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bishop of Kansas as sueoossor to the Rt. Rev. Elisha Smith Thomas, lus (j1<1 professor, deceased, in 1895, and he was consecrated at Grace cathedral, Topeka, by Bisliops \Vlnpi)le, Tuttle, Spalding, Atwill and Brooke, Sept. 19. 1895. He received the degree of D.D. fn^n Seabiiry in 1895.

MILiyiORE, Joseph, sculptor, was born in Sligo, Ireland, Oct. 2,*, 1842. His father, a teacher in •Sligo, Ireland, died in 1851, and his mother, a de- scendant of Gen. Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Xiucan, came to the United States with her family in 1851, and settled in Boston, Mass. Josepli was educated in tiie Quincy and Brimmer schools in Boston, and learned the trade of wood carver and cabinet-maker, which he abandoned for tliat of marble cutter. With his brother Martin he executed important monuments, includ- ing the *' Sphinx " in Mount Auburn cemetery ; the statuary forming the fa<;ade of the old Horti- cultural Hall, Tremont street, Boston, and the soldiers' and sailors' monument on Boston Com- mon. He married Mary L. Longfellow of Cam- bridge, Mass., for his second wife, Feb. 14, 1885. He <lied in Geneva. Switzerland, Jan. 10 1886.

MILMORE, Martin, sculptor, was "born in Sligo, Ireland, Sept. 14, 1844. He came to Amer- ica with his mother and elder brother, Joseph (q. v.), in 1851. He was a pupil in the Brim- mer school, Boston ; was graduated at the Boston Latin school in 1860, and during his school days was taught wood carving by his brother Joseph. He prepared for his life work in the studio of Tliomas Ball, 181)0-64, and then established a studio in Boston. He produced tlie " Philoso- pher " in 1863, which was purchased in Boston, .smd in the same year sent his statuette ** Devo- tion " to the Sanitary Fair. He received a com- inission to execute statues of "Ceres," "Flora,"

and " Pomo- na," for the Boston Horti- cultural Hall, from Turner Sargent, in 18- 64, and in 1867 an order for the soldiers' moimment at Forest Hills cemetery, Bos- t«m. He was later commis- sioned by the city of Boston, sculptor of the soldiers' and sailors' monument on Boston Com- mon, and while designing it resided in Rome, Italy. It was unveiled 1877, and is considered his greatest work. He also executed : " Amer- ica," at Fitchburg. Mass. ; soldiers' monument at Charlestown, Mass. ; statue of Gen. Sylvanus

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Thayer, at West Point, N.Y. ; " The Weeping Lion," at Colby university, Waterville, Me.; with his brother Joseph the " Sphinx," at Mount Auburn cemetery, Mass., and war nionu- ments at Keene, N.H., and Erie, Pa. Notable among his busts are : Henry W. Longfellow (1864); Charles Sumner (1865), in the Metropoli- tan Museum of Art, New York city ; Theodore Parker : George Ticknor (1868), in the Bn public library ; Charles O. Whitmore : Henry Wilson ; George T. Boutwell ; Cardinal McCIos- key ; Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Wendell Phillips (1869), a copy of which in bnmze was presented to the Boston Public Library by the Wendell Phillips Memorial association, through A. Shu- man, in March, 1900 ; Pope Pius IX.; General Grant ; Abraham Lincoln ; and Daniel Webster. He was engaged to be married to Mary L. Long- fellow of Cambridge, Mass., at the timeof his death. A memorial, " Death and the Sculptor," by Daniel C. French, was placed over his grave at Forest Hills cemetery. He died at Roxbury Highlands. Boston. Mass.. July 21. 1883.

MILNOR, James, representative and clergy- man, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 20, 1773 ; son of William and Ann (Brientnall) Mil- nor. His father engaged in trade and was inter- ested in a fishery with General Washington be- fore the Revolution, to which cause he rendered valuable assistance. James Milnor attended the Philadelphia grammar school, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1789. but was not graduated. He studied law with Mr. Howell, a Quaker lawyer of Philadelphia, 1789-93. and withMr. Rawle, 1793-94 ; was admitted to the bar in 1794, and in the same year became an attorney for the court of common pleas of Montgomery county. He practised at Norristown, Pa., 1794L- 97, and at Philadelphia, Pa., 1797-1813. He was president of the Philadelphia Law society in 1794 and 1797 ; was elected a member of the Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery in 1795, and served for several years as one of its counsellors. He was married, Feb. 28, 1799, to Eleanor, daughter of Henry Pawling of Nor- ristown, Pa. He was a member of the Phila- delphia common council, 1800 ; a member of the select council, 1805-10, and its president, 1808-09 ; and a Federalist representative in the 12th con- gress, 1811-13. He abandoned the law for theol- ogy, and on April 7, 1813. became a candidate for orders in the Pn»testant Episcopal church. He was a lay reader and catechist in St. John's church, Norristown. Pa., 1813-14 ; was ordered deacon. Aug. 14, 1814, and served as assistant at St. Peter's and the united churches in Phila- delphia, 1814-16. He was ordained priest by Bishop White. Aug. 27. 1815, and was rector of ^t. George's church, New York city, 1816-44. He