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Mcmakin, Mary Augusta – Mcmullen, Fayette

Mcmakin, Mary Augusta

poet, was born Aug. 30, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has contributed short stories to leading periodicals.

Mcmanus, William

congressman, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1825 to 1827.

Mcmaster, Gilbert

clergyman, author, was born Feb. 13, 1778, in Ireland. He was a reformed presbyterian clergyman of Duanesburgh, N. Y.; and the author of The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; Apology for the Psalms; and Moral Character of Civil Government. He died March 15, 1854, in New Albany, Ind.

Mcmichael, Morton

lawyer, journalist, was born Oct. 2, 1807, in Burlington, N. J. He was sole proprietor of the North American and United States Gazette from 1854 till his death. He died Jan. 6, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Mcmillan, Albert S

educator, journalist, was born Feb. 19, 1853, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of Waverly, Iowa; and subsequently attended Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Wadena County Journal of Wadena, Minn.; was county superintendent of schools in 1881-83; and president of the board of education of Verndale, Minn., during 1887- 93.

Mcmillan, Conway

educator, author, was born in 1867, in Michigan. He has been a professor of botany in the university of Minnesota since 1891; and is the author of Twenty-Two Common Insects of Nebraska; and The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.

Mcmillan, Garrett

congressman, was a resident of Georgia. He was elected a representative from that state to the forty-fourth congress. He died before the assembling of that congress.

Mcmillen, William Linn

soldier, surgeon, state legislator, was born Oct. 18, 1829, in Hillsboro, Ohio. He served in the civil war, and received the brevets of brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers in 1864 and 1865. He served several terms in the Louisiana legislature, and in 1872 and 1873 was chosen to the United States senate by the McEnery legislature, but not admitted to a seat.

Mcmillin, Benton

lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 1845, in Monroe county, Ky. He practiced law in Celina, Tenn.; was elected a member of the state house of representatives in 1874; and was a presidential elector in 1876. He was appointed a special judge of the circuit court in 1877.

He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

Mcminn, Joseph

state senator, governor, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1807 he was elected speaker to the Pennsylvania state senate; and in 1815 was elected governor of Tennessee. He died Nov. 17, 1824, at the Cherokee agency.

Mcmorris, Thomas A

lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 24, 1835, in Muskingum, Ohio. During the war he served in the eighty-sixth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. He is one of the most prominent lawyers of Colorado; has served as district judge of the fourth judicial district of Colorado; and was appointed by President Garfield as commissioner to the Indians.

Mcmullen, Fayette

congressman, governor, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1855. In 1857 he was appointed governor of the territory of Washington.