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per, and a valuable contribution to the history of the battle of Long Island. It has been claimed that, if his advice had been taken, this battle would have resulted in the defeat of the British.

MILET, Peter, French missionary, b. in France ; d. in Quebec, Canada, 31 Dec, 1708. He belonged to the Jesuit order, was sent to Canada in 1667, and stationed as a missionary among the Iroquois in New York in 1668. In 1671 he took charge of the Oneida mission. His progress was slow, but in 1675 he converted the principal chief, and had soon a considerable congregation. In 1684 he left the Oneidas and accompanied the French gov- ernor, De la Barre, in his proposed campaign against the Senecas. He acted as interpreter at the conference between the Iroquois chiefs and the French at Fort Frontenac in 1686. In 1687 he was at Niagai-a, but after the abandonment of the fort was stationed at Fort Frontenac, where his knowledge of the Iroquois character and language was relied on by the French as a means of gaining the friendship of these Indians. When Fort Fron- tenac was besieged by the Iroquois in 1689, Father Milet was summoned to attend a dying Christian brave, and fell into the hands of the Onondagas, who, after treating him with great indignity, gave him up to the Oneidas, by whom he was doomed to the stake, but just as he was about to be exe- cuted he was saved by a matron, who adopted him and took him to her cabin. He was released in October, 1694, and arrived safely in Quebec. In 1697 ambassadors came from the Oneidas asking to have him assigned as their missionary, but he does not appear to have returned among them.

MILLARD, Dayid, clergyman, b. in Ballston, N. Y., 24 Nov., 1794 ; d. in Jackson, Mich., 3 Aug., 1873. His father. Nathaniel, was a soldier in the Revolution. The son worked on a farm till his seventeenth year, when he began to teach, al- though his own education was limited. He en- tered the ministry of the Christian denomination in 1815. and in 1818-32 was pastor of the church at West Bloomfield, N. Y. He subsequently edit- ed the " Boston Luminary," a sectarian monthly, was pastor in Portsmouth, N. H., in 1837-"41, and at the latter date visited Palestine and the East. On his return he became professor of Bible an- tiquities and sacred geography in Meadville, Pa., theological seminary. He published " The True Messiah in Scripture Light" (Rochester, 1818): and "Journal of Travel in Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land " (1843). See his life by his son (1874).

MILLARD, Harrison, musician, b. in Boston, Mass., 27 Nov., 1829 ; d. in New York city. 10 Sept., 1895. He was educated in his native city, and in May, 1861, he was appointed 1st lieuLenanL in the 19th U. S. infantry, serving during the civil war as aide-de-camp, division commissaiy, and division inspector, on the staffs of Gens. Lovell H. Rous- seau, William S. Rosecraus, and Innis N. Palmer. While with the Army of the Cumberland he was wounded at Chickamauga, 19 Sept., 1868, and soon afterward resigned from the army. He then set- tled in New York city, where he was appointed in 1864 to a place in the custom-house, and remained there until 1885. Meanwhile he devoted his leisure to musical composition, producing many songs and several masses. His ability in this direction was conspicuous, and his efforts strongly tended to- ward giving character and dignity to American song literature, going far toward placing them on a level with similar German productions. His best-known songs are " Waiting," " When the Tide comes in," " Viva L'America," " Under the Dai- sies," and " Say not Farewell."

MILLEDGE, John, statesman, b. in Savannah. Ga., 1757; d. on the Sand Hills, near Augusta, Ga., 9 Feb., 1818. He was descended from one of the early settlers of the colony, and was brought up in the office of the king's attorney. At the be- ginning of the Revolution, he espoused the cause- of the colonies, and was one of the party that headed by Joseph Habersham, entered the dwell- ing of the governor, Sir James Wright, and took him prisoner, 17 June, 1775. This was the first bold Revolutionary act that was performed in Georgia. When Savannah was captured by the British, Milledge escaped to South Carolina, where he was taken by a party of patriots, and very near- ly hanged as a spy. He was present at the siege of Savannah under Count d'Estaing and Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, and also at Augusta, and did good service in the patriot army. He became at- torney-general in 1780, was frequently in the legis- lature, and was elected to congress in 1792 in place of Anthony Wayne, serving three terms in succes- sion, and also in 1801-'2, when he resigned to be- come governor of Georgia. He was U. S. senator in 1806-'9, and in the latter year was president of that body. In 1802, with James Jackson and Abraham Baldwin, he was a connuissioner for ced- ing parts of Georgia to the United States. He was the principal founder of the state university, and presented the lands on which the town of Athens, the seat of the university, is built. By a special act of the legislature, the town of Milledge- ville was named in his honor.

MILLEDOLER, Philip, clergyman, b. in Rhinebeck, N. Y., 22 Sept., 1775; d. on Statea island. N. Y., 23 Sept., 1852. His father, a Swiss,. emigrated to the United States in 1751. The son was graduated at Columbia in 1793, studied the- ology, and at nineteen years of age preached ini German and Eng- lish at the German Reformed church in Nassau street. New York city. He was pastor of the collegiate Dutch Reformed church in 1800, and soon afterward of the Pine street Pres- byterian church of Philadelphia. He was secretary of the boai'd of trustees of the Presbyterian church in 1801, and became pastor of the Collegiate Pres- byterian churches of New York in

1804, and of the

Collegiate Dutch church in 1813. He was also- professor of didactic and polemic theology in the seminary in New Brunswick, and president of Rutgers in 1825-'35, holding both offices at the same time. The University of Pennsylvania gave him the degree of S. T. D. His publications in- clude many sermons and addresses, and a " Dis- sertation on Incestuous Marriages" (New Bruns- wick, N. J., 1843). One of his sons was a well- known elergvman of the E{)iscopal church.

MILLER, Alfred Jacob, artist, b. in Baltimore, Md., 2 Jan., 1810; d. there, 26 June, 1874. He received his first lessons in art from Thomas Sully, and, after painting with success in Baltimore and Washington, went to Europe in 1833,Europe in 1833,