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Mccaleb, Thomas

lawyer, author, was born Dec. 31, 1870, in New Orleans, He is the author of the Louisiana Book, containing selections from the literature of the state, together with biographical sketches of the most prominent writers of Louisiana. was

Mccall, George Archibald

soldier, statesman, author, was born March 16, 1802, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a soldier of Philadelphia, who served in the Mexican war, and in the civil war brigadier-general of volunteers in the federal army. He was the author of Letters from the Frontier. He was presented with sword by the citizens of his county. a In 1862 he was a democratic candidate for congress. He died Feb. 26, 1868, in West Chester, Pa.

Mccall, Hugh

soldier, author, was born in 1767, in South Carolina. He was a United States army officer, and the author of History of Georgia. He died July 9, 1824, in Savannah, Ga.

Mccall, John Cadwalader

lawyer, author, poet, was born Dec. 24, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia, and the author of The Troubadour, and Other Poems; and Fleurette, and other rhymes. he died Oct. 3, 1846, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Mccall, John Etheridge

lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1859, in Clarksburg, renn. He represented Henderson county in the Tennessee legislature in 1887; and wasre-elected in 1889. He was appointed assistant United States district attorney for west Tennessee in 1890, which office he resigned in 1891; and was an unsuccessful candidate for governor before the republican state convention in 1892. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Mccall, Peter

lawyer, author, was born Aug. 31, 1809, in Trenton, N. J. He was an eminent lawyer of Philadelphia, mayor of that city in 1844-45, and the author of Rise and Progress of Civil Society; and History of Pennsylvania Law and Equity. He died Oct. 30, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Mccall, Samuel Walker

journalist, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 28, 1851, in East Providence, Pa. He was the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser; and was elected a member of the Massachusetts house of representatives of 1888, 1889, and 1892. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses; and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

Mccalla, Daniel

clergyman, was born in 1748, in Neshaminy, Pa. He was licensed to preach as a presbyterian in 1772, and two years later ordained pastor of the churches at New Providence and Charleston, Pa., where he preached till the revolution. He was then appointed a chaplain in the continental army. He died April 6, 1809, in Wappetaw, S. C.

Mccalla, William Latta

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 25, 1788, in Lexington, Ky. He was settled over Presbyterian churches in Augusta, Ky., in 1819, and in Philadelphia, Pa., much of the time from 1823 to 1854. He published many sermons and essays, The Doctorate of Divinity; Adventures in Texas, Chiefly in 1840; and a collection of psalms and hymns in French. He died Oct. 12, 1859, in Louisiana.

Mccallum, Daniel Craig

soldier, military engineer, was born Jan. 21, 1815, in Scotland. In 1862 he was appointed director of all the military railroads in the United States, with the staff rank of colonel; and was brevetted brigadiergeneral. He died Dec. 27, 1878, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mccann, James

educator, physician, surgeon, was born in 1836, in Allegheny county, Pa. He was in the medical service of the fifth Pennsylvania volunteer infantry during the civil war; and subsequently continued the practice of medicine in Pittsburg, Pa. He organized the first medical college in western Pennsylvania.

He died in 1893, in Pittsburg, Pa.