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tain Bewley and was present at the battle of Fort Donelson. In October, 1860, he enlisted in the ITth Illinois cavalry and served until November 29, 1865. He matriculated at Kalamazoo college in the class of 1871, but left after one year and entered Shurtleff col- lege, Upper Alton, 111., •where he remained till the summer of 1870. Meantime he taught school in Ma- coupin county, 111., in Barry coimty, Mich., 1870-71, and then en- tered the law office of May & Buck in Kala- mazoo. He was mar- ried, Sept. 6, 1871, to Isabel, daughter of the Hon, Adam Elliott of Barry county, Mich., and their son, Philip W. T. Moxom, graduated at Harvard, M.D., 1901. On Sept. 19, 1871, he was or- dained to the Baptist ministry in Bellevue, Mich. After sixteen months' sei'vice he was called to Albion, Mich. In 1875 he entered the Theological seminary in Rochester, N.Y., and also became pastor of the Baptist church in Mt. Morris, Livings- ton county. He graduated in May, 1878, and in 1879 took his degree as A.B., in the University of Rochester and that of A.M. in 1882. He was pastor of the First Baptist church, Cleveland, Ohio, 1879-85, and of the First Baptist church, Boston, Mass., 1885-93. In March, 1894, he ac- cepted a call to the South Congregational church in Springfield, Mass. He was on the staff of uni- versity^ preachers of Harvard, 1894-97, and fre- quently served as university preacher at Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, Bow- doin, Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr and other colleges. He gave a paper on " The Argument for Iinmort;^iity " before the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago, 1893. and preached the sermon on " Moral and Social Aspects of War" before the World's Peace congress in the same year. He was a delegate to the International Peace congresses in London, Berne and Antwerp, and to the International Congregational council, 1899. He lectured before the Lowell Institute, Boston, in 1895, and was made a member of the American Oriental society; the Society of Bibli- cal Literatifre and Exegesis, the Connecticut Valley Biblical club, the American Economic as- sociation, the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and various other literary and scientific societies. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Brown in 1892. He is the author of: The Aim of Life (1894); From Jeru-

salem to NicacE: the Church in the First Three Centuries (Lowell lectures, 1895); The Religion of Hope (1896), and numerous articles and pam- phlets on religious, social and political subjects.

MOVLAN, Stephen, soldier, was born in Ireland in 1734. One of his brothers was bishop of Cork. His family being wealthy he was well educated, traveled in Europe and resided for a time in England, whence he came to America. He engaged as a merchant in Philadelpliia, Pa. , and became an early defender of the rights of the colonies. He joined the Revolutionary army at Boston, Mass., in 1775, and was appointed muster- master general in the commissary department, Aug. 11, 1775, through the influence of John Dickinson of Pennsylvania. He won the friend- ship of General Washington, who appointed him his aide-de-camp, March 6, 1776, and was made quartermaster-general with the rank of colonel, June 5, 1776, which latter office he resigned, Sept. 28, 1776, He raised the 1st Pennsylvania regiment of cavalry, an independent organiza- tion, serving as colonel until 1777. He was ap- pointed colonel of the 4th Continental dragoons, Jan. 5, 1777, and served at Valley Forge, 1777-78; on the Hudson river and in Connecticut in 1779; with General Wayne on the expedition to Bull's Ferry in 1780, and in the southern campaign. He was brevetted brigadier-general in the Con- tinental army on his retirement, Nov, 8, 1783. He was U,S, commissioner of loans in Phila- delphia for several years. He was one of the organizers and the first president of the Friendly Sons of St, Patrick in Philadelphia in 1771. He had two brothers, Jasper, a lawyer in Philadel- phia, and John, a merchant, and U.S. clothier- general during the Revolution. General "Moylan died in Philadelphia, Pa., April 11, 1811.

MOYLAN, William, educator, was born in Ireland, June, 22, 1822, of a celebrated Roman Catholic family. He entered the secular priest- hood in Canada, and was engaged in missionary work among the Indians and fishermen at Cape Gaspe, Quebec. He was admitted to the Society of Jesus, Nov. 14, 1851; taught in the under- graduate course at St. John's college, Fordham; at St. Francis Xavier's college. New York city, and in San Francisco, Cal. He was appointed president of St, John's college, Fordham, in 1865, and filled the position for three years. During his administration. Senior hall or First Division building was erected and served for many years as the principal college building. He died at Fordham, N.Y.. Jan. 14, 1891.

MRAK, Ignatius, R.C, bishop, was born in Hotoula, parish of Poljane, Carniola, Austria, Oct. 10, 1816. He was ordained priest, July 31, 1837, at Laibach, Austria, by Prince Bishop An- tliony Aloys Wolff, and served as parish priest at