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MOSHER, Eliza Maria, educator, was born in Cayuga county, N.Y., Oct. 2, 1846; daughter of Augustus and Maria (Sutton) Mosher ; grand- daughter of Allen and Hannah (Eddy) Mosher and of Abram and Hester (Carpenter) Sutton, and a direct descendant of both Francis Cooke and Richard Warren who came over on the Mayfloioer^ and of Hugh Mosher who came a few years later. Slie was graduated from Friends academy, Union Springs, N. Y., in 1862, and from the de- partment of medicine and surgery. University of Michigan, in 1875. She studied in London and Paris, 1879-80, and practised as resident physi- cian at the Massachusetts Reformatory Prison for Women, 1877-79. She was suijerintendent of the reformatory, 1881-83 ; associate professor of phy- siology and resident physician of Vassar college, 188-1-86, and removed to Brooklyn, N.Y., where she engaged in practice, 1886-96. She was ap- IX)inted lecturer on physiology at the Chautauqua Sumtner School of Physical Education, 1888, and in 1896 was elected professor of hygiene in the de- partment of literature, science and the arts, and Ann Arbor.
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MOSHER, George Frank, educator, was born in South China, Maine, Feb. 12, 1844 ; son of William and Elizabeth (McLaughlin) Mosher, and grandson of William and Freelove (Morse) Mosher and of Abraham and Deborah (Ward) McLaugh- lin. He attended the New Hampton literary and classical institution. New Hampton, N.H., and was graduated from Bowdoin college, A.B., 1869, A.M., 1872. He was editor of the il/oj'jwjgr Star at Dover, N.H., 1869-81 ; was married, Sept. 25, 1871, to Marinda Frances Stewart. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1877-78 ; U.S. consul at Nice, France, and at Sonneberg, Germany, 1881-85, and was elected president of Hillsdiile college, Mich., in 1886. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Findlay college, Ohio, in 1888.

MOSHER, Jacob Simmons, physician, was born in Coeymans, Albany county, N.Y., March 19, 1834; son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Bou- cher) Mosher. His father was of English descent, and his mother, German. In 1853 his parents re- moved to New Brunswick, N. J., where he was a etudent at Rutgers college, 1853-56. He was prin- cipal of a public school in Albany, N.Y., 1856-60 ; graduated at the Albany Medical college in Dec- ember, 1863, and married Dec. 30, 1863, to Emma S., daughter of Jesse Montgomery of Albany, N.Y. In 1864 he entered the U.S. service as a volun- teer surgeon, serving in the Army of the Poto- mac and subsequently as assistant state medical director of New York, and was on duty, Washing-

ton, D.C., until tlie end of the war. He was sur- geon-general of the state of New York, 1869-73; professor of chemistry in the Albany academy, 1863-70 ; professor of chemistry and medical juris- prudence in the Albany Medical college, 1864-70, and registrar and librarian of the Albany Medical college, 1865-70. He was deputy health officer of the port of New York, 1870-76; spent a short time in British and European hospitals, 1876 ; was prof essor of medical jurisprudence and hygiene in the Albany Medical college, 1876-81 ; of pathology, practice, clinical medicine and hygiene, 1881-83, and registrar of the college, 1876-80. He was a member of the executive committee of the State Normal school, 1866-83 ; a member of the Albany board of public instruction, 1865-68 ; a delegate to the annual convention of the American Medical association in 1872, and a member of the commis- sion of experts appointed by President Hayes in 1878, to study the origin and caase of the yellow fever epidemic of that year, the report of the board resulting in the organization of the national board of health. He was chairman of the Albany board of health ; a founder, trustee, professor and president of the faculty of the Albany College of Pharmacy established in 1881 ; president of the Albany County Medical society in 1882 ; secretary of the Albany institute ; a member of the New York State Medical society, of the New York Neurological society and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He received the de- gree Ph.D. from Rutgers college in 1878. He died in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1883.

MOSLER, Henry, artist, was born in New York city, June 6, 1841 ; sonof Gustav and Sophie (Wiener) Mosler. His parents removed in 1851 to Cincinnati, Ohio, where Gustav Mosler engaged in the lithographic business, and the boy began sketching on stone. He was soon after apprenticed to a wood engraver, A. M. Grosvenor. In 1856 the family removed to Richmond, Ind., where he worked as a wood engraver and painted from nature without a teacher. On his return to Cin- cinnati shortly after- ward he entered the studio of James H. Beard, who encour- aged him to devote his time to art, and his first sketch, " The Re- ception of Major Anderson in Cincinnati," after the bombardment of Sumter in 1801, ap- peared in Harper's Weekly, securing him a

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