MOORE, Zephaniah Swift, clergyman, b. in Palmer. Mass., 20 Nov., 1770 ; d. in Amherst, Mass., 30 June, 1823. He was graduated at Dart- mouth in 1793. taught for the next three years, subsequently entered the ministry of the Congre- gational church, and in 1798-1811 preached at Leicester. He then became professor of languages at Dartmouth, and was elected president of Will- iams in 1815, but resigned on account of the un- popularity that was occasioned by his support of the proposition to remove the college to Hampshire county. On the organization of Amherst college he became its first president, continuing in office until his death. He received the degree of D. D. from both Williams and Dartmouth in 181G. He published an " Oration. 5 July, 1802 " (Worcester, Mass., 1802); "Address to the "Public in Respect to Amherst College " (1823) ; and two sermons.
MOORHEAD, James Kennedy, congressman,
1). in Halifax, Dauphin co., Pa., 7 Sept., 1806 ; d.
in Pittsburg, Pa., 6 March, 1884. He received a
limited education, spending his youth on a farm,
and was apprenticed to a tanner. He was a con-
tractor for building the Susquehanna branch of
the Pennsylvania canal, became superintendent of
the Juniata division, and was the first to place a
passenger packet on this line. In 1836 he removed
to Pittsburg and established there the Union cot-
ton-factory. In 1838 he was appointed adjutant-
general of the state, and in 1840 he became post-
master of Pittsburg. He was elected to congress
as a Republican, holding his seat from 5 Dec,
1859, till 3 March, 1869, and serving on the com-
mittees on commerce, national armories, manufac-
tures, naval affairs, and ways and means. In 1868
he was a delegate to the National Republican con-
vention at Chicago. He was identified with the
principal eduoational and charitable institutions of
Pittsburg, was president of its chamber of com-
meree, of the Monongahela navigation company,
and several telegraph companies, and was a dele-
gate to the Pan-Presbyterian council in Belfast,
Ireland, in 1884.
MOQUIHUIX (mo-kee-wiss'), king of Tlalte-
lolco, b. about 1420 ; d. in Mexico in 1470. Tlalte-
lolco was a small city in the suburbs of Mexico,
and was governed for 110 years by a branch of the
imperial family of the Aztecs. Under the reign of
Montezuma I., Moquihuix served with distinction,
and greatly contributed to the victories and con-
quests of the Aztec emperor, who rewarded him
with the hand of his cousin, the sister of Axaya-*
catl. After the death of jVIontezuma and the ac-
cession of Axayaeatl, Moquihuix organized a league
between the dissatisfied Mexican caciques, but, on
the eve of receiving strong re-enforcements and
declaring open rebellion, his wife gave informa-
tion of his plans to her brother. The latter imme-
diately collected all his forces, and marching
against Moquihuix defeated him and besieged
Tlaltelolco, which, after several weeks, was taken
by storm. Moquihuix was sacrificed upon the
altar of the god Mexitli by Axayaeatl, who opened
his victim's breast and offered his heart to the di-
vinity. After defeating also the partisans of Mo-
quihuix, the eraperor annexed their territory, and
Tlaltelolco never regained its independence.
MORA, Diego de (mo'-rah), Spanish soldier,
b., according to some historians, in Pamplona in
1494, according to others, in Ciudad Real in 1501 ;
d. in Peru about 1555. He came to Peru with
Almagro in 1532, and, quickly learning the Quichua language, was ordered to assist in interrogating the Inca Atahualpa at his trial by special desire of that monarch, who distrusted the official interpreter, Felipillo {q. v.). Before the execution of Atahualpa, Mora, who was an expert at drawing, by order of Pizarro, drew a portrait of that
prince, which, according to Velaseo, was preserved
for more than two centuries in Cajamarca, and was
copied by Andre Thevet for his " Les grands
hommes de I'histoire." This is not the portrait
that appears with the article " Atahualpa " in this
work. The latter is taken from a copy of the
" Imperial genealogical tree," formerly in the ca-
thedral of Cuzes. Mora marched with Almagro
against Alvarado and received command of the
latter's vessels after the agreement by which Al-
varado relinquished his claims. He was one of
the founders of the city of Trujillo and was ap-
pointed its first governor, which place he kept dur-
ing the different political changes in Peru till
Gonzalo Pizarro ordered him to Lima. He es-
caped with his family to Panama, joined De la
Gasca {q. v.), and served under his orders till the
battle of Sacsahuana. In 1553 he was invited to
join the revolution of that year ; but he remained
loyal, and, when the army marched south, he was
appointed chief justice of Lima, according to Her-
rera. Garcilaso de la Vega says he returned to his
government of Trujillo and soon died.
MORA, Francis, R. C. bishop, b. near Vich,
Spain, 25 Nov., 1827. He received his secular and
theological education in his native city. In 1854
he volunteered for the California mission under
Bishop Amat, by whom he was ordained at Santa
Barbara. 19 March, 1856. He displayed great zeal
and activity in his clerical work, and, after per-
forming the duties of rector in several churches in
the diocese of Monterey, he was appointed to the
pro-cathedral of Los Angeles, 1 Feb., 1863. In
1865 he was appointed vicar-general of the diocese,
and on 3 Aug., 1873, he was consecrated bishop of
Mossinopolis i?i pa7-tibus eind coadjutor of Bishop
Amat with the right of succession. On the death
of that prelate, 12 May, 1878, he succeeded to the
see of Monterey and Los Angeles. He was present
at the 3d plenary council of Baltimore in Novem-
ber, 1884. Bishop Mora did much to infuse new
energy into the Roman Catholic church in Lower
California. He resigned in February, 1896.
MORA, Jose Joaquin, Spanish author, b. in Cadiz, Spain, in 1784; d. in Spain after 1848. He was the son of a magistrate of Cadiz, educated at the University of Grenada, and became professor in the College of San Miguel. After the French invasion he joined the army and was captured by the enemy, who sent him to Autun, where he married a French lady. On his return to Madrid in 1814 he established" himself as a lawyer, and became the editor of various literary reviews. In 1820 he translated Jeremy Bentham's address to the cortes into Spanish, and in that year was charged by Ferdinand VII. with a mission to Rome. On the restoration of the absolutist government in 1823 he went to England, where he was book-agent for various South American states and a contributor to periodicals. His efforts in supplying the South Americans with Spanish works procured for him in 1827 the editorship of the ofliicial journal of Buenos Ayres, entitled " Cronica Politica." Afterward he exerted considerable influence in Chili as director of the lyceum, as a journalist, and as under-secretary of state, in which capacity he drew up the constitution of Chili. He was also instrumental in the promulgation of the Chilian free-trade tariff of 1830. He lectured on philosophy and other subjects in Peru, and was private secretary to Gen. Santa Cruz in Bolivia from 1834 till 1838, when he returned to London as consul-
