Mcmaster, John Bach – Mcmurtrie, Richard Coxe
Mcmaster, John Bach
educator, author, was born June 29, 1852, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He is a professor of American history at the university of Pennsylvania from 1883, and prior to that date an instructor in engineering at Princeton college. He is the author of Bridge and Tunnel Centres; High Masonry Dams; History of the People of the United States; Franklin as a Man of Letters; and Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution.
Mcmichael, Jackson Burgess
clergyman, educator, college president, was born July 22, 1833, in Poland, Ohio.
Since 1878 he has been president of the Monmouth college, Illinois, where he is also professor of psychology, logic, and biblical history.
Mcmichael, John M
journalist, lawyer, legislator, was born March 16, 1838, in Xenia, Ohio. He attained success as a lawyer of Plattsburg, Mo.; has been city attorney and mayor of that city; and served with distinction as a member of the Missouri state legislature. He was a member of the national convention which nominated Tilden at St. Louis in 1876; was vice-president of the national silver convention which met in St. Louis in 1889; and has always taken an active part in political affairs. He is the editor of The Leader of Plattsburg, Mo.
Mcmichael, Morton
lawyer, journalist, was born Oct. 2, 1807, in Burlington, N. J. He was sole proprietor of the North American and United States Gazette from 1854 till his death. He died Jan. 6, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mcmichael, William
lawyer, was born March 4, 1841, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He is a lawyer of New York city; and in 1871 he was appointed assistant attorneygeneral of the United States, holding the position until 1873. a
Mcmillan, a. L
poet, evangelist, was born March 26, 1867, in Clinton, Ill. She is licensed evangelist, and known throughout the state of Kansas as the poet-evangelist. She is the author and composer of several popular songs; and in 1896 received the prize certificate as a pianist at the Kansas musical contest. She is also the author of a large number of meritorious poems, which have constantly appeared in current literature, and in several standard collections.
Mcmillan, Albert S
educator, journalist, was born Feb. 19, 1853, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received the rudiments of his education in the schools of Waverly, Iowa; and subsequently attended Cornell university of Ithaca, N. Y. He is the editor and owner of The Wadena County Journal of Wadena, Minn.; was county superintendent of schools in 1881-83; and president of the board of education of Verndale, Minn., during 1887- 93.
Mcmillan, Conway
educator, author, was born in 1867, in Michigan. He has been a professor of botany in the university of Minnesota since 1891; and is the author of Twenty-Two Common Insects of Nebraska; and The Metaspermæ of the Minnesota Valley.
Mcmillan, Garrett
congressman, was a resident of Georgia. He was elected a representative from that state to the forty-fourth congress. He died before the assembling of that congress.
Mcmillan, James
railroad president, United States senator, was born May 12, 1838, in Canada. When elected to the senate he was president of the Michigan Car company, the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad company, and the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation company. For three years he was president of the Detroit board of park commissioners, and for four years was a member of the Detroit board of estimates. He was a republican presidential elector in 1884; received the unanimous nomination of the republican members of the legislature and was elected to the United States senate in 1889; and was re-elected in 1895.
Mcmillan, Samuel James Ren- Wick
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Feb. 22, 1826, in Brownsville, Pa. He was elected judge of the first judicial district of the state of Minnesota in 1857, and entered upon the duties of that position on the admission of the state into the union by congress in 1858. In 1864 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the state to fill a vacancy; in 1864 was elected to the same position for a full term; at the expiration of which he was re-elected for another term. He resigned in 1874; and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected for a full term, but resigned to take a seat in the senate of the United States for the term ending in 1881; and was reelected for a second term of six years.
Mcmillen, Liston
lawyer, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 10, 1847, in Richwood, Ohio. He graduated in the classical course from the Ohio Wesleyan university in 1867. He moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa, and began the practice of law there in 1869. He is the author of a work entitled Alathiasis, which treats of the principles of Christian hygiene.
As a lecturer he has appeared in his one favorite discourse entitled The Proofs of the Resurrection of Christ. His legal training enables him to handle this discussion in the light of the common law rules of evidence-a characteristic feature that draws public attention to the speaker and his theme.
Mcmillen, William Linn
soldier, surgeon, state legislator, was born Oct. 18, 1829, in Hillsboro, Ohio. He served in the civil war, and received the brevets of brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers in 1864 and 1865. He served several terms in the Louisiana legislature, and in 1872 and 1873 was chosen to the United States senate by the McEnery legislature, but not admitted to a seat.
Mcmillin, Benton
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 11, 1845, in Monroe county, Ky. He practiced law in Celina, Tenn.; was elected a member of the state house of representatives in 1874; and was a presidential elector in 1876. He was appointed a special judge of the circuit court in 1877.
He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-sixth, forty-seventh, forty-eighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third, fiftyfourth, and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.
Mcminn, Joseph
state senator, governor, was born in Pennsylvania. In 1807 he was elected speaker to the Pennsylvania state senate; and in 1815 was elected governor of Tennessee. He died Nov. 17, 1824, at the Cherokee agency.
Mcmorris, Thomas A
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 24, 1835, in Muskingum, Ohio. During the war he served in the eighty-sixth regiment Illinois volunteer infantry. He is one of the most prominent lawyers of Colorado; has served as district judge of the fourth judicial district of Colorado; and was appointed by President Garfield as commissioner to the Indians.
Mcmullen, Daniel E
educator, public official, was born April 29, 1860, in Lyons, Iowa. He received his education at the St. Francis college of Milwaukee, St. Joseph's college of Dubuque, and St.
Ambrose college of Davenport. He has been county superintendent of schools of Lyons county, Iowa; a justice of the peace for seven years; principal of the Charlotte schools; and is now principal of schools at Alvord, Iowa. He has filled numerous public offices in his county, and is well-known throughout the state as a successful educator.
Mcmullen, Fayette
congressman, governor, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1849 to 1855. In 1857 he was appointed governor of the territory of Washington.
Mcmullen, John
Roman catholic bishop, college president, was born March 8, 1833, in Ireland. In 1881 he was consecrated bishop of the new diocese that had been formed in Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until his death. He died July 3, 1883, in Davenport, Iowa.
Mcmurdie, Henry
clergyman, educator, was born May 21, 1822, in England. He was appointed professor of dogmatic theology and moral philosophy in St.
Mary's, and succeeded Archbishop Elder as director of the ecclesiastical seminary.
He was looked upon as one of the ablest theologians and metaphysicians of his church in the United States. He died Jan. 20, 1880, in Emmettsburg, Md.
Mcmurphy, Jesse G
clergyman, college president, author, poet, was born April 8, 1845, in Derry, N. H. He graduated from the Dartmouth college in 1868; and in 1873 from the Theological seminary of Nashotah, Wis. He is an eminent clergyman, and founder of the McMurphy Home school of Racine, Wis. He is a wellknown writer and translator of verse in several languages; and his writings appear in numerous standard collections. He married Mary Lucy James in 1870, and resides with his family at the homestead in Derry, N. H.
Mcmurray, Patrick Early
manufacturer, state senator, was born March 4, 1841, in Ireland. In 1886 he was elected a member of the Florida state senate.
Mcmurtrie, Henry
educator, author, was born in 1793, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was an educator of Philadelphia; and the author of Lexicon Scientiarum, his principal work. He died May 26, 1865, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mcmurtrie, Richard Coxe
lawyer, author, was born Oct. 24, 1819, in Cumberland county, N. J. He is one of the recognized leaders of the Philadelphia bar. He was a vice-provost of the law academy of Philadelphia from 1864 till 1881. He published, with George W. Biddle, a General Index, etc.; and A Reading on Article XVI., Sec. 7, Constitution of Pennsylvania.