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MOORHEAD Dartmouth college, A.B., 1793, A.M., 1796. He was ill charge of an academy at Londonderry, N.H., 1793-94, removed to Somers, Conn., and studied theology under the Rev. Dr. Backus, He was licensed to preach by the association of county, on Feb. 3. 1791. He was pastor

at Leicester, Mass., 1796-1807. Shortly after his removal to Leicester, he was married to a daughter of Thomas Drury of Ward, Mass. He was a trustee and principal of Leicester academy, 1807-11; professor of Latin and Greek at Dartmouth college, 1811-15; president and professor of theology at Williams college, 1815-21, and on May 8, 1821, he was made a trustee and elected the first president of Amherst college, then in process of organization, and on Sept. 18, 1821, he was made pastor of the parish church. The college was opened on Sept. 19, 1821, and Dr. Moore began the matriculation of students. In addition to his duties as president, he was professor of divinity, taught Oriental languages, and was the sole teacher of the senior class. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth college in 1816. He bequeathed several scholarships to Amherst, three of which were worth about $140 a year. He died at Amherst, Mass.. June 29, 1823.

MOORHEAD, James Kennedy, representative, was born in Halifax, Dauphin county. Pa., Sept. 7. 1800; son of William and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Young Moorhead. William Moorhead, a native of Ireland, immigrated to the United States in 1798, and settled in Lancaster county. Pa., and afterward in Dauphin county, and was appointed by President Madison collector of internal revenue for the tenth district of Pennsylvania, in 1814. James attended the district school, and in 1817, on the deatli of his father, became manager of the farm, and of Moorhead's ferry, established by his father. He was apprenticed to William Linville of Lancaster county in 1822, to learn the tanning business; served as a journeyman tanner, and in 1827 engaged as a contractor on the Pennsylvania canal. He was superintendent of the Juniata division, 1828-38 : was the first to place a passenger packet on this line, and in 1836 removed to Pittsburg to take charge of the pioneer jacket line. He served as adjutant-genneral of the state of Pennsylvania in 1839. He was married in 1830, to Jane Logan of Lancaster county. Pa. He was prominently connected with various manufacturing and transportation enterprises, and with the early development of telegraph and railroad lines in Western Pennsylvania. In 1856 he joined the Republican party, having theretofore been a Democrat, and he was a representative in the 36th, 37th, 38th, 39th and 40th congresses, 1859-69, and was chairman of the committee on manufactures. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1868, and to the Pan-Presbyterian council at Belfast, Ireland, in 1884. He took an interest in the charitable and educational affairs in Pittsburg, and was president of the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburg for several years. He died in Pittsburg, Pa., March 6, 1884.

MORA, Francis, R. C. bishop, was born at Vich, Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 27, 1827. He was educated for the priesthood at Vich, and accompanied Bishop Thadeus Amat to the United States as a missionary in 1854, just after the latter had been consecrated bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles. He was ordained priest March 19, 1856, at Santa Barbara, Cal., by Bishop Amat; served as missionary and as rector in the diocese, 1856-63 ; was appointed rector of the pro-Cathedral of Our Lady of AngeLs, Los Angeles, Feb. 1, 1863, and vicar-general of the diocese in 1865. He was appointed bishop of "Mosynopolis" in partibus and coadjutor to the bishop of Monterey and Los Angeles, and was consecrated in the pro-Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels, Aug. 3, 1873, by Bishop Amat, assisted by Bishop Alemany, of San Francisco, and Vicar Apostolic O'Connell, of Grass Valley. He succeeded to the diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles on the death of Bishop Amat, May 12, 1878. He was a member of the third plenary council of Baltimore in November, 1884. He resigned his bishopric Feb. 1, 1896, his resignation was accepted at Rome in May , and he was appointed titular bishop of Hieropolis, May 6, 1896. He sailed for Europe in Septem- ber, 1896, and spent the remainder of his life in Barcelona, Spain, where he was still living in 1902.

MORAIS, Sabato, clergyman, was born in Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy, April 18, 1823. of humble parents. He engaged in teaching, pur- suing his own studies at night. He studied Hebrew under Abraham Baruch Piperno, chief rabbi of Leghorn ; was master of Hebrew at the Orphans' school of the Portuguese Congregation in London, 1846-50. and in 1851 came to the United States as minister of the Congregation Mickve Israel, at Philadelphia, Pa., the oldest Jewish