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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 (15701671), 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. 



