OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (MOONLIGHT MORAN.) 



sion 17,000 men gathered to hear him. Great 

 interest was now awakened in this country, to 

 which he returned in 1875. Immense meetings 

 were begun in Philadelphia, continuing from No- 

 vember, 1875, to Jan. 1(5, 187(5; then similar meet- 

 ings were held in New York from February to 

 April, 1876; then in* Chicago from October, 1870, 

 to January, 1877; and then in Boston in Febru- 

 ary, 1877, where an immense tabernacle was built 

 at a cost of $40,000, and where for four months 

 3 meetings were held daily, with 5,000 to 10,000 

 persons in attendance. Most of the principal 

 cities of the United States were in a similar 

 manner visited by Mr. Moody and his singing 

 companion, Mr. Sankey, who continued his coad- 

 jutor until the end of his life. They revisited 

 Great Britain in 1881, practically going over the 

 old ground in Scotland and England, and meet- 

 ing with great success. This campaign lasted 

 the greater part of three years. After a brief 

 return for five months to the United States, they 

 went again to London, in the autumn of 1883, for 

 the. great campaign, and with the aid of 3 large 

 movable tabernacles, each with a seating capacity 

 of 7,000 to 10,000 persons, every part of that vast 

 city was reached, and many thousands of men 

 and women were converted to Christ. Mr. 

 Moody's last visit abroad was to Scotland, in 

 1891, when he preached in 99 towns and cities. 

 Thence he went for a brief visit to Palestine (his 

 only holiday), and returned to the United States, 

 never again to leave his own land. In the in- 

 terval between these more conspicuous campaigns 

 he was a tireless worker. In 1879 Mr. Moody 

 opened a small school in his own house in North- 

 field for the education of poor but clever girls 

 from the immediate vicinity, and in 1880 the 

 foundation of the first of the now famous school 

 buildings was laid. These buildings have risen 

 to more than 50 in number, all substantially built 

 of brick and stone, and the whole plant repre- 

 senting a cost of about $1,000,000, with nearly 

 1,000 pupils. For twenty years Mr. Moody de- 

 voted his summers to these schools and to the 

 conduct of the great Northfield summer religious 

 conferences. His last work was in Kansas City, 

 in the winter of 1899, where he was addressing 

 audiences of 5,000 persons daily. In the midst 

 of one of these meetings he was stricken with 

 heart failure. He lived to get to his home in 

 Northfield, where he died and is buried, beloved 

 and mourned by millions of people \vho had been 

 blessed by his ministry. His most conspicuous 

 characteristics were his singleness of purpose, his 

 undying enthusiasm, his indomitable will, his 

 great common sense, his mastery of men, his 

 great organizing ability, and his wonderful power 

 of speech, together with that mysterious quality 

 which we call personal magnetism. It is esti- 

 mated that he addressed more than 50,000,000 

 persons during the course of his public life. His 

 publications include The Second Coming of Christ 

 (1877); The Way and the Word (1877); Secret 

 Power, or the Secret of Success in Christian 

 Life and Work (1881) ; and The Way to God, and 

 How to Find it (1884). Besides these, several col- 

 lections of his sermons appeared in book form. 

 His published sermons and addresses have been 

 translated into most of the languages of Europe 

 and into some of the Oriental tongues, and their 

 circulation has been enormous. 



Moonlight, Thomas, diplomatist, born in 

 Forfarshire, Scotland, in 1832; died in Leaven- 

 worth, Kan., Feb. 7, 1899. He came to the United 

 States in 1846. At the beginning of the civil 

 war he enlisted in the regular army, and during 

 its progress he was commissioned colonel of vol- 

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unteers. In 1869 he was Heeled Secretary of State 

 of Kansas, in 1873 a State Senator, in 1883 became 

 Adjutant General, and in ISH<; was defeated as 

 Democratic candidate for Governor. In Decem- 

 ber, 1886, lie was appointed Governor of Wy- 

 oming Territory. Early in 1804 he was appointed 

 minister to Bolivia. 



Moore, Clara Jessup, author, born in Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., Feb. 16, 1824; died in London, Eng- 

 land, Jan. 5, 1899. She was a daughter of Au- 

 gustus E. Jessup, the scientist of Major Long's 

 expedition to the Yellowstone in 1816, and the 

 widow of Bloomfield H. Moore, a paper manu- 

 facturer, from whom she inherited large wealth. 

 She was educated in New Haven, Conn., was mar- 

 ried in Philadelphia in 1842, and became a widow 

 in 1878. More than a quarter of a century ago 

 she became widely known as a writer of fiction 

 and poetry, under the name of Mrs. Clara More- 

 ton. Soon after the civil war began she estab- 

 lished the Women's Pennsylvania Branch of the 

 United States Sanitary Commission and the spe- 

 cial relief committee for hospital work, and later 

 projected and aided in founding the Union Tem- 

 porary Home for Children in Philadelphia. About 

 1880 she established the Bloomfield Moore Art 

 Collection in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 

 and afterward she provided the means for enlar- 

 ging and maintaining that collection. In 1887 she 

 made her permanent residence in London. From 

 about 1881 till his death, in 1898, John E. W. 

 Keely, of mysterious motor fame (see Annual 

 Cyclopaedia for 1898, page 551), was dependent 

 on Mrs. Moore's bounty. She appeared to have 

 implicit confidence in his integrity and theories, 

 and supplied him with the means both to live 

 and to continue his " experiments." The revela- 

 tion of his imposition gave her a shock from 

 which she never recovered. Mrs. Moore's pub- 

 lications include The Diamond Cross (Philadel- 

 phia, 1857); Mabel's Mission; Master Jacky's 

 Holiday; Poems and Stories (1875); On Danger- 

 ous Ground (1876); Sensible Etiquette (1878); 

 Gondaline's Lesson (1881); Slander and Gossip 

 (1882); The Warden's Tale, and Other Poems, 

 New and Old (London, 1883) ; and Ether, the 

 True Protoplasm, in which she tried to explain 

 the secret of Keely's alleged discovery (1885). 



Moran, Mary Nimmo, artist, born in Strath- 

 avon, Scotland, May 16, 1842; died in East Hamp- 

 ton, Long Island, Sept. 25, 1899. She became 

 the pupil of Thomas Moran, the artist, and mar- 

 ried him in 1863. Continuing her studies, she 

 devoted some years to painting, both in oil and 

 in water colors, and exhibited in the National 

 Academy and in the American Water-color So- 

 ciety. She went abroad with her husband in 

 1867, and studied in the galleries of Europe. In 

 1872 they removed from Philadelphia to New 

 York, and in 1884, they established their summer 

 home in East Hampton. In 1874 Mrs. Moran 

 made a tour of the far West. Although she is 

 best known as an etcher, her canvases possessed 

 an equal charm for their truthfulness. Nearly 

 all her works, whether paintings or etchings, 

 were made directly from Nature. Her first etch- 

 ing a bridge over the Delaware, at Easton, Pa. 

 showed a remarkable perception of the require- 

 ments of the art. This was followed by others, 

 in which she developed such strength of tech- 

 nical skill and individuality of expression that 

 she was elected to membership in the New York 

 Etching Club and in the Royal Society of Painter- 

 Etchers of London. Her style shows great origi- 

 nality, broad treatment, and bold execution. To 

 the Exhibition of the Woman Etchers of America, 

 at the New York Union League Club, in 1888, 



