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 422 MOODY. MOODY. position he still holds. He is a member of the New England Historic Genealogi- cal Society ; is one of the trustees of the Cambridgeport Savings Bank, and also one of the directors of the Longfellow Memorial Association. Mr. Montague was selected by Frederick H. Rindge, as one of a committee of five citizens of Cambridge to assist in carrying into effect his munificent gifts to that city. SAMUEL L MONTAGUE He is extensively interested in the man- ufacture of wood-pulp, is one of the direct- ors, also treasurer and manager of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company of West Great Works, one of the largest manufactories of the kind in this country; also of the Piscataquis Falls Pulp & Paper Company, of Montague, Maine. Mr. Montague married, December 23, 1852, Annie Maria Burchsted, of Boston. She died September 12, 1854. He married again, May 4, 1856, Mary Elizabeth Burch- sted. He has three children : Annie Sybil, Charles Hibbard, and Mary Noyes Mon- tague. MOODY, DWIGHT LYMAN, son of Ed- win and Betsey (Holton) Moody, was born in Northfield, Franklin county, Feb- ruary 5, 1837. He is of old Puritan stock, his ancestors being numbered among the earliest settlers of the State. He was brought up a Unitarian, and had never been under evangelical in- fluences until he was seventeen years of age. His father was a farmer in rather straitened circumstances. He died sud- denly when the son was only four years old. The young lad was able to obtain only a limited education. As a boy he was healthy, boisterous and self-willed — a leader among his playmates, but by no means a promising scholar, his head being filled with play and mischief. When seventeen years of age he went to Boston, to be trained for business in the establishment of his uncle; and going one day to the church of the late Dr. Kirk, for the first time to an evangelical sermon, it had the effect of making him uncomfort- able, and he resolved not to go again. Something induced him, however, and the previous impressions were deepened. When eighteen years of age he was a clerk in a shoe store in Boston, and a member of the Mount Vernon church Sunday-school, in a class taught by Ed- ward Kimball. The influence of his teacher, and the interest enhanced by con- versation with him, determined him in mak- ing a public profession of faith, with which view he applied for admission to the church, May 16, 1855. In September, 1856, he accepted a situation in a shoe store in Chicago, and on his first Sunday there he sought out a mission school, and offered his services as a teacher. He was informed that the school had a full supply of teachers, but if he would gather a class he might occupy a seat in the school-room. The next Sabbath he appeared with eigh- teen boys, and a place was assigned him for his raw recruits. On that day he un- folded his theory of how to reach the masses — " Go for them." Soon after this he rented a saloon that held two hundred persons, in order to hold prayer-meetings and Sabbath-school services. It was in such a rough neighborhood, that during service it was necessary to have policemen guard the door and building. But he toiled on until the winter of 1S57— '5S, when a powerful revival led to the forma- tion of the Y. M. C. A. of Chicago, and the establishment of a daily union prayer- meeting, in which work Mr. Moody was the principal motor. He soon after this felt called to give up his situation in Chicago, and go out into the southern part of the state to aid the work of Christian enter- prise. In 1863 his work had assumed such magnitude that a large and commo- dious tabernacle was erected in Chicago,