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Melish, John – Meloy, John
Melish, John
traveler, author, was born in 1781 in Scotland. He was a noted traveler of Scottish birth; and the author of Travels in the United States, etc.; Description of the Roads, etc.; Description of the United States; Necessity of Protecting Manufactures; Information for Emigrants; and Statistical View of the United States. He died Sept. 30, 1822, in Philadelphia., Pa.
Mell, Patrick Hues
clergyman, author, was born July 19, 1814, in Walthourville, Ga. He was a baptist clergyman and educator of Georgia, and vice-chancellor of the university of Georgia. He was the author of Baptism; Corrective Church Discipline; Parliamentary Practice; The Philosophy of Prayer; Church Polity; and Predestination. He died Jan. 26, 1888, in Athens, Ga.
Mellen, Grenville
lawyer, author, poet, was born June 19, 1799, in Biddeford, Maine. He was a lawyer of New York city, whose poetry was once very popular and much praised by critics, but is now forgotten. He was the author of Our Chronicle of '26, a satire; The Martyr's Triumph, and Other Poems; The Passions; Glad Tales and Sad Tales, a collection of tales in prose; and The Rest of the Nations. He died Sept. 5, 1841, in New York.
Mellen, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1722 in Hopkinton, Mass.
He was pastor of Hanover, Mass., in 1784- 1805, and afterward removed to Reading, Mass. He published eight occasional sermons, and Fifteen Discourses on Doctrinal Subjects. He died in 1807 in Reading, Mass.
Mellen, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1752 in Sterling, Mass. He was minister of Barnstable, Mass., and after retiring from the pastorate removed to Cambridge. He published eight separate sermons and discourses, and two Dudleian Lectures. He died in 1828 in Cambridge, Mass.
Mellen, Prentiss
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Oct. 11, 1764, in Sterling, Mass. In 1817 he was chosen a senator in congress from Massachusetts; and a presidential elector in 1817. On the separation of Maine in 1820 he resigned his seat in the senate, and was elected the first chief justice of the supreme court of Maine. He died Dec. 31, 1840, in Portland, Maine.
Mellick, Andrew D
lawyer, author, was born in 1844 in New Jersey. He was a lawyer of Plainfield, N. J.; and the author of The Story of an Old Farm; and The Hessians in New Jersey. He died in 1895.
Mellish, David B
journalist, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Oxford, Mass. He was for several years a stenographer for the civil authorities; and also wrote for the newspapers. In 1871 he was appointed an assistant appraiser in the custom house; and in 1872 was elected a representative from New York to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died May 23, 1874, in the Government Hospital for the Insane.
Mellon, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, banker, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in Ireland. During 1859-70 he held the office of assistant law judge of the court of common pleas in Pennsylvania, and then declined a renomination. In 1870 he opened the door of the private bank now known as Thomas Mellon and Sons in Pittsburg, Pa., and he is yet the head of this concern.
Meloy, John
farmer, legislator, was born June 18, 1804, in Lancaster county, Pa. For two terms he served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature. MELSHEIMER, FREDERICK VALEN- TINE, clergyman, educator, was born Sept. 29, 1749, in Germany. In 1787 he became an instructor in Franklin college, Lancaster, and he was pastor at Hanover, York county, in 1790-1814. He died July 4, 1814, in Hanover, Pa.