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ho was principal of the academy p.s.vciiolovy

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prof»'s.sor tlic

Colorado

In 1U05 he was jjiven the (h'>;i«'e LL.I). by Coloradu coMejje for his work building up that institution. Since 1904 has been president of Olivet col!e;:e of Michigan. He is the author of I'sycholo^iy <)nd I'edaKORy of .d«des«-ence. coIh'Bc.

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Lancaster, Joseph, educator, author, born .Nov. ITTfS, in London. England.

wrh

He

numerous schools in KiiKland. he lectured and taught in .Vmerwas the author of The Hritish Sys-

established

From 1818

He

ica.

tem of Education; An Kpitome of the Chief lOvents and Transactions of .My Own Life. He (lied Oct. 24. 18:{8. in New York City. Lance, William, lawyer, author, was born in 1701. in Charleston. S.C. He was a lawyer and p<ditical writer of Charleston. He was the author of Life of Washington, in latin.

He

<lied

184(».

in

Texas.

in

Land, Alfred Dillingham, lawyer,

was horn Jan. .Miss. During

l.>.

jurist,

Holmes county, war he served in the

1S42, in

the civil

(onfe<lerate army. In 1807-94 he practiced law in Sliroveport. I^. In 181)4-1903 he was He is associate justice of the district judge. state supreme court of I^uisiana for the term of 19<»:j-()7. Land, Thomas T., lawyer, jurist. In 1858-

he was just li e <if the supreme court of Louisiana. He die<l in Louisiana.

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Lander, Edward, lawyer, jurist.

He was

of the I'nited States the territory of Washinfiton in died in 1907 in the state of

a|>p<>iiited chief justice

court

for

He

1S.>:J.

Wiishini:!

iin.

Lander, Frederick William, civil engineer, was born I)ec. 17, 1821, in Salem. He was educated at Dtunmer academy

soldier,

•Mass.

of Byficid

and

stialied

enuineering at the academy of military N«»rwich. Vt. He praoticed that profession n few years in .Massa-

<'ivil

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to bility

route

to

ocean.

de-

a the

He

served

the civil war; and attained the rank of britiadier-ueneral of volunteers. He «lefended Kdward's Kerry, an<l led the battle of HloomiiiK <tap for which he received n special letter of thanks from the secretary of war. He wrote njany stirring patriotic poems on incidents of the cam|)aif;n. He died .March 2. ISfri. in Taw Taw, Va. llirou;;liout

Lander, Mrs. Jean Margaret Davenport, was born May W, 1829, in Kngland.

actress,

OF AMKUICAN BIOGRAPHY. H>'r best character was that of Qn«'<»n FJIi/,abcth. Her last apjMMirance was in Hawthorne's Scarlet L«'lter at the Boston theater. She was the wife of Genenil FnHlerick West Lander of the I'nited States army, who died in 18(12. She was active in I'uion She hospital service during the civil war. died in 1903 in Washington. D.C. Lander, Louisa, sculptor, artist, was born Among her Sept. 1. 182lt. in Sjilem, Mass. works are a bust of <iovernor (Jore of Massachusetts a bust of Hawthorne; and a statue of Virginia I>an'. the first English

child

Isirn

in

.meMca.

Lander, Sarah West, litterateur, author, was born .Nov. 27. 1819. in Salem. Mass. She was the author of Sjtectacles for Young She Kyes. a series of volumes of travel. Nov. I.». 1872. in Salem, Mass. Landers, Franklin, merchant, state senawas born March 22, 182.). He was enpiged in in .Mor>ran county. Ind. farminjr; the dry kimmIs traile: and the iM)rk 18(50 he was cK-ctiHl hu«iness. In lacking stale senator; an<l in 187."»-77 he was a reprocntative from Indiana t«» the forty-fourth coneres^. lie died Sept. 10, 1901. in Indian-

ilie«|

tor, confiressnnin.

apolis. Ind.

Landers, George M., manufacturer, state ctint^ressman, was lM)rn Feb. 22. v wais a representaLeno.x .Mass. tive in the ( onneeticut state legislature in s<'nator,

181.3. in

18."»1. 18(57. and 1874; was stat«» senator in 18.")3. 18(59. and 1873; and was appointfMl Imnk commissioner for Connecticut in 187i»

In

he was a representative to the

l87.'>-79

forty-ffMirth

and

He

d.emocrat.

was

forty-fifth

died in

Landes, Silas

Z.,

New

con{;ress«»s

a.s

a

Britain. Conn.

lawyer, jurist, confrress-

May

15. 1842, in . «iusta practiced law in Illinois: and 1880 was .state attorfor Wabash county. In 1885-89 he was a representative fn>ni Illinois to the fortyninth and fiftieth congresses as a democrat. In 1891 he was elected for six years judp* of the cin-nit cmirt of Illinois. Landis, Charles Beary, journalist, con^n-ssiiian. was born .Tuly 9. 1858. in Millxilh", Ohio. He was educated in the public schools of Lojjansporf. Ind.; and in 1883 •graduated from ^^'libash crdlege at Crnwlordsville. Iml. In 1883-87 he was editor of (he Lo«;ans|>ort .Tournal; and lM»csime e«litor of the Delphi .lonrnal. In 1904-06 was president of the Indiana repiddican e<litorial assfK'iat inn. In 1899- 1909 he was a repn-senlative from Indiana to the (ifty-fifth. fifty-

nian.

lM»rn

pounty, Va.

and ney

He

in 1872. 187(^

sixth, fifty-seventh, fifly-eighth, fifty-ninth and sixtieth congresses as a republican.

Landis, Frederick, lawyer, congressman, in 1872 in S<'Vcnniile. Ohio. Since 1875 he has resitted in l.ogans|Mirt Ind.: and since 1893 has practiced law in that city. In 19(13 (15 he was a representative from Indiana to the fifty-«'ighth congress as a re-

was born

.

publican. Landis, John H., legislator, was Imrn Jan. 1853. in Lancaster county. I'a. He re-

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