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Library. Ho was widely known through his 



riiin_'s. which ineluded " Tho Treason of Charles 



Tin- Employment of Negroes in the Revolu- 



tiniiarv Army." Nnio nn thci History of Slavery in 



iiusetts,'' "History of the Jurisprudence of 



*i .irk," " Eurly History of Columbia College," 



inirtoii us un Angler," and " Witchcraft in 



.i-lllisetts." 



Moore, James Solomon, merchant, born in Konigsberg, 

 (iermanv, iii is-ji ; died in New York city, March 5, 

 ll<- received a common-school education, went 

 to Manchester, England, as a clerk for an uncle in 

 1838, made u thorough study of the principles and 

 mcthnds ut' t'liiviirn a i id domestic trade, and came to 



the United States soon after attaining his majority. 

 In 1849 he went to California, and spent two years in 

 San l-'raiieiseo in general mercantile business; re- 

 turned to England and entered a mercantile firm ; en- 

 gaged in the Australian and China trade, and within 

 a tew weeks went to Melbourne to establish a branch 

 office. As in California, he was highly successful in 

 Australia, and after three years' absence he returned 

 '' K i inland and established the firm of J. S. Moore & 

 Co., of London and Bombay, with connections in 

 China. The interests of this firm induced him to 

 make a journey to India, and subsequently to the 

 Cape of Good Hope, stopping at all intermediate ports 

 of importance. In 1866, Mr. Moore settled perma- 

 nently in New York city and engaged in financial 

 operations. In 1869 he began the publication in the 

 New York " World " of letters on the tariff, under the 

 pen name of the " Parsee Merchant." Ho favored 

 through life a reduced tariff, and his letters caused 

 him to be called the " Father of Free Trade in Amer- 

 ica." He had such a grasp of commercial economy 

 and of statistics bearing on it, that, though a strong 

 Democrat politically, he was induced by a Republican 

 administration to enter the New York Customhouse, 

 where his unique experience might be turned to pub- 

 lic advantage, and wnere he remained for many years. 

 During the administration of President Cleveland 

 Mr. Miwre spent much of his time in Washington in 

 conference with the Ways and Means Committee of 

 the House of Representatives. He was an accom- 

 plished linguist and a man of wide reading. 



Morgan, George Washburne, organist, born in Glouces- 

 ter, England, April 9, 1822 ; died in Tacoma, Wash., 

 July 10, 1892. When eight years old he began play- 

 ing the organ in public, performing the entire serv- 

 ice in St. Nicholas's Church, Gloucester; and when 

 twelve years old he was appointed assistant organist. 

 of the cathedral there. Two years afterward he had 

 charge of the boy choir. In 1851 he held two ap- 

 pointments as organist in London, and in a competi- 

 tive performance with Sir Henry Smart, then con- 

 sideivd the best organist in England, he won the ap- 

 pointment of organist to the Harmonic Union of Exe- 

 ter Hall, and a year afterward composed an anthem, 

 which the Harmonic Society of 800 members sang. 

 In 1853 ho removed to New York city, where he was 

 at different times organist of St. Thomas's, St. Ste- 

 phen's, St Ann's, the Reformed Dutch, and Grace 

 Churches ; then removed to Brooklyn, and was organ- 

 ist of Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle tor fourteen years. 

 He was also organist for many years of the Grand 

 Lodge of Masons of New York, lie wrote more than 

 .80 compositions, besides numerous songs, and con- 

 ducted for many years Lenten recitals in Chickcring 

 Hall, New York. 



Morgan, Maria, live-stock reporter, born in County 

 Cork, Ireland, Nov. 22, 1828; died in Jersey City, 

 N. J., May 31, 1892. Her father was a landed proprie- 

 tor of considerable wealth, who gave his children a 

 thorough education, and Maria supplemented the 

 usual course with a special one in languages. From 

 early youth she had a marked fondness for animal 

 life, and a special liking for the chase. The death of 

 the father broke up the home, and soon afterward 

 Maria took her younger sister, Jane, to Rome, to give 

 her an opportunity to study art While in Rome 

 Maria made many friends among American residents, 



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artists, and those of the nobility who kept large sta- 

 bles of horses. The sisters remained then; nearly 

 two years, when Jane returned to Ireland and Maria 

 removed to Florence, where she was kindly received, 

 and where her intimate knowl. -d^e of animals at- 

 tracted the attention of King Victor Kmanuel, who 

 became one of her firmest friends. Tin; King, a great 

 horse fancier and rider, was anxious to acquire some 

 of the noted blooded stock of Ireland, and commis- 

 sioned Maria to select saddle horses for his own use 

 in her native country. She accordingly returned to 

 Ireland in the spring of 1867, and a few months after- 

 ward accompanied a string of Irish h mting mares to 

 Florence. The King showed his appreciation of her 

 fidelity and good judgment by presenting her with a 

 diamond star pendant from which was a double-cased 

 hunting watch bearing his monogram in brilliants. 

 During the remainder of her residence in Italy the 

 knowledge that she possessed the King's friendship 

 secured for her a welcome in the highest social cir- 

 cles. In June, 1869, she came to the United States, 

 bearing letters of introduction to various people, 

 among them Henry J. Raymond and Horace Greeley. 

 She at once sought employment as a live-stock and 

 agricultural-fair reporter, and her first engagement 

 was on the New York " World." Her first assign- 

 ment was as a special correspondent at the Saratoga 

 race track. At the close of her first season, in Sep- 

 tember, she presented the letter intended for Mr. Ray- 

 mond, who had died just before she landed, to John 

 Bigelow, then editor-in-chief of the New York 

 " Times." She at once began reporting on that paper, 

 and continued it to the close of her life, besides writ- 

 ing for the "Herald," "Turf, Field, and Farm," 

 " American Agriculturalist," " Country Gentleman," 

 "Spirit of the Times," and "The Horseman's and 

 Breeder's Gazette." She was one of the most familiar 

 figures at the great cattle yards around New York 

 city, at the horse shows and races, and at the exhibi- 

 tions of dogs. For several years she lived in Me- 

 tuchen, N. J., but within a few years of her death she 

 removed to Staten Island, where, her sister Jane had 

 settled, and there erected a residence after a plan 

 unique and original. She gathered a large quantity 

 of curious furniture and other household articles. 

 Her death resulted indirectly from an accident in the 

 Jersey City stock yard in 1891. Miss Morgan, who 

 was familiarly spoken of as Middy Morgan, was very 

 tall and slender, thoroughly unconventional in attire 

 and manners, dressed suitably to her occupation, and 

 was a most entertaining talker. She bequeathed her 

 most valuable mementoes to the Metropolitan Mu- 

 seum of Art. 



MOBS, John Calvin, inventor, born in Washington 

 County, Pa., Jan. 5, 1838; died in New York city, 

 April 8, 1892. He was apprenticed to the printer's 

 trade, and while learning it applied much of his time 

 to the study of art. Finding painting uncongenial, 

 he became a photographer, and in 1856, reading of 

 the experiments, by Niepce and Prof. Grove, to etch 

 on a Daguerrean plate by means of electricity, he 

 made a galvanic battery and attempted to accomplish 

 the result they were aiming at. II is wife aided him 

 in his experiments, and completed their first order for 

 a printing plate after he had been compelled by ex- 

 treme fatigue to abandon it. Encouraged by this suc- 

 cess, Mr. Moss and his wife removed to New York 

 city in 1863, and for eight years struggled for a 

 livelihood, through the opposition of wood engravers 

 to their invention; but in 1871 he succeeded in form- 

 ing a company to develop his invention of photo-en- 

 graving, and this venture proving unsuccessful, he 

 established in the following year the Photo-engraving 

 Company, which was successful from the start. In 

 1880 no established the Moss Engraving Company, of 

 which he remained the head until his death, and 

 spent his last years in improving the art he had made 

 practicable. His processes were not patented. 



Monntpleasant, Caroline, Indian queen, born in the 

 Seneca Nation, N. Y., about 1832; died on the Tona- 

 wanda Reservation, N. Y., March 18, 1892. She was 



