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nearly $250,000 were contributed by the people of the United States of all ages and from all quarters of the Union, and the construction continued until 185(5, wlien it reached a height of over 150 feet. The financial embarrassments of the time led to the discontinuance of the work, and it was not until 1877 when, by act of congress, its completion was authorized, and Col. Thomas L. Casey, of the U. S. engineers, placed in charge. Various modifi- cations of the original plan were made by him, includ- ing the building of an en- tire new base, which was found to be necessary, un- til finally it was dedicated, in the presence of Presi- dent Arthur and his cabi- net, on 22 Feb., 1885. The address of the occasion was written by Robert C. Win- throp. who in 1848 had de- livered an oration on the laying of the corner-stone. As shown in the accom- panying illustration, the monument is 555 feet 5^ inches, the shaft being 500 feet 5^ inches high, and the pyramidion 55 feet. The topmost point is 597 feet 3 inches above mean low water in the Potomac,

and 59G feet 936 inches

above the mean level of the Atlantic at Sandy Hook, N. Y., as determined. 1 Dec, 1884. by the U. S. coast and geodetic survey. Mr. Mills published '• Sta- tistics of South Carolina " with "Atlas of South Caro- lina " (Charleston, 1826) ; " The American Pharos or Light-house Guide " (Washington, 1832) ; and " Guide to the National Executive Offices " (1842).

MILLS, Samuel John, clergyman, b. in Kent, Conn., 16 May, 1743 ; d. in Torringford, Conn.. 11 May, 1833. He was graduated at Yale in 1764, and then studied theology. On 29 June, 1769, he was ordained in Torringford, and remained in charge of that parish until his death, He out- lived all of his college classmates, and became gen- erally known, on account of his great age. as " Father Mills." For many years he edited the " Connecticut Evangelical Magazine," and, in addition to various sermons that he preached on special occasions, he published a volume of " Sermons Collected " (1797). — His son, Samuel John, clergyman, b. in Torringford, Conn., 21 April, 1783; "d. at sea, 16 June, 1818, was graduated at Williams in 1809, and at Andover theological seminary in 1812. While in college he determined to devote his life to missionary work, and in 1810 addresses that he and several of his classmates made before the General association of Massachusetts resulted in the formation of the American board of com- missioners for foreign missions. During 1812-'13 he was exploring agent of the Massachusetts and Connecticut missionary societies in the west and southwest, and in 1814-'15 missionary and Bible agent in the southwest. While in New Orleans during the early part of 1815 he was unable to purchase a single Bible in that city, and, in conse- quence, he procured a supply in both the French and English languages, and distributed many. Finding that seventy or eighty thousand families at the south and west were destitute of a Bible, he suggested the formation of a national society. His efforts contributed to the establishment of the American Bible society in May, 1816, and mean- while, on 21 June, 1815, he was ordained. Subse- quently the education of the colored people claimed his attention, and in 1816 the synod of New York and New Jersey established a school for the edu- cation of young men of color that wished to be preachers and teachers of their race. After the school was established Mr. Mills became its agent in the middle states, and was successful in obtain- ing funds for its support. The American coloni- zation society was founded on 1 Jan., 1817, and Mr. Mills was chosen to explore in its behalf the coast of western Africa, and select the most eligible site for a settlement. He reached Afi'ica in IMarch, 1818, spent two months on that continent, and be- gan his homeward voyage in May. Mr. Mills was called the " Father of foreign mission work in Christian America." He published an account of his two visits to the south (Andover, 1815). See "Memoirs of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills," by Gard- ner Spring (New York. 1854).

MILLS, Thomas Wesley, Canadian physician, b. in Brockville, Ont., 22 Feb., 1847. He was gradu- ated at the University of Toronto in 1871, and in medicine at McGill university in 1878. Pie after- ward studied for a year in Germany and England. He was appointed demonstrator of physiology in McGill university in 1882, lecturer on physiology in 1884, and professor of that branch in 1886. He is president of the Society for the study of com- parative psychology. In 1883 Prof. ]lills published the results of original investigation on the physi- ology of the voice, in which he maintained views in opposition to generally received opinion. He has also published "Outlines of Lectures on Physiology" (Montreal, 1886), contributed to Buck's " Hand- book of Medical Sciences," and has written many articles for medical journals.

MILMORE, Joseph, sculptor, b. in Sligo, Ire- land, 22 Oct.. 1842 ; d. in Geneva, Switzerland, 10 Jan., 1886. He was taken to Boston, Mass., when an infant, attended the Brimmer and Quincy schools, and was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker. Disliking that vocation, he abandoned it to become a marble-cutter, in which employment he devel- oped a marked taste for architectural work. He then associated himself with his brother, Martin, and together they executed the "Sphinx" in Mount Auburn cemetery, and designed and executed the statuary in connection with Horticultural hall, Boston, and a large number of soldiers' monuments throughout the country, the most noteworthy of which is that on Boston common. — His brother, Martin, sculptor, b. in Sligo, Ireland, 14 Sept., 1844 ; d. in Boston Highlands. Mass., 21 July, 1883. emigrated with his family to Boston in 1851, and took lessons in wood-carving in early life from his elder brother, Joseph. After his gi'aduation at the Latin-school in 1860. he entered thesludioof Thomas Ball, and several years later estiiblished himself in a studio of his own in Boston. In 1863 he cut for the Sanitary fair a statuette entitled "Devotion." He received the contract from the city for the soldiers' and sailors' monument on the common. He then went to Rome and studied for some time, completing designs for some parts of the monument while there. It was unveiled in 1877. (See illustration.) While in Rome. Mr. Milmore modelled busts of Pope Pius IX.. Charles Sumner. Wendell Phillips. Ralph Waldo Emerson, and other eminent men. He designed the soldiers' monument at Forest Hiil cemetery, and also the one at Charlestown. Among his works are busts