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Mowry, William Augustus – Muir, James

Mowry, William Augustus

educator, author, was born Aug. 13, 1829, in Uxbridge, Mass. He is an educator of Boston; and the author of Talks with My Boys; Studies in Civil Government; Elements of Civil Government; and School History of the United States.

Moylan, Stephen

soldier, was born in 1734 in Ireland. He served with distinction through the revolutionary war; and was brevetted brigadier-general in 1783. He died April 11, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Moylan, William

college president, was born June 22, 1822, in Ireland. In 1865 he was elected president of St.

John's college, resigning in 1868. He died Jan. 14, 1891, in Fordham, N. Y.

Moynahan, James

merchant, state senator, was born June 7, 1842, in Greenfield, Mich. He is a successful miner and merchant of Alma, Colo.; has been mayor of his city; and served as a member of the Colorado state senate, of which body he was president pro tem.

Mozier, Joseph

merchant, sculptor, was born Aug. 22, 1812, in Burlington, Vt. His principal works are Pocahontas; The Wept of the Wish-ton-Wish, which he repeated several times; Truth; Silence, both in the Mercantile library, New York; Rebecca at the Well; Esther; Indian Girl at the Grave of her Lover; Jephthah's Daughter; The Peri; and Rizpah. He died in October, 1870, in Switzerland.

Mozley, Norman A

lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1865, in Johnson county, Ill. He was elected from Missouri to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Mudd, Sydney Emanuel

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 12, 1858, in Charles county, Md. He was elected to the Maryland state house of delegates in 1879 and re-elected in 1881. He was elected to the fifty-first and defeated for the fiftysecond congress; and was elected to the state house of delegates in 1895, and was speaker of that body. He was delegate to the national republican convention in 1896; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Mudge, Benjamin Franklin

lawyer, state senator, was born Aug. 11, 1817, in Orrington, Maine. He settled in Kansas in 1862, and in 1864-65 was state senator. He died Nov. 21, 1879, in Manhattan, Kas. a

Mudge, Enoch

clergyman, author, was born June 28, 1776, in Lynn, Mass.

He was noted methodist itinerant preacher of New England; and the author of Notes on the Parables; Lynn, a Poem; The Juvenile Expositor; Lectures to Sea- He died April 2, 1850, in Lynn, men.

Mass.

Mudge, Zachariah Atwell

clergyman, author, was born July 2, 1813, in Orrington, Maine. He was a methodist clergyman of Massachusetts; and the author of The Christian Statesman; Views from Plymouth Rock; Witch Hill, a History of Salem Witchcraft; Life of Abraham Lincoln; Footprints of Roger Williams; Arctic Heroes; Fur-clad Adventurers; History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts; and The Luck of Alden Farm. He died in 1888.

Muffly, Joseph Wendel

educator. He is prominently identified with the educational and public affairs of Des Moines, Iowa.

Muir, James

clergyman, author, was born April 12, 1757, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of Alexandria, Va.; and the author of An Examination of the Principles in the Age of Reason, in Ten Discourses; and Sermons. He died Aug. 20, 1820, in Alexandria, Va.