named orator. An effort that the English party made to abolish the use of the French language in the legislature was defeated by his efforts. By his conciliatory attitude he gained the esteem of all parties, and his influence with the governor, Sir George Prevost, was successfully used to obtain for tiie French Canadians a larger share in the ad- ministration of affairs.
LOTHROP, Charles Henry, surgeon, b. in
Taunton, Mass., 3 Sept., 1831. He was educated
at Brown, and graduated in medicine at the Uni-
versity of New York in 1859, and established him-
self in pi'actice at Lyons, Iowa. He has success-
fully performed many difficult surgical operations,
and is the inventor of an ajjparatus for treating
fractures of the leg, and of a rubber appliance for
club-foot. He served during the civil war as sur-
geon of the 1st Iowa cavalry, and has been an ex-
amining surgeon for pensions since 1868. In 1876
he edited the " Southern Medical Record."
LOTHROP, George Van Ness, lawyer, b. in
Raston, Bristol co., Mass., 8 Aug., 1817 ;"d. in De-
troit, 12 July, 1897. He was graduated at Brown
in 1838, and entered the Harvard law-school, but
joined his brother in 1839 on a farm near School-
craft, Mich. In March. 1843, he went to Detroit,
completed his preparation for the bar. and began
practice in the following spring. He was attorney-
general of Michigan in 1848-'51, recorder of the
city in 1851-'3, an unsuccessful candidate for con-
gress in 1836 and 1860, and in 1860 a delegate to
the Democratic national convention in Charleston,
S. C, where he supported the nomination of Ste-
phen A. Douglas. He was also nominated three
times by the Democratic party for U. S. senator,
and was a delegate to the State constitutional con-
vention in 1867. From 1854 till 1880, when he re-
signed, he was general counsel for the Michigan
Central railroad company. In May, 1885, he was
appointed U. S. minister to Russia.
LOTHROP, Harriett Mulford, author, b. in
New Haven, Conn., 22 June, 1844. Her maiden
name was Stone. She was educated at seminaries
near her home, travelled extensively in the United
States, and early began to practise literary
composition, but published nothing before about 1877,
when she began to contribute stories and sketches
to the magazines. Before her third work was
issued in book-form she married Daniel Lothrop,
a publisher of Boston. All her writings have
appeared under the pen-name of “Margaret Sidney.”
Mrs. Lothrop's summer residence is at Concord,
Mass., in Nathaniel Hawthorne's old home, which
he called “The Wayside.” Her published works
are “So as by Fire” (Boston, 1881); “Five Little
Peppers, and How they Grew” (1882), a juvenile
story, which first appeared in the “Wide Awake”
magazine; “Half Year at Bronckton” (1882);
“The Pettibone Name,” a novel of New England
life (1883); “What the Seven Did” (1883); “Who
told it to Me” (1884); “Ballad of the Lost Hare”
(1884); “The Golden West” (1885); “How they
Went to Europe” (1885); “Hester, and other New
England Stories” (1886); “The Minute-Man”
(1886); “Two Modern Little Princes,” (1887); and
“Dilly and the Captain” (1887).
LOTHROP, Samuel Kirkland, clergyman, b.
in Utica, N. Y., 13 Oct., 1804; d. in Boston, Mass.,
12 June, 1886. He was graduated at Harvard in
1825, and at the divinity-school there in 1828. In
1829 he was ordained pastor of the Unitarian
church in Dover, N. H., and on 17 June, 1834, took
charge of the Brattle square church in Boston,
Mass. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him
by Harvard in 1852. He was a delegate to the
State constitutional convention of 1853. His
society removed to a new building in 1873, but
dissolved in 1876, when Dr. Lothrop resigned the
pastorate. He was a member of the Boston school
committee for thirty years, and chairman of its
committee on the English high-school for twenty-six.
Among his literary works are a life of his
grandfather, Samuel Kirkland, included in Sparks's
“American Biography,” and a “History of Brattle
Square Church.”
LOTHROP, Thomas, soldier, b. in England;
d. near Bloody Brook, Deerfield township, Mass.,
29 Sept., 1675. He resided for many years in
Salem, of which town he became a freeman in or
before 1634. He was a representative in the general
court in 1647, 1653, and 1664. Subsequently he
removed to Beverly, and with others organized a
church there, and represented the town for four
years in the general court. In the beginning of
King Philip's war he was chosen captain of militia.
He had a severe battle with the Indians near Hadley
in August, 1675, and after the burning of
Deerfield, while guarding the road to Hadley, was killed,
with seventy of his men, only eight escaping.
LOTT, John A., jurist, b. in 1805; d. in Flatbush,
L. I., 20 July, 1878. He was graduated at
Union in 1823, studied law, and began practice in
Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1835. In 1838 he was elected
county judge of Kings county, which office he held
for four years. In 1841 he was a member of the
state assembly, and in 1842-'6 a state senator. He
was justice of the supreme court in 1857-'65, and
judge of the court of appeals in 1869. He was also
a member of the commission of appeals from 1870
until it completed its labors in 1875. In the latter
year he was appointed on a commission to draft a
uniform law for the government of cities in the
state. Until a short time before his death he was
president of the Flatbush and Coney Island railroad.
He received the degree of LL. D. from
Union college in 1859.
LOTTENSCHIOLD, Mathias (lot'-ten-ske-old),
German explorer, b. in Greifenberg, Pomerania,
in 1729; d. in Arolsen, Waldeck, in 1782. He was
a Jesuit, and was employed for fifteen years in the
missions of Uruguay and Paraguay, where he had
special charge of the manufacturing that was done
by the Indians for the company. After the expulsion
of the order in 1767, he remained in the country
as a teacher, and severed his connection with
his former colleagues, becoming converted to
Protestantism toward the close of his career. As he
was in comfortable circumstances, he devoted
several years to the exploration of South America
before returning home, visited Peru, Chili, and
Central America in 1770-'4, and published “Metallurgische
Reisen durch Amerika” (2 vols., Leipsic,
1776); “Geognostische Bemerkungen über die
basaltischen Gebilde der Cordilleren von Peru” (Dresden,
1779); “Reise auf dem La Plata- und
Paraguay-Flusse” (2 vols., Leipsic, 1780); “Umgebungen
von Rio de Janeiro” (1780); “Geschichte der
Entdeckung von Paraguay” (1781): “Geschichte
und Zustände der Indianer in Süd-Amerika” (2
vols., 1782); and several less important works.
LOTTER, Friedrich August, German botanist,
b. in Kleinaupe, Moravia, in 1741; d. in Gotha in
1806. He studied in Prague, and in 1789 was
attached as botanist to the expedition that was sent
by the Spanish government around the world
under command of Capt. Malaspina. Lotter being
taken sick in Concepcion, Chili, was unable to
accompany the expedition. He rejoined it at
Acapulco in 1791, but soon left it again and
explored the interior of Mexico as far as Lower Cali-
