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Meigs, Charles Delucena – Meline, James Florant

Meigs, Charles Delucena

physician, author, was born Feb. 19, 1792, in Bermuda. He was a noted Philadelphia physician, professor in Jefferson Medical college in 1841-61; and the author of Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery; Science and Art of Obstetrics; Treatment of Child-Bed Fevers; and Acute and Chronic Diseases of the Neck of the Uterus. He died June 22, 1869, in Delaware county, Pa.

Meigs, Henry

lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1782, in New Haven, Conn. He was elected a representative in congress from New York city from 1819 to 1821. For many years he was an active officer, recording secretary, and trustee of the American institute in New York. He died May 20, 1861, in New York.

Meigs, James Aitkin

physician, naturalist, author, was born July 31, 1829, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a physician and naturalist of Philadelphia, author of Cranial Characteristics, and other scientific monographs. He died Nov. 9, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Meigs, John Forsyth

physician, author, was born Oct. 3, 1818, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a Philadelphia physician; and the author of Memoir of C. D. Meigs; and Diseases of Children. He died Dec. 16, 1882, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Meigs, John Rodgers

soldier, was born Feb. 9, 1842, in Washington, D. C.

He attained the office of chief engineer of the army of the Shenandoah, and while making a military reconnoissance was shot by guerrillas. He died Oct. 3, 1864, in Harrisburg, Va.

Meigs, Josiah

educator, public official, was born Aug. 21, 1757, in Middletown, Conn. He was the second man appointed to be commissioner of the general land office in Washington, having been appointed in 1814, and remaining in office ington, D. C. until 1822. He died Sept. 4, 1822, in Wash-

Meigs, Return Jonathan

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, governor, was born in Middletown, Conn. He was judge of the supreme court of Ohio; was a senator in congress from 1808 to 1810; and was governor of the state from 1810 to 1814. He was appointed postmastergeneral of the United States in 1814, and held the office nine years. He died March 29, 1825, in Marietta.

Meigs, Return Jonathan

lawyer,. author, was born April 14, 1801, in Clark county, Ky. He was a noted lawyer of Tennessee; and the author of Reports of Tennessee Supreme Court Cases; Digest of Tennessee Decisions; and The Code of Tennessee.

Meister, Catherine B

author, was born Jan. 16, 1874, in Reading, Pa.

She is the assistant secretary of the Luther league of America, and the author of several works.

Meister, Emil

clergyman, journalist, was born May 18, 1850, in Germany. He is prominent as one of the foremost clergymen of the German evangelical Lutheran church, and as the founder of the A. Herr Smith Memorial church of Lancaster, Pa. He stills edits two magazines-the Family Friend, and Church Messenger.

Melick, John E

railroad president, was born Sept. 1, 1855, in Lebanon, N. J.

In 1895 he became president of the Whippany River railroad at Morristown, N. J..

Meline, James Florant

was born in 1811 in Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. He was a New York writer, an officer in the federal army during the civil war; and the author of Two Thousand Miles on Horseback; Commercial Traveling; Mary, Queen of Scots and Her Latest English Historian, an attack upon Froude's view of the subject; and Life of Sixtus V. He died Aug. 14, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y.