Maclay, Samuel – Madden, George Sylvester
Maclay, Samuel
congressman, United States senator, was born June 7, 1741, in Lurgan, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1795 to 1797; and was a senator in congress from 1803 to 1808. He died Oct. 5, 1811, in Northumberland county, Pa.
Maclay, William
lawyer, United States senator, was born July 20, 1737, in New Garden, Pa. He was a senator in congress from Pennsylvania from 1789 to 1791. He died April 16, 1804, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Maclay, William
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1766, in Pennsylvania. He held the offices of county commissioner and associate judge; and was a member of the assembly. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1815 to 1817; and again from 1817 to 1819. He died Jan. 4, 1825.
Maclay, William Brown
educator, journalist, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 20, 1812, in New York city.
In 1836 he was associate editor of the New York Quarterly Magazine; and was an active member of the legislature of New York for several years. He was elected a representative in congress from that state in 1843; and was reelected in 1845 and 1847, and again elected in 1857. He was re-elected a representative to the thirtysixth congress. He died Feb. 19, 1882, in New York city, N. Y.
Maclay, William Plunkett
congressman, was born Aug. 23, 1774, in Buffalo Valley, Pa. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1816 to 1821, having first entered congress to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 2, 1842, in Milroy, Pa.
Maclay, William Walter
educator, civil engineer, was born March 27, 1846, in New York city. He was commissioned as lieutenant-commander in 1868, and, while acting as fleet captain of the Asiatic squadron, was selected by the Japanese government to survey and designate sites for lighthouses.
Maclean, Mrs. Clara Victoria
[DARGAN], educator, author, was born in 1840, in South Carolina. She is an educator of South Carolina. Her work in fiction includes Riverlands; and Helen Howard.
Maclean, George Edwin
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1850, in Rockville, Conn.
He has filled the chair of English language and literature in the university of Minnesota, and is now chancellor of the university of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Maclean, John
educator, chemist, lecturer, was born March 1, 1771, in Scotland. His chemical instructions embraced the practical applications of chemistry to agriculture and manufactures as well as theoretical science. In the second year of his instructions at Princeton he wrote two Lectures on Combustion. He died Feb. 17, 1814, in Princeton, N. J.
Maclean, John P
educator, author, lecturer, was born March 12, 1848, in Franklin, Ohio. In 1886 he assisted in making the survey of the glacial beds of Butler county, Ohio. He is the author of Manual of the Antiquity of Man; The Mastodon, Mammoth, and Man; Fingal's Cave; Norse Discovery of America; and History of the Macleans.
Mac Leod, Donald
author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in New York city.
He wrote a history of Mary, Queen of Scots, besides several works and one volume of poems.
Mac Martin, Daniel Frederick
lawyer, was born April 25, 1868, in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. He received the rudiments of his education in the high school of his native city; and attended the Queen's university college of Kingston, and Osgoode Hall of Toronto. He has become one of the foremost lawyers of Oklahoma territory; and is prominently identified with the public affairs of Oklahoma City and the territorial government.
Macmillan, George Whitfield
clergyman, college president, author, was born Aug. 19, 1827, in York county, Pa.
He was ordained a clergyman in 1857, and has filled pastorates in New York, Illinois and Ohio. He has been eminently successful in his calling; has been president of the Richmond college, Ohio, for nine years; and president of various religious societies. He is the author of The Millennium, or The Reign of Christ; and other works. In 1884 he received the degree of doctor of divinity from the Richmond college; and in 1885 received the degree of doctor of philosophy from the Princeton college.
Macmurray, Thomas J
clergyman, journalist, lawyer, lecturer, poet, was born July 23, 1852, in Scotland. In 1883 he was admitted to the bar; has been engaged in journalism in Manistique, Mich.; and attained eminence as a lecturer. He is the author of The Legend of Delaware Valley, and Other Poems.
Macomb, Alexander
soldier, author, was born April 3, 1782, in Detroit, Mich. He was an officer of prominence in the American army during the war of 1812, becoming major-general in command of the army in 1828. He was the author of Treatise on Martial Law; Treatise on Practice of Courts Martial; and Pontiac, a drama. He died June 25, 1841, in Washington, D. C.
Macomb, William Henry
naval officer, was born June 16, 1818, in Detroit, Mich. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1834, and was commissioned commodore in 1870. His last service was that of lighthouse inspector. He died Aug. 12, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Macomber, Eleanor
missionary, was born in 1801, in Lake Pleasant, N.
Y. In 1830 she was sent by the American missionary board of the baptist church as a teacher among the Ojibway Indians at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. She died April 16, 1840, in India.
Macon, John Alfred
journalist, author, was born in 1851, in Alabama.
He is a journalist of New York city, and the author of Uncle Gabe Tucker.
Macon, Nathaniel
soldier, congressman, United States senator, was born Dec. 17, 1757, in Warren county, N. C.
In 1791 he was elected a representative in congress from North Carolina, and continued a member of that body until transferred to the United States senate in 1815, where he served until 1828. From 1801 until 1805 was speaker of the house, and from 1825 to 1828 was president pro tem. of the senate. He was for thirtyseven years a member of the house or senate, and was called the Father of the House, having served a longer time in that body than any other man. His service in congress for thirty-seven years exceeds that of any other American statesman, and the cities, towns and counties in the southern and western states which bear his name, show the extent of his popularity in his day. He died June 29, 1837, in Warren county, N. C.
Mac Queary, Howard
clergyman, author, was born in 1861, in Virginia.
He is a universalist clergyman of Minneapolis. He was formerly an episcopal clergyman in Ohio, but, on account of his denial of the virgin birth of Christ, was tried for heresy in 1891 and suspended from the episcopal ministry. He is the author of Evolution of Man and Christianity; Topics of the Times; and Lectures on Theological and Sociological Themes.
Macrae, William
soldier, was born Sept. 9, 1834, in Wilmington, N. C. He served with distinction in the civil war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general.
Mac Rea, William
soldier, was born in 1767. In 1791 he was appointed from Virginia lieutenant of levies. He did good service in the action near New Orleans, in 1814, and was brevetted colonel for ten years' faithful service in 1824. He died Nov. 3, 1832, near Shawneetown, Ill.
Macvicar, Malcolm
educator, was born Sept. 30, 1829, in Scotland. He was the first chancellor of the McMaster university; and in 1890 became superintendent of education of the American baptist home mission society.
Macy, David
banker, state legislator, was born Dec. 25, 1810, in Randolph county, N. C. In 1838 he was elected by the legislature prosecuting attorney for the sixth judicial district of the state of Indiana for the term of two years. In 1840 he removed to Lawrenceburg, Dearborn county, and resided there, practicing his profession, until 1852, in the meantime serving as mayor of the city two years, and representing the county in the state legislature in the years 1845 and 1846.
Macy, Jesse
educator, author, was born June 21, 1842, in Knightstown, Ind.
He was professor of political science in the Iowa college. He is the author of Our Government; First Lessons in Civil Government; Text Book for Iowa Schools; and The English Constitution.
Macy, John B
congressman. He was a representative in congress from Wisconsin from 1853 to 1855.
Macy, Josiah
sea captain, was born Feb. 25, 1785, in Nantucket, Mass. In 1812 he brought to New York in the Prudence, of which he was joint owner, the first news of the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain. He died May 15, 1872, in Rye, N. Y.
Macy, William Starbuck
artist, was born Sept. 11, 1853, in New Bedford, Mass. He has studios both in New York and New Bedford. His chief works include Edge of the Forest; Old Forest in Winter; Old Mill; Winter Sunset; and January in Bermuda.
Madden, George Sylvester
clergyman, missionary, author, was born Aug. 9, 1858, in Amanda, Ohio. He graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan university; has attained eminence as a successful clergyman in the Ohio conference; and since 1892 has been a missionary in New Mexico. In 1897 he was elected president of the Territorial Epworth league organization; and is the author of numerous articles on New Mexico, which have appeared in current publications.