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directed the movements of his troops firom an ambulance. On August 6, 1862, while his escorts were reconnoiteriug he was attacked by a party of mounted guerillas and mortally wounded. He died near Delchard, Tenn., Aug. G, 1862.

McCOOK, Roderick Sheldon, naval officer, was born at New Lisbon, Ohio, March 10, 1839 ; fourth son of Dr. John and Catharine Julia (Sheldon) McCook. He was graduated from the U.S. Naval academy in 1859 ; was promoted lieu- tenant, Aug, 31, 1861 ; lieutenant commander, Dec. 25, 1865 ; and commander, Sept. 25, 1873. He served throughout the civil war and partici- pated In the engagements on the James river ; the coast operations in North Carolina ; in the action at New Berne. March 14, 1862, where he commanded a battery of naval howitzers, and in both engagements at Fort Fisher. After the war he served in lighthouse duty on the Ohio river. He was retired from active duty, Feb. 23, 1885. He died at Vineland, N. J., Feb. 13, 1886.

McCORD, David James, law reporter, was born in St. Matthew's parish, S.C, in January, 1797. He was a student at South Carolina college in the class of 1814, but left in his senior year, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1818. He con- ducted a law business in partnership with Henry J. Nott in Colutnbia, S.C, 1818-21 ; was in Eu- rope. 1821-23 ; was law partner of Col. W. C. Preston, 1822-24 ; state reporter, 1824-27 ; and was intendant or mayor of Columbia, 1825. He visited Europe, 1828-30. and was a representative in the state legislature during the nullification excitement, serving several tinres between 1832- 40. As chairman of the committee on Federal relations he championed the cause of nullifica- tion. He retired from the bar in 1836, to accept the presidency of the Columbia branch of the South Carolina bank in Charleston, from which office he was removed in 1840, when he became a Whig. He then retired to *'Langayne, " his plantation on the Congaree, and devoted himself to raising cotton. He was a trustee of South Carolina college, 1829-37. He was married first to Miss Wagner of Charleston, S.C, and in 1840 to Louisa, daugliter of Langdon and Mary (Dallas) Cheves of Columbia, S.C. He aided in establishing the South Carolina Laic Journal in 1836 ; compiled and edited, as successor to Dr. Thomas Cooper, who died in 1839, the Statutes at Large of South Carolina ; prepared reminiscences of Dr. Thomas Cooper, president of South Carolina college ; contributed articles on political economy to the Southern Review and De Bow's Revieiv, and is the author of Reports of Cases determined in the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina (4 vols., 1821-8); Chancery Cases in the Court of Appeals of South Carolina (2 vols.. 1827-29), He died in Columbia, S.C. ^ May 12, 1855.

ricCORD, George Herbert, painter, was born in New York city, Aug. 1, 1848 ; son of George and Matilda (Secor) McCord ; grandson of David McCord and of William Thome Secor, and a de- scendant of the Mabies of Holland, and tlie Hoyts of New Brunswick, Canada. He attended Quack- enbos Collegiate school, New York, and Hudson River institute, Claverack, N.Y.; studied art un- der Prof. Moses Morse, and in 1868 exhibited at the National Academy. He sketched in New England, Canada, Florida and the west, 1875-78, and made a sketching tour of Scotland and Eng- land in 1890. He was made an associate acade- mician in 1880, and also became a member of the Artists' Fund society, of which he was secretary, 1878-80 ; of the American Water Color society, and of the Brooklyn Art, Salmagundi, Lotos and Black and White clubs. He received a silver medal at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics' Association exhibition in Boston, Mass., in 1883, and a bronze medal and diploma at the New Or- leans exposition in 1884. He devoted himself to landscape and marine painting, his works includ- ing: Sunnyside, Home of Irving (1875); Cave of the Winds, Niagara (1878) ; Mii^or Lake (1878); Wintry Night, Fifth Avenue (1876); Near Bidde- ford, Maine (1879); Napanock Mills (1879); Craig Dhu (1880); Hunting Days (1880); Winter Eve- ning on the Hudson (1881) ; Market Place, Montreal (1882) ; Vesper Hour (1883) ; Where Simlloivs Skim (1883); Memory of June (1884); Ice Harvest (1884); Cross-Road Bridge (1884); Old Mill Race on Whippany River, New Jersey (1885); Long Pond, New Hampshire (1886); On Bamegat Bay (1887); Tlie Signal Bell (1898); Grand Cafion, Arizona (1901).

ricCORD, Louisa Susannah (Cheves), poet, was born in Columbia, S.C, Dec. 3, 1810 ; daugh- ter of Judge Langdon (q.v.) and Mary (Dallas) Cheves. She received a liberal education, and in 1840 became the second wife of Col. David J. Mc- Cord (q.v.) She contributed to current litera- ture; translated F. Bastiat's "Sophisms of the Protective Policy" (1848), and is the author of : My Dreams, poems (1848) ; Caius Gracchus, a tra- gedy (1851), and essays in Southern Quarterly Re- view. She died in Charleston, S.C, Nov. 27, 1880.

HcCORD, Myron Hawley, governor of Ari- zona, was born in Ceres, Pa., Nov. 26, 1840 ; son of Myron and Ann Eliza McCord ; grandson of John McCord, and a descendant of James McCord, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1773. He removed with his parents to Shawano, Wis., in 1 854. He attended Richburg academy. New York ; was elected a state senator from Shawano county in 1873 ; was a representative from Lincoln county in the state legislature, 1880-82 ; and a representative from the ninth district of Wisconsin in the 51st con- gress,. 1889-91. In 1893 he removed to Phoenix,