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Rh McGUIRE, Hunter Holmes, physician, b. in Winchester, Va., 11 Oct.. lH'So. He is the son of a physician, and was educated at Wincliester academy, and studied medicine at the Medical col- lege of Virginia, the medical schools in Philadel- phia and New Orleans, and Winchester medical college, from which he received his diploma in 1855. He practised first in Winchester, holding the chair of anatomy in the Medical college from 1856 till 1858, when he removed to Philadelphia. In the beginning of the civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army, was soon promoted to the post of medical director of the Army of the Shenandoah Valley, and was afterward medical director of the 2d army corps. In 1865 he was elected professor of surgery in Virginia medical college, Richmond, which chair he held till 1880. In 1885 he was made professor emeritus in that institution. Dr. McGuire organized, in connection with his large general surgical practice, St. Luke's home for the sick in Richmond, with a training-school for nurses. He was president of the Association of Confederate medical officers in 1869, and of the Virginia medical society in 1873, vice-president of the International medical congress in 1876, and of the American medical association in 1881, and president of the American surgical association in 1887. The University of North Carolina in 1887 gave him the degree of LL. D. He has published in medical journals various papers, an account of the circumstances of the wounding and death of Gen. Stonewall Jackson, whom he attended. He has contributed to John Ashhursfs " International Cyclopaedia of Surgery " (1884) ; William Pepper's " System of Medicine " (Philadelphia, 1885-7) ; and the American edition of Holmes's " Surgery."

MACHEBŒUF, Joseph. R. C. bishop, b. in Riom, France, 11 Aug., 1812 ; d. in Denver, Col., 10 July, 1889. He received his early education in the schools and in the College of Riom, studied philoso- phy and theology in the Sulpician seminary of Mont- ferran, and was ordained in 1836. He then spent three years in missionary labor in France, and in 1839, at the request of Archbishop Purcell, came to the United States, where he labored ten years in the diocese of Cincinnati, and then in New Mexico un- til 1860, part of the time serving as vicar-general. He was next sent to Colorado, where he was thrown from his carriage while descending a spur of the Rocky mountains, and lamed for life. He was appointed vicar-general of the territory, built the first church in Denver, and gi'adually formed par- ishes, erecting other churches and obtaining priests for them. In 1868 he had built eighteen churches in the territory, besides founding a convent of the Sisters of Loretto, and an academy and a school for boys in Denver. He was consecrated bishop of Epiphania in partibvs iiifidelium, and vicar- apostolic of Colorado on 16 Aug., 1868. His vicari- ate embraced Colorado and Utah. The Roman Catholic population, which originally consisted of a few thousand half-civilized Mexicans and miners, at the date of his death exceeded 50,000.

MACHEN, Willis Benson, senator, b. in Cald- well county, Ky., 5 April, 1810. He received a common-school education, became a farmer, and in 1849 was sent to the State constitutional conven- tion. In 1853 he was a member of the state senate, and in 1856 and 1860 of the state house of repre- sentatives. He was sent to the 1st Confederate congress from Kentucky, being re-elected to the 2d congress, and serving from 22 Feb., 1862, till April, 1864. On the death of Garrett Davis he was appointed United States senator from Kentucky, and served from 2 Dec, 1872, till 3 March, 1873.

McHENRY, James, statesman, b. in Ireland, 16 Nov., 1753; d. in Baltimore, Md., 3 May, 1816. He received a classical education in Dublin, subse- quently, on account of delicate health, made a voy- age to this country, and came to Philadelphia about 1771. He induced his father to emigrate, and after following his studies in New- ark, Del., he studied medicine under Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia, and subsequently accom- panied Washington to the camp at Cam- bridge. He joined the army as assistant surgeon in January, 1776, in a short time he was appointed medical director, and subsec[uently surgeon to the 5th Pennsyl- vania battalion. He was made prisoner at Fort Washington, and was not exchanged until the spring of 1778. On 15 May of that year he became secretary to Washington, and his relations with the latter continued through life to be those of a trusted friend and adviser. Dr. McIIenry held this office until 1780, and then was transferred to the staff of Lafayette, where he remained till the close of the war. He was in the Maryland senate in 1781-'6, in 1783 was appointed to congress in place of Ed- ward Giles, and held office until 1786. double duty in the state and continental legislatures being cus- tomary at that time. He became a member of the U. S. constitutional convention the next year, was the first of the delegates from Maryland to take his seat, and was a regular attendant, although he took little part in debate. He afterward labored to secure the ratification of the constitution, and was successful, notwithstanding the powerful op- position of Luther Martin and Samuel Chase. He was repeatedly re-elected to the Maryland legisla- ture until he became a member of Washington's cabinet as secretary of war in January, 1796. in place of Timothy Pickering, who was promoted to secretary of state, holding office throughout his administration and under President Adams until 1801. After that service he retired from public life. Fort McHenry was named in his honor.

McHENRY, James, physician, b. in Lame, County Anti'im, Ireland. 20 Dec, 1785 ; d. there, 21 Juiy, 1845. He was the son of a cloth-merchant, who died when the son was but a lad. He was graduated in medicine at the college in Dublin, and also received a diploma from the college at Glasgow. He began practice at Larne, then removed to Belfast, where he also carried on a drug business until he came to the United States in 1817. After living in Baltimore, Md., and Pittsburg, Pa., he came in 1824 to Philadelphia, where he practised medicine and carried on a mercantile business. From 1842 till his death he was U. S. consul at Londonderry. He was of a romantic disposition, early developed considerable poetic genius, and became noted for his rural stanzas in Ireland, and, on coming to this country, took deeper interest in literary works than in the business of his profession. His house in Philadelphia was much frequented by literary men. His ear- liest publication in the United "States was "The Pleasures of Friendship " (1822), which poem, with