Mitchell, Silas Weir – Molineux, Edward Leslie
Mitchell, Silas Weir
physician, author, poet, was born Feb. 15, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a distinguished physician of Philadelphia, well known also as novelist and poet. His professional writings include Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked; Injuries of the Nerves; Nurse and Patient; Fat and Blood; Doctor and Patient. In fiction he has published Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker; Hephzibah Guinness; In War Times; Roland Blake; Far in the Forest; Philip Vernon; Prince Little Boy, and Other Tales out of Fairy Land; Characteristics; A Madeira Party; When all the Woods are Green; and, in verse, Francis Drake, a Tragedy of the Sea; The Mother, and Other Poems; The Cup of Youth; The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems; A Psalm and A Masque, and Other of Death; Poems.
Mitchell, Stephen Mix
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 9, 1743, in Wethersfield, Conn. In 1779 he was appointed a judge of the Hartford county, Conn., court; and in 1790 placed at the head of that court. He was a delegate to the old congress in 1783 and 1785; and in 1793 was appointed to the United States senate, which position he held until 1795. In 1795 he was appointed judge of the superior court of Connecticut; and in 1807 chief justice of that court, which office he held until 1814. He died Sept. 30, 1835, in Wethersfield, Conn.
Mitchell, Thomas R
congressman, was born in Georgetown, S. C. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1821 to 1823, from 1825 to 1829, and again from 1831 to 1833.
He died in 1837.
Mitchell, W. P
physician, surgeon, was born March 2, 1862, in Middletown, Ind. In 1883 he graduated from the Medical college of Danville, Ind.; and the following year from the Rush Medical college of Chicago. He is one of the foremost physicians of Wisconsin; has a large practice in Spring Green; and is the medical examiner for five large life insurance companies.
Mitchell, Walter
clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1826 in Massachusetts. He is an episcopal clergyman of New York city; and the author of Two Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a novel; and Poems. Tacking Ship off Shore is the poem by which he is best known.
Mitchell, Will Ward
poet, was born Dec. 1, 1870, near Lexington, Mo.
He is a successful journalist of Higginsville, Mo.; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems which have appeared in the periodical press and several standard collections.
Mitchell, William
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 9, 1793, in Chester, Conn. He was a congregational minister of Texas who published A Doctrinal Guide for Young Christians; and Coleridge and the Moral Tendency of his Writings. He died Aug. 1, 1867, in Corpus Christi, Tex.
Mitchell, William
theater-manager, was born in 1798 in England. In 1836 he came to this country under an engagement with the lessees of the old National theater in New York city, where he made his debut as Jem Baggs in The Wandering Minstrel, and eventually became stage-manager. He died May 12, 1856, in New York city.
Mitchell, William
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from Indiana to the thirty-seventh congress. He died in September, 1865, in Macon, Ga.
Mitchill, Samuel Latham
clergyman, congressman, United States senator, author, was born Aug. 20, 1764, in North Hempstead, N. Y. He was a famous physician and man of letters of New York city who filled there a position very similar to that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston at a later day, the two men having many points of resemblance.
He was long a professor of chemistry in Columbia college. He was a representative in congress from 1801 to 1804; and again in 1810-13; and a United States senator in 1804-09. Among his writings are: Life of Tammany, the Indian Chief; Picture of New York; and Description of Schooley's Mountain.
Moak, Nathaniel Cleveland
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 3, 1833, in Sharon, N. Y. He was an Albany lawyer; and the author of Albany Penitentiary Statutes; English Reports; and English Digest.
Moeller, Louis Charles
artist, was born Aug. 5, 1855, in New York city.
He has attained success as a painter; and has exhibited his productions in various exhibitions. He is an associate of the National Academy of Design; and is a pleasing genre painter. Among his principal works are: A Girl in a Snow Storm; Puzzled; Morning News; Stubborn; Bluffing; A Doubtful Investment; and A Siesta.
Moeller, Louis Frederick
artist, was born in 1855 in New York city.
He attended the National Academy of Design, and the academy in Munich, Germany; and has attained a national reputation as a successful artist. He received a medal at the Royal academy in Munich; and received the first prize at the National Academy of Design for the picture entitled Puzzled.
Moffat, Edward Stewart
mining engineer, was born Jan. 5, 1844, in Oxford, Ohio. In 1868 he became adjunct professor of mining and metallurgy in Lafayette, where he remained until 1870, and he afterward held the superintendency of various iron-works till 1882, when he became superintendent of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal company, of which corporation he was made general manager in 1886.
Moffat, James Clement
clergyman, author, was born May 30, 1811, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman and educator; professor at Princeton Theological seminary in 1853-90; and the author of Comparative History of Religions; Life of Dr. Chalmers; Song and Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scotland; Alwyn, a Romance of Study, in verse; The Church in Scotland; Church History in Brief; Rhyme of the North Countrie; and The Story of a Dedicated Life. He died June 7, 1890, in Princeton, N. J.
Moffat, William David
author, was born in 1865 in New Jersey. He is a New York writer of stories for boys, business manager of The Book Buyer and of Scribner's Magazine; and the author of The County Pennant; The Crimson Banner; Brad Mattoon; and Not Without Honor, a novel.
Moffatt, Seth C
lawyer, legislator, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1841, in Battle Creek, Mich. He was prosecuting attorney for Leelaun county, Mich., for six years; and was deputy collector of customs at Northport for six years. He was a state senator in 1871 and 1872; was a member of the state constitutional commission in 1873; and was register of the United States land office at Traverse City, Mich., from 1874 to 1878. He was prosecuting attorney for Grand Traverse county, Mich., in 1878; and was a representative in, and speaker of, the lower house of the Michigan legislature in 1881 and 1882. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Michigan to the forty-ninth congress; and was reelected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Moffet, John
chemist, congressman, was born in 1832 in Ireland. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-first congress.
Moffit, Hosea
legislator, congressman, was born in New York. He served six years in the legislature of that state; and was a representative in congress from 1813 to 1817.
Moffitt, John M
sculptor, was born in 1837 in England. Many of the altars in the principal churches in New York city were designed by him. Among his latest works are the plan for the soldiers' monument in East Rock park, New Haven, Conn., and the drum of the Yorktown revolutionary monument, erected in 1881. He died Sept. 15, 1887, in London, England. was
Moffitt, John M
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Jan. 8, 1843, in Chazy, N. Y. From 1866 till 1872 he deputy collector of customs at Rouse's Point, N. Y.; and from 1872 till the present time has been engaged in the manufacture of charcoal bloom iron, and director in the People's National bank of Malone, N. Y. He was elected to the fiftieth congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Mohn, Thorbjorn N
clergyman, college president, was born in 1844 in Norway. He has filled pastorates in Chicago, and for twenty-two years in St. Paul, Minn. He is the president of St.
Olaf college of Northfield, Minn.
Moise, Penina
poet, was born April 23, 1797, in Charleston, S. C. She was the author of a volume of poems entitled Fancy's Sketch-Book. She died Sept. 13, 1880, in Charleston, S. C.
Moldenke, Charles Edward
author, was born Oct. 10, 1860, in Prussia.
He published the text of the New York obelisk, with explanations, the first print in hieroglyphic type ever issued in America; and The World's Most Ancient Fairy- Tale, the Two Brothers, in hieratic.
Moldenke, Edward Frederick
clergyman, journalist, author, poet, was born Aug. 10, 1836, in Prussia. In 1865 he was editor of the Gemeindeblatt at Watertown, Wis.; and has been editor of Siloah, a monthly paper of the general council in the interest of German home missions, since 1882. He is the author of Luther-Büchlein, a poem.
Molineux, Edward Leslie
soldier, was born Oct. 12, 1833, in London, England. At the beginning of the war he was lieutenant-colonel of the twentythird regiment New York national guard; and in 1862 went to the front as colonel of the one hundred and fifty-ninth New York volunteers. He participated in the campaigns of Port Hudson, Red River, Petersburg, and in the Shenandoah Valley; and he received the brevet of major-general in 1865. In 1880 he was appointed brigadier-general of the eleventh brigade of the New York national guard; and in 1885 was elected majorgeneral of the second division. General Molineux is a member of the New York firm of C. T. Raynolds and Company, the largest paint house in the United States.
He has contributed to current literature various papers on military subjects.