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Mcgiffert, Arthur Cushman

educator, clergyman, author, was born in 1861 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor of church history in Union seminary; and the author of Dialogue of Papias and Jason. He has published a translation with prolegomena and notes of the Church History of Eusebius Pamphilus.

MCGILL, ALEXANDER TAGGART, clergyman, educator, was born Jan. 24, 1807, in Canonsburg, Pa. He became pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Carlisle; and in 1842 professor of church history in Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa. He died Jan. 13, 1889, in Princeton, N. J.

MCGILL, ALEXANDER TAGGART, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Oct. 20, 1843, in Allegheny county, Pa.

He was elected to the New Jersey legislature in 1874; re-elected the following year; and was prosecutor of the pleas of Hudson county in 1878-83; and then president of the county courts till 1887, when he was chosen chancellor of the state of New Jersey.