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Mcewan, Thomas

civil engineer, legislator, congressman, was born Feb. 26, 1854, in Paterson, N. J. In 1893 he was elected a member of the New Jersey assembly; and in the legislative session of 1894 was chosen the republican leader of the house. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

MCFADDEN, BERNARD ADOLPHUS, educator, author, was born in 1868 in Missouri. He is a teacher of physical training in New York city; and the author of The Athlete's Conquest, a novel; and System of Physical Training.

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