Mccormick, Robert – Mcculloch, George
Mccormick, Robert
inventor, was born in 1780, in Walnut Grove, Va. He was the inventor of a machine for cleaning hemp. He died July 4, 1846, in Walnut Grove, Va. He
Mccormick, Robert Laird
lumber manufacturer, banker, legislator, was born Oct. 29, 1847, in Clinton county, Pa.
He received his education at the Saunders institute of West Philadelphia, Pa. is a successful banker and lumber manufacturer of Hayward, Wis.; and is interested in a dozen lumber corporations with an aggregate capital of five million dollars. During 1881-82 he served with distinction as a senator in the Minnesota state legislature, and was the grand commander of the Minnesota Knights Templar in 1880-81. In 1892 he was colonel of the Wisconsin division Sons of Veterans; and since 1892 has been vice-president of the State Historical society of Wisconsin.
Mccosh, James
educator, clergyman, college president, author, was born April 1, 1811, in Scotland. He came to America in 1868, and was president of Princeton college in 1868-88. His principal writings include, Logic: the Laws of Discursive.
Thought; Christianity and Positivism; Scottish Philosophy; Mill's Philosophy; Method of the Divine Government; First and Fundamental Truths; Psychology; The Emotions; Our Moral Nature; Gospel Sermons; Philosophy of Reality; The Religious Aspect of Evolution; Realistic Philcsophy Defended; Whither? O Whither Tell Me Where; The Development of Hypotheses; and Philosophic Series: I. Expository, II. Historical and Critical. He died in 1894.
Mccoskry, Samuel Allen
bishop, was born Nov. 9, 1804, in Carlisle, Pa.
He was elected to be the first bishop of Michigan, and was consecrated in 1836.
He died Aug. 1, 1886, in New York city.
Mccourt, David W
dentist, poet, was born Oct. 4, 1859, in Waukesha, Wis.
He is a successful dentist of St. Paul, Minn.; and the author of a volume of poems entitled The Treasures of Weinsberg, and Other Poems.
McCOUVILLE, DANIEL
public official, politician, was born July 30, 1846, in Ireland. In 1878-84 he was director of the Ohio penitentiary; auditor of the United States treasury during 1885-89; and has filled numerous public offices of honor.
He was a delegate to the democratic national convention in 1880, 1884, and in 1896. In 1896 and 1897 he was chairman of the Ohio democratic state committee; and in 1896 was chairman of the bureau of speakers for the democratic national committee.
Mccow, George Herbert
artist, was born Aug. 1, 1848, in New York city.
In 1884 he received a medal and diploma from the Mechanics' association of Massachusetts; and the following year a medal and diploma from the World's Cotton exposition at New Orleans. His most notable pictures are Craig Dhu, Windsor Castle, Sunset, and Nantucket Moors.
Mccowen, Jennie
physician, surgeon, lecturer, was born June 15, 1845, in Harveysburg, Ohio. She first taught school for twelve years; and in 1876 graduated from the medical department of the state university of Iowa, receiving a prize for a thesis on Puerperal Fever. For several years she was assistant physician on the staff of the State Hospital for the Insane of Mount Pleasant, Iowa; and in 1880 located in Davenport, limiting her practice to nervous diseases of women. She is a member of the leading medical societies; in 1883-84 was president of the Scott County Medical society; and since 1893 she has been president of the Woman's alliance. In 1893 she represented Iowa at the World's Columbian exposition in the Congress on Woman's Progress, and delivered several addresses while a member. She has written scores of valuable papers on medical topics which have received publication in the Iowa Medical Journal and other leading medical publications.
MCCOY, MRS. CATHERINE (WEBB) (TOWLES), author, was born in 1823, in Massachusetts. She is a writer of Columbus, Ga., and the author of Tales from the Freemason's Fireside; The Three Golden Links; and Poor Claire, or Life Among the Queer.
Mccoy, Robert
soldier, congressman. He was a member of congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1833. He died June 7, 1849, in Wheeling, W. Va.
Mccoy, William
congressman, was born in Augusta county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1811 to 1833.
Mccrackan, William Denison
lecturer, author, was born in 1864, in Munich. He is the author of The Rise of the Swiss Republic; Romance and Teutonic Switzerland; Swiss Solutions of American Problems; and Little Idyls of the Big World.
Mccrary, Alvin Jasper
lawyer, jurist, was born March 20, 1844, in Keosauqua, Iowa. He took part as a union soldier during the civil war. He then studied law in Keokuk, Iowa, which city has been his home ever since, actively engaged in the practice of his profession for over thirty years. He has served with distinction as judge of the district court of the first district of Iowa.
He has been president of the Iowa State Bar association; is an active member of the American Bar association, and represents Iowa in the general council of that association. He has devoted much time and money to religious work in the state; for twenty-two years has been superintendent of the Sunday-school of his home church; and for five years president of the Iowa baptist state convention.
Mccrary, George Washington
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, author, was born Aug. 29, 1835, in Evansville, Ind. In 1857 he was elected to the Iowa state legislature; and in 1861 was elected to the state senate for four years.
In 1868 he was elected a representative from Iowa to the forty-first congress; and was re-elected to the forty-second, fortythird and forty-fourth congresses. In 1879 he was appointed United States circuit judge of the eighth judicial circuit. He was the author of Treatise on the American Law of Elections; and Reports of the Circuit Courts of the United States, Eighth District, 1879-83. He died in 1890.
Mccrate, John D
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born about 1800, in Wiscasset, Maine. He was a member of the Maine legislature from 1831 to 1836; collector of customs at Wiscasset from 1836 to 1841; and was a representative in congress from Maine from 1845 to
Mccrea, James
engineer, railroad president, was born May 1, 1848, in Philadelphia, Pa. Since 1893 he has been president of the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley railway; since 1896 president of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railway company; and also president of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad company.
Mccreary, James Bennett
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born July 8, 1838, in Madison county, Ky. At the beginning of the civil war he enlisted as a private in the confederate army and was elected major of the eleventh Kentucky cavalry; and at the time of the surrender of the confederate forces was lieutenant-colonel of his regiment.
In 1869 he was elected a representative in the Kentucky legislature and was twice re-elected. In 1871 he was elected speaker and was re-elected in 1873. He was elected governor of Kentucky in 1875, and served four years. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the forty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fiftythird and fifty-fourth congresses as a. democrat.
Mccreary, John
congressman, was born in Chester district, S. C. He was a. representative in congress from that state from 1819 to 1821.
Mccreary, William
congressman..
He was a representative in congress from Maryland from 1803 to 1809.
Mccreedy, William
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1829 to 1831.
Mccreery, Thomas Clay
agricul-- turist, United States senator, was born in 1817, in Kentucky. He was a presidential elector of Kentucky in 1852; a visitor to the West Point academy in 1858; and in 1868 was elected a senator in congress to fill a vacancy. He was re-elected in 1873 for the term ending in 1879. He died July 10, 1890, in Owensboro, Ky.
Mccrorey, James A
educator, lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 11, 1852, in Talbot county, Ga. He received his education at the Oglethorpe university of Atlanta, Ga.; and for many years was engaged in educational work as a teacher in the public schools of his native state.
He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Florida; for eight years was probate judge of Brevard county, in that state; after which time he resigned and took up the practice of his profession at Miami, Fla.
Mccue, Alexander
lawyer, jurist, was born in 1826, in Mexico. He was corporation counsel of the city of Brooklyn in 1861 and 1862, and again in 1867 and 1868. In 1870 he was elected one of the judges of the city court of Brooklyn, serving until 1885, when he became solicitor of the United States treasury at Washington.
Mccullagh, Joseph Burbridge
journalist, was born in 1843, in Ireland.
In 1875 he became editor of the Globe- Democrat of St. Louis, Mo., which position he still holds.
Mcculloch, Ben
soldier, legislator, was born Nov. 11, 1811, in Rutherford county, Tenn. In 1839 he was elected to the congress of Texas. When Texas was admitted to the union in 1845 he was. elected to the first legislature. He died March 7, 1862, near Pea Ridge, Ark.
Mcculloch, George
congressman,. was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1840 to 1841.