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there, Aug. 19, 1874, as Mrs. Reid in Jane Eyre; 

 in November, 1875, as Countess de Vernay in 

 Rose Michel; and a month later as Countess de 

 Linieres in The Two Orphans. IShe last appeared 

 in 1879 as the Countess in The Danicheffs. After 

 her retirement from the stage she lived in Provi- 

 dence, R. I. 



Morse, James C., lawyer, born in Natchi- 

 toches, La., in 1849; died in New Orleans, La., 

 Feb. 11, 1901. At the outbreak of the civil war 

 he entered the Confederate army in the engineers' 

 department, and he served throughout the strug- 

 gle. In 1880 he was appointed assistant adjutant- 

 general of Louisiana, and in 1884 assistant attor- 

 ney-general. In the antilottery campaign of 1892 

 he was one of the committee of seven appointed 

 to manage the election, which resulted in a split 

 of the Democratic party. In recognition of his 

 services he was appointed judge of the Criminal 

 District Court of New Orleans. His term ex- 

 pired in 1900, and he was reelected. 



Mosby, Tom, negro philanthropist, probably 

 more than a hundred years old; died in New 

 Decatur, Ala., July 16, 1901. Before the civil 

 war he was a slave on the Mosby plantation. 

 After the war, by hard work he and his wife 

 soon accumulated $500, with which they bought 

 and improved 40 acres in Moulton Heights, now 

 a suburb of New Decatur. In the boom of 1886 

 they sold half their land at a good price, bought 

 land farther out, and put a snug sum in the 

 bank. During the years after the war " Uncle 

 Tom" and his wife, in times of need, befriended 

 and cared for many of the old ex-slaves of the 

 plantation on which they had toiled in former 

 days, as well as many others of their race. They 

 had no children, but their home was converted 

 into a sort of orphanage, and many well-to-do 

 negroes owe their condition to the start they re- 

 ceived within its walls. Uncle Tom left & con- 

 siderable fortune, to be used in charitable work 

 among the negroes. 



Mott, George Scudder, clergyman and au- 

 thor, born in New York city, Nov. 25, 1829; 

 died in Orange, N. J., Oct. 12, 1901. He was 

 graduated at New York University in 1850, and 

 at Princeton Theological Seminary in 185.3. He 

 received the degrees of A. M. and D. D. from 

 Princeton in 1874. In October, 1853, he became 

 pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, of 

 Rahway. He resigned in 1858, and after a year's 

 rest accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church 

 in Newton, N. J., and worked there ten years. 

 During that period the civil war occurred, and 

 Dr. Mott took strong ground as a Union man. 

 In 1869 he was called to the Presbyterian church 

 at Flemington, N. J., and he remained there as pas- 

 tor twenty-six years. He was elected a director of 

 Lincoln University, Oxford, Pa., in 1872, and served 

 in that capacity many years. He was particularly 

 interested in the cause of Sabbath observance, 

 and was ten years president of the New Jersey 

 Sabbath Union, and he was one of the founders 

 of the American Sabbath Union, its vice-president 

 till the death of Elliott F. Shepard, and succeeded 

 him as its president. He contributed extensively 

 to the religious press, and his three books The 

 Prodigal Son, The Resurrection of the Dead, and 

 The Perfect Law published between 1866 and 

 1872, had a large sale and were translated into 

 several languages. A tract, Holding on to Christ, 

 published by the American Tract Society, reached 

 250,000 copies. 



Mount, James Atwell, ex-Governor of Indi- 

 ana, born in Montgomery County, Indiana, March 

 23, 1843; died in Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 16, 1901. 

 He was a farmer's son, and up to the beginning 



of the civil war had received only such education 

 as could be obtained from country schools. He 

 enlisted in 1862 as a sergeant in the 72d Indiana 

 Infantry, and served till the end of the war in 

 Wilder's brigade. He afterward attended for one 

 year the Presbyterian Academy, in Lebanon, Ind. 

 He owned a farm of 500 acres in Montgomery 

 County. In 1888 he was elected to the State 

 Senate, and in 1890 he was nominated for Con- 

 gress, but was defeated. He was elected Governor 

 of Indiana on the Republican ticket in 1896, his 

 term of office expiring Jan. 1, 1901. Gov. Mount's 

 success as a farmer and his ability as a public 

 speaker brought him often as a lecturer before 

 agricultural colleges and farmers' institutes, and 

 this in his campaign for Governor brought him 

 the hearty support of the farmer vote. He cre- 

 ated much comment in April, 1900, by refusing 

 to extradite Gov. Taylor, of Kentucky, who was 

 wanted in his own State in connection with the 

 Goebel assassination. 



Mrak, Ignatius, Roman Catholic bishop, born 

 in Hotoula, parish of Poljane, Carniola, Austria, 

 Oct. 10, 1810; died in Marquette, Mich., Jan. 2, 

 1901. He was ordained Aug. 13, 1837, and served 

 as .parish priest in Carniola till 1845, when he 

 was called to the United States for mission work 

 among the Indians of northern Michigan. He 

 and Bishop Baroga established many missions. 

 He served as vicar-general of Sault Ste. Marie 

 from 1860 to 1869, and as Bishop of Marquette 

 and Sault Ste. Marie from 1869 till 1878, when 

 he resigned that office because of increasing in- 

 firmities. After 1881 he was designated Titular 

 Bishop of Antince. 



Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus, educator, 

 born in Lancaster, Pa., Aug. 25, 1818; died in 

 Reading, Pa., March 21, 1901. He was graduated 

 at Princeton in 1836, and was a professor in 

 Franklin College, Lancaster, until 1850. In the 

 same year he became Professor of Ancient Lan- 

 guages in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, 

 which chair he held until 1867. In that year 

 Muhlenberg College was established, and he was 

 elected its first president. In 1876 he resigned the 

 presidency and accepted the professorship of Greek 

 in the University of Pennsylvania. Here he could 

 again devote himself to those scholarly pursuits 

 which were in harmony with his natural inclina- 

 tions. In 1888 he resigned his chair in order to 

 rest. In 1891 he accepted temporarily the presi- 

 dency of Thiel College, Greenville, Pa., at a crit- 

 ical period of its history, and his presence was 

 immediately followed by the strengthening of 

 confidence in the college and by a new spirit of 

 interest on the part of the students. In 1893 he 

 resigned and removed to Reading. Dr. Muhlen- 

 berg was ordained to the office of the ministry 

 in the Lutheran Church in 1854. He contributed 

 many articles on historical and educational sub- 

 jects to the periodicals of the Church. 



Murphy, Thomas, politician, born in Limer- 

 ick, Ireland, July 20, 1821; died in New York 

 city, Aug. 17, 1901. He removed to the United 

 States and engaged in the fur business 'in New 

 York city. He entered politics as a Whig, and 

 on the organization of the Republican party al- 

 lied his fortunes with it and became an active 

 worker. In 1866 he was elected to the State 

 Senate. He was a personal friend of President 

 Grant, and in 1870 was appointed collector of the 

 port of New York. He resigned in November, 

 1871, on account of political attacks by the Gree- 

 ley faction. Later he was an unsuccessful can- 

 didate for Congress. His time in later years was 

 devoted to the breeding of fine horses on his farms 

 at Deal, N. J. 



