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100 elector in 1864, and a member of the board of managers of the State hospital for the insane from 1863 till 1868, when he was chosen medical super- intendent of that institution. When elected as a Republican to congress he resigned that post, and took his seat on 1 Dec, 1873. "He was defeated at the next election by an Independent Reform can- didate, and when liis term ended, 4 March, 1875, resumed charge of the Madison insane hospital.

McDILL, James Wilson, senator, b. in Monroe, Ohio, 4 March, 1834; d. in Creston, 28 Feb., 1894. His father. Rev. John McDill, was of Scottish ex- traction. The son was brouglit up in Indiana and Ohio, graduated at Miami university in 1853, and admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, in 1856. In that year he removed to Burlington, Iowa, and in 1857 "to Afton, Union co., where he practised his profession. He was chosen judge of Union county in 1860, and in 1861-5 was a clerk in the treasury department at Washington. He became a circuit judge in Iowa in 1868, a district judge in 1870, and in 1872 was elected to congress as a Re- publican, serving till 1877. He was appointed one of the first board of railroad commissioners of Iowa in 1878, and served till 1881, when he was appointed to the U. S. senate, on the resignation of Samuel J. Kirkwood to become secretary of the interior. The succeeding legislature elected him to the seat, and he served till 1883. In 1884 he was again appointed railroad commissioner. McDonald, Alexander, senator, b. in Clinton county. Pa., 10 April, 1832. He was educated at Lewisburg university, and emigrated to Kansas in 1857, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. During the civil war he took an active part in rais- ing troops for the National army, and for a time supported three regiments. He settled in Arkansas as a merchant in 1863. established and became president of a national bank at Fort Smith, and was also president of the Merchants' national bank of Little Rock. On the readmission of Arkansas into the Union, he was elected U. S. senator as a Republican, serving from 23 June, 1868, till 3 March, 1871. He was a delegate to the Chicago Republican convention in 1868.

MACDONALD, Andrew Archibald, Canadian statesman, b. in Three Rivers, Prince Edward isl- and, 14 Feb., 1829. His grandfather, Andrew, emi- grated from Scotland with his retainers in 1806, and settled at Three Rivers. The grandson was edu- cated privately and at the county grammar-school. He was consular agent for the United States at Three Rivers from 1849 till 1870, and represented Georgetown in the house of assembly from 1854 till 1870. When the legislative council became elective in 1863, Mr. Macdonald was elected to it for the 2d district of King's county, re-elected in 1868, and remained a member of that body till June, 1873, when he was appointed postmaster- general of the province. He was a delegate to the Charlottetown conference on the union of the lower provinces in 1864, and in September of that year to the Quebec union conference, which ar- ranged the basis of the union of all the British North American colonies, and he was also a dele- gate to the International convention at Portland, Me., in 1868. He was a member of the executive council from 1867 till 1872, and again from 18 April, 1872, until confederation, and was leader of the government party in the legislative council for several years. He was first elected as a Liberal, but when the Conservative section of the party joined the Liberal branch of the Conservative party he united with them in perfecting the free education, land-purchase, railway, and confedera- tion acts. He was appointed lieutenant-governor of Prince Edward island in August, 1884, and became in Mav, 1891. a nioniber of the Dominion senate.

McDonald, Charles James, jurist, b. in Charleston, S. C, 9 July, 1793; d. in Marietta, Ga., 16 Dec, 1860. He was brought up in Hancock county, Ga., was graduated at the College of South Carolina in 1816, admitted to the bar in 1817, and, settling in Milledgeville, was solicitor-general in 1822, and a judge of the circuit court in 1825. He was in the legislature in 1834, a member of the state senate in 1837, and was elected governor of Georgia in 1839, and re-elected in 1841. The be- ginning of his administration found the govern- ment in a state of much financial embarrassment, owing to the panic of 1837, and to the legislative act of that year authorizing the counties to retain the general tax to be applied by the inferior courts to county purposes. He recommended a resump- tion of the entire amount of state taxes, vetoed the bill that had passed the legislature reducing the taxes one per cent., and on his own authority suspended all payments from the treasury, except upon appropriations actually made and warrants legally drawn thereon. This extreme measure enabled him to pay the ordinary expenses of the government and the interest on the public debt. He was defeated as Democratic candidate for gov- ernor by Howell Cobb in 1850, and the same year was a member of the Nashville convention, as a representative of the extreme state-rights party. From 1857 until his death he was a judge of the supreme court of Georgia. Gov. McDonald was a man of great probity and influence.

McDonald, Daniel, Canadian clergyman, b. in St. Andrew's, Prince Edward island, 19 Feb., 1822; d. in Charlottetown, 4 Jan.. 1885. He entered St. Andrew's college in 1841, and after a three years' course of study went to Rome, where he spent the succeeding seven years in the study of rhetoric, philosophy, history, canon law, and the- ology. He received the degree of D. D., was or- dained at Rome in 1851, and in 1857 returned to- Prince Edward island. In 1861 Dr. McDonald was appointed vicar-general and senior priest of St. Dunstan's cathedral. In 1878 he became a pro- fessor in St. Dunstan's college, and subsequent- ly engaged in missionary labor. He was widely known for his ability as a public speaker.

MACDONALD, Donald, loyalist, b. in Scotland in 1712; d. in London after 1784. He raised a body of loyal Scots and Regulators in January, 1776, was commissioned as their general by Gov. Josiah IMartin, and marched upon Wilmington. The militia were called out in haste, and routed the loyalists at Moore's Creek. Gen. Macdonald was among the prisoners captured, and was con- fined in Halifax jail, and afterward in Philadel- phia, until he was exchanged.

McDonald, Donald, Canadian senator, b. in Caledonia, N. Y., in 1816 ; d. in Toronto, Canada, 21 Jan., 1879. His father, Alexander McDonald, a native of Inverness-shire, Scotland, early in the 19th century settled in New York state, whence he removed to Canada with his family in 1823. His son received his education chiefly in Upper Canada college, and afterward followed for many years the profession of a surveyor and civil engineer, in which capacity he identified himself with the development of the western part of Upper Canada. Many of the early standard maps of the Huron and neighboring districts were drawn by him or under his supervision. Mr. McDonald was elected by the Liberal party to the legislative council of Canada in 1858, and "held that 'post till the confederation