Mccarthy, Dennis – Mcclellan, George Brinton
Mccarthy, Dennis
manufacturer, legislator, state senator, was born March 19, 1814, in Syracuse, N. Y. In 1846 he was elected to the New York state legislature; in 1853 was mayor of Syracuse; and was elected a representative from New York to the fortieth and forty-first congresses. In 1875 he was elected to the senate of New York; remained in the senate, by re-election, until 1885; and in 1881 was chosen president of the senate pro tem. He died Feb. 14, 1886.
Mccarty, Andrew Z
congressman, was born in New York. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1848; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1855 to 1857.
Mccarty, Jonathan
lawyer, congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from Indiana from 1831 to 1837. He died in 1855, in Iowa.
Mccarty, Richard
congressman, was born in Albany, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1821 to 1823.
Mccarty, William M
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1840 to 1841.
Mccarty, William Monroe
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born May 18, 1816, in Brookville, Ind. He was president judge of the thirteenth circuit of Indiana in 1850-55; and in 1861 was chosen United States senator, but failed to obtain his seat.
McCAULEY, CHARLES ADAM HOKE
soldier, inventor, was born July 13, 1847, in Middletown, Md. Since 1881 he has been stationed at various posts in the western states, becoming in October disbursing quartermaster at Chicago, Ill. He invented in 1871 the military system of signaling by means of mirrors.
Mccauley, Charles Stewart
naval officer, was born Feb. 3, 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He served on the Constellation in 1813. He was placed on the retired list in 1861, and promoted commodore. He died May 21, 1869, in Washington, D. C.
Mccauley, Edward Yorke
naval officer, author, was born Nov. 2, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was appointed midshipman in the navy in 1841, and promoted lieutenant in 1855. In 1886 Admiral McCauley commanded the Pacific station, and in February, 1887, he was retired. He has published the Egyptian Manual and Dictionary.
Mccauley, James
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, poet, was born Aug. 23, 1809, in Cecil county, Md. He was a county.surveyor and register of wills; has served as a member of the Maryland state legislature; and was five times elected judge. He was a lawyer of Leeds, Md.; contributed extensively both prose and verse to current literature.
Mccauley, James Andrew
college president, was born Oct. 7, 1822, in Cecil county, Md. In 1872 he was elected president of Dickinson college, resigning in 1888.
McCAUSLEN, WILLIAM C
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1845.
Mccaw, James Brown
surgeon, was born in 1772, in Virginia. He was the leading surgeon of eastern Virginia for over thirty years. He was one of the first to tie the external carotid artery, an operation he performed in 1807. He died in 1846, in Richmond, Va.
Mccay, Henry Kent
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Jan. 8, 1820, in Northumberland county, Pa. He was appointed a justice of the supreme court of Georgia, which position he held for nearly eight years, when he resigned and began the practice of law in Atlanta, Ga. In 1882 he was appointed United States district judge for the northern district of Georgia. He died July 30, 1886, in Atlanta, Ga.
Mccemas, Louis E
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 28, 1846, in Williamsport, Md. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyninth congress.
Mcclain, Emlin
soldier, educator, lawyer, author, was born Nov. 26, 1851, in Salem, Ohio. He has been a teacher of law since 1881, and chancellor of the law department of his alma mater; a member of the Iowa code commission; and the author of several law books.
Mcclammy, Charles W
soldier, farmer, state senator, congressman, was born May 29, 1839, in Scotts Hill, N. C.
He was elected a member of the house of commons of North Carolina in 1866, and of the state senate in 1871; and was elected to the fiftieth congress, and was reelected to the fifty-first congress as a democrat.
Mcclary, John Kennedy
farmer. educator, lawyer, legislator, was born April 7, 1834, in Garrard county, Ky. In his early days he taught school; has been sheriff; master commissioner; and census enumerator.
In 1867 he was elected a member of the Kentucky state legislature as a republican; and was reelected to that office the following term, and took an active part in the deliberations of that body. In 1868 he was a delegate to the national republican convention which nominated General Grant for president. He has been a county surveyor; merchant; farmer; and now practices law in Mount Vernon, Ky.
Mcclatchey, Robert J
physician, journalist, was born April 6, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a successful physician of Philadelphia, and in 1871 prepared and published a revision of Laurie's Domestic Medicine. He died Jan. 17, 1883, in Philadelphia.
Mcclean, Moses
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born in 1804, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1845 to 1847; in 1855 was elected to the state legislature; and was for several years president of the board of trustees of Pennsylvania college. He died Oct. 1, 1870, in Gettysburg, Pa.
Mccleary, James Thompson
congressman, was born Feb. 5, 1853, in Ingersoll, Ontario. For two years he was superintendent of Pierce county schools; resigned in 1881 to become state institute conductor of Minnesota and professor of history and political science in the State Normal school at Mankato, continuing in this position until June, 1892. In 1888 he published Studies in Civics, and in 1894 a Manual of Civics, which are used in the best schools of the country. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses; and re-elected to the fiftyfifth congress as a republican,
Mcclellan, Abraham
congress-- man, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1843.
Mcclellan, Carswell
civil engineer, author, was born Dec. 3, 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a topographical assistant on the staff of General A. A.. Humphreys in the civil war. Afterward a civil engineer in railroad and government service. He was the author of The Personal Memoirs and Military History of U. S. Grant versus The Record of the Army of the Potomac. He died in 1892.
Mcclellan, Charles a. O
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 25, 1835, in Ashland, Ohio. For two years he gave instruction in penmanship. For four years he was deputy auditor of De Kalb county, Ind., and in 1860 was appointed United States deputy marshal. In 1862 he was admitted to the bar; and in 1872 was appointed judge of the fortieth judicial circuit of Indiana.
In 1873 he established the De Kalb bank of Waterloo; and since 1885 has been president of the First National bank of Auburn, Ind. He was elected to the fiftyfirst and fifty-second congresses.
Mcclellan, Ely
physician, author, was born Aug. 23, 1834, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was assistant medical director in the United States army; and the author of The Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in the United States.
Mcclellan, George
surgeon, author, was born Dec. 23, 1796, in Woodstock, Conn. He was a noted surgeon of Philadelphia, professor of surgery in Jefferson Medical college, for which institution he obtained the charter. He was the author of The Principles and Practice of Surgery. He died May 9, 1847, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mcclellan, George B
journalist, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 23, 1865, in Saxony. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress from New York; was renominated by the democratic party and nominated by the national democratic: party, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
Mcclellan, George Brinton
. soldier, governor, author, was born Dec.. 3, 1826, in Philadelphia, Pa. He entered.
West Point as an instructor, and prepared a Manual on Bayonet Exercise,. which became a text book in the service..
When the rebellion. commenced ne was. appointed majorgeneral of volunteers in Ohio; was soon made majorgeneral in the regular army, and on the retirement of General Scott was made: general-in-chief on the American army.
He commanded the army of the Potomac in the protracted peninsula campaign; won the battle of Antietam; and resigned from the army in 1.864. He was the democratic candidate for president, but was defeated by Abraham Lincoln, who was re-elected. He published a number of books on military matters, and a Report on the Organization and Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. He was governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881. He died Oct. 29, 1885.