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HENRY G. MOYER was born, August 28, 1848, in Hilltown Town- ship, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father was Henry A. Moyer, and his mother Sarah Moyer, both of whom were among the best known people in that section of the State. His father was a lineal descendant of Christian Moyer, who immigrated to this country from Switzerland, about 1700, and whose descendants were closely con- nected with the development of American industries. Henry G. Moyer attended the common schools in his youth and received a general education in this way until he was about sixteen years of age, afterwards serving a second term in the higher schools and graduating from the Quaker City Business College at twenty years of age. In 1869, determining to win his way in the business world, Mr. Moyer embarked in mercantile pursuits as a clerk and bookkeeper, and from
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that time until 1879, a period of ten years, was active in business life and industrial progress.
Mr. Moyer's townsmen, recognizing in him a thoroughly worthy candidate for the office, elected him a Justice of the Peace for the Borough of Perkasie in 1879, and he gave such an excellent adminis- tration and so well satisfied the people of the Borough that he was elected to the office for three consecutive terms, which gave him a tenure in office of fifteen years in all, during which time he became prominent in the affairs of Bucks County. In 1882 Mr. Moyer pur- chased a half interest in the Central News, a local paper published at Perkasie, and under his management it became one of the brightest journals of the county. Under the firm name of Moyer & Kramer, the Central News is still published in the interest of a large constitu- ency, and it is very active in the affairs of Bucks County, Mr. Moyer continuing to be the leading manager of the publication. Shortly after his identification with the business of newspaper publishing, Mr. Moyer became Secretary of the Perkasie Park Association, being also elected Treasurer of the Perkasie Industrial Association, in which organizations he interested himself to such an extent, that through his individual efforts they met with considerable success, commercially and otherwise.
In 1894 Mr. Moyer was selected by a large number of the people of his community as their candidate for the State Senate. His interest in public affairs, the integrity of his administration in the local magis- tracy and his activity in the business affairs of the county, marked him as a desirable representative at Harrisburg of the people of his sec- tion, and he was given the nomination. Being elected by a large majority, he served his term with the distinction of being one of the most capable members of the State Senatorial body. As a member of the State Senate from the Tenth District, including Bucks County, Mr. Moyer continues to give careful supervision to all the details of legislation and legislative issues which may contribute to the pros- perity of his constituents of the State at large.
On April 16, 1869, Mr. Moyer was married to Emma Seiple, of Allentown, Pennsylvania. As a result of this union there are two children now living, one a son of nine years, and the other a daughter
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of fourteen years of age. Senator Moyer is to-day one of the most representative Pennsylvanians in the State, and aside from his honor- able duties there, he is occupied in promoting the general advance- ment of his section through the medium of the Central News, as well as through his Senatorship, in which office he enjoys the admiration of all who know him.
W. F. MUHLENBERG.
G REAT success in professional life is never achieved without the hard and conscientious work of years of study, much mental and physical strain and the closest application to books. To prepare for the proper practice of medicine and to insure even measurable success in that profession requires all of this. Even after graduation the successful physician of the present day must still be a student. Scarcely a day passes but that some new invention or discovery, either in surgery and medicine, or in the sciences analogous to them, is made. The progressive pro- fessional man is at once alert to all the apparently minor discoveries, as well as to the acknowledged great ones, and more than a mere superficial examination is usually demanded of each. Fortunate is the young physician who has ready access to all the literature bear- ing upon his profession, and especially fortunate is he who, through heredity, is well equipped mentally with a quick understanding to properly appreciate the value of scientific helps. Such a man is Wil- liam F. Muhlenberg, the subject of this biography. His paternal ancestors were physicians of note. With William F. Muhlenberg it was as it had been with his parents and grandparents, a matter of ease to study medicine, but his success is due as much to his application to books as to his natural attainments.
WILLIAM F. MUHLENBERG was born at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 18, 1852. His parents were Rev. Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg and Catherine Anna Muhlenberg. His father was, at different periods in his life, the Professor of the Pennsylvania College, President of the Muhlenberg College and Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Muhlenberg is descended from a very old family. His great- great-grandfather, Rev. Dr. H. Melchoir Muhlenberg, immigrated to
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this country in the Eighteenth Century. He was the pastor of one of the earliest Lutheran churches in America and was a man eminent for his learning. One of his great-grandfathers was Rev. Dr. H. E. Muhlenberg, one of the earliest botanists in this country, as well as a prominent clergyman connected with the Lutheran Church. One of his grandfathers was Dr. F. A. Muhlenberg, who was a leading phy- sician in Lancaster County for many years up to the time of his death, which occurred in 1867. His other grandfather, Major Peter Muhlen- berg, served with distinction and bravery in the War of 1812, and in the several Indian wars, holding the rank of Major in the United States Regular Army. Another of his great-grandfathers was Major-General J. Peter G. Muhlenberg, having the rank of General in the War of the American Revolution, and being honored with the friendship and esteem of the great Washington. His statue is in the Rotunda at Washington.
Early in youth Doctor Muhlenberg was carefully instructed at home and under the tuition of private tutors. He entered Pennsyl- vania College as a freshman and remained there until the close of his junior year. He then attended Muhlenberg College, taking the senior year studies, and was graduated from that institution of learning in 1868. Later he took the full course in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and received his diploma as a physician in 1872. The next year, after his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, he opened an office in Reading and at once entered upon the practice of his profession. He had flattering success from the start and rapidly secured a large clientele. Extremely careful in his attention to all of the cases entrusted to his skill, and exact in diagnoses, he, from the beginning, earned an excellent reputation as physician and surgeon. His reputation as a professional man and his high standing in the community led to his introduction into public life. He was induced to serve for a time on the Board of Health at Reading.
Doctor Muhlenberg is a member and ex-President of the Berks County Medical Society and Surgeon of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He is a reader of wide range and a deep thinker. His library is not only equipped with the latest medical works, but all the best magazines are also found on his tables. Doctor Muhlenberg and Augusta Muhlenberg were married in 1884.
GUSTAVUS A. MÜLLER.
T is not often that one man wins a prominent place in four such widely diverse fields as engage the atten- tion of the subject of this sketch; but Gustavus A. Müller, having achieved the record of being one of the most successful brewers in the country, has become prominent as a steamboat and electric railway manager, while as an officer of a national bank and of a trust company he has gained high standing in financial circles-a record of which any one might feel proud.
GUSTAVUS A. MULLER was born in Philadelphia on the 18th day of May, 1860. His father, Henry Müller, was one of the first of the pioneers who emigrated from among the mountains of Switzerland, and, settling in Philadelphia, entered with appreciative heartiness into the mercantile and manufacturing life of the city. He organized and was President of the Swiss National Festival Society, and was also active in all the German benevolent societies in Philadelphia until his death, which occurred in 1882. The education of the son was received in the public schools of his native city. Passing through all the grades in these institutions until he had graduated from the Jefferson Grammar School, he took a business course at Crittenden's College, where he acquired that theoretical knowledge of business forms and methods which, put into practice in later life, have so much aided him in his commercial career. Soon after leaving this institution he became associated with his father in the business of brewing, becoming a member of the company which was formed under the firm name of Henry Müller & Sons, and whose establish- ment was located at Thirty-first and Jefferson streets, Philadelphia. Here close attention to his business and a resolute determination
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to succeed made him prominent in the business, and he soon became known and universally recognized as one of the most successful brewers in the East. Later, he became General Manager and Director of the Bergner & Engel Brewing Company, which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the United States. This posi- tion he now holds, and his thorough knowledge of all the details of brewing, born of a lifetime's experience in the manufacture of malt liquors, has made a high reputation for the product of the brewery under his control. Mr. Müller also holds the position of Secretary of the Kraus Merkel Malting Company, a corporation whose head- quarters are in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
But it is not in brewing alone that Mr. Müller has made his repu- tation. Transportation and financial interests have claimed a large share of his attention, and he is as well known in corporation circles as in the business to which he first gave his attention. He is a large stockholder in and President of the Gloucester Ferry Company and the Delaware River Rapid Transit Company, two corporations which control fleets of as fine steamers as ply the Delaware River. He is also a Director in the Camden, Gloucester and Woodbury Railroad, and is prominent in the Directorate of the Gloucester City Electric Light Company. These corporations have done much to promote the prosperity of the portion of the State of New Jersey which is adjacent to Philadelphia, and their success is largely due to the unerring efforts of Mr. Müller. The West End Electric Company, of Philadelphia, of which he is a Director, also has the benefit of his sagacity and business ability. His indomitable energy has also won him an enviable place among the city's bankers, and as a Director in the Quaker City National Bank, of Philadelphia, he has been accorded wide recognition as an able financier. The Citizens' Trust Company, of Philadelphia, in whose Directorate he is a prominent figure, owes much of its prosperity to his decided financial ability.
Being intensely patriotic and thoroughly devoted to seeing that the affairs of government were honestly and efficiently carried on, Mr. Müller naturally took a deep interest in politics and has long been a prominent figure and active worker in the ranks of the Democratic party. He has repeatedly been honored by the recognition by his
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party associates of his work and has been frequently nominated for the highest posts within the gift of the people of the city. He was a candidate of the Democratic party of the Twenty-eighth Legislative District for the State Legislature in 1888, and, although he was defeated by forty-five votes, his personal popularity was so great and recogni- tion of his work was so general, that he ran 2,500 votes ahead of the rest of his ticket. He has also been the candidate of his party in the Fourth Congressional District of Pennsylvania for the House of Rep- resentatives of the National Congress, but the Democracy being largely in the minority in the district, he was defeated by his opponent, John E. Reyburn. In 1897 he was the Democratic nominee for City Treasurer, but even his popularity could not overcome the Republican majority.
He was married, in 1881, to Caroline F. Benedict. They have two sons, Gustavus C., aged fifteen years, and Walter H., aged ten years, in whose education their father takes a deep personal interest.
Mr. Müller's career has been a remarkably successful one, but he has been prosperous because of his personal merits and hard work. He has, in a comparatively short business life, attained high rank in several lines of effort, and his past successes give rare promise for the future.
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AMES MONROE MUNYON, LL.D., is perhaps the J most successful medical man to-day in America, if not in the whole world. His remedies are known wherever civilization has reached, and there is no drug store in the United States, or chemist's shop in Canada or Great Britain, where they cannot be had. They have gone into the homes of the people everywhere, and day by day the fame of their good work is extending.
This marvelous success has been of comparatively quick growth. Professor Munyon has himself tersely stated the principles which underlie his method. On one occasion he declared : "No punish- ment is too severe for those who deceive the sick;" on another he said : "If I were asked what feature of my business method had been most profitable, I should unhesitatingly say 'Telling the truth.'" In his dealings with the public he has lived up to the letter and the spirit of both thoughts. Animated by a desire to relieve suffering and to put it within the power of any man, woman or child to recognize and conquer or check any of the ordinary forms of disease, he brought out his Homoeopathic Home Remedies, and with them a Guide to Health so clear in statement, so easily understood, that ordinary mortals have no difficulty in comprehending it.
His main office, 1505 Arch Street, Philadelphia, is now a center from which radiate influences reaching to every corner of the land, and to branches in all the larger cities. The New York office is at 907 Broadway. It is fitted with every modern appliance. The elec- trical apparatus there is said to be unsurpassed in this country. A feature of Professor Munyon's plan is to provide medical examination
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absolutely free at all his offices, and only physicians of high standing are given employment by him.
James Monroe Munyon was born in Thompson, Connecticut, August 3, 1848, and has felt all the pinching and all the inspira- tion that comes to a New England farmer's boy whose parents are conquering a living from stony acres in spite of long winters and scarcity of cash. If there is possibility of any sort in a boy so situated, it is bound to come out. While yet in his early teens young Munyon was making his mark. Earlier still he began to manufacture medi- cines from various roots and herbs, and dispose of his products on the basis of barter or for a currency of pins. It was then a very short step to becoming a sure-enough trader, and we soon find him selling pictures from farm house to farm house. During all these New England years the boy was known as "Money" Munyon, because he always had cash in his pocket. These characteristics of sturdy independence, keen business foresight and exceptional thrift have marked his career throughout.
By the time he was twenty, young Munyon had saved enough to warrant him in going abroad to train his voice-a tenor of excep- tional range, power and sweetness-under the direction of world- famous masters. He went into journalism instead, bringing out Christian Voices. He soon became interested in the prohibition of child labor, and it was largely through his efforts that the labor laws of several States were so modified as to prevent the employment of children in factories, shops and mines. His Labor World was one of the most influential publications of that period. Whatever cause he espoused received his most enthusiastic support. He was never a lukewarm advocate or opponent. No one ever had one jot of doubt as to exactly where James M. Munyon stood on any question that received his attention. But he always considered a subject from every side, and only made up his mind after the most exhaustive study.
This breadth of view is just as strikingly manifest in the manage- ment of his great medical business. He is not slavishly tied down to the teachings of any school. His one aim is to get the best that medical science regardless of schools can supply. In many import- ant particulars he feels that the teachings of Hahnemann are far in
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advance. His remedies are based on Homoeopathic formula; but that does not blind him to any good that may be found elsewhere. He welcomes truth from any source. His mind is tirelessly on the watch for new truths, and for new applications of old truths. His expert chemists and skilled physicians report to him developments and discoveries, but the practical application is almost invariably Professor Munyon's. He sees at a glance the possibilities or the impracticabilities. His inventions in the line of applied medicine are probably greater in number than those of any other man living. In him the poetic and the practical are united to a very rare degree.
Professor Munyon is a song writer of exceptional power. He produces words and music of remarkable force and fire. His "Nation's Song" is inspiring, and has been highly praised by the best critics, but his latest production, "Liberty," thrills the hearer, if he is a patriotic American, very much as the "Marseillaise " thrills a Frenchman. "Don't Whip Little Ben," "Keep the Lights Burning" and "Someone is Knocking" are gems in their way and proof that Professor Munyon's muse is equally at home with grave, gay, pathetic or patriotic themes. Among his literary productions are " Is Freedom a Lie?" "Yes, I Am Guilty," "White Slave " and "A Nation's Danger."
Professor Munyon is of medium size, quick in action, thought and talk, and regards men for their worth rather than their wealth. He lives with his wife and two sons in "The Towers," a beautiful mansion on the old Lancaster Pike, opposite George's Hill, in Fair- mount Park, Philadelphia. He delights to entertain his friends there, and he is ever the hearty, whole-souled host without pretense or affec- tation. In recognition of the scholarly attainments and the great services of Professor Munyon in the cause of humanity, the American University, of Tennessee, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.
S. J. M. McCARRELL.
HE State of Pennsylvania has produced a brilliant galaxy of men who have devoted special study to questions affecting the development of its resources and the steady promotion of its position in the sisterhood of States; and Dauphin County has furnished an hon- orable quota, the subject of this sketch, S. J. M. McCarrell, being accorded marked prominence. Twice elevated to the office of State Senator, and bearing an enviable reputation as one of the leading attorneys at the State Capital, he has represented the different inter- ests throughout the Commonwealth wisely and faithfully. Progressive in mind and with a recognition of the importance of the affairs of his constituents as well as the great State of which he is a native, he has studiously brought to bear all the forces of his strong intellectual nature to help further everything that goes to make up a prosperous and contented people. That he has succeeded to a marked degree is a matter of local history.
SAMUEL J. M. McCARRELL was born in Buffalo Township, Wash- ington County, Pennsylvania, and his ancestors were of Scotch-Irish stock, a people celebrated for their industry, perseverance, courage and great force of character. His father, Rev. Alexander McCarrell, D.D., was pastor of the Claysville Presbyterian Church for about thirty-five years, and during his ministry he accomplished much good by his zeal in the cause of Christianity and the upholding of a high order of righteousness in the communities in which he labored. His son, therefore, was thoroughly disciplined in the tenets of this religious faith, to which may be attributed his integrity and steadfast devotion to the principles of right and justice. Mr. McCarrell spent his early boy- hood days on a farm, attending the common schools during the winter
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months and working on the farm during the summer. Later, he clerked in his uncle's store at Claysville, meanwhile preparing himself for college under the instruction of his father. He entered Washington College in 1860, graduating therefrom four years later, with the highest honors of his class. In the fall of 1864 he accepted a position as Assistant Principal of the Linsley Institute, at Wheeling, West Virginia. While thus engaged he began the study of law under the instruction of Mr. McKennan, of the firm of Richardson & McKennan. In the summer of the following year, 1865, he went to Harrisburg, where he completed his law studies under the preceptorship of David Fleming, with whom he later became a partner, continuing such until the death of Mr. Fleming, in January, 1890. Mr. McCarrell was admitted to practice at the Dauphin County Bar in November, 1867, and served as District Attorney of that county for two terms, from 1881 to 1887, with great credit to himself and much satisfaction to the people. He has also held the position of United States Commissioner for the United States Circuit and District courts of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In the fall of 1892 he was elected to the State Senate, and at the next session was re-elected, being chosen President pro tempore of that body and appointed as a member of the Senate Investigating Com- mittee. He has also been a member of the following committees : Constitutional Reform, Corporations, Elections, General Judiciary, Special Judiciary, Legislative Appointments and Railroads. His record as a Senator is of the highest standard. He gave special attention to the duties of the various committees of which he was a member, and allowed nothing to interfere with his work as a repre- sentative in the highest body of the Keystone State. In a word, the public career of Mr. McCarrell has been unusually successful and honorable, and as an attorney he has taken a leading part in some of the most noted litigations in the Supreme and lower courts. Being an effective advocate, his ability at the Bar is widely recognized, and his eloquence in the Senate and in other public assemblages has won him a prominence that is not confined by the boundaries of his native State. As a presiding officer in the Senate he officiated with dignity, courtesy and fairness, making a record of which he may well be proud. In fact, it is a matter of history that not once during his occupancy
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of the chair was there any question of his decisions and not a single appeal was taken from his rulings. He is a member of the New Capitol Building Commission, under the Act of April 14, 1897.
Mr. McCarrell is known throughout Central Pennsylvania as a generous and consistent church worker, and his benevolence has always been shown whenever and wherever it was needed. He has proved a true friend of the laboring classes, working early and late for their advancement, and he has legions of admirers, high and low. He enjoys a very large and lucrative law practice, his spacious offices at Harrisburg being the Mecca of clients from all over the State. Mr. McCarrell saw some military service during 1863 with his college company. His great-grandfathers, Thomas McCarrell and William McClelland, served in the Revolutionary Army, the last named also in the War of 1812.
Mr. McCarrell was married on December 21, 1871, to Rebecca A., daughter of Robert Wallace, of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. Two children were born to this union, Wallace Alexander, who died at the age of four years, and Samuel J. M., Jr., who is now living.
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IDE and favorable comment has been made on the W rapid growth and remarkable development of the legal fraternity in Pennsylvania's chief city, and its judiciary has been placed on a par with the ablest of any community in the country. Many of the mem- bers of the Philadelphia Bar are men of exceptional legal acumen, erudition and great force of character. Yet this flattering result has not been without a very justifiable cause; for as the needle obeys the earth's magnetism, so have bright legal minds gravitated to the renowned Bar of Philadelphia, while its strength has been made mani- fold by the addition of some of the best and most promising native talent. Prominent among the distinguished advocates who have con- tributed largely to the success and influence of their profession in the city of their nativity is Judge Henry J. McCarthy, the subject of this biographical sketch. A Philadelphian by birth and thoroughly dis- ciplined in the tenets of law, he has richly reaped the reward that fol- lowed the industrious application of the forces of his strong and intellectual character.
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