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 MONEY

MONFORT

establishing and building up the city of New Castle of which he was mayor, 1888-95. He was a member of the state senate, 1890-94, and presi- dent of that body, 1892-94. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1892 and 1900 ; was the representative at large from Wyo- ming in the 54th congress, 1895-97 ; was assistant commissioner of the General Land Office, 1897- 99, and tlie representative at large from tbe state in the 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 1899-1905.

MONEY, Hernando de Soto, senator, was born in Holmes county. Miss. , Aug. 26, 1839 ; son of Peirson and Trj-^phena (Vardaman) Money, and grandson of James and Mary (Pendry) Money, and of Jeremiah and Sarah (Smith) Vardaman. IJis paternal ancestors were English, originally Norman, the old spelling of the name being De Morney ; and his first ancestor in America landed in New York. He was graduated at the Univer- sity of Mississippi, LL.B., 1860, and served in the Confederate army up to Sept. 26, 1864, when he was forced to resign on account of defective eye- sight. He was married Nov. 5, 1863, to Claudia, daughter of George Boddie of Hinds county. Miss. He settled in law practice in CaroUton, and also engaged in planting. He was a representative from the fourth Mississippi district in the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th and 48th congresses, 1875-85, and in the 53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97. He was elected to the U.S. senate, January, 1896, for the term beginning March 4, 1899. On Oct. 8, 1897, he was appointed U.S. senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator James Z. George, Aug. 14, 1897, and in January, 1898, he was elected for the remainder of the term expiring March 4, 1899. when his own term began.

MONFORT, Francis Cassatt, clergyman and author, was born in Greensbui'g, Decatur county, Ind., Sept. 1, 1844; son of the Rev. Joseph Glass (q.v.) and Hannah (Riggs) Mon- fort, and grandson of the Rev. Elias Riggs. He was graduated at Wabash college, Ind., A.B., 1834, A.M., 1867 ; attended McCormick Theolog- ical saminary in 1865 ; Lane Theological semi- nary in 1866 ; the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the University of Berlin, Ger- many, 1867-69 ; was ordained by the presby- tery of Cincinnati in 1870, and was pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian church, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1869-73. He was married. May 17, 1871, to Anna Louisa, daughter of William S. Hubbard of In- dianapolis, Ind. He became associated w^ith his father and his brother, E. R. Monfort, in editing the Herald and Presbyter at Cincinnati, in 1873, and was pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Cincinnati. Ohio, 1879-88. He was prominent in the councils of the Presbyterian church. He received the degree D.D. from Wooster univer- sity, Ohio, in 1883. He is the author of : Sermons VII.— 27

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for Silent Sabbaths (1884); Socialism and City Evangelization (1887); The Law of Appeals {\8%'6) and Ecclesiastical Discipline (1900).

MONFORT, Joseph Glass, clergyman, was born in Warren county, Ohio, Dec. 9, 1810 ; son of the Rev. Francis and Sophia (Gla.ss) Mon- fort ; grandson of Lawrence and Elizabeth (Cassatt) Monfort, and of Joseph and Elizabeth (Wilson) Glass, and a descendant of John Monfort, the emi- grant from Holland, 1630, and of Zebulon Riggs, who came from Ireland in 1627. He was graduated at Miami university, Ohio, A.B., 1834, A. M., 1837, and was prepared for the min- istry at the Theo- logical seminary,Ne w Albany, Ind., 1835- 36. He established in 1836, in connec- tion with Dr. W. L. Breckinridge, the Pres- byterian Herald at Louisville, Ky., and edited it, 1836-37. He was licensed by the presbytery of Oxford in September, 1837 ; succeeded his father as pastor at Hamilton, Ohio, 1837, and was pastor at Greensburg and Sandy Creek, Ind., 1838-42. He was married, Oct. 8, 1839, to Hannah, daugh- ter of the Rev. Elias Riggs, of New Providence, N.J. He was agent for the Theological seminaiy at New Albany, Ind. (which became McCormick Theological seminary, Chicago, 111.), 1842-44, and pastor at Greensburg, Ind., 1844-55. He became editor of the Presbyterian of the West in 1855 ; changed its name to The Presbyter in 1860, and in 1869 united it with the Christian Herald at Cincinnati under the name Presbyter and Herald, and continued to edit it alone until 1873, when he was joined by his sons, E. R. and Francis C. Monfort (q.v.). He was president of Glendale Female college, Ohio, 1856-65 ; a member of the joint committee on the reunion of the Presbyte- rian churches in 1866, and author of the Newark, Ohio, memorial, signed by seventy clergymen and forty ruling elders favoring reunion. He was a trustee of Hanover college, 1847-84 ; of Lane Theological seminary, 1870-94, and a director of the Theological Seminary of the Northwest. He was also treasurer of Lane Theological seminary, 1871-83, and a member of the church extension committee and of the boards of domestic and foreign missions. He received the honorary de- gree of D.D. from Centre college, Ky., in 1853, and that of LL.D. from Hanover college, Ind., in 1884.