ed the army as Captain,
and became Colonel of the Second Virginia Volunteers. In 1864 he was
elected a Representative from West Virginia to the Thirty-Ninth
Congress, and was succeeded in the Fortieth Congress by Bethuel M.
Kitchen.

GEORGE V. LAWRENCE, whose father, Joseph Lawrence, was a member of
Congress, was born in Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1818. He
received a liberal education at Washington College, and engaged in
agricultural pursuits. He was in 1844 elected a member of the
Pennsylvania House of Representatives, and was three times re-elected.
He served five terms in the State Senate, of which, during his last
term of service, he was the Presiding Officer. In 1864 he was elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and
was re-elected in 1866.

WILLIAM LAWRENCE was born in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, June 26, 1819. He
graduated at Franklin College, Ohio, in 1838, and subsequently taught
school in McConnellsville. In 1840 he graduated in the Law Department
of Cincinnati College. In 1841 he located in Bellefontaine, Ohio, for
the practice of law. In 1842 he was appointed Commissioner of
Bankrupts for Logan County. In 1845 he was elected Prosecuting
Attorney, and in the same year became proprietor of the "Logan
Gazette," of which he was two years the editor. In 1846 he was elected
a Representative in the Legislature, and was re-elected in the
following year. In 1849 and 1850 he was a member of the Ohio Senate,
and again in 1854, having in the interval held the office of Reporter
for the Supreme Court. He was the originator of many legislative acts
of great importance to the State, among the rest one relating to land
titles, known as "Lawrence's Law," and the _Ohio Free Banking Law_,
similar in some respects to the existing National Banking Law. In 1854
he was one of the signers to a call for a State Convention in
opposition to the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill." In 1856 he was elected a
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1861 was re-elected for a
term of five years. In 1862 he had command as Colonel of the
Eighty-Fourth Regiment of Ohio Volunteers for three months. In
September, 1863, President Lincoln gave him the commission of Judge of
the U. S. District Court of Florida, which he declined. In 1864 he was
elected a Representative from Ohio to the Thirty-Ninth Congress, and
in 1866 he was re-elected.--343, 345, 520.

_FRANCIS C. Le BLOND_ was born in Ohio, and became a lawyer. In