Mabery, Charles Frederic – Mace, Mrs. Frances Laughton
Mabery, Charles Frederic
chemist, educator, was born Jan. 13, 1850, in. North Gorham, Maine. He head the place of assistant in chemistry from 1875 until 1883, when he was called to the chair of chemistry in the Case school of applied science in Cleveland. He has published in the American Chemical Journal numerous papers.
Mabie, Hamilton Wright
journalist, author, was born Dec. 13, 1845, in Cold Spring, N. Y. He is a journalist and essayist of New York city, editor of The Outlook, and the author of Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas; My Study Fire; Under the Trees and Elsewhere; Short Studies in Literature; Essays in Literary Interpretation; Essays on Nature and Culture; and Essays on Books and Culture.
Mabry, Milton H
lawyer, jurist, was born in Waco, Tex. He has attained success in the profession of law at Inverness, Fla.; has been associate justice of the supreme court; and chief justice of the supreme court.
Macafee, Mrs. Nelly Nichol
(MARSHALL), author, was born in 1845, in Kentucky. He is a Kentucky writer of fiction, and the author of Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie; Gleanings from Fireside Fancies; Sodom Apples; Wearing the Cross; Passion; and A Criminal through Love.
Macarthur, Arthur
lawyer, jurist, lieutenant-governor, author, was born Jan. 26, 1815, in Scotland. He settled in Wisconsin; was lieutenant-governor of that state in 1856; and was elected to a judgeship in that state, which position he held until 1869. In 1870 he was appointed one of the justices of the supreme court of the United States for the District of Columbia. He is the author of Lectures on the Law; Reports of Supreme Court Cases; and Education in its Relation to Manual Industry.
Macarthur, Charles Lafay- Ette
journalist, state senator, was born Jan. 7, 1824, in Claremont, N. H. About 1842 he removed to Milwaukee, and became the first editor of the Sentinel. In 1846-47 he was city editor of the New York Sun. In 1864 he established the Troy News, one of the earliest Sunday newspapers except those published in New York city. In 1881-83 he was a member of the New York state senate.
Macarthur, John
architect, was born May 13, 1823, in Scotland. Among the buildings designed and built by him are the naval hospitals at Philadelphia, Annapolis, and Mare Island, Cal.; the state hospitals for the insane at Danville and Warren, Pa.; Lafayette college of Easton, Pa.; and the Continental, Girard, and Lafayette hotels of Philadelphia.
Macarthur, Robert Stuart
clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1841, in Canada. He is a distinguished baptist clergyman of New York city, pastor of Calvary baptist church from 1870, and the author of Quick Truths in Quaint Texts; Calvary Pulpit, or Christ and Him Crucified; and Divine Balustrades, and Other Sermons.
Macbeth, Henry
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 2, 1858, in Ireland. In 1881 he graduated from Hobart college, and three years later from the Berkeley divinity school. He has been rector of the Trinity church of Oxford, Pa., and has filled pastorates in Troy, N.
Y., and Windham, Conn., and is now rector of St. Paul's chapel of Willimantic. He is also a successful magazine writer and author.
Maccabe, Joseph Brewster
journalist, state senator, was born Nov. 19, 1857, in Manchester, N. H. He has served as a member of the Massachusetts state legislature; and also as a state senator. He is a successful journalist, and commander-in-chief of the Sons of Veterans.
Maccarroll, James
critic, author, was born in 1815, in Ireland. He was a musical and dramatic critic of New York city, and the author of Letters of Terry Finnegan to D'Arcy McGee; The New Gauger; Adventures of a Night; and The New Life-Boat. He died in 1892.
Maccarty, J. Hendrickson
clergyman, author, was born in 1830, in Pennsylvania. He is a methodist clergyman, and the author of The Black Horse and Carry-All; Inside the Gates; Two Thousand Miles through the Heart of Mexico; and Fact and Fiction in Holy Writ.
Macchetta, Mrs
BLANCHE ROOSEVELT (TUCKER), author, was born in Wisconsin. She was the author of Home Life of Longfellow; Marked In Haste; Stage Struck; Life of Doré; The Copper Queen, a novel; and Verdi, Milan, and Othello.
Macclelland, Margaret Greenway
author. She is a Virginia novelist, and the author of Mammy Mystic; Old Ike's Memories, a book of verse; Princess; Oblivion; Jean Monteith; Madame Silva; Manitou Island; Burkett's Lock; St. John's Wooing; and The Old Post Road. She died in 1895.
Maccracken, Henry Mitchell
educator, clergyman, author, was born Sept. 28, 1840, in Oxford, Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman and educator, chancellor of the university of the City of New York from 1891. He is the author of Tercentenary of Presbyterianism; Kant and Lotze; A Metropolitan University; and Leaders of the Church Universal.
Macculloch, Hunter
journalist, poet, was born Oct. 22, 1847, in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1878 he classified and arranged the library of the Spring Garden institute; and in 1882 was engaged by Strawbridge and Clothier to edit a household magazine. He is the author of several dramas; many songs, which have been set to music; and a volume of poems entitled From Dawn to Dusk.
Macdonald, John L
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1838, in Scotland. He was judge of the probate court of Scott county, Minn. During the war of the rebellion he was commissioned to enlist and muster in volunteers for the union army, and served in that capacity. He was a member of the state house of representatives, 1869-70; and a member of the state senate in 1871-76. In 1876 he was elected judge of the eighth judicial district of Minnesota for the term of seven years, and was re-elected without opposition in 1883, resigning in the fall of 1886. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Macdonald, Moses
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 8, 1814, in Limerick, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1841 and 1842; and in 1845 was speaker of the house. In 1847-49 he served as treasurer of the state. He represented the first congressional district in the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses; and in 1857 was appointed collector for the districts of Portland and Falmouth. He died Oct. 18, 1869, in Saco, Maine.
Macdonald, Rufus Cyrene
physician, poet, was born in 1861, in Boston, Mass. This eminent physician of Boston is the author of Love and Other Poems.
Macdonough, Thomas
naval officer, was born Dec. 23, 1783, in Newcastle county, Del. He was a midshipman on board the Philadelphia in the squadron employed against Tripoli; and subsequently took part in all the naval engagements under Commodore Stephen Decatur. He was one of the party in 1804 who recaptured and destroyed the Philadelphia. For his services in the war of 1812 he was made captain; and received a gold medal from congress. He died Nov. 16, 1825, at sea.
Macdougall, Alexander
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1731, in Scotland. He was appointed colonel of the first New York regiment; brigadier-general in 1776; and major-general in 1777. He was a delegate from New York to the continental congress in 1781- 82, and in 1784-85. He was a member of the New York state senate in 1783. He died June 8, 1786, in New York city.
Macdougall, Charles
surgeon, was born born Sept. 21, 1804, in Chillicothe, Ohio. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general; was promoted lieutenant-colonel and assistant medical purveyor, in 1866, and retired in 1869. He died July 25, 1885, in Fairfield, Va.
Macdougall, Clinton D
soldier, lawyer, banker, congressman, was born June 14, 1839, in Scotland. He joined the army of the Potomac, and commanded a brigade at Gettysburg, until the close of the war; and was brevetted brigadiergeneral in 1864. He was appointed postmaster of the city of Auburn in 1869; and was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses.
Macdowell, Elizabeth
artist, was born in 1858, in Philadelphia, Pa. She studied art in the Academy of Fine Arts of Philadelphia, and has attained a national reputation as a painter.
Mace, Daniel
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 5, 1811, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He was a member of the Indiana legislature in 1836; and served as United States attorney for Indiana during President Polk's administration. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1851 to 1855 as a democrat, and from 1855 to 1857 as an independent candidate. He was appointed, by President Lincoln, postmaster of Lafayette, Ind. He died July 26, 1867, in Lafayette, Ind.
Mace, Mrs. Frances Laughton
poet, was born Jan. 15, 1836, in Orono, Maine. At the age of eighteen she wrote the celebrated hymn, Only Waiting, which was copied through the length and breadth of the land.
She is the author of Legends, Lyrics and Sonnets; and Under Pine and Palm, a magnificent volume of her collected poems. In 1855 she was married to Benjamin H. Mace, an eminent lawyer and scholar, now of San Jose, Cal. Her poems have constantly appeared in the Century, Atlantic, Lippincott's, Harper's, and the leading magazines of America; and her best known poem is Only Waiting.