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position as staff artist for that journal, and he accompanied Grant's army in its operations, 1861- 63. He was made additional aide on the staff of Gen. Richard W. Johnson, and besides his battle sketches painted portraits of Generals Nelson, Johnson, Rousseau and others. His service in the army secured for him a membership-at- large in the military order of the Loyal Legion. He was induced by Buchanan Read to visit Europe in 1863, and studied at Diisseldorf under Miicke in drawing and under Kindler in paint- ing. He also studied under Hebert in Paris. He returned to Cincinnati in 1866. He painted portraits and a canvas " The Lost Cause," which had a large sale when reproduced by chromo-litho- graphy. He was married in 1869 to Sarah Calm of Cincinnati and spent the year 1870 in New York city painting portraits. He was again in Cincinnati, 1871-74; and was in Munich, 1874-77, where he studied under Wagner and had his work criticised by Piloty, receiving a gold medal from the Royal Academy, Munich, in 1874. In 1877 he removed to Paris and the next year his Quadroon Girl and Early Cares were accepted by the Salon. His The ProdigaVs Return was given a place in the Hall of Honor of the Salon in 1879 and was purchased for the gallery of the Museum de Luxembourg, an honor never before accorded to an American artist. He exhibited at the Salon in 1880 TJie Purchase of the Wedding Gown and The Spinning Girl. He received a gold medal at the International exhibition, Nice, in 1884. In 1886 he returned to America and made studies among the Apache Indians for his large canvas Abandoned, which he painted in Paris and exhibited at the Salon, 1887. He exhibited at the Salon of 1888 The White Captive and Harvest Dance, for the latter re- ceiving the gold medal. He exhibited at Paris, 1889, where he was awarded a silver medal, and at Vienna, 1893, The Last Moments, receiving from Vienna the only gold medal awarded to an American. He was in America, 1880-90, and painted his third large canvas The Hushing Bee. In 1891 he exhibited at the Salon Good Council; in 1892 The Milking Hour and the Wed- ding Feast; in 1893 The Chimney Corner; in 1894 The Brittany Legend and A Normandy Garden; in 1895 The Village Tinker, and in 1895 Mend- ing the Net. He won the prize of $2500 for The Village Clock Maker at the Prize Fund ex- hibition, New York, 1885, and in 1892 was dec- orated Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur and Officier d'Academie. He was elected an as- sociate of the National Academy of Design, New York, and received the grand gold medal and diploma of honor at Atlanta, Ga., 1895; was awarded the Thomas B. Clark prize at the National Academy of Design, 1896, and a gold

medal at the Philadelphia Art Club exhibition, 1897. He returned to New York with his family, consisting of his wife and five children, in 1894, and subsequently made frequent visits to Paris.

M05S, Lemuel, educator, was born in Boone county, Ky., Dec. 27, 1829; son of Demas and Esther (Lewis) Moss, grandson of Lemuel Moss, and a descendant of John Moss, of England, an original founder of New Haven, Conn., 1639. His parents went from New England to Dear- born county, Ind., in 1816; afterward removing to Kentucky, and returning to Indiana in 1833. He began the printer's "trade in 1844, in the Lawrenceburg Register office, and worked as a printer for nine years, for the most part in Cincinnati and Louisville. He was married Dec. 24, 1851, to Harriet, daughter of William and Mary Bingham of Cincinnati. In 1853 he decided to enter the Baptist ministry. He was graduated at the University of Rochester, A.B., 1858, and at the Rochester Theological seminary, B.D., 1860; was pastor of the First Baptist church, Worcester, Mass., 1860-64; home secretary of the U.S. Chris- tian commission, 1864-65; professor of systematic theology in Bucknell university, Lewisburg, Pa., 1865-68; edited the National Baptist, Philadel- phia, Pa., 1868-72; was professor of New Testa- ment interpretation in Crozer Theological semi- nary. Upland, Pa., 1872-74; president of Chicago university, 1874-75, and president of the Indiana university, 1875-84. He edited the Ensign, Min- neapolis, Minn., 1889-93; was pastor of the Baptist church at Woodbury, N.J., 1894-96, and was editor of The Commonwealth in 1897. He was elected a member of the National Council of Education in 1878, and president of the depart- ment of higher education. National Educational association, 1882. He was vice-president of the American Baptist Missionary union, 1883; president of the American Baptist Historical society, 1896-1900, and in 1900 was made vice- president. He became lecturer on Christian sociology at Bucknell university in 1897. He received from the University of Rochester the degree of D.D. in 1868, and LL.D. in 1883. He edited The Baptists and the National Centen- ary (1876); and is the author of: Annals of the U.S. Christian Commission (1866); What Baptists Stand For (1893); A Day with Paul (1894), and A Question of Attitude (1894).

MOTLEY, John Lothrop, historian, was born in Dorchester, Mass., April 15, 1814; son of John and Anna (Lothrop) Motley, and grandson of the Rev. John Lothrop, a prominent clergyman of Boston. He attended private schools at Jamaica Plain and Round Hill, Mass.; was graduated from Harvard college in 1831, and studied at the universities of Groningen and Berlin, 1831-32, re- ceiving the degree Ph.D. from Groningen j.nd