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Mooney, Samuel L

railroad president, was born June 14, 1813, in Powhatan, Ohio. Since 1881 he has been president of the Bellaire, Janesville and Cincinnati railroad. MOOR, WYMAN BRADLEY SEVEY, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Nov. 3, 1814, in Waterville, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1839; and was attorney-general of that state from 1844 to 1848. By appointment he succeeded John Fairfield as a senator in congress, serving from January to June, 1848. He subsequently devoted much attention to the railroad interests of his state; and in 1857 was appointed consul general for the British American provinces. He died Feb. 16, 1869, in Lynchburg, Va.

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