Mcmurtrie, William – Mcpherson, John Roderic
Mcmurtrie, William
chemist, author, was born March 10, 1851, in Belvidere, N. J. He is a professor of chemistry in the university of Illinois; and the author of Culture of the Sugar Beet; Culture of Sumac; and Grape Culture in the United States.
Mcnabb, John R
clergyman, was born July 12, 1856, in Mitchell, Ind. He received his education at the Hartsville university, and took a post-graduate course in the DePauw university. He practiced law for five years; and then entered the ministry of the methodist episcopal church. He is a member of the south Kansas conference, a successful clergyman, and an orator of marked ability.
Mcnagny, William F
lawyer, congressman, was born April 19, 1850, in Summit county, Ohio. Since 1873 he has practiced law in Columbia City. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Mcnair, Alexander
soldier, governor, was born in 1774, in Dauphin coun-- ty, Pa. He was an early emigrant to Missouri territory; adjutant and inspector-general in 1812; and colonel of Missouri militia in the United States service in 1813. He was governor of Missouri from 1820 to 1824. He died March 18, 1826, in St. Louis, Mo.
Mcnair, John
congressman, was born in 1800, in Pennsylvania. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1851 to 1855. He died in August, 1861, in Evansport, Va.
Mcnamara, John
clergyman, author, was born Dec. 27, 1824, in Ireland. He was an episcopal clergyman of Nebraska; and the author of Three Years on the Kansas Border; and The Black Code of Kansas. He died Oct. 24, 1885, in North Platte, Neb.
Mcnaughton, John Hugh
author, poet, was born July 1, 1829, in Caledonia, N. Y. He is a poet of Caledonia, N. Y., many of whose songs have been set to music, and proved extremely popular. He is the author of Babble Brook Songs; and Onnalinda, a romance in verse.
Mcneely, Thompson W
lawyer, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1835, in Jacksonville, Ill. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the forty-first and forty-second congresses as a democrat.
Mcneil, Archibald
state senator, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1783, in Cumberland county, N. C. He entered the house of commons in 1808; was reelected in 1809; and served in the North Carolina state senate in 1811 and 1815.
He was a representative in congress from North Carolina from 1821 to 1823, and again from 1825 to 1827.
Mcneil, John
soldier, merchant, state legislator, was born Feb. 4, 1813, in Halifax, N. S. In 1844-45 he was in the Missouri legislature. He was president of the Pacific Insurance company from 1855 till 1861; when he joined the national army under General Nathaniel Lyon, with the rank of colonel. With six hundred men he routed General David D.
Harris at Fulton, Mo., on July 17, 1861, and was then placed by General John C.
Fremont in command of St. Louis. He was made colonel of the nineteenth Missouri volunteers Aug. 3, and early in 1862 took command of a cavalry regiment.
Mcneill, George Rockwell
educator, college president, was born July 1, 1854, in Fayetteville, N. C. He has been city and county superintendent of schools; president of the Lafayette college of Alabama; and is now the president of the Isbell college of Talladega, Ala.
Mcneill, Israel C
educator, college president, was born Aug. 31, 1855, in Avoca, N. Y. He is now president of the State Normal school of West Superior, Wis.; and for several years has been treasurer of the National Educational association.
Mcneill, Milton
clergyman, state senator, was born Jan. 8, 1846, in Wilkes county, N. C. He is a successful clergyman of the baptist church at Wilkesboro, N. C.; and in 1896 was elected a member of the North Carolina state senate.
Mcneill, William Gibbs
civil engineer, was born Oct. 3, 1800, in Wilmington, N. C. He achieved the reputation of being one of the foremost railroad engineers in the United States, and his services were sought for at unusual prices. He died Feb. 16, 1853, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mcnierney, Francis
bishop, was born April 25, 1828, in New York city.
He was appointed administrator of the diocese of Albany, N. Y., and in 1877 became bishop of that see by the right of succession.
Mcninch, Maggie
educator, poet, was born in Chester, S. C. She is a successful educator of Williamston, S. C., and the author of a number of stories and a volume of poems entitled Wayside Flowers.
Mcnish, George
clergyman, was born about 1660. He became pastor in Jamaica, N. Y., in 1711, was styled the father of presbyterianism in the state of New York, and instituted the first presbytery therein. He was moderator of the presbytery of Philadelphia in 1710 and 1717. He died March 10, 1722, in Newton, N. J.
Mcnulta, John
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Nov. 9, 1837, in New York city. He studied law; served in the army from 1861 to 1865, as colonel and brevet brigadiergeneral. He was a member of the New York legislature from 1869 to 1873, and was elected to the forty-third congress as a republican.
Mcnutt, Alexander Gallatin
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born Sept. 12, 1801, in Rockbridge county, Va. In 1824 he moved to Jackson, Miss., and subsequently to Vicksburg, where he practiced law. In 1835 he was elected to the state senate from Warren county, and was governor of the state from 1837 to 1841. He died Oct. 22, 1848, in De Soto county, Miss.
Mcnutt, Samuel
farmer, educator, lawyer, journalist, state senator, was born Nov. 21, 1825, in Ireland, of Scotch origin.
His boyhood was spent on a farm in Delaware; and he was educated at the Delaware college. He then engaged in educational work; and was elected president of the New Castle County Teachers' association. In 1851 he began the practice of law in Milwaukee, Wis. In 1852 he was professor of the Male seminary of Hernando, Miss., and in 1856 was principal of the public school of Muscatine, Iowa. The same year he was editor of the Times- Inquirer; during 1856-59 was associate editor of the Dubuque Herald; and in 1861 became editor of the Dubuque Daily Union. From 1864 he served six years as a representative in the Iowa state legislature; and during 1870-74 served as a state senator. In 1884 he was a member of the Farmers' National congress, and in 1890 was appointed United States consul to Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Mcnutt, William Fletcher
physician, journalist, was born March 29, 1839, in Nova Scotia. He is a well-known and successful physician of San Francisco, Cal., and in 1895 assumed the editorship of the Pacific Medical Journal.
Mcparlin, Lawrence Jermain
lawyer, jurist, was born Nov. 14, 1848, in Lockport, N. Y. He has been nominated seven times as associate judge of the court of appeals of the state of New York; twice as chief judge of the same court, and once as attorney-general of his state.
Mcpheeters, William Marcel- Lus
educator, physician, surgeon, author, was born Dec. 3, 1815, in Raleigh, N. C. He settled in St. Louis, Mo., in 1842, was professor of therapeutics and materia medica in the medical college there in 1848-62, and again in 1867. He edited the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal in 1843-61, and, besides numerous professional papers, has published a History of the Cholera Epidemic in St. Louis, Mo., in 1849.
Mcpherran, J. E
lawyer, legislator, was born in 1835 in Huntingdon county, Pa. He served one term as a member of the Illinois legislature from Sterling, Ill.
For seventeen years he has been president of the public library of his city.
MCPHERSON EDWARD, soldier, journalist, lawyer, congressman, author, was born July 31, 1830, in Gettysburg, Pa. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-sixth congress, and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress. In 1864 he published The Political History of the United States During the Great Rebellion; in 1870, The Political History of the United States During the Period of Reconstruction, and biennially thereafter published political hand-books.
Mcpherson, James Birdseye
soldier, was born Nov. 14, 1828, in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1853 he graduated from the United States military academy; served with distinction through the civil war, and attained the rank of major-general of volunteers. He was a superb rider, and the black horse which bore him to death, and which he had ridden through every battle from Shiloh, seemed to be almost equally inspired with himself amid the smoke and carnage of battle. He fell dead July 22, 1864, pierced by several bullets, while making an assault on the confederates near Atlanta, Ga.
Mcpherson, John Roderic
agriculturist, business man, United States senator, was born May 9, 1833, in Livingston county, N. Y. He was a state senator from New Jersey from 1871 to 1873. In 1873 he was elected president of the Central Stock-Yard and Transit company, and continued in that position. He was a presidential elector in 1876, and was elected a senator of the United States from New Jersey for the term of six years from March 4, 1877, and was re-elected in 1883, and again in 1889.