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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (LEWELLING LOCKE.) 



brought suit against Gen. Butler in the Supreme 

 Court of the United States. The Government 

 was made the defendant, and on the trial Gen. 

 Butler appeared for the Government. After pend- 

 ing twenty years, the suit was dismissed on a 

 technicality. 



Lewelling, Lorenzo D., ex-Governor, born in 

 Salem, Iowa, Dec. 21, 184(5; died in Arkansas 

 City. Kan.. Sept. 3, 1900. At the age of sixteen 

 he "began work as a laborer on the Chicago, Bur- 

 lington and Quincy Kailroad. Later he went to 

 St. Louis and became a driver of cattle for the 

 quartermaster's department of the National 

 army in Tennessee, and then one of a bridge- 

 building corps at Chattanooga. After the war 

 he had a varied career; he studied at Knox Col- 

 lege, taught in a Quaker institute at Salem, 

 edited a Republican newspaper there, and then 

 for fifteen years had charge of the Iowa State 

 Reform School. He represented Iowa in national 

 conferences of charities, and was a member and 

 for a time president of the Iowa State Normal 

 School Board. In 1880 he established at Des 

 Me lines an anti-ring Republican newspaper. In 

 1887 he removed to Wichita, Kan., and engaged 

 in the commission business. In 1888 he was de- 

 feated as the Liberal candidate for Secretary of 

 State. In 18!)2 he was nominated by the Demo- 

 cratic and Populist parties as the fusion candi- 

 date for Governor and was elected. In 1894 he 

 was renominated, but was defeated. After the 

 expiration of his term as Governor he engaged in 

 real-estate and dairy business. 



Lewis. John Randolph, soldier, born in Edin- 

 burg, Pa., in 1835; died in Chicago, 111., Feb. 8, 

 1 !>()(). At the outbreak of the civil war he en- 

 listed. May 2, 1861, as sergeant in the 1st Ver- 

 mont Infantry; later he mustered a company, 

 and, Sept. 16, 1861, was commissioned captain. 

 He was advanced to major, July 16, 1862; lieu- 

 tenant colonel, Oct. 6, 1862; colonel, June 5, 1864; 

 and mustered out of the service, Sept. 11, 1864. 

 He was made colonel in the Veteran Reserve 

 Corps, Sept. 12, 1864, and brigadier general by 

 brevet, March 13, 1865. In the regular army he 

 was commissioned major of the 44th Infantry, 

 Jan. 22, 1867, and retired with the rank of colo- 

 nel. April 28, 1870. He participated with the 

 Army of the Potomac in 12 battles, and lost his 

 left arm in the last. In 1872 he settled in At- 

 lanta; he soon became identified with the public 

 life of that city and was appointed postmaster, 

 and served as secretary of the Atlanta Exposi- 

 tion. Later he settled in Chicago. 



Lippincott, Job Hilliard. lawyer, born near 

 Mount Holly, N. J., Nov. 12, 1842; died in Jersey 

 City, N. J., July 5, 1900. He was graduated at 

 Harvard Law School, was admitted to the bar in 

 1807, and began practice in Hudson City, N. J. 

 lie was elected as a Democrat to the Board of 

 Ivlncation in 1868, and served as its president 

 till 1871, when Hudson City became a part of 

 Jersey City. In 1874 he was elected counsel of the 

 Hudson County Board of Freeholders, and he was 

 annually re-elected for thirteen years. In 1886 he 

 was appointed United States district attorney for 

 New Jersey. He resigned in 1887 to become law 

 judge of Hudson County for an unexpired term, 

 and in 1888 was reappointed for a full term of 

 five years. During this term as judge he became 

 prominent on account of his imprisonment of 

 ballot-box stuffers in 1892. After the election for 

 Governor in 1889 an investigation showed that 

 about 5.000 fraudulent ballots were cast, and 

 Judge Lippincott was one of the most active in 

 pushing the trials of the 67 election officers, who 

 were mainly concerned in the crime. In Janu- 



ary, 1893, he was appointed to the Supreme 

 Court bench, and in 1900 was reappointed. 



Liscum. Emerson H., soldier, born in Ver- 

 mont, July 16, 1841 ; died near Tientsin, China. 

 July 13, 1900. He enlisted May 2, 1861, as a cor- 

 poral in the 1st Vermont Infantry, and served 

 till August of the same year, when he was mus- 

 tered out and immediately re-enlisted as a private 

 in the 12th Regular Infantry. On March 22. 1863, 

 he was commissioned second lieutenant, and two 

 months later first lieutenant. For gallant service 

 at the battle of Bethesda Church, and during the 

 campaign before Richmond he was, Aug. 1, 1864, 

 brevetted captain. He was transferred to the 

 30th Infantry in September, 1866. March 26. 

 1867, he accepted a captaincy in the 25th Infan- 

 try. His advancement in rank from that time 

 was as follows: Captain, 19th Infantry, July, 

 1870; major, 22d Infantry, . May 4, 18!I2: lieu- 

 tenant colonel, 24th Infantry, May 23, 1896; colo- 

 nel, 9th Infantry, April 25, 1899. He was severely 

 wounded at the battle of Gettysburg. From 1870 

 till the beginning of the Spanish War he was in 

 service in Louisiana, the Departments of the .Mis 

 souri and Texas, and the Division of the Atlantic. 

 He was known in the army as one of the best of 

 the old Indian fighters. His regiment, the 24th. 

 formed part of the 3d Brigade, 1st Division. 5th 

 Army Corps before Santiago, and he was brigade 

 commander after two commanding officers had 

 been disabled. He was badly wounded at the 

 battle of San Juan Hill. For this service he was 

 made brigadier general of volunteers, July 12. 

 1898, and was honorably discharged from the vol- 

 unteer service Dec. 31, 1898. His sick leave ter- 

 minated with his appointment as colonel, April 

 25, 1899, of the 9th Infantry, assigned to duty in 

 the Philippine Islands. He served more than a 

 year there, being twice detached from his regi- 

 ment to command the 1st Brigade, 2d Division. 

 8th Army Corps. His name was to have been 

 presented at the next session of Congress for pro- 

 motion to the rank of brigadier general. lie 

 sailed from Manila for Taku with his regiment, 

 June 27, 1900, and fell at the head of his men. 

 while leading an attack, in co-operation with 

 the allied armies, on the city of Tientsin. 



Little, John Zebulon, American actor and 

 dramatist, born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1838 : died 

 in New York city (Brooklyn), March 9, 1900. 

 Was one of the most popular melodrama! it- 

 actors of the United States, and among the first 

 to engage in the profitable presentation of that 

 class of drama at cheap prices by traveling from 

 city to city with a company under his own man 

 agement and playing in second-class theater-. 

 He was a member of the company at Wood's Mu- 

 seum (now Daly's Theater) in New York city in 

 1873, and made his first success as Abht' Faria 

 in The Ocean of Life. In this theater the actor- 

 played many parts during the season, and Lit tit- 

 won a good reputation as a hard-working and 

 careful man. In 1874 his first original play. 

 called Santiago Avenged, was produced, with Mr. 

 Little in the principal character. Another of li:> 

 plays. The Golden Gulch, was produced by him at 

 Tony Pastor's Theater in August. 1S70. He wrote 

 and produced in 1880 The World, in which he 

 starred for years. 



Locke, Elbridg'e W.. song writer, born 

 Stoddard. N. H.. Jan. 1, 1818; died in Clid 

 Mass., June 11. 1900. He served as blacksmith 1 '! 

 apprentice, then as country schoolmaster, and 

 taught his pupils music iii the evening, often 

 composing his own words and music. A few 

 years before the civil war he was teach ing Iii* 

 songs in the large towns of the Northern State-. 





