OBITr A i: IK>. AMI:I;I- K-MOIU.) 



...n. ninl in August, 1BK succeeded A.ltuir.-il 



comman -rth Atlantic pqnad- 



\n unfortunate disagreement IH-IW..-M Ad- 



inira ! ' the 



manner in which 1. n treated officially 



eulmmatcd in MAT, 1895. In an interview pub- 



i in th. UIIC M Adi 



\l, , ...;...:.. .. :.. R Iminis- 



President Cleveland and Secretary Ib r- 

 and using the expression." I am an 

 am} a t'nioii iniin ' administ: 



When In- was called on by Seer 

 rt to affirm or deny this .-xi.n-^ion, he re- 

 turned a nonoommitul answer; and as then 

 rumor* that ho was to be court-mart ialed for di-r. - 



met uked to be retired, The 



President, in grant mg the application, rebuked 

 Ailmiral Mead f'-r lu> conduct. 



Men i<k I ilnanl T- jurist, born in WUbraham, 



Maw.. July 9. 1809; died in New Orleans. I..,.. .Ian. 



-.'7. 'II- wa> admitted to the bar of Ohio in 



1888, and to that of I...ui-. . janto 



\ he waielected judge 



of the 7th. Judicial Di-trict of L..uisiaiia. ami in 1855 

 and 186:1 Chief .lust ice for terms of eight Tears each. 

 Judge Merriek rendered a decision in 1856 which 

 fir* Te the celebrated Myra Clur. 

 standing in court. He was opposed to secession 

 and the war. His position with reference to the 



A as si-t forth in a d 



red in 18ft{. in whirh he held that, so long as 

 part of the State was not in the hands of 

 United States troops. State authority could be 

 maintained. After retiring from the bench .1 

 Merrick was engaged in private practice with a son 

 till within five years of his death. 



Mettain. ( h.irles. architect, born in Dublin, 

 Ireland, in Ma d in Itay.,nn.- t N*. .1., Dec. 



997. 11' was educated in architectural and 

 civil engineering in his native city, and pra 



; in Kngland till 1848. when he came to 

 In 1854, when the subject of rapid 

 -it was being discussed, he proposed in the 

 . ntific American" an elevated >tructure on 

 posts in the streets similar to the present system. 

 Hfl wa> a member of the old 121 h Regiment of New 

 York Militia, and when in April. 1861, he went to 

 Washington the officials of the War Department 

 persuaded him that he could render more valuable 

 service as a civil engineer. Accordingly, he was 

 assigned to duty, under den. Delafield.in construct- 

 ing the fortification- ii rk harbor. Mr. 

 Mettain patented many articles used in the build- 

 ing trade, including the rolling iron shutter. 

 Among the numerous buildings planned and 

 erected bv him are the New York Historical So- 

 building, the Eye and Kar Infirmary, the 

 ' of Physicians and Surgeons (now Packard's 

 ge), and the Brandreth and (iil-cy buildings, 

 also designed the funeral car that bore the 

 remains of President Lincoln in New York. 



Miller, v.i m ii i- 1 A., lawyer and scientist, born in 



.lie. ot,i. 3, 1886; died in Cincinnati, 



ohi. 1897, II. wa- educated at the <>hio 



University and al the Cincinnati I >aw School; was 



admitted to the bar in 1860: and. exceplii.. 

 year, practiced continuously in Cincinnati till his 

 death. In early life he became interested in geolo- 

 gy, and later he served on the geological commis- 

 Indiana. Illinois, Missouri, and Wis- 

 consin. He gathered a rare collection of fossils and 

 geological specimens and a large library of scientific 

 works, and was a frequent contributor to scientific 

 periodicals and " Proceedings." Among his numer- 

 ous publications are the following : N rth Ameri- 

 can Geology and Pateontologr : " Pahrozoic Fos- 

 sils"; Mesozoic Fossils"; and Cenozoic Fossils.** 



eived the degree of Ph. D. from Ohio I'ni- 



>l"n >l idi.H I : D in New York city. 



.July i lyn, N. Y., A 



At the beginning of the 919 Michael and 



an elder brother walked to Albany and cnlMcd in 

 the |:;ih I'liitetl States Infantrv.'and - 

 ward Michael was detailed as a (Irummcr boy, Ib- 

 i art in the caplur. \>\ -r 



ia, in the liattlcs of (,Jueenti>wn anl Sii.ny 

 Creek, in the attempt ! capture Mont real, and in 



the '! \fler pmc. 



declare. 1 he enlisted in the regular army. In l^JI 



he took part in establishing a milit.r 



-1 ill the e-c,.rl ,,f 

 CaSS OI1 tli> e\pedlt I..|| to the head <>f Lake >u; 



t> m-gotiate a treaty with the Indians: in 

 fought in the Wack Hawk war; and i- 



was in the Seminole war in Florida. < >n th 

 piration of his term of i !i*ted. and 



from 1M41 till 1869 was engaged in recruiting duty, 

 principally at Medl..e's i-laml. In .Fan:. 



M '-..mmis^ioned a second lieutenant in the'.Mh 

 Infantry, and in ls?2 he was retired for "disability 

 from old age." He was a charter member of the 

 Military Society of the War of 



Mora, Antonio Maximo, claimant, born in 

 Cuba iii ISIS; died in New York city. April 'JJ. 

 He inherited exteiMve sugar plantttHODI in 

 Cuba not far from Havana, which were the cin. 

 his memorable claim against the Spain ' 

 incut and of international negotiations extending 

 o\-r more than twenty-ti\> A Cuban ; 



broke out Oct. 18, 18^8, and continued eight 

 Oneofth- employed by the Snaniah < 



ernment to crush the Insurgents WM tlie embargo 

 of elates in Cuba, the income from which the Gov- 

 ernment believed was used to aid the revc.lt. The 

 owners of some of these estates claimed to be citi- 

 f the Tinted States, and they called on the 

 I'liited States Government to demand a release of 

 the embargoes and compensation for damages. 

 The claim of Mr. Mora was the mo>t notable of 

 these because of its size, the value of the -n/.-.l 

 property being placed at $3,000,000. From t In- 

 great mass of documents that accumulated 'luring 

 tin: negotiations for a settlement, it appears that 

 Mr. Mora came to New York citv and declared his 

 intention of becoming a citi/.en of the United 8 

 in 18^:5. ruder a general embargo decree of April 

 J<>. 1M69, his property in Cuba was seized, and in 

 1870 he was sentenced to death for acts alleged to 

 have been done prior to May, 1869. With his broth- 

 er, Jose* Maria, Antonio escaped to New York, and 

 at once laid his case before Hamilton Fi-h. then 

 Secretary of State, declaring that he had in u 

 engaged in the rebellion nor aided it. Diplomatic 

 spondence wat immediately opened with Spain. 

 t'nder a decree of Sept. 15, IK 

 ernment released the embargoes against all Ameri- 

 can property in Cuba except the Mora plantations. 

 It was agreed between the two governments that 

 claims for damages by alleged or df fur/it cit i/i-ns 

 of ti !iiitted to an in- 



ternational commission. In the M :ie ar- 



bitra 1 veeri oil the ijiirstion of American 



citi/.en>hip. and the umpire, in a decision filed Feb. 

 -*:{. di-mis-d Mora's claim, on the ground 

 that the sci/ure ol was made nine 



Ma? M. l s i!. the da' rtifi- 



cate of naturalization, and that accordingly al the 

 time of the H a was a subject of Spain. 



In May. l-sKJ. S-cretary Frelinghuysen asked in a 

 diplomatic note for the restoration to Mora of the 

 embargoed estates. The case again dragged till 

 1886, when the American minister to Span 

 eluded an arrangement with the Spanish Mi 



