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 MoLEAN McLEOD 797 1870 were 26,984 bushels of wheat, 271,508 of Indian corn, 50,506 of oats, 2,262,037 Ibs. of tobacco, 17,580 of wool, and 61,665 of butter. There were 1,919 horses, 481 mules and asses, 1,533 milch cows, 3,148 other cattle, 7,347 sheep, and 14,528 swine ; 2 flour mills, and 3 saw mills. Capital, Calhoun. II. A central county of Illinois, drained by tributaries of the Illinois river; area, 1,132 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 53,988. Much of the surface is prairie, and the soil is very fertile. It is traversed by the Illinois Central and other railroads. The chief productions in 1870 were 212,756 bushels of wheat, 39,824 of rye, 3,723,379 of Indian corn, 911,127 of oats, 36,072 of barley, 219,558 of potatoes, 116,738 Ibs. of wool, 887,578 of but- ter, and 71,742 tons of hay. There were 19,943 horses, 11,663 milch cows, 27,202 oth- er cattle, 25,232 sheep, and 62,007 swine; 5 manufactories of agricultural implements, 5 of brick, 20 of carriages, 1 of cars, 4 of iron castings, 4 of machinery, 11 of saddlery and harness, 2" of sash, doors, and blinds, 13 of tin, copper, and sheet-iron ware, 1 of woollen goods, 1 distillery, 3 breweries, and 13 flour mills. Capital, Bloomington. McLEAN, John, an American jurist, born in Morris co., N. J., March 11, 1785, died in Cin- cinnati, April 4, 1861. In 1789 his father, a poor man with a large family, removed to Morganstown, Va., thence to a place near Nicholasville, Ky., and finally in 1799 to what is now Warren co., Ohio. Here the son la- bored on the farm until 16 years of age. In 1803 he went to Cincinnati to study law, and in 1807 was admitted to the bar and com- menced practice at Lebanon, Warren co., 0. He represented his district, which then in- cluded Cincinnati, in congress from 1813 to 1816, being unanimously reflected in 1814. He supported the Madison administration, ori- ginated the law to indemnify individuals for property lost in the public service, and intro- duced an inquiry as to pensioning the widows of fallen officers and soldiers. He was a judge of the supreme court of Ohio from 1816 to 1822, when he was appointed by President Monroe commissioner of the general land of- fice. In July, 1823, he was appointed post- master general. The post office department was then in a very disordered and inefficient condition, but it was restored to order and ef- ficiency under his administration. By a nearly unanimous vote of the senate and house the postmaster general's salary was raised from $4,000 to $6,000 a year. In 1829, having de- clined the war and navy departments, which were offered to him by President. Jackson, he resigned the office of postmaster general and was appointed associate justice of the supreme court of the United States. In this capacity his charges to grand juries while on circuit are distinguished for ability and eloquence. One of the most noted of these was delivered in December, 1838, in regard to aiding or favor- ing unlawful military combinations by our cit- izens against any foreign government or peo- pie with whom we are at peace, with special reference to the Canadian insurrection and its American abettors. In the Dred Scott case (1857) he dissented from the decision of the court as given by Chief Justice Taney, and ex- pressed the opinion that slavery had its origin merely in power, and was against right, and in this country sustained only by local law. His name was before the free-soil convention at Buffalo in 1848 as a candidate for nomina- tion as president, and in the republican nation- al convention at Philadelphia in 1856 he re- ceived 196 votes for the same office to 359 for Col. Fremont. In the republican convention at Chicago in 1860 he also received a number of votes. He was the author of several vol- umes of "Reports of the United States Cir- cuit Court," and several published addresses. McLEJOAN, a central county of Texas, inter- sected by the Brazos river; area, 960 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 13,500, of whom 4,627 were col- ored. Its surface is undulating, the river and creek bottoms well timbered, oak, cedar, and elm being abundant, and the soil of the bot- toms and the prairie exceedingly fertile. A branch of the Houston and Texas Central rail- road terminates at the county seat. The chief productions in 1870 were 11,711 bushels of wheat, 502,500 of Indian corn, 10,753 of oats, 21,280 of sweet potatoes, and 8,829 bales of cotton. There were 7,506 horses, 3,774 milch cows, 21,988 other cattle, 7,129 sheep, and 14,471 swine. Capital, Waco. McLEOD, a S. central county of Minnesota, watered by the S. fork of Crow river; area, 504 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 5,643. The surface is undulating and the soil productive. It is traversed by the Hastings and Dakota rail- road. The chief productions in 1870 were 149,451 bushels of wheat, 48,381 of Indian corn, 96,487 of oats, 10,914 of barley, 31,855 of potatoes, 11,470 Ibs. of wool, 168,438 of butter, and 16,932 tons of hay. There were 1,102 horses, 2,483 milch cows, 4,141 other cattle, 3,489 sheep, and 2,492 swine ; 1 flour mill, and 2 saw mills. Capital, Glencoe. McLEOD. I. Alexander, an American clergy- man, born in the island of Mull, Scotland, June 12, 1774, died in New York, Feb. 17, 1833. Emigrating to the United States in 1792, he joined the Reformed Presbyterian church, entered Union college, and graduated in 1798. In 1799 he was licensed as a preacher, and two years afterward was ordained and in- stalled in the charge of the first Reformed church in New York, and of one in Wallkill, Orange co., N. Y. The latter he soon after resigned; but his connection with the New York congregation lasted till his death. He was an assistant editor of the "Christian Magazine." His principal works are : " Negro Slavery Unjustifiable " (New York, 1802 ; new ed., 1860); "Ecclesiastical Catechism " (1807); " Lectures upon the Principal Prophecies of the Revelation " (1814) ; " View of the late War "