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LONaUEVAL LONNROT Customs at New Orleans. Later he was made Minister to Turkey, and United States Marshal for the District of GEN. JAMES LONGSTREET Georgia. In 1897 he was appointed United States Commissioner of Railroads. He nublished "From Manassas to Appomattox" (1904). He died near Gainesville, Ga., Jan. 2, 1904. LONG-TJEVAL, a town in northern France, department of the Somme. The population before the World War was 863. The scene of heavy fighting ^ at different periods in the great conflict. On July 14, 1916, when the battle of the Somme began, the British carried the village and trenches around it with a rush, but fighting was prolonged among the houses as the Germans refused to give or take quarter. The attack was carried out by the 26th Brigade, 8th Black Watch and the 10th Argyle and Sutherlands in the lead. During July Longueval was continually fought over and the Germans finally regained pos- session. LONGUEVILLE (lonfi^-vel'), the name of a noble French family, the principal of whom are Francis D 'Orleans, son of the celebrated Dunois, died 1491. His son, of the same name, at whose instance, in 1505, the county of Longueville was erected into a dukedom by Louis XII., died 1512. His brother, Louis, a com- batant at the battle of the Spurs and at Marignano, died 1516. CLAxn)E, killed at the siege of Pavia, 1525. Leonard, at whose instance the dukes of Longue- ville were allowed the title of princes of the blood royal by Charles IX., died 1571. Henry, who commanded against the leaguers, and in 1589 won the battle of Senlis, died 1595. His son, of the same name, served under Louis XIII., and was afterward imprisoned with Conde and Conti, as partisans of the Fronde, died 1663. The wife of the latter, Anne Genevieve, sister of the great Conde, distinguished for her part in the wars of the Fronde, died in reli- gious retirement. The last of the family were two sons of Henry and Anne, the eldest of whom died in a convent, 1694; and the second, C. Paris, was killed at the Rhine, 1672. LONGVIEW, county-seat of Gregg CO., Tex., 24 miles W. of Marshall, on the Sabine river, Texas and Pacific, International and Great Northern, and Texas and Gulf railroads. Commercial center of lumber, cotton, live-stock dis- trict. Has foundries, plow works, and mineral wells. Pop. (1910) 5,155; (1920) 5,713. LONGWORTH, NICHOLAS, member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1903, with the exception of two years, viz. 1913-1915. Born at Cin- cinnati Nov. 5, 1869, graduated from Harvard University in 1891, and admitted to the bar in Ohio three years later. He has always taken a promi- ent part in support of the Republican party in his State and nation. On Feb. 17, 1906, at the White House he married Alice Lee Roosevelt, daughter of Pres- ident Roosevelt. LONGWY {long-vre'), a small town and fortress in the extreme N. of the French department of Meurthe-et-Mo- selle, 18 miles W. S. W. of Luxemburg. The fortress capitulated to the Prussians in 1792, 1815, and 1871. During the World War the fortress was the first in France to be captured by the Germans. Pop. (1914) 9,700. LONNROT, ELIAS (luhn'rot), a great Finnish scholar and folklorist; born in Sammatti, Nyland, Finland, April 9, 1802. He studied medicine, and prac- ticed for some years, but in 1853 was appointed to the chair of Finnish at the University of Helsingfors, from which he retired in 1862. Throughout his life he made journeys through Fin- land, Lapland, Russia, and Sweden, in order to collect the remains of poetry and tradition lingering among the people. He edited and published a col- lection of Finnish folk-songs, "The Lyre"