Greenwich and Meriden, Conn., at the latter date accepting the charge of Park street Congregational church, Boston. Mass. He also engaged in lectur- ing, and in the winters of 1869-'78 delivered Sun- day evening " talks " in Boston music-hall, which enjoyed considerable popularity. He resigned his pastorate in 1874, and since that time has engaged in business, preaching to independent congrega- tions. He has published " Camp Life in the Adi- rondacks" (Boston, 1868); " Music-PIall Sermons" (1870-'3); "Words Fitly Spoken" (1873); "The Perfect Horse " (1873) ; " Sermons delivered from Park Street Pulpit " (1874) ; " Adirondack Tales " <1877); and "How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney kept New Year, and other Stories" (1887).
MURRAY, William Vans, diplomatist, b. in
Cambridge, Md., in 1702 ; d. there, 11 Dec, 1803.
After receiving a classical education he went to
London in 1783 and studied law in the Temple.
He returned to Maryland in 1785, practised his
profession, was in the state legislature, and in 1790
was elected to congress as a Federalist, serving in
1791-'7. He took an active part in the early legis-
lation of that body, and had few superiors in eru-
dition, eloquence, and skill in debate. He was
appointed by Washington minister to the Nether-
lands in 1797, and envoy to France by President
Adams in 1799. In the latter mission he was asso-
ciated with Oliver Ellsworth and William R. Davie,
but the convention that was signed in Paris, 30
Sept., 1800. and put an end to the threatened diffi-
culties between the United States and France, was
mainly the work of Mr. Murray. He then returned
to his post at the Hague, which he occupied till
1801. He published a pamphlet entitled " The
Constitution and Laws of the United States," which
was much commended.
MUSGRAYE, Sir Anthony, governor of New-
foundland, b. in Antigna in 1828 ; d. in Brisbane,
Queensland, 9 Oct., 1888. Musgrave entered the
Inner Temple, London, in 1851, was appointed
treasury accountant at Antigua in 1852, and was
nominated colonial secretary there in 1854. In
1860 he was appointed administrator of the colony
of Nevis, and in 1861 he was transferred to the
island of St. Vincent in the same capacity. He
was governor of Newfoundland from 1864 till
1869, and in the latter year became governor of
British Columbia. He was nominated lieutenant-
governor of Natal in 1872, and he was soon trans-
ferred to the governorship of South Australia,
which post he held till 1877, when he was trans-
ferred to the island of Jamaica. In 1883 he was
appointed governor-general of Queensland, Aus-
tralia. Sir Anthony was nominated a companion
of the order of St. Michael and St. George in 1871,
and promoted for his official service to the knight
commandership of that order in 1875. He mar-
ried a daughter of David Dudley Field.
MUSGRAVE, George Washington, clergy-
man, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Oct., 1804; d.
there, 24 Aug., 1882. He was educated at Prince-
ton and at the theological seminary there, but,
owing to failing health, was not graduated. In
1828 he was licensed to preach, and after holding
pastorates in Baltimore and Philadelphia he was
corresponding secretary of the Presbyterian board
of publication in 1852-'3, and of the board of do-
mestic missions from 1853 till 1861, and from 1868
till 1870. He was a director of the Presbyterian
national union convention in Philadelphia in 1807,
that healed the rupture between the old- and new-
school branches of the church. As chairman of
the joint committee on reconstruction he reported
a plan to the first reunited general assembly in
Philadelphia, May, 1870. which was adopted. He
was president of the Philadelphia Presbyterian
alliance for evangelical work from its inception
in 1869 till his death, and of the board of trus-
tees of the PresVjyterian hospital. In 1837 he was
chosen a director of Princeton seminary, and in
1859 he became a trustee of the college, retaining
these offices until his death. Princeton gave him
the degree of D. D. in 1845, and the University of
Indiana that of LL. D. in 1862.
MUSGRAVE, Sir Thomas, British soldier, b.
in 1737; d. in London, 31 Dec, 1812. He was
captain of the 64th regiment, brevet major in 1772,
and lieutenant-colonel of the 40th regiment on 28
Aug., 1776. in which year he accompanied Gen.
Howe to this country. He was wounded in the
battle of Pelhara Manor, 18 Oct.. 1776, and at Ger-
mantown, 4 Oct., 1777, saved the day by throwing
himself with five companies into the Chew house,
where he successfully held the American forces at
bay until the British columns rallied. He became
colonel and aide-de-camp to the king and briga-
dier-general in 1782, major-general in September,
1790, and general in April, 1802.
MUSSEY, Renben Dimond, surgeon, b. in
Pelham, N. H., 23 June, 1780; d. in Boston, Mass.,
21 June, 1866. He was graduated at Dartmouth
in 1803, and at the medical department of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania in 1809, and while a stu-
dent subjected himself to an experiment that
demonstrated the incorrectness of the theory that
the human skin has no power of absorption. He
practised in Salem, Mass., from 1809 till 1814,
when he was made professor of materia medica
and therapeutics in Dartmouth, holding tliis chair
until 1820. He was also professor of obstetrics
from 1814 till 1838, and professor of anatomy and
surgery from 1822 till 1838. In 1831-'5 he lec-
tured on anatomy and surgery in Bowdoin. He
was professor of surgery in Ohio medical college
from 1838 till 1852, and held the same chair in
Miami medical college from 1852 till 1860, when
he removed to Boston. In 1830 he proved what
Sir Astley Cooper had said was impossible, that
intra-eapsular fractures could be united, and was
the first person to tie both carotid arteries. In
1837 he removed the entire shoulder-blade and
collar-bone of a patient who was suffering from
osteo-sarcoma, the first operation of the kind on
record. Dr. Mussey was president of the New
Hampshire medical society, and was an early la-
borer in the temperance cause. Harvard gave
him the degree of A. M. in 1806, and Dartmouth
that of LL. D. in 1854. In addition to addresses,
he was the author of " Health : its Friends and
its Foes" (Boston, 1862).— His son, William Heberdon, surgeon, b. in Hanover, N. II., 30 Sept., 1818 ; d. in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 Aug., 1882, studied at Phillips Andover academy and was graduated at Ohio medical college in 1848, subsequently studying medicine in Paris. He returned to Cincinnati and made a specialty of general surgery. In 1855 he was surgeon to St. John's hotel for invalids, Cincinnati. He served in the civil war as a surgeon, became medical inspector with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on 14 June, 1862, and resigned on 1 Jan., 1864. He was appointed surgeon of the Cincinnati hospital on 15 April. 1864, and also in that year vice-president of the American medical association. In 1865 he was given the chair of operative and clinical surgery in Miami medical college, which post he held until his death. In 1876 he became surgeon-general of Ohio and president of the Cincinnati natural history society. He was president of the Cincinnati
