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company raised by his brother lor the Texan army, 

 and, alter reaching tliu nink of cuptuin. resigned. In 

 1M1 In- entered tho United Muh.- .Military A. adeiny, 

 liui left it before graduation to take up iliu study un>l 

 praeiici; il' law ut Mount Vernon, Ohio, where hcsub- 

 .-< .(in nll\ livi-il. At the U-i/iniiiii;.' nt'the .Me.\i,-aii U ar 

 ho was tirwt appointed colonel oi tliu i!d Ohio Volun- 

 teers, and afterward colonel of the Kith l.'nitcd States 

 Infantry. Ho distinguished himsell at < <>iiin ia> .>M<I 

 at t 'hurubuseo, where lie was wounded, and returning 

 home tliu Legislature voted him its thunkti and l>n- 

 vetted liim brigadier-general for his gallantry. In 18.V5 

 hu was appointed United States consul ut Marseille*, 

 and from 1 *,.>,*, to iMil In: was I'nilcd Suites minister to 

 Portugal, lie hastened home at the beginning oi' the 

 civil wur, was immediately commissioned a briga- 

 dii-r general of volunteers, served first with Gen. 

 Don C. Kuell, uud in March, I8ti2, was appointed 

 commander of the 7th Division of the Army of the 

 Ohio, with instructions to occupy Cumberland Gap. 

 Subsequently hu served under Gen. Sherman at V icks- 

 hurg, and, under assignment to the 13th Army Corps, 

 commanded the, force which captured Fort Hinman, 

 Ark. In IMS he resigned from the army on account 

 of ill health; in 105 was defeated as Democratic 

 candidate for Governor of Ohio; and in 1866 and 

 1870 was elected to Congress, where he served on 

 the Committees on Foreign Affairs, on Military Af- 

 fairs, and on Keeonst ruction. 



Morton, Louis Mills, chemist, born in Athol, Mass., in 

 1855; died in Auburndale, Mass., April 26, 1893. He 

 was graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology in 1875; continued his studies and re- 

 ceived the degree of Ph. D. in the University of GOt- 

 tingen in 1879 ; held the chair of Industrial Chem- 

 istry in the Infinite of Technology in 1879-'82. 



Mullaney, Patrick John (known in religion as Broth- 

 er Atari as,) educator, born in Killemain, County of 

 Tipperary, Ireland, June 2JH 1847 ; died in Platts- 

 burg, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1898. He removed to the 

 United States in 1850, made his preparatory studies 

 in the Academy of the Christian Brothers in Utica, 

 entered the novitiate of that order in New York city 

 in 1862, and finished his studies in Rock Hill College, 

 near Baltimore. Directly afterward he became Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics in the college, and subsequent- 

 ly was its president for several years. In 1877 he 

 went to Europe and spent much time in studying 

 French and English literature. He returned to the 

 United States in 1888, and became Professor of Rhet- 

 oric and English Literature in the De la Salle Insti- 

 tute, New York city, holding the chair till his death. 

 He was one of the founders of the Catholic Summer 

 School in Plattsburg, was an accomplished lecturer, 

 and at the time of his death he had just finished a 

 course of lectures at the Summer School. He was 

 widely regarded as one of the highest authorities in 

 the World on pedagogics. For many years he had 

 been a voluminous writer of books and of essays for 

 American and foreign magazines, including the 

 " American Catholic Quarterly Review," the "North 

 American Review," the " Forum," and the " Fort- 

 nightly " and " Contemporary " reviews of London. 

 Among larger works ho had"^ published the " Phi- 

 losophy of History," "Development of English 

 Thought," "Style, as found in Herbert Spencer's 

 Works," and ".Phases of Thought and Criticism," 

 and had in course of preparation u The History of 

 Education from the Earliest Ages to the Present 

 Day" and a" History of English Literature." Among 

 his special lectures were ; Psychological Aspects of 

 Education," before the Kcircnts of the University of 

 New York (1877) ; "Literary and Scientific Habits of 

 Thought," oefore the International Congress of Edu- 

 cation (1884k "The Relation of Church and State." 

 before the I<armingham School of Philosophy (l^voi ; 

 and "Religion in Education," before the New York 

 State Teachers' Association (1891). 



Murdock. James Edward, actor, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., June 25, 1811 ; died in Cincinnati. Ohio, May 19, 

 1898. He was a son of Thomas Murdock, a book- 



hinder, whose trade he learned and followed for 

 short time, abandoning it to prepare tor the M;,. 

 which lie showed a natural taite. Alter several suc- 

 cessful appearances on the amateur ntage, he nri-t 

 came before the public as u protei-Momil on o 



1*2!', when he played the luilt of I rcderiek ill "The 

 Lover's Vow*." iii the Arch Street Theater, Philadel- 

 phia, His first ventures with U>ck companies weredi*- 

 iij>]Niintilig, but he attracted the attention of Kdxv'm 

 torrent, who. two or three years afterward, invited 

 him to play the part of Pythias to his own Damon. 

 This eniru/enieiit gave him a hold on public regard. 

 and till 1840 he appeared in the large cities in a 

 variety of leading tragic and comic character*. In 

 1840. while managing the National Theater in Bos- 

 ton, he retired from the stage, and for five years ap- 

 plied himself closely to study, to lecturing, and to 

 teaching elocution. In 1845 he reappeared in the 

 Park Theater, New York city, as Hamlet, ami in the 

 next fifteen year* was constantly before the public in 

 the United States and in Europe. During the civil 

 war he gave readings in all the large cities of tin- 

 North tor the benefit of the United States Sanitary 

 Commission, nursed the sick and wounded Union 

 soldiers, and for some time was a volunteer aid on 

 the staff of Gen. William S. Rosecrans. After the 

 war he retired to his farm near Cincinnati, where he 

 engaged in grape growing. In 1879 he delivered a 

 course of lectures before the Philadelphia School of 

 Oratory. His most successful appearances were in the 

 parts of Romeo, Charles Surface, Don Felix, Rover, 

 Alfred Evelyn, and Vapid ; and his last one was as 

 Hamlet and Charles Surface at a benefit given him 

 in Cincinnati on April 28, 1887. Mr. Murdock was 

 associated with William Russell in the publication of 

 u Orthophonv, or Culture of the Voice" (Boston, 

 IM.'.j. and "The Stage" (Philadelphia, 1880). 



Neill. Edward D., clergyman, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa., in 1823 ; died in St. Paul. Minn., Sept 26, 1898. 

 He was educated at Amherst College and at the L'ni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and became the first Protest- 

 ant clergyman in Minnesota in 1849. He was author 

 of historical works, notedly a " History of Minnesota," 

 first published in 1875 ; 8th edition, 1898. 



Newell. MoFadden Alexander, educator, born in Bel- 

 fast, Ireland, Sept. 7, 1824; died in Havre de Grace, 

 Md., Aug. 14, 1893. He was graduated at Trinity 

 College, Dublin; was for some time a tutor in the 

 family of the Earl of Dufferin ; removed to the United 

 States in 1848 ; was Professor of Natural Science in 

 Baltimore City College in 1850-'54; and subsequently 

 held the same chair in Lafayette College. In 1865 

 he was appointed Principal of the Maryland State 

 Normal School ; in 1868, State Superintendent of Pub- 

 lic Instruction; and in 1877 was President of the Na- 

 tional Educational Association. Prof. Newell was as- 

 sociated with Prof. William R. Creery in editing 

 "The Maryland Series" of school text-books, was 

 sole author of several similar works, including six 

 " Newell Readers," and for a long time was editor of 

 the " Maryland School Journal.'* 



Newhall, James Bobinson, historical writer, born at 

 Lynn, Mass.. l>ee. i!.\ l*o;>: ,lied there, (let. 24. iv.'S. 

 He was a lineal descendant of Thomas Newhall. the 

 first white child born in Lynn, and in 1824 was ap- 

 prenticed to the printer's trade in Uie office of the 

 Salem "tia/ctte. '' Subsequently he was foreman in 

 a book-publishing house in Boston, and a newspaper 

 editorial writer in New York city. In 1-47 he was 

 admitted to the bar, and afterward practiced in Lynn, 

 and held a judgeship for thirteen years. His publi- 

 cations included "The !:**. \ Memorial" (1888); 

 " Lou : or the Jewels of the Third Plantation " 

 (1st;-.- . : -The History of l.ynn"(186); and the 

 " Centennial Memoir of Lynn " i ; - 



Newson. Thomas McLean, author. l>oni in New York 

 city, Feb. -j-j. ls-_-7 ; ,ii,.,i m Malaga. Spain, March 80. 

 lie learned the printer's trade in the office of 

 the "Derby .Journal" in Birmingham, Conn. : estab- 

 lished the "first daily penny newspajH-r in Connecti- 

 cut; was secretary ot the first editorial association 



