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for girls, and in 1881 he organized the Mt. Hermon school for boys. In 1897, on his sixtietli birth- day, his friends presented him with $^30,000, with wliich he erected a chai>el for the Mt. Hermon school. He was marrie<l, in July, 1862, to Emma, daughter of F. H. Revell, of Chicago, 111. His son William Revell Moody, editor of the Record of Christian Work, succeeded him as head of the Northfield schools, and wrote a life of his father, published in 1900. by F. H. Revell Co., N.Y. Mr. Moody's published works include : Best TJioughts <ind Discourses (1876); Glad Tidings (1876); The Second Coming of Christ (1877); The Waij and the Word (1877); Great Joy (1877); Arrows and An- ecdotes (1877); Secret Power (1881);* TAe Way to Ood and How to Find It (1884); Heaven; Weighed and Wanting ; Men of the Bible ; TJie Overcoming Life ; Tlioughts for the Quiet Hour ; Pleasure and Profit of Bible Study ; Sowing and Reaping ; Sovereign Grace ; Prevailing Prayer ; and collections of stories, anecdotes, and sermons. He died at East Northfield, Mass., Dec. 22, 1899.

MOODY, Gideon Curtis, senator, was born in Cortland, N.Y., Oct. 16, 1832 ; son of Stephen and ■Cliarlotte (Curtis) Moody, and grandson of Oideon Curtis. He attended the public schools and academy at Cortland, and studied law at Syracuse, N.Y. He removed to Indiana in 1852, and was admitted to the bar in 1853. He was ap- pointed prosecuting attorney for Floyd county, Ind., in lH.j4, and was a representative in the state legislature, 1860-61, from Jasper county. He enlisted in the volunteer army as captain in the 9th Indiana infantry in April, 1861, was pro- jnoted lieutenant-colonel and colonel, and subse- ■quently commissioned captain in the 19th U.S. in- fantry. He resigned his commission in 1864, and removed to Dakota in May, 1864. He was a rep- resentative in the territorial legislature, 1867-69 and 1874 ; was speaker of the house, 1868-69 and in 1874, and was associate justice of the supreme X5ourt of Dakota Territory, 1878-83. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1868, 1888 and 1892 ; was a member of the South Dakota constitutional conventions of 1883 And 1885; was chairman of the judiciary com- mittee in both conventions, and was chairman of the committee that drafted and presented a me- morial to congress, asking for the admission of South Dakota as a state, which was consummated, Nov. 3, 1889. On Oct. 16, 1889, he was elected U.S. senator for the short term expiring March 3. 1891. He was appointed in 1891 a member of the commission to revise and codify the statutes of South Dakota.

MOODY, William Henry, representative, was born in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 23, 1853; son of He'-ry Lord and Melisha Augusta (Emerson) j\luo(ly. grandson of William Moody, and a de-

scendant of William Moody, born in York, Eng- land, who came to Newbury. Essex county, Mass. in 1634. He removed with his parents to Dan- vers, Mass., and was graduated from Phillips Andover academy in 1872, and from Harvard college in 1876. He studied law in the oflice of Richard H. Dana of Boston, was admitted to the bar in 1878, and practised in Haverhill, Mass. He was city solicitor, 1888-90, district attorney for the eastern district of Massachusetts, 1890-95 ; chairman of the committee on re.solutions in the Republican state convention, 1896 ; chairman of the Republican state convention of 1898 ; a Re- publican representative from the sixth district of Massachusetts in the 54th congress, 1895-97, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Gen. William Cogsw-ell, May 22, 1895, and in the 55th, 56th and 57th congresses, 1897-1903. In 1901, after the adjournment of the 56th congress, he visited Cuba to study the conditions as existing there,

MOODY, William Vaughn, author and teacher, was born in Spencer, Ind., July 8, 1869 ; son of Francis Burdette and Henrietta Emily (Stoy) Moody. His father was engaged in the river steamboat transportation between Pittsburg and New Orleans, as was his grandfather, who was also a builder of steamboats. His great-grand- father, a pioneer settler of Indiana, built the first brick house in the state. William attended the public schools of New Albany, Ind., and in 1886, on the death of his parents he taught school in southern Ohio, meanwhile contiiminghis own studies. He later taught in New York state, and in 1889 entered Harvard, where he was graduated, class poet, in 1893. He took a post-graduate course, 1893-94; received the degree of A.M., 1894 ; was assistant instructor in English at Harvard and Radcliffe colleges, 1894-95, and was appointed instructor in English at the University of Chicago in 1895. He traveled extensively in Europe, and studied chiefly in England and Italy. He edited Complete Poetical Works of Milton, xvith a new translation of the Latin Poems (1899), and various other English classics. He is the author of : The Masque of Judgment, a Lyrical Drama (1900); Poems (1902); and contributions to magazines.

MOODY, Zenas Ferry, governor of Oregon, was born in Granby, Mass.. May 27, 1832 ; son of Maj. Thomas C. and Hannah M. (Ferry) Moody, and grandson of Gideon Moody, a Revolutionary soldier. He removed to Oregon in 1851, as a member of the first U.S. surveying party which established the initial point of the Willamette meridian. In 1853 he settled in Brownsville, Ore., and was married to Mary Stephenson. He was inspector of U.S. survey in California in 1856, and subsequently resided in Illinois, but returned