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Rh MOORE, Zephaniah Swift, clergyman, b. in Palmer. Mass., 20 Nov., 1770 ; d. in Amherst, Mass., 30 June, 1823. He was graduated at Dart- mouth in 1793. taught for the next three years, subsequently entered the ministry of the Congre- gational church, and in 1798-1811 preached at Leicester. He then became professor of languages at Dartmouth, and was elected president of Will- iams in 1815, but resigned on account of the un- popularity that was occasioned by his support of the proposition to remove the college to Hampshire county. On the organization of Amherst college he became its first president, continuing in office until his death. He received the degree of D. D. from both Williams and Dartmouth in 181G. He published an " Oration. 5 July, 1802 " (Worcester, Mass., 1802); "Address to the "Public in Respect to Amherst College " (1823) ; and two sermons.

MOORHEAD, James Kennedy, congressman, 1). in Halifax, Dauphin co., Pa., 7 Sept., 1806 ; d. in Pittsburg, Pa., 6 March, 1884. He received a limited education, spending his youth on a farm, and was apprenticed to a tanner. He was a con- tractor for building the Susquehanna branch of the Pennsylvania canal, became superintendent of the Juniata division, and was the first to place a passenger packet on this line. In 1836 he removed to Pittsburg and established there the Union cot- ton-factory. In 1838 he was appointed adjutant- general of the state, and in 1840 he became post- master of Pittsburg. He was elected to congress as a Republican, holding his seat from 5 Dec, 1859, till 3 March, 1869, and serving on the com- mittees on commerce, national armories, manufac- tures, naval affairs, and ways and means. In 1868 he was a delegate to the National Republican con- vention at Chicago. He was identified with the principal eduoational and charitable institutions of Pittsburg, was president of its chamber of com- meree, of the Monongahela navigation company, and several telegraph companies, and was a dele- gate to the Pan-Presbyterian council in Belfast, Ireland, in 1884.

MOQUIHUIX (mo-kee-wiss'), king of Tlalte- lolco, b. about 1420 ; d. in Mexico in 1470. Tlalte- lolco was a small city in the suburbs of Mexico, and was governed for 110 years by a branch of the imperial family of the Aztecs. Under the reign of Montezuma I., Moquihuix served with distinction, and greatly contributed to the victories and con- quests of the Aztec emperor, who rewarded him with the hand of his cousin, the sister of Axaya-* catl. After the death of jVIontezuma and the ac- cession of Axayaeatl, Moquihuix organized a league between the dissatisfied Mexican caciques, but, on the eve of receiving strong re-enforcements and declaring open rebellion, his wife gave informa- tion of his plans to her brother. The latter imme- diately collected all his forces, and marching against Moquihuix defeated him and besieged Tlaltelolco, which, after several weeks, was taken by storm. Moquihuix was sacrificed upon the altar of the god Mexitli by Axayaeatl, who opened his victim's breast and offered his heart to the di- vinity. After defeating also the partisans of Mo- quihuix, the eraperor annexed their territory, and Tlaltelolco never regained its independence.

MORA, Diego de (mo'-rah), Spanish soldier, b., according to some historians, in Pamplona in 1494, according to others, in Ciudad Real in 1501 ; d. in Peru about 1555. He came to Peru with Almagro in 1532, and, quickly learning the Quichua language, was ordered to assist in interrogating the Inca Atahualpa at his trial by special desire of that monarch, who distrusted the official interpreter, Felipillo {q. v.). Before the execution of Atahualpa, Mora, who was an expert at drawing, by order of Pizarro, drew a portrait of that prince, which, according to Velaseo, was preserved for more than two centuries in Cajamarca, and was copied by Andre Thevet for his " Les grands hommes de I'histoire." This is not the portrait that appears with the article " Atahualpa " in this work. The latter is taken from a copy of the " Imperial genealogical tree," formerly in the ca- thedral of Cuzes. Mora marched with Almagro against Alvarado and received command of the latter's vessels after the agreement by which Al- varado relinquished his claims. He was one of the founders of the city of Trujillo and was ap- pointed its first governor, which place he kept dur- ing the different political changes in Peru till Gonzalo Pizarro ordered him to Lima. He es- caped with his family to Panama, joined De la Gasca {q. v.), and served under his orders till the battle of Sacsahuana. In 1553 he was invited to join the revolution of that year ; but he remained loyal, and, when the army marched south, he was appointed chief justice of Lima, according to Her- rera. Garcilaso de la Vega says he returned to his government of Trujillo and soon died.

MORA, Francis, R. C. bishop, b. near Vich, Spain, 25 Nov., 1827. He received his secular and theological education in his native city. In 1854 he volunteered for the California mission under Bishop Amat, by whom he was ordained at Santa Barbara. 19 March, 1856. He displayed great zeal and activity in his clerical work, and, after per- forming the duties of rector in several churches in the diocese of Monterey, he was appointed to the pro-cathedral of Los Angeles, 1 Feb., 1863. In 1865 he was appointed vicar-general of the diocese, and on 3 Aug., 1873, he was consecrated bishop of Mossinopolis i?i pa7-tibus eind coadjutor of Bishop Amat with the right of succession. On the death of that prelate, 12 May, 1878, he succeeded to the see of Monterey and Los Angeles. He was present at the 3d plenary council of Baltimore in Novem- ber, 1884. Bishop Mora did much to infuse new energy into the Roman Catholic church in Lower California. He resigned in February, 1896.

MORA, Jose Joaquin, Spanish author, b. in Cadiz, Spain, in 1784; d. in Spain after 1848. He was the son of a magistrate of Cadiz, educated at the University of Grenada, and became professor in the College of San Miguel. After the French invasion he joined the army and was captured by the enemy, who sent him to Autun, where he married a French lady. On his return to Madrid in 1814 he established" himself as a lawyer, and became the editor of various literary reviews. In 1820 he translated Jeremy Bentham's address to the cortes into Spanish, and in that year was charged by Ferdinand VII. with a mission to Rome. On the restoration of the absolutist government in 1823 he went to England, where he was book-agent for various South American states and a contributor to periodicals. His efforts in supplying the South Americans with Spanish works procured for him in 1827 the editorship of the ofliicial journal of Buenos Ayres, entitled " Cronica Politica." Afterward he exerted considerable influence in Chili as director of the lyceum, as a journalist, and as under-secretary of state, in which capacity he drew up the constitution of Chili. He was also instrumental in the promulgation of the Chilian free-trade tariff of 1830. He lectured on philosophy and other subjects in Peru, and was private secretary to Gen. Santa Cruz in Bolivia from 1834 till 1838, when he returned to London as consul-