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d' Affaires to Nicaragua. He resumed his pro- 

 fessional practice in Baltimore in 1854, and, 

 after holding an office under the United States 

 Attorney-General, was made Deputy Solicitor 

 of the Court of Claims. 



KINO, Miss LOUISA W., died at Augusta, Ga., 

 December 7th. She was the founder of the 

 State Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals, and the Widows' Home. 



KINGSLAND, AMBROSE 0., died October 13th 

 in New York City, where he was born in 1804. 

 He began business as a wholesale grocer in that 

 city, with his brother, under the firm-name of 

 D. & A. Kingsland, and their growing trade in 

 sperm oil induced them to establish a line of 



Sacket ships to Liverpool. At the time of his 

 eath he was engaged in business with his eld- 

 est son. In 1851 he was elected Mayor of New 

 York by the Whig party. 



LATROBEj BENJAMIN H., died in Baltimore, 

 Md., October 19th. He was born in 1807. In 

 1831 he became the principal assistant of Jona- 

 than. Knight, chief engineer of the Baltimore 

 and Ohio Railroad, and for twenty-two years 

 was chief engineer himself. He supervised the 

 construction of that road from Cumberland to 

 the Ohio River, and he was frequently consult- 

 ed on important engineering enterprises. 



LAWRENCE, EFFINGHAM, died at Magnolia 

 Plantation, La., December 9th. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Secession Convention, and was elect- 

 ed to Congress in 1873. 



LEONARD, JOHN EDWARDS, died in Havana, 

 March 15th. He was born in Chester County, 

 Pa., September 22, 1845. He was a student 

 in Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., and grad- 

 uated at Harvard College in 1867. After a 

 course of two years' study, he received the de- 

 gree of Doctor of Laws from the University of 

 Heidelberg. He then went to Louisiana and 

 began the practice of the law in the Thirteenth 

 Judicial District. He soon became District At- 

 torney, and was afterward appointed a Judge 

 of the Supreme Court. In 1876 he was elected 

 to Congress as a Republican from the Fifth 

 Louisiana District. He was made a member 

 of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws 

 of the United States. It was reported that he 

 had been sent to Cuba on important public 

 business by the Government, and just on the 

 eve of his return he was attacked with yellow 

 fever, which proved fatal. Mr. Leonard was 

 one of the most promising of the young men in 

 public life. He was an accomplished scholar, 

 a learned jurist, a finished speaker, and a man 

 of pure character. Had he lived he would 

 doubtless have attained a high distinction as a 

 statesman. 



LEWIS, Mrs. HARRIET, the popular authoress, 

 and wife of the author Leon Lewis, died at 

 Rochester, N. Y., May 20th. She was born at 

 Penn Yan in 1841. For some years she con- 

 tributed to the "New York Ledger," and many 

 of her stories have been republished in the Eng- 

 lish weeklies and translated into several lan- 

 guages. 



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LOTT, JOHN A., died in Flatbush, L. I., July 

 20th, aged 75 years. He graduated from Union 

 College, and began the practice of law in New 

 York City. In 1838 he was elected County 

 Judge of Kings County ; in 1841 was a mem- 

 ber of the State Assembly; and in 1842 was 

 elected State Senator. He was elected Justice 

 of the Supreme Court in 1857, and Judge of 

 the Court of Appeals in 1869. He was subse- 

 quently appointed a Judge of the Commission 

 of Appeals, holding the office until 1875, when 

 the Commission was abolished and he retired 

 from active legal practice. 



LYNDON, Very Rev. PATRICK FRANCIS, died 

 in Boston, Mass., April 19th. He was born 

 in Ireland in 1812, came to America in 1832, 

 and, after graduating at the Roman Catholic 

 Seminary in Montreal, entered the College of 

 St. Sulpice in Paris, France. In 1842 he was 

 ordained to the priesthood, was at various times 

 connected with the old cathedral in Boston, 

 and had charge of St. Mary's Parish, Charles- 

 town, Mass., until 1852. He was appointed 

 Pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul in South Boston 

 in 1853, and in 1866 was made Vicar-General. 

 For seven years he was a member of the Bos- 

 ton School Committee. 



McCouN, WILLIAM T., born at Oyster Bay, L. 

 I., died there July 20th, aged 93 years. From 

 1831 to 1846 he was Vice-Chancellor of the 

 First Circuit (New York), and in 1847 was 

 elected Justice of the Supreme Court in the 

 Second District. 



MCDONALD, Major WILLIAM J., for forty- 

 two years Chief Clerk of the United States 

 Senate, died at Washington, June 5th, aged 64 

 years. 



MONTAGUE, HENRY J., died at San Francisco, 

 Gal., August llth. He was born in Stafford- 

 shire, England, in 1843. His family name was 

 Mann. After taking part in amateur theatricals, 

 he appeared for the first time under the stage 

 name of Montague, at Astley's Theatre, London. 

 For some time he was Mr. Boucicault's private 

 secretary, and after acting at several of the 

 London theatres he made his first appearance 

 in New York in 1874, at Wallack's Theatre, in 

 "Partners for Life." In 1875 he went to San 

 Francisco with Boucicault's " Shaughraun " 

 company. Among the plays in which he ap- 

 peared with success were " Romeo and Juliet," 

 "Lady of Lyons," "Marble Heart," " Caste," 

 "Won at Last," "Money," "School," "False 

 Shame," and "Diplomacy." 



MOORE, BARTHOLOMEW FIGURES, died in Ra- 

 leigh, N. C., on November 27th, aged 56 years. 

 He was called the father of the North Carolina 

 bar. He had been Attorney-General, a mem- 

 ber of the State Legislature, and of two con- 

 ventions to amend the State Constitution. In 

 1856 he compiled the "Revised Code of the 

 State." During the war he was a strong Union 

 man. 



MORRISSEY, JOHN, died at Saratoga, N. Y., 

 May 1st. He was born in Templemore, Tipper- 

 ary County, Ireland, February 12, 1831. When 



