Mcneil, John
soldier, merchant, state legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1813, in Halifax, N. S. In 1844-45 he was in the Missouri legislature. He was president of the Pacific Insurance company from 1855 till 1861; when he joined the national army under General Nathaniel Lyon, with the rank of colonel. With six hundred men he routed General David D.
Harris at Fulton, Mo., on July 17, 1861, and was then placed by General John C.
Fremont in command of St. Louis. He was made colonel of the nineteenth Missouri volunteers Aug. 3, and early in 1862 took command of a cavalry regiment.