LADD
LADD
Thomas and Ann (Burnley) Lacy and of James and
Margaret (House) Rice. His grandfather, Thomas
Lacy, came to America from England about 1685,
His early education was meagre, but being de-
barred from manual labor by the loss of his left
hand from the explosion of a gun, he acquired
sufficient knowledge of the classical languages
to be appointed tutor in Hampden-Sidney col-
lege in 1781. He studied theology under Dr.
John Blair Smitli, president of Hampden-Sidney
college, and was licensed to preach in September,
1787, and ordained in October, 1788. In 1788 he
was elected vice-president of the college, and in
1791, on Dr. Smith's resignation, succeeded to the
presidency. He was married, Dec. 25, 1789, to
Anne Smitli, and became the father of three sons:
William and Drury, who entered the ministry,
and Horace, who was a physician; and two
daughters: Elizabeth Rice, who married Samuel
Davies Hoge and became the mother of Moses
Drury and William James Hoge; and Judith,
who married the Rev. James Brookes and became
the mother of the Rev, James H. Brookes, D.D.,
of St. Louis, Mo, Mr. Lacy resigned from the
presidency of Hampden-Sidney college in 1796,
and during the rest of his life supplied neighbor-
ing churches and taught a classical school. He
was moderator of the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in 1809, and served as clerk
of the Hanover Presbytery during a large part of
his ministry. The loss of his hand was supplied
by one of silver, and this fact, together with his
clear and musical voice, gained for him the name
of " Lacy with the silver hand and silver tongue,"
He died in Philadelphia, Pa,, Dec. 6, 1815.
LADD, Catherine, educator, was born in Rich- mond, Va., Oct, 28, 1809; daughter of James and Nancy (Collins) Stratton, and granddaughter of James and Catherine (Foulk) Collins of Philadel- phia. She was educated at Richmond, Va., in the same school that Edgar Allan Poe attended in 1821 and 1822, and in 1828 she married G, W, Ladd, a painter of portraits and miniatures. She established and was principal of a boarding school at Winnsborough, Fairfield county, S.C, 1841-61, and in 1851 through the press urged the necessity of procuring white labor and of engaging in the manufacture of cotton in South Carolina, During the progress of the civil war she nursed the sick and wounded Confederate soldiers, and at its close resumed teaching. She is said to have been the de- signer of the first Confederate flag. In 1880 she re- moved to a farm in Fairfield county, near Winns- boro, S.C, where she spent the remainder of her life. During her career as a writer, beginning in 1828, she wrote, besides articles on art and educa- tion, numerous stories and poems for the Floral Wreath and other periodicals. She died at Buena Vista, Fairfield county, S.C, Jan, 31, 1899.
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LADD, George Trumbull, teacher, was born in
Painesville, Ohio, Jan. 19, 1842; son of Silas
Trumbull and Elizabeth (Williams) Ladd: grand-
son of Jesse, Jr., and Ruby (Brewster) Ladd;
great-grandson of Wadsworth and Jerusha Brew-
ster, of Chatham,
Conn.; a descendant
of Daniel Ladd who
came to New Eng-
land in the Mary and
John, of London, in
1633, and was one of
the original settlers
of Haverhill, Mass.;
and also a descend-
ant of Elder William
Brewster, of the
Mayfloioer. He was
graduated from Wes-
tern Reserve college
in 1864, and from
Andover Theological
seminarj', in 1869; was ordained to the Con-
gregational ministry. May 26, 1870, and was
acting pastor at Edinburg, Oliio, 1869-71; and
pastor of the Spring Street church, Milwaukee,
Wis., 1871-79, He was professor of mental and
moral philosophy at Bowdoin college, 1879-81;
lectured on church polity and systematic theology
in the Andover Theological seminary, 1879-81,
and was chosen professor of mental and moral
philosophy at Yale in 1881, He was a lecturer in
the Harvard Divinity school, in 1883, and a spe-
cial lecturer on philosophy at the Doshisha, Kioto,
Japan, before the students of the University at
Tokio, and at the Summer school at Hakone,
Japan, in 1892, During the academical year of
1895-96, he served on the faculty of Harvard
university, conducting the graduate seminary in
ethics; and in the summer of 1896 he lectured on
ethics and the pliilosophy of religion in Chicago
university. He was president of the American
Psychological association in 1893. In the fall of
1899 he lectured before the Imperial Educational
society, and the Imperial university of Japan.
While in Japan he was decorated by the emperor
with the third degree of the Order of the Rising
Sun, for his services to the country, was ad-
mitted to the Imperial audience and delivered
addresses before other educational institutions,
and before the Noble club. The following winter
he lectured in Bombay and Calcutta, the jirin-
cipal cities in India, and in Colombo, Ceylon. The
lectures in Bombay were given under the auspices
of the University of Bombay, and those in
Madras at the Christian college, of Madras. On
the return journey through Europe he attended
the International congress of psychology as the
delegate of the American Psychological associa-
