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Mcquaid, Bernard John

bishop, was born Dec. 15, 1823, in New York city.

He is a noted Roman catholic bishop of Rochester, N. Y., and has built a number of churches.

Mcqueen, Mcintosh

lawyer, jurist.

He was an early emigrant to Florida; and was appointed a judge of the United States court for the district of Florida.

Mcrae, Hamilton Samuel

soldier, lawyer, state legislator, was born Jan. 2, 1833, near New Middletown, Ind. He was elected district attorney of the common pleas court in Indiana. He had been unanimously elected in 1861 to the legislature to fill a vacancy. The most important public enterprise in which he has been engaged is the public library of Muncie, of whose board he has been president since its establishment, in 1875.

Mcready, James

congressman. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1819 to 1821.

Mcree, Griffith John

soldier, was born in 1758 in Bladen county, N. C.

He was brevet lieutenant-colonel in the revolutionary army, was appointed captain of artillery and engineers in 1794, and resigned in 1798, being appointed in that year collector of revenue for the district of Wilmington, N. C. He died Oct. 30, 1801, in Smithville, N. C.

Mcree, Samuel

soldier, was born Oct. 6, 1801, in Wilmington, N. C. He was made quartermaster with the rank of major in 1839, and brevetted lieutenant-colonel for meritorious conduct while serving in the enemy's country in 1848. He

Mcroberts, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born about 1800 in Illinois. He held the office of judge of one of the higher courts of Illinois, and was a member of the Illinois senate, and held the position of district attorney for the United States in Illinois.

He was a senator in congress from Illinois from 1841 to the time of his death. He died March 27, 1843, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mcruer, Donald C

merchant, congressman, was born in 1826 in Maine.

Having emigrated to California, he filled the office of harbor commissioner for that state, and in 1864 was elected a representative from California to the thirtyninth congress.

Mcsherry, James

state legislator, congressman, was born in Adams county, Pa. He served twenty years in the legislature of Pennsylvania, and was a delegate to reform the constitution of the same, and was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1821 to 1823. He died Feb. 3, 1849, in Littlestown, Pa.

Mcsherry, James

lawyer, author, was born in 1819 in Maryland. He was a lawyer of Frederick, Md., and the author of Père Jean, the Jesuit Missionary; Williloft, or the Days of James the First; and History of Maryland. He died July 13, 1869, in Frederick county, Md.

Mcsherry, Richard

physician, author, was born Nov. 21, 1817, in Martinsburg, W. Va. He was a physician of prominence in Baltimore, and in early life in the naval service. He was the author of Early History of Maryland, and Other Essays; El Puchero, a discursive work on Mexico; Military Life in Field and Camp; and Health and How to Promote It, his principal writings. He died Oct. 7, 1885, in Baltimore, Md.

Mcveagh, Wayne

soldier, lawyer, was born in 1833 in Phoenixville, Pa. In 1881 he was appointed attorney-general of the United States in the cabinet of President Garfield.