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THE


BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY


OF


AMERICA


LODGE, Henry Cabot, statesman and author, was born in Boston, Mass., May 13, 1850 ; son of John EUerton and Anna (Cabot) Lodge. He was graduated at Harvard, A.B., 1871, LL.B., 1874, Ph.D. (history) 1876. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1876 and devoted himself to literature and to the public service as a legislator. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature, 1880 and 1881 ; a representative from the sixth Massachusetts district in the 50th, 51st and 52d congresses, 1887-93, and resigned his seat in 1893 on his election to the U.S. senate. He was re-elected in 1899. In the senate he was chairman of the committee on the Philippines and a member of the committees on civil service and retrenchments, foreign relations, immigration, railroads and the select committee on industrial exposition. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention of 1884, 1888, 1893, 1896 and 1900. placed Thomas B. Reed in nomina- tion for President in 1896, and was permanent chairman of the convention at Philadelphia, •Tune 19-33, 1900. He was married June 39, 1871, to Anna Cabot Mills, daughter of Rear-Ad- miral Charles H. Davis, U.S.N. He delivered a course of lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston, on the English Colonies in America (1880). He was university lecturer on American history at Harvard, 1876-79, and was editor of the North American Review, 1873-76, and of the International Review, 1879-81. He re- ceived the honorary degi'ee of LL.D. from Williams in 1893. He is the author of: Life and Letters of George Cabot (1877) ; Short His- tory of tl I e English Colonies in America (1881) ; Life of Alexander Hamilton (1883) ; Life of Dan- iel Webster (1883) ; Studies in History (1886) ; Life of Washington (3 vols., 1889) ; History of Boston in " Historic Towns Series" (1891) ; His- torical and Political Essays (1893) ; Speeches (1895) ; Hero Tales from American History, with Theodore Roosevelt (1895) ; Certain Aoopted


Heroes, and Other Essays in Literature and Poli- tics (1897) ; Story of the Revolution (2 vols., 1898); Story of the Spanish War (1899). He edited Ballads and Lyrics (1881) ; Complete Works of Alexander Hamilton (9 vols., 1885).

LOEB, Louis, artist, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 7, 1866 ; son of Alexander and Sara (Ehrman) Loeb. He received his first instruc- tion in- art at the Art Students' league. New York city ; and studied in France, 1890-92. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1891 and subse- quently, and received the first prize of the atelier at the ficole des Beaux Arts, 1892. He returned to New York in 1893 ; was again in Paris, 1894-98, receiving at the Salon honorable mention in 1894 and the third-class medal in 1896, and in 1898 resumed his work in New York. He won especial recognition as an illustrator. He was elected to the Society of American Artists in 1900.

LOGAN, Benjamin, pioneer, was born in Au- gusta county, Va., in 1743 ; son of David Logan, an Irishman, who settled in Augusta county, Va., where he died in 1757. His estate fell to Benjamin, the eldest son, who on reaching hia majority in 1764 divided it with his mother, and his sisters and brothers, and removed to Holston river, where he married Ann, daughter of William Montgomery. He served in the wars against the Indians, 1764 ; with Patrick Henry against Gov- ernor Dunmore, 1774; joined Boone's party of settlers en route to Kentucky in 1775 and left the party and settled in vvliat is now Lincoln county, Ky., where with the help of his brother John (who was a companion in most of his exploits and afterward a representative in the state legis- lature and secretary of the state of Kentucky), he built Fort Logan, and removed his family thither in 1776. On May 20, 1777, the fort was besieged by a hundred Indians for weeks, until the ammunition and provisions were almost ex- hausted, wlien Logan and two companions left the fort under cover of night, and made a rapid jour-