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several years. He wrote about 200 plays ; the 

 most popular among them were " Solon Shin- 

 gle," "Eugene Aram," "The Liberty Tree," 

 " The Fire Warrior," " The Siege of Boston," 

 " Moll Pitcher," " Stephen Burroughs," " The 

 Carpenter of Rouen," with its sequel in " The 

 Surgeon of Paris; or, The Mask of the Hugue- 

 nots," "Job and Jacob Gray," "The Last Dol- 

 lar," "The People's Lawyer," "The Sons of 

 the Cape," "Zofara," "Captain Lascar," and 

 " Paul Revere." " The Silver Spoon," in which 

 Mr. William Warren, of the Boston Museum, 

 made his great hit as Jefferson Scattering Bat- 

 kins, was revived at that theatre through many 

 seasons. He also dramatized " The Three Ex- 

 periments of Living," by Mrs. Lee. 



KENT, EDWAED, LL. D., died at Bangor, Me., 

 May 19th. He was born at Concord, N. H., 

 January 8, 1802, and graduated at Harvard 

 College in 1821. In 1825 he began the practice 

 of law at Bangor, forming a partnership with 

 Jonas Cutting. He was Chief Justice of the 

 Court of Sessions of Penobscot County in 1827, 

 represented Bangor in the Legislature from 

 1829 to 1833, and was mayor of that city in 

 1836 and again in 1837. In 1838 and 1840 he 

 was Governor of Maine, and in 1843 he was one 

 of the United States commissioners for settling 

 the northeastern boundary dispute, under the 

 Ashburton Treaty. He was consul at Rio 

 Janeiro for four years, and returned to Bangor 

 in 1854, where he resumed the practice of law. 

 He was appointed Associate Justice of the Su- 

 preme Court of Maine, was reappointed in 1866, 

 retired in 1873, and was chosen President of 

 the Constitutional Commission of Maine, which 

 was his last public service. The degree of 

 LL.D. was conferred upon him in 1855 by Wa- 

 terville College, now Colby University. 



KINNY, Mrs. MART COGSWELL, died in 

 Washington, D. C., April 7th, aged 62 years. 

 She was the eldest daughter of the late Rev. 

 Dr. Cogswell, of New Jersey, and his first wife 

 Elizabeth Abbot. On both sides she was de- 

 scended from two of the oldest families in New 

 England. She was educated in New York City, 

 and occupied a prominent position in the best 

 society there and in Washington. Her only 

 daughter married Count Gianotti, aide-do-camp 

 to Prince Humbert, King of Italy. 



LADREYT, Prof. CASSIMEB, died in Boston, 

 Mass., July 4th, aged 80 years. Ho was born 

 in France, and was the author of many text- 

 books and other publications. He had been a 

 resident of this country about 40 years. 



LAHRBUSH, Captain FREDERICK, died in New 

 York City, April 3d, aged, it is supposed, 111 

 years. He served in the British army from an 

 early age until he was 52 years old, taking part 

 in the battles of the Peninsular War, and keep- 

 ing guard over Napoleon at St. Helena. 



LAMATER, DE, JOHN, died in New York, De- 

 cember 21st. He was born in that city in 1792, 

 and was one of its oldest residents. From 1824 

 until his death, a period of 53 years, he was con- 

 nected with the common schools, as commis- 



sioner, inspector, or trustee, the last 20 years of 

 his life being devoted to the schools in his own 

 ward. He acquired reputation and fortune as 

 a master-builder, and represented the Ninth 

 Ward as assistant alderman in 1832 and 1884, 

 and as alderman in 1834 and 1835. During the 

 first term of Mayor Havemeyer he was the 

 Whig representative to devise the system of the 

 Tax Commissioners, and was a director of the 

 Greenwich Bank and the Greenwich Savings 

 Bank. 



LEE, JOHN D., executed at Mountain Meadow, 

 Utah, March 23d. He was indicted in Septem- 

 ber, 1874, for murder committed by him on 

 September 16, 1857, when he took part in the 

 " Mountain Meadow Massacre." At that time 

 120 emigrants, men, women, and children, were 

 passing through Utah, on their way from Ar- 

 kansas to California. At Mountain Meadow 

 they were attacked by Mormons and Indians, 

 and all of the emigrants who were old enough 

 to disclose any facts relating to the massacre 

 were killed on the spot. Seventeen small chil- 

 dren were spared. Lee was tried for his part in 

 this crime in July, 1875, when the jury dis- 

 agreed. He was again tried in September, 1876. 

 He was found guilty, and was sentenced to be 

 shot January 26, 1877, he being permitted by 

 the laws of Utah to choose the mode of his ex- 

 ecution. A stay of proceedings was obtained 

 for purposes of appeal, and the sentence of 

 the court was carried into effect March 28d. 

 Lee left a written document, in which he con- 

 fessed the crime charged against him, and said 

 that the massacre had been ordered by the 

 Mormon Church ; that Brighaiu Young was 

 privy to it, and that most of the effects plun- 

 dered from the victims of the massacre had 

 been turned over to the Mormon Church. Brig- 

 ham Young stoutly denied the statements mado 

 against him. Leo was born in Kaskaskia, 111., 

 in 1812. He joined the Mormons at Fairwest, 

 Mo., in 1837; rose to a high position in tho 

 Mormon Church, and became a member of tho 

 Legislature nnd Judge of Washington Coun- 

 ty, Utah. He said that he was an honored 

 man in the church, flattered by Brigham Young 

 and tho apostles until 1868, when he was "cut 

 off from the church, and selected as a scapegoat 

 to suffer for and bear the sins " of his people. 

 Lee had been married to 18 wives, and was the 

 father of 64 children, of whom 54 were living 

 at the time of his death. 



1 .1:1. \ M-. HENRY, the young American paint- 

 er, died at Paris, December 6th. 



LK VERT, Madame OCTAVIA WALTOX, died 

 in Augusta, Ga., March 18th. She was born 

 in Georgia, about 1820, and wns a grand- 

 daughter of George Walton, one of the signers 

 of the Declaration of Independence. Her fa- 

 ther, also George Walton, was at one time Gov- 

 ernor of Florida. She had remarkable linguistic 

 talent ; and while in Washington, D. 0., in 

 1888-'84, she mado admirable report* of the 

 Congressional debate?, to which Webster, Clay, 

 and Calhoun frequently referred. In 1836 she 



