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Mcguffey, William Holmes

clergyman, educator, college president, was born Sept. 23, 1800, in Washington county, Pa. He became president of Cincinnati college in 1836, and in 1839 of Ohio university. From 1845 till his death he occupied the chair of moral philosophy and political economy in the university of Virginia. He died May 4, 1873, in Charlottesville, Va.

MCGUINN, ROBERT ALEXANDER, clergyman, poet, was born July 5, 1859, in Sabbot Hill, Va. He graduated from the Wayland college of Washington, D. C.; and from the Newton Theological institute, Mass. He has filled pastorates in Maryland, California and New Jersey; and has been president of the Choctaw institute of Oklahoma territory. He has contributed both prose and verse to current publications, and is the author of a volume of poems.