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Mccook, John James – Mccoskry, Samuel Allen

Mccook, John James

soldier, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 2, 1843, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He has held pastorates in Detroit, Mich., and East Hartford, Conn., and since 1883 has been professor of modern languages in Trinity college.

He was editor of the Church Weekly, is a frequent contributor to periodicals, and is the author of Pat and the Council.

Mccook, John James

soldier, lawyer, was born May 22, 1845, in Carrollton, Ohio. He enlisted in the sixth Ohio cavalry. He served through the war, attaining the rank of captain and aide-decamp in 1863. He was brevetted major for gallant and meritorious services in action at Shady Grove, Va., and lieutenant colonel and colonel for his services during the war. He is Va., practicing law in New York city. now

Mccook, Robert Latimer

soldier, was born Dec. 28, 1827, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He organized the ninth Ohio regiment in 1861, became its colonel, and commanded a brigade in the West Virginia campaign under McClellan. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He died Aug. 6, 1862, near Salem, Ala.

Mccook, Roderick Sheldon

naval officer, was born March 10, 1839, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He served through the civil war with great credit; and in 1873 he was made commodore. He died Feb. 13, 1886, in Vineland, N. J.

Mccord, Andrew

congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly during the years 1800, 1801, 1802 and 1807, part of the time speaker; and was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1805.

Mccord, Myron H

journalist, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1840, in Ceres, Pa. He was a member of the Mississippi state senate in 1873 and 1874; member of assembly in 1881; and was appointed a delegate to Cincinnati republican national convention in 1876.

He was register United States land office from 1883 to 1885; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

Mccormick, Andrew Wilson

soldier, jurist, lawyer, was born Feb. 3, 1830, in Waynesburg, Pa. During the war he served in the seventy-seventh regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for gallantry. He has attained eminence as one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Cincinnati; has been an eminent jurist; and is a successful pension attorney, with offices in Cincinnati and Washington, D. C.

Mccormick, Cyrus Hall

was born May 16, 1869, in Washington, D. C. He entered the business of The McCormick Harvesting Machine company, serving in several departments in order that he might obtain a knowledge of its various branches. On the death of his father, in 1884, he was elected to succeed him as president of the company, and has continued in that position up to the present time.

Mccormick, Henry C

lawyer, congressman, was born June 30, 1844, in Lycoming county, Pa. He was elected to the fiftieth congress from Pennsylvania; and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.

Mccormick, John W

farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1831, in Gallia county, Ohio. He was elected delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1873; and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.

Mccormick, Robert

inventor, was born in 1780, in Walnut Grove, Va. He was the inventor of a machine for cleaning hemp. He died July 4, 1846, in Walnut Grove, Va. He

Mccoskry, Samuel Allen

bishop, was born Nov. 9, 1804, in Carlisle, Pa.

He was elected to be the first bishop of Michigan, and was consecrated in 1836.

He died Aug. 1, 1886, in New York city.