Mcpherran, J. E
lawyer, legislator, was born in 1835 in Huntingdon county, Pa. He served one term as a member of the Illinois legislature from Sterling, Ill.
For seventeen years he has been president of the public library of his city.
MCPHERSON EDWARD, soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, author, was born July 31, 1830, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1864 he published The Political History of the United States During the Great Rebellion; in 1870, The Political History of the United States During the Period of Reconstruction, and biennially thereafter published political hand-books.