Mccoll, Evan
poet, was born Sept. 21, 1808, in Scotland. He is a successful writer of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and is the author of two volumes of poems, entitled The Mountain Minstrel; and Poems and Songs. a MCCOLLESTER, SULLIVAN HOL- MAN, educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born in 1826, in Marlborough, N. H. He received a liberal education, and the degrees of A. B. and A. M. were conferred on him by the Norwich university, Vt. He studied Greek at the Harvard university, and took theological course in the Harvard Divinity school; and in 1853 was ordained a universalist minister.
He then entered educational work, was principal in several large institutions, and was made president of the state board of education in New Hampshire for four years. He has lectured extensively on education, temperance, foreign travels and peoples. He has visited Europe five times; Egypt, Palestine and Turkey three times; made a tour round the world; been the length and breadth of his own country and through Mexico. During his travels he has been a correspondent for the Boston Journal, Transcript, Journal of Education, Christian Leader, Gospel Banner, New Hampshire Sentinel, Monitor, Republican, and other journals. He has published After Thoughts of Capital Cities and Foreign Lands; Round the Globe in Old and New Paths; Babylon and Nineveh Through American Eyes; and Mexico, Modern and Ancient.