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Mcauslan, John – Mccabe, William Gordon

Mcauslan, John

merchant, was born Aug. 10, 1835, in Scotland. In 1866 he removed to Providence, R. I., and established the Boston Store, a mercantile house, which has been a success from the start.

Mcbeth, Robert C

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 4, 1838, in Harrison county, Ohio. He has served as judge of common pleas of Henry county, Mo. He was mayor of his city, and a delegate to the republican national convention in 1880, held in Chicago, where he was one of the three hundred and six for Grant.

Mcbride, James

author, was born in 1788, in Pennsylvania. He was a writer of Hamilton, Ohio, and the author of Pioneer Biography. He died in 1859.

Mcbride, James Henry

soldier, lawyer, was born about 1815, in Kentucky.

When the civil war began he recruited a brigade, and was afterward commissioned as brigadier-general in the confederate service. He died in 1862, in Pocahontas, Ark.

Mcbride, John Mclaren

college president, author, was born Jan. 1, 1846, in Abbeville, S. C. In 1888 he was elected president of the college of South Carolina, which position he still holds.

Mcbride, John Rogers

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 22, 1832, in Franklin county, Mo. In 1854 he was chosen superintendent or common schools of Oregon. He was chosen to the state senate for four years after its adoption; and in 1862 was elected a representative from Oregon to the thirty-eighth congress. He was subsequently appointed chief justice of the United States court for the territory of Idaho. He now resides in Spokane, Wash., engaged in the practice of law.

Mcbride, Mrs. Maggie F

poet, was born Dec. 31, 1863, in Canada. She is the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Mccabe, James Buchanan

lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 2, 1856, in Leesburg, Va. He is a prominent lawyer of his native city; was judge of the county court during 1880-86; and since 1887 has been the commonwealth's attorney of Loudoun county, Va.

Mccabe, James Dabney

clergyman, author, was born April 15, 1808, in Richmond, Va. He edited the Olive Branch, and also the Odd-Fellows' Magazine, and published a Masonic Text Book. He died Aug. 1, 1875, in Baltimore, Md.

Mccabe, John Collins

clergyman, author, poet, was born Nov. 12, 1810, in Richmond, Va. He contributed a poem to the first number of the Southern Literary Messenger in Virginia, and wrote constantly for it and other magazines poems, essays and papers on colonial history. He died Feb. 26, 1875, in Chambersburg, Pa.

Mccabe, Rudolph Taylor

railroad president, was born April 4, 1847, in Duncansville, Pa. He was president of the Iron Structural Steel company of Duluth, Minn., also president of the Central Pennsylvania and Western railroad.

Mccabe, William Gordon

soldier. educator, author, was born Aug. 4, 1841, in Richmond, Va. He is a confederate officer; since 1888 head master of a school in Petersburg, Va., and the author of The Defence of Petersburg; and A Latin Grammar.

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