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72 Staten Island, 16 Feb., 1890. In 1827 he became a civil engineer, engaging chiefly on the construction of canals and other hydraulic works. Subsequently he was engineer of the eastern division of the Erie canal enlargement until June, 1846, when he became chief engineer of the construction of the dry dock of the U. S. navy-yard in Brooklyn. He was elected state engineer of New York in 1853, and in 1854-'6 was state railroad commissioner. Later he was for two years acting president and engineer of the Erie railroad, after which he was chief engineer of roads in the west. The original water-works in Albany, N. Y., and in Chicago, Ill., were designed and constructed under his supervision, and he was associated in the building of other similar works. In 1870, at the request of the Austrian government, he presented plans for the improvement of the cataracts of the Danube river. After that time his advice was frequently sought on important engineering projects throughout the United States. He published valuable reports and was president of the American society of civil engineers in lS68-'9.

McANALLY, David Rice, clergyman, b. in Granger county. Tenn., 17 Feb., 1810. He was educated by private teachers, and at the age of nineteen entered the conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Abingdon, Va., as an itinerant preacher. He travelled for twelve years in the circuits and districts of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, was for three years the editor of a secular paper in North Carolina, and in 1843 became president of the East Tennessee female institute, Knoxville. He conducted this school for eight years, during four of which he edited a religious journal. In 1851 he became editor of the "Christian Advocate" in St. Louis, Mo., and superintendent of the Methodist book concern there. Besides sermons and addresses, he has published tracts on educational and controversial subjects, and was long associated with Horace Mann in efforts to improve the common-school system. He is also the author of "Life of Martha Laurens Ramsay" (St. Louis, 1852); "Life and Times of Rev. William Patton" (1856): "Life and Times of Rev. Dr. Samuel Patton" (1857); "Life and Labors of Bishop Marvine" (1878); and "History of Methodism in Missouri" (1881).

MacARTHUR, Arthur, jurist, b. in Glasgow, Scotland. 26 Jan., 1815. He came to this country when a child with his parents, spent a year in Wesleyan university, Conn., studied law in New York, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He began practice in Springfield, Mass.. and in 1843 was appointed public administrator for the county of Hampden, and judge-advocate for the western division of the militia. In 1849 he removed to Milwaukee, Wis., and in 1851 was elected city attorney of that city, in which office he served one term. In 1855 he was elected lieutenant-governor of the state and served a part of his time as governor during a vacancy that was created by the resignation of Gov. Barstow. In 1857 he was elected judge of the 2d judicial circuit, and he was re-elected in 1863. He was appointed a U. S. commissioner to the Paris exposition of 1867. In 1870 he was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, which place he resigned on 1 April, 1887, under the act of congress permitting Federal judges to retire on full pay after reaching the age of seventy. He has been for many years president of the Washington humane society, and occupies a similar post in the associated charities for the district. He is also president of the board of regents of the National university at Washington. Judge MacArthur has published four volumes of reports containing the more important decisions of his court (Washington, 1875 et seq.), and is the author of "Education in its Relation to Manual Industry" (New York, 1884). He has now (1888) nearly ready for publication a work called the "Biography of the English Language." He has for many years delivered lectures on historical and literary subjects which will probably be gathered into a volume soon.

MacARTHUR, Charles Lafayette, journalist, b. in Claremont. N. H., 7 Jan., 1824. He was educated in Watertown, N. Y., learned there the printer's trade, became editor and proprietor of the " Carthaginian," printed in Carthage, N. Y., and was afterward a reporter for the Detroit " Free Press." About 1842 he removed to Milwaukee, and became the first editor of the "Sentinel." In 1846-'7 he was city editor of the New York " Sun." He next joined John M. Francis in the purchase of the Troy " Budget," for which he wrote letters from Europe in 1851, and from the southern states in 1856, that attracted much attention. In 1859 he established the Troy "Daily Arena," which he sold in the spring of 1861 in order to go to the war, in which he served first as lieutenant and quartermaster of the 2^ New York volunteers, and afterward as captain and assistant quartermaster in the regular army. In the autumn of 1864 he established the Troy "News," one of the earliest Sunday newspapers except those published in New York city. In 1866 he sold the "News," having become one of the editors and proprietors of the Troy "Daily Whig." and in March, 1869, he revived, as a Sunday newspaper, the Troy "Northern Budget." For some years prior to 1886 he was the proprietor of the Troy "Daily Telegram." In 1881-'3 he was a member of the New York state senate.

McARTHUR, Duncan, soldier, b. in Dutchess county, N.Y., 14 June, 1772; d. near Chillicothe, Ohio, 28 April, 1839. His family removed to the western frontier of Pennsylvania when he was eight years old, and at the age of eighteen he volunteered in Gen. expedition against the Miami Indians. He participated as a ranger or scout with the Indians of Kentucky and Ohio until Gen. 's victory over them in 1794. Soon afterward he settled as a surveyor near Chillicothe, and acquired large wealth in land. He was a member of the Ohio legislature in 1805, and in 1808 became major-general of the territorial militia. In the beginning of the war with Great Britain he was commissioned colonel of the 1st Ohio volunteers, 7 May, 1812, and was second in command at Detroit when Gen. surrendered After the Americans had established themselves on the Canadian side of Detroit river he led a foraging-party that captured provisions from the settlement on the Thames, and in a reconnoissance toward Fort Malden narrowly escaped being cut off by Tecumseh's