Lorain
a city of Ohio, in Lorain co. and on the Lake Erie, Northern Chicago, Baltimore and Ohio, Lorain and West Virginia and Lake Shore Electric railroads. It is the center of an important industrial community and has manufactures of steel, iron, and a large shipbuilding plant. It has a Carnegie Library, a hospital and other important public buildings. It is well supplied with natural gas and is an important outlet for the central Ohio coal fields. It also ships important quantities of lumber, iron, and grain. It has an excellent system of docks. The population has grown rapidly in recent years. (1910) 28,883; (1920) 37,295.
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Lord (Feudal times the lord sei)
in feudal times, the lord (sei gneur) was the grantor or proprietor of the land, who retained the dominion or ultimate property of the feud or fee; and the grantee, who had only the use or possession of the land, was styled the feudatory or vassal. A person who has the fee of a manor, and consequently the homage of his tenants, is called the "lord of the manor." The superior lord is styled "lord paramount"; and his tenants, if they grant a portion of the land to other tenants, while they remain tenants in reference to the lord paramount. are lords in reference to their own tenants, and are hence styled mesne or , is middle lords. Lord, in Great Britain also a title of dignity attached to certain official stations, sometimes hereditary, sometimes only official or personal. All who are noble by birth or creation are styled lords. It is likewise given by courtesy to the younger sons of dukes and marquises, and to the eldest sons of these and of earls. In the translation of the Scriptures, Lord is used, without much discrimination, for all the names applied to God; but when it represents the great name of Jehovah, it is printed in small capitals. In the New Testament it is applied in the origina to Jesus Christ, the term Greek being kurios (owner or master).
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Lord Chamberlain
an officer of state in England who has control of the establishment attached to the chapels royal; of officers and servants attached to the royal chambers, except of those of the bedchamber; and over the medical men of the household. The royal tradesmen are appointed by him. He directs all great royal ceremonies, receives alr applications to attend levées and draw.. ing-rooms, superintends the royal wardrobe and the jewel house at the Tower, and licenses theaters and plays, his power extending to the cities of London and Testminster, and certain other parts of the metropolis, as well as to those places pla within which the sovereign may reside occasionally. The power of licensing theaters elsewhere belongs to the justices,
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Lord Chancellor
the highest judicial officer of the Crown, law adviser to the Government, and Keeper of the Great Seal. He ranks next to the royal family and the Archbishop of Canterbury. Privy Councillor and member of the Cabinet, and a presiding officer of the House of Lords. He appoints all justices of the peace in the Kingdom and in general all judges of the Superior Courts except chief judges. Is also Chief Judge of the Court of Chancery. The salary is £10,000 with an annuity of £5,000 on retirement from office. LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE (England). The official title of the Chief-Justice of the King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of Judication in England. While the King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, the three superior courts, hold about equal power, yet the King's (or Queen's) has always enjoyed a certain pre-eminence, the Chief-Justice of that court having precedence over the Chief-Justice of Common Pleas and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer. The Lord Chief-Justice is a lord of Parliament, and in court and abroad is entitled to be addressed as "Lord."
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Lord Mayor
the title given to the chief magistrates of London and York, England, and of Dublin, Ireland, during the year for which they hold office.
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Lord's Prayer
the prayer which Jesus taught His disciples (Matt. vi: 9-13; Luke xi: 2-4).
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Lord's Supper
a term first used by St. Paul in I Cor. xi: 20, of a ceremonial ordinance observed in the Corinthian and doubtless in other churches. The night on which Jesus was betrayed, He took bread, blessed it, brake it, and gave it to His disciples to eat, with wine former in the Protestant view symbolizing His broken Body, the latter His shed Blood. (Matt. xxvi: 26-29; Mark xiv: 22-25; Luke xxii: 14-20). St. Luke records that Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (xxii: 19). St. Paul evidently considered that these words, addressed originally to the apostles, were designed for the Church of all ages. The term Lord's supper is used chiefly by those who hold the ordinance to be a commemorative one. See COMMUNION: EUCHARIST: MASS.
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Lord-Lieutenant
a British official of high rank, representing the sovereign, as: (1) The Viceroy, or Lordlieutenant of Ireland, who is a member of the ministry, retiring from office with them. He has the control of the government of the country, subject to the approval of the ministry in office, and nearly all the patronage is also vested in him. He can confer knighthood. In his government he is assisted by a privy council nominated by the sovereign. (2) The lord-lieutenant of a county, the principal official of a county, at whose recommendation all deputy-lieutenants and justices of the peace are appointed, and first commissions in the yeomanry, militia, and volunteers are given.
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Loree
LEONOR FRESNEL, railway president, born in Fulton City, Ill., 1858. Graduating from Rutgers in 1877, he entered the service of the Pa. R. R. as assistant in the engineer corps. Two years later he became transitman in the Engineers Corps, U. S. A. After two years' service he resumed railroad work. In 1896 he became general manager of the Pa. R. R. and fourth vice-president in 1901. He was successively president of the B. & O. R. R. (1901-1904); R. I. Co. of N. J. (1904); D. & H. R. R. Co. (1907). From 1899 to 1901 he was president of the American Railway Association. Was a delegate to the International Railway Congress in Paris in 1900.
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