Luce, Stephen Bleecker – Lumpkin, Wilson
Luce, Stephen Bleecker
naval officer, author, was born March 25, 1827, in Albany, N. Y. In 1841 he entered the United States army, and retired as rearadmiral on March 25, 1889. He was commander-in-chief of the North Atlantic station and president of the United States Naval War college of Newport, R. I., of which institution he was the founder. He was commissioner-general to the quadrocentennial of the Columbian exposition, Madrid, and was president of the United States Naval institute. He was also associate editor of Johnson's Universal Encyclopedia; a member of the editorial staff of the Standard Dictionary; and the author of Seamanship, a text-book used at the Naval academy for the past thirty years. He has published under the title of Naval Songs, a collection of original, selected and traditional sea songs, which includes the music; and has contributed extensively to current literature.
Luckenbach, Abraham
missionary, author, was born May 5, 1777, in Lehigh county, Pa. He was a missionary of the Moravian church among the Delaware Indians, laboring till 1843, when he retired to Bethlehem. He edited the second edition of David Zeisberger's Delaware Hymn-Book; and published in the Delaware language Select Narratives from the Old Testament. He died March 8, 1854, in Bethlehem, Pa.
Luckett, S. M
clergyman, college president, was born April 9, 1835, in Russellville, Ky. He is a clergyman of the presbyterian church, and has been president of the Austin college of Sherman, Texas, for seventeen years.
Luckey, George J
soldier, educator, was born Oct. 2, 1838, in Blackhorse, Md. He commenced educational work in 1856, and taught in Ohio. He served in the civil war, and was present at the siege of Richmond and Petersburg.
For the past thirty-one years he has been superintendent of the Pittsburg schools, Pennsylvania.
Luckey, Samuel
clergyman, journalist, author, was born April 4, 1791, in Rensselaerville, N. Y. From 1842 till his death he was a presiding elder in the Rochester, N. Y., circuit, and for nine years chaplain of the Monroe county penitentiary. He published a Treatise on the Sacrament. He died Oct. 11, 1869, in Rochester, N. Y.
Luders, Charles Henry
poet, was born in 1858 in Pennsylvania. He was a poet of Philadelphia; and the author of The Dead Nymph, and Other Poems; and Hallo, My Fancy, a collection of poems.
He died in 1891.
Ludington, Harrison
governor, was born in Putnam county, N. Y. He moved to Milwaukee in 1838, and was three times mayor of that city, in 1871-72 and 1875. He resigned before the close of his last term to accept the office of governor of Wisconsin.
Ludlam, Reuben
physician, author, was born Oct. 7, 1831, in Camden, N. J.
He is a Chicago physician, dean of the Hahnemann Medical college, and the author of Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria; and Clinical Lectures on Diseases of Women.
Ludlow, Fitzhugh
journalist, author, was born Sept. 11, 1836, in New York city. He was a littérateur and journalist of New York city, and the author of The Hasheesh-Eater; The Opium Habit; The Heart of the Continent; Little Brother, and Other Genre Pictures; and Augustus Jones. He died Sept. 12, 1870, in Geneva, Wis.
Ludlow, George Craig
state senator, governor, was born April 6, 1830, in Milford, N. J. In 1876 he was elected a state senator, and in the second year of his term was made president of the senate.
He declined a renomination, and in 1880 was elected governor of New Jersey for the term of three years from 1881.
Ludlow, George Duncan
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1734 on Long Island, N. Y. He settled in New Brunswick, where he was a member of the first colonial council; administered the government as senior councilor, and in 1784 became the first chief justice of the supreme court. He died Nov. 13, 1808, in Fredericton, N. B.
Ludlow, Henry Gilbert
inventor, manufacturer, was born March 28, 1823, in Troy, N. Y. In 1866, the Ludlow Valve Manufacturing company was incorporated and began operations in a shop in Second street in Waterford, N. Y. As the valve became known, there gradually grew up a demand for it, with the result of creating a large and to this day an increasing business. The Ludlow company are now the largest manufacturers of these specialties and of hydrants in the world.
Ludlow, James Meeker
clergyman, author, was born in 1841 in New Jersey. He is a presbyterian clergyman of East Orange, N. J., from 1886, and the author of My Saint John; Concentric Chart of History; The Captain of the Janizaries, a tale of the times of Scanderbeg; A King of Tyre, a tale of the times of Ezra and Nehemiah; and That Angelic Woman, a novel.
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Ludlow, James Reilly
lawyer, jurist, was born May 3, 1825, in Albany, N.
In 1857 he was chosen judge of the court of common pleas in Philadelphia.
He filled this office until 1875, when, under the new constitution of the state, he was transferred to the president judgeship of the court of common pleas, which place he held at the time of his death.
He died Sept. 20, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ludlow, Noah Miller
actor, author, was born July 4, 1795, in New York city.
He was an actor and theatrical manager in the southern states; and the author of Dramatic Life as I Found It. He died Jan. 9, 1886, in St. Louis, Mo.
Ludwig, Clarence S
educator. He is a successful educator and writer of Delphos, Ohio.
Ludwig, Henry Thomas Jeffer- Son
educator, scientist, was born Jan. 17, 1843, near Mount Pleasant, N. C. He received his education in the public schools, and at the North Carolina college. During a quarter of a century's educational work in the North Carolina college, he taught political economy, and is at present a director of his alma mater. He has taught in every department of the college - logic, mathematics, physics and economics, and astronomy. For ten years he has been a voluntary signal service observer.
He has been county superintendent of public instruction; a member of the American Mathematical society; and a member of various other institutions of science and learning.
Luers, John Henry
Roman catholic bishop, was born Sept. 29, 1819, in Westphalia. In 1857 the diocese of Fort Wayne was created, comprising the north- ern part of Indiana, and Father Luers was, selected as its first bishop, and consecrated in 1858. He died June 20, 1871, in. Cleveland, Ohio.
Lukens, Henry Clay
journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 18, 1838, in.
Philadelphia, Pa. He is a journalist of New York city; and the author of The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and Other Poems; Lean Nora, a travesty; Story of the Types; and Jets and Flashes.
Lull, Edward Phelps
naval officer, was born Feb. 20, 1836, in Windsor, Vt. He was promoted midshipman in 1855, and lieutenant in 1860. In 1862, he had been promoted lieutenant-command-- er, and in 1863 he was ordered to active service, participating in the battle of Mobile Bay and subsequent engagements. He died March 5, 1887, in Pensacola, Fla.
Lum, Daniel Dyer
author. He was the author of The Spiritual Delusion; Early Social Life of Man; and Utah and Its People.
Lummis, Charles Fletcher
author, was born in 1859 in Massachusetts.
He is a Los Angeles writer; and the author of The Land of Poco Tiempo; A Tramp Across the Continent; The Spanish Pioneers; The Man who Married the Moon; Indian folk-lore stories; Some Strange Corners of Our Country; The Gold Fish of Grand Chimú; and A New Mexico David, and Other Stories.
Lumpkin, John Henry
lawyer, leg-- islator, congressman, was born June 13,. 1812, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He served as secretary in the executive department of Georgia; and was elected to the state legislature in 1853. In 1838 he was solicitorgeneral of the Cherokee circuit. He was a. representative in congress from Georgia. from 1843 to 1849, and also elected to the thirty-fourth congress. For three years. he held the office of judge of the Cherokee circuit court, and that of judge of the supreme court of the state. He died June 6, 1860, in Rome, Ga.
Lumpkin, Joseph Henry
lawyer,. jurist, was born Dec. 23, 1799, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. He became one of the foremost lawyers of the south, and an able jurist. He took an active part in the public and political affairs of his county and state; and contributed extensively to periodical press on current and judicial subjects.
The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by the Georgia the State university. He died June 4, 1867, in Athens, Ga.
Lumpkin, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 12, 1848, in Oglethorpe county, Ga. In 1877 he was elected state senator of Georgia, and in 1884 was elected judge of the supreme court of the northern district; and in 1890 became associate justice of Georgia.
Lumpkin, Wilson
lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born Jan. 14, 1783, in Pittsylvania county, Va. He was twice elected governor of Georgia; served in the federal house of representatives from 1815 to 1817, and from 1827 to 1831.
In 1823 he was appointed to mark out. the boundary line between Georgia and Florida. He was appointed a commissioner under the Cherokee treaty of 1835; was also a member of the board of public works, and was a senator in congress from 1837 to 1841. He died Dec. 28, 1870,. in Athens, Ga.