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Mckinney, Philip Watkins – Mclaren, Robert Neil

Mckinney, Philip Watkins

lawyer, congressman, governor, was born May 1, 1832, in Buckingham county, Va.

In 1872 he was a member of congress from Virginia; and in 1889 was elected governor.

MCKINSTRY, JAMES PATERSON, naval officer, was born Feb. 9, 1807, in Spencertown, N. Y. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1826, and became lieutenant in 1837. In 1855 he was appointed commander; and in 1866 was appointed commodore. He died Feb. 11, 1873, in Detroit, Mich.

Mckinstry, Justus

soldier, was born about 1821, in New York. He served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadiergeneral.

Mckinstry, Levi C

soldier, clergyman, poet, was born Dec. 17, 1834, in West Newbury, Mass. He served a year in the civil war; is a distinguished clergyman of Melrose Highlands, Mass.; and the author of several books, hymns and poems. He is a constant contributor to the religious press; and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America, and various other standard collections.

Several of his poems have also been set to music.

Mckissock, Thomas

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1798, in Ulster county, N. Y. He was a judge of the supreme court of New York; and was a representative in congress from 1849 to 1851.

Mckisson, Robert Erastus

lawyer, was born Jan. 30, 1863, in Northfield, Ohio. He has been a member of the city council of Cleveland, Ohio; was elected mayor of that city in 1895 for two years; and received the re-election to a second term in 1897.

Mcknight, Robert

lawyer, congressman, was born in 1820, in Pittsburg, Pa. From 1847 to 1849 he was a member of the city council of Pittsburg, and the last two years president of that body. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.

Mclachlan, James

lawyer, congressman, was born in August, 1815, in Scotland. During 1881-88 he practiced law in Ithaca, N. Y. He then removed to Pasadena, Cal., and there continued the practice of his profession. In 1877 he was elected on the republican ticket to the office of school commissioner of Tompkins county, N. Y., and in 1890 was elected district attorney of Los Angeles county, Cal. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.

Mclane, Jeremiah

soldier, gressman, was born in 1767. He was for twenty-one years secretary of state of Ohio; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837. He died March 19, 1837, in Washington, D. C.

Mclane, John

legislator, was born Feb. 27, 1852, in Lennoxtown, Scotland.

He served with distinction as a member of the New Hampshire state senate in 1891 and in 1893; and was made president of those sessions. He lives at Milford, N. H.; and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.

Mclaren, Donald Campbell

clergyman, was born Oct. 3, 1794, in New York city. He was moderator of the general assembly of the associate reformed church at the meeting in Pittsburg, when by union with the associate church the united presbyterian church was formed.

He died May 7, 1882, in Geneva, N. Y.

Mclaren, Robert Neil

soldier, state senator, was born April 9, 1828, in Geneva, N. Y. In 1859-61 he was a member of the Minnesota senate. He served in the civil war, was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. After the war he became collector of internal revenue for Minnesota and United States marshal for that state. He died July 30, 1886, in St.

Paul, Minn.