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Mcleer, James – Mcmahon, Martin Thomas

Mcleer, James

soldier, was born in December, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general.

Mclellan, Isaac

journalist, author, poet, was born May 21, 1806, in Portland, Maine. He was for a time associate was editor of the Boston Daily Patriot; and afterward published a monthly magazine, which finally consolidated with the Weekly Pearl.

He is the author of The Fall of the Indian; The Year, and Other Poems; Journal of a Residence in Scotland; Mount Auburn; and Poems of the Rod and Gun; and other works.

Mclene, James

congressman, was born Oct. 14, 1730, in New London, Pa.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania convention in 1776; of the assembly several times between 1776 and 1794, and its speaker in 1778; and of the supreme executive council of the state in 1778 and 1783-84. He was also a member of the continental congress in 1778-80. He died March 13, 1806, in Antrim, Pa.

Mcleod, Alexander

clergyman, author, was born June 12, 1774, in Scotland. He was a reformed presbyterian minister of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day; and the author of Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness; and American Christian Expositor. He died Feb. 17, 1883, in New York city.

Mcleod, Alfred Ross

physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 23, 1864, in Versailles, Mo. In 1885 he graduated from the Hooper institute of Clarksburg, Mo.; and in 1889 from the Missouri Medical college of St. Louis. He is one of the most prominent physicians of Kansas City, Kan.; is a member of the St. Margaret and Bethany hospital of that city; and a prominent member of several fraternal orders and medical societies.

Mcleod, Hugh

soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1814, in New York city.

He was a member of the Texas congress in 1842-43, and served throughout the Mexican war, and subsequently in the state legislature after the annexation of Texas. He joined the confederate army in 1861, and was commissioned a colonel of the first Texas regiment, with which he participated in the first Virginia campaign. He died Jan. 2, 1862, in Dumfries, Va.

Mcleod, Xavier Donald

clergyman, author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in New York city. He was a Roman catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an episcopal clergyman; and the author of Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary, Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; and Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

He died July 20, 1865, near Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mcmahon, John A

lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 19, 1833, in Frederick county, Md. He held no official position until elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.

Mcmahon, John Van Lear

lawyer, author, was born in 1800, in Maryland. He was a prominent lawyer and politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is an authority on the early history of the province. He died June 15, 1871, in Cumberland, Md.

MCMAHON, LAURENCE STEPHEN, Roman catholic bishop, was born Dec. 24, 1835, in Nova Scotia. He was vicargeneral of the see of Providence, R. I., in 1872-79, and at the latter date was consecrated bishop of Hartford, Conn.

Mcmahon, Martin Thomas

soldier, lawyer, was born March 21, 1838, in Laprairie, Canada. He resigned from the army in 1866, after receiving the brevets of brigadier- and major-general of volunteers in 1865. In 1872 he was appointed receiver of taxes in New York city, which office he held until 1885, when he became United States marshal of the southern district of New York.