studied law and served as a volunteer during the English invasion of 1806-7. In 1810 he was sec- retary to Col. Ortiz de Ocampo, with whom he marched to Chuquisaca, and in September, 1811, he was chosen secretary of the 1st triumvirate of Chiclana, Sarratea, and Passo. He was successive- ly deputy to the constituent general assembly, sec- retary of the director Puyrredon, prefect and founder of the classic department when the uni- versity was established, founder of its topographi- cal department, member of congress in the years 1819 and 1825, founder of the statistical register, provisional president of the republic from 5 July to 13 Aug., 1827, minister of the treasury in 1828, and president of the supreme court of justice till the fall of Rosas in 1852. Gen. Urquiza charged him with the provisional government, and after- ward he was appointed governor of the province of Buenos Ayres. He wrote the "Argentine Na- tional Hymn " and other poetical works.
LOQUILLO, or LUQUILLO (lo-keel'-yo). West
Indian cacique, b. about 1478 ; d. about 1525. He
took a principal part in the first insurrection of the
natives against the Spanish conquerors of Porto Ri-
co as one of Agueinaba's lieutenants, and, after this
chief was routed and killed in 1511, withdrew with
some followers to the wildest part of the country,
whence he constantly harassed his foes. In 1515
he planned with the caciques Humaeao and Dagu-
ao another general rebellion, which soon met with
disaster. Humaeao and Daguao submitted to the
conqueror, but their companion refused to do so,
and retired with the natives that followed him to
the highest mountain of the island, which still
bears his name. There he established his strong-
hold, and frequently fell upon the Spaniards, kill-
ing them, burning their farms, and taking their
cattle. He died a free man, while most of his
countrymen were either dead or slaves.
LORAIN, Lorenzo, soldier, b in Philipsburg,
Centre co.. Pa., 3 Aug., 1831 ; d. in Baltimore. Md.,
6 March, 1882. He had early showed much me-
chanical skill, and had declined the superintendency
of large machine-works to follow civil engineering,
when he was appointed to the U. S. military acad-
emy. After his graduation in 1856 he was on the
frontier till the civil war, in the early part of which
he was disabled by a wound at Blackburn's ford,
and saw no further active service. He was pro-
moted to a captaincy on 28 Feb., 1862, and served
as assistant professor of chemistry, mineralogy, and
geology at West Point till 1870. He was then on gar-
rison duty, with the exception of a year in 1871-'2,
when he held the chair of physics at Lehigh uni-
versity till 1875, at which time he became instructor
of engineering in the artillery-school for practice
at Fort Monroe. Here he placed his department
on a practical footing, obtaining new instruments,
introducing field reconnoissances, and establishing
a photographic department. He held this post till
his promotion to major in 1881. He invented the
" Lorain telescopic sight " for large rifled guns, and
left a " range-finder " that he had not perfected at
the time of his death.
LORANGER, Thomas Jean Jacques, Cana-
dian jurist, b. in Sainte Anne d'Yamachiche, Que-
bec, 2 Feb., 1823 ; d. on the Island of Orleans, 18
Aug., 1885. He was educated at Nicolet college
and admitted to the bar in 1844. In 1854 he be-
came queen's counsel, and in that year was elected
to parliament for Laprairie, which he represented
till his appointment as puisne judge of the su-
preme court of Quebec in 1863. In 1855 he argued
the seigniorial cause before the court that was es-
tablished for that purpose, and was the first colo-
nial lawyer that was admitted to argue a case be-
fore the judicial conmiittee of the privy council in
London. Mr. Loranger held office in the Mac-
donald-Cartier government from November, 1857,
till July, 1858, and until the latter date served as a
commissioner for consolidating the statutes. In
1877 he was appointed professor of law in Laval
university, and was created by the pope a com-
mander of the order of Pius IX. In 1883 he re-
tired from the bench, and subsequently was en-
gaged in consolidating the statutes of Quebec. At
the semi-centenary of St. Jean Baptist association
in 1884 he was chosen its president. He was chief
editor of " La Themis," wrote a work on the civil
code, and several pamphlets on legal and constitu-
tional subjects. — His brother, Louis Onesime,
Canadian jurist, b. in Sainte Anne d'Yamachiche,
Quebec, 10 April, 1837, was educated at Montreal
and admitted to the bar of Lower Canada in 1858.
He was president of the special committee to super-
intend the national demonstration of the St. Jean
Baptist society in 1875, was elected to the parlia-
ment of Quebec in that year, was re-elected, and
became a member of the executive council in 1879.
He was appointed puisne judge of the superior
court of the province of Quebec in 1882, and revising-officer in 1885.
LORAS, Mathias, R. C. bishop, b. in Lyons,
France, in 1792; d. in Dubuque, Iowa, 19 Feb.,
1858. He was descended from a noble family, and
his father perished on the scaffold during the reign
of terror. He studied for the priesthood, was or-
dained about 1817, and soon afterward appointed
superior of the ecclesiastical seminary of Largen-
tiere. In 1830 he accompanied Bishop Portier, who
was seeking priests in France for his diocese of
Mobile, Ala., to the United States. Father Loras
was appointed vicar-general on his arrival, and
made president of the College of Spring Hill, near
Mobile. In 1837 the diocese of Dubuque was creat-
ed, comprising Iowa and Minnesota, and Father
Loras became its bishop. After a visit to France
to obtain missionaries he went to his diocese in
April, 1839, and in June following he made his
first visitation, also founding missions at Fort
Snelling and Prairie du Chien. On 15 Aug. of the
same year he consecrated the cathedral of Dubuque,
and shortly afterward built a church in Davenport.
He also established missions among the Sioux,
Foxes, and Winnebagoes. built churches and schools
in every part of his diocese, and expended large
sums of money in employing teachers, as well as
boarding and educating many poor children at his
own expense. He introduced the Sisters of Charity
into his diocese, established a seminary at Mount
St. Bernard, and founded a convent of Trappist
monks and another of visitation nuns. In 1851
Minnesota was erected into a separate see. He
built a hospital in 1857, and during the same year
was compelled to apply for a coadjutor, owing to
failing health. Bishop Loras paid much attention
to the question of emigration, and under his en-
couragement and guidance Roman Catholic settlers
came to lon'a in large numbers after 1850.
LORD, Benjamin, clergyman, b. in Saybrook, Conn., 31 May, 1694 ; d. in Norwich, Conn., 31 March, 1784. He was graduated at Yale in 1714, was tutor there the next year, and in 1717 was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Norwich, in which charge he continued until his death. He was a trustee of Yale in 1742-'72, and received
the degree of D. D. from that college in 1774. His numerous sermons include " The Faithful and Approved Minister, a very Blessed Man " (New London, 1727) ; "Two Sermons on the Necessity of Re-
