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Moebius, Bernard, metallurgist, born in Harths, 

 Saxony, in 1852 ; died at sea in May, 1898. He 

 studied chemistry and metallurgy under the best 

 German teachers, and was engaged in mining in 

 " ermany, Austria, Spain, and Mexico before set- 

 Jing in the United States, of which he became a 

 citizen. In 1884 he discovered a method of extract- 

 ing gold and silver from their ores by electricity, 

 hick he perfected in 1895. The electrolytic pro- 

 ess of parting and refining the precious metals, 

 hich bears his name, is now in use in the United 

 tates, Mexico, and Europe. 



Morrill, Justin Smith, Senator, born in Straf- 

 'ord, Vt., April 14, 1810 ; died in Washington, D. C., 

 "ec. 28, 1898. His early life was spent on his fa- 

 her's farm, and he was educated in the common 

 hools and academies near his home. He engaged 

 n mercantile pursuits till 1848, when he turned his 

 .Mention to agriculture. Without seeking a nomi- 

 ation, he was unanimously named for the national 

 ~ouse of Representatives in 1854, and on Dec. 3, 

 855, began his long career in Congress. He was 

 -elected for the five succeeding terms, and was 

 hen transferred to the Senate as a Republican, 

 ,king his seat March 4, 1867. From that time his 

 rvice was continuous, and he had the longest un- 

 roken term in the history of the Senate. For this 

 ason he was known as " the Father of the Senate." 

 1855 he delivered a speech in the House of 

 iepresentatives in opposition to the admission of 

 Kansas as a slave State. He opposed the tariff bill 

 pending in 1857 because it failed to care properly 

 for the agricultural interests; and in 1801 he came 

 into national prominence through the Morrill tariff, 

 a measure prepared largely by his own labors. At 

 that time he was the leading working member of 

 the Committee on Ways and Means and chairman 

 of the Sub-Committee on Tariff and Taxation. 

 When he became Senator, in 18C7, he was almost 

 immediately made a member of the Committee on 

 Finance, and a few years later its chairman, which 

 place he held until his death. He also served on 

 the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, 

 Education and Labor, Census, and Revolutionary 

 Claims, and on the Select Committee on Additional 

 Accommodations for the Library of Congress. He 

 took part in every important controversy over either 

 tariffs or coinage, and his speeches against the re- 

 monetization of silver are noted. His literary labors 

 were confined almost entirely to the preparation of 

 bills and reports to be, submitted to Congress. He 

 published one book, however, " The Self-conscious- 

 ness of Noted Persons " (188G). Senator Morrill was 

 for years a trustee of the University of Vermont 

 and the Vermont State Agricultural Society, and 

 he received the degree of LL. D. in 1874. lie also 

 received the degree of M. A. from Dartmouth Col- 

 lege in 1857, and LL. D. from the University of 

 Pennsylvania in 1884. 



Morse, Elijah Adams, manufacturer, born in 

 South Bend, Ind., May 25, 1841 ; died in Canton, 

 Mass., June 5, 1898. He was of New England 

 ancestry, and when eleven years old accompanied 

 his father to Massachusetts. He was educated in 

 the public schools of Massachusetts and at Onon- 

 daga (N. Y.) Academy, and engaged in manufactur- 

 ing in Canton. In 1860 he enlisted in the 4th 

 Massachusetts Volunteers as a private. He served 

 three months under Gen. Butler in Virginia and a 

 year under Gen. Banks in Louisiana, and was taken 

 prisoner at the capture of Brashear City, La. 

 On returning home he resumed manufacturing. 

 In 1876 he was elected to the State House of Rep- 

 esentatives ; in 1877 to the Governor's Council : in 

 1886 and 1887 to the State Senate ; and in 1888, 

 1890, 1892, and 1894 to Congress as a Republican. 

 ~ in the Legislature and in Congress he earnestly 



advocated the cause of free public schools, restric- 

 tion of immigration, additional naturalization re- 

 quirements, and safeguards for the ballot. (Sec 

 GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) 



Mueller, Louis, clergyman, born in Bavaria, 

 Germany, March 23,1819; died in Charleston, S. C., 

 April 14, 1898. His father was a royal forester. The 

 son received his preparatory training in the gymna- 

 sium of Zweibruecken, Bavaria, and in the Univer- 

 sity of Utrecht, Holland, where he became distin- 

 guished as a scholar. In 1842 he emigrated to New 

 York and was licensed as a minister in the Lutheran 

 Church. After serving congregations in New York 

 and Brooklyn for six years, he was constrained by 

 failing health to seek a milder climate and in Feb- 

 ruary, 1848, he removed to Charleston, S. C., where 

 he entered on his duties as pastor of the congrega- 

 tion which he served to the end of his life. He re- 

 ceived the degree of D. D. from Newberry College, 

 South Carolina. Dr. Mueller was a distinguished 

 scholar, a critical master of the principles of music 

 and art, and an eloquent speaker. 



Mundweiler, Fenton, cle7-g\ man, born in Ger- 

 many about 1828; died in St. Meinrad, Ind., Feb.' 

 14, 1898. He was educated and became a Roman 

 Catholic priest in his native country, came to the 

 United States soon after his ordination, and was 

 first assigned to missionary work among the Ger- 

 mans of Kentucky and Indiana. \Vhen the late 

 Bishop Martin Marty (see "Annual Cyclopaedia" 

 for 1896) erected St. Meinrad's priory in Spencer 

 County, Ind., in 1865, and was made its first supe- 

 rior. Father Mundweiler was one of several Ger- 

 man and Swiss priests whom he gathered there. In 

 1870 St. Meinrad's was raised to the rank of an 

 abbey, the priests connected with it were organized 

 into the Helveto-American congregation, and 

 Dr. Marty was appointed a mitred abbot. A few 

 years later Dr. Marty resigned his office to en- 

 gage in missionary work among the Sioux Indians, 

 and Father Mundweiler was appointed his suc- 

 cessor as abbot. The work that Dr. Marty had 

 projected both for the abbey and for the theologi- 

 cal seminary he had established in connection 

 with it was earnestly taken up by his successor, 

 and was carried forward till his death with large 

 results. 



Munger, Albert; A., manufacturer, born in Chi- 

 cago, 111., in 1845; died in Mackinac. Mich., Aug. 

 27, 1898. The system of elevators known as the 

 Munger-Wheeler" system was begun by his father, 

 and he himself continued to operate them till 1890. 

 He was a patron of the Art Institute of Chicago, 

 and his pictures, which were on exhibition there at 

 the time of his death, were valued at $300,000. One 

 of them, "The Bathers," by Bougereau, which was 

 Mr. Munger's favorite, cost $28,000. Another well- 

 known painting is " The Vidette," by Meissonier, 

 which cost $36.000. Munkafsy's " The Wrestler's 

 Challenge " and Gerome's " The Grief of the Pasha " 

 arc also in the collection, which by Mr. Munger's 

 will was bequeathed to the Art Institute. (Sec 

 GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.) 



Nash, Stephen Payn, lawyer, born in Albany, 

 N. Y., Aug. 26. 1821; died in Bernardsville, N. J., 

 June 4, 1898. He was a descendant of Thomas Xa-!i. 

 one of the original settlers of New Haven. Conn., and 

 was educated at the Albany Academy and the 

 French Cbllege at Chambly, Canada. He studied 

 law in Saratoga, and assisted Judge Cowen and 

 Nicholas Hill "in their work in the voluminous 

 "Cowen and Hills Notes to Phillips's Evidence." 

 He was admitted to the bar in January, 1843, and 

 returned to Albany to become a partner of Mr. Hill, 

 then State reporter, whom he assisted in the later 

 volumes of his reports. Two years afterward he 

 settled in New York city. During his long profes- 



