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 McCLURG

McCOMAS

1899, the establishment was wliully de^troyed by fire, and Mr. McClurg reestablislied the business in the interests of his faitiiful assistants and em- ployes and a large part of the capital stock of $600,000 was purchased by them and anotiter por- tion was distributed among them. In 1893 he was appointed by President Clevebind examiner at the U.S. Military academy, West Point, and in the same year Yale university conferred upon him the honorary degree of A.M. He is the author of : Memorial of Jefferson C Dams (1881), and contributions to leading periodicals. He died at St. Augustine. P'la., April 15, 1901.

McCLURQ, Joseph Washington, governor of Missouri, was born in St. Louis county, Mo., Feb. 22, 1818. He was brought upon a faim, and was graduated from Oxford college, Ohio, in 1835. Ue taught school in Louisiana and

Mississippi, 1835-36, studied law in Texas, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He returned to Missouri in 1844, and engaged in mercantile pur- suits. He was colonel of the Osage regi- ment in the Federal army and later of a cavalry regiment. He was a delegate to the y^ ^ yf Missouri state con-

/r 0.Mw-M^ ventions of 1861, ^ 1862 and 1863, and a Rei)ublican re- presentative in the 38th, 39th and 40th con- gresses, 1863-68, resigning in 1868. He was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Baltimore, June 7, 1864, and to tlie Loyalists' convention at Philadelphia, Pa., in 1866. He was elected governor of Missouri by the Republi- can party, serving 1869-71, and was defeated for a second term by Benjamin Gratz Brown in 1870. He was receiver of public moneys at Springfield, 1889-93. He died at Lebanon, Mo., Dec. 2, 1900. McCOID, Moses Ayers, representative, was born in Logan county, Oliio, Nov. 5, 1840 ; son of Robert and Jean (Bain) McCoid. His paternal grandfather, a native and at one time treasurer of county Dt)\vn. Ireland, emigrated to Amer- ica before 1800 and settled in Pennsylvania ; and his maternal ancestor. Quinton Bain, u native of Ayrshire, Scotland, and a schoolmate of Robert Burns, came to America, settled in Virginia, and served in the Virginia troops under General Washington during the Revolution. Moses A. McCoid attended the public schools of Ohio ; Fairfield university, Iowa. 18.54-56. and Wash- ington college. Pa., 1856-58, but was not grad-

uated. He returned to Jefferson county, Iowa, in 1858 ; studied law and was admitted to the bar in the spring of 1861. In May, 1861, he enlisted ill the 2d Iowa volunteer infantry, was promoted 2d lieutenant in 1862 and during the advance on Corinth, Miss., served as acting adjutant of the regiment. He was engaged in the battles of Fort Donelson, Sliiloh, Corinth, Bear Creek, Resaca and Oostenaula River, and was discharged at the expiration of his term, May 30, 1864. He was married, Sept. 7, 1863, to Helen, daughter of Thomas Ireland of Jacksonville. III. He settled in the practice of law at Fairfield, Iowa ; was at- torney for sixth judicial district of Iowa, 1867- 71 ; state senator from Jefferson county, 1872-79, and chairman of its judiciary committee, 1875- 79. He was a Republican representative from the first congressional district of Iowa in the 46tli, 47th and 48th congresses, 1879-85.

McCOLLESTER, Sullivan Holman, educator, was born at Marlborough, N.H., Dec. 18, 1820 ; son of Silas and Aclisah (Holman) McCollester ; grandson of Samuel and Silence McCollester. and a descendant of Scotch ancestors. He was graduated from Norwich university, Northfield, Vt., A.B., 1851, A.M., 1854 ; studied theology at the Harvard Divinity school and was pastor of Universalist churches at Swanzey, 1853-58, and Westmoreland, N.H,, 1858-62. He was president of the state board of commissioners, 1854-58 ; was principal of a seminary at Deering, Maine, 1862, and in 1864 he founded a female college there and was its president, 1864-72. He was president of Buchtel college, Akron, Ohio, 1872-78; and founded and was pastor of the Universalist church at Bellows Falls, Vt., 1878-83, and of that at Dover, N.H., 1883-86. The honorary degree of D.D, was conferred on him by St. Lawrence university, 1874. He was superintendent of schools in New Hampshire in 1901. He is the author of : After Thoughts of Foreign Travel in Historic Land (1880); Round the Globe in Old and New Paths (1891); Babylon and Nineveh through American Eyes (1892); Mexico, Old and New (1897).

McCOMAS, Louis Emory, senator, was born near Williamsix)rt, Md., Oct. 28, 1846 ; son of Fred- erick C. and Catharine (Angle) McComas. He attended St. James college, Md., and was gradu- ated from Dickinson college. Pa., in 1866. He studied law with Col. James Wallace at Cam- bridge, Md., and subsequently with Cliief-Justice R. H. Alvey at Hagerstown, Md., and practised at Hagerstown, 1868-92. He was married, Sept. 23. 1875, to Leah M., daugljter of Charles W. Humrichouse of Baltimore. Md. He was nom- inated by the Republicans of Maryland for repre' sentative in the 45th congref-s in 1877. but was de feated by William Walsh ; declined re-nomination