Middleton, Henry – Miles, Pliny
Middleton, Henry
author, was born March 16, 1797, in France. He was a prominent writer of Charleston, and the author of Prospects of Disunion; The Government and the Currency; Economical Causes of Slavery in the United States, and Obstacles to Its Abolition; The Government of India; and Universal Suffrage. He died March 15, 1878, in Washington, D. C.
Middleton, John Izard
author, was born in 1785 in Middleton Place, S.
C. His work on Grecian Remains in Italy, etc., was the first contribution made by an American to the knowledge of classical antiquity. He died in November, 1849, in France.
Middleton, John Izard
state legislator, was born Feb. 3, 1800, in Middleton Place, S. C. He became a large rice planter in Prince George, S. C., representing that parish in the state legislature from 1832 till 1840, and in 1848 was speaker of the house. He died Jan. 12, 1877, in Summerville, S. C.
Miege, John Baptist
bishop, was born Sept. 18, 1815, in Savoy. In 1851 he was consecrated bishop of Messena; and shortly afterward built an industrial school for the Osages. In 1877 he founded a college in Detroit, Mich. He died July 20, 1884, in Woodstock, Md.
Mielziner, Moses
rabbi, author, was born in 1828 in Germany. In 1879 he was elected professor of the Talmud and the rabbinical disciplines of the Hebrew Union college of Cincinnati, Ohio. He has also published a number of sermons, lectures, and scholarly articles in German, Danish and English, and some occasional poems in classical Hebrew.
Miers, Robert W
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 27, 1848, in Decatur county, Ind.
He is a graduate of both of both the literary and the law departments of Indiana university, and commenced the practice of law at Bloomington, Ind., in April, 1872. He was elected prosecuting attorney for the tenth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1875, and re-elected in 1877. He was elected to the house of representatives of the Indiana legislature in 1879, and was a trustee of the Indiana university from 1881 to 1893. He was appointed judgé of the tenth judicial circuit of Indiana in 1883 to fill an unexpired term, and was elected judge of the same circuit in 1890 and served as judge until 1896. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Mifflin, Thomas
soldier, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born in 1744 in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1772 he was a representative from Philadelphia in the provincial assembly, and was a delegate to the continental congress from Pennsylvania from 1774 to 1776. He distinguished himself as major in the army at the battle of Lexington, and in 1777 attained the rank of major-general. In 1782 he was again sent as a delegate to the continental congress, serving until 1783, and was president of that body.
In 1785 he was speaker of the state legislature, and in 1787 was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of the United States, and signed that instrument. In 1788 he was made president of the supreme executive council. In 1790 he was a member of the convention for framing the state constitution of Pennsylvania, and was chosen first governor, and served nine years, and was again sent to the legislature. He died Jan. 20, 1800, in Lancaster, Pa.
Mifflin, Warner
reformer, was born Oct. 21, 1745, in Accomac county, Va. His efforts to bring about emancipation of slaves were untiring. He died Oct. 16, 1798, in Camden, Del.
Mignot, Louis Remy
painter, was born in 1831 in Charleston, S. C. Among his earlier pictures are Twilight in the Tropics; Southern Harvest; Tropical Scenery; and Source of the Susquehanna, which was exhibited at the Paris exposition of 1867. He also painted Niagara, a view from the American side. He exhibited at the Royal academy in London, Lagoon of Guayaquil, South America; and A Winter Morning, in 1863; Evening in the Tropics, in 1865; and Under the Equator, in 1866. He died in September, 1870, in England.
Milam, John Henry
lawyer, was born Dec. 5, 1865, in Warren county, N.
C. He attended the Oakville academy and the university of North Carolina, and is now one of the leading lawyers of the south, at Warrenton, N. C.
Milburn, William E. F
soldier, educator, lawyer, legislator, was born Nov. 15, 1842, in Milburnton, Tenn. In 1871 he graduated from the Grant university, and in 1874 from the university of Michigan, with the degree of A. M. During the war he served in the United States army as first sergeant and first lieutenant in company B, twelfth regiment Tennessee volunteer cavalry, and was in twenty-seven engagements. During 1871-73 he was professor of mathematics in the Grant university; has been a member of the board of education of Greeneville, Tenn.; a director in the Greene County bank, and commander of the department of Tennessee, Grand Army of the Republic. For four years he served with distinction as a member of the Tennessee state legislature, and is one of the foremost lawyers of the south.
Milburn, William Henry
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 26, 1823, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a methodist clergyman, famous as the blind preacher, who has been six times chaplain of the United States house of representatives; and the author of Rifle, Axe, and Saddle Bags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; and Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley. He has also contributed extensively to current and religious publications of the United States.
Miles, Frederick
merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 19, 1815, in Goshen, Conn. He was elected a state senator for a term of two years, resigned in 1879, having been elected a representative from Connecticut to the forty-sixth congress. He was re-elected to the forty-seventh congress; declined a renomination; and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Miles, George Henry
lawyer, educator, author, poet, was born July 31, 1824, in Baltimore, Md. He was a Maryland lawyer and educator, and professor of English literature at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmettsburg, Md. Besides his dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De Soto, he published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened; A Review of Hamlet; and The Truce of God. He died July 23, 1871, in Emmettsburg, Md.
Miles, George Washington
educator, scientist, was born May 14, 1859, in Fort Adams, Miss. He graduated from the State university of Missouri with the degree of M. S. He has attained success in educational work; has been superintendent of schools; and is now professor of geology, mineralogy and astronomy in the New Mexico college of agriculture and mechanic arts of Mesilla Park, N. M.
He has accomplished considerable original work in astronomy and geology, and received the astronomical medal when he graduated with the degree of A. B. at the Missouri State university in 1884. He has since contributed many valuable articles to scientific papers, and is a member of various scientific associations.
Miles, Henry Adolphus
clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1809, in Grafton, Mass. He was a unitarian clergyman of eastern Massachusetts, and the author of Lowell as It Was and Is; Grains of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a Friend; Modern Ideas of the Birth of Jesus; and Traces of Picture Writing in the Bible. He died in 1895.
Miles, James Warley
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 24, 1818, in Charleston, S. C. He was an episcopal clergyman of Charleston, and the author of Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Philosophic Grounds of all Religious Belief Based on Reason. He died in August, 1875, in Charleston, S. C.
Miles, Joshua Weldon
lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 9, 1858, in Somerset county, Md. He was elected state's attorney of Somerset county, Md., in 1883, and was elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat.
Miles, Nelson Appleton
soldier, author, was born Aug. 8, 1839, in Westminster, Mass. He is a noted soldier of the United States army who served as a brigadier-general of volunteers during the civil war. He became a major-general in 1890. He has successfully conducted Indian campaigns, and has on several occasions prevented Indian wars by judicious and humane settlement of difficulties without the use of military power. He is now commander-in-chief of the United States army. He is the author of Personal Recollections.
Miles, Pliny
traveler, author, was born Nov. 16, 1818, in Watertown, N. Y.
He was a traveler who made his home in London in his later years, and the author of Statistical Register; Elements of Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory; Northufari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean Steam Navigation; and Postal Reform. He died April 7, 1865, on the Island of Malt.