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
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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,
