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MACFARLANE

Patereon and became a civil engineer. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practised in Jer- sey City, N.J., and in New York city. He was U.S. assessor of the 4th district, 1886-87 ; U.S. commissioner and chief supervisor of elections, 1892-93 ; secretary of the Hudson county Repub- lican general committee, 1878-93, and a delegate to every Republican convention of Jersey City and Hudson county and to every state conven- tion, 1877-92. He was a delegate to the Repub- lican national conventions of 1892 and 1896, and was a member of assembly in the state legislature in 1894, being chosen Republican leader of the house, an unusual honor for one serving his first term in the house. He was a Republican repre- sentative from the fifth New Jersey district in the 54th and 55th congresses, 1895-99.

McFADDEN, Obadiah B., representative, was born in Washington county. Pa., in 1817. He was admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1838 ; was a representative in the Pennsylvania legisla- ture in 1843, and was elected prothonotary for the court of common pleas of Washington county, Pa., in 1845. He removed to Oregon Territory, and was appointed associate justice of the terri- torial supreme court in 1853, and on the organiza- tion of Washington Territory by act of March 2, 1853, was transferred to the supreme court of the new territory. He was chief justice of that court, 1858-61. He represented his district in the legis- lative council of the territory ; was a Demo- cratic delegate to the 43d congress, 1873-75, and was re-elected to the 44th congress, but before taking his seat he died in Olympia, Wash. Ty., June 25, 1875.

McFARLAND. Francis Patrick, R.C. bishop, was born in Franklin, Pa., April 16, 1819. He was educated for the priesthood at Mount St. Mary's college, Emmitsburg, Md., was ordained priest in New York city by Bishop Hughes, May 18, 1845 ; was a member of the faculty of St. John's college, Fordham, N.Y., 1845-46; was in charge of St. Patrick's mission, Watertown, N.Y., 1846-51, and rector of St. John's church, Utica, N.Y., 1851-58. He was elected bishop of Hart- ford, Conn., Jan. 9, 1858. and was consecrated at Providence, R.I., March 14, 1858, by Bishop Hughes, assisted by Bishops Timon and Fitz- patrick. He made his residence at Providence, R.I., until 1872, following the custom of the two precedings bishops, but in that year, on the erec- tion of the new see of Providence, he made Hart- ford, Conn., the see city of the diocese, and directed the building of St. Joseph's cathedral, a bishop's house and Mount St. Joseph's Convent of Mercy. He died in Hartford, Conn., Oct. 12, 1874.

McFARLAND, Robert White. e<lucator, was bom near Urbana, Ohio, June 16, 1825 ; son of Robert and Eunice (Dorsey) McFarlaud ; grand-

son of William (a Revolutionary soldier) an(f Rebecca (White) McFarland, and of Charles (who- served four years in the Revolution) and Eliza- beth (Anchors) Dorsey, and great-grandson of Robert McFarlaud, who was born in county Tyrone, Ireland, 1703 ; landed in Philadelphia, 1746, and removed a few years later to Rockbridge- county, Va., where he died in 1796. His maternal great-grandfather, Aquila Dorsey, served in the Maryland line in the Revolutionary war, and was in Braddock's campaign in 1775. Robert White McFarland was graduated from the Ohio Wesley- an university, A.B., 1847, A.M., 1850; was prin- cipal of Berkshire academy in 1848 : taught in Greenfield academy, 1849-51 ; Chillicothe Union school in 1852 ; was professor ff mathematics at Madison college, 1853-56 ; and professor of mathe- matics and astronomy at Miami university, 1856- 73. During the civil war he served as captain in and lieutenant-colonel of the 86th Ohio volun- teers, 1862-64, and was in Burnside's expedition in East Tennessee. He was professor of mathe- matics and civil engineering at Ohio State uni- versity, 1873-75 ; state inspector of railways, 1881-85 ; president of Miami university, 1885-88, and was a civil and mining engineer in Corn- ing, Ohio, 1888-99. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Ohio Wesleyan univer- sity in 1881. He edited six books of Virgil's •*^neid"(1849).

MACFARLANE, Alexander, educator, was born in Blairgowrie, Scotland, April 21, 1851 ; son of Daniel and Ann (Small) Macfarlane ; grand- son of Alexander and Janet (Steele) Macfarlane and of Peter and Barbara (MacDonald) Small, of Highland ancestry. He was prepared for college at the Free Church school at Blairgowrie, and was graduated at the University of Edinburgh, M.A., 1875, and D.Sc, 1878. He was instructor in physics at that university, 1874-76, and exam- iner in mathematics, 1881-84. He removed to the United States in 1885, and was professor of physics in the University of Texas, 1885-95, when he was made lecturer on mathematical p'nysics in Lehigh university. South Bethlehem, Pa. He was married, April 8, 1885, to Helen, daughter of Patrick Henry and Mary (Toland) Swearingen of San Antonio, Texas. In 1900 he delivered a special course of lectures on space- analysis at the University of Pennsylvania. He was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1878 ; a corresponding member of the Scientific Society of Mexico, 1893 ; a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1892, of theCircolo Matematicodi Palermo, Italy, 1894, and non-resident member of the Washing- ton Academy of Science, 1900. He was elected vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1899, and general