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Carniola until 1845. He came to the United States in tliat year as missionary to the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in northern Michigan and was stationed at Arbre Croche. He was trans- ferred to Eagle Town on Grand Traverse bay in 1S55, and there established an Indian school. He also attended to ten other Indian mission stations, which he had organized, and was ap- pointed vicar-general of the diocese of Sault Sainte Marie in 18G0. He was consecrated bishop of Marquette and Sault Sainte Marie, Midi., at Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 7, 1869, by Archbishop Purcell, assisted by Bishop Lefevre and Henni, and succeeded Bishop Baraga, who died Jan. 19, 1868. He resigned from his see on account of ill health in July, 1878, and received the titular see of Antinoe in 1881. He died at St. Mary's hospital. Marquette. Mich., Jan. 2, 1901.

MUDGE, Benjamin Franklin, scientist, was born in Orrington, Maine. Aug. 11, 1817; son of James and Ruth (Atwell) Mudge ; grandson of Enoch and Lydia (Ingalls) Mudge. and a descend- ant from Tiiomas and Marie Mudge. Thomas Mudge was born in Devonshire, England, lG'-24 ; arrived in America shortly after 1640, and settled in Maiden. Mass. His parents removed to Lynn, Mass., when he was an infant, and he attended the public school and Wilbraham academy. He was graduated at Wesleyan university A.B. and B.S. in 1840. He studied law in Lynn, 1848-44, and was admitted to the bar in 1844, practising in Lynn, 1844-.j9. He was married in 1846 to Mary Eu-sebia A. Beckford of Lynn, who with two sons and one daughter survived him. He was asso- ciate justice of the police court, 1850-59 ; mayor of Lynn, 1850 ; member of state temperance com- mittee, 1854-60, and chemist to oil refineries in Chelsea, Mass., and Cloverport, Ky., 1860-61. He removed to Quindoro, Kan., in 1861 ; was appointed state geologist in 1864, and was pro- fessor of natural science in the State Agricultural college, Manhattan, Kansas, 1865-73. He was president of the State Teachers association, 1867 ; president of the Kansas Natural History society, 1868-79 ; lecturer in geology. State university, Lawrence, Kan., 1873-79, and made various geo- logical explorations alone and with D.C. Marsh of Yale college for the State Board of Agriculture. The first known t(X)thed bird was discovered by him and presented to Yale college. He was a fellow of tiie American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science. The members of the State Academy of Science, of which he was chief founder and president, erected a monument to his memory in ManhatUin, Kan. He is the author of: First Annual Report of the Geologij of Kan- sas (1866) ; Xotcs on the Tertiary and Cretaceous Periods of Kansas (1*^77), and contributions to the Ladies' Repository, American Journal of

Science and Arts, Transactioiis of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Report U.S. Geo- graphical and Geological Survey and the Kansas City Rcvictc of Science and Industry. He died in Manhattan, Kan., Nov. 21, 1879.

MUDQE, Enoch, clergyman and author, was born in Lynn, Mass., June 26. 1776; son of Enocii and Lydia (Ingalls) Mudge, and grandson of John and Abigail Ingalls. His fatiier was one of the sentinels who guarded the Old Province house when occupied by Washington as head- quarters ; his mother was the granddaughter of the first white settler of Lynn, Mass., and his brothers, James and Samuel Mudge, were promi- nent Methodist laymen of Lynn. Enoch entered the itinerancy of the MethodLst church in 1793. traveled througli Maine, 1793-99, and was settled over the church at Orrington, Me., 1799-1816. He was twice elected a representative in the Mas- sachusetts general court and obtained a repeal of the law imposing a tax on other religious de- nominations for the benefit of the Congregation- alists. He took up the itinerancy again in 1816, laboring in Boston, Lynn, Portsmouth, N.H., Newport, R.I., and smaller towns, 1816-32, and in 1832 was transferred to the Seaman's chapel. New Bedford, serving, 1832—44. He was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional committee of 1819. He is the author of : Camp Meeting Hymn Book {1818} ; Notes on the Parables (1828), Lynn: a Poem (1830) ; Tlie Parable of Our Lord (1831) ; Lectures to Seamen (1836) : Tlie Juvenile Exposition in 70 numbers of Zion's Herald, and of prose and verse to current periodicals. He died in Lynn, Mass., April 2, 1850.

MUDQE, James, missionary, was born in West Springfield. Mass., April 5, 1844 ; son of the Rev. James and Harriet (Goodridge) Mudge, and grandson of James and Ruth (Atwell) Mudge. He was graduated at Weslej'an university in 1865 ,• was teacher of L-atin and Greek at Pen- nington seminary, N.J., 1865-67 ; joined the New England conference of the Methodist church, 1868 ; was stationed at Cambridge, Mass., 1868- 69; was graduated at Boston university, B.D., 1870, and was stationed at Wilbraham, Mass., 1870-72. He was transferred to India conference, 1872, and traveled in Europe several months, 1872-73. He was married, April 29, 1873, to Martha M. Wis well of New Haven, Conn., and three children, Mabel, James Wiswell and Ada, were born to them in India. He remained at Lucknow, India, as editor of the Lucknotc Witness, 1873-81, and was stationed at Shahje- hanpur, 1882. He returned to the United States and rejoined the M.E. conference in 1883, and was stationed at AVhitinsville, 1884-86; Ea.st Pepperell, 1887-90; Clinton, 1891-93; Lowell,