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McLEAN, Daniel Veech, educator, was born in Fayette county, Pa., Nov. 24, 1801 ; son of Alexander and Mary (Veech) McLean and grand- son of James McLean. He was brought up near Chillicothe, Ohio, graduated from Ohio univer- sity, 1824, and studied at Princeton Theological seminary, 1827-29. He taught in Chambersburg, Pa., 1825-26; was ordained an evangelist in Miami, Ohio, June 29, 1831 ; was stated supply at Lebanon, Ohio, 1831-32 ; pastor of Tennent church. Freehold, N.J., 1832-36, and of the Vil- lage church, Freehold, which he had organized, 1838-50. In 1851 he was inaugurated president of Lafayette college, and at once undertook to raise a permanent endowment of $100,000 by the sale of scholarships, the sum of $100 entitling the subscriber to the tuition of his own son, or of the son of any person to whom he might transfer the certificate. He pushed this work with untiring energy and the full amount was pledged by Janu. ury, 1854. He resigned the presidency in 1857, travelled in Europe, 1858, and spent four years in London, England, where he preached frequently, and on his return he served as pastor of First church, Plainfield, N. J., 1862-63, and at Red bank, N.J., 1863-69. He was a trustee of Lafayette college, 1853-65, and a director of Princeton The- ological seminary, 1848-60. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Lafayette college in 1848. He died at Redbank, N.J., Nov. 23, 1869.

McLEAN, Emily Nelson (Ritchie), regent, D.A.R., was born in. Prospect Hall, Frederick, Md., Jan. 28, 1859 ; daughter of Judge John and Bi'ttie (Maulsby) Ritchie ; granddaughter of Dr. Albert and Katharine Lackland (Davis) Ritchie and of Judge William Pinkney and Emily (Nel- son) Maulsby ; great granddaughter of General Roger and Betsy (Harrison) Nelson, and a descen- dant on the paternal side from William Burgess, deputy governor of Maryland, who immigrated in 1650 and settled on South River, Md. She was graduated from Frederick seminary (now Woman's college) in 1878, and took a post-graduate course in language, history and mathematics. She was married, April 24, 1883, at Frederick, to Donald McLean of New York. She was one of the charter members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was chosen regent of the New York city chapter in 1894. During the Cotton States and International exposition of 1895-96 she served as commissioner from New York, and she was appointed commissioner to the South Carolina exposition of 1901-02. She deliv- ered public addresses throughout the country on educational and )>atriotic subjects. In 1901 she was appointed head of the Victorian Interna- tional society. A scholarship in Barnard college, a woman's college connected with Columbia university, New York, beai-s her name.

MacLEAN, George Edwin, educator, was born in Rockville, Conn., Aug. 31, 1850; son of Edwin VV. and Julia H. (Ladd) MacLean. He was graduated at Willliams college A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, and at Yale Divinity school B.D., 1874, and was ordained by the presbytery of Columbia in 1874. He was married. May 20, 1874, to Clara S., daughter of Cliarles J. Taylor of Great Barrington,Mass. He was pastor at New Lebanon, N. Y., 1874-77, and of the memorial church, Troy, N.Y^ 1877-81. He studied at the universities of Berlin and Leipzig, 1881-83, and received the degree Ph.D. from Leipzig in 1883. He collated several old English manuscripts in the British Museum and at the Univei-sities of Cambridge and Oxford, made a tour of Europe, and returned to the United States in 1884. He was professor of the English language and literature in the University of Minnesota, 1884-94, with the excep- tion of the year 1891, when he made a second visit to England, and studied in the British museum. He visited Paris in 1894, and made researches in the Bibliotheque Nationale, and in 1895 was- elected chancellor of the University of Nebraska and president of the Univereity senate. He directed tlie work of the U.S. agricultural ex- periment station at the University of Nebraska and in 1889 visited England, Holland and Germany for the purpose of investigating the work dono at the various agricultural stations. He was made a member of the Philological society of London and of the American Philological society in 1891. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Williams college in 1895. He edited ^Ifric* Anglo-Saxon version of Alcuini Interrogationes Sigewulft Presbyteri in Genesin (1833) ; An Old and Middle English Reader by Zupitza (1886) 'r An Introductory Course in Old English (1891), and is the author of : A Chart of English Litera- ture with References (1892); An Old and Middle English Reader with Introduction^ Notes and Glossary (1893).

McLEAN, George Payne, governor of Con- necticut, was born in Simsbury, Conn., Oct. 7,. 1857 ; son of Dudley B. and Mary (Payne) McLean, grandson of the Rev, Allen McLean, and a descend- ant of Governor Bradford of Massachusetts and of Capt. John Mason of Connecticut. He was graduated from the Hartford high school, served as a reporter on the Hartford Evening Post, was admitted to the bar in 1881, and settled in prac- tice in Hartford. He was a republican represent- ative in the general assembly, 1883-84 ; was in- strumental in establishing the board of pardons in 1883, and was clerk of the board, 1883-1900 ; was elected state senator in 1888 ; was U.S. dis- trict attorney, 1882-96, and in 1900 succeeded George E. Lounsbury (q. v.) as governor of Con- necticut, for the term ending Jan. 4, 1903.