Mace, Daniel
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1836; and served as United States attorney for Indiana during President Polk's administration. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1851 to 1855 as a democrat, and from 1855 to 1857 as an independent candidate. He was appointed, by President Lincoln, postmaster of Lafayette, Ind. He died July 26, 1867, in Lafayette, Ind.
MACE, MRS. FRANCES LAUGHTON, poet, was born Jan. 15, 1836, in Orono, Maine. At the age of eighteen she wrote the celebrated hymn, Only Waiting, which was copied through the length and breadth of the land.
She is the author of Legends, Lyrics and Sonnets; and Under Pine and Palm, a magnificent volume of her collected poems. In 1855 she was married to Benjamin H. Mace, an eminent lawyer and scholar, now of San Jose, Cal. Her poems have constantly appeared in the Century, Atlantic, Lippincott's, Harper's, and the leading magazines of America; and her best known poem is Only Waiting.
MAC GAHAN, JANUARIUS ALOY- SIUS, journalist, author, was born June 12, 1844, near New Lexington, Ohio. He was a famous journalist and war correspondent. During the Franco-Prussian war he was the correspondent at Paris of the New York Herald, and he went through the Russo-Turkish war as the correspondent of the London Daily News.
He was the author of Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the Northern Lights; and Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. He died June 9, 1878, in Constantinople, Turkey.