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Moffat, Edward Stewart – Monarch, Martin V

Moffat, Edward Stewart

mining engineer, was born Jan. 5, 1844, in Oxford, Ohio. In 1868 he became adjunct professor of mining and metallurgy in Lafayette, where he remained until 1870, and he afterward held the superintendency of various iron-works till 1882, when he became superintendent of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal company, of which corporation he was made general manager in 1886.

Moffat, William David

author, was born in 1865 in New Jersey. He is a New York writer of stories for boys, business manager of The Book Buyer and of Scribner's Magazine; and the author of The County Pennant; The Crimson Banner; Brad Mattoon; and Not Without Honor, a novel.

Moffet, John

chemist, congressman, was born in 1832 in Ireland. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress.

Moffit, Hosea

legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served six years in the legislature of that state; and was a representative in congress from 1813 to 1817.

Moffitt, John M

sculptor, was born in 1837 in England. Many of the altars in the principal churches in New York city were designed by him. Among his latest works are the plan for the soldiers' monument in East Rock park, New Haven, Conn., and the drum of the Yorktown revolutionary monument, erected in 1881. He died Sept. 15, 1887, in London, England. was

Moffitt, John M

soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1843, in Chazy, N. Y. From 1866 till 1872 he deputy collector of customs at Rouse's Point, N. Y.; and from 1872 till the present time has been engaged in the manufacture of charcoal bloom iron, and director in the People's National bank of Malone, N. Y. He was elected to the fiftieth congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

Mohn, Thorbjorn N

clergyman, college president, was born in 1844 in Norway. He has filled pastorates in Chicago, and for twenty-two years in St. Paul, Minn. He is the president of St.

Olaf college of Northfield, Minn.

Moise, Penina

poet, was born April 23, 1797, in Charleston, S. C. She was the author of a volume of poems entitled Fancy's Sketch-Book. She died Sept. 13, 1880, in Charleston, S. C.

Molony, Richard S

physician, congressman, was born in Northfield, N. H. He was a representative from Illinois to the thirty-second congress.

Momberger, William

artist, was born June 7, 1829, in Germany. He built a studio at Morrisania, N. Y., where he has painted several landscapes, among the Catskills; Through the Woods; Harvest Moon; and Island on the Susquehanna River.

Mombert, Jacob Isidor

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 6, 1829, in Germany. He is an episcopal clergyman of Paterson, N. J.; and the author of Faith Victorious; Handbook of the English Versions of the Bible; Great Lives; History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; History of Charles the Great; and Short History of the Crusades.

Monarch, Martin V

railroad president, was born in 1842 in Kentucky. In 1889 he became president of the Owensboro Falls of Rough and Green River railroad.