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Mcnutt, William Fletcher

physician, journalist, was born March 29, 1839, in Nova Scotia. He is a well-known and successful physician of San Francisco, Cal., and in 1895 assumed the editorship of the Pacific Medical Journal.

MCPARLIN, LAWRENCE JERMAIN, lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 14, 1848, in Lockport, N. Y. He has been nominated seven times as associate judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York; twice as chief judge of the same court, and once as attorney-general of his state.

MCPHEETERS, WILLIAM MARCEL- LUS, educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 3, 1815, in Raleigh, N. C. He settled in St. Louis, Mo., in 1842, was professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical college there in 1848-62, and again in 1867. He edited the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal in 1843-61, and, besides numerous professional papers, has published a History of the Cholera Epidemic in St. Louis, Mo., in 1849.

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