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Mcallister, Archibald

manufacturer, congressman, was born in 1814, in Dauphin county, Pa. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-eignth congress. He died July 18, 1883.

McALLISTER, MATTHEW HALL, lawyer, jurist, legislator, state senator, author, was born Nov. 26, 1800, in Savannah, Ga. He was appointed United States district attorney for Georgia. He was for some years mayor of Savannah, Ga. He was a member of the legislature in 1835; and was a state senator for five years, and caused the establishment of the court of errors. In 1850 he moved his family to California; and from 1855 to 1862 was United States circuit judge of that state.

He was the author of a Eulogy on President Jackson, and a volume of legal opinions published by his son. He died Dec. 19, 1865, in San Francisco, Cal.