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Mclaren, William Edward – Mclean, William P

Mclaren, William Edward

bishop of Chicago, was born Dec. 13, 1831, in Geneva, N. Y. By the generous action of his lay friends he has founded the Theological seminary at Chicago, which has a fine group of buildings, a partial endowment, and an able faculty; and the Waterman hall, a school for girls, near Chicago. He has published Catholic Dogma the Antidote of Doubt; The Inner Proofs of God; and The Practice of the Interior Life; besides numerous addresses, sermons, and poems.

Mclaughlin, George

lawyer, legislator, was born March 27, 1841, in Roscoe, Ohio. For years he was chairman of the republican county committee; and is now a member of the state assembly of the New York legislature.

Mclaury, William M

physician, author, was born Aug. 22, 1830, in Kortright, N. Y. He has attained success as a physician of New York city; and is the author of An Essay on the Mind; Cremation; The Senses, Five or Seven; Symbols, Emblems, and Sacred Numbers; and numerous other works.

Mclean, Alney

congressman, was born in Burke county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1819 to 1821.

Mclean, Daniel Veech

educator, was born Nov. 24, 1801, in Fayette county, Pa. He took charge of the church at Tennent, Monmouth county, N. J., and four years later of a church organized by him at Freehold, with which he remained till 1850, when he was chosen president of Lafayette college. He died Nov. 23, 1860, in Red Bank, N. J.

Mclean, Finis E

congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.

Mclean, James H

physician, surgeon, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1829, in Scotland. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyseventh congress to fill a vacancy.

Mclean, John

lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born in 1791, in North Carolina. In 1818 he was elected a representative to congress from Illinois and served one term. He was several times a member of the state legislature, and frequently speaker of the house; and from 1824 to 1825 was United States senator to fill a vacancy. He was again elected in 1829 for the term ending in 1835. He died Oct. 4, 1830, in Shawneetown, Ill.

Mclean, John Ray

journalist, was born in 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1877 he assumed the editorship and management of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which position he still holds.

Mclean, Samuel

congressman. He was elected a delegate from the territory of Montana to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.

MCLEAN, MRS. SARAH E. PULVER, poet, was born June 26, 1854, in Waterloo, N. Y. She is the author of a number of meritorious poems.

Mclean, William

congressman, was born in Morris county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1829; and when in congress was mainly instrumental in procuring an appropriation of half a million acres of land for the extension of the Ohio canal from Cincinnati to Cleveland. He died Oct. 12, 1839, in Morris county, N. J.

Mclean, William P

soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1836, in Hinds county, Miss. He was elected to the legislature of Texas in 1861; and resigned to enter the confederate army, in which he served until the close of the war. He was again a member of the legislature in 1869; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a democrat.