Mckibbin, Joseph C – Mcknight, Harvey Washington
Mckibbin, Joseph C
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. Having taken up his residence in California he was elected a representative from that state to the thirty-fifth congress.
Mckim, Alexander
congressman, was born in 1748. He was a member of congress from Maryland from 1809 to 1815.
He died Jan. 18, 1832, in Baltimore, Md.
Mckim, Charles Follen
architect, was born Aug. 24, 1847, in Chester county, Pa. Among his best productions in country work are the cottages erected in Newport, Lenox, and other summer resorts. Among his city residences are the Tiffany house, and the Villard block of houses on Madison avenue, New York.
Mckim, Isaac
merchant, congressman. He was a member of congress from Maryland from 1823 to 1825, and again from 1835 to 1838. He died April 1, 1838, in Washington, D. C.
Mckim, James Miller
clergyman, reformer, was born Nov. 14, 1810, in Carlisle, Pa. He was an active abolitionist; a member of the convention that formed the American Anti-Slavery society; and in 1836 left the pulpit to accept a lecturing tour under its auspices. He died June 13, 1874, in West Orange, N. J.
Mckim, Randolph Harrison
clergyman, author, was born in 1842, in Maryland. He is an episcopal clergyman; rector of the church of the Epiphany at Washington; and the author of Nature of the Christian Ministry; Vindication of Protestant Principles; Future Punishment; Bread in the Desert, and Other Sermons; Christ and Modern Unbelief; and Christianity and Buddhism.
Mckinley, John
governor, was born Feb. 24, 1724. In 1777 he was elected the first governor of Delaware. He died Aug. 31, 1796, in Wilmington, Del.
McKINLEY, JOHN
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born May 1, 1780, in Culpeper county, Va. He moved to Kentucky, thence to Alabama; and was a senator in congress from Alabama from 1826 to 1837. In 1837 he was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died July 19, 1852, in Louisville, Ky.
McKINLEY, WILLIAM
congressman.
He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1810 to 1811.
Mckinley, William
clergyman, was born March 24, 1834, in Scotland. In 1891 he was appointed chaplain of the St. Paul district, Minnesota, which office he now holds.
McKINLEY, WILLIAM
the twentyfifth president of the United States, was born Jan. 29, 1843, in Niles, Ohio. He was educated in the public schools, Poland academy, and Allegheny college. Before attaining his majority he taughtin the public schools; enlisted as a private in the twenty - third Ohio volunteer infantry June 11, 1861; promoted to commissary-sergeant April 15, 1862, to second lieutenant Sept. 23, 1862, to first lieutenant Feb. 7, 1863, to captain July 25, 1864; served successively on the staffs of Generals R. B. Hayes, George Crook, and Winfield S. Hancock, and was brevetted major in the United States volunteers by President Lincoln for gallantry in battle March 13, 1865. He was detailed as acting assistant adjutant-general of the first division, first army corps, on the staff of General S. S. Carroll; and was mustered out of the service July 26, 1865. Returning to civil life, he studied law in Mahoning county; took a course at the Albany (N.
Y.) Law school, and in 1867 was admitted to the bar and settled at Canton, Ohio, which has since been his home. In 1869 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark county, and served a term in that office. In 1876 he was elected a member of the national house of representatives, and for fourteen years represented the congressional district of which his county was a part. As chairman of the ways and means committee he reported the tariff law of 1890, but in November following was defeated for congress in a gerrymandered district, although reducing the usual adverse majority from 3,000 to 300. In 1891 he was elected governor of Ohio by a plurality of 21,511, and in 1893 was reelected by a plurality of 80,995; and in 1884 was a delegate at large to the republican national convention and supported James G. Blaine for president. He was a member of the committee on resolutions and read the platform to the convention.
In 1888 he was also a delegate at large from Ohio, supporting John Sherman, and as chairman of the committee on resolutions again reported the platform; and in 1892 was again a delegate at large from Ohio, and supported the renomination of Benjamin Harrison, and served as chairman of the convention. At that convention 182 votes were cast for him for president, although he had persistently refused to have his name considered. On June 18, 1896, he was nominated for president at St. Louis, receiving 661 out of a total of 905 votes. He was elected president at the ensuing November election by a popular plurality of 600,000 votes, and received 271 electoral votes as against 176 for William J. Bryan of Nebraska.
Mckinney, Arthur L
clergyman, jurist, was born Sept. 16, 1819, in Clarke county, Ohio. For a quarter of a century he was engaged in the ministry; has held a professorship in the Antioch college; and for three years during the civil war was chaplain of the seventy-first Ohio volunteer infantry. For four years he was treasurer of Miami county, Ohio; was probate judge of that county; and for six years was mayor of Troy, Ohio. He is the author of The Life and Times of Rev.
Isaac N. Walter; Positive Theology; and numerous papers on Christian Theology, Politics and Science.
Mckinney, John F
lawyer, congressman, was born April 12, 1827, in Piqua, Ohio. In 1862 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-eighth congress; and was again elected to the forty-second congress as a democrat.
Mckinney, Luther Franklin
soldier, educator, clergyman, congressman, was born April 25, 1841, near Newark, Ohio. He moved to New Hampshire in 1873; was elected to the fiftieth congress in 1886; and was elected to the fifty-second congress as a democrat.
Mckinney, Mordecai
lawyer, jurist, author, was born about 1796, in Carlisle, Pa. He was a jurist of Harrisburg; and the author of Pennsylvania Justice of the Peace; United States Constitutional Manual; Our Government; The American Magistrate and Civil Officer; Pennsylvania Tax Laws; and Digest of Pennsylvania Banking Laws. He died Dec. 19, 1867, in Harrisburg, Pa.
Mckinney, Myrtle
educator, poet, was born Jan. 21, 1868, in Greencastle, Iowa. She has attained success in educational work; and has contributed both prose and verse to leading newspapers and magazines.
Mckinney, Philip Watkins
lawyer, congressman, governor, was born May 1, 1832, in Buckingham county, Va.
In 1872 he was a member of congress from Virginia; and in 1889 was elected governor.
Mckinstry, James Paterson
naval officer, was born Feb. 9, 1807, in Spencertown, N. Y. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1826, and became lieutenant in 1837. In 1855 he was appointed commander; and in 1866 was appointed commodore. He died Feb. 11, 1873, in Detroit, Mich.
Mckinstry, Justus
soldier, was born about 1821, in New York. He served with distinction in the Mexican and civil wars; and attained the rank of brigadiergeneral.
Mckinstry, Levi C
soldier, clergyman, poet, was born Dec. 17, 1834, in West Newbury, Mass. He served a year in the civil war; is a distinguished clergyman of Melrose Highlands, Mass.; and the author of several books, hymns and poems. He is a constant contributor to the religious press; and his poems have been given a place in Poets of America, and various other standard collections.
Several of his poems have also been set to music.
Mckissock, Thomas
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1798, in Ulster county, N. Y. He was a judge of the supreme court of New York; and was a representative in congress from 1849 to 1851.
Mckisson, Robert Erastus
lawyer, was born Jan. 30, 1863, in Northfield, Ohio. He has been a member of the city council of Cleveland, Ohio; was elected mayor of that city in 1895 for two years; and received the re-election to a second term in 1897.
Mcknight, George
physician, poet, was born March 14, 1840, in Sterling, N. Y.
Since 1864 he has practiced medicine in Sterling, N. Y. He is the author of Firm Ground, a collection of religious sonnets, revised and reissued with the title Life and Faith.
Mcknight, Harvey Washington
educator, college president, was born April 3, 1843, in McKnightstown, Pa., the son of Thomas Mc- Knight, a farmer and merchant, and the founder of Mc- Knightstown. In 1862 he enlisted in company B, one hundred and thirty-eighth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, and was promoted to second lieutenant. In 1865 he graduated from the Pennsylvania college, and two years later from the Theological seminary of Gettysburg. He has filled pastorates in Newville and Easton, Pa., and in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1884 he was chosen president of the Pennsylvania college, which office he has since filled. He was president of the general synod of the evangelical Lutheran church of the United States during 1889-91; and has published various sermons and papers on educational and religious subjects.