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of 1832 and was graduated from Union college, N.Y., 1832, and from Yale Theological seminary in 1835. He was pastor of Congregational churches at Berlin and New London, Conn., 1835- 40; at Jamaica, N.Y., 1841-50; in New York oity, 1850-53 and at Princeton, N. J., 1853-76. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Union in 1854. He lectured on homiletics in Boston university in 1874. He is the author of : •Credulity as Illustrated by Successful Impostures in Science, Superstition and Fanaticism (1843); A Key to the Book of Revelation (1846); History of the Presbyterian Church of Jamaica, Long Island (184:7); My Father's House (185^); Book of Ecclesiastes Explained (1856): Life and Writings of St. Jb/iw,- published posthumously (1879). He died in Princeton, N.J., April 19, 1876.

MacDONALD, John Louis, representative, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, Feb. 22, 1838 ; son of Dr. John and Margery (McKinley) Macdonald. He came with liis parents to the United States in 1847, and settled in Pittsburg, Pa. In 1855 he re- moved with his parents to St. Paul, Minn., and thence to Belle Plaine, Scott county, Minn. He was admitted to the bar in 1859 ; was judge of the probate court of Scott county, 1860-61, and also county superintendent of schools and prose- cuting attorney for that county. He was mar- ried, June 22, 1861, to Mary, daughter of P. Hen- nessy of Belle Plaine, Minn. He edited the Belle Plaine Enquirer, 1860-61 ; and removed to Shako- pee, Minn., in 1861, where he established the Argus and edited and published it until 1862. During the civil war he was commissioned to enlist and muster in volunteers for the Federal army. He was prosecuting attorney of Scott county, 1863-64 ; representative in the state legislature, 1869-70, and a state senator in 1871 and 1873-77, He was the Democratic candidate for attorney-general, 1872 ; and judge of the eighth judicial district of Minnesota, 1876-86. He resigned in 1886 and re- presented the third Minnesota district in the 50th congress, 1887-89. He practised law in St. Paul, Minn., 1889-97, and then removed to Kansas City, Mo., where he continued to practice law.

McDonald, Joseph Ewing, senator, was born in Butler county, Ohio, Aug. 29, 1819. His father died in 1820 and he received his early train- ing from his mother, who removed to Indiana in 1826. He was an apprentice to a saddler, 1831-37 ; a student in Wabash college, Crawfordsville, Ind., 1838-39 ; taught school and attended Asbury uni- versity, 1840-42, and studied law, 1842-44. He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and practised in Crawfordsville, 1843-59, serving as prosecuting attorney for the county, 1844-47 ; representative in the 31st congress, 1849-57, and attorney-gen- eral, 1856-60. He removed to Indianapolis in 1859. where he continued the practice of his pro- VTT—

fession ; was the unsuccessful candidate for gov- ernor of the state against Oliver P. Morton in 1864 ; chairman of the Democratic state conven- tion, 1872-76, and U.S. senator, 1875-81. He was a member of the select committee appointed to visit Louisiana in 1877, and he made the principal argument before the electoral commission in op- position to the count of the electoral vote as re- turned. He was a member of the committee on the judiciary and supported hard money and a protective tariff. At the close of his senatorial term he resumed the practice of law in Indianap- olis, Ind., where he died, June 21, 1891.

McDonald, Moses, representative, was born in Limerick, Maine, April 8, 1814 ; son of Maj. John McDonald, an officer of the war of 1812. He matriculated at Bowdoin college in the class of 1834, but did not graduate ; was admitted to the bar in 1837, and practised in Biddeford, Maine, 1837-51 ; at Portland, Maine, 1851-61, and at Saco, Maine, 1861-69. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1841-45 ; was speaker in 1845 ; state treasurer, 1847-49 ; was a Democratic rep- resentative in the 32d and 33d congresses, 1851- 55, and collector of customs at Portland, 1857-61. He died in Saco, Maine, Oct. 18, 1869.

MacDONALD, William, educator, was born in Providence, R.L, July 31, 1863 ; son of William and Frances (Jordan) MacDonald. He attended the Newton, Mass., high school; was graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass., 1884, and was dean of the depart- ment of music at the University of Kansas, 1884- 90. He was married, Nov. 24, 1887, to Harriet Bliss Haskell, of Lawrence, Kan. He was grad- uated from Harvard, A.B., 1892 ; was professor of history and economics at Worcester, Mass. , Poly- technic Institute, 1892-93 ; professor of history and political science at Bowdoin college, 1893-1901, and in September, 1901, became professor of history in Brown university. He was elected a member of the American Historical association ; the Maine Historical society ; the Kansas Historical society ; the National Geographic society, and president of the Pejepscot Historical society, Brunswick, Maine. He is the author of : Select Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1776-1861 (1898); Select Charters and other Docu- ments Illustrative of American Histoj-y, 1606-1775 (1899); edited "Johnson's High School History of the United States" (1901), and contributed numerous articles to periodicals.

McDonnell, Charles Edward, R.C. bisliop, was born in New York city, Feb. 1, 1854. He studied under the Christian Brothers and the Jesuits, and was graduated at the College of St. Francis Xavier in 1872. Having been accepted by Cardinal McCloskey for the archdiocese of New York, he went to Rome in 1872 and was