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Mabie, Hamilton Wright – Macdougall, Charles

Mabie, Hamilton Wright

journalist, author, was born Dec. 13, 1845, in Cold Spring, N. Y. He is a journalist and essayist of New York city, editor of The Outlook, and the author of Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas; My Study Fire; Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short Studies in Literature; Essays in Literary Interpretation; Essays on Nature and Culture; and Essays on Books and Culture.

Mabry, Milton H

lawyer, jurist, was born in Waco, Tex. He has attained success in the profession of law at Inverness, Fla.; has been associate justice of the supreme court; and chief justice of the supreme court.

MACAFEE, MRS. NELLY NICHOL (MARSHALL), author, was born in 1845, in Kentucky. He is a Kentucky writer of fiction, and the author of Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings from Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wearing the Cross; Passion; and A Criminal through Love.

Maccarroll, James

critic, author, was born in 1815, in Ireland. He was a musical and dramatic critic of New York city, and the author of Letters of Terry Finnegan to D'Arcy McGee; The New Gauger; Adventures of a Night; and The New Life-Boat. He died in 1892.

Maccarty, J. Hendrickson

clergyman, author, was born in 1830, in Pennsylvania. He is a methodist clergyman, and the author of The Black Horse and Carry-All; Inside the Gates; Two Thousand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; and Fact and Fiction in Holy Writ.

Macculloch, Hunter

journalist, poet, was born Oct. 22, 1847, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1878 he classified and arranged the library of the Spring Garden institute; and in 1882 was engaged by Strawbridge and Clothier to edit a household magazine. He is the author of several dramas; many songs, which have been set to music; and a volume of poems entitled From Dawn to Dusk.

Macdonald, Moses

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 8, 1814, in Limerick, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1841 and 1842; and in 1845 was speaker of the house. In 1847-49 he served as treasurer of the state. He represented the first congressional district in the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses; and in 1857 was appointed collector for the districts of Portland and Falmouth. He died Oct. 18, 1869, in Saco, Maine.

Macdonald, Rufus Cyrene

physician, poet, was born in 1861, in Boston, Mass. This eminent physician of Boston is the author of Love and Other Poems.

Macdonough, Thomas

naval officer, was born Dec. 23, 1783, in Newcastle county, Del. He was a midshipman on board the Philadelphia in the squadron employed against Tripoli; and subsequently took part in all the naval engagements under Commodore Stephen Decatur. He was one of the party in 1804 who recaptured and destroyed the Philadelphia. For his services in the war of 1812 he was made captain; and received a gold medal from congress. He died Nov. 16, 1825, at sea.

Macdougall, Alexander

soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1731, in Scotland. He was appointed colonel of the first New York regiment; brigadier-general in 1776; and major-general in 1777. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress in 1781- 82, and in 1784-85. He was a member of the New York state senate in 1783. He died June 8, 1786, in New York city.

Macdougall, Charles

surgeon, was born born Sept. 21, 1804, in Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general; was promoted lieutenant-colonel and assistant medical purveyor, in 1866, and retired in 1869. He died July 25, 1885, in Fairfield, Va.