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Mccook, George Wythe

lawyer, was born Nov. 22, 1821, in Canonsburg, Pa. In 1854-56 he was attorney-general of Ohio. In the Mexican war he was lieutenant-colonel of the third Ohio regiment, and was commissioned brigadier-general in 1861. He died Dec. 28, 1877, in Steubenville, Ohio. MCCOOK, HENRY CHRISTOPHER, naturalist, clergyman, author, was born July 3, 1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a naturalist, and the author of Object and Outline Teaching; The Last Year of Christ's Ministry; The Last Days of Jesus; Garfield Memorial Sermons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The Gospel in Nature; The Mound-Making Art of the Alleghanies; Natural History, of the Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey Ants and Occident Ants; Tenants of an Old Farm; and American Spiders.