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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (LOUGHLIN LOWELL.) 



of the scenery, history, and legends of the Hudson 

 river, which were published, with illustrations from 

 his sketches, in that monthly in 1860-'61, and after- 

 ward in a volume entitled " The Hudson, from the 

 Wilderness to the Sea" (1866). From the papers, 

 letters, and orderly books of Gen. Philip Schuyler he 

 prepared " The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler " 



three illustrated volumes. In 1872-'75 he edited the 

 "American Historical Eecord and Kepository of Notes 

 and Queries." published in Philadelphia. Mr. Loss- 

 ing gathered a large and valuable library, and con- 

 structed a fire-proof building for it on his place at 

 Dover Plains. He was for many years a member of 

 the board of trustees of Vassar College. Besides the 

 works mentioned above, he published an " Outline 

 History of the Fine Arts " (1841 ) ; " Lives of the Presi- 

 dents of the United States" (1847) ; " Seventeen Hun- 

 dred and Seventy-six, or the War for Independence" 

 (1847) ; "Life of Gen. Zachary Taylor" (1847) ; " Life 

 of Gen. Winfield Scott" (1847) ; "The New World" 

 (1847) ; " Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of 

 Independence " (1848) ; an illustrated " History of the 

 United States for Schools " (1854), which was followed 

 by the other volumes of a graded series ; " Biog- 

 raphies of Eminent Americans" (1855); "Mount 

 Vernon and its Associations " (1859) ; " Life of Wash- 

 ington," illustrated (1860); " Vassar College and its 

 Founder" (1867); "Pictorial Description of Ohio" 

 (1869) an illustrated " Memoir of Dr. Alexander 

 Anderson," the first engraver on wood in America, 

 published by the New York Historical Society (1870) ; 

 a " History of England " for schools (1871) ; a large 

 history of the United States entitled " Our Country," 

 with 500 illustrations by Felix O. C. Darley (3 vols., 

 1873) ; an illustrated work on the progress of indus- 

 tries in the United States between 1776 and 1876, en- 

 titled " The American Centenary" (1876) ; " Story of 

 the- United States Navy for Boys " (1880) ; " Cy- 

 clopaedia of United States History," with 1,000 il- 

 lustrations (1881); ''Biography of James A. Gar- 

 field" (1881) ; an illustrated "'History of New York 

 City" (1884); "Mary and Martha Washington" 

 (1886) ; " Two Spies : Nathan Hale and John Andr4 " 

 (1886) ; and " The Empire State, a Compendious His- 

 tory of the Commonwealth of New York " (1887). 

 Mr. Lossing annotated Francis Hopkinson's " Pretty 

 Story," with a biography of the author of the allegory, 

 which was published under the title of " The Old 

 Farm and the New Farm" (1857). With Edwin 

 Williams he compiled " The Statesman's Manual " 

 (4 vols., 1858) and the " National History of the 

 United States" (2 vols., 1858). He also edited and 

 annotated the " Diaries of Washington " (1859), and 

 the " Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washing- 

 ton," by George W. P. Custis (1860), edited the 

 " Poems " of William Wilson, with a biography (1869), 

 and prepared an edition of John Trurnbull's " Mc- 

 Fingal," with a life (1871) 



Loughlin, John, first bishop of the Roman Catholic 

 diocese of Brooklyn, N. Yt, born in County Down, 

 Ireland, Dec. 20, 1817; died in Brooklyn, Dec. 29, 

 1891. His father was a tenant farmer, who emigrated 

 to Albany, N. Y., where the young man received his 

 early education. He completed his classical course 

 in a school at Chambly, near Montreal, and then 

 went to Mount St. Mary's College, Emmettsburg, 

 Md. On Oct. 18, 1840, he was ordained a priest for 

 the diocese of New York. He was first sent as a 

 missionary to Utica, where he remained two years, 

 until the death of Bishop Dubois of New York, when 

 Archbishop Hughes, who had been the coadjutor of 

 Bishop Dubois, made him assistant at the cathedral. 

 Subsequently he was promoted to pastor, and in 1849 

 was appointed vicar-general. Archbishop Hughes in 

 1852 selected Father Loughlin as his theologian to 

 accompany him to the first plenary council, held in 

 Baltimore. That council recommended the erection 

 of new dioceses, including Brooklyn, and Father 



Loughlin was named as bishop, and was consecrated 

 Oct. 30, 1853, in the New York cathedral, Mgr. Caje- 

 tan Bedini, the papal nuncio, officiating. Bishop 

 Loughlin chose as his cathedral St. James Church, on 

 Jay Street, the oldest Catholic church in Brooklyn, 

 and took up his residence in the present parochial 

 house, where he lived for thirty-seven years. When 

 he came to Brooklyn there were only 10 Catholic 

 churches on Long Island ; at his death there were 119, 

 70 being within the city limits. Thus he earned the 

 title of " Church Builder." He also invited to Brook- 

 lyn several religious and charitable associations, 

 whose advent was followed by the establishment of 

 hospitals, homes, orphanages, convents, academies, 

 and colleges, all directed to the education and eleva- 

 tion of the Catholic masses. He was a shrewd busi- 

 ness man, and had the faculty of picking out the 

 most valuable sites for religious institutions and pur- 

 chasing the ground long in advance of the necessity 

 for its use. In 1860 he conceived the project of build- 

 ing a new cathedral. A site was purchased for 

 $75,200, but the civil war delayed work, and it was 

 not until 1868 that the foundation was begun, the 

 corner-stone being laid on June 21 of that year. 

 Bishop Loughlin made his first visit to Rome in 1869 

 to attend the Council of the Vatican, and was made 

 domestic prelate to the Pope. After his return part 

 of the new cathedral was finished and named St. 

 John's Chapel. In 1880 he made a second journey to 

 Rome. He was invited to attend Pope Leo's golden 

 jubilee, but instead of going sent one of the priests of 

 his diocese with a present consisting of an album 

 containing photographs of all the Catholic churches 

 and institutions in the diocese, with a detailed state- 

 ment of the progress of the Church on Long Island. 

 Adjoining the new cathedral a costly episcopal resi- 

 dence was erected in 1888, but it was not until May, 



1890, that the bishop could be persuaded to leave his 

 humble home in Jay Street. His golden jubilee oc- 

 curred in October, 1890, the celebration lasting four 

 days and including a public reception at the Rink 

 and a civic parade. On this occasion he was pre- 

 sented with a purse of $37,000, which he devoted to 

 the endowment of a seminary for the education of 

 priests. He was averse to introducing any disturbing 

 questions in his diocese, and never interfered with 

 the expressions by his clergy of their views on polit- 

 ical or ethical subjects. Some of his friends in the 

 hierarchy who disagreed with this policy suggested 

 the appointment of a coadjutor, but Bishop Loughlin 

 sent word to Rome that he was perfectly able to at- 

 tend to all his duties. He was not an orator, but was 

 never uninteresting in speech, and was humble- 

 minded in spirit, shunning publicity as if it were a 

 plague. On New Year's day, 1892, his body was 

 transferred to the cathedral in Jay Street, and the 

 next day was placed in a vault beneath, there to re- 

 main until the completion of the new cathedral. 



Love, James M,, jurist, born in Fairfax Court-house, 

 Va., March 4, 1820 ; died in Keokuk, Iowa, July 3, 



1891. He received a common - school education, 

 studied law in Janesville, Ohio, was admitted to the 

 bar in 1840, and practiced in Coshocton County till 

 1846. He then raised a military company for service 

 in Mexico, and commanded it till trie close of the 

 war. In 1850 he removed to Keokuk and resumed 

 law practice. In 1852 he served a term as State Sena- 

 tor. Four years later he was appointed judge of the 

 United States District Court of Iowa, and he held the 

 office till 1883, when the State was divided into two 

 districts, and he was assigned to the southern. He 

 was a Democrat in politics. It is said that in all his 

 judicial career of more than thirty-four years but two 

 of his decisions were reversed by the United States 

 Supreme Court. 



Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, clergyman, bom in Bos- 

 ton, Mass., Oct. 8, 1816; died in Schenectady, N. Y., 

 Sept. 12, 1891. His father, the Rev. Charles Lowell, 

 was a Unitarian clergyman, and Hon. James Russell 

 Lowell was his younger brother. He was graduated 

 at Harvard in 1833, and studied at the Harvard Med- 



