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de las cosas de Yucatan." which gives a key for deciphering the Mexican hieroglyphics, and an " Introduccion sobre las fuentes de la historia {mmitiva de Mexico y de la America Central en os monumentos egipcios y de la historia de Egipto en los monumentos Americanos." These were pre- served in manuscript and published by Brasseur de Bourbourg (Spanish and French, Paris, 1864).

LANDER, Frederick William, soldier, b. in Salem, Mass.. 17 Dec, 1821 ; d. in Paw Paw, Va., 2 March. 1862. He was educated at Dummer acad- emy, Byfteld, and studied civil engineering at the military academy at Norwich, Vt. He practised that profession a few years in Massa- chusetts, and was then employed by the U. S. govern- ment in conduct- ing important ex- plorations across the continent. He made two surveys to determine the practicability of a railroad-route to the Pacific, and from the second, which was under-

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expense, he alone, of all the party, returned alive. He afterward surveyed and constructed the great overland wagon-route. While engaged in 1858 on this work, his party of seventy men were attacked by the Pah Ute Indians, over whom they gained a decisive victory. He made five trans-continental explorations altogether, as engineer, chief engineer, or superintendent, and for his efficiency received praise in the official reports of the secretary of the interior. When the civil war began in 1861 he was employed on important secret missions in the southern states, served as a volunteer aide on Gen. McClellan's staff, and participated with great credit in the capture of Philippi and the battle of Rich Mountain. He led one of the two columns that set out, 3 June, 1861, to surprise the enemy at Philippi, and, after marching all night, opened the attack with an effective artillery fire, and soon put the Confederates to flight. He was made briga- dier-general of volunteers on 17 May, and in July took an important command on the upper Potomac. Hearing of the disaster at Ball's Bluff, he hastened to Edward's Ferry, which he held with a single com- pany of sharp-shooters, but was severely wounded in the leg. Before the wound was healed he re- ported for duty, and at Hancock, 5 Jan., 1862, he repelled a greatly superior Confederate force that besieged the town. Though much debilitated by his wound, he made a brilliant dash upon the ene- my at Blooming Gap, 14 Feb., 1862, for which he received a special letter of thanks from the secre- tary of war. The enemy retreated before the Union cavalry, but checked their pursuers in the pass, until Gen. Lander called for volunteers and swept down on the Confederate infantry. Increasing ill health compelled him to apply for temporary relief from military duty ; but, while preparing an attack on the enemy, he died of congestion of the brain. His death was announced in a special order issued by Gen. McClellan on 3 March. Gen. Lander wrote many stirring patriotic poems on incidents of the campaign. — His wife, Jean Margaret Davenport, actress, b. in Wolverhampton, Eng- land, 3 May, 1829, was the daughter of Thomas Donald, a Scotchman, who was originally a lawyer, but became manager of the Richmond theatre, where, at the age of eight, Jean made her first appearance. In 1838 she was brought to the United States and played in various cities. In 1842 she returned to Europe, where she travelled, and studied music under Garcia. At the Lon- don Olympic she became a favorite as Juliet in " The Countess " and as Julia in " The Hunch- back." In 1846 she took a company to Holland, where she was for two years highly successful, and upon returning to England, in 1848, became well known as a reader. In 1849 she visited the United States for the second time, and appeared, 24 Sept., 1851, at the Astor place opera-house. She went to California in 1855, and subsequently twice re- visited England. On 12 Oct., I860, at San Fran- cisco, she married Gen. Lander. Soon after his death, together with her mother, she took en- tire charge of the hospital department at Port Royal, S. C, where for over a year she rendered good service. She afterward returned to her home in Massachusetts, but on 6 Feb., 1865, she reappeared upon the stage at Niblo's garden, New York, in a play of her own translation called " Messalliance." She afterward played the character of Queen Elizabeth at the National theatre, in Washington, in April, 1867, and appeared else- where throughout the country with success. She was the first representative in this country of Browning's "Colombe," Hawthorne's "Hester Prynne," and Reade's " Peg Woffington," also appearing in translations of Scribe's "Adrienne Lecouvreur," Schiller's " Mary Stuart," Legouve's " Medea," and Giacometti's " Queen Elizabeth." Her last appearance was in Hawthorne's " Scarlet Letter " at the Boston theatre. — Gen. Lander's sister, Louisa, sculptor, b. in Salem, Mass., 1 Sept., 1826, modelled excellent likenesses of various members of her family in her youth, and also executed cameo heads. In 1855 she went to Rome and studied under Thomas Crawford, and soon afterward finished in marble " To-Day," a figure emblematic of America, and " Galatea." Among her subsequent works are a bust of Gov. Gore, of Massachusetts ; a bust of Hawthorne ; a statuette of Virginia Dare, the first English child born in America; "Undine"; a life-size statue of "Vir- ginia " ; a reclining statue of " Evangeline " ; " Elizabeth, the Exile of Siberia " ; " Ceres Mourn- ing for Prosperine " ; " A Sylph Alighting," and numerous portrait-busts. Her last work is a large group " The Captive Pioneer." — Another sister, Sarah West, author, b. in Salem, Mass., 27 Nov., 1819 ; d. there, 15 Nov., 1872, published a series of sketches of foreign countries, under the title of " Spectacles for Young Eyes," of which nearly 50,000 copies have been sold.

LANDERS, Franklin, merchant, b. in Morgan county, Ind., 22 March, 1825. He attended a common school during the winter, worked on his father's farm in the summer, and in 1847, having saved $300, he began business as a merchant, which he followed for six years, after which he gurchased a tract of land and located the town of rooklyn, Ind. He removed to that place and resumed farming and mercantile pursuits for twelve years, establishing five churches of various denominations on his estate, contributing largely to their support. In all deeds of lots that he sold he inserted a clause prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. He then engaged in business in Indianapolis, and in 1860 was elected state senator. He declined a nomination for congress in 1864,