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Mcclenachan, Blair

congress- He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1799.

MCCLENACHAN, CHARLES THOMP- SON, lawyer, author, was born April 13, 1829, in Washington, D. C. He is a lawyer of New York city, long employed in the department of public works, and the author of Law of the Fire Department; The Atlantic Cable of 1858; and Book of the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.

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Mcclene, James

Congressman. was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780.

Mcclernand, John A

soldier, journalist, congressman, was born May 30, 1812, in Breckenridge county, Ky.

He was elected to congress from Illinois, and served as a representative until 1851. Before going to congress he had been elected to the state legislature. In 1859 he was again elected to congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress, but resigned to accept the commission of brigadier-general in the union army in 1861. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.

Mcclintock, John

clergyman, author, was born Oct. 27, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a methodist clergyman of New York city, professor in Drew Theological seminary at the time of his death. He is best known by the Theological and Biblical Cyclopædia which he began with James Strong; but he was the author, also, of Living Words; and Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and Methodology. He died March 4, 1870, in Madison, N. J.

Mcclinton, James Giles

lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 7, 1838, in Henderson county, Ill. He has served as state senator in Nevada; and for many years he was judge of the eighth judicial district of that state. He is now serving his third term as superior judge at Port Angeles, Wash.

Mccluney, William J

naval officer, was born about 1796. He was appointed midshipman in the United States navy in 1812. In 1858 he was placed in command of the Atlantic squadron, which office he held until 1860. He was commissioned commodore in 1862. He died Feb. 11, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mcclung, John Alexander

clergyman, author, was born Sept. 25, 1804, in Washington, Ky. He was pastor of a presbyterian churen in Indianapolis in 1851-57, and then of one in Maysville, Ky., until his death by drowning. He wrote Sketches of Western Adventures.

He died Aug. 7, 1859, in Niagara river.

Mcclure, Charles

soldier, paymaster, was born Feb. 20, 1838, in Carlisle, Pa. He served during the civil war in the army of the Potomac; and at General Grant's headquarters as inspector of the commissary department of the armies operating against Richmond; and was brevetted colonel United States volunteer infantry. He is now major and paymaster United States army at St.

Louis, Mo.

Mcclure, George

soldier, legislator, jurist, was born in 1771, in Ireland. He settled in Bath, N. Y., where he studied law, and was successively a member of the legislature, sheriff, surrogate, and judge of Steuben county. He volunteered in the war of 1812, and in 1813 commanded a brigade on the Buffalo frontier. He died Aug. 16, 1851, in Elgin, Ill.

Mccluskey, John Daniel

soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1841, in Newburg, Ala. He was an officer in the confederate army; has served with distinction as a member of the Alabama state legislature; and since 1865 has taken an active part in every presidential campaign in the interest of the democratic party. He is one of the foremost lawyers of his native state, and has a large practice in Vernon.