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tution and Java, Dec. 29, 1812. He was trans-
ferred to the Washington, Commodore Hull,
Sept. 14, 1814, and subsequently to the Boxer,
Commodore John Porter. In 1818 he was granted
a furlough and made voyages to the East Indies
and various European and South American ports
as first officer of a merchant ship. In November, 1819, he was as- signed to the In- dependence, Com- modore Sliaw ; in February, 18- 23, to the sloop Hornet in the West Indies ; in November, 1823, to the sloop Peacock and went to the Pacific ocean ; and in 1824 to the government frigate United States, Commodore Hull, serving 1824-27. He was married June 1, 1829, to Mary D., daughter of Nathaniel and Dorothy (Folsom) Oilman of Exeter, Vt. He was at the Portsmouth navy yard, N.H., 1827-31 ; accompanied Commo- dore Downes on his cruise to the Pacific in the Potomac, 1832-34 ; resided at Portsmouth, N. H., 1884-87 ; commanded a rendezvous in Boston, Mass., 1887-39, and commanded the sloop Boston, 1840-43. He was promoted post-captain, March 2, 1849, and commanded the Mississippi when that vessel brought the Hungarian patriot Kos- suth to the United States in 1852, and was instru- mental in preventing Kossuth from compromis- ing the United States government by making revolutionary speeches at Marseilles.* He com- manded the Saranac, 1852-55, and during these years conducted the Brazilian minister, De Sodre, to his home, and the U.S. minister, Carroll Spence, to Constantinople. He commanded the Pacific squadron, U.S.S. Merrimac, fiagship, 1857-59. He was retired in 1*861, was promoted commodore on the retired list, July 16, 1862, and settled in Exeter, N. H. He died in North Con- way, N.H., Sept. 2, 1865.
LONQ, John Davis, statesman, was born in Buckfield, Oxford county, Maine, Oct. 27, 1838 ; son of Zadoc and Julia Temple (Davis) Long); grandson of Thomas and Bathsheba (Churchill) Long, and of Simon and Persis (Temple) Davis ; and a descendant on the paternal side of Richard Warren of the Mayflower, and of Thomas Clark, one of the company of the Ann, which came to Plymouth in 1623 ; and on the maternal side of Dolor Davis, who came from Kent, England, to Massachusetts Bay colony, in 1634. 2Dadoc Long was the Whig candidate for representative in the 26th congress in 1838, but was defeated by Virgil D. Parris. John Davis Long was named for Governor John Davis (q. v.), a cousin of his ma-
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temal grand father. He was prepared for college
at Hebron academy, and was graduated at Har-
vard, fourth in the class of 1857, and was class
odist. He was principal of Westford academy,
Mass., 1857-59; was a student at Harvard Law
school in 1861, and
was admitted to the
bar at Boston, Mass.,
the same year. He
practised in Buck-
field, Maine, 1861-62,
and in 1862 went to
Boston. He made
his home in Hing-
ham, Mass., in 1869,
and became associat-
ed that year with
Stillman B. Allen ia
the law. He was a
Republican represen-
tative in the Massa-
chusetts legislature,
1875-78, serving as speaker of the house, 1876, 1877
and 1878 ; lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts,
1879 ; governor of Massachusetts, 1880-82 ; a dele-
gate to the Republican national convention of
1884, where he nominated George F. Edmunds
for President, and a representative from the
second district of Massachusetts in the 48th, 49th
and 50th congresses, 1883-89, declining renomina-
tion in 1888. He was a candidate before the
state legislature in 1878 for U.S. senator. At
the close of his congressional term he returned to
the practice of law in Boston, the firm being
Allen, Long & Hemenway. On March 4, 1897,
President McKinley made him secretary of the
navy in his cabinet, and reappointed him March 5,
1901. He was twice married : first, in 1870, to Mary
Woodward, daughter of George S. and Helen M.
(Paul) Glover of Hingham, Mass. ; and secondly.
May 22, 1886, to Agnes, daughter of the Rev.
Joseph D. Peirce of North Attleboro, Mass., and
their son Peirce was -born at North Attleboro^
Mass., Dec. 29, 1887. He was president of the
Massachusetts Total Abstinence society, a fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and received LL.D. from Harvard in 1880. He
gave to the town of Buckfield in 1901 the Zadoc
Long Free Library. He published a translation of
the ^neid and a volume of after-dinner speeches.
LONQ, Pierse, delegate, waa born in Ports-
mouth, N.H., in 1739; son of Pierse Ix)ng, who
came from Limerick, Ireland, to Portsmouth and
engaged in the slnpping business. He entered
partnership with his father and became interested
in public affairs. He was a delegate to the pro-
vincial congress of New Hampshire, 1775, and
colonel of the 1st New Hampshire regiment, com-
manding the regiment at Ticonderoga, July 1,
