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Metcalf, Ralph – Michel, John Alfred

Metcalf, Ralph

lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, was born Nov. 21, 1798, in Charlestown, N. H. He began the practice of law at Newport, N. H., in 1826, and was secretary of state for several years from 1830. He was register of probate for Sullivan county in 1845, and was chairman of the committee for compiling the laws of the state in 1852. He was governor of New Hampshire in 1855 and 1856. He died Aug. 26, 1858, in Claremont, N. H.

Metcalf, Richard

clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1829, in Providence, R. I. He was a unitarian clergyman, pastor at Winchester, Mass., in 1866- 81; and the author of Letter and Spirit; and The Abiding Memory, a collection of Sermons. He died June 30, 1881, in Winchester, Mass.

Metcalf, Theron

lawyer, jurist, author, was born uct. 16, 1784, in Franklin, Mass. He was a jurist of Massachusetts; and the author of Principles of the Law of Contracts; Digest of Massachusetts Supreme Court Cases in 1816-23; and Reports, in 1840-49. He died Nov. 12, 1875, in Boston, Mass.

Metcalfe, Henry

educator, author, was born Oct. 29, 1847, in New York city.

He is an instructor of ordnance at West Point who has published The Cost of Manufactures; and Ordnance and Gunnery.

Metcalfe, Henry B

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 20, 1805, in Albany, N. Y. He was county judge from 1847 to 1874, when he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fourth congress.

Metcalfe, Samuel L

scientist, physician, author, was born Sept. 21, 1798, near Winchester, Va. He was a physician and scientist of New York city, and the author of Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West; New Theory of Terrestrial Magnetism; and Caloric. He died July 17, 1856, in Cape May, N. J.

Meteer, John

lawyer, journalist, was born Dec. 11, 1872, in Parsons, Kan.

He is the editor and part owner of The Advocate of Richfield, Utah; and a lawyer of that city. He is prominent in political affairs; was twice elected chairman of the Richfield republicans; and has taken an active part in the material advancement of his city and county.

Mettke, Hans

musician, composer, was born July 24, 1856, in Posen. He has published numerous compositions for voice, píano and orchestra, and is the author of numerous letters on musical Thistory.

Meyer, Adolph

soldier, planter, congressman, was born Oct. 19, 1842.

He was elected from Louisiana to the ifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.

Meyer, Lucy Rider

educator, journalist, author, was born in September, 1849, in Weybridge, Vt. She is the founder and principal of the Chicago Training school; also founder of the deaconess work of the methodist episcopal church of America; and editor-in-chief of the Deaconess Advocate.

Meyers, Benjamin F

journalist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born July 6, 1833, in Centreville, Pa.

He was a member of the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1864, and a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1864. He became editor and proprietor of the Bedford Gazette in 1857, and one of the proprietors and editor-in-chief of the Harrisburg Daily Patriot in 1868. He was elected to the forty-second congress.

Michel, John Alfred

public official, financier, was born Aug. 7, 1836, in New Orleans, La. He has filled numerous positions of trust in Brownsville, Texas; has been county assessor, president of the city council, collector of taxes, and during 1893-97 was collector of customs for the district of Brazos de Santiago.