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Rh found a Polish colony there. In the spring of 1877 she went to San Francisco, and, after studying English for a little more than four months, made her first appearance in the California theatre as Adrienne Lecouvreur. Her success was immediate, and thenceforth her record as an American actress has been one of continual triumph. She has made six tours through the country, and has acted for several seasons in London and the English provinces, with three short tours in Poland. Madame Modjeska has acted in twenty-five parts since she first appeared on the American stage, principally in the Shakesperian roles of Beatrice, Imogen, Juliet, and Rosalind, also Mary Stuart and Camille. She has also made adaptations for the Polish stage of Shakespeare's &ldquo;As You Like It&rdquo; and &ldquo;Twelfth Night.&rdquo;

MOELLER, Louis Charles, artist, b. in New York city, 5 Aug., 1856. He is the son of a decorative painter. After serving a three years' apprenticeship with his father, he began to study painting, and subsequently visited Munich for that purpose. To the influence of Feodor Dietz, who was one of his masters there, Moeller attributes his best work. Slender resources compelled his return to his home, where he again devoted himself to decorative painting until he was enabled to send his first picture, &ldquo;A Girl in a Snow-Storm,&rdquo; to the National academy of design. His second work, &ldquo;Puzzled,&rdquo; gained him the Hallgarten prize, and an election as associate of that institution in 1884. Moeller is a pleasing genre painter. Among his other pictures are &ldquo;Morning News,&rdquo; &ldquo;Stubborn,&rdquo; &ldquo;Bluffing,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Doubtful Investment,&rdquo; and &ldquo;A Siesta.&rdquo;

MOFFAT, James Clement, educator, b. in Glencree, Gallowayshire, Scotland, 80 May, 1811; d. in Princeton, N. J., 7 June, 1890. He came to the United States in 1832 with the trade of a print- er, l)ut, being prepared to enter the junior class at Princeton, he was persuaded to do so by Prof. Maclean, of that institution, and was graduated in 1835. After attending lectures for two years at Yale he returned to Princeton as tutor in Greek. Receiving the appointment to the chair of Greek and Latin in Lafayette college in 1839, he remained there until the spring of 1841, when he went to Miami university, Ohio, as professor of Latin, sub- sequently teaching modern history. In 1851 he was licensed to preach, and for a time taught Greek and Hebrew at a theological seminary in Cincinnati. In 1853 he went back to Princeton as professor of Latin and history, Greek being afterward substi- tuted for Latin. After 1861 he occupied the chair of church history in Princeton seminary. He re- ceived the degree of D. D. from Miami univer- sity in 1853. Besides contributing to periodicals, Dr. Moffat published " A Rhyme of the North Countrie " (Cincinnati, 1847) ; " Life of Dr. Thomas Chalmers" (1853); "Introduction to the Study of Esthetics" (1856; new ed., 1860); '-Comparative History of Religions " (2 vols.. New York, 1871-3) ; " Song and Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scot- land " (1874); "Alwyn, a Romance of Studv," a poem (1875) ; " The Church in Scotland " (Phila- delphia, 1882) : " Church History in Brief " (1885) ; and " The Story of a Dedicated' Life " (Princeton, 1887). — His son, Edward Stewart, mining engineer, b. in Oxford, Ohio, 5 Jan., 1844, was graduated at Princeton in 1863, and at Columbia school of mines in 1868, as a mining engineer, serving also during the civil war as a lieutenant in the U. S. signal corps, in which he was brevetted captain. In 1868 he became adjunct professor of mining and metallurgy in Lafayette, where he remained until 1870, and he afterward held the superintendency of various iron-works till 1882, when he became superintendent of the Lackawanna iron and coal company, of which corporation he was made general manager in 1886. Prof. Moffat has attained a high reputation in his profession, and has held office in the American institute of mining engineers, to whose transactions he has contributed papers. MOFFAT, James David, clergyman, b. in New Lisbon, Columbiana co., Ohio, 15 March, 1846. He was graduated at Washington and Jefferson college in 1869, and, after studying two years at Princeton theological seminary, was licensed to preach in April, 1871. He was ordained co-pastor with his father. Rev. John Moffat, of the 2d Presbyterian church at Wheeling, W. Va., 8 May, 1872, and on his father's death in December, 1875, became his successor. He labored there until chosen president of Washington and Jefferson college in 1881. He received the degree of D. D. from Hanover college in 1882, and from Princeton in 1883.

MOFFITT, John M., sculptor, b. in England in 1837 ; d. in London. England, 15 Sept., 1887. He was apprenticed when fifteen years of age to a London sculptor, and after serving out his time came to the United States. One of the first or- ders he received after his arrival was for the exe- cution of the figures that adorn the eastern en- trance to Greenwood cemetery, and represent the four ages of man. He subsequently executed the memorial reredos in Packer memorial church, Mauch Chunk, Pa. Many of the altars in the principal churches in New York city were designed by him. Among his latest works are the plan for the soldiers' monument in East Rock park. New Haven, Conn., and the drum of the Yorktown Revolutionary monument, erected in 1881.

MOFRAS, Eugene Duflot de (mo-frah), French explorer, b. in Toulouse, 5 July, 1810; d. in Paris in 1851. He entered the diplomatic service in 1828 as attache to the French mission at Madrid, and while in that city made the acquaintance of Martin de Navarrete, who enraptured him by his descriptions of South America. Mofras solicited a mission to that country, and in 1839 was sent to Mexico to study the political situation, with orders to go afterward to California, Oregon, and Russian America. For four years he explored those coun- tries, and also visited the principal cities of the United States. On his return to France he pub- lished " Fragments d'un voyage en Californie " (Paris, 1843) ; " Exploration de I'Oregon et des Cali- fornies " (2 vols., 1844) ; " Mendoza, vice-roi de la Nouvelle Espagne, et Navarrete, notices biogra- phiques " (2 vojs., 1845) ; and " L'Oregon, le Mexique et les Etats-Unis," in which the author compares these countries, and predicts a great future for the United States (2 vols., 1846).

MOGUER, Andres de (mo-gair), Mexican clergyman, b. in Moguer, Spain, in 1505 ; d. in Mexico, 14 Oct., 1577. He was educated in the convent of San Esteban in Salamanca, where he entered the Dominican order, and continued to study theology, being graduated in 1530. When Friar Bernardo Alburquerque returned from Rome to Mexico in 1533, he carried with him Moguer, who soon became known for his great learning. He rapidly acquired the Mexican language, and, that he might utilize it in the conversion of the Indians, he was transferred to the missions of Oajaca, where he was successful, and became superior of his convent. In 1550 he returned to Mexico and became confessor of the viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, and judge of the Inquisition. When an epidemic appeared in Tlaxcala in 1576, Moguer asked to be transferred to that place, and with great devotion