Longworth
NICHOLAS, member of the House of Representatives from Representativ Ohio since 1903, with the exception of two years, viz. 1913-1915. Born at Cincinnati Nov. 5, 1869, graduated from Harvard University in 1891, and admitted to the bar in Ohio three years later. He has always taken a promient 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 President Roosevelt. LONGWY (lông-we'), a small town and fortress in the extreme N. of the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, 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.
LÖNNROT, ELIAS (luhn'rot), a great Finnish scholar and folklorist; born in Sammatti, Nyland, Finland, April 9, 1802. He studied medicine, and practiced 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 Finland, Lapland, Russia, and Sweden, in order to collect the remains of poetry and tradition lingering among the people. He edited and published a col- LONGUEVILLE (lông-vēl'), 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 combatant at the battle of the Spurs and at Marignano, died 1516. CLAUDE, killed lection of Finnish folk-songs, "The Lyre" LONS-LE-SAUNIER (1829-1831); the great Finnish national epic of the "Kalevala" (1835); "Lyric Art" (1840), a collection of lyrical folkpoetry; "Proverbs of the Finnish People" (1842); "Riddles of the Finnish People" (1844). His latest work was the great Finnish Dictionary (2 vols. 1866-1880).
He died in Sammatti, March 19, 1884. in Samm Sammatti, March 19, 1884.
LONS - LE - SAUNIER (lông-luh-sōnyã), the capital of the department of of Jura, France, on the Vallière, about 75 miles N. E. of Lyons; the ancient brine-springs, to which the town owes its foundation and name, are still utilized for the extraction of salt and for medicinal purposes. Birthplace of Dumas and of Rouget de l'Isle, author of the "Marseillaise." Pop. about 12,000.