Mcculloch, Hugh – Mcdill, James Wilson
Mcculloch, Hugh
banker, financier, author, was born Dec. 7, 1808, in Kennebunk, Maine. In 1857 he was elected president of the State bank of Indiana, and in 1865 he entered the cabinet as secretary of the treasury. He was the author of Men and Measures of Half a Century. He died in 1895.
Mcculloch, John
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1855.
Mcculloch, Philip D
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 23, 1851, in Murfreesboro, Tenn. He was elected as the democratic nominee to the office of prosecuting attorney of the first judicial district of Arkansas in 1878; was renominated and elected for three successive terms; and at the expiration of his third term he declined to offer again.
He was elected as the democratic presidential elector for the first congressional district in 1888; was nominated by the democratic congressional convention for the fifty-third congress by acclamation and was elected; and was elected to the fifty-fourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat.
McCULLOCH, THOMAS G
congressman, was born in Franklin county, Pa.
He was a representative in congress from that state from 1820 to 1822, to fill a vacancy.
Mccullogh, Welty
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 10, 1847, in Greensburg, Pa. During the war he was second clerk under Captain W. B. Coulter, provost marshal of twenty-first district of Pennsylvania for two years. He was elected to the fiftieth congress as a republican.
Mcculloh, James Haines
surgeon, banker, author, was born about 1793 in Maryland. He became curator of the Maryland Academy of Science, and vicepresident of the Baltimore apprentices' library in 1822. He published Researches on America, being an Attempt to settle some Points relative to the Aborigines of America; and Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian, concerning the Aboriginal History of America.
McCULLOUGH, HIRAM
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 20, 1813, in Cecil county, Md. He was elected to the Maryland senate in 1845; and reelected. He was elected a representative from Maryland to the thirty-ninth congress; and re-elected to the fortieth congress.
McCULLOUGH, JOHN GRIFFITH
lawyer, financier, was born Sept. 16, 1835, near Newark, Del. In 1861 he was elected to the legislature, and in 1862 they sent him to the state senate, while in 1863, at the age of twentyeight, he was elected attorney-general of the state, a most flattering exhibition of the public admiration of his talents and manliness. For four years he served the state in the trying position of attorney-general. In 1873 he became vice-president and general manager of the Panama railroad, retaining that position until 1883, when he was elected president of the corporation. In 1890 the stockholders of the Chicago and Erie railroad elected him president of that company, and he is also now president of the Bennington and Rutland railroad and the First National Bank of North Bennington.
Mccullough, Joseph Allen
lawyer, legislator, was born Sept. 9, 1865, in Greenville county, S. C. He is the son of the late Rev. A. C. Stepp, and when an infant was adopted by the late Colonel James McCullough, who had his name changed by an act of the legislature. In 1887 he graduated in both academic and law departments from the South Carolina college, with the degrees of A. B. and LL.
B. He soon acquired prominence as a lawyer; has been engaged in some of the most important civil and criminal cases in the south; and was corporation counsel of Greenville for six years. In 1896 he was elected a member of the South Carolina state legislature, and is a valuable member of that body.
Mccullum, W
poet. He is the author of a volume of poems entitled Mémory Gems.
Mccurdy, Charles Johnson
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Dec. 7, 1797, in Lyme, Conn. He was a member of both branches of the Connecticut legislature, and three years speaker of the house. He was lieutenantgovernor in 1845 and 1846; United States minister to Austria in 1851 and 1852; and in 1856 was appointed a judge of the superior court, and subsequently on the supreme bench until 1867.
Mccurdy, S. P
lawyer, jurist, was born in Kentucky. He removed to Missouri, from which state he was appointed an associate justice of the United States court for the territory of Utah, residing at Fort Bridger.
MCCUTCHEN, CICERO DECATUR, lawyer, soldier, jurist, was born Oct. 31, 1824, in Hall county, Ga. He entered the confederate army in 1862, as lieutenant of the fourth Georgia cavalry, rising to the rank of captain. At the end of the civil war he resumed his law practice at Dalton, Ohio, and was appointed judge of the superior court.
Mcdaniel, Edward Davies
physician, educator, was born July 7, 1822, in Chester, S. C. In 1887 he became professor of materia medica and therapeutics in the medical college of Alabama at Mobile. He was chosen president of the Alabama State Medical society in 1876.
Mcdaniel, Henry Dickerson
soldier, state senator, governor, was born Sept. 4, 1837, in Walton county, Ga., where he still resides and practices law. A portion of his youth was spent in Atlanta. In 1856 he graduated from Mercer university, and soon after began the practice of law. In 1861 he was distinguished as being the youngest member of the secession convention of Georgia, in which body he opposed disunion, but finally voted for and signed the ordinance of secession. He went to the front as a lieutenant in the eleventh Georgia infantry; was promoted major of his regiment in 1862, and was terribly wounded near Hagerstown in the retreat from Gettysburg. In 1865 he was a deregate to the constitutional convention; in 1872 was chosen a representative to the state legislature; and in 1874 was made state senator, serving as such with marked ability for eight years, when he positively declined any further re-election. He was elected governor in 1883; and received the re-election to a second term without opposition. At the termination of his second term he retired, being ineligible by law to a third term. He has an extensive law practice at Monroe, Ga.; is a director of the Georgia Railroad and Banking company, and of the High Shoals Cotton Manufacturing company, and various other business enterprises.
Mcdaniel, S. C
clergyman, author, poet. He is the author of The Origin and Early History of the Congregational.
Church; and a number of meritorious; poems.
Mcdannold, John J
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 29, 1851, in Brown county, Ill. He was elected county judge of Brown county, Ill., in 1886, and re-elected in 1890, and resigned in 1892.
He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Mcdearmon, James Calvin
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born June 13, 1844, in New Canton, Va. He was elected to the fifty-third congress from Tennessee, and re-elected to the fiftyfourth congress as a democrat.
Mcdermott, Hugh Farrar
journalist, poet, was born in 1833. He was a journalist of New York city; and the author of Poems from an Editor's Table; and The Blind Canary, a book of poems.
He died in 1890.
Mcdermott, Thomas Jefferson
lawyer, orator, writer, was born Nov. 17, 1861, in Kasota, Minn. He received the rudiments of his education in the district school, and at a. private college; and subsequently attend-- ed the state university of Minnesota,. from which institution he was a graduate. For six years. he was in the United States postal service; was a member of the executive committee of the democratic state central committee; and for two years was chairman of the democratic state central committee.
He has attained prominence as one of the foremost lawyers of Minnesota, and has a large practice in the city of St. Paul.
He is a brilliant orator; and as a writer has contributed valuable articles to law literature and the periodical press gener-- ally.
Mcdill, Alexander Stuart
phy-- sician, state senator, congressman, was. born March 18, 1822, in Crawford county, Pa.
He was elected to the Wisconsin state house of representatives in 1861, and to the state senate in 1862. He was chosen a presidential elector in 1864; was one of the board of managers of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane from 1862 to 1868, when he was elected medical superintendent, which position he resigned to take his seat in the forty-third congress as a republican. He died Nov. 12, 1875, near Madison, Wis.
Mcdill, James Wilson
lawyer, jurist, congressman, United States senator, was born March 4, 1834, in Monroe, Ohio.
He moved to Iowa and was elected judge of Union county in 1859. He was elected circuit judge in 1868; and in 1870 was appointed and then elected district judge. He was elected to the forty-third and forty-fourth congresses. He was a state railroad commissioner from 1878 to 1881; and in 1881 was first appointed and then elected to fill a vacancy in the United States senate, and served during 1881-83.