Magoffin, Beriah – Maish, Levi
Magoffin, Beriah
governor, was born April 18, 1815, in Harrodsburg, Ky.
In 1850 he was elected to the Kentucky state senate; and was governor of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. He died Feb. 28, 1885, in Harrodsburg, Ky.
Magoon, Elias Lyman
clergyman, lecturer, author, was born Oct. 20, 1810, in Lebanon, N. H. He was an eminent baptist clergyman of Philadelphia, and the author of Proverbs for the People; Orators of the American Revolution; Republican Christianity; Westward Empire; Eloquence of the Colonial Times; and Living Orators in America. He died Nov. 25, 1886, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Magoon, Henry S
educator, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born Jan. 31, 1832, in Monticello, Wis.
In 1855 he was appointed professor of ancient languages in Nashville university, Tenn., where he remained till 1857. He then returned to Wisconsin and began the practice of law. He was elected district attorney in 1858; was a member of the state senate in 1871 and 1872; and was elected to the forty-fourth congress.
Magowan, Frank Allan
manufacturer, was born Aug. 5, 1859, in Trenton, N. J. He successively established the Empire Pottery Co., the Empire Rubber Manufacturing Co., and the Trenton Oil Cloth Co. In 1887 he was elected mayor of Trenton, N. J.
Magrath, a. G
governor. He was governor of South Carolina in 1864 and 1.865.
Magrath, William
artist, was born March 20, 1838, in Ireland. In 1883 he established his studio in Washington. He has executed many strong and original works, of which On the Old Sod attracted much attention for its technical merits and the fine sentiment that it suggested.
Magruder, Allan Bowie
lawyer, United States senator, author, was born about 1775, in Kentucky. He moved to Louisiana, and in 1805 he published Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana to the United States. He was a senator in congress from that state from 1812 to 1813. He was also the author of The Bible Defended; and Life of John Marshall. He died April 16, 1822, in Opelousas, La.
Magruder, John Bankhead
soldier, was born Aug. 15, 1810, in Winchester, Va. In the Mexican war he commanded the light battery of General Pillow's division, and was brevetted major for gallantry at Cerro Gordo, and lieutenant-colonel for Chapultepec. He died Feb. 19, 1871, in Houston, Texas.
Magruder, Julia
author, was born Sept. 14, 1854, in Charlottesville, Va. She is a novelist, and the author of Miss Ayr of Virginia, and Other Stories; The Child Amy; Across the Chasm; At Anchor; A Magnificent Plebeian; Honored in the Breach; The Violet; and Princess Sonia.
Magruder, Patrick
lawyer, librarian, congressman, was born in 1768, in Montgomery county, Md. He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1805 to 1807. He died in 1819 or 1820, in Petersburg.
Magruder, Richard B
lawyer, jurist, was born in Maryland. He was for many years a judge of the supreme court of the state of Maryland. He died Feb. 11, 1844, in Baltimore, Md.
Maguire, James G
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Feb. 22, 1853, in Boston, Mass. In 1882 he was elected judge of the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco, serving in that office six years; and was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Mahan, Hezekiah
soldier, congressman, was born June 26, 1739, in St. Stephen's Parish, S. C. He was elected a member of the first provincial congress of South Carolina, and in other ways actively promoted the cause of American freedom. He died in 1789, in St. Stephen's Parish, S. C.
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
naval officer, author, was born in 1840, in New York. He is a distinguished officer in the United States navy, and the author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1600-1783; Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, 1783- 1812; The Gulf and Inland Waters; Life of Admiral Farragut; and Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain.
Mahan, Asa
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born Nov. 9, 1800, in Vernon, N. Y. He was a congregational clergyman and educator, president of Adrian college, 1860-71, and after the latter date resident in England. He was the author of Critical History of Philosophy; The Science of Intellectual Philosophy; Science of Moral Philosophy; The Doctrine of the Will; The Scripture Doctrine of Christian Perfection; Logic; Theism and Anti-Theism in Their Relations to Science; and Critical History of the American Civil War. He died April 4, 1889, in England.
Mahan, Dennis Hart
engineer, author, was born April 2, 1802, in New York city. He was a military engineer of distinction, whose text books have been widely used. He was the author of Treatise on Field Fortifications; Elementary Course of Civil Engineering; Elementary Treatise on Advanced Guard, etc.; Industrial Drawing; Descriptive Geometry; Philosophy of Engineering; Permanent Fortifications; and an edition of Moseley's Mechanical Principles of Engineering and Architecture, with additions. He died Sept. 16, 1871, in Stony Point, N. Y.
Mahan, Frederick Augustus
military engineer, author, was born March 28, 1847, in West Point, N. Y. He is a noted military engineer; and one of the foremost authorities on military subjects in America.
Mahan, Milo
clergyman, author, was born May 24, 1819, in Suffolk, Va.
He was an episcopal clergyman of Baltimore, and the author of The Exercise of Faith; History of the Church; Reply to Colenso; Palmoni, a Free Inquiry; and Comedy of Canonization. He died Sept. 3, 1870, in Baltimore, Md.
Mahan, Oliver P
soldier, lawyer, was born Sept. 29, 1836, in Putnam county, Ind. He is one of the foremost lawyers of central Indiana at Lebanon; and in 1896 was a candidate for judge of the twentieth judicial circuit court of Indiana.
Mahany, Rowland Blenner- Hassett
educator, journalist, congressman, was born Sept. 28, 1864, in Buffalo, N. Y. He was associate editor of the Buffalo Express in 1888; and became instructor in history and literature in the high school in 1889. He was appointed secretary of legation to Chile in 1890; accredited envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Ecuador in 1892. He was nominated for congress in 1892.
He returned to Ecuador in 1893, and concluded the Santos treaty, negotiations for which had remained unsettled for nearly ten years. He was elected in 1894 from New York to the fifty-fourth and fiftyfifth congresses as a republican.
Maher, David Francis
lawyer, was born Nov. 10, 1866, in Watsonville, Cal. He is a graduate of the law department of the university of Michigan; and for three years was city solicitor of Watsonville, Cal.
For seven years he was engaged in the printing business; is a member of several fraternal orders; and prominent in the public affairs of his native county.
Mahon, Thaddeus M
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1840, in Green Village, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1870, 1871, and 1872; and was a candidate for congress in 1876. He was elected to the fifty-third, fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a republican. neer sur-
Mahone, William
civil engineer, soldier, legislator, United States senator, was born Dec. 1, 1826, in Monroe, Va. In his youth he taught school and then became a civil engion the veys of the Orange and Alexandria railroads. He subbuilt sequently the Fredericksburg Plank road; then was chief engineer of the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad; and became its president. He served as quartermaster in the confederate army, and became majorgeneral. In 1881 he entered the United States senate, and served a full term for six years. It was through his policy that the free school system of his state was rehabilitated; the whipping post abolished; the prerequisite to suffrage removed; a colored normal school and a colored asylum were erected; and the state expenses reduced.
Mahoney, Peter P
merchant, congressman, was born June 25, 1848, in New York city. In 1884 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fiftieth congress as a democrat.
Main, John Cotton
lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 14, 1868, in Bell county, Ky.
He attended the Union college at Barbourville, Ky., and soon afterward attained prominence as an able lawyer of Hamilton, Texas. He has been a county judge of Hamilton county; practices law in the district and state courts; and takes an active part in public affairs.
Main, Thomas
educator, civil engineer, author, was born in 1828, in Scotland. He was a mechanical engineer, professor of ship building in the Webb academy of ship building, New York city, and the author of History of the Steam Engine.
He died in 1896.
Maish, Levi
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 22, 1837, in York county, Pa. He was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature in 1867. In 1874 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, fiftieth and fifty-first congresses as a democrat.