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Miege, John Baptist – Miles, Richard Pius

Miege, John Baptist

bishop, was born Sept. 18, 1815, in Savoy. In 1851 he was consecrated bishop of Messena; and shortly afterward built an industrial school for the Osages. In 1877 he founded a college in Detroit, Mich. He died July 20, 1884, in Woodstock, Md.

Mielziner, Moses

rabbi, author, was born in 1828 in Germany. In 1879 he was elected professor of the Talmud and the rabbinical disciplines of the Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has also published a number of sermons, lectures, and scholarly articles in German, Danish and English, and some occasional poems in classical Hebrew.

Mifflin, Warner

reformer, was born Oct. 21, 1745, in Accomac county, Va. His efforts to bring about emancipation of slaves were untiring. He died Oct. 16, 1798, in Camden, Del.

Milam, John Henry

lawyer, was born Dec. 5, 1865, in Warren county, N.

C. He attended the Oakville academy and the university of North Carolina, and is now one of the leading lawyers of the south, at Warrenton, N. C.

Milburn, William Henry

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 26, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a methodist clergyman, famous as the blind preacher, who has been six times chaplain of the United States house of representatives; and the author of Rifle, Axe, and Saddle Bags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; and Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley. He has also contributed extensively to current and religious publications of the United States.

Miles, Frederick

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1815, in Goshen, Conn. He was elected a state senator for a term of two years, resigned in 1879, having been elected a representative from Connecticut to the forty-sixth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-seventh congress; declined a renomination; and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

Miles, George Henry

lawyer, educator, author, poet, was born July 31, 1824, in Baltimore, Md. He was a Maryland lawyer and educator, and professor of English literature at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg, Md. Besides his dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De Soto, he published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened; A Review of Hamlet; and The Truce of God. He died July 23, 1871, in Emmettsburg, Md.

Miles, Henry Adolphus

clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1809, in Grafton, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of eastern Massachusetts, and the author of Lowell as It Was and Is; Grains of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a Friend; Modern Ideas of the Birth of Jesus; and Traces of Picture Writing in the Bible. He died in 1895.

Miles, James Warley

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in Charleston, S. C. He was an episcopal clergyman of Charleston, and the author of Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Philosophic Grounds of all Religious Belief Based on Reason. He died in August, 1875, in Charleston, S. C.

Miles, Joshua Weldon

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1858, in Somerset county, Md. He was elected state's attorney of Somerset county, Md., in 1883, and was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat.

Miles, Pliny

traveler, author, was born Nov. 16, 1818, in Watertown, N. Y.

He was a traveler who made his home in London in his later years, and the author of Statistical Register; Elements of Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory; Northufari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean Steam Navigation; and Postal Reform. He died April 7, 1865, on the Island of Malt.

Miles, Richard Pius

Roman catholic bishop, was born May 17, 1791, in Prince George county, Md. In 1837 the see of Nashville, embracing the state of Tennessee, was created, and in 1838 he was consecrated its first bishop. He died Feb. 17, 1860, in Nashville, Tenn.