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Mayo, Robert – Mcarthur, John

Mayo, Robert

author, was born April 25, 1784, in Powhatan county, Va.

He was a writer long in the civil service at Washington; and the author of View of Ancient Geography and History; New System of Mythology; United States Pension Laws; Synopsis of the Commercial and Revenue System; and The Treasury Department, its Origin and Operations.

His miscellaneous writings appear in a number of standard educational and scientific works. He died Oct. 31, 1864, in Washington, D. C.

Mayo, William Starbuck

physician, author, was born April 20, 1812, in Ogdensburg, N. Y. He was a novelist and physician of New York city, and the author of Kaloolah; The Berber; Néver Again; Flood and Field; and Romance Dust, a collection of short stories. He died in 1895.

Mayrant, William

congressman, was born in South Carolina. He was a representative in congress from that state during the years 1815 and 1816.

MCADOO, MRS. MARY FAITH [FLOYD], author, was born Sept. 8, 1832, in Tennessee. She is the author of The Nereid, a romance; and Antethusia.

Mcadoo, William

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 25, 1853, in Ireland. He was for some years counsel to a local board in Jersey City, N. J.; and was a representative in the state legislature in 1882. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the fortyeighth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-ninth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.

Mcafee, Charles Bingley

soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky.

In 1896 he became judge of the criminal court of Green county, Mo. He was a candidate for congress in 1868 and again in 1872. was MCAFEE, ROBERT BRECKINRIDGE, soldier, lawyer, author, was born in February, 1784, in Mercer county, Ky. He lieutenant-governor of Kentucky from 1820 to 1824. He was the author of History of the Late War in the Western Country, in 1816. He died March 12, 1849, in Kentucky..

Mcaleer, William

merchant, state senator, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1838, in Ireland. He was unanimously elected to the Pennsylvania state senate in 1886 for a term of four years, and received the nomination for president pro tempore by the democratic members in 1889. He was elected to the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses; was not a candidate for the fifty-fourth congress; and was elected as a democrat to the fifty-fifth congress.

Mcalester, Miles Daniel

soldier, civil engineer, was born March 21, 1832, in New York. He served with distinction through the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died April 23, 1869, in Buffalo, N. Y.

Mcallister, Robert

soldier, was born June 1, 1813, in Pennsylvania. He entered the civil war as colonel of the eleventh New Jersey volunteers; was brevetted brigadier-general in 1863; and 1864 attained the rank of major-general.

He died Feb. 23, 1891, in Belvidere, N. J.

Mcallister, Ward

lawyer, jurist, was born July 27, 1855, in Newport, R. I.

He was assistant district attorney for California in 1882-85; and then became judge of the United States court for the territory of Alaska.

Mcanally, David Rice

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 17, 1810, in Granger county, Tenn. He is a methodist clergyman, prominent in St. Louis and elsewhere in the southwest, who, besides a History of Methodism in Missouri, has written a number of lives of methodist bishops.

Mcarthur, John

soldier, was born Nov. 17, 1826, in Erskine, Scotland. When the civil war began he joined the twelfth Illinois volunteers, with a company of which he was captain, and for his gallantry was promoted brigadier-general in 1862. He was postmaster in Chicago in 1873-77.