Mount, James Atwell – Muhlenberg, Frederick Augus- Tus Conrad
Mount, James Atwell
farmer, legislator, governor, was born March 23, 1843, in Montgomery county, Ind. He has been president of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance company of his county, and has served as a state senator. He has filled with honor the high office of governor of Indiana.
Mount, William Sidney
painter, was born Nov. 26, 1807, in Setauket, N. Y.
The first painting that he exhibited was The Daughter of Jairus, which was followed by other works of a similar character. Among his subsequent works are, Men Husking Corn; Walking the Crack; The Courtship; Sportsman's Last Visit; Farmer's Nooning; The Raffle; Bargaining for a Horse; and The Truant Gamblers, in the New York Historical society; The Ringing of the Pigs; The Lucky Throw; Boys Trapping; Dance of the Haymakers; Power of Music; and Music is Contagious. He died Nov. 19, 1868, in Setauket, L. I.
Mountford, William
clergyman, author, was born May 31, 1816, in England. He was a unitarian clergyman of Boston who became a spiritualist in his later years; and was the author of Martyria; Euthanasy, or Happy Talk Toward the End of Life; Christianity the Deliverance of the Soul; Minutes Past and Present; and Thorpe, a Quiet English Town. He died April 20, 1885, in Boston, Mass.
Moulton, Alexandre
ninth gov- • ernor of Louisiana, was born Nov. 19, 1804, in Lafayette, La. He practiced law for a while, and in 1826 became a representative in the state legislature; served several terms; and for two sessions was speaker of the house.
In 1837 he was elected to congress; served on important committees; and was appointed governor in 1843. At the time of his death he was probably the oldest surviving United States senator; and was one of the best governors Louisiana ever had. He died Feb. 12, 1885, in Lafayette, La.
Mouton, Jean Jacques Alexan- Dre Alfred
soldier, was born Feb. 18, 1829, in Opelouse, La. He served in the civil war and was successively promoted brigadier and major-general in the confederate service. He died April 8, 1864, in Mansfield, La.
Mower, Horace
lawyer, jurist, was born in Vermont. He moved to Michigan, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of New Mexico, residing at Santa Fe.
Mower, Joseph Anthony
soldier, was born Aug. 22, 1827, in Woodstock, Vt.
He was brevetted major-general in the regular army for gallantry during the civil war. He died Jan. 6, 1870, in New Orleans, La.
Mowers, Berk
musician, composer, was born in Cleversburg, Pa., in which city he still resides. For many years he was engaged in educational work; read music and studied art under the best masters. He has directed conventions; taught many and different musical organizations; and is the author of the musical composition entitled Shed a Tear. He is the author of many selections, both vocal and instrumental; and the author of a music-book for Sabbath school use entitled Golden Grains. In 1892 he was elected justice of the peace; and takes an active part in public affairs.
Mowry, Daniel
JR., jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born in Smithfield, R. I. He was in the colonial general assembly at the time they passed the act which renounced allegiance to the king. He was judge of the court of common pleas in Rhode Island. He was elected a delegate to the continental congress from that state in 1781.
Mudge, Alfred
publisher, was born April 25, 1805, in Portsmouth, N. H. He printed, among other specimens of fine work, History of the City Hall, published by the city authorities of Boston; a genealogical record of the descendants of Hugh Clark, of Watertown; and the Mudge Memorials, being an account of the Mudge family. He died Aug. 14, 1882, in Hull, Mass. au-
Mowry, Sylvester
soldier, thor, was born in 1830 in Providence, R.
I. He was an army officer who resigned in 1858; and the author of Arizona and Sonora; and the Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Regions of North America. He died Oct. 16, 1871, in London, England.
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.
Moyle, James H
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 17, 1858, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his education at the university of Utah, and at the university of Michigan, attending both the literary and the law departments. During 1886-90 he was prosecuting attorney for Salt Lake county; and in 1880 was a member of the Utah territorial legislature. He has been president of the board of trustees of the State Reform school, and for six years was one of its trustees. He is a director in a number of the leading corporations of Utah, including banking, commercial, mining, live stock and abstracting.
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.
Muhleman, Robert W
physician, surgeon, business man, was born May 5, 1853, in Hannibal, Ohio. He attended the Baldwin university of Berea, Ohio, and the Pulte Medical college of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a successful physician and surgeon of Bellaire, Ohio. He has been superintendent of the Hannibal schools; president of the Crystal Window Glass company of Bellaire, Ohio; president of the Seal Glass Mandolin company; vicepresident of the Ohio Valley Telephone company.
Muhlenberg, Francis Samuel
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1795, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He moved to Ohio; became a member of the legislature of that state; and was a representative from Ohio in the twentieth congress. He died in 1832 in Pickaway county, Ohio.
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augus- Tus
clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 25, 1818, in Lancaster, Pa.
He has been professor in Franklin college from 1838 to 1850; of Greek in Pennsylvania college from 1850 till 1867; first president of Muhlenberg college, Pa., from 1867 till 1876, and professor of the Greek language and literature in the university of Pennsylvania since 1876. He has published his Inaugural Address as president of Muhlenberg college; Semi-Centennial Address at Pennsylvania college, and other addresses.
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augus- Tus Conrad
clergyman, congressman, was born Jan. 1, 1750, in Trappe, Pa. In 1773 he was pastor of Christ's church, New York city, retiring from the ministry in 1779, when he entered the continental congress as the representative of the Pennsylvania Germans. He was the presiding officer of the assembly in his own state, and speaker of the first and third congresses. He died June 4, 1801, in Lancaster, Pa.