Mcclure, Charles – Mccook, Anson George
Mcclure, Charles
soldier, paymaster, was born Feb. 20, 1838, in Carlisle, Pa. He served during the civil war in the army of the Potomac; and at General Grant's headquarters as inspector of the commissary department of the armies operating against Richmond; and was brevetted colonel United States volunteer infantry. He is now major and paymaster United States army at St.
Louis, Mo.
Mcclure, George
soldier, legislator, jurist, was born in 1771, in Ireland. He settled in Bath, N. Y., where he studied law, and was successively a member of the legislature, sheriff, surrogate, and judge of Steuben county. He volunteered in the war of 1812, and in 1813 commanded a brigade on the Buffalo frontier. He died Aug. 16, 1851, in Elgin, Ill.
Mcclure, Samuel Grant
journalist, was born Aug. 9, 1863, in Wayne county, Ohio. For six years he was the editorial writer on the Cleveland Leader; and since 1896 has been editor-in-chief and general manager of the Ohio State Journal of Columbus.
Mcclurg, Alexander Cald- Well
soldier, publisher, was born about 1835, in Philadelphia, Pa. He left the house of S. C. Griggs and Co., booksellers of Chicago, to enter the national army as a private in 1862; was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general. After the war he returned to the book business in Chicago, becoming a partner in the firm of Jansen, McClurg and Co.; and the house is now widely known under the name of A. C. McClurg and Co., booksellers and publishers.
Mcclurg, James
physician, author, was born in 1747, in Hampton, Va. He published an Essay on the Human Bile, which was translated into several languages. He is also the author of a paper on Reasoning in Medicine, in the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical Physical Sciences. He died July 9, 1825, in Richmond, Va.
Mcclurg, Joseph Washington
soldier, merchant, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born Feb. 22, 1818, in St.
Louis county, Mo. He was a member of the Missouri state convention in 1862; and was elected a representative from Missouri to the thirty-eighth congress.
He was re-elected to the thirty-ninth and fortieth congresses. In 1868 he was elected governor of Missouri.
Mccluskey, John Daniel
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1841, in Newburg, Ala. He was an officer in the confederate army; has served with distinction as a member of the Alabama state legislature; and since 1865 has taken an active part in every presidential campaign in the interest of the democratic party. He is one of the foremost lawyers of his native state, and has a large practice in Vernon.
Mccoid, Moses A
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was -born Nov. 5, 1840, in Logan county, Ohio..
He was district attorney of the sixth judicial district of Iowa from 1867 to 1871; he was state senator from 1872 to 1879; and was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth congresses.
Mccoll, Evan
poet, was born Sept. 21, 1808, in Scotland. He is a successful writer of Brooklyn, N. Y.; and is the author of two volumes of poems, entitled The Mountain Minstrel; and Poems and Songs. a
Mccollester, Sullivan Hol- Man
educator, clergyman, lecturer, author, was born in 1826, in Marlborough, N. H. He received a liberal education, and the degrees of A. B. and A. M. were conferred on him by the Norwich university, Vt. He studied Greek at the Harvard university, and took theological course in the Harvard Divinity school; and in 1853 was ordained a universalist minister.
He then entered educational work, was principal in several large institutions, and was made president of the state board of education in New Hampshire for four years. He has lectured extensively on education, temperance, foreign travels and peoples. He has visited Europe five times; Egypt, Palestine and Turkey three times; made a tour round the world; been the length and breadth of his own country and through Mexico. During his travels he has been a correspondent for the Boston Journal, Transcript, Journal of Education, Christian Leader, Gospel Banner, New Hampshire Sentinel, Monitor, Republican, and other journals. He has published After Thoughts of Capital Cities and Foreign Lands; Round the Globe in Old and New Paths; Babylon and Nineveh Through American Eyes; and Mexico, Modern and Ancient.
Mccomas, Louis Emory
lawyer, congressman, was born in Washington county, Maryland. He was a republican candidate from Maryland to me fortyfifth congress; and was elected to the forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, and fiftyfirst congresses as a republican.
Mccomas, William
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837.
Mccomb, Eleazer
congressman. He was a delegate to the continental congress from Delaware from 1782 to 1784.
Mcconaughy, David
clergyman, college president, author, was born Sept. 29, 1775, in Menallen, Pa. From 1832 till 1849 he was president of Washington college. He published sermons and addresses, tracts on the Doctrine of the Trinity; and on Infant Baptism; A Brief Summary and Outline of Moral Science; and Discourses, Chiefly Biographical, of Persons Eminent in Sacred History. He died Jan. 29, 1852, in Washington, Pa.
Mcconaughy, Franklin Alex- Ander
lawyer, politician, was born Dec. 25, 1849, in Lancaster county, Pa. He received the rudiments of his education in the public and private schools; and in 1869 graduated from the McKendree college of Lebanon, Iil., with the degree of A. B.; and subsequently the degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by the same institution. He is a successful lawyer of Belleville, Ill.; has been city attorney; and in 1876 was candidate for state's attorney. He practices in the state and federal courts; and has always taken a prominent part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Mcconnel, John Ludlam
lawyer, author, was born Nov. 11, 1826, in Jacksonville, Ill. He is a lawyer and novelist of Jacksonville, Ill., who was a soldier in the Mexican war. His fictions are studies of Western life. Talbot and Vernon; Grahame, or Youth and Manhood; The Glenns; and Western Characters.
Mcconnell, Felix G
mechanic, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1810, in Lincoln county, Tenn. In 1824 he moved to Talladega county, Ala., and was a representative in congress from that state from 1843 to 1846. He died by his own hand in September, 1846, in Washington, D. C.
Mcconnell, Samuel D
clergyman, author, was born in 1846, in Pennsylvania.
He is an episcopal clergyman of prominence as an independent thinker, rector of St. Stephen's church in Philadelphia in 1882-96, and of Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, subsequently. He is the author of Sons of God; Sermon Stuff; History of the Episcopal Church in the United States; A Year's Sermons; and An Open Secret.
Mcconnell, W. J
merchant, banker, United States senator, was born Sept. 18, 1839, in Commerce, Mich. He was president of the Oregon state senate in 1882. He was also a member of the constitutional convention of Idaho. He was elected to the United States senate as a republican.
Mcconnell, William B
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 15, 1849, in Greene county, Pa. In 1872 he was appointed prosecuting attorney for the thirty-fifth circuit of Indiana; and was twice elected to the same office, serving for about five years. In 1879 he removed to Fargo, N. D.; was city attorney of Fargo in 1883; and in 1885 was appointed an associate justice of the supreme court of Dakota territory.
Mcconnell, William C
man-ofaffairs, was born April 4, 1860, in Halifax, Pa. He received his education in the Franklin and Marshall college of Lancaster, Pa.; and is now the president of the Shamokin Roaring Creek Anthracite and the Bear Gap Water companies. He has been a delegate to two state republican conventions; and a delegate to the republican national convention held at Minneapolis, Minn. He has served as aidede-camp on Governor Hastings' staff, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
Mccook, Alexander Mcdowell
soldier, was born April 22, 1831, in Columbiana county, Ohio. In 1852 he graduated from the United States military academy; was assigned to the third infantry; and for several years fought the Apaches in New Mexico. During 1858-61 he was assistant instructor in infantry tactics at West Point. As colonel of the first Ohio regiment, he distinguished himself at the first battle of Bull Run, and was brevetted major. He was rapidly promoted until he became majorgeneral in the United States army for services in the field.
Mccook, Anson George
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1835, in Steubenville, Ohio. He entered the union army in 1861, as captain, and served throughout the war, rising to the rank of colonel and brevet brigadier-general. He was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1865. He moved to New York in 1873; and was elected a representative from New York to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses.
In 1883 he was elected secretary of the United States senate. .