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Marden, Orison Swett. N. H., 1848- ——. A Boston writer whose collections of brief biographies, comprise Pushing to the Front; Architects of Fate. Hou.

Marguerittes, Julie de. See Rea, Mrs.

Markell, Charles Frederick. Md., 1855- ——. A Maryland lawyer and journalist. Charmodine, a volume of verse.

Markham, Charles Edwin. Or., 1852- ——. An educator and verse-writer of California. In Earth’s Shadow, a book of verse; Songs of a Dream Builder; The Man with the Hoe.

Markham, Jared Clark. Ms., 1816- ——. An architect who designed the Saratoga monument. Appeal in Behalf of National Monuments; Monumental Art; Historic Sculpture.

Markoe, Thomas Masters. Pa., 1819-1901. A surgeon of New York city, professor in Columbia College from 1860, and author of a Treatise on Diseases of the Bones. Ap.

Marsh, Mrs. Caroline [Crane]. Ms., 1816-1901. Wife of G. P. Marsh, infra. The Hallig, or the Sheepfold in the Waters, from the German of Biernatzki; Wolfe of the Knoll, and Other Poems; Life of George P. Marsh. Scr.

Marsh, George Perkins. Vt., 1801-1882. A philologist of distinction who was minister to Italy, 1861-82. Lectures on the English Language; Man and Nature, re-written and enlarged with the title, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Icelandic Grammar; Origin and History of the English Language; Mediæval and Modern Saints and Miracles. See Life by Mrs. Marsh, supra. Har. Scr.

Marsh, John. Ct., 1788-1864. A Congregational clergyman long prominent as a temperance lecturer. Epitome of Ecclesiastical History; Half Century Tribute to Temperance; Temperance Recollections.

Marsh, Othniel Charles. N. Y., 1831-1899. A palæontologist, professor at Yale University from 1866. Odontornithes; Dinocerata; Sauropoda, are among valuable scientific monographs by him.

Marshall, Edward Chauncey. N. Y., 1824-1898. An educator, inventor, and journalist. Book of Oratory; History of the United States Naval Academy; Ancestry of General Grant.

Marshall, Humphrey. Pa., 1722-1801. A famous botanist of Marshallton, Pennsylvania. Arboretum Americanum, a very valuable work of his, was translated into a number of foreign languages.

Marshall, John. Va., 1755-1835. Chief Justice of the United States from 1801 until his death. The Life of Washington; Writings upon the Federal Constitution. See Lives by Van Santvord, 1854, Flanders, 1858, Magruder, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography.

Martin, Edward Sandford. N. Y., 1856- ——. A journalist of New York city. Sly Ballades in Harvard China; A Little Brother of the Rich, and Other Poems; Cousin Anthony and I, some Views of Ours; Windfalls of Observation; Lucid Intervals. Har. Scr.

Martin, François Xavier. F., 1764-1846. A New Orleans jurist, chief justice of Louisiana, 1837-45. General Digest of Louisiana Laws; Reports of Louisiana Supreme Court, 1813-30; History of Louisiana to 1814.

Martin, Henry Newell. I., 1848-1896. A biologist of note, professor of biology at Johns Hopkins University from 1876. The Human Body; Practical Biology (with T. H. Huxley); Handbook of Vertebrate Dissection (with W. A. Moale). Ho.

Martin, John Hill. Pa., 1823- ——. A lawyer of Philadelphia, legal editor of The Intelligencer from 1881. Bethlehem and the Moravians; The Bench and Bar of Philadelphia; Chester and its Vicinity; Delaware County.

Martin, Mrs. Margaret [Maxwell]. S., 1807- ——. An educator of Columbia, South Carolina. Day Spring; Christianity in Earnest; Religious Poems; Scenes and Scenery of South Carolina, include the larger part of her writings.

Martin, William Alexander Parsons. N. Y., 1827- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman and missionary, president of the Tungwen College, Peking. Among his writings in Chinese are, Evidences of Christianity; The Three Principles; Religious Allegories. In English he has published The Chinese: their Education, Philosophy, and Letters; The Lore of Cathay. Har.

Martyn, Mrs. Sarah Towne [Smith]. N. H., 1805-1879. A writer of Sunday-school semi-historical fiction whose home was in New York city. Among her many works are comprised Huguenots of France; William Tyndale; Lady Alice Lisle.

Martyn, William Carlos. N. Y., 1841- ——. Son of Mrs. Martyn, supra. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city. History of the Huguenots; History of the English Puritans; The Pilgrim Fathers of New England; History of the Dutch Reformation; Lives of John Milton, John B. Gough, Wendell Phillips, William E. Dodge. Fu.

Marvel, Ik. See Mitchell, D. G.

Marvin, Enoch Mather. Mo., 1823-1877. A bishop of the Methodist Church South. The Work of Christ; Sermons; To the East by Way of the West.

Mason, Mrs. Caroline Atherton [Briggs]. Ms., 1823-1890. A verse-writer of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, whose poem, Do They Miss Me at Home, was long a popular song. Utterance, a Collection of Home Poems; The Lost Ring, and Other Poems; Rose Hamilan, a tale. Hou.

Mason, Mrs. Clara Stevens Arthur. Me., 1844-1884. The Cherry Blooms of Yeddo, a volume of verse. Lo.

Mason, David Hastings. Pa., 1828-1903. A Chicago journalist who published a Short Tariff History of the United States. Bai.

Mason, Emily Virginia. Ky., 1815- ——. A nurse in Confederate hospitals, and after the Civil War an educator in Paris. She edited a collection of Southern Poems of the War, and wrote a Popular Life of General Robert E. Lee.

Mason, George Champlin. R. I., 1820-1894. An architect of Newport, Rhode Island. Newport and its Environs; Application of Art to Manufactures; The Old House Altered; Life and Works of Gilbert Stuart; Reminiscences of Newport.

Mason, John. E., 1600-1672. A Puritan soldier who held a place in the estimation of the Massachusetts Bay Puritans corresponding to that filled by Miles Standish among the Pilgrims. History of the Pequot War is a vigorous narrative, first printed by Increase Mather in 1677. See Tyler’s American Literature; Life by G. E. Ellis, supra.

Mason, John Mitchell. N. Y., 1770-1829. A Presbyterian clergyman of New York city, long famous as a pulpit orator, his Oration on the Death of Alexander Hamilton being especially noted. Letters on Frequent Communion; Plea for Sacramental Communion on Catholic Principles. See Works in four volumes; Memoirs by Van Vechten, 1856.

Mason, Otis Tufton. Me., 1838- ——. An anthropologist of note. The Hupa Indian Industries; Woman’s Share in Primitive Culture; The Origins of Invention; The Land Problem; Cradles of the North American Indians; The Antiquities of Guadeloupe. Ap. Scr.

Mather, Cotton. Ms., 1663-1728. Son of I. Mather, infra. A famous Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, 1683-1728, and his father’s colleague for the greater part of that period. He was a prolific author, publishing nearly four hundred works, large and small, but it is upon the Magnalia Christi Americana that his reputation rests. Among other works are Wonders of the Invisible World; Christian Philosopher; Psalterium Americanum; Manductio ad Ministerium; Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft; Essays to Do Good; The Armour of Christianity; Batteries Upon the Kingdom of the Devil; Death made Easie and Happy. His style is disfigured by pedantry and strained analogies, and is at all times far removed from simplicity, but the author is nevertheless easily seen to be intensely in earnest in his endeavours to be of service to his generation. See Lives by S. Mather, 1729, W. B. O. Peabody, A. P. Marvin, 1889, B. Wendell, 1892; North American Review, July, 1840, April, 1869; Tyler’s American Literature; Pond’s The Mather Family; Old Colony Days, by Mrs. May Alden Ward.

Mather, Fred. N. Y, 1833-1900. A pisciculturist of note, author of Ichthyology of the Adirondacks.

Mather, Increase. E., 1639-1723. Son of R. Mather, infra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the North Church, and president of Harvard College, 1685-1701. Of his nearly one hundred printed works, the most noted is the Remarkable Providences, which was entitled by its author An Essay for the Recording of Illustrious Providences, an effort to prove by induction the existence of mundane supernatural forces. His style is much superior to that of his son. See Tyler’s American Literature; Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Mather, Moses. Ct., 1719-1806. A Congregational clergyman of Darien, Connecticut, from 1744 till his death, who was of much prominence in his day as a controversialist. Systematic View of Divinity; Infant Baptism Defended; Election Sermons. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Mather, Richard. E., 1596-1669. A Puritan clergyman who came from England in 1635, and was minister at Dorchester, 1636-69. He was a man of large influence in the colony, and was one of the three divines who prepared The Bay Psalm Book. A Treatise on Justification is as important as any of his many writings. See Life by I. Mather; Tyler’s American Literature.

Mather, Samuel. Ms., 1706-1785. Son of C. Mather, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston who succeeded his father and grandfather as pastor of the North Church, but in 1741 became the head of a new church, of which he was pastor till his death. Among his writings are, Life of Cotton Mather, supra; Essay on Gratitude; America Known to the Ancients, an attempt to prove the Japhetic origin of the first inhabitants of the American continent. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit.

Mather, William Williams. Ct., 1804-1859. A geologist of Ohio. Geology of the First Geological District.

Mathews, Albert. N. Y., 1820-1903. A lawyer of New York city. Walter Ashwood, a Love Story; A Bundle of Papers, by Paul Siegvolk; Thoughts on Codification of the Common Law; Ruminations, and Other Essays. Put.

Mathews, Cornelius. N. Y., 1817-1889. Cousin of A. Mathews, supra. An author and playwright of New York city, among whose non-dramatic works are, Indian Book of Fairy Tales; The Enchanted Moccasins, and Other Legends; Money-Penny: a romance. Jacob Leisler; The Politicians; Witchcraft, comprise some of his plays.

Mathews, James McFarlane. N. Y., 1785-1870. A Reformed Dutch clergyman of New York city, at one period chancellor of the University of the City of New York. What is Your Life?; The Bible and Men of Learning; Fifty Years in New York.

Mathews, Joanna Hooe. N. Y., 1849-1901. Daughter of J. M. Mathews, supra. A writer of Sunday-school tales, among which are, The Bessie Books; The Sunbeams. Cas.

Mathews, Julia A——. 183- - ——. Daughter of J. M. Mathews, supra. A writer of Sunday-school fiction, among which are, The Bessie Harrington’s Venture; Jack Granger’s Cousin; Drayton Hall Series. Ran.

Mathews, William. Me., 1818- ——. An educator and essayist of Chicago, and later of Boston. Hours with Men and Books; Getting on in the World; The Great Conversers; Literary Style; Men, Places, and Things; Oratory and Orators; Wit and Humor, their Use and Abuse; Nugæ Litterariæ. Rob. Sc.

Mathews, William Smith Babcock. N. H., 1837- ——. A musical critic of Chicago. Outline of Musical Form; Dictionary of Music and Musicians; How to Understand Music; New Musical Miscellanies.

Matthews, [James] Brander. La., 1852- ——. A littérateur of New York city. Among his many writings the more important are, The Theatres of Paris; French Dramatists of the 19th Century; Margery’s Lovers, a Comedy; The Last Meeting, a Story; The Secret of the Sea, and Other Stories; A Family Tree, and Other Stories; The Story of a Story; Tom Paulding; Studies of the Stage; Americanisms and Briticisms; Vignettes of Manhattan; His Father’s Son; Introduction to the Study of American Literature; The Royal Marine; Tales of Fantasy and Fact. Har. Scr.

Matthews, James Newton. Ind., 1852- ——. A physician and verse-writer of Mason, Illinois. Tempe Vale, and Other Poems, includes many of his contributions to The Century and other periodicals. Ke.

Matthews, Stanley. 1824-1889. A Cincinnati jurist, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1881. A Summary of the Law of Partnership for the Use of Business Men. Clke.

Matthews, Washington. I., 1843- ——. A surgeon in the regular army, well known as an ethnologist. Among his writings are included a Grammar of the Language of the Hidatsa; Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians; Gentile Organization of the Navajo Indians.

Mattison, Hiram. N. Y., 1811-1868. A Methodist clergyman of New York city, active as a controversialist. Bible Doctrine of Immortality; The Trinity and Modern Arianism; Tracts for the Times; Impending Crisis; Defence of American Methodism; Popular Amusements, include his chief works. Meth.

Maturin [măt´u-rĭn], Edward. I., 1821-1881. An educator of New York city. Beside Lyrics of Spain and Erin, he was the author of several historical novels, comprising Eva; Bianca; Montezuma; Benjamin: the Jew of Grenada. Har.

Maury [maw´rĭ], Ann. E., 1803-1876. Cousin of M. F. Maury, infra. Memoirs of a Huguenot Family.

Maury, Dabney Herndon. Va., 1822-1900. Nephew of M. F. Maury, infra. A Confederate major-general in the Civil War. Skirmish Drill for Mounted Troops; Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars. Scr.

Maury, Matthew Fontaine. Va., 1806-1873. A once famous scientist, for many years in charge of the Hydrographical Office at Washington, as well as of the Naval Observatory. During the Civil War he entered the Confederate service, and from 1868-73 was a professor in the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington. Treatise on Navigation; Physical Geography of the Sea; Wind and Current Charts; Physical Geography for Schools; The World we Live In. See North British Review, May, 1858; Life by his daughter, Mrs. Corbin; Manly’s Southern Literature.

Maury, Mrs. Sarah Mytton [Hughes]. E., 1808-1849. Sister-in-law of A. Maury, supra. Etchings from the Caracci; The Englishwoman in America; The Statesmen of America; Progress of the Catholic Church in America.

May, Caroline. E., c. 1820- ——. A writer of New York city. American Female Poets; The Woodbine, a Holiday Gift; Poems; Hymns on the Collects; Lays of Memory and Affection.

May, Edith. See Drinker, Mrs.

May, John Wilder. Ms., 1819-1883. A jurist of Boston. The Law of Insurance; Law of Crimes; Criminal Law. Lit.

May, Margaret. See Tucker, Mrs.

May, Samuel. Ms., 1810-1899. A retired Unitarian clergyman of Leicester, Massachusetts, of prominence in the anti-slavery movement, and author of The Fugitive Slave Law and its Victims.

May, Samuel Joseph. Ms., 1797-1871. Cousin of S. May, supra. A Unitarian clergyman of Syracuse prominent in the anti-slavery cause, and also in educational reforms. Education of the Faculties; Revival of Education; Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict. See Memoir, 1873.

May, Sophie. See Clarke, Rebecca.

Mayer, Alfred Marshall. Md., 1836-1897. Nephew of B. Mayer, infra. An astronomer, professor of physics in Stevens Institute at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1871. Light (with C. Barnard); Notes on Physics; The Earth a Great Magnet; Sound; Sport with Gun and Rod in American Woods and Waters (edited). Ap. Cent.

Mayer, Brantz. Md., 1809-1879. A lawyer and journalist of Baltimore, and an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Mexico as It Was and as It Is; Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and Republican; Observations on Mexican History and Archæology; Mexican Antiquities; Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver; Memoir of Jared Sparks, infra.

Mayer, Lewis. Pa., 1783-1849. A German Reformed clergyman of eastern Pennsylvania. Lectures on Scriptural Subjects; The Sin Against the Holy Ghost; History of the German Reformed Church.

Mayhew, Experience. Ms., 1673-1758. A missionary to the Indians of Martha’s Vineyard. Indian Converts; Grace Defended.

Mayhew, Jonathan. Ms., 1720-1766. Son of Experience Mayhew, supra. A Congregational clergyman of Boston, pastor of the West Church, 1747-66. He was a bold thinker both in religion and politics, and his influence over the colonial mind at an eventful period was very great. He was as eloquent as he was original and independent. A noted Sermon on the Repeal of the Stamp Act is an effective example of his style. Seven Sermons; Sermons to Young Men. See Memoir by Alden Bradford, 1838.

Maynard, Charles Johnson. Ms., 1845- ——. A naturalist of Newton, Massachusetts. The Naturalist’s Guide; The Birds of Florida; The Birds of Eastern North America; A Manual of Taxidermy; The Butterflies of New England.

Mayo, Amory Dwight. Ms., 1823- ——. A Unitarian clergyman, prominent since the Civil War in educational matters in the Southern States. Graces and Powers of the Christian Life; Symbols of the Capitol; Religion in Common Schools; Talks with Teachers.

Mayo, Robert. Va., 1784-1864. A writer long in the civil service at Washington. View of Ancient Geography and History; New System of Mythology; United States Pension Laws; Synopsis of the Commercial and Revenue System; The Treasury Department, its Origin and Operations.

Mayo, Mrs. Sarah Carter [Edgarton]. Ms., 1819-1848. Wife of A. D. Mayo, supra. The Palfreys; Ellen Clifford, and several compilations of verse and prose.

Mayo, William Starbuck. N. Y., 1812-1895. A novelist and physician of New York city. Kaloolah; The Berber; Never Again; Flood and Field; Romance Dust, a collection of short stories. Put.

Mead, Charles Marsh. Vt., 1836- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor at Andover Seminary, 1866-1882, and since the latter date a resident in Germany. He published The Soul Here and Hereafter, a Biblical Study; Christ and Criticism; Supernatural Revelation. Ran.

Mead, Edwin Doak. N. H., 1849- ——. A Boston writer and lecturer upon social and historical topics, and editor of The New England Magazine (1897). Martin Luther: a Study of the Reformation; The Philosophy of Carlyle; The Roman Church and the Public Schools. El.

Meade, William. Va., 1789-1862. The third Protestant Episcopal bishop of Virginia. Family Prayers; Old Churches of Virginia; Lectures on the Pastoral Office; Reasons for Loving the Episcopal Church. See Memorial by J. Johns.

Mears, John William. Pa., 1825-1881. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor in Hamilton College, 1870-81. The Bible in the Workshop; The Martyrs of France; The Beggars of Holland; The Story of Madagascar; The Heroes of Bohemia; From Exile to Overthrow.

Meehan, Thomas. E., 1826-1901. A botanist and nurseryman of Germantown, Philadelphia, editor and publisher of “Meehan’s Monthly,” a popular journal devoted to botany and floriculture. American Handbook of Ornamental Trees; Flowers and Ferns of the United States.

Meek, Alexander Beaufort. S. C., 1814-1865. An Alabama jurist and journalist. Red Eagle; Songs and Poems of the South; Romantic Passages in Southern History.

Meek, Fielding Bradford. Ind., 1817-1876. A palæontologist in government service. Palæontology of the Upper Missouri; Check List of North American Invertebrate Fossils; Report on Fossils of the Upper Missouri Country.

Megapolensis, Johannes. Hd., 1603-1670. A Dutch clergyman of the New Amsterdam colony, the first Protestant missionary to the Indians. His Short Account of the Mohawk Indians appeared in 1651.

Meigs [mĕgs], Charles Delucena. Ba., 1792-1869. A noted Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical College, 1841-61. Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery; Science and Art of Obstetrics; Treatment of Child-Bed Fevers; Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus, and several translations from French medical writers. See Memoir by J. F. Meigs, infra; Allibone’s Dictionary; Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Meigs, James Aitkin. Pa., 1829-1879. A physician and naturalist of Philadelphia, author of Cranial Characteristics, and other scientific monographs. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries.

Meigs, John Forsyth. Pa., 1818-1882. Son of C. D. Meigs, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Memoir of C. D. Meigs, supra; Diseases of Children.

Meigs, Return Jonathan. Ct., 1734-1823. A noted soldier in the American Revolution. Journal of Occurrences during the Expedition to Quebec.

Meigs, Return Jonathan. Ky., 1801-1891. Grand-nephew of R. J. Meigs, supra. A noted lawyer of Tennessee. Reports of Tennessee Supreme Court Cases; Digest of Tennessee Decisions; The Code of Tennessee.

Meline, James Florant. N. Y., 1811-1873. A New York writer, an officer in the Federal army during the Civil War. Two Thousand Miles on Horseback; Commercial Travelling; Mary Queen of Scots and her Latest English Historian, an attack upon Froude’s view of the subject; Life of Sixtus V. Clke.

Melish, John. S., 1771-1822. A once noted traveller of Scottish birth. Travels in the United States, etc.; Description of the Roads, etc.; Description of the United States (1816); Necessity of Protecting Manufactures; Information for Emigrants; Statistical View of the United States.

Mell, Patrick Hues. Ga., 1811-1888. A Baptist clergyman and educator of Georgia, vice-chancellor of the University of Georgia. Baptism; Corrective Church Discipline; Parliamentary Practice; The Philosophy of Prayer; Church Polity; Predestination.

Mellen, Grenville. Me., 1799-1841. A lawyer and littérateur of New York city, whose verse was once very popular and much praised by critics, but is now forgotten. Our Chronicle of ’26, a satire; The Martyr’s Triumph, and Other Poems; The Passions; Glad Tales and Sad Tales, a collection of tales in prose; The Rest of the Nations. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Mellick, Andrew D——. N. J., 1844-1895. A lawyer of Plainfield, New Jersey. The Story of an Old Farm; The Hessians in New Jersey.

Melville, George Wallace. N. Y., 1841- ——. Chief of the Bureau of Steam-Engineering in the United States navy from 1887. A survivor of the ill-fated “Jeannette,” of which he was engineer. In the Lena Delta, a Narrative of the Search for Lieut.-Commander De Long and his Companions. Hou.

Melville, Herman. N. Y., 1819-1891. A novelist of New York city, for many years employed in the custom-house. His earliest writings were very popular, but had nearly passed out of remembrance before the author’s death. Typee; Omoo; White Jacket; Redburn; Mardi; Pierre; Israel Potter; The Piazza Tales; Moby Dick; The Confidence Man; Battle Pieces, a volume of verse; Clarel, a poem; John Marr and Other Sailors; Timoleon, a collection of poems. Har.

Mendenhall, James William. O., 1844-1892. A Methodist clergyman, editor of The Methodist Review from 1888. Echoes from Palestine; Plato and Paul. Meth.

Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin. O., 1841- ——. A prominent scientist, president of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1894, and author of A Century of Electricity. Hou.

Menken, Adah Isaacs. La., 1835-1868. An actress of Jewish birth whose name originally was Dolores Adios Fuertes. She was several times married and divorced, but is known by the name of her first husband. Her verse is morbid, but still finds occasional readers. Memories; Infelicia. See Every Saturday, September 12, 1868. Lip.

Mercein, Thomas Fitz Randolph. N. Y., 1825-1856. A Methodist clergyman of New York State. Natural Goodness; The Wise Master Builder; Childhood and the Church. Meth.

Mercer, Charles Fenton. Va., 1778-1858. A congressman from Virginia, 1816-40, prominent as an opponent of slavery. The Weakness and Inefficiency of the Government of the United States was not published until 1863.

Mercur, James. Pa., 1842-1896. A scientist and army officer, professor at West Point from 1884. Elements of the Art of War; Military Mines, Blasting, and Demolitions. Wil.

Meriwether, Mrs. Elizabeth [Avery]. Tn., 1832- ——. A novelist of Memphis, Tennessee. The Master of Red Leaf; Black and White; The Ku Klux Klan; My First and Last Love.

Meriwether, Lee. Mi., 1862- ——. Son of Mrs. Meriwether, supra. A special agent of the United States Bureau of Labor. A Tramp Trip: how to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day; The Tramp at Home; Afloat and Ashore on the Mediterranean. Har. Scr.

Merriam, Augustus Chapman. N. Y., 1843-1895. A Greek scholar, adjunct professor of Greek at Columbia College. Law Code of Gortynia in Crete; Inscriptions on the Obelisk Crab; The Phæacians of Homer; Sixth and Seventh Books of Herodotus. Har.

Merriam, Clinton Hart. N. Y., 1855- ——. A naturalist of note, chief of the United States Biological Survey. Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region; Mammals of the Adirondacks. Ho.

Merriam, Florence Augusta. N. Y., 1863- ——. Sister of C. H. Merriam, supra. A Washington writer. A-Birding on a Bronco; My Summer in a Mormon Village; Birds Through an Opera Glass. Hou.

Merriam, George Spring. Ms., 1843- ——. A littérateur of Springfield, Massachusetts. A Living Faith; Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, supra; The Way of Life; The Story of William and Lucy Smith; A Symphony of the Spirit; The Chief End of Man; Reminiscences and Letters of Caroline C. Briggs. Cent. El. Hou.

Merrill, Ayres Phillips. Ms., 1793-1873. A physician of Memphis, and subsequently of New York city. Lectures on Fevers.

Merrill, George Perkins. Me., 1854- ——. A geologist, professor in Columbian University, Washington, from 1893. Stones for Building and Decoration; Handbook of the Geological Department, Smithsonian Institution.

Merrill, Selah. Ct., 1837- ——. A Congregational clergyman and archæologist, United States consul at Jerusalem, 1882-86. East of the Jordan; Galilee in the Time of Christ; Greek Inscriptions Collected in 1875-77 East of the Jordan; The Site of Calvary. Scr.

Merrill, Stephen Mason. O., 1825- ——. A Methodist bishop in Ohio. Christian Baptism; New Testament Idea of Hell; The Second Coming of Christ; Aspects of Christian Experience; Digest of Methodist Law; Outlines of Thought on Probation; Mary of Nazareth and Her Family. Meth.

Merrill, William Emory. Wis., 1837- ——. A military engineer in the United States army. Iron Truss Bridges; Improvement of Tidal Rivers.

Merriman, Mansfield. Ct., 1841- ——. A civil engineer, professor at Lehigh University from 1881. Continuous Bridges; Elements of the Method of Least Squares; The Figure of the Earth; Mechanics of Materials; Treatise on Hydraulics; Text-Book on Retaining Walls and Masonry Dams; Introduction to Geodetic Surveying; Text-Book on Roofs and Bridges. Ho.

Merritt, Timothy. Ct., 1775-1845. A Methodist clergyman and journalist. Christian Manual; Convert’s Guide; Discussion against Universal Salvation; Validity of Infant Baptism; Lectures on Universal Salvation (with W. Fiske, supra).

Merwin, Elias. Ct., 1825-1891. A Boston lawyer, professor of equity in Boston University from 1854. The Principles of Equity and Equity Pleading. Hou.

Merwin, Henry Childs. Ms., 1853- ——. Son of E. Merwin, supra. A Boston lawyer living in Concord, Massachusetts. The Patentability of Inventions; Road, Track, and Stable, a book about Horses. Lit.

Messenger, Mrs. Lilian Roselle. Ky., 1853- ——. In the Heart of America (verse); The Vision of Gold, and Other Poems.

Metcalf, Richard. R. I., 1829-1881. A Unitarian clergyman, pastor at Winchester, Massachusetts, 1866-81. Letter and Spirit; The Abiding Memory, a collection of Sermons. A. U. A.

Metcalf, Theron. Ms., 1784-1875. A jurist of Massachusetts. Principles of the Law of Contracts; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Court Cases, 1816-1823; Reports, 1840-1849.

Metcalfe, Henry. N. Y., 1847- ——. An instructor of ordnance at West Point who has published The Cost of Manufactures; Ordnance and Gunnery. Wil.

Metcalfe, Samuel L——. Va., 1798-1856. A physician and scientist of New York city. Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West; New Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism; Caloric. Lip.

Michie [my´key], Peter Smith. S., 1839-1901. A military engineer, professor of mathematics at West Point from 1871. Wave Motion Relating to Sound and Light; Life of General Upton, infra; Analytical Mechanics; Hydromechanics; Practical Astronomy (with Harlow). Wil.

Middleton, Henry. F., 1797-1876. A once prominent writer of Charleston. Prospects of Disunion; The Government and the Currency; Economical Causes of Slavery in the United States, and Obstacles to its Abolition; The Government of India; Universal Suffrage.

Milburn, William Henry. Pa., 1823-1903. A Methodist clergyman, famous as “the blind preacher,” who has been six times chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; Pioneers and People of the Mississippi Valley.

Miles, George Henry. Md., 1824-1871. A Maryland lawyer and educator, professor of English literature at Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmettsburg, Maryland, popular at one period as a verse-writer and dramatist. Besides his dramas, Cromwell; Mahomet; De Soto, he published Christine, and Other Poems; Abu Hassan the Wag, or the Sleeper Awakened; A Review of Hamlet; The Truce of God.

Miles, Henry Adolphus. Ms., 1809-1895. A Unitarian clergyman of Eastern Massachusetts. Lowell as It Was and Is (1845); Grains of Gold; Gospel Narratives; Words of a Friend; Modern Ideas of the Birth of Jesus; Traces of Picture Writing in the Bible. El.

Miles, James Warley. S. C., 1818-1875. An Episcopal clergyman of Charleston. Philosophic Theology, or Ultimate Grounds of all Religious Belief based on Reason (1849).

Miles, Nelson Appleton. Ms., 1839- ——. A noted soldier of the United States army who served as a brigadier-general of volunteers during the Civil War. He became a major-general in 1890. Personal Recollections.

Miles, Pliny. N. Y., 1818-1865. A traveller who made his home in London in his later years. Statistical Register; Elements of Mnemotechny, or Art of Memory; Northufari, or Rambles in Iceland; Ocean Steam Navigation; Postal Reform.

Miley, John. O., 1813-1895. A Methodist minister and educator, professor of systematic theology in Drew Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, from 1873. The Atonement in Christ; Systematic Theology.

Millard, David. N. Y., 1794-1873. A minister of the Christian denomination, professor at Meadville Seminary, Pennsylvania, 1845-67. The True Messiah Exalted; Journal of Travels in Egypt, etc., 1841. See Life by D. E. Millard, 1874.

Miller, Mrs. Annie [Jenness]. N. H., 1859- ——. A dress reformer of New York city, publisher of The Jenness Miller Magazine. Physical Beauty; Mother and Babe; Barbara Thayer, a novel. Le.

Miller, Charles Henry. N. Y., 1842- ——. An art critic of New York city. The Philosophy of Art in America.

Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner. “Joaquin Miller.” Ind., 1841- ——. A poet and prose-writer who, after a life of adventure in California, went to London in 1870, and speedily became famous as the author of Songs of the Sierras. For a time his work continued popular, but his fame has since greatly declined, though his writings continue to be read. Since 1887 he has lived in Oakland, California. His more important works include, Songs of the Sierras; The Ship of the Desert; Songs of the Sunland; in prose: The Danites in the Sierras; Shadows of Shasta; Memorie and Rime; ’49, or the Gold Seekers of the Sierras; The One Fair Woman; The Destruction of Gotham; The Building of the City Beautiful, a poetic romance. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement; Vedder’s American Writers. Fu. St.

Miller, Elihu Spencer. N. J., 1817-1879. Son of S. Miller, infra. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor in the University of Pennsylvania. Treatise on the Law of Partition by Writ in Pennsylvania; Caprices, a volume of verse.

Miller, Mrs. Emily Clark Huntington. Ct., 1833- ——. An educator of Evanston, Illinois, president of the Woman’s College of the Northwestern University, and a popular writer of semi-religious fiction for young people. Among her various writings are, From Avalon and Other Poems; The Royal Road to Fortune; The Kirkwood Series; Captain Fritz; Little Neighbors. Dut.

Miller, Mrs. Harriet Mann. “Olive Thorne Miller.” N. Y., 1831- ——. A writer of Brooklyn whose books and magazine articles upon birds have been widely popular. A Bird-Lover in the West; Little Brothers of the Air; Bird-Ways; In Nesting Time; Four-Handed Folk; Little Folks in Feathers and Fur; Nimpo’s Troubles; Queer Pets at Marcy’s; Our Home Pets; Little People of Asia. Dut. Har. Hou.

Miller, James Russell. Pa., 1840- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Week Day Religion; Home Making; In His Steps; Silent Time; Come Ye Apart; The Marriage Altar; Practical Religion; Bits of Pasture; Making the Most of Life; Mary of Bethany; The Dew of Thy Youth; The Every Day of Life. Rev.

Miller, Joaquin. See Miller, C. H.

Miller, John. N. J., 1819-1895. Son of S. Miller, infra. A Presbyterian clergyman who was a colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and who lived in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1871. He was tried for heresy, but allowed to withdraw from the Presbytery, and subsequently established several independent churches in the vicinity of Princeton. Design of the Church; Commentary on the Proverbs; Fetich in Theology; Metaphysics; Are Souls Immortal?; Was Christ in Adam?; Is God a Creed?; Theology; Commentary on Romans. Ran.

Miller, Mrs. Minnie [Willis] [Baines]. N. H., 1845- ——. A religious writer of Springfield, Ohio. The Silent Land; His Cousin the Doctor; The Pilgrim Vision.

Miller, Olive Thorne. See Miller, Mrs. Harriet.

Miller, Samuel. Del., 1769-1850. A Presbyterian clergyman, pastor of the Brick Church, New York city, 1793-1813, and professor of ecclesiastical history at Princeton Theological Seminary for the remainder of his life. Presbyterianism the Truly Primitive and Apostolic Constitution of the Church of Christ; Letters on Clerical Habits and Manners; Letters on Unitarians; Life of Jonathan Edwards; Letters on the Christian Ministry; Letters on Church Government, include his more important writings. See Life by his son.

Miller, Samuel Freeman. Ky., 1816-1890. A jurist of Kentucky, and after 1850 of Iowa; a strong opponent of slavery. The Supreme Court of the United States, a series of Biographies; Reports of Supreme Court Decisions.

Miller, Stephen Franks. N. C., c. 1810-1867. A once noted Georgia lawyer. Bench and Bar of Georgia; Wilkins Wylder, or the Successful Man; Memoir of General Blackshear and the War in Georgia, 1813-14. Lip.

Millet, Francis Davis. Ms., 1846- ——. An artist and littérateur of New York city. A Capillary Crime, and Other Stories; The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. Har.

Milligan, Robert. I., 1814-1875. A Campbellite clergyman and educator, president of Kentucky University, 1859-66. Brief Treatise on Prayer; Reason and Revelation; Scheme of Redemption; The Great Commission; Analysis of the New Testament Commentary on Hebrews.

Mills, Abraham. N. Y., 1769-1867. A once popular educator of New York city who, besides editing a number of text-books, was author of Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland; Outlines of Rhetoric; Poets and Poetry of the Ancient Greeks; Compendium of the History of the Ancient Hebrews. Har.

Mills, Charles Karsner. Pa., 1845- ——. A physician of Philadelphia, a specialist in nervous diseases. The Nursing and Care of the Nervous and Insane.

Mills, Robert. S. C., 1781-1855. An architect of Washington, the original designer of the Washington Monument. Statistics of South Carolina; American Pharos, or Lighthouse Guide; Guide to the National Executive Offices.

Miner, Alonzo Ames. N. H., 1814-1895. A prominent Universalist clergyman of Boston. Bible Exercises; Right and Duty of Prohibition; Old Forts Taken. See Life by Emerson, 1896.

Miner, Charles. Ct., 1780-1865. A journalist of the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. History of Wyoming; Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert.

Mines, John Flavel. F., 1835-1891. A journalist of New York city. The Heroes of the Last Lustre, a poem; A Tour Around New York by Mr. Felix Oldboy. Har.

Minifie, William. E., 1805-1880. An architect and educator of Baltimore. Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing; Text-Book of Geometrical Drawing; Theory and Application of Color; Popular Lectures on Drawing and Design.

Minor, John Barbee. Va., 1813-1895. A professor of law in the University of Virginia. Virginia Report of 1799-1800; Synopsis of the Law of Crimes and Punishments; Institutes of Common and Statute Law.

Minor, Lucian. Va., 1802-1858. Brother of J. B. Minor, supra. A lawyer of Williamsburg, Virginia. Reasons for Abolishing the Liquor Traffic; Travels in New England.

Minot, Henry Davis. Ms., 1859-1890. At the time of his death a railway president in Minnesota. While a schoolboy of Roxbury, Massachusetts, he wrote at the age of sixteen The Land-Birds and Game-Birds of New England. Hou.

Minot, William. Ms., 1849-1900. A Boston lawyer. Taxation in Massachusetts (1877); Local Taxation and Municipal Extravagance.

Minturn, Robert Bowne. N. Y., 1836- ——. From New York to Delhi, a popular book of travels.

Mitchel, Frederick Augustus. 1839- ——. A son of O. M. Mitchel, infra. Fiction editor of the American Press Association. Chattanooga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Chickamauga, a Romance of the American Civil War; Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, Astronomer and General. Hou.

Mitchel, Ormsby MacKnight. Ky., 1810-1862. An astronomer of distinction, director of the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and a prominent Union general in the Civil War. Planetary and Stellar Worlds; The Orbs of Heaven; Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, etc.; Astronomy of the Bible. See Headley’s Old Stars; Popular Science Monthly, March, 1884; Life by F. A. Mitchel.

Mitchell, Annie Maria. Ms., 1847- ——. A writer of religious juveniles, among which are Martha’s Gift; Freed Boy in Alabama.

Mitchell, Donald Grant. “Ik Marvel.” Ct., 1822- ——. A littérateur of New Haven, who is best known by his earlier and still popular works, Dream Life; Reveries of a Bachelor, books of a pleasantly sentimental cast. His other works include, My Farm at Edgewood; Dr. Johns, a novel; Rural Studies; Fresh Gleaning from the Old Fields of Europe; The Battle Summer, or Paris in 1848; The Lorgnette; Fudge Doings; Seven Stories; Wet Days at Edgewood; About Old Story-Tellers; The Woodbridge Record, a genealogy; Bound Together: a Sheaf of Papers; Out of Town Places, a revision of Rural Studies; English Lands, Letters, and Kings; American Lands and Letters. Scr.

Mitchell, Edward Coppée. Ga., 1836-1887. A real estate lawyer of Philadelphia. Separate Use in Pennsylvania; Contracts for Land Sales in Pennsylvania; Equitable Relations of Buyer and Seller.

Mitchell, Edward Cushing. Ms., 1829-1900. Grandson of N. Mitchell, infra. A Baptist clergyman and educator, president of Leland University, New Orleans, from 1887. Les Sources du Nouveau Testament; Hebrew Introduction; Guide to the Authenticity, Canon, and Text of the New Testament; The Critical Handbook.

Mitchell, Elisha. Ct., 1793-1857. An educator of note, professor of geology in the University of North Carolina from 1825. While exploring the mountain region of North Carolina, he lost his life. He is buried on the summit of the mountain bearing his name. Elements of Geology; Reports on North Carolina Geology.

Mitchell, Henry. Ms., 1830-1902. A hydrographer of prominence, among whose scientific monographs are, Physical Hydrography of the Maine Coast; The Estuary of the Delaware; Reclamation of Tide Lands.

Mitchell, Hinckley Gilbert. N. Y., 1846- ——. A Methodist clergyman and educator, a professor at Boston University from 1883. Final Constructions of Biblical Hebrew; Hebrew Lessons; Amos, an Essay in Exegesis; The Pentateuch.

Mitchell, James Tyndale. Il., 1834- ——. A jurist of Philadelphia. History of the District Court; Mitchell on Motions and Rules.

Mitchell, John. Ct., 1794-1870. A Congregational minister of Stratford, Connecticut. Letters to a Disbeliever in Revivals; Notes from Over the Sea; Reminiscences of College Scenes and Characters; My Mother; Rachel Kell, or the Diamond.

Mitchell, John Ames. Ms., 1845- ——. A journalist of New York city, founder of Life in 1883, and its editor from that date. The Summer School of Philosophy at Mount Desert; The Romance of the Moon; The Last American; Amos Judd, a novel; That First Affair, and Other Stories. Ho. Scr.

Mitchell, John Kearsley. W. Va., 1798-1858. A physician of Philadelphia, of eminence as a medical lecturer. Indecision, and Other Poems; St. Helena: a poem; Remote Consequences of Injuries of Nerves; Cryptogamic Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers; Five Essays on Fevers. See Gross’s Sketches of Contemporaries. Lip.

Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn. “John Philip Varley.” Pa., 1862- ——. Son of S. W. Mitchell, infra. A verse-writer of promise. Sylvian, a Tragedy; Poems; Love in the Backwoods, prose stories. Har. Hou.

Mitchell, Mrs. Lucy Myers [Wright]. Per., 1845-1888. An archæologist (the wife of S. S. Mitchell, an artist), who spent much of her life abroad. Her only writing, a History of Ancient Sculpture, is one of the best books in English upon Greek art. Do.

Mitchell, Maria. Ms., 1818-1889. Sister of H. Mitchell, supra. A distinguished astronomer, professor at Vassar College from 1865. Her scientific papers have not [1897] been collected. See Mrs. Hale’s Woman’s Record; Life by Mrs. Kendall.

Mitchell, Nahum. Ms., 1769-1853. An eminent jurist of Massachusetts, well known in his day as a musical composer. History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater; Grammar of Music.

Mitchell, Samuel Augustus. 1792-1888. A noted geographer of Philadelphia who besides publishing a series of geographies was author also of General View of the World; New Traveller’s Guide.

Mitchell, Silas Weir. Pa., 1829- ——. Son of J. K. Mitchell, supra. A distinguished physician of Philadelphia, well known also as novelist and poet. His professional writings include Wear and Tear, or Hints for the Overworked; Injuries of the Nerves; Nurse and Patient; Fat and Blood; Doctor and Patient. In fiction he has published Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker; Hephzibah Guinness; In War Time; Roland Blake; Far in the Forest; Philip Vernon; Prince Little Boy, and Other Tales out of Fairy Land; Characteristics; A Madeira Party; When all the Woods are Green; and, in verse, Francis Drake, a Tragedy of the Sea; The Mother, and Other Poems; The Cup of Youth; The Hill of Stones, and Other Poems; A Psalm of Death; A Masque, and Other Poems. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Cent. Hou. Lip.

Mitchell, Walter. Ms., 1826- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city. Two Strings to His Bow; Bryan Maurice, a novel; Poems. Tacking Ship off Shore is the poem by which he is best known. Hou. Wh.

Mitchell, William. Ct., 1793-1867. Brother of John Mitchell, supra. A Congregational minister of Texas who published A Doctrinal Guide for Young Christians; Coleridge and the Moral Tendency of his Writings.

Mitchill, Samuel Latham. L. I., 1764-1831. A once famous physician and man of letters of New York city who filled there a position very similar to that of Oliver Wendell Holmes in Boston at a later day, the two men having many points of resemblance. He was long a professor of chemistry in Columbia College, and for more than a generation one of the prominent literary and social figures of the metropolis. Among his writings are: Life of Tammany, the Indian Chief; Picture of New York; Description of Schooley’s Mountain. See Reminiscences of, by J. W. Francis, 1859; Allibone’s Dictionary.

Moak, Nathaniel Cleveland. N. Y., 1833-1892. An Albany lawyer. Albany Penitentiary Statutes; English Reports; English Digest.

Moffat, James Clement. S., 1811-1890. A Presbyterian clergyman and educator, professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1853-90. Comparative History of Religions; Life of Dr. Chalmers; Song and Scenery, or a Summer Ramble in Scotland; Alwyn, a Romance of Study (verse); The Church in Scotland; Church History in Brief; Rhyme of the North Countrie; The Story of a Dedicated Life. Do. Ran.

Mombert, Jacob Isidor. G., 1829- ——. An Episcopal clergyman of Paterson, New Jersey. Faith Victorious; Handbook of the English Versions of the Bible; Great Lives; History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; History of Charles the Great; Short History of the Crusades. Ap. Ran.

Monfort, Francis Cassatt. Ind., 1844- ——. A Presbyterian minister and editor of Cincinnati. Sermons for Silent Sabbaths; Socialism and City Evangelization.

Monroe, Harriet. Il., 1860- ——. A verse-writer of Chicago. Valeria, and Other Poems; Life of John Wellborn Root; The Passing Show. Hou. Mg.

Monroe, James. Va., 1758-1831. The fifth President of the United States. An able though not brilliant statesman. State Papers; Tour of Observation in 1817; The People: the Sovereigns; View of the Conduct of the Executive in the Foreign Affairs of the United States. See Lives by J. Q. Adams, 1850, D. C. Gilman, 1885; Concise History of the Monroe Doctrine by G. F. Tucker, 1885; Appletons’ American Biography.

Montague, Charles Howard. Ms., 1858-1889. A journalist of Boston, city editor of The Globe. The Romance of the Lilies; The Face of Rosenfel; Two Strokes of the Bell; The Doctor’s Mistake; The Countess Muta.

Montague, William Lewis. Ms., 1831- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor of modern languages at Amherst College from 1862. Comparative Spanish Grammar; Manual of Italian Grammar; Introduction to Italian Literature.

Montefiore, Joshua. E., 1762-1843. A Hebrew lawyer, brother of Sir Moses Montefiore, who came to the United States, and settled in St. Albans, Vermont. Commercial and Notatorial Precedents; Commercial Dictionary; Traders’ Compendium; United States Traders’ Compendium; Law and Treatise on Bookkeeping; Laws of Land and Sea.

Montgomery, George Washington. Sp., 1804-1841. A United States consul at Tampico. Tarcas de un Solitario, a collection of tales; El Bastarde de Castilla; Journey to Guatemala in 1838.

Montgomery, George Washington. Me., 1810-1898. A Universalist clergyman of Rochester, New York. Illustrations of the Law of Kindness; Sermons.

Montgomery, Marcus Whitman. N. Y., 1839-1894. A Congregational clergyman, instructor in Chicago Theological Seminary from 1890. History of Jay County, Indiana; A Wind from the Holy Spirit; The Mormon Delusion.

Monti, Luigi. Sy., 1830- ——. An educator of New York city who appears in Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn as “The Young Sicilian.” An American Consul Abroad; Leone, a novel. Le.

Mooar, George. Ms., 1830- ——. A Congregational clergyman, professor in Pacific Theological Seminary at Oakland, California, from 1870. The Religion of Loyalty; Prominent Characteristics of Congregational Churches.

Moody, Dwight Lyman. Ms., 1837-1899. A celebrated evangelist. Among his more important writings are The Second Coming of Christ; The Way and the Word; Secret Power; The Way to God; Glad Tidings; Great Joy; To All People; Bible Characters; How to Study the Bible. Ran. Rev.

Moody, James. N. J., 1744-1809. A New Jersey farmer, active as a Royalist spy during the Revolution. Lieutenant James Moody’s Narrative of his Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government.

Moody, Samuel. Ms., 1676-1747. A once famous Congregational clergyman. The Doleful State of the Damned; Judas Hung in Chains.

Moore, Mrs. Annie Aubertine [Woodward]. “Auber Forestier.” Pa., 1841- ——. A Wisconsin translator of note from the Norse; co-translator with Anderson of Björnson’s novels, and editor of Echoes from Mist Land. See Bibliography of Wisconsin. Sc.

Moore, Mrs. Bloomfield. See Bloomfield-Moore, Mrs. Clara.

Moore, Charles Herbert. N. Y., 1840- ——. A professor of art at Harvard University. The Development and Character of Gothic Architecture, a work of much value; Examples for Elementary Practice in Delineation. Hou. Mac.

Moore, Charles Leonard. Pa., 1854- ——. A lawyer and verse-writer of Philadelphia. Poems Antique and Modern; Banquet of Palacios, a Comedy; A Book of Day Dreams (verse). Ho.

Moore, Clement Clarke. N. Y., 1779-1863. An educator of New York city, professor of Oriental literature in the General Theological Seminary, 1821-63. He published a Hebrew-English Lexicon and a volume of Poems, but is more widely known as the author of the famous poem, The Visit of St. Nicholas.

Moore, David Albert. “Paul Wright.” N. Y., 1814- ——. A physician of Syracuse. A Panorama of Time; How She Won Him.

Moore, Erasmus Darwin. Ct., 1802-1889. A Congregational minister and editor of Boston. Life Scenes in Mission Fields; The New Heart.

Moore, Frank. N. H., c. 1828- ——. Son of J. B. Moore, infra. A writer of New York city who has edited a Cyclopædia of American Eloquence; The Rebellion Record, and other compilations. Women of the War is one of his original works.

Moore, George Henry. N. H., 1823-1892. Son of J. B. Moore, infra. The superintendent of the Lenox Library, New York city, from 1872 till his death. History of the Jurisprudence of New York; Treason of Charles Lee; Notes on the History of Slavery in Massachusetts; Washington as an Angler; Employment of Negroes in the Revolutionary Army.

Moore, Horatio Newton. N. J., 1814-1859. Orlando, a Tragedy; The Regicide, a drama; Memoir of the Duanes; Mary Morris, a novel; Lives of Marion and Wayne.

Moore, Jacob Bailey. N. H., 1797-1853. A journalist who was postmaster of San Francisco, 1849-53. Laws of Trade in the United States; Gazetteer of New Hampshire; Annals of Concord, New Hampshire.

Moore, John Weeks. N. H., 1807-1889. Brother of J. B. Moore, supra. Historical Gatherings relating to Printers, Printing, and Publishing (1820-86).

Moore, Joseph West. 18— - ——. Picturesque Washington; The American Congress: a History of National Legislation and Political Events, 1774-1895. Har.

Moore, Mrs. Susan Teackle [Smith]. Md., 18— - ——. Sister of F. H. Smith, infra. A novelist of Brooklyn. Ryle’s Open Gate. Hou.

Moore, Thomas Vernon. Pa., 1818-1881. A Presbyterian minister of Nashville. Last Words of Jesus; God’s University, or the World a School; The Culdee Church; Corporate Life of the Church; The Last Days of Jesus.

Moore, William Eves. Pa., 1823-1899. A Presbyterian clergyman of Columbus, Ohio, from 1872. New Digest of the General Assembly; The Presbyterian Digest.

Moorehead, Warren King. Iy., 1866- ——. An archæologist of Italian birth, but American parentage, curator of the Ohio State Archæological Museum at Columbus. Primitive Man in Ohio; Fort Ancient: the Great Prehistoric Earthwork of Warren County, Ohio; Wanneta the Sioux, a Story of Indian Life; Field Work. Clke. Do. Put.

Mordecai, Alfred. N. C., 1804-1887. A soldier and military engineer, secretary of the Pennsylvania Canal Company from 1867. Digest of Military Laws; Ordnance Manual; Reports of Gunpowder Experiments; Artillery for United States Land Service.

More, Paul Elmer. Mo., 1864- ——. An instructor in Sanskrit and Greek at Bryn Mawr College. The Great Refusal: Being Letters of a Dreamer in Gotham. Hou.

Morfit, Campbell. Md., 1820-1897. A chemist who lived in London from 1861. Practical Treatise on the Making of Soaps; Pure Fertilizers and Phosphates; Arts of Tanning and Currying; Use and Manufacture of Perfumery, are among his works.

Morford, Henry. N. J., 1823-1881. A journalist of New York city who wrote a number of novels, dramas, and poems of ephemeral merit. The Bells of Shandon is his best-known play, and among his novels are, Shoulder Straps; Days of Shoddy; Only a Commoner. Other works are, Rhymes of Twenty Years; Rhymes of an Editor; Sprees and Splashes.

Morgan, Abel. W., 1673-1722. A Welsh Baptist minister who came to Philadelphia from Wales in 1712. He was the author of Cyd Gordiad, a Scripture concordance published in 1730, the second Welsh book printed in America.

Morgan, Henry. Ct., 1823-1884. A once prominent Methodist minister and lecturer of Boston. Ned Nevins, the Newsboy; The Fallen Priest; Sketches and Sermons; The Shadowy Hand, or Life Struggles; Boston Inside Out.

Morgan, [James] Appleton. Me., 1849- ——. A lawyer of New York city. Laws of Literature; The Shakespearean Myth; A History of the Shakespeare Text; Some Shakespearean Commentators; Shakespeare in Fact and Criticism; Venus and Adonis: a Study in Warwickshire Dialect; English Version of Legal Maxims. Clke.

Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1819-1881. A lawyer of Rochester, New York, widely known as an ethnologist. League of the Iroquois; Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family; The American Beaver and his Works; Ancient Society; Horses and Horse Life of the American Aborigines. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Ho.

Morgan, Morris Hicky. R. I., 1859- ——. A professor of Greek and Latin at Harvard University. De ignis eliciendi modis apud antiquos; Dictionary to Xenophon’s Anabasis; The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon, a translation with Essays and Notes. Gi.

Moriarty, James Joseph. I., 1843-1887. A Roman Catholic clergyman of New York state. Wayside Pencillings; Stumbling Blocks made Stepping Stones on the Way to the Catholic Faith; All for Love; The Keys of the Kingdom.

Moriarty, Patrick Eugene. I., 1804-1875. An Augustinian priest of Philadelphia, father superior of his order in the United States. Life of St. Augustine.

Morrell, Benjamin. Ms., 1795-1839. A navigator who published a noted Narrative of Four Voyages to the South Seas.

Morrill, Justin Smith. Vt., 1810-1898. A distinguished Vermont statesman, a member of Congress from 1855, and a senator from 1867. Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons.

Morris, Caspar. Pa., 1805-1884. A noted Philadelphia physician. Life of William Wilberforce; Lectures on Scarlet Fever; Hospital Construction; Heart Voices and Home Songs.

Morris, Charles. Pa., 1833- ——. A Philadelphia author and compiler. Manual of Classical Literature; The Aryan Race; The Stolen Letter; The Detective’s Crime; Broken Fetters, an historical review of the drinking habit. Lip. Sc.

Morris, Charles D’Urban. E., 1827-1886. An educator who was professor of Latin and Greek in Johns Hopkins University from 1876. A Compendious Grammar of Attic Greek; Compendious Grammar of the Latin Language; Principia Latina.

Morris, Edmund. N. J., 1804-1874. A journalist and agricultural writer of Burlington, New Jersey. Ten Acres Enough; How to Get a Farm and Where to Find One; Farming for Boys.

Morris, Edward Joy. Pa., 1817-1881. A diplomatist who was minister to Turkey, 1861-70. He published A Tour Through Turkey; The Turkish Empire; Afraja, or Life and Love in Norway; Corsica, Social and Political, all but the first-named being translations from the German.

Morris, Edwin Dafydd. N. Y., 1825- ——. A Presbyterian minister and educator, professor of theology in Lane Seminary from 1874. Outlines of Christian Doctrine; Ecclesiology; Salvation After Death; A Defence of Lane Seminary.

Morris, Mrs. Eugenia Laura [Tuttle]. “Alyn Yates Keith.” Ct., 1833- ——. A writer of New Haven. A Spinster’s Leaflets; A Hilltop Summer; Aunt Billy. Le.

Morris, George Pope. Pa., 1802-1864. A journalist of New York city, long famous as a song-writer, and now chiefly remembered for such poems as My Mother’s Bible; Woodman, Spare that Tree. He was for many years editor of The Home Journal, and one of the prominent literary figures of the metropolis. Briarcliff, a drama; The Little Frenchman; Poems.

Morris, George Sylvester. Vt., 1840-1889. An educator and philosophical writer, who was professor at the University of Michigan from 1870. British Thought and Thinkers; Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, a Critical Exposition; Philosophy and Christianity; Hegel’s Philosophy of the State and of History. Sc.

Morris, Gouverneur. N. Y., 1752-1816. A New York statesman of distinction, prominent in the formative period of the republic. Observations on the American Revolution. See Sparks’s Memoirs of, with Selections from his Papers and Correspondence; Diary and Letters, edited by Annie Cary Morris; Life by T. Roosevelt, infra, 1888.

Morris, Harrison Smith. Pa., 1856- ——. A littérateur of Philadelphia. A Duet in Lyrics (verse, with J. A. Henry); Madonna, and Other Poems. He has edited Tales from Ten Poets; In the Yule Log Glow; Where Meadows Meet the Sea, and an edition of Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare with a continuation and completion. Lip.

Morris, Herbert William. W., 1818-1897. A Presbyterian clergyman, from 1877 retired from the ministry and devoted to literary pursuits. Science and the Bible; Present Conflict of Science with Religion; The Testimony of the Ages; The Celestial Symbol Interpreted; Natural Law and Gospel-Teachings.

Morris, James Cheston. Pa., 1831- ——. Son of Caspar Morris, supra. A Philadelphia physician. The Milk Supply of Large Cities; The Water Supply of Philadelphia; Annals of Hygiene.

Morris, John Gottlieb. Pa., 1803-1895. A noted Lutheran divine of Baltimore, founder of The Lutheran Observer, and long professor of natural history in the University of Maryland. Catechumen’s and Communicant’s Companion; Popular Exposition of the Gospels; Life of John Arndt; Life of Catherine de Bora; The Blind Girl of Wittenberg; Fifty Years in the Lutheran Ministry; The Diet of Augsburg; Journeys of Luther; Luther at Wartburg and Coburg; Lutheran Doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, comprise his chief works.

Morris, Phineas Pemberton. Pa., 1817-1888. A lawyer of Philadelphia, professor of law in the University of Pennsylvania from 1862. The Law of Replevin; Mining Rights in Pennsylvania.

Morris, Ramsay. N. Y., 1858- ——. An actor and playwright of New York city. He dramatized his own novel, Crucify Him, with the title, The Tigress.

Morris, Robert. Ms., 1818-1888. A writer of Lagrange, Kentucky. History of the Morgan Affair; Lights and Shadows of Freemasonry; Code of Masonic Law; History of Freemasonry in Kentucky; Freemasonry in the Holy Land; The Poetry of Freemasonry.

Morris, Thomas Asbury. W. Va., 1794-1874. A Methodist bishop in Ohio. Church Polity; Essays, etc.; Sketches of Western Methodism. Meth.

Morris, William Hopkins. N. Y., 1820-1900. Son of G. P. Morris, supra. A brigadier-general of United States volunteers in the Civil War, brevetted major-general. Field Tactics for Infantry; Infantry Tactics.

Morrison, Charles Robert. N. H., 1819-1893. A jurist of Concord, New Hampshire. Digest of New Hampshire Reports; Probate Directory; Justice and Sheriff and Attorney’s Assistant; Town Officer; Digest of Common-School Laws; Proofs of Christ’s Resurrection from a Lawyer’s Standpoint.

Morrison, Leonard Allison. N. H., 1843- ——. A New Hampshire antiquarian. History of the Morison or Morrison Family; History of Wyndham in New Hampshire; Rambles in Europe, with Historical Facts Relating to Scotch-American Families.

Morse, Abner. Ms., 1793-1865. A Congregational clergyman and genealogist of Sharon, Massachusetts. Memorial of the Morses; Genealogy of Early Planters in Massachusetts; Descendants of Several Ancient Puritans, are his more important publications.

Morse, Mrs. Charlotte Dunning [Wood]. “Charlotte Dunning.” N. Y., 1858- ——. A novelist. Upon a Cast, a society novel; A Step Aside; Cabin and Gondola. Har. Hou.

Morse, Edward Sylvester. Me., 1838- ——. An eminent biologist of Salem, Massachusetts, who has published First Book on Zoölogy; Japanese Homes, and many scientific papers. Har.

Morse, James Herbert. Ms., 1841- ——. An educator and verse-writer of New York city. Summer Haven Songs.

Morse, Jedidiah. Ct., 1761-1826. A Congregational clergyman of New England, very active as a controversialist and eminent as a geographer. He is sometimes styled the “Father of American Geography,” his being the first school text-books in America of any importance. Elements of Geography; American Gazetteer; Annals of the American Revolution; Compendious History of New England; Geography Made Easy; American Geography. See Life by W. Sprague, infra.

Morse, John Torrey. Ms., 1840- ——. Nephew of the wife of O. W. Holmes, supra. A lawyer of Boston. Lives of Hamilton, J. Q. Adams, Jefferson, John Adams, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lincoln, Franklin; Banks and Banking; Arbitration and Award; Famous Trials. Hou. Lit.

Morse, Mrs. Lucy [Gibbons]. N. Y., 1839- ——. A novelist of New York city. Rachel Stanwood, a Story; The Chezzles, a Story of Young People. Hou.

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese. Ms., 1791-1872. Son of J. Morse, supra. The inventor of the electro-magnetic telegraph. Foreign Conspiracies against the Liberties of the United States; Our Liberties Defended; Imminent Dangers through Foreign Immigration.

Morse, Sidney Edwards. Ms., 1794-1871. Son of J. Morse, supra. A journalist and geographer of New York city. System of Modern Geography; Premium Questions on Slavery. With a younger brother he founded The New York Observer in 1823.

Morton, Charles. E., 1620-1698. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1686, and was minister at Charlestown and vice-president of Harvard College. The Ark: its Loss and Recovery; System of Logic, long a text-book at Harvard.

Morton, Henry. N. Y., 1836-1902. A noted physicist, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology at Hoboken, New Jersey, from 1870. The Student’s Practical Chemistry (with A. R. Leeds) and many valuable scientific monographs. Lip.

Morton, James St. Clair. Pa., 1829-1864. Son of S. G. Morton, infra. A Federal officer killed in the attack upon Petersburg. Instruction in Engineering; New System of Fortifications; Memoir on Fortification; Dangers and Defences of New York City.

Morton, Nathaniel. H., 1613-1685. The secretary of the Plymouth Colony from 1647 till his death, whose New England’s Memoriall is well known among colonial annals. See Tyler’s American Literature. C. P. S.

Morton, Oliver Throck. Ind., 1860-1898. A lawyer of Chicago. The Southern Empire, with Other Papers. Hou.

Morton, Samuel George. Pa., 1799-1851. A once prominent Philadelphia physician and scientist, and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Crania Americana; Crania Egyptica; Illustrated System of Human Anatomy.

Morton, Mrs. Sarah Wentworth [Apthorp]. Ms., 1759-1846. A verse-writer of Quincy, Massachusetts. Ouabi, an Indian Tale in four cantos; My Mind and its Thoughts.

Morton, Thomas. E., c. 1575-1646. A famous adventurer who, settling himself at Mount Wollaston, which he termed Ma-re Mount, scandalized the colonists at Plymouth and Boston by his sports and carousals. The New English Canaan is a sarcastic and humourous description of his pious neighbours and their country. See Motley’s Morton’s Hope and Merry Mount; Hawthorne’s Merry Mount; Mrs. Jane Austin’s Betty Alden, chapters 8 and 9; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 39.

Morton, Thomas George. Pa., 1835-1903. Son of S. G. Morton, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Surgery in the Pennsylvania Hospital: an Epitome of Practice from 1756; Transfusion of Blood and its Practical Application.

Mosby, John Singleton. Va., 1833- ——. A famous Confederate cavalry leader, consul at Hong Kong, 1878-85, and subsequently a lawyer in San Francisco. War Reminiscences. See Scott’s Partisan Life with Mosby; Crawford’s Mosby and his Men. Do.

Motley, John Lothrop. Ms., 1814-1877. A distinguished historian, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, who was minister to Austria, 1861-67, and to England, 1869-70. His writings are remarkable for colour and dramatic vigour, while his estimates are tinged more or less with personal feeling. But though not a dispassionate historian, he is nevertheless quite removed from a spirit of blind partisanship. His work evinces immense research, but the main lines of the narrative are always clear. Morton’s Hope, a romance; Merry Mount, a romance; The Rise of the Dutch Republic; The History of the United Netherlands; Life and Death of John of Barneveld. See Correspondence of, edited by G. W. Curtis, supra; Life, by O. W. Holmes; Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Har.

Mott, George Scudder. N. Y., 1829-1901. A Presbyterian minister of Flemington, New Jersey. The Prodigal Son; The Resurrection of the Dead; The Perfect Law. Ran.

Mott, Henry Augustus. S. I., 1852-1896. Grandson of V. Mott, infra. A chemist of New York city. The Chemist’s Manual; Was Man Created?; The Air We Breathe; Fallacy of the Present Theory of Sound. Wil.

Mott, Valentine. L. I., 1785-1865. A celebrated surgeon of New York city. Travels in Europe and the East; Mott’s Cliniques; a translation of Velpeau’s Operative Surgery, and surgical papers. See Lives by S. D. Gross and S. W. Francis; Appletons’ American Biography.

Moulton, Mrs. Ellen Louise [Chandler]. Ct., 1835- ——. A prominent poet and prose-writer of Boston. Her verse is characterized by a great degree of feeling, and her sonnets display a remarkable mastery of technique. Her volumes of verse include, Poems; Swallow Flights; In the Garden of Dreams; In Childhood’s Country. Her prose comprises, This, That, and the Other; Juno Clifford; My Third Book; three collections of Bed-Time Stories; Some Women’s Hearts; Random Rambles, a volume of travel sketches; Ourselves and Our Neighbors; Miss Eyre from Boston; Firelight Stories; Stories Told at Twilight; Lazy Tours in Spain; Life of Arthur O’Shaughnessy. Cop. Har. Rob. St.

Moulton, Joseph White. Ct., 1789-1875. An antiquarian writer of Roslyn, Long Island. History of the State of New York (with J. Yates); Chancery Practice of New York.

Moulton, Richard Green. E., 1849- ——. An educator of note, professor in the University of Chicago. Ancient Classical Drama; The University Extension Movement; Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist. Mac. Rev.

Moultrie, William. S. C., 1731-1805. A soldier of distinction in the American army during the Revolution, made major-general in 1782. He was governor of South Carolina, 1785-87 and 1794-1796. Memoirs of the Revolution (1802).

Mountford, William. E., 1816-1885. A Unitarian clergyman of Boston who became a spiritualist in his later years. Martyria; Euthanasy, or Happy Talk Toward the End of Life; Christianity the Deliverance of the Soul; Minutes Past and Present; Thorpe, a Quiet English Town. Hou.

Moustache, Vieux. See Gordon, C.

Mowatt, Mrs. See Ritchie, Mrs.

Mowry, Sylvester. R. I., 1830-1871. An army officer who resigned in 1858. Arizona and Sonora: the Geography, History, and Resources of the Silver Regions of North America.

Mowry, William Augustus. Ms., 1829- ——. An educator of Boston. Talks with My Boys; Studies in Civil Government; Elements of Civil Government; School History of the United States (with A. M. Mowry). Rob. Sil.

Mudge, Enoch. Ms., 1776-1850. A once noted Methodist itinerant preacher of New England. Notes on the Parables; Lynn, a Poem; The Juvenile Expositor; Lectures to Seamen.

Mudge, Zachariah Atwell. Me., 1813-1888. Nephew of E. Mudge, supra. A Methodist clergyman of Massachusetts. Among his miscellaneous writings are, The Christian Statesman; Views from Plymouth Rock; Witch Hill, a History of Salem Witchcraft; Life of Abraham Lincoln; Footprints of Roger Williams; Arctic Heroes; Fur-clad Adventurers; History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts; The Luck of Alden Farm. Lo. Meth.

Muhlenberg, Gotthilf Henry Ernst. Pa., 1753-1815. A Lutheran divine of Philadelphia, famous as a botanist in his day. Catalogus Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis; Descriptio uberior Graminum et Plantarum Calamiarum Americæ Septentrionalis; English and German Lexicon and Grammar. See G. H. E. Muhlenberg als Botaniker, by Maisch, 1886.

Muhlenberg, William Augustus. Pa., 1796-1877. A distinguished Episcopal clergyman, rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, in New York city, 1846-77. He was the founder of St. Luke’s Hospital, and organized the first Protestant Sisterhood in America. His hymn, “I would not live alway,” is widely known. Church Poetry; Music of the Church; People’s Psalter; Evangelical Catholic Papers; Christ and the Bible, Family Prayers; Letters on Protestant Sisterhoods; St. Johnland; Ideal and Actual. See Lives by Anne Ayres, supra, W. W. Newton, infra; Atlantic Monthly, October, 1880. Ran. Wh.

Muir, James. S., 1757-1820. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia. An Examination of the Principles in the “Age of Reason” in Ten Discourses; Sermons.

Muir, John. S., 1838- ——. A noted California scientist and explorer, discoverer of the Muir Glacier in Alaska. The Mountains of California. Cent.

Mulford, Elisha. Pa., 1833-1885. An Episcopal clergyman of Cambridge, lecturer in the Episcopal Theological School there, and prominent among Broad Church thinkers. The Nation; The Foundations of Civil Order and Political Life in the United States; The Republic of God. Hou.

Mulford, Prentice. L. I., 1834-1891. A journalist of New York city and San Francisco. The Swamp Angel; Life by Land and Sea; Your Forces and How to Use Them.

Mullany, Patrick Francis. “Brother Azarias.” I., 1847-1893. A Roman Catholic educator of the order of Brothers of the Christian Schools; president of Rock Hill College, 1878-89, and subsequently a resident of New York city. The Development of English Literature: Old English Period; Philosophy of Literature; Psychological Aspects of Education; Address on Thinking; Aristotle and the Christian Church; Culture of the Spiritual Sense; Phases of Thought and Criticism. Ap. Hou.

Müller, Nikolaus. G., 1809-1873. A German poet who emigrated to New York city in 1853 and established himself there as a printer. Zehn gepanzerte Sonette; Neuere Gedichte; Frische Blätter auf die Wunden deutscher Krieger.

Munday, John William. “Charles Sumner Seeley.” Ind., 1844- ——. A lawyer of Chicago. The Spanish Galleon; The Lost Canyon of the Toltecs, both tales of adventure for boys. Mg.

Munde, Paul Fortunatus. Sxy., 1846-1902. A prominent New York physician. Obstetric Palpation; Minor Surgical Gynæcology; Management of Pregnancy.

Munford, William. Va., 1775-1825. A lawyer of Richmond, Virginia, who, beside several volumes of Law Reports, published a volume of Poems (1798) and a scholarly blank-verse translation of the Iliad. See Griswold’s Poets and Poetry of America.

Munger, Theodore Thornton. N. Y., 1830- ——. A Congregational clergyman of New Haven, prominent among liberal thinkers of that faith. On the Threshold; The Freedom of Faith; Lamps and Paths; The Appeal to Life. See Atlantic Monthly, July, 1883. Hou.

Munkittrick, Richard Kendall. E., 1853- ——. A humorous writer of New York city, on the editorial staff of Puck. The Moon Prince, a juvenile; Farming; The Acrobatic Muse, a collection of humourous verse. Har. Wy.

Munroe, [Charles] Kirk. Wis., 1850- ——. A popular writer, now resident in Florida, whose writings are mainly for juvenile readers. Wakulla; Life of Mrs. Stowe (with her son); The Flamingo Feather; Derrick Sterling; Chrystal Jack and Co.; The Golden Days of ’49; Dorymates; Under Orders; Prince Dusty; Campmates; Canoemates; Cab and Caboose; Raftmates; The Coral Ship; The White Conquerors; The Fur Seal’s Tooth; Big Cypress; Snow-Shoes and Sledges; Totem of the Bear; Rick Dale; A Young War Chief; At War with Pontiac. Do. Har. Put. Scr.

Munsell, Franklin. N. Y., 1857- ——. Son of J. Munsell, infra. A publisher of Albany. Chips for the Chimney Corner; The Bibliography of Albany.

Munsell, Joel. Ms., 1808-1880. A printer and publisher of Albany. Outlines of the History of Printing; Every-Day Book of History and Chronology; Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making.

Munsey, Frank Andrew. Me., 1854- ——. A prominent magazine publisher of New York city. Afloat in a Great City; The Boy Broker; Deringforth.

Munson, James Eugene. N. Y., 1835- ——. A phonographer of New York city. The Complete Phonographer; Dictionary of Practical Phonography; Phrase Book of Practical Phonography. Har.

Murat, Napoléon Achille. F., 1801-1847. The son of Joachim Murat, King of Naples. In his youth he bore the title of Prince of the Two Sicilies. He came to the United States in 1821, was naturalized and settled at Tallahassee, Florida. He was mayor of that place in 1824, and postmaster, 1826-28. Lettres d’un citoyen des États Unis à ses amis d’Europe; Esquisses morales et politiques sur les États Unis d’Amérique; Exposition des principes du gouvernement republicain tel qu’il à été perfectionné en Amérique, which went through more than fifty editions.

Murdoch, James Edward. Pa., 1811-1893. A noted actor and lecturer. Orthophony (with W. Russell); The Stage; Plea for Spoken Language; Analytic Elocution. Clke. Lip.

Murdock, Harold. Ms., 1862- ——. A bank cashier of Boston. The Reconstruction of Europe, a Sketch of the Diplomatic and Military History of Continental Europe from the Rise to the Fall of the Second French Empire. Hou.

Murdock, James. Ct., 1776-1856. A Congregational clergyman and educator of New Haven. He was the author of Sketches of Modern Philosophy, and translator of Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History, and other works, as well as of a Literal Translation of the New Testament from the Ancient Syriac.

Murfree, Fanny Noailles Dickinson. Tn., 185- - ——. Sister of M. N. Murfree, infra. Felicia, a Novel. Hou.

Murfree, Mary Noailles. “Charles Egbert Craddock.” Tn., 1850- ——. A novelist of Tennessee whose stories are all concerned with the life of the mountaineers in North Carolina and Tennessee. They display close, sympathetic observation and strong, vivid characterization. In the Tennessee Mountains; Where the Battle was Fought; The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; Down the Ravine; His Vanished Star; In the Clouds; The Story of Keedon Bluffs; The Despot of Broomsedge Cove; In the “Stranger People’s” Country; The Phantoms of the Footbridge; The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories; The Juggler. See Allibone’s Dictionary, Supplement. Har. Hou.

Murphy, Lady Blanche Elizabeth Mary Annunciata [Noel]. E., 1846-1881. The eldest daughter of the Earl of Gainsborough. She married her father’s organist, came to America, and wrote stories and sketches for the magazines. On the Rhine, and Other Sketches.

Murphy, Henry Cruse. L. I., 1810-1882. A lawyer and journalist of Brooklyn. The Voyage of Verrazano; Henry Hudson in Holland; Anthology of the New Netherlands.

Murphy, Thomas. I., 1823-1900. A Presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia. Pastoral Theology; Pastor and People; Duties of Church Members.

Murray, David. N. Y., 1830- ——. An educator of New York city, foreign adviser to the Japanese government on education. Manual of Land Surveying; Outline History of Japanese Education; The Story of Japan.

Murray, James Ormsbee. 1827-1899. An educator, professor of English literature in Princeton College, and dean of the college from 1886. Life of Francis Wayland, infra.

Murray, John O’Kane. I., 1847-1885. A physician and author of New York city. Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States; Catholic Pioneers of America; Lessons in English Literature; The Prose and Poetry of Ireland; Little Lives of the Great Saints; Catholic Heroes and Heroines of America.

Murray, Lindley. Pa., 1745-1826. A famous grammarian whose life after 1784 was passed near York, England. Grammar of the English Language; Power of Religion on the Mind; Compendium of Religious Faith and Practice. See Memoirs written by Himself with continuation by E. Frank, 1826; Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 39; Allibone’s Dictionary; Bibliography of Maine. Lip.

Murray, Nicholas. “Kirwan.” I., 1802-1861. A Presbyterian clergyman of Elizabeth, New Jersey, famous in his day as a controversialist. Letters by Kirwan to Bishop Hughes; Romanism at Home; Men and Things; The Happy Home; Preachers and Preaching; Parish and Other Pencillings. See Life by Prime. Har.

Murray, William Henry Harrison. Ct., 1840-1904. A noted Congregational minister, pastor of Park Street Church, Boston, 1868-74. Adventures in the Wilderness; Adirondack Tales; Deacons; Music Hall Sermons; The Perfect Horse; Sermons from Park Street Pulpit; How Deacon Tubner Kept New Year’s; The Doom of Mamelons; Daylight Land; Words Fitly Spoken. Le.

Murray, William Vans. Md., 1762-1803. A Maryland statesman who was minister to the Netherlands from 1793 till his death, and author of a treatise on The Constitution and Laws of the United States.

Musick, John Roy. Mo., 1849-1901. A novelist and historian of Kirksville, Missouri. The Banker of Bedford; History Stories of Wisconsin; Calamity Row; Brother Against Brother; Mysterious Mr. Howard; and a series of twelve Columbian historical novels, including Columbia; Estevan; St. Augustine; Pocahontas; The Pilgrims; A Century Too Soon, a story of Bacon’s Rebellion; The Witch of Salem; Braddock; Independence; Sustained Honor; Humbled Pride; Union. Fu. Lo.

Mussey, Reuben Dimond. N. H., 1780-1866. A Boston physician who published Health: its Friends and its Foes.

Muzzey, Artemas Bowers. Ms., 1802-1892. A Unitarian clergyman of Massachusetts who retired from active ministry in 1865. The Blade and the Ear; Prime Movers of the Revolution; The Young Men’s Friend; Moral Teacher; Christ in the Will, the Heart, and Life; The Higher Education; Immortality in the Light of Scripture and Science; Truths Consequent upon Belief in God; Education of Old Age, comprise his chief works. A. U. A. Le. Lo.

Myer, Albert James. N. Y., 1827-1880. A brigadier-general in the United States army, for some years chief signal officer and author of Manual of Signals for Use in the Field.

Myers, Peter Hamilton. N. Y., 1812-1878. A lawyer and romancer of Brooklyn. The First of the Knickerbockers, a tale; The Young Patroon; The King of the Hurons; The Prisoner of the Border.

Myers, Philip Van Ness. N. Y., 1846- ——. An educator of Cincinnati, professor of history and political economy in the University of Cincinnati from 1890, and dean of the University from 1895. Life and Nature under the Tropics; Remains of Lost Empires; Outlines of Ancient History; Outlines of Mediæval and Modern History; A History of Greece; The Eastern Nations and Greece; A History of Rome; General History. Gi. Har.

Myers, Mrs. Sarah Ann [Irwin]. Del., 1800-1876. A writer and artist of Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Among her many contributions to juvenile literature are, Margaret Gordon; Impatient Ellen; The Silk-Weaver of Lyons.

Myrtle, Mollie. See Hill, Mrs. Agnes.

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Nack, James. N. H., 1809-1879. A deaf and dumb verse-writer of New York city. The Legend of the Ark; Earl Rupert; The Immortal, a dramatic romance; The Romance of the King, and Other Poems. See Duyckinck’s American Literature.

Nadal, Bernhard Harrison. Md., 1812-1870. A Methodist clergyman and educator of Virginia who published New Life Dawning. Meth.

Nadal, Ehrman Syme. W. Va., 1843- ——. Son of B. H. Nadal, supra. A journalist who has lived much in London as secretary of legation, 1870-1871, and 1877-1884. Essays at Home and Elsewhere; Impressions of London Social Life; Zweiback, or Notes of a Professional Exile. Cent. Scr.

Naphegi, Gabor. Hy., 1824-1884. A native of Buda-Pesth who became a naturalized American citizen in 1868. Ghardia, or Ninety Days in the Desert; The Album of Language; Hungary; Among the Arabs; The Grand Review of the Dead (verse). Lip.

Napheys [nā´feez], George Henry. Pa., 1842-1876. A prominent physician and medical writer of Philadelphia. The Body and its Ailments; Modern Medical Therapeutics; Modern Surgical Therapeutics; The Transmission of Life; Physical Life of Woman; Prevention and Cure of Disease; Personal Beauty (with D. G. Brinton, supra). My.

Nasby, Petroleum Vesuvius. See Locke, D. R.

Nash, Simeon. Ms., 1804-1879. A jurist of Gallipolis, Ohio. Digest of Ohio Reports; Pleading and Practice under the Civil Code; Morality and the State; Crime and the Family. Clke.

Nason, Elias. Ms., 1811-1887. A Congregational minister of North Billerica, Massachusetts, among whose numerous religious biographical and historical writings are, Gazetteer of Massachusetts; Life of John A. Andrew; Lives of Moody and Sankey; Life of Charles Sumner; Life of Henry Wilson, infra; History of Middlesex County; Originality; Thou Shalt Not Steal; Fountains of Salvation. Lo.

Nason, Mrs. Emma [Huntington]. Me., 1845- ——. A verse-writer of Augusta, Maine. White Sails (verse); The Tower, with Legends and Lyrics. Hou. Lo.

Nason, Henry Bradford. Ms., 1831-1895. Cousin of Elias Nason, supra. A professor of chemistry in the Troy Polytechnic Institute. Table of Reactions for Qualitative Analysis; Table for Qualitative Analysis in Colors, are among his published works.

Nast, William. G., 1807-1899. A Methodist minister of Cincinnati, editor of The Christian Apologist for many years. Christological Meditations; Gospel Records; A German Commentary on the New Testament; Das Christenthum und seine Gegensätze.

Nauman, Mary. See Robinson, Mrs. Mary.

Navarro, Madame Mary Antoinette [Anderson] de. Cal., 1859- ——. A once popular actress who retired from the stage in 1890, was married to M. de Navarro soon after, and has since lived in England. A Few Memories, an autobiography. See Lives by Farrar, 1884, Winter, 1886.

Nead, Benjamin Matthias. Pa., 1847- ——. A lawyer and journalist of Harrisburg. Sketches of Early Chambersburg; Guide to County Officers; Early Government of Pennsylvania; Brief Review of the Financial History of Pennsylvania.

Neal, Alice B. Wife of J. C. Neal, infra. See Haven, Mrs.

Neal, John. Me., 1793-1876. A once famous littérateur of Portland, Maine, who early gained a hearing, and, as poet, novelist, dramatist, and magazinist, was constantly before the public for the rest of his long life, though little of his work can be said to survive, able as some of it is. The more important of his writings include, Keep Cool, a novel; The Battle of Niagara, a poem; Goldau, and Other Poems; Rachel Dyer, a novel; Downeasters, a novel; True Womanhood; Bentham’s Morals and Legislation; Great Mysteries and Little Plagues; Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life (1870). See Duyckinck’s American Literature; Lowell’s Fable for Critics; Allibone’s Dictionary; Appletons’ American Biography; Bibliography of Maine.

Neal, Joseph Clay. N. H., 1807-1847. A journalist of Philadelphia who founded The Saturday Gazette, and was a popular humourist in his day. Charcoal Sketches; Peter Ploddy, and Other Oddities. See Griswold’s American Prose Writers.

Neely, Thomas Benjamin. Pa., 18— - ——. A Methodist clergyman. Young Workers in the Church; The Church Lyceum; Parliamentary Practice; Evolution of Episcopacy and Organic Methodism; The Parliamentarian; The Governing Conference in Methodism. Meth.

Neill, Edward Duffield. Pa., 1823-1893. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of St. Paul, but formerly a Presbyterian clergyman. History of Minnesota; Terra Mariæ, or Threads of Maryland History; The Fairfaxes of England and America; History of the Virginia Company; English Colonization of America in the 17th century; Founders of Virginia; Virginia Vetusta; Virginia Carolorum; Concise History of Minnesota. Lip.

Neill, John. Pa., 1819-1880. Brother of E. D. Neill, supra. A Philadelphia physician. Neill on the Veins; Compend of Medicine (with F. G. Smith).

Neill, William. Pa., 1778-1860. A Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, president of Dickinson College, 1824-1829. Lectures on Bible History; Divine Origin of the Christian Religion; Ministry of Fifty Years.

Neilson, Joseph. N. Y., 1813-1888. Memoirs of Rufus Choate, with some Consideration of his Studies, Opinions, and Style. Hou.

Nelson, David. Ind., 1793-1844. A Presbyterian minister and educator of Missouri and Illinois. His principal work, Cause and Cure of Infidelity, has been widely read.

Nelson, Harry Leverett. Ms., 1858-1889. A lawyer of Worcester, Massachusetts. Bird Songs About Worcester, a collection of nature studies. Lit.

Nelson, Henry Addison. Ms., 1820- ——. A Presbyterian clergyman, professor at Lane Seminary, 1868-74, and from 1886 editor of The Church at Home and Abroad. Seeing Jesus; Sin and Salvation; Home Whispers. Ran.

Nelson, Henry Loomis. N. Y., 1846- ——. A journalist of New York city, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Weekly, 1894-99. The Money We Need; Our Unjust Tariff Law; John Rantoul, a novel. Har. Hou.

Nesmith, James Ernest. Ms., 1856-1898. An artist and verse-writer of Lowell, Massachusetts. Monadnoc, and Other Sketches in Verse; Philoctetes, and Other Poems; Life and Addresses of Governor Greenhalge.

Nevin, Alfred. Pa., 1816-1890. A prominent Presbyterian clergyman and religious editor of Philadelphia. His more important writings include, Words of Comfort for Doubting Hearts; The Voice of God; The Man of Faith; Letters to Colonel Ingersoll; Christian’s Rest; Guide to the Oracles; Triumph of Truth.

Nevin, Edwin Henry. Pa., 1814-1899. Brother of A. Nevin, supra. A German Reformed clergyman of Philadelphia. The City of God; Humanity and its Responsibilities; Thoughts About Christ; The Minister’s Handbook.

Nevin, John Williamson. Pa., 1803-1886. Cousin of A. Nevin, supra. An eminent German Reformed clergyman of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, president of Franklin and Marshall College, 1866-76. Prior to his presidency he had been active as a theologian at Mercersburgh, and his works form the basis of what is styled the “Mercersburgh Theology.” Among his writings are, History and Genesis of the Heidelberg Catechism; The Mystical Presence; Anti-Christ; The Anxious Bench; Biblical Antiquities. See Life by T. Appel. 1889.

Nevin, William Channing. O., 1844- ——. Son of E. H. Nevin, supra. A lawyer of Philadelphia. History of All Religions; Life of Albert Barnes, supra; The Blue Ray of Sunlight; A Slight Misunderstanding; A Wild Goose Chase; In the Nick of Time; Joshua Whitcomb’s Tribulations; A Summer School Adventure.

Nevin, William Wilberforce. Pa., 1836-1899. Son of J. W. Nevin, supra. A journalist and railway director of Philadelphia who published Vignettes of Travel.

Nevins, William. Ct., 1797-1835. A Presbyterian minister of Baltimore. Thoughts on Popery; Practical Thoughts; Select Remains, with Memoir.

Nevius, Mrs. Helen S—— [Coan]. N. Y., 1832- ——. Wife of J. L. Nevius, infra. A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (in Chinese); Our Life in China; Life of J. P. Nevius. Rev.

Nevius, John Livingston. N. Y., 1829-1893. A Presbyterian missionary in Ningpo. China and The Chinese; San-Poh, or North of the Hills; Methods of Missionary Work; Demon Possession; and a number of works in Chinese. See Life by his wife. Rev.

Newberry, John Strong. Ct., 1822-1892. A geologist who was professor of geology in the School of Mines of Columbia College, 1866-92, and State geologist of Ohio from 1869. He published nine volumes of reports relating to the geological survey of Ohio; Paleozoic Fishes of North America, and many scientific papers.

Newcomb, Harvey. Ms., 1803-1863. A Congregational clergyman of Western Pennsylvania and other localities among whose many moral and religious works, mainly juvenile in character, are, Young Lady’s Guide; How to be a Man; How to be a Lady; Manners and Customs of North American Indians.

Newcomb, Simon. N. S., 1835- ——. An astronomer of distinction, superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, issued by the Navy Department, from 1877, and professor of astronomy and mathematics at Johns Hopkins University, 1884-93. Popular Astronomy; School Astronomy; Geometry; Analytic Geometry; Essentials of Trigonometry; Calculus; A Plain Man’s Talk on the Labor Question; Principles of Political Economy; The A, B, C, of Finance, include his most important publications. Har. Ho.

Newell, Robert Henry. “Orpheus C. Kerr.” N. Y., 1836-1901. A journalist of New York city, at one time popular as a humorist. Versatilities, a collection of humorous and other verses; The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems; Avery Glibun, an American romance; The Walking Doll, a novel; There Was Once a Man; Studies in Stanzas. Fo. Le.

Newell, Samuel. Me., 1784-1821. A noted Baptist missionary in Bombay. The Conversion of the World (1818); Life of Harriet Newell (his first wife) which was widely popular.

Newell, William Wells. Ms., 1839- ——. A folk-lore scholar of Cambridge, editor of The Journal of American Folk-Lore from 1888. Games and Songs of American Children; Words for Music, a collection of verse. Har.

Newhall, Charles Stedman. Ms., 1842- ——. A clergyman and educator of Asbury Park, New Jersey. The Trees of Northeastern America; The Shrubs of Northeastern America; The Vines of Northeastern America; The Leaf-Collector’s Handbook and Herbarium. His writings for young people include Harry’s Trip to the Orient; Joe and the Howards; Ruthie’s Story. Put.

Newman, John Philip. N. Y., 1826-1899. A Methodist bishop at Omaha, at one time a prominent Washington pastor. From Dan to Beersheba; Thrones and Palaces of Babylon and Nineveh; Christianity Triumphant; America for Americans; The Supremacy of Law. Fu. Meth.

Newman, Samuel Phillips. Ms., 1796-1842. An educator who was a classical professor in Bowdoin College. Practical System of Rhetoric, long a popular work; Elements of Political Economy.

Newton, Richard. E., 1812-1887. An Episcopal clergyman of Philadelphia, long prominent among extreme Low Churchmen. The King’s Highway; The Great Pilot; Rills from the Fountain of Life; Bible Promises; Natural History of the Bible, are among his writings. Rev.

Newton, Richard Heber. Pa., 1840- ——. Son of R. Newton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of New York city, rector of All-Souls Church, and prominent as a very Broad Church theologian. Among more conservative thinkers his views have excited much opposition and needless alarm. Womanhood; The Morals of Trade; The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible; The Book of the Beginnings; Philistinism; Social Studies; Church and Creed; The Children’s Church. Put. Ran.

Newton, Robert Safford. O., 1818-1881. A surgeon of New York city. Eclectic Treatise in the Practice of Medicine; Antiseptic Surgery.

Newton, William. E., c. 1820-189-. Brother of R. Newton, supra. A Reformed Episcopal clergyman of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The First Two Visions of the Book of Daniel; The Morning Star, and Other Poems; Nature’s Testimony to Nature’s God.

Newton, William Wilberforce. Pa., 1843- ——. Son of R. Newton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Essays of To-Day, Religious and Theological; The Legend of St. Telemachus; The Voice of St. John, and Other Poems; Summer Sermons; The Voice Out of Egypt; Ragnar, the Sea King; Paradise; The Priest and the Man, or Abelard and Héloise, an historical novel; Life of W. A. Muhlenberg, supra; and several collections of sermons to children, including, The Wicket Gate; The Interpreter’s House; Little and Wise; A Father’s Blessing. Hou. Ran. Wh.

Nichols, Edward Leamington. E., 1854- ——. A professor of physics at Cornell University from 1887. Laboratory Manual of Physics and Applied Mechanics; The Galvanometer. Mac.

Nichols, George Ward. Me., 1831-1885. A writer on art and music who was president of the Cincinnati College of Music. The Story of the Great March; Art Education Applied to Industry; Pottery; Sanctuary, a story of the Civil War. Har.

Nichols, Ichabod. N. H., 1784-1859. A Unitarian minister of Portland, Maine, 1814-55, and from the latter date a resident of Cambridge. Natural Theology; Hours with the Evangelists; Remembered Words. A. U. A.

Nichols, James Robinson. Ms., 1819-1888. A manufacturing chemist of Boston who founded The Journal of Chemistry (now The Popular Science News) in 1866. What, When, and Where?; Fireside Science; Chemistry of the Farm; The New Agriculture.

Nichols, Mrs. Mary Sargeant [Neal] [Gove]. “Mary Orme.” N. H., 1810- ——. A hydropathic physician. Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology; Experience in Water Cure; A Woman’s Work in Water Cure and Sanitary Education. As “Mary Orme” she published the novels, Uncle John; Agnes Norris; The Two Loves, Eros and Anteros.

Nichols, Mrs. Rebecca S—— [Reed]. Ms., 1820- ——. A verse-writer of Cincinnati. Bernice, and Other Poems; Songs of the Heart.

Nichols, Starr Hoyt. Ct., 1834- ——. A broker of New York city, in earlier life a Unitarian minister. He has published Monte Rosa, the Epic of an Alp.

Nichols, Thomas L——. Circa 1820- ——. An American physician who settled in Malvern, England, near the opening of the Civil War. Women in All Ages; Esoteric Anthropology; Forty Years of American Life; How to Cook; How to Behave; How to Live on Sixpence a Day; Human Physiology the Basis of Sanitary Reforms.

Nichols, Walter Ripley. Ms., 1847-1886. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who published Water Supply from a Chemical and Sanitary Standpoint, and many scientific papers.

Nicholson, Mrs. Eliza Jane [Poitevent]. “Pearl Rivers.” Mi., 1849-1896. A journalist of New Orleans, owner and editor of The Picayune, and the first woman in the world to own and manage a great daily paper. Lyrics.

Nicholson, James Bartram. Mo., 1820- ——. A prominent bookbinder of Philadelphia, author of a Manual of Bookbinding, an exhaustive treatise on the subject. Bai.

Nicholson, William Rufus. Mi., 1822-1901. A Reformed Episcopal bishop, dean of the theological seminary of that faith in Philadelphia. The Blessedness of Heaven; Why I Became a Reformed Episcopalian; The Real Presence; The Call to the Ministry.

Nicolay, John George. Bv., 1832-1901. The private secretary of President Lincoln, and marshal of the United States Supreme Court, 1872-87. The Outbreak of the Rebellion; Abraham Lincoln, a History (with J. Hay, supra). Cent. Scr.

Nicum, John. Wg., 1851- ——. A prominent Lutheran minister of Rochester, New York, who has published History of the New York Ministerium; Gleichniss-Reden Jesu; Weihnachts Andacht; and a translation of Wolf’s Lutherans in America.

Nieriker, Mrs. May [Alcott]. Ms., 1840-1879. Daughter of A. B. Alcott, supra. An artist who published Concord Sketches; Studying Art Abroad. Rob.

Niles, Hezekiah. Del., 1777-1839. A journalist of Baltimore, founder of Niles’s Register. The towns of Niles, Michigan, and Niles, Ohio, were named in his honour. Quill Driving; Principles and Acts of the Revolutionary Period. Bar.

Niles, John Milton. Ct., 1787-1856. A journalist of Hartford who was postmaster-general in 1840. Lives of Perry, Laurence, Pike, Harrison; The Civil Officer; History of the Revolution in Mexico and Central America.

Niles, Samuel. R. I., 1674-1762. A Congregational clergyman who was pastor of the church at Braintree, Massachusetts, from 1711 till his death. Tristitiæ Ecclesiarum, a Brief and Sorrowful Account of the Churches in New England; God’s Wonder-Working Providence for New England in the Reduction of Louisburg; Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin; The True Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin; History of the French and Indian Wars.

Nipher, Francis Eugene. N. Y., 1847- ——. A professor of physics in Washington University at St. Louis from 1874, who has published Theory of Magnetic Measurement.

Nitsch, Mrs. Helen Alice [Matthews]. “Catherine Owen.” E., 18— -1889. A writer on domestic science whose home was at Plainfield, New Jersey. Choice Cookery; Culture and Cooking; Ten Dollars Enough; Perfect Bread; Gentle Bread-Winners; Molly Bishop’s Family; Progressive Housekeeping. Har. Hou.

Noah, Mordecai Manuel. Pa., 1785-1851. A once noted journalist of New York city, who endeavoured unsuccessfully to found a Jewish colony on Grand Island, in the Niagara River. Travels in England, France, and Spain; Gleanings from a Gathered Harvest. He wrote several successful plays, among which are, The Siege of Tripoli; The Fortress of Sorrente.

Noble, Annette Lucile. N. Y., 1844- ——. A fiction-writer of Albion, New York, among whose works are, Uncle Jack’s Executors; Eunice Lathrop, Spinster; Love and Shawl-Straps; After the Failure; The Silent Man’s Legacy. Put.

Noble, Lucretia Gray. Ms., 18— - ——. A writer of Wilbraham, Massachusetts, whose only novel, A Reverend Idol, was very popular. Hou.

Noble, Edmund. S., 1853- ——. A journalist who travelled in Russia, 1882-1884, and since 1884 has lived in Boston. The Russian Revolt (1885). Hou.

Noble, Louis Legrand. N. Y., 1813-1882. An Episcopal clergyman who held various rectorships successively in the State of New York. Ne-Ma-Nin, an Indian story in verse; The Course of Empire, a work relating to the artist Cole; The Lady Angeline, and Other Poems; A Voyage to the Arctic Seas.

Nordheimer, Isaac. G., 1809-1842. An educator of New York city, instructor in sacred literature at Union Theological Seminary, 1838-42. Hebrew Grammar; Grammatical Analysis of Select Portions of Scripture.

Nordhoff, Charles. P., 1830-1901. A littérateur and journalist of New York city. Man-of-War Life; The Merchant Vessel; Whaling and Fishing; Man-of-War Yarns; Cape Cod and All Along Shore; Peninsular California; Northern California; Secession is Rebellion; Communistic Societies of the United States; Politics for Young Americans; God and the Future Life, include his more important works. Do. Har.

Norman, Benjamin Moore. N. Y., 1809-1860. A bookseller of New Orleans. Rambles in Yucatan; New Orleans and its Environs; Rambles by Land and Water.

Norman, Henry. Ms., 1858- ——. A journalist of prominence. The Peoples and Politics of the Far East; The Real Japan. Scr.

Norris, George Washington. Pa., 1808-1875. A Philadelphia physician. Contributions to Practical Surgery; Early History of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Norris, Thaddeus. Pa., 1811-1877. A Philadelphia business man who wrote much on sporting topics. American Angler’s Book; American Fish Culture. Co.

North, Elisha. Ct., 1771-1843. A physician of New London, Connecticut. Treatise on Spotted Fever; Outlines of the Science of Life; Uncle Toby’s Pilgrim’s Progress in Phrenology. See Life and Writings of, 1887.

Northend, Charles. Ms., 1814-1895. A prominent educator of Connecticut. Teacher and Parent; Teachers’ Associations; Annals of American Institutes of Instruction; Life of Elihu Burritt, supra.

Northend, William Dummer. Ms., 1823-1902. Brother of C. Northend, supra. A lawyer of Salem, Massachusetts. Speeches and Essays on Political Subjects; The Bay Colony. Est.

Northrop, Birdsey Grant. Ct., 1817-1898. A prominent Connecticut educator, secretary of the State Board of Education, 1869-82. Education Abroad; Rural Improvement; Tree-Planting.

Northrup, Ansel Judd. N. Y., 1833- ——. A lawyer of Syracuse. Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks; Grayling Fishing in Northern Michigan; Sconset Cottage Life.

Norton, Andrews. Ms., 1786-1853. A Unitarian clergyman of Cambridge, professor of sacred literature in Harvard University, 1819-30, and prominent among conservative theologians of his faith. Historical Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Internal Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels; Tracts Concerning Christianity; Reasons for not Believing the Doctrines of the Trinitarians. See Memoir by W. Newell. A. U. A.

Norton, Augustus Theodore. Ct., 1808-1884. A Presbyterian clergyman of Alton, Illinois, author of a History of the Presbyterian Church in Illinois.

Norton, Charles Eliot. Ms., 1827- ——. Son of A. Norton, supra. A distinguished Dante scholar and a high authority on the history of art, since 1875 professor of the history of art in Harvard University. He has edited the Letters of J. R. Lowell, supra; the Writings of G. W. Curtis, supra; the Goethe and Carlyle Correspondence; the Letters of Carlyle; and has translated Dante’s Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia. His other works include, Historical Studies of Church-Building in the Middle Ages; Notes of Travel and Study in Italy; Considerations of Some Recent Social Theories. Har. Hou.

Norton, Charles Ledyard. Ct., 1837- ——. A journalist of New York city, at one time editor of Outing. Handbook of Florida; Political Americanisms; Jack Benson’s Log; A Medal of Honor Man, a book for boys. Lgs. We.

Norton, Frank Henry. Ms., 1836- ——. A journalist of New York city. Lives of General Hancock, Alexander Stephens; Daniel Boone, a romance.

Norton, George Habley. N. Y., 1824-1893. An Episcopal clergyman of Alexandria, Virginia, who published Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of the Holy Catholic Church.

Norton, Herman. N. Y., 1799-1855. A Presbyterian evangelist in New York State. The Christian and Deist in Contrast; Signs of Danger and Promise; Startling Facts for American Protestants.

Norton, John. E., 1606-1663. A Puritan clergyman who came to New England in 1635, and in 1653 succeeded John Cotton as teacher of the church at Boston. He wrote much, and was a strenuous advocate of religious persecution. Among his writings are, The Heart of New England Rent at the Blasphemies of the Present Generation; Life of Mr. John Cotton. See Sprague’s Annals of the American Pulpit; Longfellow’s New England Tragedies.

Norton, John. Ms., 1651-1716. Nephew of J. Norton, supra. A Congregational clergyman, pastor of the church at Hingham, 1678-1716, who is remembered for his Elegy on Anne Bradstreet, a poem of some force and merit. See Tyler’s American Literature.

Norton, John Nicholas. N. Y., 1820-1881. Brother of G. H. Norton, supra. An Episcopal clergyman of Louisville, among whose many works are, Lives of Bishops White, Seabury, Bowen, Freeman, Provost, Stewart, Wilson, Claggett, Henshaw; Short Sermons for Families; The King’s Ferry-Boat; Lives of Washington, Franklin, Bishop Berkeley, Archbishop Cranmer. Wh.

Norton, Mrs. Minerva [Brace]. N. Y., 1837- ——. An educator of Beloit, Wisconsin. In and Around Berlin; Service in the King’s Gardens. Mg.

Norton, Sidney Augustus. O., 1835- ——. A scientist who has been professor of chemistry in Ohio University from 1873. Elements of Natural Philosophy; Elements of Physics; Elements of Inorganic Chemistry; Organic Chemistry.

Norton, William Augustus. N. Y., 1810-1883. A professor of civil engineering in Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, from 1852. Elementary Treatise on Astronomy; First Book of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy.

Nott, Eliphalet. Ct., 1773-1866. A Presbyterian clergyman of note, president of Union College, 1804-66. Counsels to Young Men; Lectures on Temperance. See Memoir by Van Santvoord, 1876.

Nott, Josiah Clark. S. C., 1804-1873. A physician of Mobile, who wrote The Physical History of the Jewish Race, and was co-author with Gliddon of the once famous Types of Mankind, and of Indigenous Races of the Earth. Lip.

Nourse, James Duncan. Ky., 1817-1854. A journalist of St. Louis. The Forest Knight, a novel; Leavenworth, a story of the Mississippi; God in History.

Nourse, Joseph Everett. D. C., 1819-1899. Cousin of J. D. Nourse, supra. A professor in the Naval Academy, 1850-81. The Maritime Canal of Suez; Astronomical and Meteorological Observations; American Explorations in the Ice Zones. Lo.

Noyes, Arthur Ames. Ms., 1866- ——. A professor of chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has published a treatise on Qualitative Chemical Analysis.

Noyes, Charles Henry. “Charles Quiet.” Mch., 1849-1898. A lawyer and verse-writer of Warren, Pennsylvania, who has published Studies in Verse. Lip.

Noyes, George Rapall. Ms., 1798-1868. A Unitarian clergyman eminent as a biblical scholar, and professor of Hebrew in Harvard University from 1840. He published translations with notes of the Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, Canticles, the Prophets, and Proverbs; and a translation of the New Testament. A. U. A.

Noyes, Henry Drury. N. Y., 1832-1900. An ophthalmologist of New York city. Treatise on Diseases of the Eye; Text-Book on Diseases of the Eye.

Noyes, James. E., 1608-1656. A Puritan clergyman of Newbury, Massachusetts, pastor of the church there, 1635-56. The Temple Measured; Moses and Aaron, or the Rights of Church and State.

Noyes, James Oscar. N. Y., 1829-1872. A physician and journalist of New Orleans. Roumania; The Gypsies: their History, Origin, and Manner of Life.

Noyes, John Humphrey. Vt., 1811-1886. A noted religionist who founded the Oneida Community, and other associations of socialists. The Second Coming of Christ; Salvation from Sin the End of Christian Faith; History of American Socialisms; House Talks. Lip.

Nuttall [nŭt´al], Thomas. E., 1786-1859. A noted ornithologist and botanist, of English birth, whose life was mainly spent in the United States, but who returned to England in 1842. The Genera of North American Plants; Travels in Arkansas in 1819; The North American Sylva; Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (1832 and 1834); Geological Sketch of the Valley of the Mississippi; A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America, being a new edition of the Manual of Ornithology revised and annotated by Montague Chamberlain. See Popular Science Monthly, March, 1895. Lit.