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Mckenzie, James A – Mckinney, Myrtle

Mckenzie, James A

lawyer, farmer, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1840, in Christian county, Ky. He was a representative in the Kentucky state legislature from 1867 to 1871; and was a presidential elector in 1872. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.

Mckenzie, Lewis

banker, railroad president, congressman, was born in 1810, in Alexandria, Va. He served three terms in the Virginia state legislature; and was mayor of Alexandria during the first year of the war of the rebellion. He was president of the Alexandria, London, and Hampshire railroad, and of the First National bank of Alexandria. He was elected to the forty-first congress.

Mckenzie, William P

clergyman, poet, was born in 1861, in Canada: He is a successful clergyman of East Haven, N.

Y.; and the author of two volumes of poems entitled A Song of Trust; and Voices and Undertones.

Mckibbin, Joseph C

congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. Having taken up his residence in California he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fifth congress.

Mckim, Alexander

congressman, was born in 1748. He was a member of congress from Maryland from 1809 to 1815.

He died Jan. 18, 1832, in Baltimore, Md.

Mckim, Charles Follen

architect, was born Aug. 24, 1847, in Chester county, Pa. Among his best productions in country work are the cottages erected in Newport, Lenox, and other summer resorts. Among his city residences are the Tiffany house, and the Villard block of houses on Madison avenue, New York.

Mckim, Isaac

merchant, congressman. He was a member of congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1825, and again from 1835 to 1838. He died April 1, 1838, in Washington, D. C.

Mckim, James Miller

clergyman, reformer, was born Nov. 14, 1810, in Carlisle, Pa. He was an active abolitionist; a member of the convention that formed the American Anti-Slavery society; and in 1836 left the pulpit to accept a lecturing tour under its auspices. He died June 13, 1874, in West Orange, N. J.

Mckim, Randolph Harrison

clergyman, author, was born in 1842, in Maryland. He is an episcopal clergyman; rector of the church of the Epiphany at Washington; and the author of Nature of the Christian Ministry; Vindication of Protestant Principles; Future Punishment; Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons; Christ and Modern Unbelief; and Christianity and Buddhism.

Mckinney, John F

lawyer, congressman, was born April 12, 1827, in Piqua, Ohio. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress; and was again elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.

MCKINNEY, LUTHER FRANKLIN, soldier, educator, clergyman, congressman, was born April 25, 1841, near Newark, Ohio. He moved to New Hampshire in 1873; was elected to the fiftieth congress in 1886; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.

Mckinney, Mordecai

lawyer, jurist, author, was born about 1796, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a jurist of Harrisburg; and the author of Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistrate and Civil Officer; Pennsylvania Tax Laws; and Digest of Pennsylvania Banking Laws. He died Dec. 19, 1867, in Harrisburg, Pa.

Mckinney, Myrtle

educator, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1868, in Greencastle, Iowa. She has attained success in educational work; and has contributed both prose and verse to leading newspapers and magazines.

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