Mcclellan (II)
2026 Editor's Note: This passage is written in a phonetic dialect used to caricature Black speech — a convention that is offensive by today's standards. It has been left exactly as printed to preserve the historical record of how such caricature appeared in everyday books. (Ed: ET 2026-07-22) GEORGE BRINTON, son of Gen. McClellan, named above. Graduate of Princeton. Admitted to the bar, 1892. President New York Board of Aldermen, 1893-1894. United States Congressman, 1895-1903. From 1903 to 1909 he was Mayor of New York City. He was a member of the staff of Princeton University as Stafford lecturer and professor of economic history from 1912. He wrote "The Heel of War" (1915).
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Mcclernand
JOHN ALEXAN- DER, an American soldier and lawyer; born in Breckenridge co., Ky., May 30, 1812; admitted to the bar in 1832; in same year volunteered against the Sae member of the and Fox Indians; was Illinois Legislature in 1837-1842; and of Congress, 1843-1851; re-elected in 1858. At the commencement of the Civil War he joined the Union forces and was made a Brigadier-General of volunteers. For his services at Fort Donelson he was promoted Major-General. He also took part in the battle of Belmont and led a division at Shiloh. He relieved Sherman in command of the army before Vicksburg in 1863. He led the 13th Army Corps till July, 1863, and resigned in November, 1864. He was district judge for the Sangamon, Ill., district in 1870-1873. He died in Springfield, Ill., Sept. 20, 1900. MacCLINTOCK, SIR FRANCIS LEO- POLD, a British naval officer and Arctic explorer; born in Dundalk, Ireland, of his career in 1819. At an early period eriod he devoted his attention to the problem of the Arctic N. W. passage, and succeeded, in the course of several voyages to the North Pole, in making many and important discoveries, besides ascertain- . He ing the fate of Sir John Franklin wrote "Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and His Companions" (1860). He was commander-in-chief of the North American and West Indian Station in 1879-1882; was knighted in 1891. He died Nov. 17, 1907.
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Mccloskey
JOHN, an American Roman Catholic prelate; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 20, 1810. In 1834 he was ordained priest; in 1844 was made coadjutor of the diocese of New York; in 1847 was transferred to the see of Albany; in 1864 was made Archbishop of New York; in 1875 was appointed cardinal-priest. The history of his life is the history of the progress of the Roman Catholic Church in New York. He died in New York City, Oct. 10, 1885.
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Mccook
ALEXANDER MCDOW- ELL, an American military officer; born in Columbiana co., O., April 22, 1831; was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1853; was in command of the 1st Ohio Volunteers at the battle of Bull Run and was brevetted major; was made Brigadier-General of volunteers in September, 1861, and Major-General in 1862. He made a brilliant record in many famous battles of the Civil War, was brevetted Brigadier-General U. S. A., in 1865. In 1880 he became colonel of the 6th Infantry and subsequently was placed in charge of the military school at Fort Leavenworth; was promoted Brigadier-General, U. S. A., in 1890; Major-General in 1894; and was retired April 22, 1895. He died June 12, 1903. JOHN MCCORMACK
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Mccormack
JOHN, a tenor singer; born in Athlone, Ireland. Almost all his early training he received from the choirmaster of Dublin Cathedral, with whom he was associated from 1903-1905. After his successful appearance in "Cavalleria Rusticana" at Covent Garden, London, in 1907, Oscar Hammerstein brought him to America, where he achieved an enormous popular success, especially on the concert platform. In 1912 he went to Australia with the Melba Grand Opera Company. He sang with the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company in New York in 1919-1920. During the World War Mr. McCormack sung at hundreds of benefits; and by his services raised large amounts of money. He became a citizen of the United States in 1917.
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Mccormick
CYRUS HALL, an American inventor; born in Walnut Grove, W. Va., Feb. 15, 1809. The reap- 411 CYRUS HALL MCCORMICK ing machine invented by him won him many gold medals and distinctions. He established the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago, 1859. He died in Chicago, Ill., May 13, 1884.
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Mccormick
JOSEPH MEDILL, a U. S. Senator; born at Chicago May 16, 1877. Graduated from Yale University in 1900. He became Vice-President and publisher of the Chicago "Daily Tribune" and President of the City Press Association. He identified himself with the Progressive party and, under the leadership of Roosevelt, took an active part in organizing the new party. When most of the Progressives returned to the Republican party he did the same, and was elected to the House of Representatives on the Republican ticket in 1917 as Congressman-at-large for the State of Illinois. He was elected to the Senate in 1919.
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Mccormick (II)
VANCE CRISWELL, American newspaper publisher; born in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1872. He graduated from Yale, then became publisher of the "Patriot" and the "Evening News" of his native city. He was mayor of the city in 1902-1905 and Democratic candidate for governor of the State in 1914. In 1916 he was chairman of the Democratic National Campaign Committee. In 1917 he was chairman of the War Trade Board, and was a member of the U. S. War Mission to Great Britain and France. MCCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMI- NARY, a Presbyterian divinit school located at Chicago, Ill. Cyrus H. McCormick endowed the school in 1859 and gave it its present location, and the Seminary assumed its present name in 1886 after the death of McCormick. In 1905 Mrs. McCormick and her sons further increased the endowment by a million dollars. The Seminary has 13 buildings, among which is a library with upward of 40,000 volumes. These are valued, todollars, and the endowment fund has with the grounds, at million now reached two millions. The Seminary charges no fees for tuition or lodging.
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