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1756 ; joined the patriotic cause, and was ap- pointed lieutenant-colonel of the 2d South Car- olina regiment, under Col. William Moultrie, June 17, 1775. He seized Fort Johnson, on Adams island, by direction of the committee of safety in July, 1775, where he commanded three companies of the 2d South Carolina regiment. He was active in defending Fort Moultrie, and was pro- moted colonel Sept. 16, 1776. He was a delegate from South Carolina to the Continental congress, 1780-82 ; a member of the state convention that ratified the constitution of the United States, and was apiK>inted naval officer of the port of Charleston, by President Washington, serving 1789-95. He died in Charleston. S.C, May 8, 1795. MOULTON, Louise Chandler, author, was born in Pomfret. Conn., April 10. 1835 ; daughter of Lucius Lemuel and Louisa Rebecca (Clark) Chandler ; granddaughter of Charles and Hannah (Cleveland) Ciiandler, and of Allen Gates and

Selinda (Darling) Smith Clark, and a descendant of Will iam Chandler, who settled in Roxburj-, Mass., with his wife Annis and four chil- dren about 1637. She was educated in Pom- fret, Conn., and at Mrs. Emma Willard's seminary in Troy, N.Y., and in 1854 pub- lished a collection of sketches and poems entitled " This, That and the Other," of which nearly 20,000 copies were sold. She was married, Aug. 27, 1855, to William Upham Moulton, editor of a weekly paper published in Boston, Mass. She was the Boston literary cor- respondent of the New York Tribune, 1870-76, and a regular contributor to the Boston Sunday Herald, 1887-92. She traveled in Europe at various times and after 1878 made London her place of residence during the season. She con- tributed to the leading magazines and newspapers and edited and prefaced with a biographical sketch of the author, " Garden Secrets," by Philip Bourke Marston (1887), "The Last Harvest," a posthumous publication (1891) and " A Collected Edition of Marston's Poems" (1892). She also edited a volume of selections from Arthur O'Shaughnessy with a biographical sketch. She considered her poems to be her most important work, and she is classed by critics among the lead- ing modern sonnet writers. She is the author of : Tfiis, That a7id the Other (1854) ; Juno Clifford (1855) ; My TJiird Book, short stories C1859) ; Bed-

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Time Stories for children (1873); Some Women's Hearts (1874); More Bed-Time Stories (1875); Suxillow-Flights, poems (1877) ; New Bed-Time Stories (1880); Random Rambles (1881); Fire- light Stories (1883) ; Ourselves and Our Neighbors : Short Chats on Social Topics (1887) ; Miss Eyre from Boston and Others (1889) ; In the Garden of Dreams (1889) ; Stories Told at Timlight (1890) ; Lazy Tours in Spain (1896) ; In Childhood's Country, poems (1897) ; At The Wind's Will, poems (1899).

MOULTON, Samuel Wheeler, representative, was born at Hamilton, Mass., Jan. 20, 1821 ; son of William and Mary (Lunt), grandson of Jona- than and Mary (Tarbox), and of John and Hannah (Killam), great-grandson of John and Mary (Conant), greats-grandson of James and greats-grandson of James Moulton, who came from Yarmouth, England, in 1638, settle^J in Salem, Mass., in 1645, and later removed to Wen- ham, Mass. In 1841 Samuel W. Moulton went to Kentucky ; taught school there, 1841-42, and in Mississippi, 1843-45. He was married in 1844 to Mary H., daughter of Thomas and Mary Afflick. a native of Scotland, and they had no children. In 1845 he removed to Codes county, III., where he was admitted to the bar in 1847. He practised in Sullivan, 1847-49, and in Shelby ville after 1849, attaining eminence in his profession. He was county school commissioner, 1851-59, and a repre- sentative in the general assembly, 1853-59. In 1853, as chairman of the committee on education, he drafted a bill for a system of free schools for the state, which, after long discussion and opix)- sition became a law. He was also active in pro- moting the state normal university bill which became a law in 1857. He was president of the state board of education for eighteen years ; pres- ident of the board of trustees of the state re- formatory for boys at Pontiac six years, and was influential in establishing the University of Illi- nois. His efforts in behalf of education gained for him recognition as "the father of the free school system of Illinois." He was a Buchanan presidential elector in 1856 ; supported Douglass for President in 1860 ; was elected president of the grand council of the Union League for the State of Illinois in 1863 ; was a Republican rep- resentative in the 39th congress, 1865-67, and a Democratic representative in the 47th and 48th congresses, 1881-85. In 1896 he repudiated the platform of the Democratic national convention and supported William McKinley for President. A life-size portrait of Mr. Moulton was presented to the county court house by the bar and citizens of Shelby county, and was unveiled June 10, 1898, with impressive ceremonies. In 1902 Mr. Moulton was still in the active practice of law in Shelby- ville, 111.