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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (LITTLEFIELD LUNA.) 



was in St. Louis, April 27, 1898. The last year 

 of her life was passed in seeking relief from eon- 

 sumption. 



Littlefield. Milton Smith, soldier, born in 

 Jefferson County. New York, in 1830: died in 

 New York city. March 7, 1899. He studied law 

 in the ofliee of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, 

 111., and was practicing in that city when the 

 civil war broke out. He was commissioned a 

 captain in the 14th Illinois Regiment, of which 

 Col. (afterward (Jen.) John M. Palmer was com- 

 mander. He went through the campaign of 

 KS62 as provost marshal on Gen. Sherman's staff, 

 with station at Memphis. Tenn. Subsequently 

 he was transferred to the Department of the 

 South, with headquarters at Hilton Head, S. C. 

 lie took part in the siege of Charleston, served 

 on the staff of (Jen. Gillmore, and afterward was 

 inspector general of colored troops. After the 

 war he engaged in railroad business. 



Livermore. Daniel Parker, clergyman, born 

 in Worcester. Mass.. in 1819; died in Melrose, 

 Mass.. July ">. 1899. When nineteen years old 

 he was ordained to the Universalist ministry, 

 and became pastor of a church in Fall River. 

 In 1845 he married Mary Ashton Rice, then a 

 teacher in Duxbury, afterward widely known as 

 a reformer. They lived successively in Stafford, 

 Conn., Maiden and Weymouth, Mass., Auburn, 

 N. Y.. Quincy, 111., and Chicago, where in 1857 

 he became editor and publisher of the New Cove- 

 nant, and for twelve years was assisted in edi- 

 torial work by his wife. In 1869 they settled 

 in Melrose, keeping their home there during the 

 ten years he held a pastorate in Hingham. After 

 his retirement he assisted his wife in her literary 

 work. 



Lockwood, Henry Hayes, educator and sol- 

 dier, born in Kent County, Delaware, Aug. 17, 

 1814; died in Washington, D. C., Dec. 7, 1899. 

 He was graduated at West Point in 1836 and 

 assigned to the artillery service. He took part 

 in the operations against the Florida Indians in 

 1837, after which he resigned and began farming 

 in Delaware. In 1841 he was appointed Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics in the United States navy. 

 He served in the Pacific squadron and took part 

 in the capture of Monterey, Cal., in October, 

 1842. Later he was stationed at the naval asy- 

 lum in Philadelphia. He was made Professor 

 of National Philosophy in the United States 

 Naval Academy in 1845, was Professor of Artil- 

 lery and Infantry Tactics from 1845 till 1861, 

 and also Professor of Astronomy and Gunnery 

 from 1851 till 1861. In the civil war he was colo- 

 nel of the 1st Delaware Volunteers, and was pro- 

 moted brigadier general of volunteers, Aug. 8, 

 18G1. He was in charge of Point Lookout and 

 of the defenses of the lower Potomac. At the 

 battle of Gettysburg he commanded a brigade of 

 the 12th Corps. After the war he returned to 

 the Naval Academy as Professor of Natural 

 Philosophy. From 1871 till 1876 he served at 

 the Naval Observatory. He was retired on Aug. 

 18, 187G. He was the author of A Manual for 

 Naval Batteries and Exercises in Small Arms and 

 Field Artillery, arranged for Naval Service. He 

 was the father of Lieut. James B. Lockwood, 

 who died while a member of the Greely arctic 

 expedition. 



Logan. John Alexander, soldier, born in Mur- 

 physboro, 111., July 24, 1865; died in Luzon, Philip- 

 pines, in November, 1899. He received an ap- 

 pointment to W 7 est Point and attended for two 

 years, but was not graduated. He then em- 

 barked in the real estate business in Washing- 

 ton, but soon removed to Youngstown, Ohio, 



where he engaged in limestone quarrying, and 

 at one time conducted a fancy stock farm. For 

 several years he was captain of the local militia 

 company, know^n as the Logan Rifles. In May, 

 1898, he received the appointment of assistant 

 adjutant general, with the rank of first lieuten- 

 ant, on the staff of Gen. John C. Bates. He went 

 to Cuba and took part in the battle of El Caney. 

 He was promoted to major for gallantry, and 

 at the conclusion of the Cuban war \vas with 

 Gen. Bates, who was governor of Santa Clara 

 province. On Aug. 19, 1899, he was appointed 

 major of the 33d United States Volunteers, and 

 he sailed with his regiment for the Philippines 

 early in October. He was the author of a book 

 entitled Joyful Russia. The earlier reports of 

 his death were that he had been shot by one 

 of his own men; but this w^as disproved by later 

 reports from witnesses, who declared that he was 

 shot by a Filipino sharpshooter in a tree. The 

 Filipino first shot a private, and Major Logan 

 dismounted to help the wounded man, when the 

 sharpshooter shot and killed him. Then the 

 major's orderly went to Logan's assistance and 

 was also shot, as w r ell as the hospital steward. 

 Major Lieberman then saw the Filipino in a tree, 

 and killed him with his pistol. 



Lord, Russell Farnham, engineer, born in 

 Honesdale, Pa., in 1838; died in New York city, 

 July 12, 1899. He was graduated at the Sheffield 

 Scientific School of Yale University, and then 

 spent several years as assistant to his father. 

 At the beginning of the civil war Gov. Curtin 

 appointed him a brigadier general of volunteers, 

 and throughout the war he was engaged in or- 

 ganizing regiments for the field. After the war 

 he went West to engage in mining engineering, 

 remaining there till 1886, when he was appointed 

 chief engineer to the Government of Salvador. 

 In 1892 he went to Ecuador, and he w r as employed 

 in developing mining property there till 1897. 



Luna, Antonio, Filipino insurgent, born in 

 Manila, Philippine Islands, about 1854; died on 

 Luzon island, June 8, 1899. He was a son of 

 Don Joaquin Luna, a retired merchant of Manila, 

 among whose sons were a distinguished physician 

 and surgeon, a musician, a painter, and a chem- 

 ist. Antonio was educated principally in Paris, 

 France, and returned to Manila early in 1898, 

 where he became editor of the insurgent organ 

 La Independencia. On the organization of Agui- 

 naldo's so-called government in December, 1898, 

 Luna was first announced as the new r Minister of 

 War. He had served the War Department in the 

 preceding Cabinet, and made himself conspicuous 

 in fighting the Spaniards after the American vic- 

 tory in Manila Bay and the surrender of Manila 

 city. Soon after Luna's second appointment to 

 the War Department Aguinaldo gave that post 

 to his cousin and placed Luna in immediate com- 

 mand of the Filipino armies, with the rank of 

 general. Accounts differ concerning the imme- 

 diate cause of his death. That the relations be- 

 tween Aguinaldo and Gens. Luna and Pilar had 

 become strained to the point of rupture is beyond 

 doubt. The first account of Luna's death de- 

 clared that he and an aid were killed by the guard 

 at Aguinaldo's headquarters in an altercation 

 over Luna's demand to see Aguinaldo for a con- 

 ference. A released Spanish officer, who witnessed 

 the stabbing and shooting of Luna and his aid, 

 said that Aguinaldo and Luna had had a stormy 

 interview, caused by Luna's attempts to assume 

 full control of affairs and Aguinaldo's issuance 

 of secret orders to the provincial governments. 

 Aguinaldo, fearing that Luna might attempt a 

 deadly assault on him, posted a trusty guard 





