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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. .(LANG Low.) 



him (first volume only) was severely criticised by 

 the friends of the President because of its unfriendly 

 tone, after what was known to have been a long 

 and very intimate acquaintance between the Presi- 

 dent and Mr. Lamon. 



Lang, Louis, painter, born in Waldsee, Wiirtemberg, 

 Feb. 29, 1812; died in New York city, May ? } 1893. 

 At the age of sixteen he had become proficient in 

 pastel work. He continued his art study in Paris 

 and Stuttgart, removed to Philadelphia in 1838, and, 

 after a trip to Italy in 1841, settled in New York city. 

 He was a member of the Century Club since 1849, 

 and. an associate of the National Academy of Design 

 since 1852. His chief paintings included " Blind 

 Nydia," " Maid of Saragossa," "Mary Stuart Distrib- 

 uting Gifts," " Romeo and Juliet," " Jephtha's Daugh- 

 ter," and " Portrait of a Child." 



Larcom, Lucy, poet, born in Beverly, Mass., in 1826 ; 

 died in Boston, Mass., April 17, 1893. On the death 

 of her father she accompanied her mother to Lowell, 

 where she attended the grammar school till obliged 

 to go to work in a cot- 

 ton - mill. There she 

 soon became one of the 

 most popular contribu- 

 tors to the Lowell " Of- 

 fering," a magazine con- 

 ducted by the mill girls. 

 Her writings attracted 

 the attention and won 

 for her the friendship 

 of John G. Whittier. 

 About 1846 she went to 

 Illinois, where she stud- 

 ied for three years in 

 the Monticello Academy 

 and applied all her lei- 

 sure to teaching. She then returned to Massachu- 

 setts and taught for six years in Wheaton Semi- 

 nary. In 1865, on the* establishment of " Our Young 

 Folks," she became assistant editor, and soon after- 

 ward she was appointed editor. She conducted the 

 publication with nigh credit till 1874. Her writings, 

 which were very numerous, included " Ships in trie 

 Mist, and Other Stories" (1859) ;" Poems" (1868); 

 " An Idyl of Work," a retrospect of her factory life 

 (1875) ; " Childhood Songs " (1877) ; u Wild Roses of 

 Cape Ann, and Other Poems" (1880) ; "New Eng- 

 land Girlhood " (1884) ; " As it is in Heaven " (1891) ; 

 and "The Unseen Friend" (1892). She also edited 

 several collections of poetry, among them "Breath- 

 ings of a Better Life " (1867) ; " Hillside and. Seaside 

 in Poetry " (1876) ; and " Roadside Poems for Sum- 

 mer Travelers" (1877). A complete collection of her 

 poetical works to that time was published in 1884. 



Larremore, Richard Ludlow, jurist, born in Astoria, 

 Long Island, N. Y., Sept 6, 1830 ; died in New York 

 city, Sept. 13, 1893. He was graduated at Rutgers 

 College m 1850 ; studied law in New York city, and 

 was admitted to the bar there in 1852. In 1870 he 

 was elected a judge of the Court of Common Pleas as 

 a Democrat ; in 1876 was assigned by Gov. Tilden to 

 duty as one of the j udges of the Supreme Court ; in 

 1884 was re-elected for a term of fourteen years ; and 

 in 1891 resigned on account of ill health, after having 

 served for a year as chief justice of the Court of Com- 

 mon Pleas, succeeding Judge Charles P. Daly. He 

 had been interested deeply in the educational affairs 

 of the city, and had served as a trustee of the llth and 

 19th Ward schools, as a commissioner of education in 

 1861-'64 and 1868-'70, and as president of the board in 

 his last year of service. Judge Larremore was a 

 member of the State Constitutional Convention of 

 1867 and of its Committee on Education and Litera- 

 ture. He received the degree of LL. D. from the Uni- 

 versity of the City ot New York in 1870. 



Lee, Mary W., army nurse, born in Ardmore, County 

 Tyrone, Ireland, in 1816 ; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Aug. 8, 1893. She was brought to the United States 

 when a child. In 1862 she became a volunteer nurse 

 in the Union army. Her first service was in the hos- 



pital transport at Harrison's Landing, and from this 

 point she followed the army through victory and de- 

 feat to the close of the war. She particularly distin- 

 fuished herself in the campaign that ended with the 

 attle of Antietarn, and in that struggle was con- 

 spicuous for her tender ministrations to the wounded. 

 Sne also rendered invaluable services at Fredericks- 

 burg and Chancellorsville, and at the hospital center 

 of the arrny_ after Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and 

 Spottsylvania. After the surrender at Appomattox 

 she went to Richmond and served in the nospitals 

 there. On June 12, 1891, the survivors of the 72d 

 Pennsylvania Volunteers gave her a reception and 

 made her several presents, and on July 4 she un- 

 veiled the regimental monument at Gettysburg. 



Littlefield, Alfred H., manufacturer, born in Warwick, 

 R. I., April 2, 1829 ; died in Pawtucket, R. I., Dec. 21, 

 1893. He was engaged in manufacturing and bank- 

 ing ; was division inspector of the Rhode Island mili- 

 tia, with the rank of colonel, in the civil war ; was a 

 member of the lower branch of the State Legislature 

 in 1876-'77, and of the State Senate in 1878-79 ; and 

 was elected Governor of the State as a Republican in 

 1880, 1881, and 1882. 



Locke, Frederick Thomas, military officer, born in 

 New York city, Aug. 17, 1826 ; died there, Jan. 6, 1893. 

 He entered the Union army at the outbreak of the 

 civil war as adjutant of the 12th New York Volun- 

 teers, and before he had completed three months of 

 service he was appointed captain, assistant adjutant- 

 general, and assistant chief of staff of Gen. Fitz John 

 Porter's command. He took part in all the engage- 

 ments of the Army of the Potomac ; was brevetted 

 brigadier-general tor bravery in the battle of Fair 

 Oaks ; and was present at the surrender of Lee's army. 

 A shot in the face in the battle of Spottsylvania 

 Courthouse was the ultimate cause of his death. 



Lockwood, Samuel, naval officer, born in Norwalk, 

 Conn., Jan. 24, 1803; died in Flushing, Long Island, 

 N. Y., July 5, 1893. He was appointed a midshipman 

 in the United States navy, July 12, 1820 ; promoted 

 lieutenant, May 17, 1828, and commander, Oct. 18, 

 1850; retired, Oct. 1, 1864; and commissioned com- 

 modore, to rank with those of his original date, March 

 12, 1867. In 1821-'25 he served in the West Indies; 

 in 1831-'32 on the Brazilian station; in 1834-'36 on 

 the Pacific station ; in 1838-'39 with Commodore 

 Jones's exploring expedition ; and during the Mexi- 

 can war assisted in the capture of Vera Cruz, Tuspan, 

 and Tabasco, and blockaded the Tabasco river for 

 six months. During the civil war he blockaded 

 Wilmington and Beaufort, N. C., York river and 

 Newport News, and the approach to Cape Henry, Va. ; 

 and while lying off Beaufort commanded the flotilla, 

 assisted in the capture of Fort Macon by the military 

 and naval forces, and with Gen. Parke signed the 

 terms of surrender on the part of the United States. 



Low, Abiel Ahbot, merchant, born in Salem, Mass., 

 Feb. 7, 1811 ; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 7, 1893. 

 He received a public-school education ; became a 

 clerk in a mercantile house engaged in the South 

 American trade; removed to Brooklyn and joined 

 his father in business in 1829 ; spent 1833-'40 in busi- 

 ness in Canton, China ; and returning to Brooklyn, es- 

 tablished himself as a tea merchant. Subsequently, 

 with his brother Josiah, and his brother-in-law E. 

 11. R. Lyman, he organized the firm of A. A. Low & 

 Bros., built about a dozen ships to accommodate his 

 trade with China and the East, and made his firm a 

 leader in its line. He became a member of the New 

 York Chamber of Commerce in 1846, and its presi- 

 dent in 1863 and 1866 ; was a founder of Greenwood 

 Cemetery ; trustee of the Packer Institute, Brook- 

 lyn Library, Long Island Historical Society, Brook- 

 lyn Hospital, Society for Improving the Condition 

 of the Poor, and of other benevolent and financial 

 institutions, chiefly in Brooklyn. He never held a 

 political office. During life he gave a generous sup- 

 port to the charitable and educational institutions 

 with which he was connected, and he made the follow- 

 ing public bequests : Chamber of Commerce of New 



