Mccook, Edward Moody – Mccormick, Richard Cunning- Ham
Mccook, Edward Moody
soldier, state legislator, governor, was born June 15, 1833, in Steubenville, Ohio. He emigrated to Pike's Peak in 1859; and was a member of the Kansas legislature in 1860.
He entered the army at the opening of the rebellion, and by 1864 had attained the rank of brevet major-general. Between the years 1866 and 1869 he was minister to the Hawaiian Islands; and in the latter year was appointed governor of Colorado.
Mccook, Edwin Stanton
soldier, was born March 26, 1837, in Carrollton, Ohio. He was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers in 1865, for his services in the civil war.
While acting governor of Dakota and presiding over a public meeting, he was shot and killed by a man in the audience. He died Sept. 11, 1873, in Yankton, Dak.
Mccook, George Wythe
lawyer, was born Nov. 22, 1821, in Canonsburg, Pa. In 1854-56 he was attorney-general of Ohio. In the Mexican war he was lieutenant-colonel of the third Ohio regiment, and was commissioned brigadier-general in 1861. He died Dec. 28, 1877, in Steubenville, Ohio.
Mccook, Henry Christopher
naturalist, clergyman, author, was born July 3, 1837, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia, well known as a naturalist, and the author of Object and Outline Teaching; The Last Year of Christ's Ministry; The Last Days of Jesus; Garfield Memorial Sermons; The Women Friends of Jesus; The Gospel in Nature; The Mound-Making Art of the Alleghanies; Natural History, of the Agricultural Ant of Texas; Honey Ants and Occident Ants; Tenants of an Old Farm; and American Spiders.
Mccook, John James
soldier, clergyman, author, was born Feb. 2, 1843, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He has held pastorates in Detroit, Mich., and East Hartford, Conn., and since 1883 has been professor of modern languages in Trinity college.
He was editor of the Church Weekly, is a frequent contributor to periodicals, and is the author of Pat and the Council.
Mccook, John James
soldier, lawyer, was born May 22, 1845, in Carrollton, Ohio. He enlisted in the sixth Ohio cavalry. He served through the war, attaining the rank of captain and aide-decamp in 1863. He was brevetted major for gallant and meritorious services in action at Shady Grove, Va., and lieutenant colonel and colonel for his services during the war. He is Va., practicing law in New York city. now
Mccook, Robert Latimer
soldier, was born Dec. 28, 1827, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He organized the ninth Ohio regiment in 1861, became its colonel, and commanded a brigade in the West Virginia campaign under McClellan. He was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He died Aug. 6, 1862, near Salem, Ala.
Mccook, Roderick Sheldon
naval officer, was born March 10, 1839, in New Lisbon, Ohio. He served through the civil war with great credit; and in 1873 he was made commodore. He died Feb. 13, 1886, in Vineland, N. J.
Mccord, Andrew
congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly during the years 1800, 1801, 1802 and 1807, part of the time speaker; and was a representative in congress from 1803 to 1805.
Mccord, George Herbert
artist, was born Aug. 1, 1848, in New York city.
In 1880 he was elected an associate, and in 1883 he received a silver medal at the Massachusetts charitable mechanics' institute exhibition, and in 1884 a bronze medal and diploma at the World's fair, New Orleans.
Mccord, Mrs. Louisa Susannah
(CHEVES), author, was born Dec. 3, 1810, in Columbia, S. C. She was a writer of South Carolina; and the author of Sophisms of the Protective Policy, translated from Bastral; Caius Gracchus, a tragedy; and My Dreams, a volume of verse. She died Nov. 27, 1880, in Charleston, S. C.
Mccord, Myron H
journalist, state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1840, in Ceres, Pa. He was a member of the Mississippi state senate in 1873 and 1874; member of assembly in 1881; and was appointed a delegate to Cincinnati republican national convention in 1876.
He was register United States land office from 1883 to 1885; and was elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Mccorkle, Joseph W
congressman, was born in Ohio. He was a representative in congress from California from 1851 to 1853.
Mccorkle, Samuel Eusebius
educator, clergyman, author, was born Aug. 23, 1746, near Harris' Ferry, Pa. He published sermons, Discourses on the Terms of Christian Communion; and Discourses on the great First Principles of Deism and Revelation contrasted. He died Jan. 21, 1811, in North Carolina.
Mccormick, Andrew Phelps
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born Dec. 18, 1832, in Brazoria county, Texas.
He was judge of probate in Brazoria county, Texas, in 1865 and 1866; was a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1866 and 1868; and was judge of the circuit court from 1871 to 1876. He was state senator from 1876 to 1879. In 1879 he was appointed United States district judge for the northern district of Texas, and resigned as senator to enter upon his judicial duties.
Mccormick, Andrew Wilson
soldier, jurist, lawyer, was born Feb. 3, 1830, in Waynesburg, Pa. During the war he served in the seventy-seventh regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry, and was brevetted major and lieutenant-colonel for gallantry. He has attained eminence as one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Cincinnati; has been an eminent jurist; and is a successful pension attorney, with offices in Cincinnati and Washington, D. C.
Mccormick, Cyrus Hall
manufacturer, inventor, was born Feb. 15, 1809, at Walnut Grove, Va. In 1846-48 some of the McCormick machines were manufactured at Brockport, N. Y., the makers paying a royalty on all they sold. In 1847 Mr. McCormick removed to Chicago, where he built new shops, and in the same year obtained a third patent for additional improvements. The sale, in 1847, amounted to about 700 machines; in 1848, to 1,500. In 1879 the business was incorporated as The McCormick Harvesting Machine company, with a capital of $2,500,000, the founder becoming president of the company. He died May 13, 1884, in Chicago, Ill.
Mccormick, Cyrus Hall
was born May 16, 1869, in Washington, D. C. He entered the business of The McCormick Harvesting Machine company, serving in several departments in order that he might obtain a knowledge of its various branches. On the death of his father, in 1884, he was elected to succeed him as president of the company, and has continued in that position up to the present time.
Mccormick, Henry C
lawyer, congressman, was born June 30, 1844, in Lycoming county, Pa. He was elected to the fiftieth congress from Pennsylvania; and was re-elected to the fifty-first congress as a republican.
Mccormick, James R
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1824, in Washington county, Mo. In 1862 he was elected to the Missouri state senate. He served as a brigadier-general of militia in 1863; and was appointed a surgeon in the army, which position he resigned. He was again elected to the state senate in 1866. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortieth congress, to fill a vacancy; and was reelected to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a democrat.
Mccormick, John W
farmer, congressman, was born Dec. 20, 1831, in Gallia county, Ohio. He was elected delegate to the Ohio constitutional convention in 1873; and was elected to the forty-eighth congress as a republican.
Mccormick, Leander J
manufacturer, was born Feb. 8, 1819, at Walnut Grove, Va. He was one of the founders of The McCormick Harvesting Machine company. He took entire charge of the manufacturing department, and was able to make numerous valuable improvements upon the original patterns.
Having amassed a sufficient fortune, Mr. McCormick retired from the concern in 1889, and invested his means largely in stately business edifices in Chicago and has had the satisfaction of witnessing a great growth in value of his property.
One of his public gifts was a twenty-sixinch refracting telescope, the largest in the world at the time, to the university of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
Mccormick, N. B
lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 20, 1847, in Fayette county, Pa. He was county attorney of Fayette county, Pa., in 1890-94; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a populist.
Mccormick, Richard Cunning- Ham
journalist, congressman, governor, author, was born in 1832, in New York city. In 1862 he was chief clerk of the department of agriculture in Washington; and in 1863 was appointed secretary of Arizona territory.
In 1866 he was appointed governor of the territory; and in 1868 was elected delegate from Arizona to the forty-first congress, and re-elected to the two succeeding congresses. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican. He is the author of Visit to the Camp at Sebastopol; St. Paul's to St. Sophia; and Arizona: its Resources.