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Rh abroad. Her interest in classical archaeology be- gan in Leipsic in 1872, where she collected material for her " History of Ancient Sculpture " (New York, 1883), in recognition of whose merits she was elected in 1884 a member of the Imperial archaeological institute of Germany, sharing this distinction with only one other woman. She was preparing a work on Greek vases and Greek: paint- ings, but died before its completion.

MOLLY, Captain, b. about 1756; d. near West Point, N. Y., about 1789. She was the wife of a cannonier, and was at Fort Clintonwhen.it was captured by the British in October, 1777. As the enemy scaled the parapet, her husband dropped his port-fire and fled, but Molly caught it up and discharged the last gun fired by the Americans on that occasion. She was also conspicuous at the battle of Monmouth, 28 June, 1778, where she carried water from a neighboring spring to her husband while he was serving a gun. A shot killed him at his post, and Molly seized the ram- mer and filled his place at the gun. After the battle, covered with dirt and blood, she was pre- sented by Gen. Nathanael Greene to Washing- ton, who commended her bravery and made her a sergeant. On his recommendation, her name was placed upon the list of half-pay officers for life. She continued with the army, and after the war resided at Buttermilk Falls, N. Y. Mrs. Alex- ander Hamilton describes her as "a stout, red- haired, freckle-faced young Irish woman, with a handsome,, piercing eye." She was a favorite with the army, and generally wore an artilleryman's coat over her dress, and a cocked hat. She has been erroneously called Moll Pitcher.

MONETTE, John Wesley, author, b. in Ohio, 3 April, 1803 ; d. in Madison parish, La., 1 March, 1851. He was graduated at the Kentucky medical college in 1822. Dr. Monette was mayor of Wash- ington, Miss., and a member of the legislature. He was the author of a " History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi " (2 vols., New York, 1846), and left in manuscript a work on the " Rivers of the Southwest."

MOORE, Edward Charles, silversmith, b. in New York city, 30 Aug., 1827. He learned the trade of silversmithing from his father, John C. Moore, succeeded to the business in 1854, and in 1867 transferred his silver works to Tiffany and Co., of which he has since had charge. Being a practical workman the application of steam, the introduction of machinery, such as the steam trip-hammer, the polishing and drawing of wire, and the use of gas for soldering and melting in his business, have largely been the result of his influence. The tea services that he made for Mrs. Mary J. Morgan and for Prince Demidoff are re- garded as among the finest examples of repoussee silver- ware that were ever made. Through his work, more than anything else, American silver has been raised to its present high standard, and at the World's fair, held in Paris in 1867, he received a personal gold medal for his efforts. His study of leather and its application to the arts has resulted in this country's obtaining the first rank for fine leather-work. He has given attention to antique, Persian, Arabic, Roman, and other glass, and to Japanese arts in their higher branches. Mr. Moore's library and collections are among the most com- plete in his specialties in the United States.

O'CONOR, John Francis Xavier, clergyman, b. in New York city, 1 Aug., 1852. He was gradu- ated at the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1872, and became a member of the Society of Jesus the same year. He went to Europe to finish his studies in 1874, and returned in 1879 to assume the duties of professor successively in West Park college. Georgetown university, and Boston college. Father O'Conor delivered lectures on cuneiform Assyrian in Boston before any school of that language had been established in the United States. In 1884 he secured a cast of the cuneiform Babylonian cylin- der of Nebuchadnezzar in the New York museum, and a year later he published a work containing a fac- simile of the cylinder, its history, and the cuneiform text, with a transcription and a transla- tion (1885). He has also published " Something to Read " (Georgetown, 1880) : "Lyric and Dramatic Poetry" (Boston, 1883); "Reading and the Mind" (Woodstock. 1884; enlarged ed., 1885); "Garruc- ci's History of Christian Art" (1886); "Visits to Holy Places," continued in the series of the " Mes- senger of the Sacred Heart "(Philadelphia, 1885-'8); and "The Practice of Humility," from the Italian of Leo XIII. (New York, "

PABLOS, Juan, Spanish printer, lived in the 16th century. When the first viceroy of Mexico, Antonio de Mendoza, was appointed in 1534, he carried with him a printing press and outfit, pro- vided by the famous court printer, Juan Crom- berger, of Seville, and this outfit was in charge of Juan Pablos, who for many years superintended the viceregal printing-shop, although in the title- page of the earlier books that were printed in Mexico, sometimes the name of Cromberger ap- pears. The first book printed in the New World was a translation into Spanish of the Latin text of Ambrosio Camaldulense's " Escala espiritual para llegar al cielo, de San Juan Climaco," or " Spiritual Ladder to ascend into Heaven," which bore the imprint of Juan Pablos, Mexico, 1535. Of this work no authentic copy is in existence. The earli- est Mexican book that is known to exist is a copy of Motolinia's " Doctrina Cristiana en lengua Mexicana," printed in Mexico, 1544, but bearing the imprint of Juan Cromberger. It is in the pro- vincial library of Toledo.

PEABODY, Charles Augustus, jurist, b. in Sandwich, N. II., 10 July, 1814. He was educated privately, studied law in Baltimore, Md.. and at Harvard law-school. He settled in New York city in 1839, and has since resided there. He was a member of the convention that organized the Republican party in his state in 1855, was chosen a justice of the supreme court in the same year, served till the end of 1857, and in 1858 became commissioner of quarantine. In 1862 he was appointed by President Lincoln judge of the U. S. Provisional court of Louisiana, holding office till 1865, " with authority to hear, try. and determine all causes, civil and criminal, including causes in law, equity, revenue, and admiralty, . . . his judgment to be final and conclusive." He was also sole judge of another court of unlimited criminal jurisdiction during a part of that time. In 1863 he became chief justice of the supreme court of Louisiana, and in 1865 he was appointed U. S. attorney for the eastern district of Louisiana, but declined that post, and resumed practice in New York city. Judge Peabody is one of the vice-presidents of the Association for the reform and codification of the laws of nations, and has usually attended its meetings in Europe. He was appointed by the U. S. government in 1885 a delegate in its behalf to the International congress of commercial law convoked by the king of the Belgians, that