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Lawrence was born in 1885. He came to the Washington, D.C., area from Grafton, West Virginia, with his wife and a daughter, Muriel Nicholson Hoover. Lawrence was a biology teacher at Central High School and then became principal of that school. His daughter, Muriel, graduated from Central High School while her father was principal. She went on to become a teacher in Montgomery County and Washington, D.C., public schools. She retired from Robert E. Peary School in the mid-1970s and died on June 9, 2001, at the age of 89. Lawrence was elected to the Washington Biologists’ Field Club in 1927 and then terminated membership in 1943. Lawrence died in 1955.