Leyden
JOHN, a Scotch Orientaltrade, social, and political center of the famous "blue grass" region; is a noted ist; born in Denholm, Sept. 8, 1775. horse-breeding, hemp and tobacco grow- Soon after obtaining his medical degree ing region; and manufactures flour, he went to India, where his proficiency planing-mill products, saddlery, harness, in Oriental and especially Indo-Chinese carriages and wagons. It is the seat of languages led to an appointment as Pro- Kentucky University, Transylvania Uni- fessor of Hindustani at Fort William versity, State College, Hamilton College; College, Calcutta. He is the author of and Sayre Institute; contains a Protes- "An Historical Account of Discoveries in tant Infirmary, Colored Industrial Home, Northern and Western Africa" (1789), St. Joseph's Hospital, National and State "Scenes of Infancy," a poem; and a numbanks, public library, and court house. ber of Scotch ballads, which were much Lexington has wide and well-paved admired by Sir Walter Scott and others. streets, electric light and street railroad plants, daily and weekly periodicals.
Pop. (1910) 35,099; (1920) 41,534.
LEXINGTON, a town in Middlesex co., Mass., on the Boston and Maine railroad; 12 miles N. W. of Boston; contains the villages of Lexington, East Lexington and North Lexington; and is principally engaged in farming, dairying and market-gardening. There are a public high school, Hancock and Adams He died at Batavia, Java, Aug. 28, 1811.