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NAME MACMONAGLE 751 MACNEVEN Great Britain ; smoothed the way for mis- sionaries and preserved his integrity when endowed with absolute power as chief factor of the Hudson Bay Company west of the Rocky Mountains, yet — the story is too long to give here — he said when near death "I might better have been shot forty years ago. I planted all I had here and the government has confiscated my estates." Worried by mendacity and ingratitude he died a broken- hearted man, at Oregon City, September 3, 1857, and was buried among the Roman Cath- olics, he having joined their church in middle life. Dr. John McLoughlin. Frederick V. Holman, 1907. Marcus Whitman. Myron Eells, 1909. MacMonagle, Beverly (1855-1912) Beverly MacMonagle, pioneer gynecologist of San Francisco, was born October 17, 1855, in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of Hugh MacMonagle. He was educated at Harvard University, graduating from the Harvard Medical School in 1876, at the age of twenty-one. For two years he served as interne in the Massachusetts General Hos- pital, in Boston, then returned to his home in St. John, where he engaged in the prac- tice of his profession until 1880, when he went to California, as assistant to Dr. Scott, at the California Woman's Hospital. MacMonagle lived and practised in Cali- fornia for thirty-three years, until his death and was prominently identified with the med- ical life of that state. He was one of the first in San Francisco to practise gynecology as a specialty and ranked with the foremost gynecologists of his time. He was surgeon- in-chief to the Woman's Hospital of Cali- fornia, surgeon and gynecologist to the Hos- pital for Children and Women, San Fran- cisco; consulting surgeon to the German Hos- pital, San Francisco ; member of the San Francisco County Medical Society; California State Medical Society; California Academy of Medicine and a member of the Faculty of the University of CaHfornia until 1909. He was also a member of the American Gyneco- logical Society, the American Medical Asso- ciation, and an honorary member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. In 1890 MacMonagle married Minnie Cor- bitt, of San Francisco. Of the three chil- dren born to them, two died in childhood, a son, Douglas, surviving. Dr. MacMonagle died in Pairis, France, May 22, 1912. Trans. Amer. Gyn. Soc. Album of Fellows, 1901. Newspapers of San Francisco, 1912, MacNaughton, James (1796-1874) One of the founders of the City Hospital, Albany, New York, and surgeon-general of that state, James MacNaughton, who came over to the United States in 1817, lived here some fifty-seven years and became known as a leading surgeon. He was born on December 10, 1796, at Kenmore, Scotland, and entered Edinburgh University when sixteen. Graduating M. D., four years later he took a ship's surgeoncy and landed at Quebec, afterwards settling in Albany and remaining there the rest of his life, marrying the daughter of a Mr. Nicholas Mclntyre who had befriended him on arrival. When he was appointed professor of anat- omy and physiology in the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York the number of students in- creased from 100 to over 230 and the same success attended him when called to the chair of the theory and practice of medicine in Albany College. During the epidemic of Asiatic cholera in Albany, 1832, he was un- wearied in his efforts to check the disease and provide hospitals. He died in Paris of heart disease, while away on a holiday on the eleventh of June, 1874. Obit. Notice by Prof. W. J. Tucker. Trans, of the Med. Soc. of the State of New York. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1874, vol. xrx. MacneTen, William James (1763-1841) William James Macneven, the name being sometimes written Macnevin, was born at Ballynahowne, County Galway, Ireland, March 21, 1763, descendant of a race of country gentlemen living on their own estate, which was transmitted by the law of primogeniture from eldest son to eldest son. He was the oldest of four sons, and when ten years of age was sent for by his uncle. Baron (and Doctor) Macneven, court physician to Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria. The boy was educated partly in Prague and partly in Vienna and received a medical diploma at the University of Vienna in 1785. Then he estab- lished himself in active practice in the city of Dublin. Endowed with a genial personality, won- derful gift of speech and ability in organ- izing men, he pushed to the fore in the troublous times in Ireland, that culminated in the Order of United Irishmen in 1791. His arrest in 1798 for sedition, his imprisonment in Kilmainham prison and his removal to Fort George, Inverness, Scotland, when Rufus King, United States Ambassador at London,