APPENDIX. 3II 



revolutionary army, youngest son of Col. John Lee of the British 

 army. 



LEGARE, HUGH SWINTON (1797-1843), an American states- 

 man. 



LEIBNITZ, GOTTFRIED WILHELM (1646-1716) [A 2 ], a 

 German philosopher, second son by third wife of a professor of phil- 

 osophy. He was an orphan at 6. 



LEIDY, JOSEPH (1823-1892), an American naturalist and phy- 

 siologist. 



LESLIE, CHARLES (1650-1722) [80], a British theological 

 writer, son of Rev. John Leslie (1570-1671), a British prelate, the 

 oldest bishop in the world at the time of his death. 



LESSEPS, FERDINAND DE (1805-1894) [31], a French en- 

 gineer, son of Matthieu de Lesseps (1774-1832). 



LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729-1781) [36], a Ger- 

 man author, son of Rev. Johann Gottfried Lessing (1693 — ) [47], who 

 was son of Theophilus Lessing (1646 — ). 



LESSING, KARL FRIEDRICH (1808-1880) [115-^-3], a Ger- 

 man painter, great-grandson of Rev. Johann Gottfried Lessing 



(1693—) [47]- 



LEVERRIER, URBAIN JEAN JOSEPH (1811-1877), a French 

 astronomer. 



LIEBIG, JUSTUS VON (1803-1873), a German chemist. 



LINCOLN, ABRAHAM (1809-1865) [31], sixteenth president 

 of the United States, son of Thomas Lincoln ( 1778 — ) [44?], who was 

 youngest son of Abraham Lincoln (1733? — ), who was third son of 

 John Lincoln. The mother of Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, was the youngest 

 child of a considerable family and her father, Joseph Hanks, was the 

 youngest of five sons of William Hanks (1704 — ). Her mother, 

 Nancy Shipley, was the youngest child of Robert Shipley. 



LINNAEUS, CARL VON (1707-1778), a Swedish naturalist, son 

 of Rev. Nils Linnaeus and Christina, the daughter of a minister. 



