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ter and Cedar Creek. He commanded Savannah, Ga., January to June, 1865, and the district of northern Georgia, with headquarters at Augusta, June, 180"), and at the latter place received the thanks of the inhabitants at the close of the war. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13. 1865, for gallant and meritorious serv- ices during the war. He was appointed brigadier- general of the 11th brigade, N.Y. state militia in 1880, and was promotetl major-general of the 2d division in 1SS5. After the close of the war he resumed his business as a manufacturer of paint in New York city.

MOLINEUX, Marie Ada, author, was born in Centreville, Alvarado county. Cal., granddaugh- ter of James McHard Kast Molineux of Boston and a descendant of Robert Molineux of Boston, born 1760. She removed to Boston and received lier early education atChauncy Hall school. She was graduated from Boston university, A.B., 1879, A.M., 1880, Ph.D., 1883, and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She de- voted herself to the study of bacteriology ; taught psychology ; was secretary of the Boston Browning society, and gained recognition as a lecturer on literary, artistic and scientific topics, being perhaps best known as a leader in the study of Browning. She is the author of : A Phrase Book from the Poetic and Dramatic Works cf Robert Browning (1896), and contributions to various periodicals.

MOM BERT, Jacob Isidor, church historian, was born in C.issel, Germany, Nov. 26, 1829. He received his early education in his native place, and engaged in business in England. He studied at the universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1853- 66, was ordered deacon in the Established Church, London, England, in 1856, and was sent to Can- ada, where he was ordained priest in 1857. He was curate of Trinity church, Quebec, 1857-59, and rector of St. James, Lancaster, Pa., 1859-70 ; of St. John's, Dresden, Germany, 1870-76 ; of Christ church. Jersey City, N.J., 1877-79; of St. John's, Passaic, N.J., 1879-82, and after 1882 devoted himself to literary work. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Penn- sylvania in 1866. He was married, July 5, 1860, to Emma Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. F. A. Muhl- enberg of Lancaster. Pa. He translated Tholuck's PiKi/;H« (1856), and Lauge's Commentary on the Catholic Epistles (1867); edited with prolegomena Tyndale's Fire Books of Moses from the edition of 1530 in the Lenox library, New York city, to- gether with the Pentateuch in the Vulgate, Luther's and Matthew's Bible (1884). He is the author of : Authentic History of Lancaster County, Pa. (1868); Faith Victorious, or life of the Rev. Johann Ebel, Archdeacon of Konigsberg, Prus- sia (1882); Handbook of the English Versions of

the Bible, with comparative tables (1883); Great Lives, a Course of History in Biography (1886) ; History of Charles the Great (1888); Short His- tory of the Crusades (1894) ; and Raphael's Sistine Madonna.

MONAQHAN, James Charles, educator, was born in Boston, Mass., Oct. 11, 1857; son of James and Mary Ann O'Neill (Brown) Monaghan. He was obliged to work for a living at an early age and obtained employment in a cotton mill at Salem, Mass., and later at Providence, R.I. He attended evening schools and in 1873 entered Mowry's academy. He was graduated from Brown university in 1885. He was a member of the city council and school board of Providence ; canvassed the country for Grover Cleveland in 1884, and was U.S. consul at Mannheim, Germany, 1886-89. He was a student at Heidelberg, 1889- 90, and studied law and engaged in newspaj)er work in the United States, 1890-93. He was prominent in the canvass for Cleveland in 1892, and was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, 1893-99. He was elected professor of commerce at the University of Wisconsin in 1899. He was a delegate to the World's commercial congress of 1899, and delivered an address before the convocation of the regents of the University of New York in 1900.

MONAQHAN, John James, R. C. bishop, was born in Sumter, S.C, May 23, 1856 ; son of Thomas and Margaret (Bogan) Monaghan, who came from Ireland in 1850. He attended St. Charles college, Md., 1872-76, and St. Mary's Theological seminary, Baltimore, Md., and was ordained priest at Charleston, S.C, Dec. 19, 1880. He was assistant priest at St. Joseph's, and later at St. Patrick's, Charleston ; was rector at Greenville, S.C, 1882- 87 ; pro-rector at the Cathedral, Charleston, and chancellor of tlie diocese, 1887-88. He was assist- ant to the vicar-general at St. Patrick's, Charles- ton, 1888-97, and was consecrated bishop of Wil- mington in the Pro-Cathedral at Wilmington, May 9, 1897, by Cardinal Gibbons, assisted by Bishops Curtis and Northrop.

MONDELL, Frank Wheeler, representative, was horn in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 6, 1860; son of Ephraim and Nancy (Goold)Mondell. His parents died before he reached the age of six, and he was taken into the family of a Congregational min- ister who moved to Iowa, where he lived on a farm until he was eighteen years old, and at- tended the district school in winter, also receiv- ing some instruction at home. He engaged in mercantile business, in mining, and in railway construction in various states and territories until 1887, when he settled at New Castle, Wyoming Territory, and engaged in the develop- ment of coal mines and oil wells in and about Newcastle and Cambria, and was influential in