LANGLOTZ, PROF. C. A.—Composer of famous Princeton College song, "Old Nassau," one of the songs of which it is said that they will never die, and sung by fifty-four Princeton classes. Was born in Germany, the son of a court musician at Saxe-Meiningen. Prof. Langlotz came to the United States in 1856,' already a distinguished musician, opened a studio in Philadelphia and later became instructor of German at Princeton. He composed "Old Nassau" in 1859. Died at Trenton, N. J., November 25, I9I5-
LEHMAN, PHILIP THEODORE — Born in the electorate of Saxony, emigrated to this country and became one of the secretaries of William Penn ; and in that capacity wrote the celebrated letter to the Indians of Canada, dated June 23, 1692, the original of which is framed and hung up in the Capitol at Harrisburg.
LEHMANN, FREDERICK WILLIAM—Solicitor General of the United States, December 1910-12, and prominent lawyer, resident in St. Louis. Born in Prussia, February 28, 1853. Government delegate and chairman committee on plan and scope Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, St. Louis, 1904 ; chairman commissions on congresses and anthropology, Louisiania Purchase Exposition company ; president St. Louis Public Library 1900-10; chairman Board of Freeholders City of St. Louis; president American Bar Association; second vice president Academy of Jurisprudence.
LEISLER, JACOB—The first American rebel against the British misrule in America to die for his principles. When the people of the Colonies heard of the revolution in England, they at once made movements to regain law and freedom. In New York on May 31, 1689, Jacob Leisler, a (German) Commissioner of the Court of Admiralty, took the fort on Manhattan Island, declared for the Prince of Orange, and planted six cannon within the fort, from which the place was ever afterwards called "The Battery". A committee of safety was formed which invested Leisler with the powers of a governor. When, however, a dispatch arrived from the authorities of Great Britain, directed to "such person as, for the time being, takes care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in .his majesty's province in New York," Leisler, considering himself governor, dissolved the Committee of Safety and organized the government throughout the whole province. There was division among the New Yorkers. The minority, being mostly, the English aristrocracy, were against Leisler; but the people in great majority were in sympathy with him. It was the old conflict between the few and the many, with
"all the people" sure to win in the end ____ Jacob Leisler was probably
among the first of far-sighted men to see the necessity of union against the French. ... To him, the importance of a federation of all the colonies seemed vital. After vainly trying to get other governors to unite with him, Leisler early in 1600 sent a small fleet against Quebec. From the very first New York was infused with that sentiment for unison which she has shown in all political dsturbances and wars throughout all her history. Very appropriately, on her soil, was held the first Congress to propose an elaborate plan of union. ... A hard-drinking Englishman, named Sloughter, was appointed the royal governor of New York. On
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