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Una in 1881, and adopted the profession of teach- ing. He assisted in organizing the public schools of Durham and Winston, and in 1886 joined the faculty of Peace Institute, Raleigh. As state institute conductor, elected in 1889 by the state board of education, he organized and conducted during his three years' term of service, teachers' institutes in nearly every county in the state. Among the important positions held by him are the following : superintendent of summer normal schools, president of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly, member of the exe<jutive committee of tlie board of trustees of the University of North Carolina ; chairman of various committees of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly to petition the state legislature for improvements in the stthool laws, and chairman of the committee of the Teachers' Assembly wliose efforts secured from the state legislature in 1891 the establish- ment of the North Carolina Normal and Indus- trial college and an annual appropriation therefor. In 1892 he was elected first president of this institution, the only college in North Carolina for the lit>eral education of white women receiving an annual appropriation from the state. In I S93 tiie Univeraity of North Carolina conferred uixm President Mclver the honorary degree of Litt. D.

McIVER, Henry, jurist, was born at Society Hill, S.C., Sept. 25. 1826 ; son of Alexander M. and Mary (Han ford) Mclver ; grandson of John E. Mc- lver and of Enoch Hanford, and a descendant of Roderick Mclver of Scotland, who came to the Pee Dee section, 8.C., shortly after 1746. Henry grad- uated from South Carolina college, Columbia, A.B.. 1846, A.M., 1848; studied law and began practice in Cheraw, S.C, in 1848. He was mar- ried June 7, 1849, to Caroline H. Powe. He was prosecuting attorney for the state, and state

licitor, 1858-68, and during the civil war he served as an officer in the Confederate army, be- ing twice wounded at the battle of Hawes's Shop, \'ji., May 28, 1864. He was associate justice of the suprema court of South Carolina, 1877-91, and was unanimously elected chief-justice, Dec. 10, 1879, which office he declined and was chosen chief justice. Dec. 1. 1891. He died in Cheraw, S.C, Jan. 12, 1903.

McJUNKlN, Ebenezer, representative, was born in Butler county, Pa., March 28, 1819; son of David and Elizabeth (Moore) McJunkin ; grand- son of William and Mary (Alexander) McJunkin, who emigrated from county Donegal, Ireland, about 1790. and of Aaron and Elizabeth (Mc- Kinstry) Moore, who came to America from Scotland about 1790. He was graduated from Jefferson college. Pa., in 1841 ; was admitted to the bar in 1843, and practised in Butler. He was married in July, 1848, to Jane, daughter of the

Hon. John Bredin. He was deputy attorney-gen- eral for Butler county, 1850 ; a delegate to the Re- publican national convention, 1860 ; a presidential elector, 1864, and a representative in the 42d and 43d congresses, 1871-73, resigning Jan. 1, 1875, for the purpose of taking his seat as presiding, judge of the 17th judicial district, where he served, 1875- 85, and in 1885 resumed practice in Butler, Pa.

McKAIO, WiUiam McMahon, representative, was born in Cumberland, Md., July 29, 1845 ; son of Robert Stuart and Sara Ann (McMahon) Mc- Kaig, and grandson of Patrick McKaig and of William McMahon. He attended the Carroll school and the Alleghany County academy, and during the civil war managed his father's coal trade by boats over the Chesapeake and Ohio canal from Cumberland to the Washington navy yard. He read law with his uncles, Gen. Thomas Jefferson McKaig and William Wallace McKaig, was admitted to the bar of Alleghany county in April, 1868, and practised until 1873, when he removed to Colorado Territory on account of his health and followed cattle ranching. In 1874 he was business manager of the Manitou hotel, and was located in Denver. He removed to Salt Lake City, Utah, in October, 1874, and subse- quently resided in California, where he engaged in gold mining. In 1875 he travelled in South America and in Mexico. He returned to Mary- land, was the unsuccessful candidate for nom- ination on the Democratic ticket for state's- attorney of Alleghany county, was city attorney of Cumberland, Md., in 1876, a Democratic rep- resentative in the state legislature in 1877, was appointed colonel on the personal staff of Gov- ernor Hamilton in 1879 and chief of ordnance on the general staff of Gov. Robert M, McLane in 1884, and was reappointed by Governors Lloyd and Jackson. He was state senator in 1887; mayor of the city of Cumberland in 1890, and a Democratic representative in the 52d and 53d congresses, 1891-95, defeating Louis E. McComas in fall of 1890 and George L. Wellington in 1892, being the only Democrat elected in the congres- sional district after 1876. He retired in 1895, never having been defeated for office.

MACKALL, William Whann, soldier, was born in Cecil county, Md., in 1818. He was grad- uated from the U. S. Military academy in 1837, and was promoted 2d lieutenant, 1st artillery, July 1, 1837. He served in the war against the- Seminole Indians, 1837-39 ; was promoted 1st lieutenant, July 9, 1838, and was severely wounded from an ambush in the skirmish at New Inlet, Feb. 11, 1839. He participated in the Canada border disturbances as adjutant of 1st artillery, 1840-41 ; and served on the Maine frontier, 1841- 43. He was bre vetted captain of staff, with the rank of assistant adjutant-general, Dec. 29, 1846,.