Mac Gahan, Januarius Aloy- Sius – Maclay, Robert Samuel
Mac Gahan, Januarius Aloy- Sius
journalist, author, was born June 12, 1844, near New Lexington, Ohio. He was a famous journalist and war correspondent. During the Franco-Prussian war he was the correspondent at Paris of the New York Herald, and he went through the Russo-Turkish war as the correspondent of the London Daily News.
He was the author of Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva; Under the Northern Lights; and Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria. He died June 9, 1878, in Constantinople, Turkey.
Machen, Willis Benton
farmer, congressman, United States senator, was born April 5, 1810, in Caldwell county, Ky. He was a senator in the Kentucky state legislature in 1854, and a member of the lower house in 1850 and 1860. He was a member of the confederate congress for three years; and was appointed a senator in congress from Kentucky to fill a vacancy, and served until 1873.
Machir, James
congressman, was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1797 to 1799. He died June 25, 1827.
Mac Intosh, Maria J
author, was born in 1803. She is the author of a number of novels, which have appeared under the pseudonym of Aunt Kitty. She died in 1878.
Mac Intyre, Archibald Thomp- Son
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 27, 1822, in Twiggs county, Ga. He was a member of the state legislature of Georgia in 1849; was a member of state constitutional convention of Georgia in 1865; and was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Mack, Charles Ernest
lawyer, jurist, was born July 22, 1857, in Columbia county, Wis. He has been regent of the university of Nevada, and is now district judge of the first judicial district of Nevada.
Mack, Edgar Eugene
lawyer, legislator, was born June 14, 1850, in Leicester, Vt. For fourteen years he was clerk of the district court of Iowa; and a member of the Iowa state senate for four years.
Mack, George Franklin
educator, was born Nov. 15, 1845, in St.
Charles, Ill. For thirty years he has been a successful educator. He moved to California in 1850, and received his education in the public schools of that state, graduating in 1865 from the Healdsburg academy. He served as superintendent of schools for Amador county in 1886; was again re-elected in 1890; and again in 1894; and during 1881-93 he was principal of the Ione public schools.
Mack, Norman Edward
journalist, was born July 24, 1855, in West William, Ontario. He is editor and publisher of the Buffalo Daily Times.
Mackall, William Whann
soldier, was born in 1818, in District of Columbia. He served in Kentucky as assistant adjutant-general to General Simon Buckner, with the rank of colonel, until after the surrender of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson; and was subsequently appointed brigadier-general.
Mackay, Charles H
journalist, author, poet, was born March 11, 1859, in Bridgeport, Maine. He is the editor of the Esoteric of Boston, Mass.; and the author of valuable articles on astronomy.
Mckay, Donald
ship builder, was born Sept. 4, 1810, in Nova Scotia. During the civil war he built the light draught monitor Nauset, and the double end gunboat Ashuelot. His last work was the sloop of war Adams. He died Sept. 20, 1880, in Hamilton, Mass.
Mackay, John W
capitalist, was born Nov. 28, 1831, in Ireland. He founded the bank of Nevada in San Francisco; and with J. G. Bennett laid two cables across the Atlantic, from United States to England and France.
Mackaye, Mrs. Maria Ellery
[GOODWIN], educator, author, was born in 1830, in Rhode Island. She is an educator of Cambridge, and the author of The Abbess of Port Royal, and Other French Studies.
Mac Kean, Thomas
signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born March 17, 1734, in Chester county, Pa.
He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and was governor of Pennsylvania in 1797-1808. He died in 1817.
Mac Kellar, Thomas
manufacturer, poet, was born Aug. 12, 1812, in New York city. He is the president of MacKellar, Smith and Jordan company, the largest type founders in America, with offices in the principal cities of the United States. He is the author of a number of poetical works, which have placed him in the front rank of American poets.
His works are Rhymes Atween Times; Droppings from the Heart; Psalms and Hymns; and other works. He is also the author of The American Printer; and has contributed valuable articles during the past half a century to various publications, which have been a valuable acquisition to current literature. He is a man of integrity and sterling business qualities, and makes his home in Germantown, Philadelphia.
Mackenzie, Alexander Slid- Ell
naval officer, author, was born April 6, 1803, in New York city. He was a naval officer of prominence in his day, and the author of Popular Essays on Naval Subjects; The American in England; Lives of John Paul Jones, Commodore Decatur, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry; and A Year in Spain. He died Sept. 13, 1848, in Tarrytown, N. Y.
Mac Kenzie, Ranald Slidell
soldier, was born July 27, 1840, in Westchester county, N. Y. He was engaged in engineering work throughout the civil war; and was promoted colonel in 1867, and brigadier-general in 1882. He died Jan. 19, 1889, on Staten Island, N. Y.
Mackenzie, Robert Shelton
journalist, author, was born June 22, 1809, in Ireland. He was a journalist of London who came to America in 1852, and from 1857 was the literary editor of the Philadelphia Press. His writings include Lives of Dickens, Scott, and Guizot; Titian: an art novel; Lays of Palestine; Partnership en Commandite, a work upon commercial law; Bits of Blarney; Mornings at Matlock; and Tressilian and His Friends. He died Nov. 30, 1880, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mackey, Albert Gallatin
physician, autnor, was born March 12, 1807, in Charleston, S. C. He was a physician of Charleston whose life was principally devoted to the study of freemasonry. He was the author of Text Book of Masonic Jurisprudence; Lexicon of Freemasonry; The Mystic Tie; Book of the Chapter; Manual of the Lodge; Cryptic Masonry; Masonic Ritualist; Masonic Parliamentary Law; History of Freemasonry in South Carolina; ana Encyclopædia of Freemasonry. He edited the Ahimon Rezon. He died June 20, 1881, in Fortress Monroe, Va.
Mackey, Ansel Elliott
educator, college president, was born June 3, 1836, in Rensselaerville, N. Y. He is the president and proprietor of the Geneva Business and Training college of Geneva, N. Y., which was established in 1880. He has acquired success in educational work; and in literature has attained prominence as a prolific writer on educational topics.
He began teaching at the age of eighteen; was principal of the business department of Albany college; and in 1873 established a commercial school in the city of Hudson, N. Y. In 1880 he established the well known Geneva Business College and Short Hand institute of Geneva, N. Y., which has become one of the ramous institutions of the country for business, training.
Mackey, Charles William
railroad president. He is president of the Indiana Central Railroad company; of the Franklin Steel Casting company; and is president, director and trustee of various corporations.
Mackey, Edmund W. M
journalist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 8, 1846, in Charleston, S. C.
In 1873 he was elected a member of the state house of representatives; and was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-fourth congress. In 1876 he was elected a representative in the state legislature; and was speaker of the house; and was assistant United States attorney from 1878 to 1881. He was again a representative in the forty-seventh congress, and re-elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican. He died Jan. 28, 1884, at Washington, D. C.
Mackey, John
educator, journalist, author, was born in 1765, in Charleston, S. C. He was a journalist and educator of Charleston, whose American Teacher's Assistant was the first comprehensive work on arithmetic published in America.
He died Dec. 14, 1831, in Charleston, S. C.
Mackey, L. A
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1819, in White Deer township, Pa. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and re-elected to the forty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Mackie, John Milton
educator, author, was born Dec. 19, 1813, in Wareham, Mass. He is a New England writer, in early life a tutor in Brown university, and the author of Cosas de Espana; Lives of Leipnitz, Schamyl, Samuell Gorton; Tai Ping Wang; and From Cape Cod to Dixie.
Maclanahan, James X
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1809, in Antrim, ra. In 1841 he was elected to the Pennsylvania state senate.
In 1849 he was elected to congress; and re-elected in 1851. He died about 1864.
Maclay, Robert Samuel
educator, clergyman, missionary, was born Feb. 7, 1824, in Concord, Pa. During 1847-72 he was missionary to China from the methodist episcopal church; during 1852-72 was superintendent of its mission in Foochow, China; and during 1872- 84 he was superintendent and organizer of its mission to Japan. He visited Korea in 1884, obtained from the king Korea's permit to christianity, which opened methodism to Korea. He was president of the Anglo-Japanese college, dean and instructor in Tokyo, Japan, during 1884- 87; and during 1888-93 filled the chair of theology in the Maclay College of Theology in San Fernando, Cal. He is the author of Life Among the Chinese; Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language; and other works.