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 MULFORD

MULLANY

U.S. interior department, 1885-89, a trustee of the University of Mississippi and a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1890.

nULFORD, Elisha, clergyman, was born in Montrose, Pa., Nov. 19, 1833; son of Silvanus Sand- ford and Fanny (Jessup) Mulford; grandson of Elisha and Damaris Howell (Sandford) Mulford of Orient, L.I., of Zebulon and Zeniah (Huntling) Jessup of Southampton, L.I., and a descendant of William Mulford of Maidstone, Kent county, England, who settled in Salem, Mass., and as early as 1643 at Southampton, Long Island, N.Y., and in 1649 at Easthampton, Long Island. Elisha Mulford was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1855, A.M., 1858, studied law under the Hon, William Jessup at Montrose, in 1856, and theology at the Union theological seminary. New York city in 1857, and at Andover theological seminary, Andover, Mass., 1858-59. He was a student at the universities of Halle and Heidelberg, Germany, and also in Italy, 1859-60; was ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church at Middletown, Conn., and had temporary charge of a church at Darien, Conn. He was married, Sept. ,17, 1862, to Rachel P. Carmalt of Lakeside, Pa. He was ordained priest by Bishop Odenheimer, March 19, 1862; was rec- tor of the Church of the Holy Communion in South Orange, N.J., 1862-64, and in the latter year retired from his church labors, settled at Lakeside near Montrose, Pa., and engaged in literary work. He was in charge of a mission at Friendsville, Susquehanna county. Pa., 1877--81, and in 1881 removed to Cambridge, Mass., where he served as a lecturer on apologetics and theo- logy in the Episcopal theological school, 1881-85. He received the degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1872. He is the author of: The Nation, The Foundation of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States (1870); and The Republic of God, an Institute of Theology (1881). He died in Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 9, 1885.

nULLANY, James Robert fladison, naval officer, was born in New York city, Oct. 26, 1818; son of Col. James R. Mullany, quarter-master- general, U.S.A. He entered the U.S. navy as midshipman, Jan. 7, 1832; was promoted passed midshipman, June 23, 1838, and lieutenant, Feb. 29, 1844. He was engaged in the coast survey for deep sea soundings and observations for tempera- ture in the Gulf Stream, 1844-47, and in 1847-48 was engaged in the capture of the city of Tabasco, Mexico, June, 1847. He was attached to the St, Louis and the Brandywine of the Brazil squadron, 1848-50, and to the Hancock on the coast of the United States, and in the West Indies in search of filibustering vessels, 1851. He served on the Co- lumbia of the West India squadron, 1852-55; was inspector of ordnance at the New York navy yard, 1855-58; executive officer of the Niagara,,

on special duty on the coast of Africa in 1858; of the Constellation, 1859, and of t\ie Sabine, West In diasquadron, 1859-60. He commanded succes- sively the Sabine and Wyandotte in the protec- tion of Fort Pickens, and the storeship Supply off Pensacola, 1861, and was inspector of ordnance, 1861- 62. He was pro- mo t e d com- mander, Oct. 18, 1861; com- ^'^S. rich^o^o.

manded the Bienville of the North Atlantic and West Gulf squadron, 1862-65, and the Bienville was almost constantly employed in making demonstrations against the forts located in Cliarleston Harbor, and those at other ports on the southern Atlantic coasts from North Carolina to Florida. He was also alert for blockade runners, and captured the steamers Stetten and Patras, each sailing under the English flag, laden with munitions of war, in 1862; captured nine schooners from Nassau, all under English flags, and commanded the division of the Western Gulf squadron from Sabine Pass to Rio Grande, April to September, 1863. He was transferred to the command of the Oneida by Admiral Farragut, during the battle of Mobile, Aug. 5, 1864, where he was severely wounded, and was inspector in charge of ordnance at the New York navy yard, 1865-68. He was promoted captain, July 25, 1866; commanded the Richmond, European squadron, 1868-71; was promoted commodore, Aug. 15, 1870; commanded the Mediterranean squadron, 1870-71; was on court-martial duty, 1871-72; commanded the Philadelphia navy yard, 1872-74, and the naval station at League Island, 1878-74. He was pro- moted i-ear-admiral, June 5, 1874; commanded the North Atlantic station, 1874-76; served at Aspinwall with his flagship and one other vessel to protect American interests on the Isthmus, threatened by rebellion, September-October, 1875, and as senior officer commanded the vessels of the South Pacific squadron in the harbor of Panama. He was governor of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, 1876-79, and in 1879 retired and resided in Philadelphia. He died at Bryn Mawr, Pa., Sept. 17, 1887.

MULLANY, Patrick John, educator, was born in Killemain, county Tipperary, Ireland, June 29, 1847. He was brought to the United States by his parents in 1850, and was educated in the Academy of the Christian Brothers, Utica, N.Y. He joined the order of the Christian Brothers in New York city in 1862, and completed his classi- cal course at Rock Hill college, Ellicott City. Md., in 1866. He received the religious name Brother