LICK
LIEBER
instruments and made a small fortune. He
settled in San Francisco, Cal., in 1847, and in-
vested 130,000 in real estate and other enterprises.
He built one of the finest hotels on tJie Pacific
coast and named it the Lick House. This hotel
was sold by the trustees to the estate of James G.
Fair for $1,350,000. la 1874 he gave all his prop-
erty, valued at that time at about $2,000,000, to
certain public and charitable purposes. Twice
before his death he desired to make changes in
liis schedule of gifts, and each time on the trus-
tees expressing some doubts as to their legal right
to give assent, he requested them to resign and
selected new trustees. After providing for a
number of minor legacies, ranging from $2000 to
$25,000 cash, to relatives, fi-iends and charities,
and providing for four monuments, to cost $5000
each, to his father, mother, grandfather and sis-
ter in Pennsylvania, he left, for the erection of a
bronze monument in Golden Gate park to Francis
Scott Key, $60,000; for a group of bronze stat-
uary representing the history of California, to be
erected in front of the City Hall, San Francisco,
$100,000; for the founding of the Old Ladies'
Home at San Francisco, $100,000; for the erection
and maintenance of free public baths in that city,
$150,000; to found and endow an institution to be
called the California School of Mechanical Arts,
$540,000; to his son, John Henry Lick, $150,000,
which amount the trustees afterward increased
to $535,000, as final compromise settlement after
a prolonged contest in the courts; and to construct
an observatory and place therein a telescope
which should be more powerful than any that
had been made, and to constitute the observatory
a department of the University of California,
$700,000. The site was selected during Mr. Lick's
lifetime on the summit of Mt. Hamilton, 4209
feet above the sea, fifty miles southeast of San
Francisco, and twenty-six miles by stage line
east from San Jose. It includes a reservation of
about 2600 acres, extending roughly in a circle
one mile below the site of the observatory. The
telescope has an object glass of thirty-six inches
clear aperture, the dome of the observatory is
turned by hydraulic power, and the floor is raised
and lowered by the same means. He also pro-
vided that after all the bequests had been paid
the residue of the estate should be divided
equally between the California Academy of
Sciences and the Society of California Pioneers,
of which he was president. The trustees in the
management of the estate not only completed all
the stated bequests, but divided a surplus of
$1,200,000 between the two societies named as
residuary legatees. His board of trustees directed
that his remains be placed in a vault under the
pier sustaining the telescope of Lick observatory,
ami they were so disposed in 1887. He died iu
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 1, 1876.
LIDDELL, nark Harvey, educator, was born
in Clearfield, Pa., April 1, 1866; son of Thomas
and Sophronia (Swan) Liddell. His father came
to America from Berwickshire, Scotland. He
was graduated B.A. from the College of New Jer-
sey in 1887, returning thither as university fel-
low in English in 1888-89. He was Latin master
at Germantown academy, Philadelphia, 1889-91,
and at Lawrenceville school, N.J., 1891-93. He
continued the special study of English at Oxford,
1893-94; at Berlin, 1894-95, and again at Oxford,
1895-96. He was elected associate professor of
English literature at the University of Texas,
1897-98, and was made professor of English there
in 1898, resigning in 1900 to devote his time to
the preparation of an edition of Shakspere. He
was married, Dec. 30, 1890, to Mary Stanley,
daughter of Samuel and Mary Gray (Patterson)
Field, of Philadelpliia. He was part editor of
the Globe Chaucer (1896); editor of The Middle
Translation of PaUadius' de Be rustica (1895);
Chaucer's Prologue, Knightes Tale and Nonnes
Preestes Tale (1901), and Shakspere's Works in
Elizabethan English, with a new critical text (40
vols., 1901. et seq.)
LIEBER, Francis, publicist, was born in Ber- lin, German}', March 18, 1800; son of Frederic William Lieber, an ironmonger who resided in Breite Strasse. In 1815 he served in the Prus- sian army, participating in the battles of Ligny, Waterloo and Namur, at which last he was severely wounded. He acquired his edu- cation at the Pepi- niere in Berlin, the gymnasium at Has- enhaide, at the Uni- versity of Jena where he was graduated in 1820, at Halle, and at Dresden. He took part in the revolution in Greece in 1821. He was repeatedly persecuted by the Prussian authorities
on account of his libei'al political views, and was twice imprisoned. Finally, on May 17, 1826, he fled to England where he supported himself by giving private instruction and by contributing to German papers. He applied for the chair of German in the London university, but while waiting for a settlement he received an appointment as gymnasium instructor in Boston, Mass., which he accepted and in June, 1837, took charge of the gymnasium, succeeding Dr. Charles Follen. He was married, Sept. 21, 1829, to Ma- tilda Oppenheimer, of London, England, and re- sided in Philadelphia, 1833-35. He was commis-
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