Luna, Tranquilino – Lyman, Benjamin Smith
Luna, Tranquilino
congressman, was born Feb. 23, 1849, in Los Lunas, N. M. He was elected the delegate from New Mexico to the forty-seventh congress, and was re-elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Lund, Mrs. Mary Dwinell
(CHEL- LIS), author, was born in New Hampshire. She is a prolific writer of Sundayschool fiction, among whose works are, All for Money; Old Sunapee; Fife and Drum; Good Work; Mystery of the Lodge; and Father Merrill.
Lundy, Benjamin
philanthropist, was born Jan. 4, 1789, in Hartwick, N. Y.
As early as 1815 he founded an anti-slavon ery association called the Union Humane society. In the cause to which he was devoted he journeyed more than five thousand miles foot, and over twenty thousand miles in other ways. He was the first abolitionist editor and lecturer in America. His Life, Travels and Opinions, by T. Earl, appeared in 1847. He died Aug. 22, 1839, in Lowell, Ill.
Lundy, John Patterson
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 3, 1823, in Danville, Pa. He was an episcopal clergyman of New York city, and the author of Review of Bishop Hopkins's Bible View of Slavery; Monumental Christianity; and Forestry. He died in 1892.
Lungren, Charles Marshall
journalist, inventor, was born Dec. 13, 1853, in Hagerstown, Md. He has studied the problems connected with artificial illumination, and has invented several appliances that have come into extensive use, notably a regenerative gas-lamp. He is a member of scientific societies, and, besides writing magazine articles, has edited the American edition of Alglave and Boulard's Electric Light.
Lungren, Ferdinand Harvey
artist, was born Nov. 13, 1857, in Toledo, Ohio. He has made many illustrations, principally for the Century and Wide Awake; and his paintings include Shadows on the Snow.
Lungren, Samuel Smith
physician, surgeon, author, was born Aug. 22, 1827, in Philadelphia. He has contributed numerous articles to the medical press, and is the author of a memoir on the Cæsarean Section.
Lunt, Edward Clark
author. He is a writer on economics, and the author of The Present Condition of Economic Science.
Lunt, George
lawyer, author, poet, was born Dec. 31, 1803, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a lawyer of Newburyport, and later a resident of Scituate, among whose writings in poetry and prose are, The Age of Gold, and Other Poems; Lyric Poems; Sonnets and Miscellanies; Old New England Traits; and Three Eras of New England. The latest collection of his poems was made in 1883. He died May 17, 1885, in Boston, Mass.
Old
Lunt, William Parsons
clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1805, in Newburyport, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of Quincy, Mass., from 1835 until his death, whose literary work was much admired for the beauty of its style.
He was the author of Union of the Human Race; and Gleanings. He died March 20, 1857, in Arabia.
Lupton, Nathaniel Thomas
educator, chemist, author, was born Dec. 19, 1830, in Frederick county, Ga. He is an educator and scientist of Alabama; state chemist since 1885; and author of The Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture.
Lusk, William Thompson
physician, author, was born May 23, 1838, in Norwich, Conn. He is a prominent obstetric physician of New York city, and the author of The Science and Art of Midwifery.
Lutcher, Henry Jacob
lumberman, was born Nov. 4, 1836, in Williamsport, Pa. He received his education at the free school, and at Dickinson seminary of his native city. He commenced life as a workman in a saw mill, and has attained success in the lumber business at Orange, Texas. He is senior partner in the firm of The Lutcher and Moore Cypress Lumber company of Lutcher, La., said to be the best cypress plant in the country.
This company owns half a million acres of pine and cypress lands in Texas and Louisiana; they own the town of Lutcher, and the controlling interest in several railroads and business corporations.
Luther, John Hill
clergyman, educator, poet, was born June 21, 1824, in Warren, R. I. He has had large experience as a journalist, clergyman, and educator, and for many years he was president of the Baylor Female college of Belton, Texas. He is the author of two volumes of poems entitled My Verses, and Souvenir Verses, and has contributed for nearly half a century, both prose and verse, to the periodical press.
Lutheran, Mrs. Hattie L. Hor- Ner
author, poet, was born Feb. 5, 1864, in Muscatine, Iowa. She is the author of a book of travels entitled Not at Home; and a volume of poems.
Lutkin, Peter V
musician, composer, was born March 27, 1858, in Racine, Wis. He is a successful organist, choirmaster and musician of Chicago, and the author of a number of songs, church compositions and concert music.
Luttrell, John K
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born June 27, 1831, in Knox county, Tenn. He was elected to the legislature of California in 1863, 1865 and 1871. He was elected to the forty-third congress, and re-elected to the forty-fourth and forty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Lutz, Nicholas
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Feb. 20, 1740, in Germany. He was captain of a battery at the battle of Long Island, where he was taken prisoner, but was exchanged in 1779. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention to ratify the federal constitution in 1787; a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives in 1783-94, and was appointed assistant justice of Berks county courts in 1795. He died Nov. 28, 1807, in Reading, Pa.
Lyall, James
soldier, manufacturer, inventor, was born Sept. 13, 1836, in Scotland. At the beginning of the civil war he served with the twelfth New York infantry in the defences of Washington. In 1863 he invented a simple mixture for enameling cloth, which was approved by the United States government, and led to his receiving large contracts for the manufacture of knapsacks and haversacks. In 1868 he invented the Lyall positive-motion loom, which has since been adopted by the largest mills in the United States, and also in Europe, China and Japan.
Lybrand, Archibald
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 23, 1840, in Tarlton, Ohio. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in company I, fourth Ohio volunteer infantry; from this regiment was transferred to company E, seventythird Ohio volunteer infantry, and promoted to first lieutenant. He remained in service with the seventy-third Ohio volunteer infantry for three years, and the last two years was captain of his company. In 1869 he was elected mayor of Delaware, Ohio; is a land owner and interested in farming, and was appointed postmaster at Delaware in 1881. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Lyda, Andrew Jackson
clergyman, was born Jan. 14, 1821, in Hancock, Md. He graduated from the Augusta college of Kentucky; was admitted into the Ohio conference of the methodist episcopal church in 1843, and was one of the charter members of the West Virginia conference. During the civil war he was chaplain of the third regiment of the Virginia volunteer infantry, and of the sixth Virginia cavalry. He has been agent of the West Virginia Conference seminary of the methodist episcopal church; and in 1868 was a delegate to the general conference held in Chicago, Ill. He now fills a pastorate in Malden, W. Va.
Lydius, Johannes
missionary, clergyman, was born in Holland. He labored in Schenectady after 1705, and from 1702 till his death did missionary work among the Indians. He died March 1, 1709, in Schenectady, N. Y.
Lyell, Thomas
clergyman, was born May 13, 1775, in Richmond county, Va.
He labored on the Frederick circuit in Virginia, and subsequently in Providence, R. I., and was chaplain to congress during the closing years of the administration of John Adams and the early part of that of Thomas Jefferson. In 1804 he became rector of Christ church, New York city, where he remained for over forty years.
He was secretary of the convention of the diocese from 1811-16. He died March 4, 1848, in New York city.
Lyle, Aaron
soldier, congressman.
He was a soldier in the revolution, and was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1809 to 1817. He died Sept. 24, 1825.
Lyle, John
clergyman, was born Oct. 20, 1769, in Rockbridge county, Va. In 1807 he moved to Paris, Ky., where he established an academy, at the same time preaching to the churches of Cane Ridge and Concord. He subsequently gave up pastoral work and devoted the rest of his life to missionary labors. He died July 22, 1825, in Paris, Ky.
Lyle, William
author, poet, was born Nov. 17, 1822, in Scotland. He is a poet of Rochester, N. Y., and the author of The Martyr Queen, and Other Poems.
Lyman, Benjamin Smith
mining engineer, was born Dec. 11, 1835, in Northampton, Mass. In 1873-75 he was chief geologist and mining engineer of the geological survey of Hokkaido in Japan, and in 1876-77 of the oil lands of Japan, finally filling a similar office on the geological survey of Japan in 1878-89. In 1887 he joined the corps of the geological survey of Pennsylvania, with headquarters in Philadelphia, Pa. 1