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ated at the University of Virginia in 1842, and 

 at the theological seminary at Alexandria in 

 1846. He was ordained July 10, 1846, served 

 six months in Emmanuel Church, Lynnhaven 

 parish, Va., and in 1847 took charge of the 

 Church of the Nativity, Huntsville, Ala. Dr. 

 Lay was consecrated Missionary Bishop of the 

 Southwest at the meeting of the General Con- 

 vention in Richmond, Oct. 23, 1859. During 

 the war he acted as general chaplain in Geor- 

 gia and Tennessee. In 1865, in conjunction 

 with Bishop Atkinson, of North Carolina, he 

 was influential in bringing about a return of 

 the Southern bishops to harmonious action 

 with the bishops assembled in that year in 

 Philadelphia. In 1868 the Diocese of Mary- 

 land was divided, and a new diocese was 

 formed, consisting of that part of the State 

 east of Chesapeake Bay and the Susquehanna 

 river. The new diocese adopted the name of 

 Easton, and elected Bishop Lay diocesan, who 

 was transferred to this field of labor April 1, 

 1869. Bishop Lay made numerous contribu- 

 tions to church literature. His " Letters to 

 a Man bewildered among many Counselors," 

 "Studies in the Church," "Tracts for Mission- 

 ary Use," etc., are well known. 



Little, James Lawrence, an American physician, 

 born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1836 ; died in New 

 York city, April 4, 1885. He studied medi- 

 cine under Dr. Willard Parker, and at the Col- 

 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, 

 served six months as assistant physician in 

 Bellevue Hospital, and was graduated at the 

 college in March, 1860. He was then appoint- 

 ed junior assistant at the New York Hospital, 

 and subsequently became senior assistant and 

 then house-surgeon. Two years later he was 

 made surgeon in charge of the Park Barracks. 

 In 1863 he was appointed clinical assistant to 

 Dr. W. Parker, in the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, and in the spring following de- 

 livered a course of lectures on fractures and 

 their treatment. Dr. Little delivered lectures 

 of this kind until 1868, when he was appointed 

 lecturer on operative surgery and surgical 

 dressings, a post that he held for more than 

 ten years. In 1875 he accepted the chair of 

 Surgery in the University of Vermont, but 

 continued to reside in New York. He was 

 appointed consulting surgeon in the North- 

 western Dispensary, and attending surgeon to 

 both St. Luke's and St. Vincent's Hospitals. 

 He was a member and fellow of numerous 

 medical societies, and a frequent contributor 

 to medical journals. He was regarded as one 

 of the most able and accomplished operators in 

 difficult cases that America has produced, and 

 his publications on professional topics are held 

 in high estimation He freely gave his services 

 to the national Government during the civil 

 war. In the spring of 1864 he joined in the 

 movement in New York city toward sanitary 

 reform, and was instrumental in the forma- 

 tion of the present Board of Health in the me- 

 tropolis. 



Livingston, John W., an American naval officer, 

 born in New York city, May 22, 1804; died 

 there, Sept. 10, 1885. He was a son of William 

 Turk, a surgeon of the navy. The admiral's 

 mother was a Livingston, and by an act of the 

 Legislature he assumed her name. He was 

 appointed midshipman March 4, 1823, and 

 served in that capacity in the sloop-ot-war 

 " Ontario " and the frigate " Delaware " in the 

 Mediterranean, until the close of the " pirati- 

 cal war," when he was transferred to the frig- 

 ate " Constitution," and saw service in the 

 West Indies. On June 21, 1832, he was 

 commissioned lieutenant, and made a voyage 

 around the world in the frigate u Columbia," 

 during which Sumatra was visited, and the 

 piratical power in that island broken. He took 

 an active part in the Mexican War, in 1855 was 

 commissioned commander, and in the follow- 

 ing year was sent in command of the ship-of- 

 war " St. Louis " to the coast of Africa. In 

 July, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of 

 commodore, and after the evacuation of Nor- 

 folk by the Confederates he took command 

 of the navy-yard. In 1864 he was ordered to 

 the command of the naval station at Mound 

 City, 111. He took charge of the sale of the 

 condemned Government vessels after the war, 

 and more than $13,000,000 passed through 

 his hands. For the thoroughness and fidelity 

 with which he discharged this important trust 

 he received the thanks of the Navy Depart- 

 ment. He was commissioned rear-admiral on 

 May 26, 1868, and was retired in 1874. 



Lunt, George, an American author, born in 

 Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 31, 1803 ; died in 

 Boston, Mass., May 17, 1885. He was gradu- 

 ated at Harvard College in 1824, was admitted 

 to the bar in 1831, and practiced in his native 

 town. After serving in the Legislature, Mr. 

 Lunt, in 1848, removed to Boston, and the 

 next year was appointed United States Attor- 

 ney for the District of Massachusetts. When 

 President Pierce came into office (1853), Mr. 

 Lunt tendered his resignation, and resumed 

 private practice. From 1857 to the close of 

 1862 he edited the Boston "Courier." His 

 works include "Poems" (1839), followed by 

 " The Age of Gold, and other Poems " (1843) ; 

 "Lyric Poems, Sonnets, and Miscellanies" 

 (1854); "Eastford, or Household Sketches," 

 a novel (1855); "Julia, a Poem" (1855); 

 " Three Eras of New England " (1857) ; " Radi- 

 calism in Religion, Philosophy, and Social 

 Life " (1858) ; and " Origin of the Late War," 

 in which he threw the blame upon the North 

 (1865). In 1883 he brought out a revised edi- 

 tion of his poetical works. 



MeCnllongh, John Edward, an American actor, 

 born in Coleraine, Ireland, Nov. 2, 1837 ; died 

 in Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 8, 1885. His fa- 

 ther was a small farmer. John came to Amer- 

 ica in 1853, worked in a furniture-factory, 

 studied Shakespeare, and in 1857 made his 

 debut in Philadelphia as Othello, with an ama- 

 teur company. He soon afterward obtained 



