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Macdougall, Clinton D – Mackey, John

Macdougall, Clinton D

soldier, lawyer, banker, congressman, was born June 14, 1839, in Scotland. He joined the army of the Potomac, and commanded a brigade at Gettysburg, until the close of the war; and was brevetted brigadiergeneral in 1864. He was appointed postmaster of the city of Auburn in 1869; and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.

Macdowell, Elizabeth

artist, was born in 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa. She studied art in the Academy of Fine Arts of Philadelphia, and has attained a national reputation as a painter.

Machen, Willis Benton

farmer, congressman, United States senator, was born April 5, 1810, in Caldwell county, Ky. He was a senator in the Kentucky state legislature in 1854, and a member of the lower house in 1850 and 1860. He was a member of the confederate congress for three years; and was appointed a senator in congress from Kentucky to fill a vacancy, and served until 1873.

Mack, Charles Ernest

lawyer, jurist, was born July 22, 1857, in Columbia county, Wis. He has been regent of the university of Nevada, and is now district judge of the first judicial district of Nevada.

Mack, Edgar Eugene

lawyer, legislator, was born June 14, 1850, in Leicester, Vt. For fourteen years he was clerk of the district court of Iowa; and a member of the Iowa state senate for four years.

Mack, George Franklin

educator, was born Nov. 15, 1845, in St.

Charles, Ill. For thirty years he has been a successful educator. He moved to California in 1850, and received his education in the public schools of that state, graduating in 1865 from the Healdsburg academy. He served as superintendent of schools for Amador county in 1886; was again re-elected in 1890; and again in 1894; and during 1881-93 he was principal of the Ione public schools.

Mack, Norman Edward

journalist, was born July 24, 1855, in West William, Ontario. He is editor and publisher of the Buffalo Daily Times.

Mackall, William Whann

soldier, was born in 1818, in District of Columbia. He served in Kentucky as assistant adjutant-general to General Simon Buckner, with the rank of colonel, until after the surrender of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson; and was subsequently appointed brigadier-general.

Mackay, Charles H

journalist, author, poet, was born March 11, 1859, in Bridgeport, Maine. He is the editor of the Esoteric of Boston, Mass.; and the author of valuable articles on astronomy.

Mckay, Donald

ship builder, was born Sept. 4, 1810, in Nova Scotia. During the civil war he built the light draught monitor Nauset, and the double end gunboat Ashuelot. His last work was the sloop of war Adams. He died Sept. 20, 1880, in Hamilton, Mass.

Mackey, Charles William

railroad president. He is president of the Indiana Central Railroad company; of the Franklin Steel Casting company; and is president, director and trustee of various corporations.

Mackey, John

educator, journalist, author, was born in 1765, in Charleston, S. C. He was a journalist and educator of Charleston, whose American Teacher's Assistant was the first comprehensive work on arithmetic published in America.

He died Dec. 14, 1831, in Charleston, S. C.