Mackay, John W
capitalist, was born Nov. 28, 1831, in Ireland. He founded the bank of Nevada in San Francisco; and with J. G. Bennett laid two cables across the Atlantic, from United States to England and France.
MACKAYE, MRS. MARIA ELLERY [GOODWIN], educator, author, was born in 1830, in Rhode Island. She is an educator of Cambridge, and the author of The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other French Studies.
MAC KEAN, THOMAS, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born March 17, 1734, in Chester county, Pa.
He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and was governor of Pennsylvania in 1797-1808. He died in 1817. MAC KELLAR, THOMAS, manufacturer, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1812, in New York city. He is the president of MacKellar, Smith and Jordan company, the largest type founders in America, with offices in the principal cities of the United States. He is the author of a number of poetical works, which have placed him in the front rank of American poets.
His works are Rhymes Atween Times; Droppings from the Heart; Psalms and Hymns; and other works. He is also the author of The American Printer; and has contributed valuable articles during the past half a century to various publications, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature. He is a man of integrity and sterling business qualities, and makes his home in Germantown, Philadelphia.
MACKENZIE, ALEXANDER SLID- ELL, naval officer, author, was born April 6, 1803, in New York city. He was a naval officer of prominence in his day, and the author of Popular Essays on Naval Subjects; The American in England; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commodore Decatur, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; and A Year in Spain. He died Sept. 13, 1848, in Tarrytown, N. Y.
MAC KENZIE, RANALD SLIDELL, soldier, was born July 27, 1840, in Westchester county, N. Y. He was engaged in engineering work throughout the civil war; and was promoted colonel in 1867, and brigadier-general in 1882. He died Jan. 19, 1889, on Staten Island, N. Y.
MACKENZIE, ROBERT SHELTON, journalist, author, was born June 22, 1809, in Ireland. He was a journalist of London who came to America in 1852, and from 1857 was the literary editor of the Philadelphia Press. His writings include Lives of Dickens, Scott, and Guizot; Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine; Partnership en Commandite, a work upon commercial law; Bits of Blarney; Mornings at Matlock; and Tressilian and His Friends. He died Nov. 30, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.