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Moore, William Thomas

clergyman, journalist, author, was born Aug. 27, 1832, in Henry county, Ky. He is a voluminous writer. Most prominent among the productions of his pen are, Views of Life, a beautiful book, full of practical thoughts on every-day subjects, and free from pulpit cant; and, the Living Pulpit of the Christian Church.

Moore, Zephaniah Swift

clergyman, college president, was born Nov. 20, 1770, in Palmer, Mass. He was president of Williams college in 1815; and in 1822 became the first president of Amherst college. He died June 30, 1823, in Amherst, Mass.

Moorehead, Warren King

archæologist, author, was born in 1866 in Italy. He is an archæologist of Italian birth, but American parentage, curator of the Ohio State Archæological Museum at Columbus. He is the author of Primitive Man in Ohio; Fort Ancient; The Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio; Waneta, the Sioux, a Story of Indian Life; and Field Work.

Moran, Leon

artist, was born in 1863, in Philadelphia, Pa. He has exhibited numerous paintings at the National academy, which include Waylaid; An Interrupted Conspiracy; and An Amateur. Among his most successful works are The Duel; An Idyl; Eel Fishing; and Intercepted Dispatches.

Moran, Mrs. Mary Nimmo

artist, was born May 10, 1842, in Scotland. She has attained eminence in America as a successful artist; and is the wife of the well known landscape painter.

Moran, Percy

artist, was born in 1862, in Philadelphia, Pa. He excels in portraying female heads and figures, and his touch is crisp and decided. Among his recent paintings are Divided Attention, for which he received the first prize at the New York academy of design in 1886; A Corner of the Studio; and The Wood Cutter's Daughter.

Moran, Peter

artist, was born in 1842 in England. He is a successful artist of Philadelphia, Pa.

Moran, Thomas

artist, was born Jan. 12, 1837, in England. Among his important works are The Pass of Glencoe; The Mountain of the Holy Cross, which he exhibited at the Centennial of 1876, and for which he received a medal and diploma.

Mordecai, Alfred

soldier, author, was born Jan. 3, 1804, in Warrenton, N. C.

He was a soldier and military engineer; secretary of the Pennsylvania Canal company since 1867; and the author of Digest of Military Laws; Ordnance Manual; Reports of Gunpowder Experiments; and Artillery for United States Land Service.

He died Oct. 23, 1887, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Morden, William J

inventor, was born in 1832. He was the inventor in 1868 of the first U plate frog and crossing, which invention is now in use on every railroad in America. At the time of his death he was president of the Morden Frog and Crossing works, a plant which covers five acres at South Chicago.

He died Feb. 27, 1897, in Chicago, Ill.

More, Paul Elmer

educator, author, was born in 1864 in Missouri. He is an instructor in Sanskrit and Greek at Bryn Mawr college; and the author of The Great Refusal: Being Letters of a Dreamer in Gotham.

More, Thomas Roman

stockman, poet, was born Sept. 27, 1856, in Santa Barbara, Cal. After graduating from the Ann Arbor high school, he attended the Michigan university. He is a successful stockman, and the owner of several large ranches in California. His poems have appeared in various newspapers and magazines, and in several standard works.

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