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to Tlie Dalles, Ore., in 1862. He established him- self at Umatilla, and in 1866 he built the steamer Mary Moody, &nd afterward aided in organizing the Montana Transportation company. He en- gaged in mercantile pursuits at Boise City, 1867-69; re- turned to The Dalles, and Ihad charge of the Wells- Fargo fCo/s business. He was state senator in 1872 ; a represent- ative in the state legislature and speaker in 1880, and was elected Republican governor of the state in 1882, defeatingJaseph H. Smith, the Democratic can- didate. He served as governor, 1882-87, but dur- ing his administration failed to correct the 8\vami>-land policy by which it was claimed by the Democratic party the state lost a consider- able sum, and he was defeated for re-election in 1886 by Sylvester Pennoyer, Democrat.

MOON, John Austin, representative, was born in Albemarle county, Va., April 22, 1855 ; son of William F. and Marietta (Appling) Moon, grand- son of John D. and Mary (Barclay) Moon, and of Austin M. and Jeimett (Johnson) Appling. He removed with his parents to Bristol, Va., in 1857, and to Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1870. He attended King college, Tenn.; was admitted to the bar in Alabama, and was city attorney of Chatta- nooga, 1881-82 ; a member of the state Demo- cratic executive committee, 1888 ; special circuit judge of the fourth judicial circuit, 1889-1901 ; judge of that circuit, 1891-92, by appointment of V.xo governor, and was elected circuit judge, serv- in;? 1892-94, when he was re-elected for a terra of ei^ht years. He was a Democratic representa- tive in the 5ftth, 56th, 57th and 58th congresses, 189T-IW5. and a delegate at large from Tennessee to the Democratic national convention of 1900.

MOONEY, Edward Ludlow, artist, was born in New York city, March 25, 1813. He attended the public schools of New York, and in 1831 he began his art studies in the night classes at the National Academy of Design. He engaged in business as a sign painter until 1837, when he studied painting under Henry Inman. He received the first gold medal ever awarded by the National Academy of Design. He studied portrait painting under William Page, and subsequently opened a studio in New York. He was elected an associate of the National Academy in 1839, and an academ- ician in 1840. His portraits include Commodore Perry, Governor Seward, Achmet Ben Aman, and a large number of southern public men. He died in New York city, in July, 1887.

MOONEY, James, ethnologist, was born in Uiclimond, Ind., Feb. 10. 1861 ; son of James and Eilen (Devlin) Mooney, of county Meath, Ireland, who removed to the United States in 1853. After

attending the schools of Richmond he worked at the printer's trade for six years. He began the study of Indian ethnology in 1873, with the col- lection of material for an atlas and geographic dictionary of the native tribes of both Americas. He interested himself in Gaelic studies, and was- an organizer and local officer of the Land League movement, 1880-81. In 1885 he removed to Wash- ington, where his work received recognition from the Bureau of Ethnology, which published his list of tribes as the basis of the " Cyclopedia of In- dian Tribes." Soon after he began researches among the Cherokees, and finally succeeded in discovering and securing the whole secret ritual of their priesthood, of which specimen formulas were published in the 7th annual re- port of the bureau in 1891. The entire number constitute the largest body of native aboriginal literature in existence. Later he turned his at- tention to the South Atlantic tribes. In 1890 he was commissioned to study the ghost dance among the plains tribes, believed to be contem- plating a general uprising. In the next year he began extensive collections and industrial studies for the World's Fair, among the western tribes from Dakota to Arizona, following this with work for subsequent minor expositions. Having' be- come interested in the Kiowas as a typical plains people he gave several years to that tribe with the purpose of embodying the results in a mono- graphic series for the bureau of Ethnology. He is. the author of : Indian Tribal Names and Sy7io- nyma North of Mexico (1885) ; Medical Mythology of Ireland (1887) ; Funeral Customs of Ireland (1888) ; Holiday Customs of Ireland (1889) ; Che- rokee Ball Play (1890) ; Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees (1891) ; Siouan Tribes of the East (1894) ; Tlie Messiah Religion and the Ghost Dance (1896) ; Hie Calendar History of the Kiovxi In- dians (1898) ; Myths of the Cherokee (1901) ; and numerous sliorter papers.

MOONEY, Joseph Francis, clergyman, waa born at Mast Hope, Pike county, Pa., July 8, 1848 ; son of Patrick and Mary (Winter) Mooney ; and grandson of Richard and Margaret (Clarke) Mooney, and of John and Margaret (Kirby) Winter. His parents emigrated from Ireland in 1842. He received his primary education in public and private schools in Kingston, N.Y.; attended St. Vincent's college, Latrobe, Pa., and was graduated at St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y., A.B., 1867, A.M., 1868. He was ordained priest in St. Joseph's seminary, Troy, N.Y., in 1871 ; was professor of philosophy in St. Joseph's seminary, 1871-79 ; pastor of St. Patrick's church, Newburg, N.Y., 1879-90, and in 2890 was made pastor of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, New York city. He was made vicar- general of the archdiocese of New York ia