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Eis only subsequent public service was as a 

 member of the commission appointed to inves- 

 tigate the troubles with Sitting Bull and his 

 tribe, and other Indian difficulties. He spent 

 the greater part of his last years in literary 

 pursuits, social enjoyment, and the care of his 

 property in New York city and Newport, R. I. 

 Gen. Lawrence was a member of the Union, New 

 York, and Newport Reading clubs, and of the 

 Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 



Laws, Charles Alfred, an American engineer, 

 born in Philadelphia in 1843; died in New 

 York city Jan. 12, 1887. He was one of the 

 first volunteers in Philadelphia in 1860, and for 

 two years was a sergeant in Anderson's famous 

 cavalry regiment. Soon after his discharge 

 from the army he studied engineering, passed 

 the examination for service in the navy, and 

 was appointed assistant engineer on the gun- 

 boat "Itaska," which was ordered to the Gulf 

 squadron under Admiral Farragut. He was 

 present at the battle of Mobile Bay, where he 

 rendered services for which he was officially 

 complimented. At the close of the war he 

 entered the United States Revenue Marine serv- 

 ice, and was on duty along the Gulf and At- 

 lantic coasts till 1878, when he was ordered to 

 San Francisco as engineer of the " Corwin," 

 then about to sail in search of the missing 

 Arctic steamer " Jeannette." He was also 

 engineer of the expedition sent out in search of 

 the " Rodgers," also in arctic waters. In 1885 

 he was appointed first assistant engineer of the 

 United States revenue cutter ""Washington," 

 and was on duty off the coast of North Caro- 

 lina till the following summer, when he was 

 ordered to New York. Mr. Laws was a general 

 favorite in the service, and stood first on the 

 list for promotion to the rank of chief engineer. 



Layton, Caleb Rodney, an American soldier, 

 born in Germantown, Pa., in 1821 ; died in Re- 

 hoboth, Del., Aug. 20, 1887. He joined the 

 army as a captain in the First Regiment of 

 Delaware Volunteers May 16, 1861 ; became ma- 

 jor July 1, following; was appointed captain 

 in the Seventh United States Infantry Aug. 5, 

 1861; brevetted major July 2, 1863, for gallant 

 conduct at Gettysburg, and promoted to rank 

 of major and assigned to the Twentieth Infantry 

 March 4, 1879. "He retired in 1884, and had 

 since lived in Georgetown, Delaware. 



Leavenworth, Ellas Warner, an American lawyer, 

 born in Canaan, N. Y., Dec. 20, 1803; died 

 in Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 25, 1887. He re- 

 ceived an academic education in Great Barring- 

 ton, Mass., was graduated at Yale in 1824, 

 and, after studying law in the office of the late 

 William Cullen Bryant and the Litchfield, 

 Conn., Law School, was admitted to the bar in 

 1827. Settling in Syracuse he practiced his 

 profession till 1850, when failing health forced 

 him to abandon it. In 1835 he was elected a 

 member of the State Assembly, and in the fol- 

 lowing year was appointed brigadier-general, 

 and placed in command of the State artillery. 

 He was president of the village of Syracuse in 



1839-'41 and 1846-'47, and Mayor from 1849 

 till 1859, and served continuously as a member 

 of the Assembly from 1850 till 1857, with the 

 exception of the years 1854-'55, when he was 

 Secretary of State. In 1861 he was chosen a 

 regent of the State University, the same year 

 appointed by President Lincoln the commis- 

 sioner to adjust claims against New Grenada, 

 in 1872 elected a member of the State Consti- 

 tutional Commission, and in 1875 a Representa- 

 tive in Congress. He received the degree of 

 LL. D. from Hamilton College in 1872. 



Lee, Alfred, an American clergyman, born in 

 Cambridge, Mass., Sept. 9, 1807"; died in Wil- 

 mington, Del., April 12, 1887. He first studied 

 law, and was admitted to the bar in New Lon- 

 don, Conn., where he practiced for two years, 

 and then studied theology. In 1837 he was 

 graduated at the General Theological Seminary 

 of the Protestant Episcopal Church, New York 

 city ; in May of that year was ordered deacon ; 

 and on June 12, 1838, was ordained priest by 

 Bishop Brownell, in Christ Church, Hartford, 

 Conn. He officiated a few months in St. James's 

 Church, Poquetannock, Conn., and in Septem- 

 ber, 1838, became rector of Calvary Church, 

 Rockdale, Pa. In 1841 a convention was held 

 in Georgetown, Del., for the purpose of elect- 

 ing a bishop for the diocese, which had previ- 

 ously been under the supervision of the bishop 

 of Pennsylvania, and the choice fell upon him. 

 He was consecrated as first bishop of Delaware 

 in St. Paul's Church, New York city, on Oct. 

 12, 1841, being the youngest of the twenty- 

 one members of the House of Bishops, and the 

 thirty-eighth in succession of American bish- 

 ops. In 1842 he became rector of St. Andrew's 

 Church, Wilmington, Del., and on May 31, 1884, 

 by the death of the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Bos- 

 worth Smith, presiding bishop of the Ameri- 

 can Church. Bishop Lee received the degree of 

 S. T. D. from Trinity College. Hartford, Conn., 

 and Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y., in 1841, and 

 from Harvard in 1860, and that of LL. D. from 

 Delaware College, Newark, Del., in 1877. In 

 1881, in a sermon before the Diocesan Conven- 

 tion, Bishop Lee said that, during his forty years 

 of service as bishop, twenty-four churches had 

 been built within the diocese, he had confirmed 

 4,327 persons, and 10,082 baptisms had been 

 reported to him. The number of active cler- 

 gymen had increased from 4 to 29, the parishes 

 from 7 to 37, and the communicants from 339 

 to 2,282. He published a " Life of the Apostle 

 Peter, in a Series of Practical Discourses," a 

 " Life of St. John," a " Treatise on Baptism," 

 "A Memoir of Miss Susan Allibone," "The 

 Harbinger of Christ," " A Voice in the Wil- 

 derness," and "Eventful Nights in Bible His- 

 tory," besides many charges, special sei'mons, 

 and addresses. He was a member of the com- 

 mittee of bishops that had charge of the mis- 

 sionary work of the Church in Mexico, and bore 

 an influential part in the establishment of the 

 Anglican Church in the capital city. He was 

 also a member of the American commission 



