LEROY
LESLEY
jUSS. OSSlPEE.
Rennes, assisted by Bishop Hailandiere, bishop of
Vincennes, Ind., 1839-47, and Mgr. Nouvel, bishop
of Quimper, France. He was named Bishop of
Janopolis, coadjutor of New Orleans and admin-
istrator of Natchitoches, Oct. 23. 1879, and was
promoted to the see of New Orleans as arch-
bishop, Dec. 27, 1883, receiving the pallium from
Cardinal Gibbons in January, 188-4. He died at
Cliateaugiron. France. Sept. 23, 1887.
LEROY, William Edgar, naval officer, was born in New York city, March 24, 1818. He en- tered the U.S. navy as a midshipman, Jan. 11, 1832; was promoted passed midsliipman in June, 1838, and lieutenant, July 13, 1843. He served on
the Ohio, Com- modore Hull's flagship, and at the outbreak of the Mexican war 'was attached to the Princeton, and in 1847 par- ticipated in the engagement with the Mexican soldiers at Rio Aribiqua. He commanded the Mijstic off the Afri- can coast in 1861; was promoted commander, July 1. 1861. and assigned to the command of the Key- stone State of the South Atlantic squadron. He aided in the capture of Fernandina. Fla., 1862, and participated in an engagement with Confederate iron-clads in January, 1863, in Charleston liarbor, S.C.. where the Chicora, Capt. J. R. Tucker, rammed the Keystone State and caused him to lower liis flag, but the Confederate vessel not taking advantage of the situation, Captain Leroy a^ain hoisted the flag and retained possession of Ids vessel. He was transferred to the West Gulf squadron in 1864, and commanded the steam sloop Oneida and the Ossipee. While in com- mand of the Ossipee at the battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5. 1864, the ram Tennessee, Commander James T. Johnston, surrendered to him: and lie was a member of the board of survey ajipointed by Admiral P'arragut to report on the condition of that vessel after the battle. He was promoted captain, July 25, 1866. and was fleet captain of the European squadron under Farragut. 1867-68. He was promoted commodore. July 3, 1870; rear- admiral, April 5, 1874, and commanded the South Atlantic squadron, 1876-79. He was retired, March 20, 1880, on reaching the age of sixty- two years. He died in New York, Dec. 10, 1888. LESLEY, Peter, geologist, was born in Pliila- delpliia. Pa., Sept. 17, 1819; son of Peter and Elizabeth Oswald (Allen) Lesley, and grandson of Peter Lesley, who emigrated from Aberdeen- shire, Scotland. He was graduated at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania. A.B.. 1838. A.M.. 1841. He assisted Henry D. Rogers in the survey of
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Pennsylvania, 1839-41, and liad charge of the
maps and illustrations for the first report issued
in 1842. In 1841 lie changed his name to J. P.
Lesley for business reasons. He was a student at
the Princeton Theological seminary, N.J., 1841-
43, and was licensed
to preacli by the pres-
bytery of Pliiladel-
phia, April 4, 1844.
In tiiat year he trav-
elled in Europe, and
attended lectures at
the University at
Halle. In 1845 he
was a colporteur in
northern and middle
Pennsylvania, em-
ployed by the Ameri-
can Tract society.
His license was with-
drawn, May 5, 1848,
and he engaged in
geological work in Boston. Mass., and was pastor
of the Congregational church in Milton, 1848-51.
Thereafter he devoted himself exclusively to
geology, making his home in Philadelphia. He
was secretary of the American Iron association,
1855-59, and secretary and librarian of the Amer-
ican Philosopliical society, 1858-73, meantime
surveying the Cape Breton coal fields. 1S62-63.
and making exploring tours in the United States
and Canada. In 1863 he was sent to Europe by
the Pennsylvania railroad company to examine
the methods of manufacturing steel from iron,
and report upon the success of Bessemer's con-
verter. He travelled through England, Belgium
and the south of France wherever the flasks had
been erected. He was chosen a corporate mem-
ber of the National Academy of Sciences, and in
1867 was a commissioner to the World's Fair in
Paris. He was professor of geology and mining
and dean of the scientific faculty. University of
Pennsylvania, 1872-80, and was then made pro-
fessor emeritus. In 1874 he was chief geologist
in the second survey of Pennsylvania and pub-
lished over seventy reports in connection with this
work. lie was elected president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in
1884. He lectured before the Lowell Institute in
Boston; was made a life member of numerous
important scientific societies in America and Eu-
rope; and received the degree of LL.D. in l.'-!78
from Trinity college, Dublin. He was married
in 1849 to Susan Inches, daughter of Judge Joseph
Lyman, of Northampton, Mass. She wrote " Re-
collections of My Mother," a memoir of Mrs.
Anne J. Lyman (1876. 2d ed., 1886). After a
severe illness in 1866, Dr. Lesley spent a portion
of each alternate year in Euiope, He is the au-
