1824 was appointed judge of the supreme court. In 1825 he was selected by both political parties as their candidate for governor of the state, which office he held until 1834. He is believed to have been the first governor under the state constitution that exercised the veto power. The measure that he vetoed was an act for building a new bridge between Boston and Charlestown. From 1835 till 1841 he served in congress, having been chosen as a Whig. In 1841 he became collector of the port of Boston, and in 1844-45 he was a member of the state senate, of which he was president in the latter year. He was presidential elector in 1848, and presided over the electoral college. Upon the organization of his native town as a city in 1848 he became its first mayor. He was an active member of the American antiquarian society, of the American academy of arts and sciences, and of the Massachusetts historical and agricultural societies. He received the degree of LL. D. from Williams in 1824, and from Harvard in 1826. — Another son, Enoch, governor of Maine, b. in Worcester. Mass., 28 Dec., 1788; d. in Augusta, Me., 8 Oct., 1829, entered Harvard in 1806, but was not graduated. He studied law with his brother Levi at Worcester, where he was admitted to the bar in 1811, and began to practise in Salem, but in 1812 removed to Fryeburg, Me., and in 1819 to the neighboring town of Paris. He was elected to congress, serving from 16 Nov., 1818, till 3 March, 1821. When Maine became a state he was again elected to congress, serving from 1821 till 1826, when he resigned. In 1827 he was elected governor of Maine, and twice re-elected with little opposition, serving until his death. His proclamations were marked by peculiar felicity and terseness of expression, and his official correspondence included an energetic vindication of the rights of the state in the question of the northeast boundary. Bowdoin gave him the degree of M. A. in 1821. He delivered a poem at the centennial celebration of the fight at Lovewell's Pond, and an oration at the laying of the corner-stone of the state capitol at Augusta, in July, 1829. He had declined a renomination for governor, resolving to devote his life to agriculture and to study. He contributed papers on the Indian languages and the French missions in Maine, to the first volume of the “Maine Historical Collections,” and left an unfinished manuscript on the history, resources, and policy of Maine. He was the author of a poem entitled “The Village,” descriptive of the scenery and romance of the town of Fryeburg (1816). — Another son, William, antiquarian, b. in Worcester in 1801; d. there, 5 Oct., 1843, was graduated at Harvard in 1822, and studied law with his brother Levi. He edited the “National Ægis,” and was one of the publishers of the “Worcester Magazine” in 1826-'7. He delivered an oration at Worcester on 4 July, 1816, and was the author of a “History of Worcester” (Worcester, 1837; new ed., by Charles Hersey, 1862).
LINCOYAN (lin-co-yang'), Araucanian toqui, b.
in Arauco, South America, about 1519; d. in
Cañete in 1560. After the death of the first
Araucanian toqui, Caillavilu, who fought against the
Spaniards, Lincoyan took the command of the
army in 1550. He was of gigantic stature, and his
people said that he possessed great courage. In
1551 he attacked Gen. Valdivia on the banks of the
Andalien, but the neighboring fort resisted his
assaults. During part of that year and in 1552 he
continued fighting against Valdivia along Cauten
river. In 1553 Caupolican was made
commander-in-chief in his stead, but he was given the
command
of a division. In this year he took part in
the capture of the fortresses of Arauco and
Tucapel. Soon after this battle he defeated a strong
Spanish force that came to protect Imperial. He
followed Caupolican in all his victories and in all
his battles till the death of that chief in 1558.
Afterward he continued the war against the
Spaniards till he was killed in the battle of Cañete.
LINDERMAN, Henry Richard, director of
the mint, b. in Lehman, Pa., 26 Dec., 1825; d. in
Washington, D. C., 27 Jan., 1879. He studied
medicine under his father, but completed his course
in New York city. Subsequently he followed his
profession in Pike county, and elsewhere in
Pennsylvania, until 1853. He then settled in Philadelphia,
where he was active in politics as a Democrat,
and was chief clerk of the U. S. mint in that
city in 1855-'64. Dr. Linderman resigned this
office during 1864, and entered business as a stockbroker.
In 1867 he was appointed director of the
mint, and held that place for two years. On
account of his great experience and thorough knowledge
of such subjects, he was appointed by the
secretary of the treasury to examine the mint in
San Francisco, and to adjust some intricate bullion
questions. In 1871 he was sent by the U. S.
government to London, Paris, and Berlin, to collect
information concerning the mints in those places,
and in 1872 he made an elaborate report on the
condition of the market for silver. In order to
find an outlet for the great amount of silver in
the United States, he proposed the trade-dollar,
and he was associated with John J. Knox in the
preparation of the coinage act of 1873, which was
a codification of all the mint and coinage laws of
the United States, with important amendments,
and established the mint and assay offices as a
bureau of the treasury department in Washington.
On the enactment of this law in April, 1873, he
was appointed superintendent of the mint and
organized the bureau, and from that time had
the general supervision of all the mints and assay
offices in the United States. During his administration
he gathered a choice collection of specimen
coins, which were to be sold by auction in New
York in 1887, but the U. S. government claimed
them. His annual reports while he was superintendent
were valuable, and that for 1877 contains
an elaborate argument in favor of the gold standard.
He also published “Money and Legal Tender
in the United States” (New York, 1877).
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LIND-GOLDSCHMIDT, Jenny, vocalist, b. in Stockholm, Sweden, 6 Oct., 1821; d. in London, 2 Nov., 1887. She early manifested musical ability, and at the age of seventeen appeared on the operatic stage in her native city. After a thorough training with eminent masters she began her musical career, appearing with remarkable success in the capitals of Europe. Paris remained the one exception. In 1849 Jenny Lind came to this country, under the management of Phineas T. Barnum, for an extended concert tour in our large cities. Under this arrangement 95 concerts were given, for which the receipts amounted to $712,000, her share being
