Mckean, William Wister – Mckeon, John
Mckean, William Wister
naval officer, was born Sept. 19, 1800, in Huntingdon county, Pa. He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1814, and became lieutenant in 1825; commander in 1841, and captain in 1855. He was retired in 1861 and became commodore on the retired list in 1862. He died April 22, 1865, near Binghamton, N. Y.
Mckee, Edwin R
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born Aug. 31, 1844, in Knox county, Ill. He is a successful lawyer of Memphis, Mo.; has been prosecuting attorney; and in 1896 was elected judge.
Mckee, George Colin
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 2, 1836, in Joliet, Ill. He was elected attorney of Centralia, Ill., and practiced law. He was ordered as brigadier-general to enroll and equip four regiments of militia. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Mississippi. He was elected to the fortieth congress, but the state was refused admission; and was re-elected to the forty-first, forty-second and fortythird congresses from Mississippi. He died Nov. 17, 1890, in Jackson, Miss. con-
McKEE, JOHN
public official, congressman, was born in Rockbridge county, Va. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1823 to 1829.
Mckee, Samuel
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1809 to 1817.
Mckee, Samuel
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 4, 1833, in Montgomery county, Ky. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress; and was re-elected to the fortieth congress as a republican. He was also a delegate to the Philadelphia loyalists' convention in 1866. For three years he was United States pension agent at Louisville, Ky.
Mckeen, Joseph
clergyman, college president, was born Oct. 15, 1757, in Londonderry, N. H. He was a successful clergyman of New England, and became president of Bowdoin college. He died July 15, 1807, in Brunswick, Maine.
Mckeen, Joseph John
business man, public official, was born in 1789 in Beverly, Mass. For many years he served as town clerk of Brunswick, Maine, and was secretary of the board of overseers of Bowdoin college. He was postmaster of Brunswick, and served as county commissioner. He was a noted antiquarian; took great interest in the Maine Historical society; and made valuable contributions to its published volumes. He died in 1861.
Mckeever, Chauncey
soldier, was born about 1828 in Maryland. In 1875 he was commissioned lieutenant-colonel and assistant adjutant-general for faithful and meritorious services during the civil war.
Mckeever, Harriet Burn
author, was born Aug. 28, 1807, in Philadelphia, Pa. She was a Philadelphia writer of Sunday-school fiction, among whose works are, Nothing but Leaves; Edith's Ministry; The Old Château; and Crown Jewels. She died Feb. 7, 1886, in Chester, Pa.
Mckeever, Isaac
naval officer, was born in April, 1793, in Pennsylvania. He entered the United States navy as midshipman in 1809; and was made lieutenant in 1814. He died April 1, 1856, in Norfolk, Va.
Mckeighan, William Arthur
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Jan. 19, 1842, in Cumberland county, N. J. He moved to Nebraska in 1880, and settled on a farm near Red Cloud. He was elected county judge of Webster county in 1885.
He was elected to the fifty-second, and reelected to the fifty-third congress as an independent.
Mckelway, St. Clair
journalist, was born March 15, 1845, in Columbia, Mo. In 1878 he accepted the chief editorship of the Albany Argus; and in 1885 was called to the same position on the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. In 1883 he accepted the position of regent of the state university of New York.
Mckendree, William
methodist episcopal bishop, was born July 6, 1757, in King William county, Va. His father was a planter, and the son was trained for the same calling. In 1810 the family removed to Sumner county, Tenn. At the beginning of the revolution, William, then twenty years of age, joined a company of volunteers; was for some time an adjutant in the service. He was a leader in the methodist episcopal church, and became one of its most popular bishops. He died March 5, 1835, in Sumner county, Tenn.
Mckenna, Joseph
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 10, 1843, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was district attorney of Solano county, Cal., for two terms, commencing in 1866. He was a representative in the California legislature in 1875 and 1876. In 1884 he was elected a représentative from California to the fortyninth congress; and was re-elected to the fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses. In 1893 he was appointed United States circuit judge; and in 1897 became attorney-general of the United States.
Mckenna, Maurice M
lawyer, poet, was born May 31, 1846, in Springfield, Mass. During the civil war he served as a member of company I, thirty-ninth regiment Wisconsin volunteer infantry.
As a lawyer he has gained a good reputation as one of the foremost practitioners in his state; practices in the state and federal courts; and has had professional engagements in Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. For six years he was clerk of the courts of record in Fond du Lac county; and served six terms as supervisor of the first ward of the city of Fond du Lac. He has held numerous positions of honor, and has always taken an active part in the public affairs of his city, county and state. He is the author of a volume entitled Elva Lee, and Other Poems; and a second volume which was published in 1890 entitled Poems, Rhymes, and Verses. His productions were given a place in Poets of America, and have appeared in other standard works.
McKENNAN, THOMAS McKEAN THOMPSON
lawyer, congressman, was born March 31, 1794, in New Castle county, Pa. He was secretary of the interior department under President Fillmore for a brief period; and was a representative in congress from Pennsylvania from 1831 to 1839, and from 1841 to 1843. He died July 9, 1852, in Reading, Pa.
Mckennan, William
lawyer, jurist, was born Sept. 27, 1816, in Washington, Pa. He was the son of Thomas M. T.
McKennan. In 1869 he was appointed circuit judge of the United States for the third circuit. His only other public position was that of commissioner from Pennsylvania to the peace conference of 1861.
Mckenney, Thomas Lorraine
merchant, author, was born March 21, 1785, in Hopewell, Md. In 1826 he was a spécial commissioner with Lewis Cass to negotiate an important treaty with the Chippewa Indians at Fond du Lac, in the territory of Michigan. In 1827 he published a Tour to the Lakes, with illustrations, and also originated and published, in connection with James Hall, a History of the Indian Tribes. He also published, in 1846, two volumes entitled Memoirs, Official and Personal, with Sketches of Travel among the Northern and Southern Indians. He was at one time a colonel in the militia. He died Feb. 19, 1859, in New York city.
Mckenney, William Robertson
was born Dec. 2, 1851, in Petersburg, Va.
He has practiced law since 1886 in Chatham, Va. He was elected to the fiftythird and re-elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a democrat.
Mckenty, Jacob K
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1827, in Douglassville, Pa. In 1856 he was elected district attorney for Berks county; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress to fill a vacancy. He died Jan. 3, 1866, in Douglassville, Pa.
Mckenzie, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 14, 1830, in New Bedford, Mass. He is a congregational clergyman of Cambridge; and the author of Cambridge Sermons; History of the First Church in Cambridge; Some Things Abroad; and The Two Boys.
Mckenzie, James A
lawyer, farmer, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1840, in Christian county, Ky. He was a representative in the Kentucky state legislature from 1867 to 1871; and was a presidential elector in 1872. He was elected a representative from Kentucky to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, and forty-seventh congresses as a democrat.
Mckenzie, Lewis
banker, railroad president, congressman, was born in 1810, in Alexandria, Va. He served three terms in the Virginia state legislature; and was mayor of Alexandria during the first year of the war of the rebellion. He was president of the Alexandria, London, and Hampshire railroad, and of the First National bank of Alexandria. He was elected to the forty-first congress.
Mckenzie, William P
clergyman, poet, was born in 1861, in Canada: He is a successful clergyman of East Haven, N.
Y.; and the author of two volumes of poems entitled A Song of Trust; and Voices and Undertones.
Mckeon, John
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1808, in Albany, N. Y. He was a representative in the New York legislature in 1832-34. He was elected a representative from New York to the twenty-fourth congress; and was again elected a representative to the twentyseventh congress. In 1846 he became district attorney, and served two terms. In 1853 he was appointed United States district attorney for the southern district of New York, and was reappointed in 1857; and in 1881 was again elected district attorney in New York city. He died Nov. 22, 1883, in New York city.