Mcclellan, Henry Brainerd – Mcclure, Alexander Wilson
Mcclellan, Henry Brainerd
soldier, author, was born Oct. 17, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was major in the confederate service during the civil war, and published an admirable Life of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart.
McCLELLAN, ROBERT
congressman, was born in 1805, in Schoharie county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1841 to 1843. He died in 1860.
Mcclelland, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born in 1795, in Schenectady, N. Y. He was a reformed presbyterian clergyman and educator, and the author of Canon anu Interpretation of Scripture; and Sermons. He died Dec. 19, 1864, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Mcclelland, James Henderson
surgeon, educator, journalist, was born May 20, 1845, in Pittsburg, Pa. He became professor of surgery in the Hahnemann college of Philadelphia, in 1876. He has contributed much to various medical journals, including papers on Hipjoint Amputations; Bone Diseases; and Excision of the Kidney.
Mcclelland, Mary Greenway
author, was born in Norwood, Va. She is the author of Oblivion; Princess; and many other noted novels. he
Mcclelland, Milo Adams
soldier, physician, was born Jan. 28, 1837, in Sharon, Pa. He is a successful physician of Knoxville, Ill. During the war served in company G, sixty-ninth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. For twenty years he has been county physician; has been resident physician to St. Mary's school of Knoxville, Ill.; president of the Military Tract Medical society; and vice-president of the Illinois, New York, and local medical societies. He is the author of Civil Malpractice, a treatise on surgical jurisprudence.
Mcclelland, Raymond G
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Nov. 14, 1848, in Mt. Jackson, Pa. This eminent clergyman and educator is the president of the Grand River institute of Ohio.
Mcclelland, Robert
lawyer, legislator, congressman, governor, was born Aug. 1, 1807, in Greencastle, Pa. He served for several years in the Michigan legislature; was a representative in congress from 1843 to 1849. He was governor of Michigan in 1852 and 1853; and in 1853 was appointed secretary of the interior department. He subsequently settled in Detroit and practiced his profession there.
He died Aug. 27, 1880, in Detroit, Mich.
Mcclelland, William
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born March 2, 1842, in Mount Jackson, Pa. He enlisted as a private in the first artillery, and served over four years, becoming commander; and participated in all the battles fought by the army of the Potomac. He was elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat. man.
Mcclenachan, Blair
congress- He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1797 to 1799.
Mcclenachan, Charles Thomp- Son
lawyer, author, was born April 13, 1829, in Washington, D. C. He is a lawyer of New York city, long employed in the department of public works, and the author of Law of the Fire Department; The Atlantic Cable of 1858; and Book of the Ancient Accepted Rite of Scottish Freemasonry.
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Mcclene, James
Congressman. was a delegate from Pennsylvania to the continental congress from 1778 to 1780.
Mcclernand, John A
soldier, journalist, congressman, was born May 30, 1812, in Breckenridge county, Ky.
He was elected to congress from Illinois, and served as a representative until 1851. Before going to congress he had been elected to the state legislature. In 1859 he was again elected to congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress, but resigned to accept the commission of brigadier-general in the union army in 1861. He was a delegate to the Philadelphia national union convention of 1866.
Mcclintock, John
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 27, 1814, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a methodist clergyman of New York city, professor in Drew Theological seminary at the time of his death. He is best known by the Theological and Biblical Cyclopædia which he began with James Strong; but he was the author, also, of Living Words; and Lectures on Theological Encyclopædia and Methodology. He died March 4, 1870, in Madison, N. J.
Mcclinton, James Giles
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Jan. 7, 1838, in Henderson county, Ill. He has served as state senator in Nevada; and for many years he was judge of the eighth judicial district of that state. He is now serving his third term as superior judge at Port Angeles, Wash.
Mccloskey, John
cardinal, was born March 20, 1810, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
He founded the theological seminary at Troy; and erected St. Mary's cathedral at Albany. In 1864 he was installed as archbishop of the arch diocese of New York, and in 1879 was elevated to the dignity of cardinal in the consistory then held at the vatican, being the first American prelate to be thus honored. In 1884 the golden anniversary of his elevation to the priesthood was celebrated in New York city. He died Oct. 10, 1885, in New York city.
Mccloskey, John
clergyman, college president, was born in 1817, in Ireland. He was ordained in 1840; attached himself to the faculty of St. Mary's. He was elected vice-president and treasurer in 1844, and became president in 1871.
He resigned in 1877, but was again called to the presidency in 1879, which office he held until his death. He died Dec. 24, 1880, in Emmettsburg, Md.
Mccloskey, William George
bishop, was born Nov. 10, 1823, in Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1859 Pope Pius IX made him the first president of the American college in Rome, which had just been founded by that pontiff. Here he presided with great success for several years; until he was appointed to the see of Louisville, Ky., in 1868.
Mccluney, William J
naval officer, was born about 1796. He was appointed midshipman in the United States navy in 1812. In 1858 he was placed in command of the Atlantic squadron, which office he held until 1860. He was commissioned commodore in 1862. He died Feb. 11, 1864, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mcclung, John Alexander
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 25, 1804, in Washington, Ky. He was pastor of a presbyterian churen in Indianapolis in 1851-57, and then of one in Maysville, Ky., until his death by drowning. He wrote Sketches of Western Adventures.
He died Aug. 7, 1859, in Niagara river.
Mcclung, John William
journalist, author, philanthropist, was born Nov. 21, 1826, near Maysville, Ky. In 1855 he moved to St. Paul, Minn., where in 1869 he organized the first building association west of Chicago, anu managed it until his death on May 27, 1888. He was known as the father of these associations in the Northwest. During 1868-70 he was editor of the Pioneer, now the Pioneer Press; and was the author of a work entitled Minnesota as it is in 1870, which was a great success financially and otherwise. From 1871 ne was a member of the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce; was prominent in public affairs; and Como Park especially was the result of his first park agitation.
Mcclure, Addison S
soldier, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1839, in Wooster, Ohio. He edited the Wooster Republican newspaper from 1870 to 1880. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh congress; and was re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Mcclure, Alexander Kelly
journalist, author, was born Jan. 9, 1828, in Sherman's Valley, Pa. In 1846 he began the publication of the Sentinel, a whig journal of Mifflin, Pa. In 1850 he sold that publication and purchased an interest in the Chambersburg Repository, which he made one of the most noted antisiavery journals in the state. In 1855 he was a member of the convention that organized the republican party, and in the following year was a delegate to the national convention that nominated Fremont for the presidency.
In 1856 he sold the Repository, and was shortly afterward admitted to the bar.
In 1857-58 he was chosen to the Pennsylvania state legislature, and in 1859 to the senate. In 1868 he settled in Philadelphia, and the following year established the Times, a daily newspaper, and since its foundation he has been its editor-in-chief. He is the author of Three Thousand Miles Through the Rocky Mountains; The South; and other works.
Mcclure, Alexander Wilson
clergyman, author, was born May 8, 1808, in Boston, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston, among whose writings are, Lectures on Ultra Universalism; and Life of Jonn Cotton. He died Sept. 20, 1865, in Canonsburg, Pa.