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Mclanahan, James Xavier

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1809, in Greencastle, Pa. In 1841 he served in the Pennsylvania legislature; and was afterward elected to congress as a democrat, holding his seat from 1849 till 1853. He died Dec. 16, 1861, in New York city.

McLANDBURGH, FLORENCE, author, was born April 22, 1850, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Several brilliant short stories that she contributed to periodicals gave her a reputation, and she afterward published a collection of them in book-form, under the title of The Automaton Ear. con-