Page:Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1900, volume 4).djvu/498

458 MULLER, Albert A., poet, b. in Charleston, S. C., about 1800. He was educated in his native city, entered the ministry, and after 1825 went to the southwest, where all traces of him have been lost. One of his poems was largely copied in the newspapers and appeared as the first piece in the early American editions of Moore's &ldquo;Sacred Melodies.&rdquo; He published a volume of poems, which attracted much attention (Charleston, 1825).

MÜLLER, Nikolaus, German poet, b. in Langenau, near Ulm, Germany, in 1809; d. in New York city, 14 Aug., 1875. In 1823 he was apprenticed to a printer, and after learning this trade thoroughly settled in Stuttgart. Many of his poems appeared in 1834-'7, entitled &ldquo;Lieder eines Autodidakten,&rdquo; and a collection was published in 1837. He took part in the revolutionary movements of 1848, was forced to flee to Switzerland, and in 1853 came to New York, where he bought a printing-office. In the period of the civil war he published &ldquo;Zehn gepanzerte Sonette&rdquo; (New York, 1862), and a volume of poems entitled &ldquo;Neuere Gedichte&rdquo; (1867). During the Franco-German war he published a collection of patriotic poems, &ldquo;Frische Blätter auf die Wunden deutscher Krieger.&rdquo; In 1874 he retired from the printing business. At the time of his death he was preparing a complete edition of his poems. See &ldquo;Aus der transatlantischen Gesellschaft,&rdquo; by Karl Knortz (Leipsic, 1882).

MULLETT, James, jurist, b. in Whittingham, Vt., 17 Oct., 1784; d. 10 Sept., 1858. His father, a tailor, removed to Darien, N. Y., about 1800, apprenticed his son to a joiner and millwright, and assisted in constructing a saw-mill on. original mechanical principles. In 1810 the son became a clerk in Fredonia, N. Y., and during his service tried a suit for his employers, having studied law during his leisure. He was admitted to the bar in 1814, and in 1823 was elected to the legisla- ture, serving two terms. In 1841 he removed to Buffalo, N. Y. In 1846 he was made attorney for Buffalo, and in 1847 he became justice of the supreme court of New York.

MULLHtAN, James Adelbert, soldier, b. in Utiea, N. Y., 25 June, 1830 ; d. in Winchester, Va., 26 July, 1864. His parents were Irish, and removed to Chicago in 1836. He was the first graduate, in 1850, of the University of St. Mary's of the Lake, and in that year began to study law. He accom- panied John Lloyd Stephens on his expedition to Panama in 1851, and, returning to Chicago in the following year, resumed the study of law, and edited a weekly Roman Catholic paper entitled the " Western Tablet." He was soon admitted to the bar, and, after practising in Chicago, became, in 1857, a clerk in the department of the interior in Washington. At the opening of the civil war he raised the so-called Irish brigade, which consisted of but one regiment, the 23d Illinois, of which he was made colonel. He conducted the defence of Lexington, Mo., from July till September, 1861, holding the town for nine days against an over- whelming force under Gen. Sterling Price, was captured on 20 Sept., exchanged on 25 Nov.. 1861, and returned to Chicago as the hero of Lexington. He reorganized his regiment, and after a short lecturing tour in the eastern states took command of Camp Douglas and participated in several en- gagements in Virginia. Col. Mulligan was ofliered the commission of brigadier-general, which he de- clined, preferring to remain with his regiment. He was fatally wounded during a charge on the Confederate lines at the battle of Winchester. His men attempted to carry him from the field, but, seeing that the colors of the brigade were en- dangered, he exclaimed, " Lay me down, and save the flag ! " repeating the order when they hesitated. They obeyed, but before their return he was borne away bv the enemv. and died in their hands.

MULLOCK, John Thomas, R. C bishop, b. in Ireland in 1806 ; d. in St. John's, N. F., 29 March, 1869. He was nominated bishop of Thaumacus, and coadjutor to the bishop of St. John's, N. F., in 1847, and succeeded him as bishop in 1850. He edited and translated Alfonso Maria Liguori's •' History of Heresies and their Refutation " (2 vols.. Dublin, 1847).

MULOCH, William, Canadian member of par- liament, b. in Bond Head, Simcoe co.. Out, 19 Jan., 1843. He was educated at the University of To- ronto, where he was gold medallist in modern lan- guages, and was graduated in 1863. He studied, law, was admitted to the bar of Ontario in 1868, and was for four years an examiner in the Law so- ciety at Toronto, and one of its lecturers on equity. In 1873 he was elected a member of the senate of Toronto universitv, retaining a seat on that board till 1878, and in 1881, 1882, and 1884 he waschosea vice-chancellor of the university. He was elected to the Dominion parliament for North York as a. Liberal in 1882, and was re-elected in 1887. Mr. Muloch is president of the Farmers' loan and trust company and director of various other financial institutions. In 1896 he was postmaster-general.

MULVANY, Charles Pelham, Canadian clergyman, b. in Dublin, Ireland, 20 May, 1835 : d. in Toronto, Canada, 31 May, 1885. He was graduated at Trinity college, Dublin, and served seA'eral years in the English navy as surgeon. He then was made deacon in the Church of England in 1868, and ordained priest by the bishop of Ontario in 1872. For some time he was assistant professor of classics- in Lenoxville, where he conducted the " Students' Monthly." Subsequently he was curate in various parishes. The latter years of his life were given to literature. He contributed prose and verse to magazines and was the author of " Lyrics of History and Life " (1880) ; " History of the County of Brant, Ontario " (Brantford, 1883) ; " Toronto — Past and Present." a hand-book of the city (Toronto, 1884) ; and •' The History of the Northwest Rebellion, of 1885" (1885). At the time of his death he was preparing a " History of Liberalism in Canada."

MUNDE, Paul Fortunatus, physician, b. in Dresden, Saxony, 7 Sept., 1846. He was brought by his parents to this country in 1849, and graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1866, after serving as acting medical cadet in the U. S. army in 1864. He then entered the Bavarian army as a volunteer assistant surgeon, and served through the war of 1866, after which he was an assistant in hospitals in Würzburg. He was a battalion surgeon of Bavarian troops in the Franco-German war, took the degree of master in obstetrics at Vienna university in December, 1871, and in October 1872 returned to New York, where he has since practised, making a specialty of gynecology. For several years after 1880 he was professor of that branch at Dartmouth, and he now (1888) holds the same chair in the New York Polyclinic. Dr. Munde has been connected with various hospitals, and is a member of many medical societies in this country and Europe. He has invented numerous instruments connected with the practice of his specialty. Since 1873 he has edited the ''American Journal of Obstetrics," and besides more than fifty contributions to current medical literature, in English and German, he has published " Obstetric Palpation " (New York. 1880), and "Minor Surgical Gynecology" (1880 ; 2d ed., revised and enlarged, 1885).