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Magoffin, Beriah – Mahan, Hezekiah

Magoffin, Beriah

governor, was born April 18, 1815, in Harrodsburg, Ky.

In 1850 he was elected to the Kentucky state senate; and was governor of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. He died Feb. 28, 1885, in Harrodsburg, Ky.

Magoon, Elias Lyman

clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 20, 1810, in Lebanon, N. H. He was an eminent baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of Proverbs for the People; Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity; Westward Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; and Living Orators in America. He died Nov. 25, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Magoon, Henry S

educator, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 31, 1832, in Monticello, Wis.

In 1855 he was appointed professor of ancient languages in Nashville university, Tenn., where he remained till 1857. He then returned to Wisconsin and began the practice of law. He was elected district attorney in 1858; was a member of the state senate in 1871 and 1872; and was elected to the forty-fourth congress.

Magowan, Frank Allan

manufacturer, was born Aug. 5, 1859, in Trenton, N. J. He successively established the Empire Pottery Co., the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co., and the Trenton Oil Cloth Co. In 1887 he was elected mayor of Trenton, N. J.

MAGRATH, A. G., governor. He was governor of South Carolina in 1864 and 1.865.

Magrath, William

artist, was born March 20, 1838, in Ireland. In 1883 he established his studio in Washington. He has executed many strong and original works, of which On the Old Sod attracted much attention for its technical merits and the fine sentiment that it suggested.

Magruder, Allan Bowie

lawyer, United States senator, author, was born about 1775, in Kentucky. He moved to Louisiana, and in 1805 he published Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana to the United States. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1812 to 1813. He was also the author of The Bible Defended; and Life of John Marshall. He died April 16, 1822, in Opelousas, La.

Magruder, John Bankhead

soldier, was born Aug. 15, 1810, in Winchester, Va. In the Mexican war he commanded the light battery of General Pillow's division, and was brevetted major for gallantry at Cerro Gordo, and lieutenant-colonel for Chapultepec. He died Feb. 19, 1871, in Houston, Texas.

Magruder, Julia

author, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in Charlottesville, Va. She is a novelist, and the author of Miss Ayr of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet; and Princess Sonia.

Magruder, Patrick

lawyer, librarian, congressman, was born in 1768, in Montgomery county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1805 to 1807. He died in 1819 or 1820, in Petersburg.

Magruder, Richard B

lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was for many years a judge of the supreme court of the state of Maryland. He died Feb. 11, 1844, in Baltimore, Md.

Maguire, James G

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1853, in Boston, Mass. In 1882 he was elected judge of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, serving in that office six years; and was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Mahan, Hezekiah

soldier, congressman, was born June 26, 1739, in St. Stephen's Parish, S. C. He was elected a member of the first provincial congress of South Carolina, and in other ways actively promoted the cause of American freedom. He died in 1789, in St. Stephen's Parish, S. C.