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rodsburg, Va., 1859-65, and on its removal to Lexington, Ky., he relinquished the office and was made president of and professor of sacred litera- ture in the College of the Bible. He is the autlior of: ABnef Treatise on Prayer (1863); Reason and Revelation (1867); Scheme of Redemption <1888); The Great Commission (1871); Analysis of the New Testament (1874); Commentary on Vie Epistles to the Hebretos (1875). He died in Lex i Hilton. Ky.. March 20. 1875.

MILLIKEN, Seth Llewellyn, representative, Wiw b)rn iu Montville, Waldo county. Me., Dec. 12, 18J31: son of William Milliken and grandson of Jolm Milliken, a soldier in the Revolution. He attended Water ville college, and was graduated at Union college, A.B., 1856, A.M., 1859. He paid his own tuition through college, and was ad- mitted to the bar, but never engaged in active practice. He represented Camden in the Maine legislature in 1858, and served as clerk of the court for Waldocounty. 1859-71. He was married in 1859 to Lizzie S., daughter of Ambrose and Justina ArnoM of Augusta, Maine. He removed to Bedford, Maine; was clerk of the Maine supreme judicial court for three terms; a dele- gate to the Republican national conventions of 1876 and 1884; a Republican presidential elector in 1877: an unsuccessful candidate for represen- tative from the fifth Maine district to the 47th con- gress in 1880; and was a representative from the third district of Maine in the 48th-54th con- gresses, 1883-97. He was chairman of the com- mittee on* public buildings and grounds, and secured from the 51st congress an appropriation of $9,000,000 for public buildings. He died in Washington, D.C., April 18, 1897.

MILLS, Albert Leopold, soldier, was born in New York city. May 7, 1854; son of Abiel Buck- man and Anne (Warford) Mills, and grandson of John and Hannah (Buckman) Mills and of Moses and Catharine (Jewell) Warford. His paternal ancestors were New England colonists and his maternal ancestors settled on Long Island. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy, June 12, 1879; was commis-sioned 2d lieutenant, Ist cavalry, June 13, 1879; served in the depart- ment of tactics at West Point, and with his regi- ment on the Indian frontier, 1879-87, and par- ticipated in the Crow Indian campaign of 1887. He was married Nov. 15, 1883, at Brooklyn, N.Y., to Alada Thurston, daughter of the Rt. Rev. John Adams Paddock, D.D. He was promoted 1st lieutenant, Jan. 23, 1889, and served in the Sioux campaign of 1890: and was appointed adjutant, Oct. 1, 1890. serving till Oct. 1, 1894. His regimental services were broken by a tour of duty as professor of military science and tac- tics at the South Carolina Military academy at Charleston and as instructor in the departments

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of strategy and cavalry at the U.S. infantry and cavalry officers' school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he was apix)inted captain and assistant adjutant- general of U.S. volunteers, May 12, 1898, and as adjutant-general he was assigned to the second brigade, cav- alry division, of the 5th army corps, June 10, 1898; served in the Santiago cam- paign, and partici- pated in the battles of Las Guasimas and Santiago de Cuba, where he was severe- ly wounded. He was appointed superin- tendent of the U.S. Military academy, with the rark of

colonel, Aug. 22, 1898, promoted captain of the 6th U. S. cavalry, Oct. 24, 1898; and was transferred to the 1st U.S. cavalry, Aug. 9, 1899. He was nominated by the President for brevet appoint- ments of major and lieutenant-colonel for gal- lantry in the battles of Las Guasimas and Santi- ago de Cuba.

MILLS, Clark, sculptor, was born in Onon- daga county, N.Y., Dec. 1, 1815. He was early left an orphan, and in 1828 he ran away from his uncle's home, went to New Orleans and was em- ployed by a millwright. From there he went to Charleston, S.C., and engaged with a plasterer, and while experimenting he discovered a method by which he could take a cast from the living face and reproduce it in a plaster bust at small expense of time and labor. He devoted himself to this as a means of support, and in 1845 repro- duced the plaster bust of Calhoun in marble by sculpture, which was purchased and placed in the city hall at Charleston in 1846, and he was awarded a gold medal by the city council. He educated himself as a sculptor, by making por- trait busts of the prominent men of South Caro- lina. He was about to sail for Europe to study in Italy in 1848, when he was invited to make a de- sign for an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson for the government. He completed a model in eight months and was obliged to learn the busi- ness of casting, there being no foundry or work- men in the United States capable of producing it in metal. The statue, cast from British guns taken in the w^ar of 1812, was accepted and un- veiled in Lafayette square, Washington, D.C., Jan. 8, 1853, the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans. This first effort to cast a large statue in metal in America was attended with much