Mclean, James H – Mcmaster, Guy Humphrey
Mclean, James H
physician, surgeon, congressman, was born Aug. 13, 1829, in Scotland. He was elected a representative from Missouri to the fortyseventh congress to fill a vacancy.
Mclean, John
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born March 11, 1785, in Morris county, N. J. In 1812 he became a candidate to represent his district in congress from Ohio, and was elected by a large majority. In 1814 he was again elected to congress by a unanimous vote, and remained member of the house of representatives until 1816, when, the legislature of Ohio having elected him a a judge of the supreme court of the state, he resigned his seat in congress at the close of the session. He remained six years upon the supreme bench of Ohio; and in 1822 was appointed commissioner of the general land office. In 1823 he became postmaster-general; and in 1829 was appointed a justice of the United States supreme court. His name was thrice brought before conventions as a candidate for the presidency. He died April 4, 1861, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mclean, John
lawyer, legislator, United States senator, was born in 1791, in North Carolina. In 1818 he was elected a representative to congress from Illinois and served one term. He was several times a member of the state legislature, and frequently speaker of the house; and from 1824 to 1825 was United States senator to fill a vacancy. He was again elected in 1829 for the term ending in 1835. He died Oct. 4, 1830, in Shawneetown, Ill.
Mclean, John Howell
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Sept. 24, 1838, in Hinds county, Miss. For twenty years he has filled successively circuits, stations, and districts in the methodist episcopal church south. For seventeen years he has been a professor in the Southwestern university of Georgetown, Tex., of which institution he has been president since 1889. He has been elected five times as a delegate to the general conference; and was a delegate to the ecumenical conference held in Washington in 1891.
Mclean, John Ray
journalist, was born in 1849, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1877 he assumed the editorship and management of the Cincinnati Enquirer, which position he still holds.
Mclean, Samuel
congressman. He was elected a delegate from the territory of Montana to the thirty-eighth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-ninth congress.
Mclean, Mrs. Sarah E. Pulver
poet, was born June 26, 1854, in Waterloo, N. Y. She is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Mclean, William
congressman, was born in Morris county, N. J. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1823 to 1829; and when in congress was mainly instrumental in procuring an appropriation of half a million acres of land for the extension of the Ohio canal from Cincinnati to Cleveland. He died Oct. 12, 1839, in Morris county, N. J.
Mclean, William P
soldier, lawyer, legislator, congressman, was born Aug. 9, 1836, in Hinds county, Miss. He was elected to the legislature of Texas in 1861; and resigned to enter the confederate army, in which he served until the close of the war. He was again a member of the legislature in 1869; and was elected to the forty-third congress as a democrat.
Mcleer, James
soldier, was born in December, 1840, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He served through the civil war, attaining the rank of brigadier-general.
Mclellan, Isaac
journalist, author, poet, was born May 21, 1806, in Portland, Maine. He was for a time associate was editor of the Boston Daily Patriot; and afterward published a monthly magazine, which finally consolidated with the Weekly Pearl.
He is the author of The Fall of the Indian; The Year, and Other Poems; Journal of a Residence in Scotland; Mount Auburn; and Poems of the Rod and Gun; and other works.
Mclene, James
congressman, was born Oct. 14, 1730, in New London, Pa.
He was a member of the Pennsylvania convention in 1776; of the assembly several times between 1776 and 1794, and its speaker in 1778; and of the supreme executive council of the state in 1778 and 1783-84. He was also a member of the continental congress in 1778-80. He died March 13, 1806, in Antrim, Pa.
Mcleod, Alexander
clergyman, author, was born June 12, 1774, in Scotland. He was a reformed presbyterian minister of New York city, famous as a preacher in his day; and the author of Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; The Messiah; Life and Power of True Godliness; and American Christian Expositor. He died Feb. 17, 1883, in New York city.
Mcleod, Alfred Ross
physician, surgeon, was born Jan. 23, 1864, in Versailles, Mo. In 1885 he graduated from the Hooper institute of Clarksburg, Mo.; and in 1889 from the Missouri Medical college of St. Louis. He is one of the most prominent physicians of Kansas City, Kan.; is a member of the St. Margaret and Bethany hospital of that city; and a prominent member of several fraternal orders and medical societies.
Mcleod, Hugh
soldier, congressman, was born Aug. 1, 1814, in New York city.
He was a member of the Texas congress in 1842-43, and served throughout the Mexican war, and subsequently in the state legislature after the annexation of Texas. He joined the confederate army in 1861, and was commissioned a colonel of the first Texas regiment, with which he participated in the first Virginia campaign. He died Jan. 2, 1862, in Dumfries, Va.
Mcleod, J. A
physician, surgeon, business man, was born Nov. 11, 1854, in Canada. He practiced his profession in Milwaukee, Wis., until 1887, when he moved to Ironwood, Mich. Here he was appointed surgeon of the Metropolitan Iron and Land company, and various other companies. He is proprietor of a drug store; the president of the Ironwood Stove company; was one of the organizers of the Ironwood Electric company; was president of the Curry Hotel company; and was one of the organizers of the First National bank of Ironwood, of which institution he served as vicepresident. He has served as a member of the city council; was the first captain of Curry rifles; and in 1894 was detailed as acting brigade surgeon of the Michigan National guards.
Mcleod, Xavier Donald
clergyman, author, was born Nov. 17, 1821, in New York city. He was a Roman catholic clergyman, but before 1852 an episcopal clergyman; and the author of Pynnshurst, his Wanderings and Ways of Thinking; Life of Sir Walter Scott; Life of Mary, Queen of Scots; Our Lady of Litanies; and Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
He died July 20, 1865, near Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mcmahon, John A
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 19, 1833, in Frederick county, Md. He held no official position until elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-fourth congress; and was reelected to the forty-fifth and forty-sixth congresses as a democrat.
Mcmahon, John Van Lear
lawyer, author, was born in 1800, in Maryland. He was a prominent lawyer and politician of Maryland, whose Historical View of Maryland is an authority on the early history of the province. He died June 15, 1871, in Cumberland, Md.
Mcmahon, Laurence Stephen
Roman catholic bishop, was born Dec. 24, 1835, in Nova Scotia. He was vicargeneral of the see of Providence, R. I., in 1872-79, and at the latter date was consecrated bishop of Hartford, Conn.
Mcmahon, Martin Thomas
soldier, lawyer, was born March 21, 1838, in Laprairie, Canada. He resigned from the army in 1866, after receiving the brevets of brigadier- and major-general of volunteers in 1865. In 1872 he was appointed receiver of taxes in New York city, which office he held until 1885, when he became United States marshal of the southern district of New York.
Mcmakin, Mary Augusta
poet, was born Aug. 30, 1833, in Philadelphia, Pa. She has contributed short stories to leading periodicals.
Mcmanus, William
congressman, was born in Rensselaer county, N. Y. He was a representative in congress from New York from 1825 to 1827.
Mcmaster, Erasmus Darwin
clergyman, educator, college president, was born Feb. 4, 1806, in Mercer, Pa. He became president of South Hanover college, Indiana, in 1838, but resigned in 1845 to accept the presidency of Miami university. After four years' service in that institution he was made professor of systematic theology in New Albany Theological seminary, and from 1866 till his death, a few months afterward, occupied the same chair in the Theological seminary of the northwest, Chicago, Ill. He died Sept. 11, 1866, in Chicago, Ill.
Mcmaster, Gilbert
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 13, 1778, in Ireland. He was a reformed presbyterian clergyman of Duanesburgh, N. Y.; and the author of The Shorter Catechism Analyzed; Apology for the Psalms; and Moral Character of Civil Government. He died March 15, 1854, in New Albany, Ind.
Mcmaster, Guy Humphrey
jurist, author, poet, was born Jan. 31, 1829, in Clyde, N. Y. He was a jurist and poet of Bath, in central New York. He wrote a History of Steuben County, but his name lingers in anthologies as author of the well-known lyric, Carmen Bellicosum. He died Sept. 13, 1887, in Bath, N. Y.
MCMASTER, JAMES ALPHONSUS, journalist, was born April 1, 1820, in Schenectady, N. Y. In 1848 he bought the Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register, and for nearly forty years was regarded as the chief Roman catholic journalist in this country. He died Dec. 29, 1886, in Brooklyn, N. Y.