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Mcmaster, Guy Humphrey

jurist, author, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1829, in Clyde, N. Y. He was a jurist and poet of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of Steuben County, but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum. He died Sept. 13, 1887, in Bath, N. Y.

MCMASTER, JAMES ALPHONSUS, journalist, was born April 1, 1820, in Schenectady, N. Y. In 1848 he bought the Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register, and for nearly forty years was regarded as the chief Roman catholic journalist in this country. He died Dec. 29, 1886, in Brooklyn, N. Y.