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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MATTSON MORGAN.) 



signed, and was elected a delegate to the convention 

 which adopted the ordinance of secession. From the 

 organization of the Confederate Government till No- 

 vember, 1864, he was one of the Confederate judges for 

 South Carolina ; then was elected Governor by the 

 Legislature ; and after Lee's surrender, in 1865, he was 

 arrested by the Federal ifathorities, and confined in 

 Fort Pulaski till December. Since the war he had 

 confined himself to law practice. 



Mattson. Hans, pioneer, born in Christianstadt, Swe- 

 den, in 1832; died in Minneapolis, Minn., March 5, 

 1893. When seventeen years old he entered the Swe- 

 dish artillery, and after "serving two years emigrated 

 to the United States, where he picked up odd jobs in 

 Boston and other cities for a year or two, was a cab- 

 in boy on a Southern steamer for nearly a year, and 

 then made his way to Galesburg and Moline, 111. 

 In the latter place his father joined him with several 

 Swedish companions, and the party pushed on to 

 Minnesota, took up claims m Goodnue Countv, and 

 founded the present nourishing community of Vasa. 

 In 1857 the pioneers were swamped in the reaction 

 from the Western land speculation, and Hans moved 

 to Red Wing and began studying law. He was ad- 

 mitted to the bar in the following year, and elected 

 county auditor in the next, and held the office till the 

 second call for volunteers in 1861, when he organized 

 a company of fellow Swedes, and as its captain was 

 mustered into the Union service with the 3d Minne- 

 sota Volunteers. He served till the close of the war, 

 received the surrender of Gen. Jeff. Thompson and 

 his command at Batesville, Ark., in 1865, and at- 

 tained the rank of colonel. In 1866 he became editor 

 of the " Svenska Amerikaneran," and a member of 

 the State Board of Emigration ; in 1869 was elected 

 Secretary of State of Minnesota; in 1870-'73 was 

 European agent for Jay Cooke; and in 1876-'81 was 

 publisher ot the " State Tidning " in Minneapolis, and 

 an editor of the "Svenska Tribunen " in Chicago. 

 In July, 1881, he was appointed by President Garfield 

 United States consul-general in India, and it is said 

 that his commission bore the last official signature of 

 the murdered President. He remained in Calcutta 

 two years; was re-elected Secretary of State in 1886 

 and 1888 ; and during the past two or three years had 

 been engaged in the banking business. 



Mendes, Abraham Pereira. clergyman, born in Kings- 

 ton, Jamaica, Feb. 19, 1825; died in New York city, 

 April 4, 1893. When twenty years old he was sent 

 to London to be educated for the Jewish ministry, 

 and there studied with Rabbi Mendola, then chief of 

 the Portuguese and Spanish Jews in England, and 

 with Rabbi D. A. de Sola, whose daughter he subse- 

 quently married. On receiving his diploma he re- 

 turned to Jamaica and began preaching in Montega 

 Bay, being one of the first rabbis to preach to the 

 Jews in the English instead of the more common 

 Spanish language. Soon afterward he returned to 

 England, where ne was successively rabbi of the con- 

 gregation in Birmingham, President of Northwick 

 College in London, and chief rabbi of the Portuguese 

 and- Spanish Jewish communities. In 1883 he came 

 to the United States/and had since been rabbi of the 

 congregation in Newport, R. I. Dr. Mendes was au- 

 thor ot many religious works, including " The Post- 

 Biblical History of the Jews'- and "The Law of 

 Moses," a catechism, and of several schoolbooks. 



Meriwether, David, legislator, born in Louisa County, 

 Va., Oct. 30, 1800 ; died near Louisville, Ky., April 

 4, 1893. He received a country -school education, De- 

 came a fur trader when eighteen years old, was one of 

 a party who built the first hut on the site of the city 

 of Council Bluffs, and when twenty-one years old 

 went to work on his father's farm in Kentucky. In 

 1832 he was elected to the Legislature, and by re- 

 elections served for fifty-five years, besides holding 

 other offices. In 1849 he was a member of the State 

 Constitutional Convention ; in 1852 was elected United 

 States Senator for the unexpired term of Henry Clay ; 

 and in 1854~'57 was Governor of the Territory of New 

 Mexico. In 1885 he was a candidate for the fourteenth 



time for the Legislature, and, meeting his first defeat, 

 retired from political life to his farm. 



Merrill, Margaret Manton, journalist, born in Eng- 

 land, in 1859; died in New York city, June 19, 1893. 

 She came to the United States with her parents at an 

 early age ; was graduated at the University of Minne- 

 sota in 1876 ; spent a year in travel in Europe ; and 

 then undertook a course at the Women's Medical Col- 

 lege in Chicago, but was forced by ill health to 

 abandon it. After publishing a temperance paper in 

 Denver she made an elocutionary and lecturing tour 

 of Australia, worked as literary, art, and dramatic 

 critic on several newspapers in San Francisco, and 

 removed to New York city in 1887. Subsequently 

 she became a successful writer of stories for children. 

 Her most recent stories were " The Soul of a Violin " 

 and " The Story of Sarah Jenkins." In 1892 she wrote 

 and presented with success in New York and London 

 a historical impersonation of Mary Queen of Scots 

 the night before her execution. 



Miilarcl, Henry B.. physician and medical writer, 

 born near Utica, N. Y., in 1833 ; died in Paris, France, 

 Sept. 14, 1893. He was graduated at Hamilton Col- 

 lege in 1855, and in medicine at the University of 

 the City of New York in 1858; began practicing as a 

 homoeophth and as assistant to Dr. Gray, the leader 

 of the " new school " in New York city : and returned 

 to the allopath school in 1887. Among other offices 

 he was Professor of the Practice of Medicine in the 

 Medical College and Hospital for Women, and was a 

 member of the State Board of Examiners. Dr. Millard 

 was probably best known for his special study of dis- 

 eases of the kidneys, and for his writings. His " Trea- 

 tise on Bright's Disease of the Kidneys " gained the 

 gold medal of the New York Medico-Chirurgical So- 

 ciety, and is a standard authority, and the " Millard 

 Test for Albumin," therein given, met with general 

 acceptance. Among the large number of his profes- 

 sional publications were : " A Monograph on Aconite," 

 " The Climate and Statistics of Consumption," " A 

 Paper on Diphtheria," " The Thermo-Cautery in 

 Disease." " Researches in the Minute Anatomy of the 

 Epithelia of the Kidney," " On the Exclusion of Al- 

 bumin in the Diagnosis of Interstitial Nephritis," 

 " Albumin and its Nomenclature and Tests, and the 

 Significance of Albuminuria," " The Most Sensitive 

 and Credible Tests for Albumin," "On the Treat- 

 ment of Sciatica and Neuralgic Affections by Con- 

 gelation with the Chloride of Methyl," " Cocaine as 

 a Local Anaesthetic in the Use of the Thermo-Cau- 

 tery," " The Habitat and Treatment of the Oxyuris or 

 Ascaris Vermicularis," and " Artificial Alimentation 

 in Cases of vomiting from Pregnancy." 



Moore. Orren 0., journalist, born in New Hampton, 

 N. H., Aug. 10, 1839; died in Nashua, N. H., May 12, 

 1893. He received a public-school education ; learned 

 the printer's trade entered journalism, and in 1869 

 established the "Nashua Daily Telegraph," which 

 he edited till his death. He was a representative in 

 the General Court in 1873, 1874, 1875, and 1887 ; tax 

 commissioner in 1877 ; State Senator in 1878-'79 ; chair- 

 man of the State Railroad Commission in 1884-'S7 ; 

 and was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1890, 

 serving on the Committees on Pacific Railroads, on 

 District of Columbia, and on Enrolled Bills. He was 

 widely known as a political orator. 



Mordeoai, Benjamin, philanthropist, born in Charleston, 

 S. C., in 1809 ; died in New York city, March 30, 1893. 

 At the beginning of the civil war he was considered 

 the wealthiest merchant in Charleston. He supported 

 the Confederacy with great liberality, and organized 

 a series of stores throughout South Carolina in which 

 people could buy food and clothing at the cost of im- 

 portation. After the war he spent some time in Can- 

 ada, and, returning to South Carolina, gave his time 

 and the remnant of his wealth to the development of 

 local industries. Among other enterprises he estab- 

 lished the great Kalmia cotton mill plant. 



Morgan, George Washington, military officer, born in 

 Washington County, Pa., Sept. 20, 1820; died in Fort 

 Monroe, Va., July 27, 1893. In 1836 he enlisted in a 



