Series); Civil Government of Michigan; tucky, and in 1799 settled in Warren county, O. John labored on a farm until he was sixteen years old, receiving a scanty education; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and was a member of Congress from 1813 to 1816. He was a supporter of Madison's administration, and from 1816 to 1822 was a judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio.. In 1822 he was made commissioner of the general land-office, and in 1823 Postmaster-General. In 1830 he became a justice of the United States Supreme Court, and was always known as an advocate for the freedom of the slaves. In the DRED SCOTT CASE (q. v.), Judge McLean dissented from the opinion of Chief-Justice Taney. He died in Cincinnati, O., April 4, 1861. The History of the American Nation, etc. McLaws, LAFAYETTE, military officer; born in Augusta, Ga., Jan. 15, 1821; graduated at West Point in 1842; remained in the army until 1861, when he joined the Confederates, and became one of the most active of their military leaders. He had served in the war against Mexico. Made a major-general in the Confederate army, he commanded a division under Lee, and was distinguished at Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and at Averasboro, N. C. He surrendered with Johnston's army in April, 1865; was afterwards collector of internal revenue and postmaster in Savannah; and lectured on The Maryland Campaign. He died in Savannah, July 24, 1897. Maclay, EDGAR STANTON, author; born in Foo Chow, China, April 18, 1863; graduated at Syracuse University in 1885; reporter on the Brooklyn Times in 188690, and the New York Tribune in 189093; on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune in 1893-95, and the New York Sun in 1895-96; became light-house keeper on Old Field Point in 1896; and has since devoted much time to the study of American naval history. He is author of The History of the United States Navy; Reminiscences of the Old Navy; the History of American Privateers, etc., and editor of William Maclay's Journal. McLean, SIR ALLAN, military officer; born in Scotland, in 1725; was a lieutenant in a Scotch brigade in the service of the Dutch in 1747. He left that service in 1757, came to America, and was at the capture of Fort Duquesne in 1758. He served under Amherst in 1759, and was major-commander of the 114th Highlanders, which regiment he raised. He was made lieutenant-colonel in 1771, and in 1775 he came to America again, to fight the patriotic colonists. With a corps of Royal Highland emigrants, which he raised in Canada, he occupied Quebec late in 1775, and rendered great service during the siege by Montgomery. He commanded the fort at Penobscot in 1779, and was promoted brigadier-general after leaving America. He died in 1784. McLean, JOHN, jurist; born in Morris county, N. J., March 11, 1785. His father removed first to Virginia, then to Ken After McLellan, ISAAC, poet; born in Portland, Me., May 21, 1806; graduated at Bowdoin College in 1826. During his course there he was a fellow-student of Henry W. Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and George B. Cheever. graduation he studied law and practised in Boston for several years. In 1851 he removed to New York and applied himself to literary work, chiefly poetry and writings on field sports. His publications include The Year, and Other Poems; The Fall of the Indian; Poems of the Rod and Gun; Haunts of Wild Game; War Poems, etc. He died in Greenport, Long Island, Aug. 20, 1899. McLeod, ALEXANDER, clergyman; born on the island of Mull, Scotland, June 12, 1774; came to the United States early in life; graduated at Union College in 1798; ordained in the Reformed Presbyterian Church in 1799; and was pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church of New York till his death. His publications include Negro Slavery Unjustifiable; View of the Late War, etc. He died in New York City, Feb. 17, 1833. McMahon, JOHN VAN LEAR, lawyer; born in Maryland in 1800; graduated at Princeton College in 1817; admitted to the bar in 1821; attained prominence both as a lawyer and as a political speaker; was counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company for several years. He published An Historical View of Maryland. He died in Cumberland, Md., June 15, 1871. McMaster, JOHN BACH, historian; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29, 1852; 40,000 men turned his face towards the graduated at the College of the City of Ohio. Bragg divided his force into three New York in 1872; employed in civil en corps, commanded respectively by Generals gineering in 1873-77; instructor in civil Hardee, Polk, and E. Kirby Smith. The engineering at Princeton University in latter was sent to Knoxville, Tenn., while 1877-83; and became Professor of Amer- the two former held Chattanooga and its ican History in the University of Penn- vicinity. Buell disposed his line from sylvania in the latter year. He has been Huntsville, Ala., to McMinnsville, Warren a prolific producer of historical work of co., Tenn. So lay the opposing armies high merit, his best known publications when Kirby Smith left Knoxville to inbeing A History of the People of the vade Kentucky. Bragg crossed the TenUnited States (7 volumes); Benjamin nessee, just above Chattanooga, on Aug. 21, Franklin as a Man of Letters; With the Fathers; Origin, Meaning, and Application of the Monroe Doctrine; A School History of the United States, etc. with thirty-six regiments of infantry, five of cavalry, and forty guns. Louisville was his destination. He advanced among the rugged mountains towards Buell's left at McMinnsville as a feint, but fairly flanked the Nationals. This was a cavalry movement, which resulted in a battle there. The horsemen were led by General Forrest, who, for several days, had been hovering around Lebanon, Murfreesboro, and Nashville. Attempting to cut off McMillan, CHARLES, civil engineer; born in Moscow, Russia, March 24, 1841; educated there and in Hamilton, Canada; graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1860; and became assistant engineer of the Brooklyn waterworks; in 1861-65 he was assistant engineer of the Croton waterworks, New Fuell's communications, he was confrontYork; in 1865-71 Professor of Geodesy and Road Engineering in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; in 1871-75 Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering in Lehigh University; and in 1875 was called to the chair of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Princeton University. In 1885 he became editor of Smith's Topographical Drawing. MacMillan, CONWAY, botanist; born in Hillsdale, Mich., Aug. 26, 1867; was educated at the University of Nebraska, and Harvard and Johns Hopkins universities; became assistant in geology in the University of Nebraska in 1886; entomologist to the Nebraska agricultural experiment station in 1887; and instructor in botany in the University of Minnesota in 1888. He was an honorary commissioner of the United States Department of Agriculture to England in 1897. He is the author of Twenty-two Common Insects of Nebraska; The Metaspernæ of the Minnesota Valley; Minnesota Plant Life, etc., and also editor of Minnesota Botanical Studies. McMinnsville, BATTLE NEAR. In the summer of 1862, Generals Bragg and Buell marched in nearly parallel lines eastward towards Chattanooga-the latter north of the Tennessee River, and the former south of it. Bragg won the race, and with fully ed (Aug. 30) by National cavalry under E. P. Fyffe, of Gen. T. J. Wood's division, who had made a rapid march. After a short struggle the Confederates were routed. Supposing Bragg was aiming at Nashville, Buell took immediate measures to defend that city. MacMonnies, FREDERICK WILLIAM, sculptor; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1863; received a common school education; entered the studio of Augustus St. Gaudens in 1880; studied for four years in the life classes of the Academy of Design and Art Students' League, and completed his art education abroad, studying in Munich in the atelier of Falguière; in the École des Beaux Arts, in Paris, and in the private studio of Antonin Mercié: received the "prix d'atelier," the highest prize open to foreigners; opened a studio of his own in Paris; and in 1896 received the Cross of the Legion of Honor. His principal works are the famous statue of Bacchante, which he gave to C. F. MeKim, who in 1897 presented it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; the fountain at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago; the statue of Nathan Hale, in City Hall Park, New York; Fame, at West Point; Diana; Pan of Rohallion: the quadriga for the Brooklyn Memorial Arch; the two bronze eagles for the entrance to Prospect Park, Brook- opening of the Mississippi River; and the lyn, etc. engagements and surrender at Fort Fisher. He died in Washington, D. C., Nov. 28, 1900. McNab, SIR ALLAN NAPIER, military officer; born in Niagara, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 19, 1798. His father was the principal aide on the staff of General Simcoe during the Revolutionary War. Allan became a midshipman in 1813, in the British fleet on Lake Ontario, but soon left the navy and joined the army. He commanded the British advanced guard at the battle of Plattsburg; practised law at Hamilton, Ontario, after the war, and was in the Canadian Parliament in 1820, being chosen speaker of the Assembly. In 1837-38 he commanded the militia on the Niagara frontier, and was a conspicuous actor in crushing the "rebellion." He sent a party to destroy the American vessel Caroline, and for his services at that period he was knighted (see CANADA). After the union of Upper and Lower Canada, in 1841, he became speaker of the legislature. He was prime minister under the governorship of Lord Elgin and Sir Edmund Head, and in 1860 was a member of the legislative council. He died at Toronto, Canada, Aug. 8, 1862. McNair, ALEXANDER, military officer; born in Derry, Pa., in 1774; served in the whiskey insurrection as a lieutenant in 1794; appointed a lieutenant in the regular army in 1799; mustered out in 1800; removed to Missouri in 1804, where he was appointed United States commissary, and in 1812 adjutant and inspectorgeneral. He was the first governor of Missouri, serving from 1820 to 1824, when he re-entered the service of the United States as Indian agent. McNamara, JOHN, clergyman; born in Dromore, Ireland, Dec. 27, 1824; received a collegiate education and studied theology at the General Theological Seminary in New York City; was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church; labored as a missionary in Kansas and later as a pastor in North Platte, Neb. His publications include Three Years on the Kansas Border; and The Black Code of Kansas. He died in North Platte, Neb., Oct. 24, 1885. McNeil, JOHN, military officer; born in Halifax, N. S., Feb. 4, 1813; was a hatter in St. Louis about twenty years, and then president of an insurance company; entered the Union service with General Lyon in May, 1861; and was in command of St. Louis, under Frémont. He was made colonel of the 19th Missouri Volunteers Aug. 3, and early in 1862 took command of a cavalry regiment and of a military district in Missouri, in which he distinguished himself by clearing out the guerillas; and was promoted brigadiergeneral. He assisted in driving the forces under Price out of Missouri in the fall of 1864. He was a commissioner to the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and an Indian inspector in 1878 and 1882. He died in St. Louis, June 8, 1891. McNeill, GEORGE ROCKWELL, educator; born in Fayetteville, N. C., in 1854; graduated at Davidson College (N. C.) in 1874; principal of a private school in Rowan county, N. C., for nine years; and later became county superintendent and president of the State Association of County Superintendents. He was principal of the male academy at Reidsville, N. C., in 1883-89; president of Lafayette College (Ala.) in 1889-95; president of a female college in 1895-98; and in the latter year again became president of Lafayette College. McNair, FREDERICK VALLETTE, naval officer; born in Jenkintown, Pa., Jan. 13, 1839; graduated at the United States Naval Academy in June, 1857: promoted passed midshipman, June, 1860; master, October, 1860; lieutenant, April, 1861; lieutenant-commander, April, 1864; commander, January, 1872; captain, October, 1883; commodore, May, 1895; rear-admiral, 1898. In the latter year he was ap- McNiel, JOHN, military officer; born pointed superintendent of the United in Hillsboro, N. C., in 1784; entered the States Naval Academy. During the Civil army as captain in March, 1812, and was War he took part in many engagements, brevetted lieutenant-colonel for his conduct including the actions at Fort Jackson, at the battle of Chippewa. The next year Fort St. Philip, and the Chalmette bat he was wounded at the battle of Niagara, teries; the capture of New Orleans; the or Lundy's Lane, and was brevetted colonel. he held until his death, in Washington, D. C., Feb. 23, 1850. His wife was a halfsister of President Pierce. Macomb, ALEXANDER, military officer; born in Detroit, Mich., April 3, 1782; entered the army as cornet of cavalry in 1799, and at the beginning of the war with Great Britain, in 1812, was lieutenant-colonel of engineers and adjutant-general of the army. He had five brothers in that contest. He was transferred to the artillery, and distinguished himself on the Niagara frontier. In January, 1814, he was promoted to brigadier general, and when General Izard withdrew from the military post on Lake Champlain, in the summer of that year, Macomb was left in chief command of that region. In that capacity he won a victory over the British at Plattsburg, Sept. 11. For his conduct on that occasion he was commissioned a major-general and received thanks and a gold medal from Congress. On the death of General Brown, in 1835, General Macomb was appointed general-in 1841. His remains were interred, with military honors in the congressional cemetery, Washington, and over them stands a beautiful white marble monument, prop MACOMB'S MONUMENT. |