OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MILLER MOODY.) 



Islands, Sept. 19, 1899. He was graduated at 

 West Point in 1887, and entered the army as an 

 additional second lieutenant in the 5th Artillery. 

 The same vear he was transferred to the 4th Artil- 

 lery as second lieutenant, and then to the 

 He was promoted first lieutenant. Feb. 3, 1 94, 

 and was transferred to the 2d Artillery, .May 4, 

 1S98 In the volunteer service for the war against 

 Spain he was commissioned major and assistant 

 adjutant general. July 12. 1898. and lieutenant 

 colonel and inspector general on Sept. h At the 

 be'innin' of the war he became an aid-de-camp 

 on the staff of (Jen. Shafter, and first distinguished 

 himself as an executive officer in relieving the 

 congestion at Tampa. Fla.. incident to the de- 

 barkation of the JHli Army Corps for Cuba Later 

 he made himself indispensable to his chief by his 

 sound judgment and his enormous capacity or 

 dctailed work. He displayed conspicuous brav- 

 ery in the fight on July 1, and was appointed 

 a "commissioner with Gens. Wheeler and Lawton 

 to negotiate terms for the surrender of Santiago. 

 After Gen. Toral surrendered the city and the 

 Spanish forces under his command Major Miley 

 was sent into the interior to receive the surrender 

 of the garrisons there, which duty he accom- 

 plished with unusual tact in view of the fact that 

 these garrisons had not been informed of the 

 surrender at Santiago. At the close of the cam- 

 paign Gen. Shafter recommended the promotion 

 of his aid to brigadier general of volunteers. After 

 his return to the United States, and at his own 

 request. Major Miley was detailed to duty on 

 the staff of Gen. Otis, who appointed him in- 

 spector general and. later, collector of the port. 

 He published In Cuba with Shafter (1899). 



Miller. Henry Carlton, jurist, born in Cov- 

 ington, La., .in 1828; died in New Orleans, La., 

 March 5, 1899. He studied law with his father, 

 who for many years was reporter of the Supreme 

 Court of Louisiana. On the secession of the State 

 he resigned his office of United States attorney, 

 and soon afterward was appointed district at- 

 torney of the Confederate States. After the war 

 he resumed private practice. He became counsel 

 for large corporations and also for the New Or- 

 leans Board of Liquidation, and for the latter 

 he prepared the plan under which the debt of the 

 city was settled. For several years he was Pro- 

 fessor of International Law in Tulane University, 

 and at his death he was dean of its law college. 

 In 1894 he became an associate justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Louisiana, and two years later 

 he was reappointed for a term of twelve years. 



Miller, Lewis, philanthropist, born in Green- 

 town, Ohio, in 1829; died in New York city, Feb. 

 17, 1899. In early youth he was apprenticed to 

 the machinist's trade, and after serving his time 

 he opened a shop in Canton and manufactured 

 agricultural implements. He was one of the first 

 to produce a practical reaping and binding ma- 

 chine, and he brought out a variety of mowing 

 and thrashing machines of his own designing. 

 His ventures were so successful that five years 

 after establishing himself in Canton he erected 

 an additional and much larger plant in Akron, 

 and a few years thereafter he put up a third 

 plant in Mansfield. From boyhood he was ac- 

 tively employed in Sunday-school work, and soon 

 after going to Akron he established a Sunday 

 school that was at that time unique, and that 

 became known as the model Sunday school of 

 the country. He built a semicircular school- 

 room with large sliding doors, by means of which 

 the classrooms could be converted into a com- 

 modious auditorium. Piano and cornet music 

 was introduced, and every effort was made to 



render the Sunday-school hour attractive. In 

 1873 he laid before Bishop John H. Vincent and 

 other Methodist clergymen the scheme since de- 

 veloped into the Chautauqua Assembly. Scarcely 

 a change was made in his original plan, and the 

 assembly was organized on 'a strictly nonsec- 

 tarian basis, with himself as the first and only 

 president till his death. Mr. Miller acquired large 

 wealth, and gave handsome sums to religious 

 and charitable institutions. 



Moody, Dwight Lyman, evangelist, born in 

 Northfield, Mass., Feb. 5, 1837; died there, Dec. 

 22, 1899. For a hundred years the family of 

 Mr. Moody has lived in the beautiful town where 

 he was born and where he died. It is the site 

 of the great schools which in his later years he 

 founded and built up, representing an outlay of 

 nearly $1,000,000, and having at the present time 

 'about 1,000 pupils, boys and girls, located sev- 

 erally in the Northfield Seminary and the Mount 

 Hermon School for Boys. His father died when 

 he w r as little more than an infant, leaving him, 

 7 brothers, and 1 sister a care upon his widowed 

 mother, who struggled heroically through all the 

 years of his youth to keep her home and rear 

 her family, which amid great but cheerful and 

 hopeful poverty she did. Mr. Moody 's education 

 w r as such only as a not particularly studious 

 boy might gain at the intermitting district schools 

 of his neighborhood. At the age of seventeen he 

 went to Boston to seek his fortune. He was for 

 two years a clerk in a shoe store, during which 

 time he w T as converted and united with the Mount 

 Vernon Congregational Church, Rev. Dr. Kirk, 

 pastor. In 1856 he removed to Chicago, and en- 

 gaged actively in Sunday-school mission work, 

 gathering a Sunday school of more than 1,000 

 pupils. Two years later he gave up business en- 

 tirely to devote himself to Christian work. He 

 was in service in connection with the Christian 

 Commission during the civil war, and after the 

 war he took up work as general missionary of 

 the Young Men's Christian Association in Chi- 

 cago, and practically became the head of that 

 movement. He built a church for his Sunday 

 school and the converts gathered through his in- 

 tense ministry in Chicago. This church was 

 burned in the great fire of 1871, but was rebuilt, 

 and is now known as the Chicago Tabernacle, one 

 of the largest church buildings in the country, to 

 which has been attached the great Chicago Train- 

 ing School for lay Christian workers and foreign 

 missionaries. Mr. Moody was much devoted to 

 evangelistic work during this period. He had twice 

 visited England, but on tours of observation 

 rather than for active work. In the summer of 

 1871 he was joined by Ira D. Sankey, his famous 

 colleague. Quite unknown to the English Chris- 

 tian world, they together, in 1873, visited Great 

 Britain, and in York began work in a very ob- 

 scure and quiet way. The work grew rapidly, 

 and the fame of it spread. Subsequently, by in- 

 vitation, they visited Sunderland, Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne, and other places. They were visited .by 

 important delegations from Edinburgh, and ac- 

 cepted an invitation to that city, where their work 

 was greatly blessed, even to the revolutionizing 

 of the spiritual methods and conditions through- 

 out Scotland. All Scotland was aroused, and 

 great meetings followed in Glasgow, Dundee, and 

 other centers. Thence they went to Ireland, where 

 they visited the chief cities, and wrought with 

 equal success; and thence back to England, hold- 

 ing enormous meetings in Liverpool, Manchester, 

 Birmingham, and London. In the latter city the 

 meetings in Agricultural Hall called out audi- 

 ences of 10,000, 15,000, and 20,000. On one occa- 



