Mell, Patrick Hues – Menzies, John W
Mell, Patrick Hues
clergyman, author, was born July 19, 1814, in Walthourville, Ga. He was a baptist clergyman and educator of Georgia, and vice-chancellor of the university of Georgia. He was the author of Baptism; Corrective Church Discipline; Parliamentary Practice; The Philosophy of Prayer; Church Polity; and Predestination. He died Jan. 26, 1888, in Athens, Ga.
Mell, Patrick Hues
geologist, was born May 24, 1850, in Penfield, Ga. During 1874-77 he was state chemist of Georgia; during 1884-93 was the director of the state weather service of Alabama; and in 1897 was president of the botanical section of Agricultural Colleges association. He is the author of Botanical Laboratory Guide; Climatology of Alabama; Climatology of Cotton Plant; and various other works on geology, mining and botany.
Mellen, George Washington
business man, legislator, was born May 11, 1837, in Hartford, Conn. He is a successful merchant of Great Barrington, Mass.; and during 1896-97 was a member of the Massachusetts state legislature.
Mellen, Grenville
lawyer, author, poet, was born June 19, 1799, in Biddeford, Maine. He was a lawyer of New York city, whose poetry was once very popular and much praised by critics, but is now forgotten. He was the author of Our Chronicle of '26, a satire; The Martyr's Triumph, and Other Poems; The Passions; Glad Tales and Sad Tales, a collection of tales in prose; and The Rest of the Nations. He died Sept. 5, 1841, in New York.
Mellen, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1722 in Hopkinton, Mass.
He was pastor of Hanover, Mass., in 1784- 1805, and afterward removed to Reading, Mass. He published eight occasional sermons, and Fifteen Discourses on Doctrinal Subjects. He died in 1807 in Reading, Mass.
Mellen, John
clergyman, author, was born in 1752 in Sterling, Mass. He was minister of Barnstable, Mass., and after retiring from the pastorate removed to Cambridge. He published eight separate sermons and discourses, and two Dudleian Lectures. He died in 1828 in Cambridge, Mass.
Mellen, Prentiss
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Oct. 11, 1764, in Sterling, Mass. In 1817 he was chosen a senator in congress from Massachusetts; and a presidential elector in 1817. On the separation of Maine in 1820 he resigned his seat in the senate, and was elected the first chief justice of the supreme court of Maine. He died Dec. 31, 1840, in Portland, Maine.
Mellen, W. H
merchant, educator, poet, was born Aug. 5, 1840, in Gerry, N. Y. In 1878 he closed out his mercantile business in Chautauqua and moved to Lane, Kan., and subsequently to Greeley, where he took charge of the city schools for two years. He has served as county register of deeds and county treasurerat Garnett; where he has also been engaged in the wholesale and retail business. He has contributed extensively to current publications; and some of his poems have been given a place in Poets of America and other standard works.
Mellette, Arthur C
governor, was born June 23, 1842, in Henry county, Ind. In 1864 he graduated from the Indiana university, and immediately entered the northern army, serving as a private in company H, ninth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, until the close of the war. He was subsequently admitted to the bar; was prosecuting attorney of Muncie in 1868; served as a member of the Indiana house of representatives in 1871; and was the author of the Indiana school law which laid the foundation of the present excellent public school system of that state. In 1878 he moved to Springfield, Dakota territory; was appointed register of the general land office; and two years later moved to Watertown.
In 1889 he was appointed governor of the territory; and in 1889 was elected governor of South Dakota. He was the last governor of the territory of Dakota, and the first governor of the state of South Dakota.
Mellick, Andrew D
lawyer, author, was born in 1844 in New Jersey. He was a lawyer of Plainfield, N. J.; and the author of The Story of an Old Farm; and The Hessians in New Jersey. He died in 1895.
Mellish, David B
journalist, congressman, was born Jan. 2, 1831, in Oxford, Mass. He was for several years a stenographer for the civil authorities; and also wrote for the newspapers. In 1871 he was appointed an assistant appraiser in the custom house; and in 1872 was elected a representative from New York to the forty-third congress as a republican. He died May 23, 1874, in the Government Hospital for the Insane.
Mellon, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, banker, was born Feb. 13, 1813, in Ireland. During 1859-70 he held the office of assistant law judge of the court of common pleas in Pennsylvania, and then declined a renomination. In 1870 he opened the door of the private bank now known as Thomas Mellon and Sons in Pittsburg, Pa., and he is yet the head of this concern.
Meloy, John
farmer, legislator, was born June 18, 1804, in Lancaster county, Pa. For two terms he served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature.
Melsheimer, Frederick Valen- Tine
clergyman, educator, was born Sept. 29, 1749, in Germany. In 1787 he became an instructor in Franklin college, Lancaster, and he was pastor at Hanover, York county, in 1790-1814. He died July 4, 1814, in Hanover, Pa.
Melville, Eunice
journalist, was born June 23, 1863, in Minneiska, Minn.
She is now the editor and publisher of The National Rebekah of Minneapolis, Minn., a journal devoted to the woman's branch of Odd Fellowship throughout the world. For eight years she has been secretary of the Rebekah state assembly of Minnesota.
Melville, George Wallace
civil engineer, author, was born Jan. 10, 1841, in New York city. He has been chief of the bureau of steam engineering in the United States navy since 1887. He is a survivor of the ill-fated Jeannette, of which he was engineer; and the author of In the Lena Delta, a Narrative of the Search for Lieutenant-Commander De Long and His Companions.
Melville, Henry
bishop coadjutor of Alabama, was born July 28, 1848, in Leesburg, Va. He was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Alabama in St. Paul's church, Selma, Ala., in 1891. a
Melville, Herman
author, poet, was born Aug. 1, 1819, in New York city.
He was novelist of New York city, for many years employed in the custom-house. He was the author of Typee; Omoo; White Jacket; Redburn; Mardi; Pierre; Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales; Moby Dick; The Confidence Man; Battle Pieces, a volume of verse; Clarel, a poem; John Marr and Other Sailors, and Timoleon, a collection of poems. He died Sept. 28, 1891, in New York city.
Mendenhall, George
physician, author, was born May 5, 1814, in Sharon, Pa. On the organization of the United States sanitary commission at the beginning of the civil war, he was one of the associates and president of the Cincinnati branch of the commission. He was the author of The Medical Student's Vade- Mecum. He died June 4, 1874, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mendenhall, James William
clergyman, author, was born in 1842 in Ohio. He was a methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Review from 1888; and the author of Echoes from Palestine; and Plato and Paul. He died in 1892.
Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin
educator, scientist, author, was born Oct. 4, 1841, near Hanoverton, Ohio. He is a prominent scientist; president of the Worcester Polytechnic institute from 1894; and author of A Century of Electricity.
Mendoza, Francisco Felix
physician, pharmacist, editor, author, was born July 10, 1851, in Havana, Cuba. He studied medicine in America and Europe, and attended the hospitals of Europe.
During 1876-85 he practiced in Pinar Del Rio and Guines, Cuba; and in 1885-88 he practiced medicine in Mexico city, Vera Cruz, Pueblo, and other places. He has edited different political and medical newspapers in Mexico and Cuba; and is the author of the Directorio Biografico Professional Hispano-Americano. In 1888 he went to Key West, and in 1894 moved to Tampa, Fla., where he is now actively engaged in his profession.
Menees, Thomas
physician, educator, state senator, was born June 26, 1823, near Nashville, Tenn. In 1874 he was chosen professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the university of Nashville, and in 1875 he was transferred to the chair of obstetrics. He was also elected to the same place in Vanderbilt university and became dean of its medical department. He was a member of the Tennessee state senate in 1857, and of the confederate congress during the civil war.
Menifee, Richard H
congressman.
He was a member of congress from Kentucky from 1837 to 1839. He died Feb. 21, 1841, in Frankfort, Ky.
Menken, Adah Isaacs
actress, poet, was born June 15, 1835, near New Orleans, La. She was an actress of Jewish birth whose name originally was Dolores Adios Fuertes. She was the author of Memories; and Infelicia. She died Aug. 10, 1868, in Paris, France.
Menzies, John W
lawyer, congressman, was born April 12, 1819, in Fayette county, Ky. In 1841 he established himself in Covington, Ky.; and in 1848 and 1855 was elected to the general assembly of Kentucky. In 1861 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-seventh congress.