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 MCPHERSON. MEAD. 405 Mr. McMillin was married in Cortland, N. Y., June 9, 1881, to Annie, daughter of Merton M. and Elizabeth (Beden) Waters. Of this union were two children : Ralph Edward and Elizabeth Ida McMillin. Mcpherson, ebenezer martin, son of John and Elizabeth (Martin) McPher- son, was born in Shelburne, N. S., October 24, 1836. He was educated in the public schools of Boston. His first connection in business was with Henry Rice, stock and real estate broker. Subsequently he was with Peters & Chase, tea dealers. Since 1867 he has been a dealer in bank safes and locks. Mr. McPherson was married in East Boston, June 8, 1863, to Emily C, daugh- ter of George and Sarah (Cannon) Sturte- vant. Of this union are two children : George Sturtevant and Henry Stephens McPherson. He was again married in Winthrop, October 9, 1S89, to Elizabeth Russell, daughter of William and Emily (Day) Drowne. Mr. McPherson has been for many years vice-president and treasurer of the Boston Young Men's Christian Association ; man- ager of the Little Wanderers' Home; super- intendent of the Presbyterian Sunday- school, East Boston ; director of the Asso- ciated Charities ; treasurer of the No- License League of Massachusetts ; many years on the Republican city committee ; two years on the Republican state central committee ; a member of the House of Representatives 1876 and '78 ; a member of the governor's council 1887 and '88; was a director of the First Ward National Bank, and is a trustee of the East Boston Savings Bank. He has recently been ap- pointed by Governor Ames as one of the state commissioners of foreign mortgage corporations. MEAD, EDWIN D., son of Bradley and Sarah (Stone) Mead, was born in Chester- field, Cheshire county, N. H, September 29, 1849. The years 1875— '79 he passed in Europe, studying chiefly at the universities of Cam- bridge and Leipzig ; but the greater part of his life has been spent in Boston, where, for nine years previous to his studies in Europe, he was engaged in the service of the publishing house of Ticknor & Fields. His early purpose was to prepare him- self for the ministry of the Episcopal church, and his earlier writings were upon religious subjects. While in Europe he contributed to American magazines various articles on the English broad church- men. In 1876 he withdrew from the Episcopal church on doctrinal grounds, and has remained independent in religion, with views essentially those of Emerson and Parker. He continued, however, to take an active interest in religious move- ments, editing, in 1881, a collection of the sermons of the Rev. Stopford Brooke, and frequently writing and speaking on relig- ious questions. His own first published work upon "The Philosophy of Carlyle " was issued in 1881. In 1884 he published "Martin Luther; a Study of Reformation." His first lectures in Boston were upon " German Religious Thought." He has been an active member of the Free Religious Association, addressing the association, in 1883, on " Emerson, and the Doctrine of Evolution," and in 1888 on "The Present Revolution in Religion." Of late he has, however, addressed him- self more to philosophical, historical and political subjects. He was one of the lec- turers at the Concord School of Philosophy, and has had classes in philosophy in Bos- ton. Much of the time during recent win- ters he has given to platform speaking, chiefly upon historical and literary sub- jects : "The American Poets," "The Pil- grim Fathers," etc.