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 M GLENEN. MCINTIRE. 403 gave much of his time and services in be- half of that gentleman. In 1866 he relin- quished printing entirely, and took charge of the concert tour of Parepa Rosa, the great cantatrice. The following year he took the Mendelssohn Quintette Club on an extended tour West, and in the spring of 1868 the H anions secured his services as manager for their season at Selwyn's Theatre, and he was retained in the same capacity the three following yeais by Messrs. Selwyn and Arthur Cheney. In 187 1 he became business agent of the Boston Theatre, in which position he still remains, and is not only held in the highest esteem by the proprietor and the local patrons of the theatre, but is one of the best known theatrical men in the country, possessing the confidence and re- spect of all with whom he is brought into business relations. Not only is he a repre- sentative of play-house interests, but he is MclNTIRE, Charles John, son of Ebenezer and Amelia Augustine (Landais) Mclntire, was born in Cambridge, Middle- sex county, March 26, 1842. His ancestors on both sides were peo- ple of patriotic instincts, and among them were men noted for legal knowledge and literary attainments. His father's ancestors moved from Salem to Oxford (now Charl- HENRY A M'GLENEN. identified with many matters of public af- fair — ready and foremost to assist in an)' movement in which the public-spirited are called to lend a hand. He is president of the " Massachusetts Volunteers in Mexico ;" vice-president of the National Association of Mexican Vet- erans, and member of the Press and Athletic clubs. CHARLES J. MclNTIRE ton), Worcester county, in 1733, and were among the first town officers. His mother is a lineal descendant in the fifth genera- tion of the Hon. John Read, a distinguished lawyer and citizen of Boston in colonial days. Her father was a French exile and United States artillery officer, whose uncle, Colonel Tousard, served with Lafayette in the American revolution. She was born in Fort Moultrie, S. C, while her father was in command. His education was obtained in the pub- lic schools of Cambridge, including the high school. This was supplemented by in- struction by private tutors, and attendance upon the Chapman Hall school of Boston, and the Harvard law school at Cambridge. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 1865, after finishing his legal studies in the office of Ex-Mayor Dana of Charlestown. This course of study was not without in- terruption. He enlisted as a private in the