director of Calvary church in 1860, but resigned in 1887. In 1867 he became conductor of the Mendelssohn glee-club, which takes the highest rank among choral associations. He has composed numerous songs, choruses, and other musical works for the Episcopal church service.
MOSES, Thomas Freeman, physician, b. in Bath, Me., 8 June, 1836. He was graduated at Bowdoin in 1857, and, after attending lectures in New York, London, Paris, and Philadelphia, took his degree at Jefferson medical college in 1861. During the civil war he was acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. army, in charge of government transports and hospitals, and after 1864 he settled in practice in Hamilton county, Ohio. He was elected professor of natural sciences in Urbana university, Ohio, in 1870, and in 1886 became acting president of that institution. Prof. Moses is a member of several scientific societies, and has edited the "Proceedings of the Central Ohio Scientific Association" (Urbana, 1878), to which he contributed papers. He has also published an annotated edition of Emile Saigey's "Unity of Natural Phenomena" (Boston, 1878).
MOSHER, Jacob Simmons, physician, b. in
Coeyman's, Albany co., N. Y., 19 March, 1834; d.
in Albany, N. Y., 13 Aug., 1883. He removed
with his parents to New Brunswick, N. J., and in
1853 entered Rutgers college, but left it near the
close of his junior year. Soon afterward he came
to Albany and for a time was principal of a public
school there. He was graduated at Albany
medical college in 1863, appointed instructor
in chemistry and experimental philosophy in
Albany academy, and in 1865 made professor of
chemistry in that institution, serving until 1870.
In 1864 he was commissioned a volunteer surgeon,
and subsequently he was appointed assistant medical
director for the state of New York. In July,
1864, he had been appointed lecturer on chemistry
in the Albany medical college, and in December
following he was appointed professor of chemistry
and medical jurisprudence, serving also as registrar
and librarian of the college from 1865. In
1870 he resigned his professorship, having been
appointed deputy health and executive officer of
the port of New York, but he resigned in 1876 and
returned to Albany and again entered on the
practice of his profession. In January of that
year he had been appointed professor of medical
jurisprudence and hygiene in Albany medical
college, and re-elected registrar, and in 1881 he was
made professor of pathology, practice, clinical
medicine, and hygiene, which post he held till his
death. In 1878 he served as a member of the
commission of experts, appointed by President
Hayes, to study the origin and cause of the yellow-fever
epidemic of that year, and the effectual
work of this board, though their report was not
published by the government, resulted in the creation
of the National board of health. He was one
of the founders, trustees, and professors of Albany
college of pharmacy, which was established in
1881, and the president of its faculty. He was a
member of many medical societies, a fellow of the
New York academy of medicine, and president of
the Albany county medical society in 1882.
Rutgers gave him the degree of Ph. D. in 1878. He
was a member of the Albany board of health, and
its chairman at the time of his death.
MOSLER, Henry, artist, b. in New York city,
6 June, 1841. He went with his family to Cincinnati
in 1851, and three years later to Nashville,
Tenn. Here his talent for art was first shown by
some engravings that he made on blocks of wood
with crude tools. After this his father gave him
what assistance he could toward perfecting his
drawing, and he obtained later his first knowledge
of painting in oils from George Kerr, an amateur.
In 1855 he returned with his family to Cincinnati,
where for a year he was a draughtsman for the
“Omnibus,” a comic weekly. He then went to
Richmond, whence he returned in 1857. In 1859 he
became a pupil of James H. Beard, in whose studio
he painted until 1861. In 1862-'3 he followed the
western army as art correspondent for “Harper's
Weekly.” He was appointed on Gen. William
Nelson's staff, and while the army was in camp
painted portraits of that officer, Gen. Richard W.
Johnson, Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, and others. He
went to Europe in 1863, studying for two and a
half years under Mücke and Kindler in Düsseldorf,
and for six months under Ernest Hébert in Paris.
He returned to the United States in 1866, remaining
eight years, during which time he produced
numerous pictures, notably his “Lost Cause,”
which achieved for him a national reputation.
On his return to Europe in 1874 he studied for three
years under Piloty in Munich, where he won a
medal at the Royal academy. In 1877 he removed to
Paris, where he has since resided, with the exception
of a brief visit to this country in 1885, when
he exhibited a collection of his works in New York
and Cincinnati. His “Le retour,” exhibited at
the Paris salon of 1879, was bought by the French
government for the Musée du Luxembourg, and in
1885 he was the recipient at the exhibition of the
American art association of one of the four cash
prizes for his “Last Sacrament.” He also won a
medal at the international exhibition at Nice in 1884.
His best-known works include “Early Cares” and
“Quadroon Girl” (1878); “The Return” and “Les
femmes et les secrets” (1879); “Purchase of the
Wedding Gown” and “Spinning Girl” (1880);
“Night after the Battle” and “Return of the
Fisherwomen” (1881); “Discussing the Marriage
Contract” (1882); “Wedding Morning” and “Rainy
Day” (1883); “Last Sacrament” and “Village
Clockmaker” (1884); “Approaching Storm” (1885);
and “Visit of the Marquise” (1886-'7).
MOSQUERA, Ruy Garcia (moss-kay'-rah), Spanish adventurer, b. in Seville in 1501; d. in Asuncion, Paraguay, in 1555. Nothing is known of his life before 1526, when he served under Sebastien Cabot (q. v.) in the expedition that sailed from Cadiz in January, 1526, for the river Plate. In 1530, when Cabot determined to abandon his establishment and return to Europe, Mosquera urged the advisability of continuing the establishment in the hope of better times, and as a result Cabot left him behind with Nuño de Lara and 170 men. The Spaniards made a truce with the Indians, and promoted good relations. Mangóre (q. v.), cacique of the Timbu tribe, conceived a passion for Lucia, the wife of Sebastian Hurtado, one of the garrison, and during the absence of Lara and Mosquera captured and burned the fort and carried off Lucia. He met with the Spanish forces on their return, and Lara and the greater part of the Spaniards perished, only a few escaping with Mosquera in a small boat, in which they descended the river Plate to the ocean. They built a fortress near Cape Santa Maria, and, being threatened by the Portuguese, Mosquera attacked them and drove them beyond San Vicente, which he plundered. He established himself afterward in the island of Santa Catharine, but when Pedro de Mendoza (q. v.) arrived in 1535 and founded Buenos Ayres, Mosquera, with his colonists, sailed to join his countrymen and after the destruction of
