the Spingler institute, New York, and settled in that city as a newspaper correspondent and a con- tributor of sketches, stories, and poems to periodi- cals. In 1870 she edited " The Revolution," a woman's-rights newspaper. She is the author of six volumes of " Home Stories " (New York, 1872-3) that were originally published in magazines and newspapers ; "Talks with Girls " (1873) ; " Old Tales Retold from Grecian Mythology " (1875) ; " The Norse Grandmother. Tales from the Eddas " (1880); and "Village Photographs" (1887).
LARNED, or LEARNED, Ebenezer, soldier,
b. in Oxford, Mass., 18 April, 1728 : d. there, 1 April,
1801. He was a son of Col. Ebenezer, the largest
landholder of Oxford. The son was a captain of
rangers during the old French war, and marched
with his company from Fort Edward to the relief
of Fort William Henry. He was a delegate to the
Provincial congress at Concord in 1774. In the
beginning of the Revolutionary war he marched to
Cambridge at the head of a regiment of eight
months' militia, arriving after the battle of Lex-
ington. He fought at Bunker Hill and served
during the siege of Boston, unbarring the gates
with his own hands at the evacuation. At Dor-
chester he received an injury and was disabled.
After retiring from the field for nearly a year, he
was appointed a brigadier-general by the Conti-
nental congress in April, 1777, and commanded a
brigade at Saratoga. At Stillwater he was the
first man to enter the breach. Soon afterward his
health failed and he left the army. In 1779 he
was chairman of the Constitutional convention.
LARNED, Edwin Channing, lawyer, b. in
Providence, R. L, 14 July, 1820 ; d. in Lake Forest.
111., 18 Sept., 1884. His father was a merchant of
Providence, and his grandfather. William Lamed,
served in the war of the Revolution. Edwin was
graduated at Brown in 1840. After graduation
he was professor of mathematics for one year in
Kemper college, Wis. He then studied law with
Albert C. Greene, marrying one of the daugh-
ters of his preceptor, and in 1847 removing to
Chicago. He was an enthusiastic anti-slavery man,
and gained his first celebrity by a speech in 1851,
in answer to one by Stephen A. Douglas, on the
fugitive-slave law. It was published in pamphlet-
form, and was called by Mr. Douglas the best
that had been made on that side of fhe question.
In Chicago he was identified with many works of
public interest. He was a warm friend of Abraham
Lincoln, and in 1860 made speeches in his support.
Afterward he was an active member of the Union
defence committee, and by his writings and
speeches did much to promote its objects. Mr.
Lincoln appointed Mr. Earned U. S. district attor-
ney for the northern district of Illinois in 1861,
but he lost his health and was obliged to go to
Europe for rest. After the war he continued his
practice as a lawyer for a time, and then went to
Cambridge, Mass., to live while his son was in Har-
vard. Immediately after the Chicago fire in 1871
he returned to Chicago and devoted himself to the
work of the Relief and aid society. In 1872-'3 he
again visited Europe with his family. He wrote
many letters from abroad for the press, and his
published speeches and writings would fill a large
volume. Failing health again obliged him to retire
from active practice, but he continued to write,
and produced a " Life of Swedenborg," not yet pub-
lished, and many articles for the press. See " Me-
morial of EdwinChanning Earned " (Chicago, 1886).
LARNED, Simon, merchant, b. in Thompson,
Conn., 13 Aug., 1753; d. in Pittsfield, Mass., 16
Nov., 1817. In the Revolutionary war he served
as a captain in the 3d Massachusetts regiment.
He settled as a merchant in Pittsfield in 1784, was
a representative in the general court in 1791, and
served as county treasurer and sheriff for many
years. He was elected to congress in the place of a
member who had resigned in November, 1804, and
served till the following March. In 1812 he was
appointed colonel of the 9th U. S. infantry, and saw
service at Plattsburgh and on the Mohawk. — His
son, Sylvester, clergyman, b. in Pittsfield, Mass.,
23 Aug., 1796 ; d. in New Orleans, La., 31 Aug.,
1820, was graduated at Middlebury in 1813, and
studied theology at Andover and at Princeton,
where he was graduated in 1816. He was or-
dained in New York city in July, 1817, and
preached in various churches, attracting large au-
diences by an extraordinary gift of pathetic ora-
tory. Though invited to the pastorship of large
churches in Baltimore, Alexandria, and Boston, he
decided to go to the south as an evangelist with
his friend. Rev. Elias Cornelius. Arriving in
New Orleans in January, 1818, he organized the
first Presbyterian church in that city. The build-
ing was completed on 4 July, 1819. Remaining
in New Orleans during the summer of 1820, he
ministered to his parishioners during an epidemic
of yellow fever until he was seized with the dis-
ease. His "Life and Sermons" were published
by Rev. Ralph R. Gurley (New York. 1844).—
Simon's nephew. Benjamin Franklin, soldier,
b. in Pittsfield, Mass.. 6 Sept., 1794; d. in Wash-
ington, D. C. 6 Sept., 1862, entered the U. S. army
as ensign on 21 Oct.. 1818, was promoted to a first
lieutenancy in the summer of 1814, and took part
in the defence of Fort Erie, receiving the brevet
rank of captain for gallant conduct. In January,
1815. he was appointed regimental paymaster, and
on the reduction of the army retained as paymaster
of the 5th infantry, with rank and pay of major.
In 1847. when two deputy paymaster-generalships
were created. Maj. Lamed was appointed to one
of them with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and
on the death of Gen. Nathan Towson, in 1854, he
succeeded to the paymaster-generalship by right of
seniority, with the rank of colonel. At the begin-
ning of the civil war he thoroughly reorganized his
department; but his health, which was already im-
paired, gave way under the strain.
LARNED, William Augustus, educator, b. in Thompson. Conn.. 23 June, 1806: d. in New Haven, Conn.. 3 Feb., 1862. He was graduated at Yale in 1826, taught for two years in Salisbury, N. C., was a tutor at Yale for the next three years, and then pursued the theological course. He was
settled in a pastoral charge at Millbury. Mass., in May. 1834. but resigned in the autumn of 1835, on account of failing health, and associated himself with the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel S. S. Neman in a theological school that was established in Troy, N. Y., teaching Hebrew and Greek until the institution was discontinued in 1839. In that year he succeeded Ohauncev A. Goodrich in the professorship of rhetoric and English literature at Yale, which post he held till his death. He was a constant contributor to the - New Englander," and in 1854 and 1855 acted as its editor. In the later years of his life he prepared and printed, but did hot publish, a valuable edition of the "Oration of
Demosthenes on the Crown," with philological and rhetorical notes.— His sister, Ellen Douglas, b. in Thompson, Conn.. 13 July. 1825, has assisted in compiling several genealogies, family histories, and historical sketches, is the author of a "History of Windham Countv, Conn." (Worcester, 1874; new ed., 1880), and of a " History of the Town of Wood-
