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Mccoid, Moses A – Mccook, Edwin Stanton

Mccoid, Moses A

soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was -born Nov. 5, 1840, in Logan county, Ohio..

He was district attorney of the sixth judicial district of Iowa from 1867 to 1871; he was state senator from 1872 to 1879; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses.

Mccomas, Louis Emory

lawyer, congressman, was born in Washington county, Maryland. He was a republican candidate from Maryland to me fortyfifth congress; and was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican.

Mccomas, William

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837.

Mccomb, Eleazer

congressman. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Delaware from 1782 to 1784.

Mcconnel, John Ludlam

lawyer, author, was born Nov. 11, 1826, in Jacksonville, Ill. He is a lawyer and novelist of Jacksonville, Ill., who was a soldier in the Mexican war. His fictions are studies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon; Grahame, or Youth and Manhood; The Glenns; and Western Characters.

Mcconnell, Felix G

mechanic, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1810, in Lincoln county, Tenn. In 1824 he moved to Talladega county, Ala., and was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1846. He died by his own hand in September, 1846, in Washington, D. C.

Mcconnell, Samuel D

clergyman, author, was born in 1846, in Pennsylvania.

He is an episcopal clergyman of prominence as an independent thinker, rector of St. Stephen's church in Philadelphia in 1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, subsequently. He is the author of Sons of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the Episcopal Church in the United States; A Year's Sermons; and An Open Secret.

Mcconnell, W. J

merchant, banker, United States senator, was born Sept. 18, 1839, in Commerce, Mich. He was president of the Oregon state senate in 1882. He was also a member of the constitutional convention of Idaho. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican.

Mcconnell, William B

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 15, 1849, in Greene county, Pa. In 1872 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for the thirty-fifth circuit of Indiana; and was twice elected to the same office, serving for about five years. In 1879 he removed to Fargo, N. D.; was city attorney of Fargo in 1883; and in 1885 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota territory.

Mccook, Anson George

soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1835, in Steubenville, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861, as captain, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1865. He moved to New York in 1873; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses.

In 1883 he was elected secretary of the United States senate. .

Mccook, Edward Moody

soldier, state legislator, governor, was born June 15, 1833, in Steubenville, Ohio. He emigrated to Pike's Peak in 1859; and was a member of the Kansas legislature in 1860.

He entered the army at the opening of the rebellion, and by 1864 had attained the rank of brevet major-general. Between the years 1866 and 1869 he was minister to the Hawaiian Islands; and in the latter year was appointed governor of Colorado.

Mccook, Edwin Stanton

soldier, was born March 26, 1837, in Carrollton, Ohio. He was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers in 1865, for his services in the civil war.

While acting governor of Dakota and presiding over a public meeting, he was shot and killed by a man in the audience. He died Sept. 11, 1873, in Yankton, Dak.