Mcknight, Robert – Mclean, Francis J
Mcknight, Robert
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1820, in Pittsburg, Pa. From 1847 to 1849 he was a member of the city council of Pittsburg, and the last two years president of that body. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress.
Mclachlan, James
lawyer, congressman, was born in August, 1815, in Scotland. During 1881-88 he practiced law in Ithaca, N. Y. He then removed to Pasadena, Cal., and there continued the practice of his profession. In 1877 he was elected on the republican ticket to the office of school commissioner of Tompkins county, N. Y., and in 1890 was elected district attorney of Los Angeles county, Cal. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress as a republican.
Mclanahan, James Xavier
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1809, in Greencastle, Pa. In 1841 he served in the Pennsylvania legislature; and was afterward elected to congress as a democrat, holding his seat from 1849 till 1853. He died Dec. 16, 1861, in New York city.
McLANDBURGH, FLORENCE
author, was born April 22, 1850, in Chillicothe, Ohio. Several brilliant short stories that she contributed to periodicals gave her a reputation, and she afterward published a collection of them in book-form, under the title of The Automaton Ear. con-
Mclane, Jeremiah
soldier, gressman, was born in 1767. He was for twenty-one years secretary of state of Ohio; and was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1837. He died March 19, 1837, in Washington, D. C.
Mclane, John
legislator, was born Feb. 27, 1852, in Lennoxtown, Scotland.
He served with distinction as a member of the New Hampshire state senate in 1891 and in 1893; and was made president of those sessions. He lives at Milford, N. H.; and his portrait hangs in the new library building of the state capitol.
Mclane, Louis
soldier, lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born May 28,1786, in Smyrna, Del. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1817 to 1827; and a senator in congress from 1827 to 1829. In 1829 he was appointed minister to England; and in 1831 received the appointment of secretary of the treasury. In 1833 he was secretary of state. In 1837 he was chosen president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company, and, removing to Maryland, discharged the duties of that office until 1847. He died Oct. 7, 1857, in Baltimore, Md. land in the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses; declined a renomination; and in 1883 was elected governor of Maryland. In 1885 he was appointed United States minister to France.
Mclaren, Donald Campbell
clergyman, was born Oct. 3, 1794, in New York city. He was moderator of the general assembly of the associate reformed church at the meeting in Pittsburg, when by union with the associate church the united presbyterian church was formed.
He died May 7, 1882, in Geneva, N. Y.
Mclaren, Robert Neil
soldier, state senator, was born April 9, 1828, in Geneva, N. Y. In 1859-61 he was a member of the Minnesota senate. He served in the civil war, was brevetted brigadiergeneral of volunteers. After the war he became collector of internal revenue for Minnesota and United States marshal for that state. He died July 30, 1886, in St.
Paul, Minn.
Mclaren, William Edward
bishop of Chicago, was born Dec. 13, 1831, in Geneva, N. Y. By the generous action of his lay friends he has founded the Theological seminary at Chicago, which has a fine group of buildings, a partial endowment, and an able faculty; and the Waterman hall, a school for girls, near Chicago. He has published Catholic Dogma the Antidote of Doubt; The Inner Proofs of God; and The Practice of the Interior Life; besides numerous addresses, sermons, and poems.
Mclaren, William Pratt
merchant, was born June 19, 1834, in Scotland.
In 1864 he settled in Milwaukee, Wis.
He was one of the original incorporators of the Northwestern National Insurance company. He has twice filled the office of vice-president of the chamber of commerce.
Mclaughlen, Napoleon Bona- Parte
soldier, was born Dec. 8, 1823, in Chelsea, Vt. He was brevetted brigadiergeneral, United States army, in 1865, for gallant conduct in the field during the war. He died Jan. 27, 1887, in Middleton, N. Y.
Mclaughlin, Andrew Cunning- Ham
educator, author, was born in 1861, in Illinois. He is a professor of American history at the university of Michigan from 1891; and the author of Life of Lewis Cass.
Mclaughlin, Edward Augustus
poet, was born Jan. 9, 1798, in North Stamford, Conn. He published a volume containing, besides some graceful shorter pieces, The Lovers of the Deep, a long poem in Spencerian stanza. He died Nov. 15, 1861, in New York city.
Mclaughlin, George
lawyer, legislator, was born March 27, 1841, in Roscoe, Ohio. For years he was chairman of the republican county committee; and is now a member of the state assembly of the New York legislature.
Mclaurin, Anselm Joseph
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born March 26, 1848, in Brandon, Miss.
He was elected district attorney for the fifth district at Raleigh, Miss.; and moved to Brandon in 1876, after four years' service as district attorney. He was elected to represent Rankin county in the legislature in 1879; was chosen presidential elector for the state at large in 1888; and was elected to the constitutional convention in 1890. He was elected to the United States senate in 1894. In 1896 he became
Mclane, Robert Milligan
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, governor, was born June 23, 1815, in Wilmington, Del. In 1845 and 1846 he was elected to the Maryland legislature. From 1847 to 1851 he was a representative in congress from Maryland. In 1852 he was a presidential elector; and in 1853 was appointed minister to China. In 1859 he was appointed minister to Mexico. In 1876 he was elected a state senator. He was again a representative from Mary-governor of Mississippi.
McLAURIN, JOHN FREDERICK
lawyer, was born Aug. 22, 1864, in Kemper county, Miss. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools, and attended the Wesling college of San Augustine, Tex.
He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of San Augustine, Tex.; has served as United States district attorney for the eastern district of Texas; and takes an active part in the public affairs of his county and state.
Mclaurin, John Loundes
lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born May 9, 1860, in Red Bluff, S. C. In 1890 he was elected to the general assembly of South Carolina; and was elected attorney-general of that state the following year. He was elected to the fifty-second, fifty-third, and fifty-fourth congresses, and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat; and has served on numerous important committees. He takes a deep interest in the material development of the south; and his speeches on the subject have given him a national reputation.
Mclaury, William M
physician, author, was born Aug. 22, 1830, in Kortright, N. Y. He has attained success as a physician of New York city; and is the author of An Essay on the Mind; Cremation; The Senses, Five or Seven; Symbols, Emblems, and Sacred Numbers; and numerous other works.
Mclean, Alney
congressman, was born in Burke county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1815 to 1817, and again from 1819 to 1821.
Mclean, Daniel Veech
educator, was born Nov. 24, 1801, in Fayette county, Pa. He took charge of the church at Tennent, Monmouth county, N. J., and four years later of a church organized by him at Freehold, with which he remained till 1850, when he was chosen president of Lafayette college. He died Nov. 23, 1860, in Red Bank, N. J.
Mclean, Finis E
congressman, was born in Kentucky. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1851.
Mclean, Francis J
lawyer, financier. He received a thorough education, and then began educational work in the states of Pennsylvania and New York.
In 1867 he was admitted to the bar, and since 1867 has followed that profession in Menomonie, Wis. In 1883 he helped to organize the First National bank of Menomonie, of which he is president and one of the largest stockholders.
He is also interested in several other financial institutions in different parts of the state; and has contributed generously to every good work and enterprise.