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and in 1880, when a new diocese was formed 

 by the title of Davenport, Iowa, Dr. McMullen 

 was appointed its bishop. The remainder of 

 his life was spent in the work thus assigned 

 to him. He wrote largely on church history, 

 polity, etc. He was incessant in labor, and 

 confirmed in one year 6,000 candidates. 



Martin, Benjamin N., an American scholar, 

 born in Mount Holly, N. J. ; died in New York, 

 Dec. 26, 1883. His early education was ob- 

 tained at the academy, Trenton, N. J., and he 

 was graduated at Yale College in 1837, in the 

 same class with Chief-Justice Waite, the Hon. 

 W. M. Evarts, and Profs. Lyman and Silliman, 

 of New Haven. Mr. Martin next entered the 

 Yale Theological Seminary, and, on graduating 

 in 1840, he supplied for 1841-'42 the pulpit of 

 the Carmine Street Presbyterian Church, New 

 York (now in Forty-second street). The fol- 

 lowing year he became pastor of the Con- 

 gregational Church in Hadley, Mass., where 

 he remained till 1847. During 1848-'49 he 

 was pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Al- 

 bany, N. Y. For three years he was occu- 

 pied chiefly in study, particularly in the de- 

 partments of science and philosophy. In 

 1852 he was called to the professorship of 

 Psychology and cognate studies in the Uni- 

 versity of the City of New York. He taught, 

 also, rhetoric and belles-lettres, and lectured 

 quite largely on modern history, political econ- 

 omy, apologetics, natural theology, etc. In 

 this congenial work Prof. Martin spent the re- 

 maining thirty-one years of his life. He re- 

 ceived the degree of S. T. D. from Columbia 

 College, New York, in 1862, and of L. H. D. 

 from the Regents of the University of the State 

 of New York in 1869. Dr. Martin ,was unsur- 

 passed as a teacher, and exercised over the 

 students under his care a very marked and 

 beneficial influence for everything good and 

 pure and true. He was ardent, clear-sighted, 

 and comprehensive in all he undertook to do, 

 and, while always careful to point out the 

 errors and fallacies in much of our modern 

 thinking in science and philosophy, he was en- 

 tirely tree from the littleness and narrow- 

 mindedness of many who deem it necessary to 

 depreciate and vilify science and its progress 

 among men, as if there were danger of harm 

 to true religion from the established con- 

 clusions of science. Dr. Martin contributed 

 largely to the chief theological reviews, and 

 wrote frequently for " The Independent " and 

 "The Evangelist," particularly on national 

 and anti-slavery topics during the civil war. 

 He was a member of a number of societies for 

 religious and social improvement, and one of 

 his last lectures was delivered at the opening 

 of the Institute of Christian Philosophy, in 

 November, 1883. He leaves one son, occupied 

 like his father in the important work of Chris- 

 tian training and culture of tlie young. 



Mills, Clark, an American sculptor, born in 

 Onondaga co., N. Y., Dec. 1, 1815; died in 

 Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1883. He lost his 



father when a child, and then lived with an 

 uncle ; but, becoming dissatisfied, he ran away 

 from home in 1828. In his wanderings he 

 reached New Orleans, and thence went to 

 Charleston, S. C., where he learned the stucco 

 or plasterer's trade, and worked at it for nine 

 years. He began to model busts in 1845, and 

 invented a new way of taking casts from the 

 living face. He produced a marble bust of 

 John C. Calhoun, which was purchased for 

 the City Hall of Charleston, in 1846. Two 

 years later he was in Washington city, where 

 he furnished a design for an equestrian statue 

 of Andrew Jackson, to be placed in Lafayette 

 Square. There being no foundry or workman 

 capable of producing this in metal, Mr. Mills 

 was compelled to learn the business of cast- 

 ing, and after numerous trials succeeded in 

 getting a perfect cast, in October, 1852. The 

 statue was set up, Jan. 8, 1853, on the anni- 

 versary of the battle of New Orleans. It was 

 completed at a loss of $7,000; but Congress 

 voted him an appropriation of $20,000. At the 

 same session $50,000 was appropriated for a 

 colossal equestrian statue of Washington, which 

 was unveiled in the city of Washington, Feb. 

 22, 1860. Mr. Mills was next engaged in cast- 

 ing the colossal statue of Liberty, from a de- 

 sign by Crawford, which now crowns the dome 

 of the Capitol. It was finished in 1863. At a 

 later date his design for the monument to 

 President Lincoln was adopted. 



Milmore, Martin, an American sculptor, born 

 in Sligo, Ireland, in 1846 ; died in Boston, 

 Mass., July 21, 1883. He came to the United 

 States in his sixth year, and received his edu- 

 cation in Boston. Here he studied art, under 

 Thomas Ball, and developed talent in this line. 

 In 1863 he sent to the Sanitary Fair a statuette, 

 entitled "Devotion," which wasmucli admired. 

 He opened a studio in Boston, and soon ob- 

 tained success. He received the contract for 

 the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on Bos- 

 ton Common, and w r ent to Rome to carry for- 

 ward and complete his studies in art. Mr. Mil- 

 more modeled busts of Pope Pius IX, Charles 

 Sumner, Wendell Phillips, and many others. 

 Among his public works are: the statue of 

 America, at Fitchburg, monuments in various 

 towns of Massachusetts, and statues of Gen. 

 Thayer, at West Point, and of a "Weeping 

 Lion," at Colby University. His last bust was 

 of Daniel Webster, for the State-House at Con- 

 cord, N. H. This is still in clay, but is to be 

 put in marble by his brother. 



Norton, William A., an American scholar, born 

 in New York, in 1810; died in New Haven, 

 Conn., Sept. 21, 1883. He was graduated at 

 West Point, in 1831, and became lieutenant 

 in the Fourth Artillery. He taught for some 

 time at the academy as Professor of Natural 

 and Experimental Philosophy. He joined the 

 "Black Hawk Expedition," in 1832, but did 

 not take active part in it. He resigned from the 

 army, Sept. 30, 1833, and was afterward en- 

 gaged in professorial work in the University of 



