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LABAGH, Peter,clergyman, b. in New York city in 1773 ; d. there in 1858. He studied classics under Dr. Peter Wilson, of Hackensack, N. J., and theology under Dr. Solomon Froeligh and Dr. John H. Livingston. He was licensed as a preacher in 1796, and after a missionary tour in western New York went to Kentucky, where he organized the church of Salt River, in Mercer county. On re- turning to New York, he was pastor in Greenbush, Rensselaer county, till 1809, and afterward of the united churches of Shannock and Harlingen till 1844. He was elected a trustee of Queens (now Rutgers) college in 1811, and had the degree of D. D. conferred on him by that institution in the same year. He contributed largely to securing the endowment of the theological seminary at New Brunswick, was active in the councils of his church, and a powerful preacher. A memoir of him was published by the Rev. John A. Todd, D. D. (1860). — His son, Isaac P., clergyman, b. in Leeds, Greene co., N. Y., 14 Aug., 1804 ; d. in Fairfield, Iowa, 29 Dec, 1879, studied at Dickinson college, and at the New Brunswick theological seminary, where he was graduated in 1826, and licensed to preach. He was successively pastor of Dutch Reformed churches at Rochester and Gravesend, N. Y., till 1842. was subsequently suspended for his opinions concerning the second advent and the Christian Sabbath, and in 1846 entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was for some years mission- ary to the Jews in New York city, and organized and built St. Paul's church, Haddonfield, N. J., and also St. Paul's church, South Brooklyn. In 1860 he removed to Illinois, and established a female seminary, Euphemia Hall, and after its destruc- tion by fire in 1863 he organized and built St. Peter's church at Cairo. He next removed to Fair- field, Iowa, and was pastor of St. Peter's church there till his death. He published "A Sermon on the Personal Reign of Christ " (1846) ; " Twelve Lectures on Great Events of Unfulfilled Prophecy" (1859) ; and " Theoklesia, or the Organization, Per- petuity. Conflicts, and Triumphs of the One Holy, Catholic Apostolic Church" (1868).

LABARBINAIS LE GENTIL, Etienne Marcel (lah'-bar'-be'-nay'), French explorer, b. in Dinan in 1685 ; d. in Brest in 1731. He was a merchant of Saint Malo, trading with South America, and in 1715— '18 travelled in that country. He published " Nouveau voyage autour du monde " (3 vols., Paris, 1827) ; " Description de l'Amerique du Sud " (3 vols., 1829) ; and " Des meilleurs moy- ens de faire avantageusement le commerce avec l'Amerique du Sud " (2 vols., 1830).

LABAREE, Benjamin, educator, b. in Charles- town, N. H., 3 June, 1801 ; d. in Walpole, N. H., 15 Nov., 1883. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1828, and at Andover seminary in 1831, and was ordained a minister of the Congregational church at Bradford, Mass., 26 Sept., 1831. He was professor of Latin and Greek in Jackson college, Columbia, Tenn., in 1832–'6, and its president from 1836 till April, 1837. He was subsequently secre- tary of the Education society, New York city, and was president of Middlebury college, Vt., from 1840 till 1866. He was pastor at Hyde Park, Mass., in 1869-71, and lecturer on moral philosophy and in- ternational law at Dartmouth in 1871–6. He received the degree of D. D. from the University of Vermont in 1841, and that of LL. D. from Dartmouth in 1864.

LABASTIDA Y DÁYALOS, Pelagio Antonio de (lah-bas-te'-dah), Mexican archbishop, b. in Morelia, Mexico, in October, 1815. He entered the seminary of Morelia in 1830, and in 1839 received ordination to the priesthood. He was parish priest in different cities until 1850, when he was nomi- nated by Bishop Munguia to the parish of " La Merced at Morelia. He was already known as an orthodox pulpit orator, preaching against all liberal and democratic ideas, and against the Freemasons, who at that time had begun to organize in Mexico. Owing to his preachings, the state of Michoacan was for many years a bulwark of the Conservative party, and as a reward he was ap- pointed a canon in March, 1854. At that time the conflict between the Liberal and Conservative par- ties in Mexico had reached its highest point in the "three years' war." Labastida anathematized from the pulpit as heretical the doctrines of Mel- chor Ocampo and Miguel Lerdo, and after the triumph of the Conservatives he was consecrated in 1855 bishop of Michoacan in the cathedral of the city of Mexico. (See accompanying illustration.)

After the Liberal success in 1857, Bishop Labastida went to Rome, but the Liberals were thrown out of power in 1859 by Gen. Miramon, and his first action was to recall the exiled prelate, who returned in June, having been already consecrated by the pope archbishop of Mexico. In the following years, until 1863, Liberals and Conservatives alternately obtained power, and the government policy changed accordingly, but the archbishop was not disturbed. But when the French invasion occurred in 1862, Archbishop Labastida secretly convoked at Mexico a " Junta de Notables " for the purpose of discuss- ing the plan of founding an empire. This idea was long discussed on account of doubt as to the nationality of the prince to whom the crown should be offered. Here the archbishop indicated the name of the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria, whose candidacy was accepted by accla- mation. He was a member of the council of re- gency that was formed for the purpose of govern- ing the country till Maximilian should arrive, but, not being in accord with the measures of his col- leagues, resigned in favor of his substitute, Bishop Ormachea. The archbishop officiated at the corona- tion of Maximilian in the cathedral of the city of Mexico, and exercised much influence in govern- ment affairs during the empire. Juarez exiled him from the country in 1867, and he lived abroad, chiefly at Rome, until, in 1871, he was allowed to return to Mexico. He has not lost his influence in polities, and is the intimate friend of President Diaz. At the conclave of cardinals in Rome, in