Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 17 December 2004

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REV. L. H. LONG, D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Lebanon, was born July 1, 1826, near Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co., Perm., and was the son of Thomas and Rebecca (Fletcher) Long, both of American descent; his father, while he owned a farm, was at the same time a master blacksmith and conducted a large business in that line, working journeymen and always a number of apprentices. There was then no more profitable business than that of blacksmithing. Our subject in his young boyhood spent a great deal of his time in and about his father's shop and acquired a taste for the business, and now, when passing a blacksmith shop is very apt to drop in and spend some time in it. The only common-school education received by him was limited to reading, writing and arithmetic, but he entered, in 1841, the Western University of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, and graduated from it in 1846, being, in his collegiate course, characterized for application in study and thoroughness in scholarship. Upon his graduation, he entered the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary, at Allegheny City, Penn., and, after taking a full course in the seminary, was licensed to preach the Gospel and ordained and installed pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church of Urbana, Ohio. He continued pastor of this church until 1854, when he changed his ecclesiastical connection and connected himself with the then Old-School General Assembly Presbyterian Church, when he was called to and settled as pastor in the First Presbyterian Church of Urbana. In 1861, when the war began, the church voted him a leave of absence for one year, that he might serve as Chaplain of the 26th O. V. I., to which he had been unanimously chosen by the regiment. In 1862, he returned to his pastoral work in the church at Urbana, and, in the fall of the same year, was unanimously nominated by the Republicans of Champaign County and elected by them to represent the county in the State Legislature. In this capacity, he served with entire acceptance to the people of Champaign County until 1865, and, during his legislative term, he continued as pastor of the church and occupied the pulpit regularly every Sabbath. In the spring of 1865, he resigned his pastoral charge, and, not being inclined to settle again as a pastor for a time, he applied to the Supreme Court of the State for admission to the bar, and, having read a course of law while

JUDGE R. O. FULTON, Chairman.
R. C. HORR, Secretary.

During his practice of the law, he served two terms as Mayor of Urbana and nearly two terms as City Solicitor, and, upon resigning the latter position, the City Council took the following action:
L. H. Long, City Solicitor, tendered his resignation, which was accepted ; whereupon Mr. Powers, a Democrat, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted :
WHEREAS, Our worthy Solicitor, L. H. Long, Esq., has tendered his resignation,
Resolved, That in our acceptance of his resignation we feel that we part with a worthy officer, one with whom our relations have been most pleasant and agreeable, both official and social, and in accepting his resignation we accept it with reluctance, and will ever cherish a pleasant recollection of our official connection.

The Western University of Pennsylvania, his "Alma Mater,'' which is exceedingly careful in bestowing its honors, a few years ago conferred upon him, the ecclesiastical honor of D. D., and thus recognized him as one of the able and talented ministers of the Presbyterian Church, and those who know him and have heard him preach readily concede the honor not to have been unworthily bestowed. In a social way, the Doctor is somewhat distinguished for his humor and vivacity, but yields to no one for his love of truth and principle; and when these are involved, he would suffer martyrdom rather than recant or give them up. He was married, in 1848, to Elizabeth Crumbaugh, of Xenia, Ohio, who has been to him a worthy helpmeet, and has borne him four children, viz., Charles T., now married to Carrie, daughter of Maj. Joseph Budd, of Lebanon, Ohio; Leander H., who died in infancy; Emma C., distinguished as a vocalist, and now married to John M. Maxwell, an attorney of Leadville, Colo., and Bertha, the youngest, a beautiful and intellectual girl of 16 years, who still lives with her parents. Many of the Doctor's sermons have been published and are fully worthy of him.