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ber of the committee appointed to improve the hymnology for use in Protestant Episcopal wor- ship, and also originated the Memorial movement in thecliurch. The liouorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Columbia college in 1834. He is the author of: Church Poetry (1823); Christian Education (1831); Music of the Church (1847); The People's Psalter (1847); Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods (1853); Family Prayers (1861): St. Johnland, Ideal and Actual (1867); Christ and the Bible (1869); The Woman and her Accusers (1870); " J Would Xot Live Ahcay," with the Story of the Hymn (1871); Evangelical Catho- lic Papers, Addresses, Lectures and Sermons (2 vols. 1875-77), and several hymns. See " Life " by Anne Ay res, and by the Rev. W. W. Newton, D.D. He died in New York city, April 8. 1877.

MUIR, Jere Taylor, educator, was born in Trimble county, Ky.; son of Robert and Ann M. (Bartlett) Muir, and grandson of Robert and Jane Muir and of William and Dicey (Goode) Bartlett. He attended the public schools, a seminary at Mount Zion. 111., and the Normal training school, Bloomington, 111., 1870-73, and was graduated from La Grange college, A.B., 1877, A.M., 1880. He was married, Oct. 2, 1879, toElma, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Pren- tiss) Hay. He taught in public schools, in La Grange college and in the state normal school at Kirkville, Mo., 1887-94; was vice-president of the state normal school, and was elected president of La Grange college in 1896. He became a mem- ber of the Missouri Academy of Science in 1894, and was president of the State Teachers' associa- tion of Missouri, 1894-95. The degree of LL.D. was given liim by La Grange college in 1896. In addition to liis duties as president of the college, he managed a large stock farm. He is the author of: Orthoepy (1892) and several works on school management, methods and psychology (MS. 1902).

MUIR, John, geologist and explorer, was born in Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, April 21, 18aS; son of Daniel and Anne (Gilrye) Muir, and a descendant on his mother's side of the Scotch family of Gilderoy. He re- ceived a good preparatory education, and in 1849 the family immigrated to the United States and settled near the Fox river in Wis- consin. John helped to clear the land, worked on the farm and attended the University of Wis- consin, 1860-64, paying his tuition with money earned by farming and .school teaching. He made extended botanical and geological excur- sions in Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Can- ada, and in the southern states. On account of an attack of malarial fever he was obliged to give up a contemplated trip to the headwaters of the Amazon river. South America, but spent a month

in Cuba and a short while on the Isthmus of Panama, and in 1868 visited the Yosemite valley, California, exploring and examining its flora and fauna. He lived an isolated life in the Sierra Nevada mountains for ten years, exploring the glacial formations; was a member of an explor- ing expedition connected with the geodetic sur- vey in the Great Basin, 1876-79; made several trips to the northwest region, and while in Alaska discovered the Glacier bay and the great Glacier which bears his name. He also made a trip to the headwaters of the Yukon and McKenzie rivers, and in 1881 was connected "with one of the expeditions to search for the lost Jeannette expe- dition. The lionorary degree of A.M. was con- ferred on him by Harvard in 1896 and that of LL.D. by the Wisconsin State university in 1897. He was married in 1879 to a daughter of Dr. John Strentzel of California. He edited and contributed to Picturesque California, contributed many articles on geological and botanical subjects to the leading magazines and is the author of: The Mountains of Calif ornia (1894), and Our National . Parks (1901).

MULDOON, Peter James, R. C. bishop, was born in Columbia, Cal., Oct. 10, 1863; son of John J. and Catherine (Coughlin) Muldoon. He re- ceived his primary education in Stockton, Cal.; studied the classics at St. Mary's college, Ky.; philosophy and theology at St. Mary's seminarj', Baltimore, Md., and was ordained priest, Dec. 18, 1886, by Bishop Loughlin in the cathedral, Brooklyn, N.Y"". He was appointed at ordination to serve at St. Pius's church, Chicago, III., and about 1888 was appointed chancellor and secre- tary of the diocese, retaining these offices until Oct. 25, 1895, when he was appointed pastor of St. Charles Borromeo's church. He was appointed titular bishop of Tamesus, Cyprus, and auxiliary to the archbishop of Chicago. June 11, 1901, and was consecrated as titular bishop of Tamassensis and auxiliary to Archbisliop Feehan of Chicago, at Holy Name cathedral, July 25, 1901, by Cardinal Martinelli, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Henry Cos- grove, D.D., of Davenport, Iowa, and the Rt. Rev. James Ryan. D.D., of Afton, 111.

nULDROW, Henry Lowndes, representative, was born in Lowndes county. Miss. He was graduated at the University of Mississippi, A.B., 1856, and LL.B. in 1858, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and settled in practice in Starkville. He served in the Confederate army, 1861-65, rising from private to colonel of cavalry. He was dis- trict attorney for the sixtli judicial district of Mississippi, 1869-71; represented Lowndes county in the state legislature in 1875, and was a Demo- cratic representative from the first Mississippi district in the 45th, 46th and 47tli congresses, 1877-85. He was first assistant secretary of the