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tending the legislation for the admission of the Terri- 

 tory into the Union as a State. He presided over the 

 nstitutional convention, in (October, 1S56, and 

 the first capital of the State was named in his honor. 

 During hi? term of office, which expired on the ad- 

 :i of the Territory as a State, J. H. Gihon, in 

 Governor Geary's Admini>tration in Kansas." 

 ' Judge Lecompte immediately affiliated with the 

 most ultra of the pro-slavery men ; declared himself 

 warmly attached to their peculiar institutions ; re- 

 ceived their unqualified approbation ; applauded their 

 act- : addressed their meetings : and went quite a^ tar 

 as the most exacting could possibly expect or desire." 

 Judge Lecompte was bitterly assailed for a charge he 

 delivered to the grand jury of Douglas County, in 

 May, 1S56, in which he gave instructions concerning 

 the extraordinary conditions and responsibilities un- 

 der which they met, and an exposition of the nature 

 of treason, holding that treason could be committed 

 against the Federal Government by levying war upon 

 the Territorial Government. This decision, Judge 

 Lecompte claimed, led to a misconstruction of his 

 motives and words that obtained circulation as late as 

 December, lv$4, when he wrote a long letter recalling 

 the circumstances of 1856, reiterating, his repudiation 

 of the doctrine of constructive treason. 



Le Boy, William Edgar, naval officer, born in Xew 

 York city, March 24. 1^1 s; died there, Dec. 1' . 

 He was appointed a midshipman in the United States 

 Navy in 1532, was commissioned lieutenant July 13, 

 1843, took part in the engagement with Mexican sol- 

 diers at Rio Aribiqua in 1S47, and was promoted com- 

 mander July 1, Ivil. In 1->|J2. while in command of 

 the " Keystone State," he took part in the capture of 

 Fernandina, Fla., and in 1863 in the bombardment 

 in Charleston harbor. During this action, after the 

 boilers of his vessel had been'shot through by Con- 

 federate cannon-balls, and twenty-four of his men h:,d 

 been killed, he hauled down his rii.i: to .-urrcnder, but 

 a moment later manned his onlv remaining crun, ran 

 up his flag, and kept on firing till other vessels in the 

 fleet came to his relief. In 1864 he took part in the 

 battle of Mobile Bay, in command of the steam-sloop 

 ' O.-hipee," and received the surrender of the Con- 

 federate ram " Tennessee." On July 25, 1366, he was 

 promoted captain, July 3. 1ST'"', commodore, and April 

 !. rear-admiral. On March 24, 1 ?$'">, he was 

 placed, on the retired list. 



Lewis, Henry Carvil, geologist, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., Nov. K>, 1S53; died in Manchester. England, 

 July _!, l^Sv Ik- was graduated at the University 

 of Pennsylvania in 1ST3, and after several years spent 

 in special studies, he joined, in 1S79, the Pennsylva- 

 nia Geological Survey as a volunteer. At first he in- 

 vestigated the surface geology of Southern Pennsyl- 

 vania, alter which he studied the glacial phenomena 

 of the northern part of the State, and traced the- irreat 

 terminal moraine from New Jersey to the Ohio fron- 

 tier. His report on this subject was issued in 18S4 by 

 the survey as "Z" in its series of volumes. He was 

 elected Professor of Mineralogy in the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences in 1880, and to the chair of Geo'logy 

 in Haverford College in 1883. These places he fe'- 

 tained until his death, although after 1885 he resided 

 in Europe. During IS^.J-'v) he investigated glacial 

 action in Great Britain, and completed a map of the 

 separate ancient glaciers and ice-sheets of England, 

 Wales, and Ireland. He was also engaged in study- 

 ing microscopic petrology at the University of Heidel- 

 berg. Prof. Lewis furnished numerous papers on the 

 geology and mineralogy of Pennsylvania to the " Pro- 

 ceedings of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences.'' He was also a zealous mineralogist, and for 

 a time was editor of the mineralogical department of 

 the "American Naturalist." He published " 

 on the Zodiacal Light" (18PO), and " Genesis of the 

 Diamond" ( I 



Lincoln, Thomas Blodgett, farmer, born in Philadel- 

 phia, 1'a.. April 27. 1813; died near Elkton. Md., 

 June 28, 1838. About the time of the annexation of 



Texas, he went there as agent of the New York evndi- 

 purchase scrip and head-right land. XVhile 

 livinir in Texas he became acquainted with its leading 

 politicians and with members of the order of Knights 

 of the Golden Circle, and for some time after the be- 

 ginning of the civil war was an agent of that organi- 

 zation in the Northwestern States. In Augu.-'. 

 while so engaged, he w;is arrested in Cincinnati, and 

 subsequently tried for treason in the United - 

 Circuit Court there. United States Senator Je~-. 1'. 

 Bright had written a letter introducing him to Jeffer- 

 son Davis, and the production of this letter in court 

 was not onlv the most damaging evidence :... 

 him, but it fed to Mr. Bright's expulsion from the 

 Senate. Mr. Lincoln's counsel succeeded in having 

 the indictment quashed, and he was allowed to return 

 to the South. He was the only person tried for trea- 

 son during the civil war. It is said that, at the insti- 

 gation of Alexander II. Stephens, Y ice-President of 

 the Confederacy, he came North early in 1865, and 

 furnished the authorities in Washington with infor- 

 mation upon which they acted promptly, with the 

 effect of bringing the war to a close within a few 

 weeks. At the close of the war Mr. Lincoln received 

 a custom-house appointment in New York. In 1*72 

 he purchased a farm near Elkton. Md. 



Linen, George, artist, born in Greenlaw. Scotland, 

 April 29, 1802; died in Bloomingdale, N. J.. Sei t. 

 588. He was educated at the Royal Scottir-h 

 Academy in Edinburgh, spent several years in Eng- 

 land painting portraits and landscapes, and opened 

 a studio in New York city in 1834. He began his 

 career in the United States as a painter of cibinet 

 portraits, and Henry (.'lay and Daniel Webster were 

 among his patrons. In is39 he was awarded by the 

 National Academy of Design the medal for the best 

 specimen of portrait-painting by American artists. 

 lie retired from studio work about 1868, bought a 

 farm near Bloomingdale, N. J., gave it the Scottish 

 name " Glenburn," and passed the remainder of his 

 davs there. 



Lippe, Adolpn, physician, born in Berlin, Germany, 

 in 1-14; died in Philadelphia. Pa., Jan.'2S. 1888. Ik- 

 was a son of Count Ludwig and Cui;tes> Augusta zur 

 Lippe. received a legal education in Berlin, but re- 

 moved to the United States in 1839 without being ad- 

 mitted to practice, and was graduated at the Homoeo- 

 pathic Medical College in Allentown, Pa., in 1841. 

 From that date till within a week of his death he 

 practiced in Carlisle and Philadelphia with a success 

 that made him well known throughout the country. 

 He was for many years a lecturer on materia medica 

 in the old Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsyl- 

 vania, published a standard treatise pu that subject, 

 and contributed frequently to the periodical literature 

 of his school of medicine. 



Locke, David Boss, journalist, bornin Vestal. Brocme 

 County. N. Y.. S.-pt. ^. 1888; died in Toledo. Ohio, 

 Feb. 15. 1^. He was apprenticed to the printer's 

 trade in the office of the " Cortland Democrat" when 

 ten years old, remained there seven years, and then 

 set out on a journey over the United States, working 

 as printer, reporter, and miscellaneous writer on 

 various newspapers, as circumstances required. In 

 lv>2 he joined James G. Robinson in establishing 

 " The Advertiser ' ' in Plymouth. Ohio : in 1856 he be- 

 gan " The Journal " in Bucyrus, Ohio : and soon after- 

 ward wrote a series of stories for the paper. These 

 attracted wide interest, and were extensively repub- 

 lished. After conducting in turn the Mansfield 

 " Herald " and the Bellefontaine u Republican.'' he 

 became editor and proprietor of '' The Jetfersonian," 

 a weekly newspaper of Findlay, Ohio, in 1S61. The 

 manifestation of disloyalty in Wmgert's Corners, a 

 small hamlet in Crawford County, Ohio, after the sc- 

 D of South Carolina, and' the circulation of u 

 petition there asking the Legislature to remove all the 

 colored people from the State and to forbid any others 

 coming into it, suggested to him the publication of 

 that inimitable series of patriotic satires which will 



