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436 director of Calvary church in 1860, but resigned in 1887. In 1867 he became conductor of the Mendelssohn glee-club, which takes the highest rank among choral associations. He has composed numerous songs, choruses, and other musical works for the Episcopal church service.

MOSES, Thomas Freeman, physician, b. in Bath, Me., 8 June, 1836. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1857, and, after attending lectures in New York, London, Paris, and Philadelphia, took his degree at Jefferson medical college in 1861. During the civil war he was acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. army, in charge of government transports and hospitals, and after 1864 he settled in practice in Hamilton county, Ohio. He was elected professor of natural sciences in Urbana university, Ohio, in 1870, and in 1886 became acting president of that institution. Prof. Moses is a member of several scientific societies, and has edited the "Proceedings of the Central Ohio Scientific Association" (Urbana, 1878), to which he contributed papers. He has also published an annotated edition of Emile Saigey's "Unity of Natural Phenomena" (Boston, 1878).

MOSHER, Jacob Simmons, physician, b. in Coeyman's, Albany co., N. Y., 19 March, 1834; d. in Albany, N. Y., 13 Aug., 1883. He removed with his parents to New Brunswick, N. J., and in 1853 entered Rutgers college, but left it near the close of his junior year. Soon afterward he came to Albany and for a time was principal of a public school there. He was graduated at Albany medical college in 1863, appointed instructor in chemistry and experimental philosophy in Albany academy, and in 1865 made professor of chemistry in that institution, serving until 1870. In 1864 he was commissioned a volunteer surgeon, and subsequently he was appointed assistant medical director for the state of New York. In July, 1864, he had been appointed lecturer on chemistry in the Albany medical college, and in December following he was appointed professor of chemistry and medical jurisprudence, serving also as registrar and librarian of the college from 1865. In 1870 he resigned his professorship, having been appointed deputy health and executive officer of the port of New York, but he resigned in 1876 and returned to Albany and again entered on the practice of his profession. In January of that year he had been appointed professor of medical jurisprudence and hygiene in Albany medical college, and re-elected registrar, and in 1881 he was made professor of pathology, practice, clinical medicine, and hygiene, which post he held till his death. In 1878 he served as a member of the commission of experts, appointed by President Hayes, to study the origin and cause of the yellow-fever epidemic of that year, and the effectual work of this board, though their report was not published by the government, resulted in the creation of the National board of health. He was one of the founders, trustees, and professors of Albany college of pharmacy, which was established in 1881, and the president of its faculty. He was a member of many medical societies, a fellow of the New York academy of medicine, and president of the Albany county medical society in 1882. Rutgers gave him the degree of Ph. D. in 1878. He was a member of the Albany board of health, and its chairman at the time of his death.

MOSLER, Henry, artist, b. in New York city, 6 June, 1841. He went with his family to Cincinnati in 1851, and three years later to Nashville, Tenn. Here his talent for art was first shown by some engravings that he made on blocks of wood

with crude tools. After this his father gave him what assistance he could toward perfecting his drawing, and he obtained later his first knowledge of painting in oils from George Kerr, an amateur. In 1855 he returned with his family to Cincinnati, where for a year he was a draughtsman for the &ldquo;Omnibus,&rdquo; a comic weekly. He then went to Richmond, whence he returned in 1857. In 1859 he became a pupil of James H. Beard, in whose studio he painted until 1861. In 1862-'3 he followed the western army as art correspondent for &ldquo;Harper's Weekly.&rdquo; He was appointed on Gen. William Nelson's staff, and while the army was in camp painted portraits of that officer, Gen. Richard W. Johnson, Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, and others. He went to Europe in 1863, studying for two and a half years under Mücke and Kindler in Düsseldorf, and for six months under Ernest Hébert in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1866, remaining eight years, during which time he produced numerous pictures, notably his &ldquo;Lost Cause,&rdquo; which achieved for him a national reputation. On his return to Europe in 1874 he studied for three years under Piloty in Munich, where he won a medal at the Royal academy. In 1877 he removed to Paris, where he has since resided, with the exception of a brief visit to this country in 1885, when he exhibited a collection of his works in New York and Cincinnati. His &ldquo;Le retour,&rdquo; exhibited at the Paris salon of 1879, was bought by the French government for the Musée du Luxembourg, and in 1885 he was the recipient at the exhibition of the American art association of one of the four cash prizes for his &ldquo;Last Sacrament.&rdquo; He also won a medal at the international exhibition at Nice in 1884. His best-known works include &ldquo;Early Cares&rdquo; and &ldquo;Quadroon Girl&rdquo; (1878); &ldquo;The Return&rdquo; and &ldquo;Les femmes et les secrets&rdquo; (1879); &ldquo;Purchase of the Wedding Gown&rdquo; and &ldquo;Spinning Girl&rdquo; (1880); &ldquo;Night after the Battle&rdquo; and &ldquo;Return of the Fisherwomen&rdquo; (1881); &ldquo;Discussing the Marriage Contract&rdquo; (1882); &ldquo;Wedding Morning&rdquo; and &ldquo;Rainy Day&rdquo; (1883); &ldquo;Last Sacrament&rdquo; and &ldquo;Village Clockmaker&rdquo; (1884); &ldquo;Approaching Storm&rdquo; (1885); and &ldquo;Visit of the Marquise&rdquo; (1886-'7).

MOSQUERA, Ruy Garcia (moss-kay'-rah), Spanish adventurer, b. in Seville in 1501; d. in Asuncion, Paraguay, in 1555. Nothing is known of his life before 1526, when he served under Sebastien Cabot (q. v.) in the expedition that sailed from Cadiz in January, 1526, for the river Plate. In 1530, when Cabot determined to abandon his establishment and return to Europe, Mosquera urged the advisability of continuing the establishment in the hope of better times, and as a result Cabot left him behind with Nuño de Lara and 170 men. The Spaniards made a truce with the Indians, and promoted good relations. Mangóre (q. v.), cacique of the Timbu tribe, conceived a passion for Lucia, the wife of Sebastian Hurtado, one of the garrison, and during the absence of Lara and Mosquera captured and burned the fort and carried off Lucia. He met with the Spanish forces on their return, and Lara and the greater part of the Spaniards perished, only a few escaping with Mosquera in a small boat, in which they descended the river Plate to the ocean. They built a fortress near Cape Santa Maria, and, being threatened by the Portuguese, Mosquera attacked them and drove them beyond San Vicente, which he plundered. He established himself afterward in the island of Santa Catharine, but when Pedro de Mendoza (q. v.) arrived in 1535 and founded Buenos Ayres, Mosquera, with his colonists, sailed to join his countrymen and after the destruction of