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CONTAINING
AUTHENTIC BIOGRAPHIES OF PENNSYLVANIANS WHO ARE LEADERS AND REPRESENTATIVES IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF WORTHY HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
INCLUDING SKETCHES OF EVERY ARMY AND NAVY OFFICER BORN IN OR APPOINTED FROM PENNSYLVANIA AND NOW SERVING, OF ALL THE CONGRESS- .MEN FROM THE STATE, ALL STATE SENATORS AND JUDGES, AND ALL AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS AND CONSULS APPOINTED FROM PENNSYLVANIA
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after three years devoted himself to dis- eases of the eye, ear, nose and throat, in which he has since been actively en- gaged; he is particularly interested in the treatment of the ear disorders by massage, upon which he has written nu- merous valuable papers. Dr. Lautenbach has been connected with the eye clinic of the German Hospital, the eye and ear department of the Philadelphia Dispen- sary, the Pennsylvania Eye and Ear In- firmary, etc. He is a member of many medical, political, social and other as- sociations. Address, 1723 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LAVELY. Henry Alexander:
Bookseller and author; born at. Pitts- burg, Pa., Jan. 16. 1831; educated in the common schools, 1840-150. Married Mary Elizabeth Boothe. Enlisted in the Union Army, 1861, and served in the field for some time. Afterward on duty in the War Department. Republican in politics. Has been a bookseller since 1874. Mem- ber of the Union League Club. Con- tributed poems to magazines and news- papers since 1850. Author of "Heart's Choice and Other Poems." 1SS6-1900. Ad- dress, 413 Fourth Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
LAVENS, C. II .:
President of the Commercial National Bank of Bradford. Address, Bradford, Pa.
LAW, Edward:
Manufacturer; born at Greenfield. Eng- land, in 1838; educated at a private school, where he showed a strong artis- tic talent. especially for monumental de- signing. He served for a few years in the stone-cutting business, under his father, and at nineteen came to America and settled in Philadelphia. A few years later he became Superintendent of the
Fales Granito and Marble Works, and when Mr. Fales retired he took it up for himself in association with Thomas Bar- well and Charles A. Barker. They formed the Philadelphia Granite and Blue Stone Company, of which Mr. Law became President, and which rapidly developed a successful business, building a large number of edifices, some of them of great size and importance. The firm developed as a specialty the designing and erection of mausoleums and cemetery monuments. and its designs are widely to be seen in . the cemeteries of Pennsylvania. Chief among them is the George W. Childs
mausoleum, in Laurel Hill Cemetery, de- signed and erected by Mr. Law, and one of the finest works of its kind in the United States. Many others of great beauty might be named. Address, 245 North Twentieth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LAAW. Homer Lycurgus:
Surgeon United States Navy; born in Connecticut, and appointed from Pennsy- vania. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon July 9, 1870; promoted to Passed Assist- ant. Surgeon, June 19. 1875; promoted to Surgeon, Aug. 22, 1884. Retired, Decem- ber; 1SS6; served during Spanish-Ameri- can war, United States receiving ship Wabash. Boston, Mass., April 26, 1898, to February 7, 1899; recruiting duty. at Buf- falo, N. Y .. March 25, 1901, to May 2, 1901. Oct. 9, 1901, to March 4, 1902, Pan- American Exposition and recruiting duty, Navy and Marine Corps, Buffalo, N. Y .; Sept. 12. 1902, recruiting duty, Boston, Mass., at sub-stations, Providence, R. I., and Hartford, Conn. Present address, U. S. Navy Recruiting Station, Provi- dence, R. I.
LAWRANCE, James Peyton Stuart:
Commander United States Navy; born in Philadelphia .. Pa., Aug. 6. 1852. Went through the Episcopal Academy, and passed the entrance examination to the classical course of the University of Pennsylvania, in 1869; never attended the University of Pennsylvania, but mat- riculated at Lehigh University, from which he was graduated with degree of Mechanical Engineer. 1873; worked in the machine shop of John Roach, ship builder, at Chester. Pa .; in January, 1$75, passed the examination, and on March 22, 1875, was commissioned as Assistant Engineer in the Navy; served on the United States ship Monocacy. China Sta- tion. from 1875 to 1STs; worked at quali- tative and quantitative analysis and as- saying and physical measurements in the laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania. from 1878 to 1873: served on the United States flagship Pensacola, Pacific Station. from 1979 to 1992, when ordered to duty at Washington Navy Yard. on the receiving ship: in 1852. made a six months' cruise in the Chesapeake Bay. as Chief Engineer, on the monitor Passaic. which was left at the Naval Academy; from 1933 to 1885. in the office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department. In 1553 commissioned as Passed Assistant Engineer; from 1585 to 1989, on board the
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Juniata, on a cruise around the world via Straits of Megellan and Suez Canal; from 1SS9 to 1590 on duty at Navy Yard, Nor- folk, Va .; Monocaey, Asiatic Station, 1.830 to 1894. A member of the American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science. Clubs: Metropolitan, Washington, D. C .; the Art. Philadelphia, Pa .; Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Pa .; Fort Mon - roe, Old Point, Va; has been thrice com- pletely around the world; Homestead Steel Works, October, 1894, to 1896. Com- missioned Chief Engineer, June, 1896; Newport News, July, 1896, to 1897; the gunboat Wilmington, May, 1897, to 1900; blockading the Cuban filibusters on the Florida coast, and then during all the Spanish War; participating in the block- ade, communicating with the Cubans, convoying and landing troops, cutting three telegraph cables, the escort of the French steamer Lafayette into Key West as a prize, and in the batles of Cardenas and Manzanillo. Afterward in the eruise up the Orinoco River to Ciudad Bolivar, and up the Amazon River about 2,000 miles to Iquitos. Peru. In October, 1889, ordered to the battleship Massachusetts in charge of the engineering department, Where participated in experimental coal- ing at sea and squadron manoeuvres. In September, 1900. ordered as Inspector of Engineering Material. Thurlow, Pa. Commissioned a Lieutenant Commander on March 3, 1599. Married, July 17, 1901, Frank Isabelle Glavis, of Washington, D. C., daughter of Dr. George O. Glavis and Mrs. Lucette E. Glavis. Inspection duty at Harlan & Hollingsworth Ship Yard, Wilmington, Del .; Bureau of Steam, En- gineering, April 1, 1202, to February, 1904. Commissioned Commander Oct. 11, 1903. Inspector of Engineering Material at Car- bon Steel Works, Pittsburg, since Feb- ruary, 1904. Address. the Homestead Steel Works, Munnall, Pa.
LAWRENCE, Charles:
President of the Pennsylvania Nautical school; was born in Philadelphia, Pa .. July 10, 1537. His father died when he was seven months old and his mother when he was twelve years of age, while acting as a volunteer nurse in the City Hospital during an epidemic of cholera. At fifteen he became an apprentice to the sail making industry, and was en- gaged in the business of tent making in the United States Arsenal when the Civil
War began, when he entered the naval service as a sail maker. On the sloop- of-war Pensacola he took part in Farra- gutt's great battles, and was promoted for his valor to the rank of Master, an unwonted distinction for a sail maker. After the war he began the business of making sails and flags, later carried on by his son. He became a School Director and was President of the Board for one term; was a member of Common Council from 1882 to 1838, being its President after 1884; in 1SS7 was appointed to the position of Harbor Master. It was due to his efforts that a schoolship was es- tablished at Philadelphia, and when a Board of Directors was formed for it un- der his instigation, he was made Presi- dent of the Board. In 1891 he was made Superintendent of the Philadelphia Alms- house and Hospital, which office he filled with much efficiency. He aided in org- anizing the Vessel Owners' and Captains' Association and was its President for eighteen years. Address, 929 Farragut Terrace, Philadelphia, Pa.
LAWRENCE, C. F .:
Editor; born Nov. 20, 1849, at Plain Grove, Lawrence County, Pa .; educated at publie school and Newcastle, Pa .; was County Surveyor of Lawrence County, Pa., six years-two terms; Justice of the Peace, Grove City, Pa., two terms; held other small local offices; President Board of Trade. Grove City, Pa., past four years. Married Mary A. Barber, Sept. 5, 1872. Surveyor for thirty years; editor of Grove City Reporter, eleven years; pro- prietos of Lawrence Printing House; is a Republican. Address, Grove City, Pa.
LAWRENCE, William Watson:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Eldest son of deceased Com- panion Major John J. Lawrence. Elected Nov. 12, 1890. First class in succession March 27, 1893. Address, 1372 New St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LAWS, Elijah:
Chief Engineer United States Navy; born in Philadelphia. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer March 19. 1858; Sec- ond Assistant Engineer, Dec. 1, 1860. Dismissed May 27, 1563. Appointed Sec- ond Assistant Engineer March 31, 1864: First Assistant Engineer July 25, 1866. Served continually during the Civil War.
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Chief Engineer June 23, 1870. Retired March 20, 1595. Address, 145 Washington St., Morristown, N. Y.
LAY, George:
President of the Monaca National Bank. Address, Monaca, Beaver County, Pa.
LAZELERE, Nicholas H .:
Lawyer; born in Bucks County, Pa .; March 7, 1851; educated at Lafayette College, where he graduated in 1875; aft- erward studied law and was admitted to the Montgomery County bar in 1877. As a lawyer has had great success, and won a position of eminence among the lawyers of his district, where he has gained a large and lucrative practice. Aside from the law, he has taken a vital interest in other matters, especially in education. For many years he has been a trustee of the West Chester Normal School. He is also connected with busi- ness concerns, being a Director in the Norristown Title, Trust and Safe De- posit Company, in the American Steel Casting Company, and the Schuylkill Val- ley Traction Company. He is also solic- itor for many important corporations of Montgomery County, including the Penn- sylvania Railroad Company, the Philadel- phia Rapid Transit Company, and others. Address, Norristown, Pa.
LEA, Henry Charles:
Anthor; born Sept. 19, 1825, in Phila- delphia; son of Isaac Loa and Frances Ann (Carey); educated at home; was in publishing business from 1843 until 1880, in house founded in 1784 by Mathew Carey, and known successively as M. Carey & Sons. Carey. & Lea, Lea & Blanchard, Blanchard & Lea. now Lea Brothers & Co. Author of "Superstition and Force." "Studies in Church History," "Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celib- acy." "History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages," "Chapters from the Rel- igious History of Spain." "Formulary of the Papal Penitentiary in the Thirteenth Century," "History of Auricular Con- fession and Indulgences in the Latin Church," "The Moriscos of Spain, their Conversion and Expulsion." Also many pamphlets and articles in periodicals; LL. D. of University of Pennsylvania. Harvard University. and Princeton Uni- versity: Fellow of the Imperial Univer- sity of Moscow. He is also a member of numerous learned societies in United States and Europe. Mr. Lea has in for- 11
ward preparation a history of the Span- ish Inquisition. Address, 2000 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEA, Joseph Tatnall:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Second Lieutenant 114th Penn- sylvania Infantry Aug. 20. 1862; First Lieutenant and Adjutant Aug. 29, 1863; resigned and honorably discharged Feb. 1. 1864. Elected Feb. 4, 18S5. Address, 1016 Stephen Girard Building, Philadel- phia, Pa.
LEA. Langdon:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Eldest son of Companion First Lieutenant and Adjutant Joseph T. Lea. Elected Nov. 14, 1900. Address, Mont- gomery, W. Va.
LEA, William, Jr .:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Private in Independent Battery Delaware Light Artillery July 28. 1862; Sergeant Aug. 30, 1862; discharged for promotion May 18, 1863. Second Lieuten- ant Independent Battery Delaware Light Artillery May 18. 1863; honorably mus- tered out June 23, 1865. Elected May 4, 1892. Address, care of Recorder of Loyal Legion, 1535 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
LEACH, Josiah Granville:
Lawyer; was born at Cape May Court House. N. J .. July 27. 1842. After re- ceiving a classical education, he engaged in journalism. In 1862 he entered the Union Army, becoming Second Lieuten- ant in the Twenty-fifth New Jersey Vol- unteers; studied law and was graduated in 1866 at the University of Pennsylvania Law Department, Philadelphia. Member of the Legislature of Pennsylvania in 1876; Commissary General of the State. 1887-1991. with rank of Colonel, and Ap- praiser of the Port of Philadelphia, 1853- 1893. He was a large contributor to Ap- pleton's Cyclopedia of American Biogra- phy. Author of "Memoranda Relating to Ancestry and Family of ex-Vice Presi- dent Morton." "Memorials of the Read- ing. Howell. Yerkes. Watts, Lntham and Elkins Families." "History of the Bring- hurst Family, with Notes on the Clark- son, Do Peyster and Boude Families." "History of the Girard National Bank of Philadelphia." "History of the Penrose
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Family," and "Chronicle of the Yerkes Family, with Notes on the Leeeh and Rutter Families; edited the "Journal of the Rev. Silas Constant." He was the first to suggest that June 14 be recog- nized in American annals as "Flag Day." He is a founder and the Vice President of the Genealogieal Society of Pennsyl- vania, Historiographer of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and a founder and Historian of the Pennsylvania So- ciety of Sons of the Revolution. Address, 733 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEACH, Wilmon Whilldin :
Physician; born at Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 26, 1870; educated at the Classical Institute in that city, and at Heidelberg College (English), Germany; matriculated at Heidelberg University, and took a special course at Harvard University in 1887-1SS9. He was graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1892, and engaged in practice in Phila- delphia after serving several years in hospital work; has been resident physi- cian of the Eastern State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania since 1902; is a member of the American Medical Association, and the Philadelphia County Medical, Patho- logical, Pedriatric, and other kindred so- cieties; Harvard Club and the Society of May Flower Descendants. Son of Colonel Josiah Granville Leach, of Philadelphia. Address, 2118 Spruce St,, Philadelphia, Pa
LEADER, C. C .:
President of the First National Bank of Schuylkill. Address, Schuylkill Haven, Schuylkill County, Pa.
LEARNED, Marion D .:
Professor of Language and Literature; born near Dover, Del., July 10, 1857. He is descended from a family that settled in Massachusetts in 1632, and whose members were active in the Revolution- ary War, the War of 1812, and later wars. He graduated in 1876 from the Wilmington Conferenee Academy. Dover. and in 1880 from Dickinson College, Car- lisle. Pa., and after teaching languages for four years in Williamsport, he took a year of study at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity, and a subsequent year at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He served as instructor in German at Johns Hopkins 1886-1859, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1SS7. In 1889 he was ap- pointed Associate in German: in 1992,
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Associate Professor in German, and in 1895 left Johns Hopkins to aeeept the chair of Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. This chair he still holds. Professor Learned is connected with a large number of literary and scientific societies, and in 1889-1900 was President of the Nationalen Deutsch-Amerikanisch- en Dhrerbundes. He founded and is the editor of the Quarterly Journal Ameri- eana Germaniea, and has written various treatises, literary and scientific. He is a member of the Philosophical and other societies of Philadelphia, the Contempor- ary Club, the Faculty Club, and the Junger Mannerchor. Address, 234 South Thirty-eighth St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEASON, Mirvin F .:
Lawyer; born in Leechburg, Armstrong County, Pa., Jan. 10, 1854; edueated in Tuscarora Academy and Princeton Col- lege; studied law under W. F. Stewart, of Brookville, and was admitted to the bar of Armstrong County in February. 1877. Soon afterward he settled at Kittan- ning, where he entered into partnership with Hon. George A. Jenks and built up an active practice. He was elected Dis- trict Attorney in 1879, serving one term. He formed a partnership in 1894 with James H. McCain, which was dissolved in 1901, since which time Mr. Leason has practiced alone. He is a member of the bar in several counties, in the Superior and Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and in the United States District and Cir- cuit Courts. He was married in 1890 to Hannah R. Reynolds, now deceased, and has five children. Address, Kittan- ning. Pa.
LEDOUA, John Walter:
Civil Engineer; born at St. Croix Falls, Wis., Aug. 28. 1560; son of John Ledoux, Canadian French, from Province of Ot- towa, Canada, and Wilmina Knox, from Scotland, thirty miles south of Edinburg. His family were early settlers of the Lake Superior mining regions; gradnated from Lehigh University as civil engin- Per in 1867. In 1895, became a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers: has made reports on water supplies and water powers in nearly every State in the Union, as well as Porto Rico, Mexico and British Columbia; is the inventor of mechanical filter, regulating valve, meter for large pipes, dams and weirs; he has
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written a number of articles for the en- gineering publications, among which are, "A Sand Filter Plant," "Proceedings of Philadelphia Engineering Club," "A Deep Well Pumping Plant." "Water Supply of Philadelphia"; contributor to Engineering Record, New York, and the Philadelphia newspapers. Chief Engineer of the Am- erican Pipe Manufacturing Company of Philadelphia for thirteen years, and Na- tional Gas and Construction Company. Some of the works designed by him are the Springfield Water Works, suburbs of Philadelphia, Octorara Water Company. Lancaster and Chester Counties, Roches- ter & Lake Ontario Water Works, the new Charleston, S. C., Water Works, Depew & Lake Erie Water Works, near Buffalo; Greenville, S. C., Water Works; New York Inter-Urban & Consolidated Water Company of Suburban New York. Water Works. Office, 112 North Broad St., Philadelphia. Residence, corner of Ogden Ave. and Walnut Lane, Swarth- more, Pa.
LEDWITH, William Laurence:
Clergyman; pastor Tioga Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia; born at Browns- ville, Pa .. March 14, 150: graduated from Princeton, 1874, receiving the degree of A. M., 1877; and D. D. 1$$5; graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1877. Married. October, isse, Sarah W. Cooper; was pastor of Bellevue Church, Lancaster County, Pa., for six years; South Church, Philadelphia, nine years. and of Tioga Church. Philadelphia, since 1892. Is a member of the Presbyterian Board of Publication; twice Moderator of Presbytery of Philadelphia; Librarian of the Presbyterian Historical Society; three times Moderator General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. Contributor to religious journals. Address, 1531 Tioga St., Philadelphia.
LED, Benjamin :
Physician: born at Norwich, Conn., on Sept. 26. 1\35; graduated from the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. 1852, and from the New York Medical College, 1856. He took a post-graduate course in Europe. and upon his return to this country, es- tablished practice in New York. Mar- ried. April 5. 1859. Emma Hale. Surgeon Twenty-second New York Regiment. in 1862-1863; removed to Philadelphia, 1865; long Treasurer of the Philadelphia Medi- cal Society; appointed Secretary of the Pennsylvania State Board of Health, 1885;
President of the American Academy of Medicine, 1884; President of Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America, 1898; President of the American Public Health Association, in 1858; honorary member of the Societies of Hygiene, Brussels and Paris; Presi- ident American Orthopedic Association, 1891-1892: Secretary Pennsylvania State Quarantine Board since 1893; Professor of Orthopedics, Philadelphia Polyclinic, 1895-1896; health officer,
Philadelphia, 1898-1899; sanitarian to State Board of Agriculture of Pennsylvania. Member of Philadelphia Medical Club and Philadel- phia Association for Organizing Charity. Specialist in orthopedic surgery and ner- vous diseases. Author of "Correct Prin- ciples of Treatment for Angular Curva- ture of the Spine," 1872; and of tracts on massage (translated from German), 1885. Was for a time editor of the American Medical Monthly. Address, 420 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
LEE, Edward Clinton:
Vice President of the Standard Roller Bearing Co .; born Dec. 5, 1857, in Phila- delphia; a descendant of the early set- tlers of Bucks County, Pa., and Provi- dence and Boston; son of Dr. Richard Henry Lee, of Philadelphia; and Sarah E. Lothrop. of Providence, R. I. Gradu- ated from the Episcopal Academy, Phila- delphia, 1874; married Miss Mai Philler. daughter of George Philler. President of the First National Bank of Philadelphia. Began business in 1874 with Putnam and Earle, bankers of New York, afterward with the iron firm of Morris, Tasker & Co., Philadelphia, and then for eighteen years with the United Gas Improvement Co . of Philadelphia, of which he was Sec- retary and Treasurer; also of all of its various subsidiary gas and electric com- panies in about fifty cities of the United States. Has been Director in the Wels- bach Light Co., Storage Battery Co., the Marsden Co., International Smokeless Powder Co .. De Long Hook and Eye Co., Standard Roller Bearing Co., Ameri- can Railways Co., Trust Co. of North America of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston Railroad Co, and others. Vice President of several. Member of various clubs and historical and genealogical and patriotic and art societies of Philadelphia and New York; also Philadelphia Bourse. Maritime Ex- change, etc. Address. Haverford. Pa .; office, St! Drexel Building, Philadelphis.
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LEE, James W .:
Lawyer; was admitted to the bar in 1869. at Franklin, Venango County, Pa., one of the original oil counties. Mr. Lee soon after formed a partnership with Mr. S. C. T. Dodd. In 1875 Mr. Dodd left the firm to become leading counsel of the Standard Oil Company. In 1879 Mr. Lee was elected to the State Senate of Pennsylvania, where he remained eight years, making a hard fight against the rebate system on the railroads and in favor of a free pipe-line bill. It was largely through luis efforts that the latter was passed in 1883. Aroused by the hard conditions of the oil producing element, Mr. Lee in 1887 became active in the Pro- ducers' Protective Association. It was he who planned the agreement for the shut-down that year, and it was he who later was chiefly instrumental in bring- ing so large a number of oil men into the independent concerns. He was the first President of the Producers' Oil Com- pany and of the Producers and Refiners' Company, and from 1897 to 1901 was President of the Pure Oil Company. Mr. Lee acts now as the chief counsel of the united companies. Address, Pittsburg, Pa.
LEE, John:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; private First Battalion New York Sharpshooters Oct. 28, 1862; mus- tered out Aug. 5, 1863; private 203d Penn- sylvania Infantry Aug. 7, 1864; Sergeant Sept. 5, 1864; First Sergeant Oct. 12, 1861; discharged to accept promotion Jan. 29, 1865; Second Lieutenant 203d Pennsylva- nia Infantry Jan. 30, 1865; honorably mustered out June 22, 1865. Elected Feb. 6, 1895. Address, 701 Smithfield St., Pitts- burg, Pa.
LEE. John Clarence. S. T. D .:
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of the Restoration, Philadelphia, Pa .; was born in Woodstock, Vt., Oct. 15, 1856; son of Rev. Jolin S. Lee, D. D., first President of St. Lawrence University; his ances- tors were Puritan settlers in the Massa- chusetts Bay Colony. He graduated from Harvard College in 1878; studied theology at the Canton (N. Y.) Theological School; was ordained in 1581: held pastorates at Perry, N. Y., and St. Albans, Vt .; be- came professor in Lombard University, Galesburg, Ill., 18$4; President of St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y., 1596-1899; called to present pastorate,
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