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to Trinity church, Atchison, Kansas, where he re- mained till 1887, when he was elected missionary bishop of Utah and Nevada. During his residence in Kansas he was secretary of the diocesan con- vention, delegate to the General convention, and for four years a member of the standing commit- tee of the diocese.


LEWIS, Abram Herbert, clergyman, b. in Scott, Cortland co., N. Y., 17 Nov., 1836. He was graduated at Milton college, Wis., in 1861, and at Alfred university, N. Y., in 1863, and was pastor of Seventh-day Baptist churches in Westerly, R. I., in 1864-7, and New York in 1867-'8. In 1868 he ber came professor of church history and homiletics in Alfred university, in 1869-'72 he was general agent of the American Sabbath tract society, and in 1880 he became pastor at Plainfield, N. J. Alfred uni- versity gave him the degree of D. D. in 1881. He has edited " The Outlook and Sabbath Quarterly " since 1882, and is an editorial contributor to " The Philanthropist," and author of various leaflets in its "Social Purity Series." Dr. Lewis has pub- lished " Sabbath and Sunday " (Alfred Centre, N. Y., 1870) ; " Biblical Teachings concerning the Sabbath and the Sunday " (1884) ; " Critical His- tory of the Sabbath and the Sunday in the Chris- tian Church " (2 vols., 1886) ; " A Critical History of Sunday Legislation from 321 till 1888 A. D." (1888) ; and has written " A Biography of the Puritan Sunday."


LINCOLN, James Sullivan, artist, b. in Taun- ton, Mass., 13 May, 1811; d. in Providence, R. I., 19 Jan., 1887. At the age of fourteen he entered the service of an engraver in Providence, and after- ward was admitted to a painter's studio. His early work consisted of engravings, miniatures, and landscapes ; but from 1837 he devoted himself to portrait-painting, in which he was very success- ful. He was the first president of the Providence art club. Among his numerous portraits are those of Samuel Slater (1836) ; Prof. William H. Goddard (1837) ; Levi Lincoln, attorney-general of Massachusetts (1860), and his son, Gov. Levi Lin- coln (1877); Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside (1867); Col. Robert G. Shaw, in Memorial hall, Cambridge (1882); Senator Henry B. Anthony (1883); and fourteen governors of Rhode Island, in the state- house at Providence.


LINN, William, pioneer, d. near Louisville, Ky., in March, 1781. In the winter of 1776-7, with George Gibson, he undertook a voyage in barges from Pittsburg to New Orleans for military supplies. He joined Gen. George Rogers Clark's forces in 1778, commanding a company, and par- ticipating in the capture of Forts Kaskaskia, Ca- hokia, and Vincennes. On the discharge of some enlisted troops, who desired to return, they were placed in charge of Col. Linn, whom Gen. Clark instructed to take command at the Falls of Ohio, and Linn at once began the construction of a new stockade port on the Kentucky shore at what is now the foot of 12th street, Louisville. In July, 1780, Gen. Clark led two regiments of Kentucky volunteers against Chillicothe and Piqua towns, one in command of Col. Benjamin Logan, and the other of Col. Linn. Linn's station was one of the six or seven on Beargrass creek as early as 1779- '80. and was about ten miles from Louisville. In March, 1781, Col. Linn and three neighbors and comrades were suddenly slain there by a raiding band of savages from across the Ohio.


LITTLEJOHN, De Witt Clinton, legislator, b. in Bridgewater, N. Y., 7 Feb., 1818. He received a good education, entered a commercial career, and also engaged in the manufacture of flour. He was president of the village of Oswego, and after it became a city was twice elected its mayor. He has been frequently a member of the general assembly, and was its speaker in 1853-'7. During the early part of the civil war he served in the National army, and on 13 March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. In 1863-'5 he was a member of congress, elected as a Republican. LUDLAM, Reuben, physician, b. in Camden, N. J., 7 Oct., 1831. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1852, and after studying in Europe began practice in Chicago, where he became widely known in the homoeopathic school, particularly as an ovariotomist. He has been connected with Hahne- mann medical college and hospital since its organi- zation in 1860, in which he assisted, and is now its dean and clinical professor of the surgical diseases of women. He was president of the American in- stitute of homoeopathy in 1870, president of the Chicago academy of medicine in 1873, and for ten years preceding 1887 an active member of the Il- linois board of health. Dr. Ludlam has published " Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria,*' the first strict- ly medical book issued in the northwestern states (Chicago, 1863); "Clinical and Didactic Lectures on the Diseases of Women" (1871), which was translated into French by Adrien Delahaye (Paris, 1879) ; and " Jousset's Clinical Medicine," trans- lated from the French, with notes and additions (Chicago, 1879).


McCLELLAN, Ely, physician, b. in Philadel- phia, Pa., 23 Aug., 1834. He is the son of Samuel McClellan (vol. iv., p. 85). He studied at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania and at Williams, and was graduated at Jefferson medical college in 1856. Dr. McClellan entered the National army as a sur- geon in 1861, and has since remained in the ser- vice. Among his writings are "Obstetrical Pro- cedures among the Aborigines of North America " (Louisville, Ky., 1873) ; " Fibroid Tumors of the Uterus " (1874) ; " Cholera Hygiene " (1874) ; " Com- mon Carriers, or the Porters of Disease " (1874) ; " A History of the Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States " (Washington, 1875); "Battey's Operation " (Louisville, 1875) ; " A Note of Warn- ing : Lessons to be Learned from Cholera Facts of the Past Year, and from Recent Cholera Litera- ture" (1876); "On the Relation of Health Boards and other Sanitary Organizations with Civic Au- thorities" (Atlanta, Ga., 1876); and "A Review of Von Pettenkofer's Outbreak of Cholera among Convicts "' (Louisville, 1877).


McKINLEY, William, legislator, b. in Niles, Trumbull co., Ohio, 29 Jan., 1844. He was educated at Poland (Ohio) academy, enlisted in the 23d Ohio volunteers in May, 1861, and rose to be captain and brevet-major. At the close of the war he began the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1867, and settled at Canton, Ohio, where he has since resided. From 1869 till 1871 he was prosecuting attorney of Stark county, and since October, 1877, he has been in congress. In June, 1888, being a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago, 111., he was made chairman of the platform committee, and is credited with having made the draft of the resolutions that were adopted. In congress he is an earnest advocate of a protective tariff.


MAYALL, Thomas Jefferson, inventor, b. in North Berwick, Me., 10 Aug., 1826; d. in Reading, Mass., 18 Feb., 1888. He obtained employment in a paper-mill in Roxbury, and soon began inventing, especially making improvements in machinery