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Mcmaster, John Bach

educator, author, was born June 29, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a professor of American history at the university of Pennsylvania from 1883, and prior to that date an instructor in engineering at Princeton college. He is the author of Bridge and Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of the United States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; and Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution. MCMICHAEL, JACKSON BURGESS, clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 22, 1833, in Poland, Ohio.

Since 1878 he has been president of the Monmouth college, Illinois, where he is also professor of psychology, logic, and biblical history.

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