Molony, Richard S – Monsarrat, Nicholas
Molony, Richard S
physician, congressman, was born in Northfield, N. H. He was a representative from Illinois to the thirty-second congress.
Momberger, William
artist, was born June 7, 1829, in Germany. He built a studio at Morrisania, N. Y., where he has painted several landscapes, among the Catskills; Through the Woods; Harvest Moon; and Island on the Susquehanna River.
Mombert, Jacob Isidor
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 6, 1829, in Germany. He is an episcopal clergyman of Paterson, N. J.; and the author of Faith Victorious; Handbook of the English Versions of the Bible; Great Lives; History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; History of Charles the Great; and Short History of the Crusades.
Monarch, Martin V
railroad president, was born in 1842 in Kentucky. In 1889 he became president of the Owensboro Falls of Rough and Green River railroad.
Mondell, Frank W
congressman, was born Nov. 5, 1860, in St. Louis, Mo.
He is a successful discoverer, developer, and manager of extensive coal interests at Newcastle, Wyo., of which city he has served five times as mayor. He attended the local district schools of Iowa; and received instruction in the higher branches from a private tutor. He engaged in mercantile pursuits and in railway construction in various western states and territories; and settled in Wyoming in 1887. He was elected mayor of the new town of Newcastle in 1888, and served until 1895. He was elected a member of the first state senate in 1890; and served as president of that body at the session of 1892. He was a delegate to the republican national convention at Minneapolis in 1892; and was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. In 1897 he was appointed assistant commissioner of the general land office.
Monell, Robert
congressman, was born in Columbia county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1829 to 1831. He died in December, 1860. a
Money, Hernando De Soto
congressman, United States senator, was born Aug. 26, 1839, in Holmes county, Miss. He received his education in the university of Mississippi. He was member of the fortyfourth, forty - fifth, forty - sixth, fortyseventh, fortyeighth, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. In 1896-97 he was appointed member of the a United States senate to fill a vacancy; and was elected for a full term commencing March 4, 1899. He was a delegate to the Baltimore convention of 1872; and of the Chicago convention of 1896.
Monfort, Francis Cassette
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 1, 1844, in Greensburg, Ind. He is a presbyterian minister and editor of Cincinnati; and the author of Sermons for Silent Sabbaths; and Socialism and City Evangelization.
Monfort, Franklin P
lawyer, jurist, was born June 6, 1842, in Shelby, Mich. He graduated from the law department of the university of Michigan; has been justice of the peace; circuit court commissioner; for three terms was prosecuting attorney of Macomb county, Mich.; and now has a large practice in Mt. Clemens, Mich.
Monis, Judah
educator, author, was born Feb. 4, 1683, in Italy. From 1722 till 1761 he taught Hebrew in Harvard university. He published Truth, Whole Truth, Nothing but the Truth; and A Hebrew Grammar. He died April 25, 1764, in Northborough, Mass.
Monk, Edward R
lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 31, 1854, in Alliance, Ohio.
He has been county judge of Tombstone county, Ariz., and also probate judge of the same place. He is a successful lawyer of Tucson, Ariz.; has been receiver in the United States land office; civil service examiner; and secretary of the board of regents of the university of Arizona.
Monnett, Hamlin Virgil
soldier, physician, surgeon, was born Aug. 21, 1843, in Bucyrus, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of his native city; attended the Hospital Medical college of St. Joseph, Mo.; and graduated from the Marion Sims College of Medicine at St. Louis, Mo.
During the war he served in the eightysixth and one hundred and thirty-sixth regiments Ohio volunteer infantry. He commenced life as a school teacher, and has attained prominence as one of the leading physicians of Iowa, where he has a large practice, with headquarters at Orient.
Monroe, Andrew
clergyman, was born Oct. 29, 1792, in Hampshire county, Va. He was a pioneer worker in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri; and a member during his life of eleven general conferences. He died Nov. 18, 1871, in Mexico.
Monroe, Harriet
author, poet, was born in 1860 in Illinois. She is a poet of Chicago; and the author of Valeria, and Other Poems; and Life of John Wellborn Root.
Monroe, James
fifth president of the United States, was born April 28, 1758, in the county of Westmoreland, Va., and graduated at William and Mary college in 1776. He then joined the continentalarmy, where he remained three years, and was promoted to the rank of captain. He then commenced the study of law under Thomas Jefferson, and in 1782 he was elected to the Virginia legislature. The next year he was chosen one of the executive council, in which he continued until 1783, when he was elected a member of the continental congress, and held that office three years. During his attendance at New York, in 1785, as a member of congress, he married a daughter of Mr.
L. Kortright. In 1787 he was elected to the state legislature, and in 1788 he was a member of the convention to decide upon the adoption of the new constitution. He was elected United States senator in 1788, and at the expiration of his term, in 1794, he was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Versailles, and was recalled in 1796. In 1799 he was elected governor of Virginia, and served the constitutional term of three years. In 1803 he was appointed envoy extraordinary to France, to negotiate for the purchase of Louisiana.
In 1810 he was elected to the legislature and the same year was commissioned minister plenipotentiary to England. In. 1811 Mr. Monroe was again elected governor of Virginia, but was soon after appointed secretary of state by President. Madison, and in 1814 he was appointed to the war department, which he took without relinquishing the former post. He was elected president of the United States. in 1816, and was inaugurated March 4, 1817; he was re-elected in 1820, and took: the cath of office March 5, 1821, the 4th. being Sunday. His term of office expired March 4, 1825, and he retired to his residence in Loudoun county, Va., where he resided until 1831, when he removed to New York city, and took up his residence with his son-in-law. He died on the 4th of July, 1831. Monroe held office twentysix years. He died so poor that he was. buried at the expense of his relatives. He was the author of State Papers; Tour of Observation in 1817; The People: The Sovereigns; and View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States.
Monroe, James
soldier, congressman, was born Sept. 10, 1799, in Albemarle, Va. He was in congress in 1839-41 from New York; and was chosen again in 1846, but his seat was contested, and congress ordered a new election, at which he refused to be a candidate. In 1850-52 he was in the New York legislature. He died Sept. 7, 1870, in Orange, N. J.
Monroe, James
educator, United States senator, congressman, was born July 18, 1821, in Plainfield, Conn. He was a professor in Oberlin college from 1849 until 1862. He was a member of the Connecticut state house of representatives in 1856-59, and of the state senate in 1860-62; and was chosen president of the senate in 1861, and again in 1862. He was United States consul at Rio Janeiro from 1863 to 1869; serving for several months of 1869 as charge d' affaires ad interim at that capital. He was elected to the forty-second, forty-third, and fortyfourth congresses; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses.
Since leaving congress he has filled the chair of political science and modern history in Oberlin college.
Monroe, Thomas B
lawyer, jurist, was a citizen of Kentucky. In 1834 he was appointed United States judge for the district of Kentucky.
Monroe, V
lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky. He was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Washington, residing at Olympia.
Monroe, Will S
educator, lecturer, poet, was born in Wyoming Valley, Pa.
For three years he was city superintendent of schools of Pasadena, Cal. He is the author of Poets and Prose Writers of Wyoming Valley; and his poems have appeared in Peterson's Magazine, Journal of Education, and other publications.
Monsarrat, Nicholas
railroad president, was born March 1, 1839, in Canada. Since 1895 he has been president of the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking railroad.