Menzies, John W
lawyer, congressman, was born April 12, 1819, in Fayette county, Ky. In 1841 he established himself in Covington, Ky.; and in 1848 and 1855 was elected to the general assembly of Kentucky. In 1861 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-seventh congress.
MERCEIN, THOMAS FITZ RAN- DOLPH, clergyman, author, was born Nov. 27, 1825, in New York city. He was a methodist clergyman of New York state; and the author of Natural Goodness; The Wise Master Builder; and Childhood and the Church. He died Sept. 15, 1856, in Sheffield, Mass.