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Cavalry; on Jan. 13, 1863, he was promoted colonel; on Feb. 25, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers for gallant and meritorious service; and on July 18 following he was mustered out. His first active service was in Kentucky, where he took part in the actions at Lexington, Paris, Perryville, and Richmond. Subsequently he served in Tennessee in the engagements at Fair Garden, Dandridge, Franklin, Wautauga, Carter's Station, Mossy Creek, Readyville, and Woodbury. He was present at Chickamauga, and after the fall of Atlanta was assigned to the 1st brigade, 3d Division of cavalry, of the Army of Georgia, and took part in the march to the sea. In April, 1865, he commanded the escort of Gen. Sherman at his conference with Gen. Johnston, and was present at the surrender. Gen. Jordan was a prisoner of war for five months, and part of the time was confined in Castle Thunder, Richmond.

Kautz, August Valentine, military officer, born in Ispringen, Germany, Jan. 5, 1828; died in Seattle, Wash., Sept. 4, 1895. His parents came to the United States in the year of his birth, and in 1832 settled in Brown County, Ohio. In 1846 he enlisted as a private in the 1st Ohio Infantry for service in Mexico, and on June 14, 1847, he was discharged. He was graduated at West Point in 1852, and commissioned a brevet 2d lieutenant, 4th Infantry. In the regular army he was promoted 2d lieutenant, March 24, 1553; 1st lieutenant, Dec. 4, 1855; captain, 6th Cavalry, May 14, 1861; lieutenant colonel, 34th Infantry, July 28, 1866; colonel, 8th Infantry, June 8, 1874 and brigadier general, April 20, 1891; and was retired Jan. 5, 1892. In the volunteer army he was commissioned colonel of the 2d Ohio Cavalry, Sept 2, 1862; promoted brigadier general, May 7, 1864; and was mustered out of the service Jan. 15, 1866. During his military service he was brevetted major in the regular army, June 9, 1863, for gallantry at Monticello, Ky.; lieutenant colonel, June 9, and colonel, Oct. 7, both in 1864, for the attack on Petersburg, Va., and the action on the Darbytown road, in Virginia, respectively; brigadier general and major general, March 13, 1865, for meritorious services in the field during the war; and major general in the volunteer army, Oct. 28, 1864, for the Richmond campaign. Prior to the civil war he served in Oregon and Washington Territory, in the Rogue river wars of 1853-'55, and in the Indian war on Puget Sound in 1856, and was wounded in the two last campaigns. From his assignment to the 6th Cavalry as captain to his assumption of command of the 2d Ohio Cavalry, he was on duty in the Peninsula campaign, and from December, 1862, till April, 1863, he had command of Camp Chase, Ohio. In the last month he was assigned to the command of a brigade of cavalry, with which he took part in the capture of Monticello, Ky., and in July was engaged in the pursuit and capture of John Morgan. On May 7, 1864, he was given command of the cavalry division of the Army of the James; on June 9 he entered Petersburg, Va., with a small force; and subsequently he led the advance of the Wilson raid, which cut the roads leading into Richmond from the south. His last act in the civil war was to march a division of colored troops into Richmond, April 3, 165. After the war he commanded successful expeditions against the Mescalero Apaches in New Mexico, and re-established them on their reservation in 1870-'71; and served in Arizona, California, and Nebraska till his retirement. He was author of "The Company Clerk " (Philadelphia, 1868); "Customs of Service for Noncommissioned Officers and Soldiers" (1864); and "Customs of Service for Officers" (1866).

Kemper, James Lawson, military officer, born in Madison County, Virginia, June 11, 1823; died in Orange County, Virginia, April 7, 1895. He was graduated at Washington College, Lexington, Va., in 1842; studied law and was admitted to the bar; served as a captain in the Mexican War; and entered political life soon after his return. For ten years prior to the civil war he was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, and for two years its Speaker. On May 2, 1861, he was commissioned colonel of the 7th Virginia Infantry, which he first led at Manassas. Soon afterward he was placed in command of the brigade that had served under Longstreet, Ewell, and A. P. Hill, and was promoted brigadier general. He took part in the first day's fight at Seven Pines, May 31, 1862; in the seven days' fighting around Richmond the same year; the battles of South Mountain, Antietam, and Fredericksburg; in the Confederate operations in North Carolina; and in part of the battles of Gettysburg, where he was severely wounded and captured. In June, 1864, he was promoted major general, and afterward commanded at Richmond till its evacuation. In 1872 he was a presidential elector at large on the Liberal Republican ticket, and in 1874-78 was Governor of Virginia.

Kendrick, Asahel Clark, educator, born in Poultney, Vt., Dec. 7, 1809; died in Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1895. His father, Clark Kendrick, and his uncle, Ariel Kendrick, were well-known Baptist clergymen in Vermont, the former of whom was active in promoting the education of young men for the ministry. Asahel was graduated at Hamilton College in 1831, and immediately became a tutor in the Literary and Theological Institution at Hamilton, Madison County, N. Y., which his father's cousin, Nathaniel Kendrick, had founded, and which is now Colgate University. Two years later he was made Professor of Latin and Greek, and afterward he taught Greek exclusively. Here he remained until 1850, with the exception of a year and a half, which he spent in a horseback journey through the Southern States, for the benefit of his health. In Hamilton he owned and occupied the house that was afterward the home of Fanny Forrester, the third Mrs. Judson, whose life he wrote. When the University of Rochester was founded, in 1850, he was called to the professorship of Greek, which chair he occupied until his retirement and appointment as professor emeritus in 1888. He had been ordained in early life as a Baptist clergyman, but never had a pastoral charge. Professorships in Hamilton, Waterville, Brown, and other institutions were offered to him, and at one time he was asked to become President of Brown University; but he declined them all, preferring to remain with the institution he had assisted in founding. In 1852 he visited Europe, and spent much time in Rome and Athens, studying their antiquities, and also traveled in northern Greece and Germany, returning in 1854. He visited Europe again in 1868, and in 1881. He also traveled much in his own country, and had a very wide acquaintance among men of all classes. In 1865-268, in addition to his duties in the university, he filled the chair of Hebrew and New Testament Interpretation in the Rochester Theological Seminary. When the American committees were formed to aid in the revision of the English version of the Bible, in October, 1872, he was appointed a member of the New Testament Committee, and he took a very active part in the work, rarely missing a meeting of the committee. until its task was completed, in 1880. Dr. Howard Crosby being asked as to the relative work and in

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fluence of the individual members, answered: "I think, on the whole, Dr. Kendrick oftenest suggested the reading that was finally adopted." Dr. Kendrick was not only the foremost Greek scholar in the country, but was deeply read in many literatures and had given much study to Oriental learning. Personally he was the favorite of the students who came under the charge of the faculty of which he formed a part, because of his genial nature, sympathetic method of instruction, and frequent humor, as well as his great scholarship. He did a vast deal of literary work, much of which was of the most exacting and laborious kind, writing elaborate articles for the "Christian Review" and other periodicals and producing many books. These included: "A Child's Book in Greek"; "Introduction to the Greek Language"; "The Greek Ollendorf'"; Xenophon's "Anabasis," with notes; revision of Bullions's" Greek Grammar," and other text-books; a revised edition of the English translation of Olshausen's 'Commentary on the New Testament," with many new notes and some portions retranslated (6 vols., 1853-'58); "Echoes," a volume of metrical translations from the French and German poets (1855); "Life and Letters of Emily C. Judson" (1860); a translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews, with notes, for Lange's "Commentary" (1867); "Our Poetical Favorites" (3 vols., 1870-'80); a revision with notes of Meyer's "Commentary on John" (1885); "The Moral Conflict of Humanity," a volume of articles in New Testament exegesis (1894); and "A Life of Martin B. Anderson," President of the University of Rochester (1895). He left in manuscript a translation of the Epistle to the Romans, with voluminous notes.

Keyes, Erasmus Darwin, military officer, born in Brimfield, Mass., May 29, 1810; died in Nice, France, Oct. 11, 1895. He was graduated at West Point in 1832; entered the army as brevet 2d lieutenant, 3d Artillery; was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1836; captain and assistant adjutant general in 1887; major, Oct. 12, 1858; colonel, May 14, 1861; brevet brigadier general, May 31, 1862; and major general of volunteers, May 5, 1862; and resigned May 6, 1864. His first service was in Charleston harbor during the nullification excitement of 1832. In 1837-'41 he was an aid to Gen. Scott; in 1841-44 was on garrison duty; in 1844-48 was instructor in artillery and cavalry tactics at West Point; and in 1848-'60 was on garrison and frontier duty, taking part in several campaigns against hostile Indians. From Jan. 1, 1860, till April 19, 1861, he was military secretary to Gen. Scott, and he then spent some time in New York city and Boston, hastening the recruiting and forwarding of troops. Afterward he served in the defenses of Washington, in the battle of Bull Run, and in the Peninsula campaign, commanding the 4th Corps of the Army of the Potomac. In January, 1863, he organized a raid to White House, Va.; in May commanded an expedition to West Point, Va.; and in June and July was engaged in another toward Richmond. At the time of his resignation he was serving on the board for retiring disabled officers. After leaving the army he was for two years president of the Mexican Gold-mining Company in San Francisco, and for four years vice-president of the California Vine-culture Society. He was author of "Fifty Years' Observation of Men and Events" (New York, 1884).

Kimball, Hannibal I., financier, born in Oxford County, Maine, in 1832; died in Brookline, Mass., April 28, 1895. He was apprenticed to the carriagemaker's trade, followed it in New Haven and Boston till 1866, entered the employ of George M. Pullman in Chicago, was placed in charge of the work of establishing street railways in the Southern States, and became head of the Southern branch of the Pullman Car Company in Atlanta. From 1866 till his death he applied himself to the material development of Georgia. Through his efforts the State capital was transferred to Atlanta, and the new Capitol built by the city and presented to the State; the railway facil

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ities in the rear of the wholesale houses on Alabama Street were improved and arranged as at present; the great commercial convention, the International Cotton Exposition of 1881, and the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 were organized; and a large hotel, the Kimball House, was built, and after its destruction by fire, rebuilt. Mr. Kimball was the organizer of the great cotton mills in Atlanta; and was at one time president of 9 railway companies. Kimball, Moses, philanthropist, born in Newburyport, Mass, Oct. 24, 1810; díed in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 21, 1895. He entered mercantile life, but tired of it and purchased "The New England Galaxy" in 1833, published it for several years, and also published engravings of Trumbull's "Signing of the Declaration of Independence," Stuart's "Washington," and many other notable pictures. In 1836 he entered mercantile life again, only to abandon it, on becoming interested in public amusements. He first opened lecture room 99 in Lowell, in which dramatic entertainments were given and curiosities exhibited. About 1840 he bought the Columbian Museum in Boston, and transferred to it all his amusement properties, and in the following year, in partnership with his brother David, he opened what is now the Boston Museum, of which he was proprietor at his death. From early life he was interested in politics, and for many years he was an influential worker in the antislavery cause. He was elected a member of the Common Council of Boston in 1849, and held some legislative office almost continuously for more than forty years. He was a member of the State House of Representatives for sixteen years, and director of public institutions of Boston for twelve years; was the first chairman of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity; was chairman of the House Committee on Finance for many years; and was one of the commissioners to arrange for the annexation of Roxbury to Boston. In 1879 he presented to the city the Emancipation group in Park Square. His public bequests were: To the New England Hospital for Women and Children in Boston, $16,000; to the same hospital, the Home for Aged Men, the Home for Aged Women, the Boston Dispensary, the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Gwynne Home for Children, the New England Historical-Genealogical Society, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Technology, and the Boston Young Men's Christian Union, each $5,000; and to other nonsectarian charitable organizations an aggregate of $10,000.

Kirkwood, Daniel, educator, born in Bladensburg, Md., Sept., 27, 1814; died in Riverside, Cal., June 11, 1895. He was brought up on a farm; took a four years' course at the academy at York, Pa.; was instructor in mathematics there for five years; and was appointed principal of the high school at Lancaster, Pa., in 1843. In 1851 he was chosen Professor of Mathematics at Delaware College, of which he was elected president in 1854. Two years afterward he was called to the chair of Mathematics at Indiana University, where he remained till 1886, when he was retired. He was author of "The Asteroids or Minor Planets between Mars and Jupiter."

Kneeland, Joseph O., inventor, born in Ashleyville (now West Springfield), Mass., about 1815; died in Northampton, Mass., Aug. 21, 1895. He learned the printer's trade in Northampton, and followed it in Greenfield, Worcester, Troy, and New York city, returning finally to Northampton about 1870. Of his many inventions relating to the printing business, the most important are the "lay boy," a device for receiving and piling up paper from a manufacturing or printing machine, an improved writing-paper folder, and an improved quoin for locking up forms. The first invention yielded him large returns.

Langdon. William Chauncey, clergyman, born in Burlington, Vt., Aug. 19, 1831; died in Providence, R. I., Oct. 28, 1895. He was graduated at Transylvania University, and after teaching for a short time in Shelby College, Kentucky, was for several years an examiner in the Patent Office. In 1859 he took

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priest's orders in the Episcopal Church, and in the same year founded the American Episcopal Church in Rome, and was its rector until 1862. He then became rector of St. John's Church at Havre de Grace, Md. In 1867 he went abroad again, remaining there until 1875, in the interest of the movement for Church union, and was very active in bringing about cordial relations between "Old Catholics" and the American bishops. During this time he founded Emmanuel Church at Geneva, and was its rector for two years. He was subsequently rector of Christ Church, Cambridge, Mass., from 1875 to 1877, and of St. James's Church in Bedford, Pa., from 1883 to 1890. He retired from active clerical duty in that year, but still labored in behalf of the cause of Christian unity. He published "Some Account of the Catholic Reform Movement in the Italian Church" (London, 1868); "The Defects of our Practical Catholicity " (New York, 1871); "Plain Papers for Parish Priests and People (1880-'83); "Conflict of Practice and Principle in the American Church Polity" (Cambridge, 1882).

Langstroth, Lorain L., apiarist, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 25, 1810; died in Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 6, 1895. He was graduated at Yale College in 1830; was a tutor there in 1834-35; entered the ministry of the Congregational Church; and became principal of a young ladies' seminary in Philadelphia in 1848. Since 1858 he had been engaged chiefly in the cultivation of bees at Oxford, Ohio, occasionally acting as a ministerial supply. He invented the movablecomb hive, and was the author of "The Hive and the Honey Bee."

Lanman, Charles, author, born in Monroe, Mich., June 14, 1819; died in Washington, D. C., March 4, 1895. He spent ten years in a business house in New York city, and in 1845 became editor of the "Gazette" in his native town. In 1846 he became associate editor of the Cincinnati "Chronicle," and in 1847 of the New York "Express"; in 1849 was appointed librarian of the War Department; and in 1850 became librarian of copyrights and private secretary of Daniel Webster. He was examiner of depositaries for the Southern States in 1853; librarian of the Interior Department in 1855-57; librarian of the House of Representatives in 1866; and secretary to the Japanese legation at Washington in 1871-'82. The last fifteen years of his life were spent in literary work and in painting, as he had studied art with Asher B. Durand and been elected an associate of the National Academy in 1846. He was the first person to penetrate the Saguenay region in Canada, and was one of the first explorers of the mountain region of North Carolina. He contributed frequently to the exhibitions of the National Academy, his best-known paintings being " Brookside and Homestead"; "Home in the Woods" (1881); and "Frontier Home" (1884). His publications included: "Essays for Summer Hours" (Boston, 1842); "Letters from a Landscape Painter" (1845); "A Summer in the Wilderness" (New York, 1847); "A Tour to the River Saguenay" (Philadelphia, 1848); "Letters from the Alleghany Mountains" (New York, 1849); "Private Life of Daniel Webster" (1852); " Dictionary of Congress (many editions); "Red Book of Michigan" (Detroit, 1871); "Resources of America," compiled for the Japanese Government (Washington, 1872); "The Japanese in America" (1872); "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States" (several editions); "Curious Characters and Pleasant

Places" (Edinburgh, 1881); "Leading Men of Japan" (Boston, 1883); "Farthest North" (New York, 1885); and "Haphazard Personalities " (1886). Leach, Stephen W., composer, born in Rumsey, England, in 1821; died in Oakland, Cal., Aug. 21, 1895. Prior to coming to the United States he played double bass in the orchestra that accompanied Paganini in Southampton. He made his first appearance in the United States in Philadelphia, April 25, 1849. At one time he was chorus master of Jenny Lind's company, and he also sang with Anna Bishop and with Patti. In 1861 he went to San Francisco with an opera company, and after a season of song he joined the company of the California Theater. Afterward he established himself in Oakland, where he conducted a conservatory of music. While connected with the California Theater he wrote the incidental music for at least 50 plays, including the parts for John McCullough's "King John," "Coriolanus," and "Richelieu," and that for Adelaide Neilson's "Cymbeline." His last composition was a special Easter service for 1895.

Leclercq, Charles, actor, born in England about 1828; died in New York city, Sept. 19, 1895. He was a son of Charles Leclercq, a well-known English actor and pantomimist, and a brother of the late Carlotta Leclercq and of Rose Leclercq. He came to the United States in 1870, and after supporting Charles Fechter as Caderousse in "The Count of Monte Cristo," he joined the company at Daly's Theater, with which he remained for fourteen years, playing chiefly comedy and dialect parts.

Lee, Samuel J., lawyer, born in Abbeville County, South Carolina; died in Charleston, S. C., April 1, 1885. He was born in slavery, on the plantation of Samuel McGowan, who became a Confederate general; was body servant of his master throughout the civil war, in which he was wounded; and after the war secured an education and was admitted to the bar. About the beginning of the reconstruction period in South Carolina he moved into Edgefield County, and was elected to the General Assembly, of which he became Speaker when Franklin J. Moses was elected Governor. In 1876 he escaped the prosecutions that befell most of the officeholders of that period, and settled in Charleston, where he secured considerable practice and the good will of white lawyers. On the reorganization of the State militia he was commissioned brigadier general of the 1st brigade of colored troops, being the only colored officer of that rank in the United States.

Lewis, John Francis, farmer, born near Port Republic, Va., March 1, 1818; died in Lynwood, Va., Sept. 2, 1895. He was brought up as a farmer, and spent all his life, when not in public office, as such. In 1861 he was a delegate to the State convention called to determine whether Virginia should secede, and was the only member within the present limits of the State who refused to sign the ordinance of secession. With others he appealed successfully to President Grant to recommend to Congress the passage of an act submitting to a separate vote of the people of Virginia the disfranchising clauses of the Underwood Constitution, and in 1869, when the reform Constitution was adopted, he was elected Lieutenant Governor on the True Republican ticket. The same year he was elected United States Senator, and during his term he was chairman of the Cornmittee on the District of Columbia and a member of that on Engrossed Bills. In 1875 he was appointed United States marshal for the Southwestern District of Virginia, and in 1881 he was again elected Lieutenant Governor on the Readjuster ticket.

Loomis, Alfred Lebbeus, physician, born in Bennington, Vt., June 10, 1831; died in New York city, Jan. 23, 1895. He was graduated at Union College in 1851 and at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1853; spent two years as assistant physician to the hospitals on Ward's and Blackwell's islands; and, establishing himself in New York city, made a specialty of pulmonary diseases. In 1860 he was ap

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pointed physician to Bellevue Hospital; in 1860-75 was consulting physician to the Charity Hospital; from 1874 till his death was physician to the Mount Sinai Hospital; and since 1864 had been connected with the University of the City of New York, first as Adjunct Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, and after 1866 as full professor. He was also for several years lecturer on physical diagnosis at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the University of the City of New York he was the leader in three notable steps of the faculty of medicine the liquidation of the debt in 1886; the securing in 1887 of $100,000 for a new laboratory, the donor of which insisted that the laboratory should bear the name of Dr. Loomis, and that his own name should not be made public; and the reorganization in 1892 of the course of study. Dr. Loomis had been President of the New York Pathological Society and of the New York State Medical Society. He bequeathed $25,000 to the Loomis Laboratory and $10,000 to the New York Academy of Medicine. He published "Lessons in Physical Diagnosis" (New York, 1868); "Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, Heart, and Kidneys" (1876); "Lectures on Fevers" (1882); "Diseases of Old Age" (1882); and "A Text-book of Practical Medicine" (1884).

Loop, Henry Augustus, artist, born in Hillsdale, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1831; died at Lake George, N. Y., Oct. 20, 1895. He was educated at Great Barrington, Mass.; studied painting in New York with Henry Peters Gray, N. A., and in Paris with Thomas Couture; continued his studies in Rome, Venice, and Florence; and opened a studio in New York. In 1859 he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, and in 1861 an academician. He confined himself chiefly to portraiture. Among his paintings are "Undine" (1861); "Aphrodite 5 (1876); "Echo" (1877); "Hermione and Helena" (1877); Enone" (1878); "At the Spring" (1879): "Idyl of the Lake" (1881); "Love's Crown" (1882); "Summer Moon" (1884); "The Dreamer" (1885); and many portraits. McCulloch, Hugh, financier, born in Kennebunk, Mc., Dec. 7, 1808; died near Washington, D. C., May 24, 1895. He studied at Bowdoin College and in Boston, and in 1833 removed to Fort Wayne, Ind., and began law practice. But finding this vocation uncongenial, he асcepted the management of a branch of the State Bank of Indiana in 1835. In the following year he was elected a director. He remained with this branch till the expiration of its charter, in 1857, when he was chosen president of a newly organized State Bank of Indiana, with which he remained till May, 1863, when he became Comptroller of the Currency under the national banking law. Two years afterward, on the resignation of William P. Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury, he was appointed by President Lincoln to fill the vacancy. At this time the Government was in great financial straits, owing to its enormous expenses and the heavy demands upon the Treasury. In less than six months from the time of his appointment the Government had paid the large amount due to 500,000 soldiers and sailors whose services were no longer necessary, had discharged other large obligations, and had begun reducing the national debt. By converting more than $1,000,000,000 of short-time obligations into a funded debt, Secretary McCulloch succeeded in placing the whole debt of the country in a satisfactory shape in a little more than two years. He constantly advocated a steady reduction of the national debt, the retirement of the legal-tender

notes, and a speedy return to specie payment, and his views concerning the management of the debt were sustained by Congress. He held the office till March 4, 1869, and from 1871 till 1878 was engaged in banking in London. In 1884, on the resignation of Walter Q. Gresham, he was recalled to the secretaryship of the Treasury by President Arthur, and he continued in the office to the close of that administration. He published "Men and Measures of Half a Century" (1888). He was the last survivor of President Lincoln's Cabinet officers.

McPherson, Edward, journalist, born in Gettysburg. Pa., July 31, 1830; died there Dec. 14, 1895. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1848, and studied law, but soon abandoned it for journalism. In 1858 and 1860 he was elected to Congress as a Republican in 1863 was appointed Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue; and after six months' service resigned on being elected clerk of the United States House of Representatives. He held the last office continuously till 1873, again in 1881-'83, and again in 1889-'91. In 1876 he was permanent president of the National Republican Convention; in 1877-'78 was chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; in 1877-'80 was editor of "The Philadelphia Press;" and from 1880 was editor and proprietor of a paper in Gettysburg. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1877. For several years he was the American editor of the "Almanach de Gotha"; from 1872, editor of a biennial "Handbook of Politics"; and from 1877 editor of the "New York Tribune Almanac." He also published a " Political History of the United States during the Great Rebellion" (Washington, 1865), and "The Political History of the United States during Reconstruction" (1870).

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Mahone, William, military officer, born in Southampton county, Va., Dec. 1, 1826; died in Washington, D. C., Oct. 8, 1895. He was graduated at the Virginia Military Institute in 1847, and was engaged in civil engineering till the beginning of the civil war. Early in 1861 he joined the Confederate army. He took part in the capture of the Norfolk Navy Yard, raised and commanded the 6th Virginia Regiment, and distinguished himself in the battles on the peninsula, on the Rappahannock, and around Petersburg. March, 1864, he was commissioned a brigadier general, and in the following month was promoted major general. Subsequently he commanded a division in Gen. A. P. Hill's corps. After the war he resumed civil engineering, and became President of the Norfolk and Tennessee Railroad Company. In 1878 he was defeated as Democratic candidate for Governor of Virginia, and, becoming dissatisfied with his party, he organized and became the leader of the "Readjuster" party, which advocated a partial repudiation of the State debt. The following year the new party defeated the regular Democratic organization, and carried both branches of the Legislature, and in 1880 elected Gen. Mahone United States Senator. In the Senate he allied himself with the leaders of the Republican party. He was a protectionist. After his term he spent most of his time in Washington, where he was believed to be a millionaire; but in April, 1895, he executed a deed of trust on a large part of his property in Petersburg, to secure the payment of notes.

Manogue, Patrick, clergyman, born in Desert, County Kildare, Ireland, in 1831; died in Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 27, 1895. He received a collegiate education, came to the United States in 1856, and studied theology and philosophy at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Chicago. After graduation he went to California, where he spent three years as a miner, mining superintendent, and part owner, and with his earnings went to Paris and completed his studies for the Roman Catholic priesthood. He was ordained in 1861, and was assigned to mission work in Virginia City. then a typical mining camp, full of saloons and gambling houses. The young priest showed himself at the start to be possessed of great physical courage, and by it as well as his conscientious work soon made

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himself respected and popular. Through his efforts St. Mary's Church and a house for the Sisters of Charity were erected in the city, and effective mission work was done in the entire Grass valley. When the diocese of Grass Valley was created, he was made its vicar-general, and he acted as such for fifteen years. On July 20, 1880, he was appointed coadjutor to Bishop O'Connell, and in 1884 he became the second Bishop of Grass Valley. In May, 1886, the diocese was enlarged by the addition of adjoining counties. Sacramento was made the see, and Bishop Manogue was transferred to it.

Marshall, William Rainey, military officer, born in Boone county, Mo., Oct. 17, 1825; died in Pasadena, Cal., April 4, 1895. In early life he accompanied his parents to Quincy, Ill., where he received a commonSchool education. In 1841 he went to work in the lead mines at Galena; in 1847 engaged in the survey of public lands in the part of Wisconsin Territory now within the limits of Minnesota; in 1849 with his brother established the first general merchandise store on the site of Minneapolis; and in 1852 opened the first iron store within the limits of Minnesota at St. Paul. He was a banker in St. Paul in 1855-57; became a dairy farmer and stock breeder in the last year; and established "The Daily Press" (now The Pioneer Press ") in 1861. He was elected to the Legislature of Wisconsin in 1848, and to the First Territorial Legislature of Minnesota in 1849. He was also active in organizing the Republican party in Minnesota, and in 1855 was defeated as its candidate for Congress. In 1862 he was commissioned colonel of the 7th Minnesota Regiment, with which he took part in two campaigns against the Indians; in 1863 was assigned to the 16th Army Corps, with which he was engaged in several battles; in December, 1864, commanded a brigade at the battle of Nashville; and on. March 13, 1885, was brevetted brigadier general of volunteers for meritorious services. He was elected Governor of Minnesota in 1865 and 1867, and was afterward a commissioner of railroads.

Martine, Randolph Brant, jurist, born in New York city in 1844; died there March 30, 1895. He was graduated at Columbia College Law School in 1866, and the same year was admitted to the bar and began practice in New York city. For several years he was an active member of Tammany Hall, but in 1882 he resigned, and two years afterward, when chairman of the executive committee of the County Democracy, he was its successful candidate for district attorney. During his tenure a number of celebrated cases were tried, among them the members of the board of aldermen who were indicted for accepting bribes from Jacob Sharp in return for the franchise of the Broadway surface railroad. He personally took charge of the prosecution of Mr. Sharp, and secured a conviction. In 1887 the Legislature provided for the election of an additional judge of the Court of General Sessions, and in the autumn of that year Mr. Martine was elected the first additional judge.

Marvil, Joshua Hopkins, manufacturer, born in Laurel, Del., Sept. 3, 1825; died there April 8, 1895. He was brought up on a farm, went to sea for a year on attaining his majority, and worked in a shipyard for seven years. In 1853 he established himself as a manufacturer of agricultural implements, and in 1870 began making peach and berry baskets by means of an invention of his own. The following year he introduced steam power into his plant, and afterward he extended his works till they had a capacity of 2,000,000 fruit baskets per annum. In August, 1894, he was Republican candidate for Governor of Delaware, and was elected.

Maxey, Samuel Bell, military officer, born in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Ky., March 30, 1825; died in Eureka Springs, Ark., Aug. 16, 1895. He was graduated at West Point in 1846; entered the army as brevet lieutenant, 7th Infantry; served with distinction through the Mexican War; was brevetted 1st lieutenant for gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, and was appointed commandant of a picked company

in the city guard after the occupation of Mexico city. After the war he was on duty at Jefferson barracks till September, 1849, when he resigned, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1850, and began to practice in Albany, Ky. He removed to Paris, Texas, in 1857, and practiced there till the beginning of the civil war. He raised the 9th Texas Infantry for the Confederate army, and was commissioned its colonel. He was promoted brigadier general in 1862: took part in the assault on Gen. Buell's retreating army in the first siege of Port Hudson and in the defense of Jackson, Miss.; and in 1863-'65 commanded the Confederate military district of the Indian Territory, and was promoted major general. After the war he resumed law practice at his home. In 1874 and 1881 he was elected to the United States Senate as a Democrat. In the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and of the select committee to inquire into claims of citizens of the United States against Nicaragua.

Merriam, Augustus Chapman, educator, born in Locust Grove, N. Y., May 30, 1843; died in Athens, Greece, Jan. 19, 1895. He was graduated at Columbia College in 1866, and was tutor in Greek and Latin there in 1868-'80, Adjunct Professor of Greek in 1880-'89, and Professor of Greek Archæology and Epigraphy from 1889 till his death. He was also at the time of his death the senior active professor in the School of Philosophy and one of the senior instructors in the School of Arts of the college. In 1886-'87 he was President of the American Philological Association; in 1887-'88 was director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens; and in 1891-'94 was President of the New York Society of the Archaological Institute of America. He superintended excavations at Siegow and Icaria, and by his investigations in 1888 determined the birthplace of Mespis. He published numerous papers on inscriptions in "The American Journal of Philology" and "The American Journal of Archæology" editions of Books VI, VII, and VIII of the "Odyssey," and Books VI and VII of " Herodotus "; and, among other writings, "The Greek and the Latin Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab in Central Park" (1883) and "The Law Code of Gortyna in Crete-Text, Translation, and Comment" (1886).

Miles, Henry Adolphus, clergyman, born in Grafton, Mass., May 30, 1809; died in Hingham, Mass., May 31, 1895. He was graduated at Brown University in 1829, and at Harvard divinity school in 1832; was ordained to the ministry of the Unitarian Church in Hallowell, Me., in 1832; and continued in pastoral relations till within a few years of his death. In 1836-53 he held a pastorate at Lowell, Mass.; in 1853-269 was secretary of the American Unitarian Association at Boston; and in 1876-'84 was pastor at Hingham. He edited the " Quarterly Journal" in Boston, in 1854-259, and published "Lowell as it was and is" (Lowell, 1845): "Grains of Gold" (Boston, 1854); The Altar at Home" (1855); "Gospel Narratives" (1858); "Channing's Thoughts' (1859); Words of a Friend" and "Picture Writing" (1870); and The Birth of Jesus" (1878).

Millard, Harrison, composer, born in Boston, Mass., Nov. 27, 1829; died in New York city, Sept. 10, 1895. He received a public-school education; studied music in Italy; appeared as a tenor singer in grand opera at Florence in 1852; returned to Boston and joined the Handel and Haydn Oratorio Society in 1858; and removed to New York city and composed his song

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