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Maclean, John P

educator, author, lecturer, was born March 12, 1848, in Franklin, Ohio. In 1886 he assisted in making the survey of the glacial beds of Butler county, Ohio. He is the author of Manual of the Antiquity of Man; The Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man; Fingal's Cave; Norse Discovery of America; and History of the Macleans.

MAC LEOD, DONALD, author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in New York city.

He wrote a history of Mary, Queen of Scots, besides several works and one volume of poems. MAC MARTIN, DANIEL FREDERICK, lawyer, was born April 25, 1868, in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. He received the rudiments of his education in the high school of his native city; and attended the Queen's university college of Kingston, and Osgoode Hall of Toronto. He has become one of the foremost lawyers of Oklahoma territory; and is prominently identified with the public affairs of Oklahoma City and the territorial government. MACMILLAN, GEORGE WHITFIELD, clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 19, 1827, in York county, Pa.

He was ordained a clergyman in 1857, and has filled pastorates in New York, Illinois and Ohio. He has been eminently successful in his calling; has been president of the Richmond college, Ohio, for nine years; and president of various religious societies. He is the author of The Millennium, or The Reign of Christ; and other works. In 1884 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from the Richmond college; and in 1885 received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the Princeton college.

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