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150 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 1880-2. He patented two important inventions in telegra- phy in 1847, and was the first to span Niagara river with a telegraph-wire.

McMILLAN, James, senator, b. in Hamilton, Ontario, 12 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 car-wheel 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 company, 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. In 1889 he became U. S. senator, and was re-elected in 1895 for a second term.

McMillan, John, educator, b. in Fagg's Manor, Chester co.. Pa., 11 Nov., 1752; d. in Can- onsburg. Pa., 16 Nov., 1833. After graduation at Princeton in 1772 he studied theology, was licensed to preach in 1774, and performed missionary ser- vice 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 hard- ships, 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 institu- tion he received the degree of S. T. D. in 1805.

McMillan, Samuel James Renwick, jurist, b. in Brownsville, Pa., 22 Feb., 1826 ; d. 3 Oct., 1897. In early years he removed to Pittsburg, and was graduated in 1846 at Duquesne college in that city. 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, practis- ing 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 ap- pointed 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 sub- sequently elected for a full term. He was chosen to the U. S. senate as a Republican in 1875, and afterward i-e-elected for the tei-m that expired March, 1887. His judicial opinions are em- braced in " Minnesota Reports " (vols, ix.-xxi., in- clusive, St. Paul, 1864-'75).

McMILLEN, William Linn, soldier, b. in Hillsboro', Highland co., Ohio, 18 Oct., 1829. He was graduated at Starling medical college, Colum- bus, 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 ma- jor-general of A^olunteers on 16 Dec, 1864, and 13 March, 1865, respectively. He then became a plant- er in Louisiana, served several terms in the legis- lature, 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.

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, received the degree of D. D., and returned to Chicago. 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 tire. He then spent some time in Wilmington, 111., 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 high- school 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 edu- cation in London, and entered a mercantile house in Livei'pool. During the Tractarian movement in England he became a Roman Catholic, and, com- ing 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 ec- clesiastical 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. Ireland. 19 Sept., 1810; d. 19' May, 1894. 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 was the oldest clergyman