guage of the natives of Xew Grenada, and pub- lished a grammar of it under the title " Gra- matiea de la lengua general del nuevo reyno de Granada, llamada Mosca" (Madrid, 1629). This work is very rare. Toward the close of his life he withdrew into a convent in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Pinelo in his "Bibliotheca" attributes to him a work on "Confession" in the Mosca dialect.
LUGO, Francisco de, Spanish missionary, b. in
Madrid in 1580; d. in Valladolid, 17 Dec, 1(552.
He was graduated in law at Salamanca in KJOO, be-
came a Jesuit two years later, and was professor of
theology in Mexico from 1616 till 1632, and after-
ward in Santa Fe de Bogota, New Granada. To
avoid ecclesiastical honors that were tendered liim
he left for Europe in 1638, but was captured by
the Dutch fleet off Havana, and lost most of his
manuscripts. After a long captivity he was set at
liberty, and arrived in Spain in 1645, and in the
next year was sent by the Jesuit province of Cas-
tile to Rome as representative in the eighth gen-
eral congregation of the order. He was there ap-
pointed censor of theological works, and theologian
of the general of the Jesuits, and when appointed
by the pope to a higher dignity declined, and re-
tired to the College of Valladolid, of which he
was rector at his death. He published " Diseursus
pr^vius ad theologicam moralem " (2 vols., Mexico,
1631 ; 1 vol.. Madrid, 1645) ; " Questiones morales
de Sacramentis " (2 vols., Granada, 1644 ; revised
ed., Madrid and Mexico, 3 vols., 1649) ; " Historia
de la Conquista de Nueva Espana " (5 vols., Valla-
dolid, 1650) ; and several other theological works.
He left also in manuscript a "Relatio de Christianitate in America, et de rebus gestis patrura Societatis Jesu in provineia Nova Hispaniae," which was afterward published in the "Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu."
LUKENS, Henry Clay, journalist, b. in
Philadelphia, Pa., 18 Aug., 1838. He was educated
at the public schools of his native city, and as early
as 1855 contributed to daily and weekly news-
papers. In 1858 he was part owner and editor of
an illustrated monthly called " The School Jour-
nal." During the civil war he saw active service.
From 1877 till 1884 he was an associate editor of
the " New Vork Daily News," and he is now (1888)
managing editor and one of the publishers of " The
Journalist," New York. He has written under the
pen-name of " Erratic Enrique," which he first
signed to letters from Uruguay in 1874-'5. He has
published " The Marine Circus at Cherbourg, and
Other Poems " (New York, 1865) ; " Lean Nora,"
a travesty of Burger's " Lenore " (Philadelphia,
1870) ; " Story of the Types " (New Haven, 1881) ;
and " Jets and Flashes "" (New York, 1883). He is
now (1888) compiling " Records of the New York
Press Club."
LULL, Edward Phelps, naval officer, b. in
Windsor, Vt., 20 Feb., 1836 : d. in Pensacola, Fla.,
5 March, 1887. His mother was left a widow in
straitened circumstances with a large family of
children, and removed to Wisconsin, from which
state her son was appointed acting midshipman in
the navy, 7 Oct., 1851. He was promoted midship-
man in 1855, passed midshipman and master in
1858, and lieutenant in 1860. On his return from
his second cruise in the latter year he became as-
sistant professor of ethics at the Naval academy,
and teacher of fencing. In May. 1861, he was
ordered to the "Roanoke," and thus took part in
the engagement between that frigate and the Con-
federate forts at Hatteras inlet in the following
July. In September he was sent back to the
academy, where he remained until, in 1863, he be-
came commandant of midshipmen and executive
officer of that institution. In July, 1862, he had
been promoted lieutenant-commander, and in De-
cember, 1863, he was ordered to active service, par-
ticipating in the battle of Mobile Bay and subse-
quent engagements. He was successively in com-
mand of the captured Confederate "Tennessee,"
at the bombardment of Fort Morgan in August,
1864, the 3d division of the Mississippi squadron,
the "Seminole" in the blockade of Galveston, and
the iron-clad "Lafayette." After the war he was
again at the naval academy in 1867-9, had com-
mand of ' the Nicaragua survey expedition in
1872-'3, was a member of the interoceanic ship-
canal commission in 1873-'4, and the following
year had charge of a special survey of the Panama
canal route. From 1875 till 1880 he was hydro-
graphic inspector of coast survey, and in 1881 he
was made captain, having reached the grade of
commander in 1870. Capt. Lull was a member of
several learned societies. He received the degree
of A. M. from Princeton in 1868.
LUMPKIN, Wilson, statesman, b. in Pittsyl-
vania county, Va., 14 Jan., 1783 ; d. in Athens, Ga.,
28 Dec, 1870. He removed to Oglethorpe county,
Ga., with his father, in 1784, and, the latter having
been appointed in 1797 clerk of the superior court
there, the son became an assistant in his office,
studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised
at Athens, Ga. When about twenty-one years of
age he was elected to the legislature, and was sub-
sequently re-elected several times. In 1823 he was
appointed by President Monroe to mark out the
boundary-line between Georgia and Florida, and
he was afterward one of the first commissioners
under the Cherokee treaty of 1835. He served in
congress from 1815 till* 1817, and from 1827 till
1831: and in the U. S. senate, to which he was
elected in place of John P. King, resigned, from
13 Dec, 1837, till 3 March, 1841. He was elected
governor of Georgia in 1831 and 1833, and was one
of the original members of the board of public
works that was created by the legislature. — His
brother. Joseph Henry, jurist, b. in Oglethorpe
county, Ga., 23 Dec, 1799 ; d. in Athens, Ga., 4
June, 1867, was educated at the University of
Georgia, and at
Princeton, where
he was graduated
in 1819. In 1820
he was admitted
to the bar, and
began practice at
Lexington, where
he soon gained
eminence in his
profession. In
1844 he retired
from the bar in
consequence of ill
health, and short-
ly afterward vis-
ited Europe. In
1845, during his
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absence, the supreme cotirt of Georgia was reorganized, and he was elected justice, and afterward became chief justice, which office he held until his death. Judge Lumpkin was elected professor of rhetoric and oratory in the University of Georgia in 1846, but declined ; and subsequently was elected professor of law in the institution attached to the university, which was named Lumpkin law-school in his honor. He discharged the duties of his professorship successfully until the civil war disbanded
