Mckennan, William
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 27, 1816, in Washington, Pa. He was the son of Thomas M. T.
McKennan. In 1869 he was appointed circuit judge of the United States for the third circuit. His only other public position was that of commissioner from Pennsylvania to the peace conference of 1861. MCKENNEY, THOMAS LORRAINE, merchant, author, was born March 21, 1785, in Hopewell, Md. In 1826 he was a spécial commissioner with Lewis Cass to negotiate an important treaty with the Chippewa Indians at Fond du Lac, in the territory of Michigan. In 1827 he published a Tour to the Lakes, with illustrations, and also originated and published, in connection with James Hall, a History of the Indian Tribes. He also published, in 1846, two volumes entitled Memoirs, Official and Personal, with Sketches of Travel among the Northern and Southern Indians. He was at one time a colonel in the militia. He died Feb. 19, 1859, in New York city.
MCKENNEY, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, was born Dec. 2, 1851, in Petersburg, Va.
He has practiced law since 1886 in Chatham, Va. He was elected to the fiftythird and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.