OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (LKIPKR LKWIS.) 



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mosa to organize a system for the protection 

 of shipwrecked crews from foreign ports, and 

 greatly advanced the tea trade of the island. At 

 the close of this service he was appointed min- 

 ister to the Argentine Republic, and while on his 

 way home he was stopped at Yokohama by 

 United States Minister De Long, who urged him 

 to remain in Japan and take charge of the De- 

 partment of Foreign Affairs of that country. 

 With the approval of the Government he ac- 

 cepted this post, and he held it throughout the 

 ten years' reconstruction period of that empire. 

 At the close of this service Gen. Le Gendre went 

 to Korea and became adviser to the King, now 

 Emperor. 



Leiper, Charles Louis, soldier, born in Aven- 

 dale, Pa., Dec. 25, 1842; died in Philadelphia, Pa., 

 Aug. 13, 1899. He began his military career with 

 the Philadelphia City Troop, serving from May 

 13 till Aug. 17, 1861. He then assisted in form- 

 ing the (5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as 

 Rush's Lancers, and was mustered in as first 

 lieutenant, Sept. 7, 1861; was promoted captain, 

 Nov. 20, 1862; major, Sept. 1, 1864; lieutenant 

 colonel, Feb. 1, 1865; colonel, March 20, 1865; 

 and was mustered out, Aug. 7, 1865. He was 

 bre vetted brigadier general, March 13, 1865. On 

 his return from the army he engaged in the manu- 

 facture of textile goods. He organized the 6th 

 Pennsylvania Cavalry Association, and was its 

 only president. He was for several years presi- 

 dent of the War Veterans' Club. 



Leitch, Robert R., naval officer, born in Balti- 

 more, Md., in 1850; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 March 14, 1899. He was graduated at the head 

 of his class in the Naval Academy in October, 

 1871. He was promoted to be second assistant 

 engineer, Jan. 23, 1874; assistant engineer, Feb. 

 24, 1874; and passed assistant engineer, Jan. 15, 

 1879. He became chief engineer, Sept. 30, 1894, 

 and on Feb. 19, 1896, he was retired, on account 

 of failing health, with the relative rank of lieu- 

 tenant commander. Since that time he had lived 

 in Brooklyn. When the war with Spain broke 

 out he was assigned to special duty as chief 

 engineer to the Pensacola Navy Yard. 



Leland, Warren P., hotel keeper, born in 

 Londonderry, Vt., in 1844; died in New York 

 city, April 4, 1899. He belonged to a family 

 of hotel proprietors and managers that has been 

 known throughout the United States nearly a 

 century. He was educated at Hiram College, 

 where one of his teachers was James A. Garfield. 

 After being graduated he went to New York, 

 where his father had been conducting the Clinton 

 Hotel, but had sold it to his brothers, Charles 

 and Warren. In 1852 these brothers became pro- 

 prietors of the Metropolitan Hotel, where young 

 Warren began his hotel career when sixteen years 

 old. He worked his way through the various de- 

 partments till he became chief of the office staff. 

 In 1868 he and his brother Charles leased the 

 Delavan House, in Albany, N. Y. From Albany 

 Warren went to Chicago, where in 1880 he pur- 

 chased the Gardener House, made large additions, 

 and opened it as the Leland Hotel. In 1892 he 

 sold this property to a syndicate and built the 

 Chicago Beach Hotel, which he managed through- 

 out the Columbian Exposition. His next ven- 

 ture was at Newport, R. I., where he conducted 

 the Ocean House a year, and during the winter 

 of 1895-'96 he was at the head of the Windsor 

 Hotel in Jacksonville, Fla. He leased the Wind- 

 sor Hotel, New York, in May, 1896, and con- 

 ducted it till its destruction by fire, March 17, 

 1899. Nearly a score of persons perished in the 

 fire, including his wife and daughter. This dis- 



aster was a terrible .shock to Mr. Leland, but 

 while directing the search for the remains of the 

 victims and assisting in the work of identification 

 he set about preparing for the erection of a new 

 hotel. He was suddenly sci/.ed with an affection 

 that necessitated a surgical operation, from which 

 he failed to recover. 



Leonard, Moses Gage, benefactor, born in 

 Stafford, Conn., July 10, ISO!); died in New York 

 city, March 20, 1899. He received a district 

 school education, and removed to New York in 

 1832. In 1840 he was elected an alderman. Dur- 

 ing the three years he held this office lie was 

 chairman of the Committees of Arts, Sciences, 

 and Schools, served on the Croton Aqueduct and 

 Finance Committees, and also presided in the dif- 

 ferent city courts, in which the aldermen of those 

 days had jurisdiction. In 1844 he was elected to 

 Congress, where he promoted the tariff reform 

 measures. He was defeated for a second term in 

 1846, but was elected Commissioner of Charities 

 and Alms, then the second officer of the city in 

 point of honor and pay. During his term of 

 this office he was conspicuous in organizing the 

 hospitals of the city. Old buildings were replaced 

 with new ones. The Bellevue structure, occupied 

 by paupers, was converted into a hospital; an 

 additional building for lunatics was erected; and 

 a children's department building was put up on 

 Randall's island from plans drawn by Mr. Leon- 

 ard. For his services during the " ship fever " 

 epidemic and the potato famine in 1847-'49 the 

 citizens gave him a public reception and pre- 

 sented him with a silver service. In the summer 

 of 1849 he was called to San Francisco by busi- 

 ness, and in the following year was elected to 

 the first Common Council of the city after the 

 admission of the State into the Union. There 

 he rendered valuable service in framing and en- 

 acting municipal ordinances and providing the 

 city with a substantial government, and this 

 service was recognized by a public banquet in 

 his honor. In the second' year of the civil war, 

 at the request of Gov. Morgan, Mr. Leonard, 

 in conjunction with the late Judge Robertson, 

 organized, equipped, and sent to the front the 

 135th New York Volunteers, afterward the 6th 

 New York Artillery. Later he was provost mar- 

 shal of the 10th Congressional District, and made 

 the first two drafts of troops there, for which 

 he received the thanks of the Government. 



Lewis, Lillian (Mrs. Lawrence Marston), ac- 

 tress, born in Midway, Ky., in 1852; died in 

 Farmington, Minn., Aug. 11, 1899. Her first ap- 

 pearance on the stage was in 1882, when she 

 played Marianne in The Two Orphans at the 

 Fifth Avenue Theater, New York. After three 

 years of success in various companies, she or- 

 ganized a company of her own and entered upon 

 a successful career as a star at the People's The- 

 ater, New York, in the autumn of 1885. She chose 

 the part of Cora in Article 47 for her introduction 

 to the public on that occasion, and was well re- 

 ceived. In addition she played the principal 

 woman in Camille, The Lady of Lyons, An Un- 

 equal Match, The New Magdalen, Frou-Frou, and 

 Adrienne Lecouvreur. In 1888 she married Law- 

 rence Marston, who had been for some time her 

 leading man. Mr. Marston continued to act the 

 principal men of her plays, managed her business, 

 and adapted and wrote plays for her. By his 

 w r ork her repertory was increased with As in a 

 Looking Glass, Dona Sol, Credit Lorraine, Lady 

 Lil, Good-by, Sweetheart, Cleopatra, An Innocent 

 Sinner, For Liberty and Love, and The Widow 

 Goldstein. The last three were the joint work 

 of Mr. and Mrs. Marston. Her last appearance 



