MCMAHON, Laurence Stephen, R. C. bishop, b. in Nova Scotia, 24 Dec., 1835. He was removed to the United States while an infant. After studying in Boston, Worcester, Mass., Baltimore, Md., and Montreal, Canada, he went abroad, and received his theological education in Aix and in Rome. He was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1860, and, returning to the United States, was first stationed at the cathedral in Boston, Mass. In 1863 he became chaplain of the 28th Massachusetts regiment, and after the war he was pastor in Bridgeport, Conn., and subsequently in New Bedford, Mass., where he built the church of St. Lawrence and a hospital under the charge of the Sisters of Mercy. He was vicar-general of the see of Providence in 1872-'9, and at the latter date was consecrated bishop of Hartford, Conn. He received the degree of D. D. from Rome in 1872. MCMAHON, Martin Thomas, soldier, b. in Laprairie, Canada, 21 March, 1838. He was graduated at St. John's college, Fordham, N. Y., in 1855, and subsequently studied law. For a time he was special post-office agent for the Pacific coast, and also served as Indian agent, but at the beginning of the civil war he volunteered and was made captain. becoming aide-de-camp to Gen. George B. McClellan. In 1862 he was appointed adjutantgeneral and chief of staff of the 6th corps of the Army of the Potomac, under Gen. William B. Franklin, serving also under Gens. John Sedgwick and Horatio G. Wright until after the final operations before Petersburg. He resigned in 1866, after receiving the brevets of brigadier- and major-general of volunteers on 13 March, 1865. In 1866-7 he was corporation attorney of the city of New York, and in 1868-19 he was U. S. minister to Paraguay. In 1872 he was appointed receiver of taxes in New York city, which office he held until 1885, when he became U. S. marshal of the southern district of New York. Gen. McMahon received the degree of LL.D. from St. John's college in 1866. During 1886-27 he was president of the Society of the Army of the Potomac. His brother, JOHN EUGENE, b. in Waterford, Ireland, in 1834, d. in Buffalo, N. Y., in May, 1863, and another brother, JAMES POWER, b. in Waterford, Ireland, in 1836, killed at the battle of Cold Harbor, in June, 1864, each had command of the 164th New York volunteers. They had previously graduated from St. John's college, and were practising lawyers when the civil war began. MACMASTER, Donald, Canadian member of parliament, b. in Glengarry, 3 Sept., 1846. He was graduated at McGill university as bachelor of civil law in 1871, admitted to the bar of Quebec in that year, and to that of Ontario in 1882, when he also became a Queen's counsel. He represented Glengarry in the Ontario parliament from 1879 till he resigned in May, 1882, to become a candidate for the Dominion parliament, to which he was elected for the same constituency. He has gained reputation as an eloquent speaker. MCMASTER, Gilbert, clergyman, b. in the parish of Saintfield, Ireland, 13 Feb., 1778; d. in New Albany, Ind., 15 March, 1854. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1791, studied two years at Jefferson college, Pa., and was licensed to practise medicine in 1805, but abandoned it for theology, and in 1807 was licensed to preach, being ordained the next year as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian church of Duanes burg, N. Y. He officiated there until 1840, when he accepted a call from the church in Princeton, Ind., which he resigned, on account of the failure of his health, in 1846. Union gave him the degree of D. D. in 1828. His works include "An Essay in Defence of Some Fundamental Doctrines of Christianity" (Utica, N. Y.. 1815); “The Shorter Catechism Analyzed" (1815); An Apology for the Book of Psalms " (1818); and the "Moral Character of Civil Government" (1832).-His son, Erasmus Darwin, clergyman, b. in Mercer, Pa., 4 Feb., 1806; d. in Chicago, Ill., 11 Sept., 1866, was graduated at Union in 1827, studied theology under his father, and in 1831 was ordained pastor of the Presbyterian church in Ballston, N. Y. He became president of South Hanover college, Ind., 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 January, 1866, till his death, a few months afterward, occupied the same chair in the Theological seminary of the northwest, Chicago, Ill. Dr. McMaster exercised an almost unbounded influence over the students with whom he was connected. Union gave him the degree of D. D. in 1841.-Another son, James Alphonsus, journalist, b. in Duanesburg, Schenectady co., N. Y., 1 April, 1820; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 29 Dec., 1886, entered Union college, but left without being graduated, began the study of law, and became a private tutor. In 1845 he united with the Roman Catholic church, and soon afterward went to Belgium, where he entered a Redemptorist novitiate for "reflection and study to decide his vocation." His own inclination at that time tended toward the priesthood, but his confessor commanded him to "enter the world and become a Catholic journalist." He returned to the United States, bought in 1848 the " Freeman's Journal and Catholic Register," and for nearly forty years was regarded as the chief Roman Catholic journalist in this country. In 1861 he was arrested and confined in Fort Lafayette for his uncompromising strictures upon the war measures of President Lincoln, and his paper was suppressed. At the end of eleven months he was released, and the publication of the "Freeman's Journal was resumed, 19 April, 1862. Although a life-long Democrat, he bitterly opposed the candidacy of Samuel J. Tilden, and, in spite of his devotion to his church, he did not spare its highest dignitaries. Much of his violent language during the last ten years of his life was attributed to chronic disease. 66 MCMASTER, Guy Humphrey, poet, b. in Clyde, N. Y., 31 Jan., 1829; d. in Bath, Steuben co., N. Y., 13 Sept., 1887. He was graduated at Hamilton college in 1847. with the reputation of being the most brilliant student that the college had ever known. At nineteen years of age he wrote "Carmen Bellicosum," better known as "The Old Continentals." which was published in the Knickerbocker Magazine," and at once attained popularity. In his youth he also contributed to the Whig Review" and "Putnam's Monthly," and published a History of Steuben County, N. Y." (Bath, 1849). He afterward abandoned literature for law, and contributed to the press only at intervals. He edited the "Steuben Courier" in 1855, again in 1876, and in 1877, while he was abroad, he contributed to its columns a series of articles called "Other Side Letters," that were widely copied. His best-known poems besides "Carmen Bellicosum" are a "Dream of Thanksgiving Eve" (1864); "The Commanders," a poem delivered at the Newton Sullivan centennial celebration, which is included in "Gen. Sullivan's Indian Expedition" (New York, 1887); and "The Professor's Guest Chamber" (1880). He was admitted to the bar of Steuben county in 1852, and practised until 1863, when he became county judge and surrogate, held both offices till their separation in 1883, when he was elected surrogate. MCMASTER, John Bach, historian, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 29 June, 1852. His father, a native of New York, was a banker and planter at New Orleans at the beginning of the civil war. The son was educated in the public schools, and graduated at the College of the city of New York in 1872. He taught grammar in that institution for a year, spent several months in the study of civil engineering, and in the autumn of 1873 devoted himself to the work of writing his "History of the People of the United States," for which he had been gathering material since 1870. He was appointed instructor in civil engineering at Princeton in 1877, and in 1883 became professor of American history in the University of Pennsylvania. The first volume of his "History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War" (New York, 1883) achieved an immediate success. His other writings include numerous magazine articles; the 2d volume of his history (1885): and "Life of Benjamin Franklin” in the Men of Letters" series (Boston, 1887). 66 MCMASTER, William, Canadian merchant, b. in Tyrone, Ireland, 24 Dec., 1811; d. in Toronto, 22 Sept., 1887. He came to Canada in 1833, entered the wholesale mercantile establishment of Robert Cathcart, in Toronto, and afterward engaged in business on his own account. Mr. McMaster was a member of the legislative council of Canada, for the Midland division, from 1862 till 1867, when he was called to the senate by royal proclamation. He was noted for his liberality in behalf of the educational and religious institutions of the Baptist denomination, to which he belonged. He was a liberal supporter of the Canadian literary institute at Woodstook, to whose building fund alone he contributed $12,000: erected and furnished, at an expense of over $100,000, McMaster Hall, the new Baptist college in Toronto; and, with his wife, gave over $60,000 toward the building of the Jarvis street Baptist church, Toronto. He was instrumental in establishing the Superannuated ministers' society of the Baptist church, was for many years treasurer of the Upper Canada Bible society and among its most generous subscribers, and was chairman of the board of trustees of the Baptist college. He was also a member of the senate of the University of Toronto, chairman of the Canada board of the Great Western railway, president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, and was connected with other institutions. While speaking in McMaster Hall, he fainted, and remained unconscious till his death on the following morning. McMICHAEL, Morton, journalist, b. in Burlington, N. J., 2 Oct., 1807; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., 6 Jan., 1879. He was educated in the schools of his native town and at the University of Pennsylvania, read law, and in 1827 was admitted to the Philadelphia bar. He became editor of the "Saturday Evening Post" in 1826, from 1831 to 1836 was editor-in-chief of the "Saturday Courier," and during the latter year, with others, began the publication of the "Saturday News." In 1844 he associated himself with Joseph C. Neal in the editorship of the "Saturday Gazette," and in 1847 he acquired an interest in the "North American." which journal was, during that year, consolidated with the United States Gazette," and under this union the publication was thereafter known as the "North American and United States Gazette." He was sole proprietor of this journal from 1854 till his death, and under his management and edi | torship it grew to be one of the best-known jour nals in the country. While a young man he served several years as an alderman of Philadelphia, from 1843 till 1846 he was sheriff of the county, from 1866 till 1869 mayor of the city, in 1867, on the organization of the park commission, was chosen president of that body, which post he held till his death, and in 1873 he was appointed a delegate at large to the fourth Constitutional convention of Pennsylvania. He was frequently invited to address public audiences on great occasions, and achieved note as an orator. Of his speeches a critic has written: "Prepared or unprepared, they were always finished models." A bronze statue of him, in Fairmount park, bears the inscription, An honored and beloved citizen of Philadelphia."- His third son, William, lawyer, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 4 March, 1841, was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1859, and had begun law studies when. in April, 1861, he enlisted as a private under President Lincoln's first call for troops. He was afterward promoted to captain and aide-de-camp, then major, and later brevetted colonel, acting under Gen. Grant, Gen. Rosecrans, and Gen. Thomas. After serving through the war he resumed his law studies, and was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1865. He was appointed solicitor of internal revenue of the treasury department soon after Gen. Grant's first election to the presidency, and resigned the office in 1871 to become U. S. assistant attorney-general. That office he held until 1877, when he was appointed U. S. district attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, but he resigned in 1875 to enter into private practice. He was appointed by President Garfield a member of the U. S. board of Indian commissioners. In 1882 he was a candidate for congressman-at-large on the Independent Republican ticket. He has always been an active participant in public affairs. He is now (1888) a member of the bar of New York city. He inherited in a large degree the oratorical gifts of his father. Among his addresses is a eulogy on Gen. George H. Thomas at a memorial meeting at the Academy of Music, and an oration at the unveiling of the Lincoln monument in Fairmount park.-Morton's fourth son, Clayton, journalist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 30 June, 1844, was educated in private schools, enlisted in the army in April, 1861, and was commissioned 2d lieutenant in the U. S. army on 5 Aug. He resigned, 27 Sept., 1865, with the brevet rank of major in the regular army. After leaving the army he began journalistic work in connection with his father's newspaper, and a few years before the latter's death succeeded him in its editorship, in which post he has since continued. In 1872 he was appointed commissioner to the International exposition at Vienna, and in December, 1882, became U. S. marshal for the District of Columbia. He resigned, 4 March, 1885, but his resignation was not accepted by President Cleveland until 3 Dec. McMICKEN, Gilbert, Canadian member of parliament, b. in Wigtonshire, Scotland, in 1813. He came to Canada in 1832, was for many years a resident of the Niagara district, and held several municipal offices there. He represented Welland county in the legislative assembly of Canada from 1857 till 1861, was stipendiary magistrate for Canada West during the civil war in the United States, and was specially thanked by Lord Monk for the efficient discharge of his duties. During the Fenian excitement he was commissioner of police for the Dominion, and contributed to the repulse of the raiders in 1870. After his removal to Manitoba he performed a similar service in con nection with the contemplated Fenian attack on Fort Garry during Lieut.-Gov. Archibald's term. He had charge of the Dominion land-office in Manitoba from the time it was opened, and held the office of assistant receiver-general and other posts till he was retired in 1877. Mr. McMicken represented Cartier as a Conservative in 1880-22. He patented two important inventions in telegraphy in 1847, and was the first to span Niagara river with a telegraph-wire. 3 March, 1887. His judicial opinions are embraced in Minnesota Reports" (vols. ix.-xxi., inclusive, St. Paul, 1864–’75). MCMILLEN, William Linn, soldier, b. in Hillsboro', Highland co., Ohio, 18 Oct., 1829. He was graduated at Starling medical college, Columbus, Ohio, in 1852, was surgeon in the Russian army from 1855 till the end of the Crimean war, and of the 1st Ohio infantry in 1861, and in 1862 he became colonel of the 95th Ohio. He served in the west and south, led a brigade at Nashville, commanded a district after Lee's surrender, and received the brevets of brigadier-general and major-general of volunteers on 16 Dec., 1864, and 13 March, 1865, respectively. He then became a planter in Louisiana, served several terms in the legislature, and in 1872 and 1873 was chosen to the U. S. senate by the McEnery legislature, but not admitted to a seat. In 1878-'83 he was postmaster of New Orleans. MCMILLAN, James, capitalist, b. in Hamilton, Ont., 13 May, 1838. He went to Detroit when he was sixteen years of age, and was clerk in a hardware-store for two years, until he was appointed purchasing-agent for the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad company. In 1864, with John S. Newberry and others, he organized the Michigan car company, for the manufacture of freight-cars. This business grew very rapidly, and in ten years it was one of the largest in the United States. Its success led to the formation of the Detroit carwheel company, the Baugh steam-forge company, the Detroit iron-furnace company, and the Vulcan furnace company. In 1881, with his associates in business, he organized the Detroit, Mackinaw, and Marquette railroad company, of which he became president. Mr. McMillan is one of the largest owners of the Detroit and Cleveland steam navigation company, and the Detroit transportation com-ceived the degree of D. D., and returned to Chicapany, has been a director of several banks in Detroit, and is interested in other large business enterprises. He has been chairman of the Michigan state Republican committee, contributing largely to its funds. His business enterprises have uniformly proved successful, and he has acquired a large fortune. In 1886 he joined with John S. Newberry in contributing $100,000 each for the establishment and maintenance of a hospital in Detroit, and he has been a generous contributor to other charitable institutions. MCMILLAN, John, educator, b. in Fagg's Manor, Chester co., Pa., 11 Nov., 1752; d. in Canonsburg, Pa., 16 Nov., 1833. After graduation at Princeton in 1772 he studied theology, was licensed to preach in 1774, and performed missionary service in Maryland, western Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. In 1775 he organized the churches of Pigeon Creek and Chartiers, Pa., over which he was ordained in 1776. He endured many hardships, owing to troubles with the Indians on the frontier during the Revolutionary war, and lived in a log-house in Canonsburg, Pa., which he partly built. He established there a small Latin-school and theological seminary, which were developed into Canonsburg academy in 1790 and became the nucleus of Jefferson college. From this institution he received the degree of S. T. D. in 1805. MCMILLAN, Samuel James Renwick, jurist, b. in Brownsville, Fayette co., Pa., 22 Feb., 1826. In early years he removed to Pittsburg, and was graduated in 1846 at Duquesne college in that eity. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1849, and began to practise in Stillwater, Minn., in 1852. In 1856 he removed to St. Paul, practising there until, in 1857, the state government of Minnesota was formed, when he was made judge' of the 1st judicial circuit. In 1864 he was appointed justice of the state supreme court to fill a vacancy, and in the same year elected to that office for a full term of seven years, being re-elected in 1871. In 1874 he was appointed chief justice of the supreme court to fill a vacancy, and was subsequently elected for a full term. He was chosen to the U. S. senate as a Republican in 1875, and afterward re-elected for the term that expired MCMULLEN, John, R. C. bishop, b. in Ballinahinch, County Down, Ireland, 8 March, 1833; d. in Davenport, Iowa, 3 July, 1883. His family emigrated to Canada in his infancy, then removed to Ogdensburg, N. Y., and settled finally in Chicago, where this son was graduated at St. Mary's college in 1854. He then went to Rome, studied at Urban college, was ordained priest in 1858, rego. In 1861 he became president of the University of St. Mary's of the Lake, which charge he held for four years, and in 1863 began the erection of a new university building, which was destroyed in the great fire. He then spent some time in Wilmington, Ill., but returned to Chicago in 1870 to take charge of the Cathedral of the Holy Name. In 1877 he was appointed vicar-general of the diocese, and in 1881 consecrated bishop of the new diocese that had been formed in Davenport, Iowa, where he remained until his death. He organized a highschool for boys and several parochial schools, and was the author of many articles on church history. MCMURDIE, Henry, clergyman, b. in London, England, 21 May, 1822; d. in Emmettsburg, Md., 20 Jan., 1880. He received his preparatory education in London, and entered a mercantile house in Liverpool. During the Tractarian movement in England he became a Roman Catholic, and, coming to the United States, entered Mount St. Mary's seminary, Emmettsburg, and in 1854 was ordained priest. 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 on as one of the ablest theologians and metaphysicians of his church in the United States. MCMURRAY, William, Canadian clergyman, b. in Seagoe, near Portadown, Ireland, 19 Sept., 1810. He came to Canada with his parents in 1811, was educated under Dr. Strachan (afterward bishop) at Toronto, and sent as a missionary of the Church of England to the Indians at Sault Sainte Marie in 1832. He was ordained priest by Bishop Stewart, of Quebec, in 1833, and became rector of Ancaster in 1840, rural dean of Lincoln and Welland in 1867, and archdeacon of Niagara in 1875. He was instrumental in settling the clergy reserves in 1853, was appointed agent by the senate of Trinity college, Toronto, in 1854, to ask assistance for that institution from the United States, and was sent in 1864 on a similar mission to England. The degree of D. D. was conferred upon him in 1853 by Columbia, and that of doctor of common law in 1857 by the university of Trinity college, Toronto. Dr. McMurray is the oldest clergyman of his church in Canada, with the exception of the metropolitan, Bishop Medley, of Fredericton, N. B. MCMURRICH, John, Canadian merchant, b. in Renfrewshire, Scotland, in 1804; d. in Toronto, 13 Feb., 1883. He was engaged for some time in business in Glasgow, and in 1835 came to Canada, where he subsequently became a partner in a large mercantile firm in Toronto. In 1856, when the legislative council became elective, Mr. McMurrich was an unsuccessful candidate for the Saugeen division, but in 1862 he was elected for that constituency by a large majority. In 1864 he declined a renomination, and in 1867 he was elected to the Ontario assembly for North York, but, on suffering defeat in 1871, he retired from political life. He was a Liberal in politics. MCMURTRIE, Henry, educator, b. in Philadelphia in 1793; d. there, 26 May, 1865. He was graduated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1814, and became professor of anatomy and physiology in the Central high-school of Philadelphia. He was the author of valuable text-books, including a "Lexicon Scien tarium: a Dictionary of Terms used in the Various Branches of Anatomy, Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Geometry, Hygiene, Mineralogy, Natural Philosophy, Physiology, Zoology, etc." (Philadelphia, 1847). He also published a translation of Cuvier's • Animal Kingdom" (1832).—His cousin, Richard Coxe, lawyer, b. in Cumberland county, N. J., 24 Oct., 1819, studied law in Philadelphia, where in 1840 he was admitted to the bar. Shortly afterward he served for a year as captain's clerk in the U. S. navy, then entered on the practice of law, in which he early attained prominence, and is now (1888) 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 was for several years one of the guardians of the poor, and is now a director of the department of charities and corrections of Philadelphia. He published, with George W. Biddle, a "General Index, etc." (2 vols., Philadelphia, 1857): and "A Reading on Article XVI., Sec. 7, Constitution of Pennsylvania" (1885); and has written on legal subjects for several magazines. father was Capt. Robert MacNab, of the "Black where the father became clerk in the office of William Jarvis, provincial secretary, and the son was sent to the home districtschool. As a pupil he did not win high honors, being fonder of play than of study. He was but fifteen years of age when the American invasion of Canada took place, in April, 1813, and he and his father at once volunteered, and were sent to the front with a small regular and militia force. The town was ill prepared to withstand a siege, and the British and Canadian troops were driven back on Kingston. During the retreat, which was successfully accomplished, young MacNab attracted the notice of his commander, and through the latter's influence he was subsequently appointed a midshipman on board the "Wolfe," the flag-ship of Sir James Lucas Yeo. He accompanied Yeo's expedition to Sackett's Harbor and other points along the southern side of Lake Ontario; but the navy had no charm for him, and he relinquished his place after a few months' service and joined the 100th foot, then commanded by Col. John Murray. He took an active part in several movements, and MCMURTRIE, William, chemist, b. in Belvi- his prominence in the advanced guard at the dere, N. J., 10 March, 1851. He was graduated at storming of Fort Niagara won for him an ensigney Lafayette in 1871 as a mining engineer, and re- in the 49th regiment and honorable mention in the ceived in course the degree of Ph. D. in 1875. In despatches. Eleven days later he was found at Fort 1872 he was appointed assistant chemist to the U.S. Erie, and on the night of 29 Dec. he took part in department of agriculture in Washington, and in Sir Phineas Riall's exploits against Buffalo and 1873-8 he was chemist-in-chief. He was then ap- Black Rock. At the close of the hostilities of that pointed superintendent of agricultural products in season, on the Niagara frontier, he went to Monthe U. S. section of the World's fair in Paris in treal, joined his new regiment, and at the affair at 1878, and at the same time commissioned agent Plattsburg led the advanced guard at the Saranac and representative of the U. S. department of agri- bridge. After the defeat of the British forces culture to the exposition. Since 1882 he has filled young MacNab, greatly chagrined, is said to have the chair of chemistry and mineralogy in the Uni- broken his sword and vowed that he would never versity of Illinois, and he is also chemist to the draw blade again under such a leader as Sir state board of agriculture. Prof. McMurtrie is a George Prevost. After the proclamation of peace. member of scientific societies, and in 1884 received MacNab returned to his home in York on half-pay. from the French government the title of chevalier He now began to look about him for a career. du mérite agricôle. He published reports from the Military life was out of the question, he was not division of chemistry of the department of agricul- well educated, and his capacity was not large. He ture, which were issued annually and under the di- was a fine specimen of manhood, and a thorough rection of the commissioner; "Report on Culture aristocrat in every way. In politics he was a born of the Sugar-Beet" (Washington, 1879); "Report on Tory of the severest school. The influence of Culture of Sumac" (1879): "Report on Statistics friends secured for him an articled clerkship in the of Grape Culture in the United States" (1880); and office of the attorney-general, and a situation as "Report upon Examination of Wools and other copying-clerk in one of the government offices. Animal Fibres" (1887). At the Michaelmas term of 1826 he was called to the bar of Upper Canada. In May, 1821, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Lieut. Daniel Brooke, of Toronto. On being called to the bar, MacNab MacNAB, Sir Allan Napier, bart., Canadian soldier, b. in Newark (now Niagara), Ont., 19 Feb., 1798; d. in Toronto, 8 Aug., 1862. His grand himself as a candidate for the English house of commons, as a supporter of the Earl of Derby's administration. He was defeated, and then determined to return home. removed to Hamilton, where he began the practice to show signs of weakening. On Macdonald's shoulof his profession. In 1829 a circumstance occurred ders fell the real work of the government. It was that proved the direct means of his entrance into MacNab's wish that John Hillyard Cameron should public life. The "Hamilton outrage," as the ex- succeed him in the leadership of his party, but the hibition of Sir John Colborne in effigy through party itself had decided on Macdonald, and when the streets of that city was called, became the sub- Sir Allan was forced to yield to disease, in 1856, the ject of parliamentary inquiry. MacNab was sum- latter became the virtual chief. On retiring from moned as a witness, and, on certain questions being office, Sir Allan was created a baronet, and in 1857 put to him, he declined to testify, averring that if he sailed for England in search of rest and health. he did so he might compromise himself. He was He went to reside at a place near Brighton, and his declared guilty of contempt, and the sergeant-at-health was so much benefited that he announced arms promptly took him into custody and brought him to the bar of the house. On motion of William Lyon Mackenzie, the leader of the Upper Canadian rebellion of eight years afterward, the recalcitrant witness was committed to the common jail. He was confined for a brief period only, but the Conservatives chose to regard him as a martyr, and when the general elections of 1830 occurred MacNab was selected as their candidate. He was sent to the house of assembly as the representative of Wentworth county, and one of his first acts in the legislature was to second a motion for the expulsion of Mr. Mackenzie from parliament for breach of privilege, the offence being the publication in Mackenzie's newspaper of some sharp criticism of the government's policy. The conduct of MacNab and his friends was indefensible, but party feeling ran high in those days, and members stopped at nothing. MacNab followed his movement of hostility against Mackenzie with a series of attacks, which hardly ceased during the lifetime of the agitator. In 1837 he was elected speaker of the house of assembly, and he continued to hold that office until the union of 1841. He represented Wentworth county for three terms, and then sat for Hamilton. The Upper Canadian rebellion of 1837-'8 gave him another opportunity to employ his soldier-like qualities. As soon as the uprising took place he put himself at the head of a band of followers, whom he styled his Men of Gore," and proceeded to Toronto to the assistance of the lieutenant-governor. The rout of the rebels at Montgomery's tavern, the dispersion of the malcontents of the western district, the Niagara frontier episode, and the cutting out of the steamer "Caroline" followed in quick succession. For services that he rendered in the campaign, MacNab was knighted, and received the thanks of the provincial legislature. Later he was created Queen's counsel. Soon after the union of Upper and Lower Canada, Sir Allan became leader of the Conservatives, then in opposition. On the defeat of the BaldwinLafontaine administration, MacNab was elected to the speaker's chair, and he occupied it from 1844 till 1848, when he once more became chief of the Conservative opposition, and Baldwin and Lafontaine succeeded to power for a second time. He opposed with great vehemence Lafontaine's rebellion losses bill, and even went to England to invoke imperial interference. His mission failed, though Mr. Gladstone strongly supported his cause. On the defeat of the Hincks-Morin government in 1854, Sir Allan was asked by the Earl of Elgin to form a cabinet. He called Mr. Morin to his aid, and in the month of September in the same year he succeeded in forming a coalition ministry, taking the offices of president of the council and minister of agriculture. In this cabinet by far the more active spirit was John A. Macdonald, Sir Allan's lieutenant. This government succeeded in negotiating a reciprocity treaty with the United States, abolishing the seigniorial tenure laws, and secularizing the clergy reserves. The premier suffered severely from gout, and his energy and force began On arriving at Hamilton in 1860 he was prostrated by his old trouble, and forced to keep his bed for several weeks. A vacancy occurring in the western division in the legislative council, Sir Allan was asked to become a candidate. He rallied. promptly accepted the nomination, and was carried to the hustings, where he addressed the electors, and, notwithstanding his feeble condition, he secured his election by a majority of twenty-six votes. A partial reconciliation took place between him and Macdonald, but the old feeling was still strong. While in England, Sir Allan had been consulted by the home government on the subject of colonial defences. For the advice he gave he was made an honorary colonel of the British army. He was also accorded the rank of an honorary aide-de-camp to the Queen, an honor that is never lightly given, and in that capacity he attended the Prince of Wales during the latter's visit to Canada in 1860. When the parliamentary session of 1862 opened, Sir Allan was chosen as the first elective speaker of the legislative council. Failing health and general prostration, however, had done their work, and he was unable to perform the duties of his office. In the declining days of the session he was too ill to be in his place. When prorogation came in June, he was barely able to get to his home in Hamilton, and six weeks later he died. Throughout his lifetime he had been a zealous member of the Church of England, but just after his death his sisterin-law, who had attended him during his closing years, declared that he had died in the Roman Catholic faith, and, as she was the executrix of the estate, by her order he was buried in Roman Catholic ground and according to Roman Catholic rites. This incident created great excitement, and became the subject of controversy in the newspapers. Many men in political and legal life refused to attend the body of their friend to the grave. Sir Allan married in 1831, as his second wife, Mary Stuart, elder daughter of the sheriff of Johnstown district. She died in 1846, leaving two daughters, Sophia Mary, who, in 1855, became the wife of William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury, who sits as Baron Ashford in the house of lords, and Mary Stuart, who married, in 1861, a son of the late Sir Dominick Daly. MCNAIR, Alexander, first governor of Missouri, b. in Derry township, Lancaster (now Dauphin) co., Pa., in 1774; d. in St. Louis, Mo., 18 March, 1826. He was educated in Derry, and then spent one term at Philadelphia college (now University of Pennsylvania), when he was called home by the death of his father. His mother agreed that whoever of her sons should be the victor in a fair encounter should become the owner of the homestead. Alexander, who was the eldest, received a severe whipping at the hands of a younger brother, to whom he afterward acknowledged that he owed the honor of being governor of Missouri. |