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 784 McGEE MACGREGOR aided in the compilation of "Redford's His- tory of the Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South." McGEE, Thomas D'Arey, an Irish journalist, born in Oarlingford, Ireland, April 13, 1825, assassinated in Ottawa, Canada, April 7, 1868. In 1842 he emigrated to America, taking up his residence in Boston, where he became a con- tributor to and soon editor of " The Pilot," a Roman Catholic newspaper. In 1845 he re- turned to Great Britain, and became parlia- mentary correspondent of the Dublin "Free- man's Journal." The repeal movement of 1846 having failed, McGee became a leading writer for the Dublin "Nation," and was sec- retary of the "Irish Confederation," an asso- ciation which disapproved of O'ConnelPs pol- icy. In 1848 McGee again came to the United States, where for nine years he published a newspaper, at first called " The New York Na- tion" and afterward "The American Celt," devoted mainly to the interests of adopted citi- zens. He also delivered numerous lectures, and established societies to promote emigra- tion and naturalization. In 1857 he removed to Montreal, Canada, where he established a tri- weekly newspaper, " The New *Era." He was soon elected a member of the provincial parliament, and was subsequently returned at each successive election until his death. He was twice a member of the colonial ministry as sec- retary for agriculture and emigration, and once as president of the executive council. He was an early advocate of the confederation of the British American colonies, and framed the draft of the plan of union which has been substan- tially carried into effect. He was returning from a night session of parliament, when he was shot at the door of his hotel by a man named Whealen, in consequence, it is supposed, of his opposition to the Fenian movement. McGee wrote numerous works, including " His- tory of the Irish Settlers in North America, from the earliest period to 1850 " (Boston, 1851) ; " History of Attempts to establish the Protestant Reformation in Ireland " (1853) ; "Sketches of O'Connell and his Friends" (1854) ; " Catholic History of North America, and the Relations of Ireland and America" (1855) ; " Popular History of Ireland " (2 vols. 8vo, New York, 1863); and "Speeches and Addresses on the British American Union " (London, 1865). A volume of his poems has been published with an introduction by Mrs. Sadlier (New York, 1870). MaeGEOGHEGAN, James, an Irish historian, born near Mullingar, county Westmeath, about 1698, died in Paris, probably in 1760. He was the son of a farmer, was educated for the church at Rheims and took holy orders, was attached to a church in Paris, and became chaplain of the famous Irish brigade. At the request of several exiled nobles and chiefs in the brigade, he wrote his " History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern," published in French (1758 ; English translation by Patrick O'Kelly, 3 vols., Dublin, 1835; 1 vol., 1844). It has been reprinted in New York, with a continua- tion from the treaty of Limerick to a recent date, by John Mitchel (1868). McGILLIVRAY, Alexander, a chieftain of the Creek or Muscogee Indians, born on the Coosa river near the present site of Wetumpka, Ala., about 1740, died in Pensacola, Feb. 17, 1793. He was the son of Lachlan McGillivray, a Scotch Indian trader, and the half-breed daugh- ter of a French officer. He was educated in Charleston, and at one time was placed in a counting house in Savannah, but returned on arriving at manhood to his Muscogee relatives. He rose to a high position among the united tribes of Creeks and Seminoles, and at the breaking out of the American revolution was their recognized head. During the war the McGillivrays, father and son, were zealous ad- herents of the royal cause. After its close Alexander McGillivray, in behalf of the Mus- cogee confederacy, entered into an alliance with Spain, of which government he was made a commissary. He diverted the trade of the Creeks to Pensacola, and for several years baf- fled the efforts of the United States government to recover it. At length, in 1790, he visited New York, and signed a treaty ceding certain disputed lands on the Oconee, and by a secret article was appointed agent for the United States and brigadier general in the army. Thia treaty diminished his influence with the Creeks, but he succeeded in obtaining an increase of salary and of authority from the Spanish gov- ernment. His hospitality and generosity were almost princely. His deportment was that of a polished gentleman ; and his published corre- spondence affords evidence of his intelligence and skill as a politician. He was a brother- in-law of Le Clerc Milfort, and an uncle of William Weatherford. MeGILLIVRAY, William, a Scottish naturalist, born in the isle of Harris in 1796, died in Aber- deen, Sept. 5, 1852. In 1823 he was appointed assistant professor of natural history in the university of Edinburgh, and subsequently con- servator of the museum of the royal college of surgeons. In 1841 he was made professor of natural history in Marischal college, Aberdeen, which office he held till his death. He pub- lished "Lives of Eminent Zoologists" (1834); " History of British Birds " (1837-'52) ; " Mam- malia " (vol. vii. of Jardine's " Naturalist's Li- brary," 1838); "Manual of Geology" (1839); "Manual of Botany" (1840; new ed., 1853); "Molluscous and Cirripedal Animals of Scot- land " (1843) ; and a number of papers on nat- ural history. At the time of his death he was engaged on a work entitled " The Natural His- tory of Dee-side and Braemar," illustrative of the vicinity of the royal residence at Balmoral. The manuscript was purchased by the queen, who caused it to be printed in 1856. MACGREGOR, John, a British statistician, born at Stornoway, Ross-shire, in 1797, died in Bou- logne, April 23, 1857. At an early age he was