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 MUSSEY

MUTCHMORE

studied law and was associated with her luis- band in practice in Washington, D.C., until his death in 1S92, when she continued the practice alone. She was attorney for several foreign lega- tions; for many national, patriotic and labor organizations; was an incorporator of, and attorney for, the American National Red Cross society, and was appointed a delegate to the seventh international conference of the so- ciety at St. Petoi-sburg. May, 1902. Slie was president of the Legion of Loyal Women; founder and dean of the Washington College of Law, and professor of the law of torts and of corpor- ation law at the college. She secured the pas- sage of the bill giving to each parent the same right to their children; also, giving mar- ried women the right to engage in business and control their own earnings, and secured the first appropriation for a public kindergarten in the District of Columbia. The degree of LL.M. was conferred on lier by W;ishington College of Law, in 1S99.

MUSSEY, Reuben Dimond, surgeon and edu- cator, was born at Pelham, Hillsboro county, N.H., June 23, 1780; son of Dr. John and Beulah (Butler) Mussey. He taught school and worked on a farm to obtain money to complete his educa- tion. He was graduated from Dartmouth. A.B., 1803. A.M., 1806. M.D., 1806. and practised in Essex, 1806-09, meanwhile attending a course of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, where he was graduated M.D., 1809. He removed to Salem, Mass., where he practised medicine and .surgery with Dr. Daniel Oliver, 1809-14. He was profes- sor of theory and practice of medicine at Dart- mouth, 1814-20, and professor of anatomy and surgery, 1822-38, meanwhile engaging in general practice in Hanover and lecturing occasionally on materia medica and obstetrics. In 1818 he delivered a course of lectures on chemistry at Middlebury college, Vt., and also lectured on anatomy and surgery at Bowdoin college, 1833-35, and at the medical college at Fairfield, N.Y. He was professor of surgery at the Oliio Medical col- lege, 1838-53, and at Miami Medical college, 1852- 58. He resided in Boston, Mass., 1858-00. He was the first to prove that intra-capsular frac- tures could be united; the first to tie both carotid arteries, and in 1877 removed the entire shoulder-blade and collar-bone of an osteo-sarcoma patient. He was president of the New Hamp- shire Medical society; a fellow of Pliiladelphia Medical ollege: honorary member of the Massa- chusetts Meilical .society, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was twice married; first to Mary Sewall, and .secondly to Hetty, daughter of Dr. Osgood of Salem, Mass. Of his children, William Heberdon (1818-18S2) became an eminent surgeon in Cincinnati, Ohio,

was professor of operative and chemical surgery at Miami Medical college, 1805-82; .surgeon-gen- eral of Ohio; manager of the public library of Cincinnati, 1870-81, and founder of the Mussey scientific and medical library there, a memorial to liis father. Another son. Gen. Reuben D., was a soldier in the civil war, a lawj'er in Washington, D.C., and the husband of Ellen Spencer Mussey (q.v.) Dr. Musssey received the honorary degree of A.M. from Harvard in 1809, and that of LL.D. from Dartmouth in 1854. He is the author of Health: Its Friends and Foes (1862). He died in Boston. Mass., June 21. 1866.

MUTCHLER, William, representative, was born at Chain Dam, near Easton, Pa., Dec. 21, 1831; son of John (1792-1838), and Margaret (Melick) Mutchier; grandson of Valentine and Catharine (Steinbach) Mutchier, and great-grand- son of Valentine Mutchier, who came from near Hamburg, Germany, with two brothers, on the ship Duke of Bedford and landed in Philadelphia, Sept. 14, 1751. AVilliam Mutchier studied law with his elder brother, Henry Melick Mutchier, and practised in Easton, Pa., 1852-93. He was prothonotary of Northampton county, 1800-66; assessor of internal revenue, 1867-09: chaii'inan of the Democratic state committee, 1869-70; del- egate to all the Democratic national conventions from 1876 until his death, and a Democratic representative from the eighth district of Pennsyl- vania in the 44th, 47th, 48th, olst and 52d con- gresses, 1875-77, 1881-85 and 1889-93. In 1892 he was elected to theo3d congress but did not live to take his seat. His son, Howard Mutchier, proprie- tor and editor of the Easton Daily Express and of the Northampton Democrat, succeetled to his i^eat in the 53d, 1893-95. William Mutchier died in Easton, Pa., June 23, 1893.

MUTCHMORE, Samuel Alexander, clergy- man and editor, was born in Ohio, May 12, 1830; son of Alexander and Mary Brady (McCune) Mutchmore, and grandson of Col. Thomas and Mary ( Brady) McCune. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812 and his maternal grand- motlier a sister of Gen. Hugh and Col. Samuel Brady. He was a student at Ohio university and in the junior class of Indiana universitj,

1853, and was graduated at Centre college, Ky.,

1854. He was a student in the Danville Theologi- cal seminary, 1854-57; was home missionary at Bowling Green for southern Kentucky, 1858-59; was ordained at Columbia, Mo., 1859; pastor at Fulton, Mo., 1800-02; at Carondelet, Mo.. 1803-66: of Cohocksink church, Philadelphia, 1806-75; of Alexander Presbyterian church, 1875-82. and of Memorial church, 1882-98. He founded also a Collegiate chapel, 19th and York streets, Phila- delpliia. Pa. He purchased a half interest in Ute Presbyterian in 1873; became one of the work-