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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MERRJMAN MOORE.) 



8, 1853 ; 1st lieutenant, March 12, 1856 ; captain, July 

 8, 1861 ; major 1st Artillery, Jan. 10, 1877 ; lieutenant- 

 colonel 4th Artillery, Oct/2, 1883; and colonel 2d Ar- 

 tillery, Dec. 4, 1888. In the volunteer army he was 

 commissioned major and judge-advocate, March 17, 

 1863; promoted lieutenant-colonel, Feb. 27, 1864; and 

 was mustered out of the service Oct. 23, 1865. He 

 was brevctted major United States army, April 7, 

 1862, for gallantry in the battle of Shifoh, Tcnn. ; 

 lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 20, 1863, for Chickamauga, 

 Ga. ; and colonel, March 13, 1865, for services during 

 the civil war. Prior to the war he served in Florida, 

 Texas, and Kansas ; during the war was attached to 

 the Army of the Cumberland : and after the war was 

 on duty in Michigan, California, Alaska, and Rhode 

 Island, where he was commandant of Fort Adam at 

 the time of his death. 



Merriman, Truman Adams, journalist, born in Auburn, 

 N. Y., Sept. 5, 1839 ; died in New York city, April 16, 

 1892. He was graduated at Hobart College in ^861 ; 

 entered the national army as captain of an infantry 

 company he had organized, which was mustered as a 

 part of the 92d New York Volunteers in January, 

 1863 ; was promoted major in December following, 

 and lieutenant-colonel June 1, 1864 ; and after taking 

 part in the battle of Fair Oaks, in the Seven Days' 

 battles, and in the trenches before Petersburg, where 

 he commanded his regiment and was severely wound- 

 ed, he was mustered out of the service, Jan. 7, 1865. 

 After the war he studied law, was admitted to the 

 bar in 1867, and from 1871 till 1884 was a reporter on 

 " The Sun " newspaper in New York. In the latter 

 year he was elected to Congress from the llth New 

 York District as a Democrat, and in 1886 was re- 

 elected. At the close of his congressional service he 

 engaged in editorial work in New York city. He 

 was three times President of the Press Club. 



Merrimon, Augustus Summerfield, jurist, born in Bun- 

 combe County, N. C., Sept. 15, 1830; died in Ealeigh, 

 N. C., Nov. 14, 1892. He received a common-school 

 education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar 

 in 1852. In 1860 he was a member of the Legislature, 

 and opposed the secession movement till President 

 Lincoln issued his first call for volunteers, when he 

 went into the Confederate army. In 1866 he was 

 elected judge of the Superior Court of North Caro- 

 lina, and held sessions frequently, under police pro- 

 tection, till Gen. Edward E. S. Canby began issuing 

 military orders to the State judiciary, when he re- 

 signed. He was defeated as Democratic candidate 

 for Governor in 1872, and was elected United States 

 Senator for a full term in 1873. On his retirement 

 from the Senate he was elected Associate Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of North Carolina, and on the death 

 of Chief-Justice Smith in 1889 he was appointed to 

 fill the vacancy. In 1890 he was elected Chief Justice. 



Miller, Samuel Freeman, farmer, born in Franklin, 

 N. Y., May 27, 1827 : died there, March 16, 1892. He 

 was graduated at Hamilton College in 1852, and was 

 admitted to the bar in the following year, but en- 

 gaged in farming and lumbering. He was elected to 

 the Legislature in 1854 as a Eepublican, and to Con- 

 gress in 1862 and 1874; was a member of the State 

 Constitutional Convention in 1867 ; was collector of 

 internal revenue for his district in 1869-'73; and was 

 a member of the State Board of Charities in 1869-'77. 



Mindeleff, Dmetri, chemist, born in Eussia, about 

 1810; died in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 14, 1892. 

 When about fifty years old he was obliged to leave 

 his native country on account of his republican prin- 

 ciples, and settled on a farm near Washington, D. C., 

 where he resided till his home was destroyed by the 

 military operations made necessary for the defense of 

 the national capital. Being unable to obtain any 

 compensation for the loss of his home and its con- 

 tents, he sold his farm and removed to Washington, 

 where he lived till 1875, when he removed to San 

 Francisco. He had a wide reputation as a chemist. 

 Among his inventions were new methods for reduc- 

 ing cobalt and nickel ores and for destroying phyl- 

 loxera by means of pyroligneous acid. Hifl most 



important invention was the new high explosive, 

 which he named "terrorite," a compound said to be 

 more powerful than dynamite, with which the 

 United States Government was experimenting at the 

 time of his death. 



Moak, Nathaniel Cleveland, lawyer, born in Sharon, 

 N. Y., Oct. 3, 1833; died in Albany, N. Y., Sept. 17, 

 1892. He was brought up on a farm ; was educated 

 in the academies of Cherry Valley and Cooperstown ; 

 and was admitted to the oar in 1856. In 1867 he re- 

 moved to Albany, and became a partner in the firm of 

 Smith, Bancroft & Moak. He laid the foundation of 

 his reputation as a trial lawyer after settling in Al- 

 bany, and in the long struggle between Joseph H. 

 Eamsay and Messrs. Fisk & Gould for the possession 

 of the Susquehanna Eailroad, he was Mr. Eamsay 's 

 counsel. In 1871 he was elected district-attorney of 

 Albany County, serving for two years, prosecuting 

 the celebrated Lowenstein murder case, and that of 

 Phelps, the defaulting State Treasurer clerk. Subse- 

 quently he added to nis reputation by his participa- 

 tion in the Jesse Billings murder trial. Mr. Moak 

 made numerous contributions to legal literature, and 

 published "Clark's Chancery Eeports"; "Moak's 

 English Eeports," in 35 volumes ; " Moak's English 

 Digest " ; " Moak's Edition of Van Santvoord's Plead- 

 ings." His private law library was one of the largest 

 in the country, containing all the English, Scotch, 

 Irish, and Canadian reports, all the State and Federal 

 reports, a complete set of all the legal periodicals and 

 of the Australian and New Zealand reports, besides 

 numerous text-books. It is believed to have cost him 

 $75,000. After his death the library was purchased 

 by the wife and daughter of the late Judge Board- 

 man, for presentation to the School of Law of Cornell 

 University. 



Moore, Daniel David Tompkins, journalist, born in 

 Marccllus, Onondaga County, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1820; 

 died in New York city, June 3, 1892. When fifteen 

 years old he was apprenticed to the printer's trade in 

 the office of the Bochester, N. Y.. " Advertiser," where 

 he not only learned to set type but to do occasional 

 writing for the paper. He was for two years a clerk 

 in the Eochester post-office, and then he began study- 

 ing law. The death of a brother who had been pub- 

 lishing the " Gazette," a weekly newspaper at Jack- 

 son, Mich., caused him to abandon the study of law 

 and to take charge of the newspaper property. He 

 made a success of the " Gazette," sold it, and estab- 

 lished the " Michigan Farmer," the first paper devoted 

 to agricultural matters in that State. This in turn 

 he sold, and, returning to New York, purchased and 

 edited for three years the " Genesee Fanner," which 

 at the close of 1849 had a circulation of nearly 20,000 

 copies. On Jan. 1,1850, he published in Eochester the 

 first number of " Moore's Eural New-Yorker." This 

 paper proved attractive from the start, and soon ob- 

 tained a large circulation. In 1869 Mr. Moore moved 

 the publication office from Eochester to New York 

 city, where the expenses were increased without any 

 corresponding increase of income, and in a few years 

 the paper passed from his hands. After this he be- 

 gan a magazine called " Moore's Eural Life." This 

 and other ventures proved failures, and the remainder 

 of his life was spent in conducting agricultural de- 

 partments in the " Christian at Work," the " Chris- 

 tian Advocate," and the " Independent." While he 

 lived in Eochester he was elected to several public 

 offices, including that of mayor. 



Moore, George Henry, librarian, born in Concord, 

 N. H., April 20, 1823 ; died in New York city, May 5, 

 1892. He was a son of Dr. Jacob Bailey Moore, at 

 one time librarian of the New York Historical. Society, 

 and a brother of Henry Eaton Moore, the author and 

 composer. George Henry was educated at Dart- 

 mouth College and at the university of the City of 

 New York, where he was graduated in 1845. While 

 a student at the university he was appointed assist- 

 ant librarian of the New York Historical Society. In 

 1849 he succeeded his father as librarian there, and 

 from 1872 till his death was superintendent of the 



