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and navigation and canals introduced measures that resulted in the enlargement of the Erie canal and looked to the building of a ship water- way to complete the navigation of the great lakes in connection with the Erie canal. During his travels abroad lie gave to the Budget a succession of letters. He was a prominent member of the Grand Army of the Republic; served as president of the Rensselaer County Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument association, and principally through his efforts the $.')0,000 for the Troy monument was procured. He died in Troy, N.Y., Oct. 12, 1898.

McARTHUR, Duncan, soldier, was born in Dutchess county, N.Y., June 14. 1772. His pa- rents removed to the Pennsylvanian frontier in 1780, and in 1790 Duncan enlisted as a volun- teer in Oen. Josiah Harmar's exi)edition against the Miami Indians. He was engaged in Indian

warfare in Kentucky and Ohio, 1790-94, and subsequently set- tled near Chillicothe, Ohio, and engaged as a surveyor. He pur- chased a large tract of land near Chilli- cothe; was a repre- sentative in the state legislature,. 1804-05, 1815-16, 1817-18 and 1826-27, and speaker, 1817-18. He was elected major-gen- eral of the state militia in 1808, and was commissioned colonel of the 1st Ohio volun- teer regiment. May 7, 1812. He was second in command at the time General Hull surrendered Detroit, and led the foraging party that obtained provisions from the British st'ttlements on the IMiaraes river. Although absent at the time of Hull's surrender, he was included in the tertns and was released by excliange and commissioned brigadier-general, March 12, 1813. Upon the res- ijjnation of Gteneral Harrison, May 31, 1814, Mc- Artliur succeeded to the command of the North- western army. He formulated a plan for the conquest of Canada, and on Oct. 26, 1814, crossed the St. Clair river with 750 men and five field pieces, drove the militia from Oxford, Nov. 4, 1814, and reached Brantford, where he was con- fronted by a large force of British regulars and Indians. Ho turned southward, and u|>on reach- ing Dover learned that Gen. George Izard. whom he had countpd upon for supjK>rt. had wit)>drawn his troops from Cinarla. and he retreated to De- troit by way of St. Tliomas. discharged his troops at Sandwich. Nov. 17. 1814, and was mustered out, June 15, 1815. He was a Democratic repre-

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sentative in the 13th and 18th congresses, 1813-15 and 1823-25; governor of Ohio, 1830-32, and a candidate for representative in congress in 1833. He died near Chillicothe, Ohio, April 28, 1839.

McARTHUR, John, architect, was born in Bladenoch, Wigtownshire, Scotland, May 13, 1823. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1833, and settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where he studied architectural drawing. He served as foreman under his uncle in the construction of the Pennsylvania hospital; as architect and superintendent of the House of Refuge, Phila- delphia, Pa., in 1848, and as architect in charge of hospitals and government buildings in Phila- delphia, 1861-65. He secured the contract to design and construct the city hall in Philadelphia in 1869, and was architect of the post-office build- ing erected in Philadelphia in 1871. He declined the supervision of the architecture of the U.S. treasury building, Washington, D.C., 1S74; ex- amined and reported on the construction of the custom-house building at Chicago, III,, in 1875, and selected the plan for the new court-house at Boston, Mass., in 1885. Buildings of his design and supervision not enumerated, include the naval hospitals at Philadeli)hia. Pa., Annapolis, Md., and Mare Island, Cal.; the state hospitals for the insane at Danville and Warren, Pa.; Lafay- ette college at Easton, Pa.; the Continental, Gir- ard and Lafayette hotels, and the Public Ledger building, Philadelphia, Pa., and the town and country residences of George W. Childs. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 8, 1890.

McARTHUR, John, soldier, was born in Er- skine, Scotland, Nov. 17, 1826; son of John and Isabella (Neilson) McArthur. He attended the public schools and worked in his father's black- smith shop until 1849. He was married in 1848 to Christina Cuth- bertson, of Erskine, Scotland; immigrat- ed to the United States in 1849 and obtained employment in Chicago, 111., in 1849 as a boiler-maker and subsetiuently es- tablished a business of his own. He was captain of the *' High- land Guards" at- tached to the state militia, and in 1861 they volunteered and reported at Spring- field, where he was elected and commissioned colonel of the 12th Illinois volunteers. He com- manded the 1st brigade, 2d division of the army under Gen. U. S. Grant, at the assault on Fort

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