pa. In 1881 he was elected president of Capital university. He has been editor of the Lutheran Standard since 1864, and in 1881 he began the publication of the Columbus Theological Magazine. He has published The Doctrine of Justification; Life of Luther, translated; and Essay on the Ministerial Office.
Loyall, George
public official, congressman, was born May 29, 1789, in Norfolk, Va. In 1817 he was elected a member of the house of delegates of Virginia, and served ten years. In 1829 he was a member of the convention to amend the state constitution, and from 1831 to 1837 was a representative in congress. In 1837 he was appointed navy agent at Norfolk, and, with the exception of two years, occupied that position until the breaking out of the rebellion.
Lozier, Charlotte Irene
physician, educator, was born March 15, 1844, in Milburn, N. J. She was graduated in 1867 at the New York Medical college and hospital for women. In 1868 she was called to fill the chair of physiology and hygiene in that institution, which position she held until her death. She died Jan. 3, 1870, in New York city.
Lozier, Clemence Sophia
physician, was born Dec. 11, 1812, in Plainfield, N. J. In 1860 she began a course of lectures on medical subjects in her own parlors, which in 1863 resulted in the founding of the New York Medical college and hospital for women, where she was clinical professor of diseases of women and children, and also dean of the faculty, for more than twenty years. She died April 26, 1888, in New York city.
Lubbock, Francis R
farmer, merchant, governor, was born Oct. 16, 1815, in Beaufort, S. C. He served as chief clerk in the Texas house of representatives; clerk of district court, comptroller, and other offices of the republic of Texas. He filled the high office of governor, lieutenant-governor, state treasurer, and other offices in the state of Texas. For many years he was engaged in the mercantile business, and as a farmer and ranchman.
In 1863 he entered the confederate army as an adjutant-general; served on the staff of President Davis as colonel of cavalry; and was captured with him and imprissoned in solitary confinement for about eight months at Fort Delaware.
Lubke, George William
lawyer, jurist, was born Feb. 22, 1845, in St. Louis, Mo. In 1882 he was elected judge of the circuit court of St. Louis, resigning in 1889, when he resumed the practice of law in St. Louis. mem-
Lucas, Daniel Bedinger
lawyer, jurist, author, poet, was born March 16, 1836, in Charleston, W. Va. He is the son of William Lucas, a distinguished ber of congress from Virginia. In 1855 he graduated from the university of Virginia; and in 1858 in law from the Washington college, Virginia. He began the practice of his profession in Charleston, W. Va., and removea to Richmond two years later. During the war he served on the staff of Gen. Henry A. Wise in the Kanawna valley, and in 1867 resumed law in Charleston. He was democratic presidential elector in 1872, 1876 and 1884; was chosen to the legislature in 1884-86, and in 1887 was appointed by the governor to the United States senate. In 1890 he was nominated and elected judge of the supreme court of appeals; and the following year was elected president of the court, which office he now holds. He is a brilliant speaker, and the author of the Memoir of John Yates Bell; The Wreath of Eglantine, and Other Poems; The Maid of Northumberland; Ballads and Madrigals; and other works. His poem entitled The Land Where We Were Dreaming, has attracted much attention in the south.
Lucas, Edward
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837; and was subsequently appointed government superintendent at Harper's Ferry, where he died March 4, 1858.
Lucas, George Washington
musician, composer, was born April 12, 1800, in Glastonbury, Conn. He delivered more than one thousand public lectures, taught more than fifty thousand people to sing, and arranged and conducted the music on more than one thousand public occasions.
He published much music, including an Ordination Anthem. He died about 1880 in Hampshire county, Conn.
Lucas, Harvey R
lawyer, legislator, was born Oct. 6, 1866, near Wetumka, Ala.
He is now a successful lawyer of Star City, Ark., of which city he has been mayor. In 1897 he was elected to the general assembly of the Arkansas state legislature.
Lucas, John Baptist Charles
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born in 1762 in France. In 1792 he was elected to the legislature of Pennsylvania; and served as a judge of the court of common pleas for his district. In 1802 he was elected a representative in congress, and re-elected in 1804. In 1805 he was appointed judge of the United States court in upper Louisiana, and removed to St. Louis. He was also commissioner of land titles in that territory, and held the office of judge until 1820, when he retired to private life on a farm adjoining. the city of St. Louis. He died Aug. 17, 1842. in St. Louis. Mo.
Lucas, Robert
soldier, legislator,. governor, was born April 1, 1781, in Shepherdstown, Va. He was brigadier-general of Ohio militia in defense of the frontier in 1813. He was a member of the Ohio. legislature in 1814. He was governor of Ohio from 1832 to 1836; and first territorial governor of Iowa from 1838 to 1841. He died Feb. 7, 1858, in Iowa City, Iowa.
Lucas, S. Decatur
educator, college president, was born March 8, 1860, in Gallatin county, Ky. He has become prominent as an educator; and is the president. of the Jeff Davis college of Minden, La.
Lucas, William
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841, and from 1843 to 1845.
Lucas, William V
soldier, farmer, congressman, was born July 3, 1835, in.
Delphi, Ind. He entered the military service as a private soldier in the fourteenth Iowa infantry, and in 1863 was promoted to the captaincy of the company. He was chief clerk of the Iowa house of representatives, the seventeenth and eighteenth sessions; and was mayor of Mason City, Iowa. He was elected auditor of the state in 188v. He moved to the then territory of Dakota in 1883, at Chamberlain, and engaged in farming. In 1887 he was elected treasurer of Brule county, and before his term expired was appointed commandant of the Soldiers' home at Hot Springs, S. D., where he moved in 1890, and was elected as a republican to the fifty-third congress.
Luce, Clinton Lysander
journalist, poet, was born Sept. 28, 1854, in Stowe,. Vt. In 1882 he became editor and proprietor of The Albert Lea Enterprise.
Luce, Cyrus Gray
governor, was born July 2, 1824, in Windsor, Ohio. In. 1887 he was elected governor of Michigan, resigning in 1891.
Luce, Moses A
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 14, 1842, in Payson, Ill. He received his education in the common schools and graduated from Hillsdalecollege, Michigan, and from the Albany Law school. He enlisted in the fourth regiment of the Michigan volunteer infantry; took part in a score or more battles and engagements; and for gallant conduct at the battle of Spottsylvania, while with the forlorn hope in the assault of May 12, he was decorated with the medal of honor by the secretary of war. After graduating he began the practice of law at Bushnell, of which city he was its first city attorney. In 1872 he was the candidate of his party for the state senate. The following year he moved to California, settled in San Diego, and two years later was elected judge of the superior county court. He took an active movement to bring the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road to San Diego, and in 1880 he was elected vice-president of the California Southern Railroad company.