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private schools in Cincinnati, and Harvard college, and after studying in Germany he returned to Cincinnati and purchased his father's interest in the Inquirer. He owned half the paper in 1872 and became sole owner in 1881. He was closely connected with Democratic politics, both state and national, being delegate-at-large from Ohio to the Democratic national conventions of 1884, 1888, 1892, 1896 and 1900, and the Ohio member of the Democratic national committee. In 1885 he was the party candidate for U.S. senator. In 1899 he was the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio and in November, 1899, was defeated by George K. Nash, the Repul)lican nominee.

McLEAN, Nathaniel Collins, soldier, was born in Warren county, Ohio, Feb. 2, 1815 ; son of Judge John and Rebecca (Edwards) McLean. He was graduated at Augusta college, Ky., A.B., 1834, took a post graduate course at Harvard, 1834-36, and was graduated from the Harvard law school, LL.B., 1838. He was married in 1838 to a daughter of Judge Jacob Burnet, and began to practice his profession in Cincinnati. He enlisted in the Federal army in 1862, as colonel of the 75th Ohio volunteers ; was ordered to west- ern Virginia, and assigned to Milroy's brigade, Schenck's army, at the battle of MacDowell, May 8, 1862, where he led his regiment up the side of the mountain and drove the entrenched army of Gen. T. J. Jackson over the crest. He served in Schenck's brigade, Fremont's army, in the en- gagements of June 1-9, 1862, and on Nov. 29, 1862, was commissioned brigadier-general of volun- teers. In the battle of Chancellorsville, May 1-5, 1863, he commanded the 2d brigade, 1st division, 11th army corps, and when Gen. Charles Devens was wounded, succeeded to the command of the division. He resigned his commission, April 20, 1865, and resumed the practice of law in Cincin- nati and subsequently made his home in Bell- port, N.Y., where he was still living in 1901.

McLEAN, Samuel, delegate, was born in Summit Hill, Carbon county, Pa., Aug. 7, 1826 ; son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Swan) McLean; and grandson cf James and Martha (Leslie) Mc- Lean, who came from county Antrim early in the nineteenth century and settled in the Wyo- ming Valley, Pa. His maternal grandparents, Samuel and Mary (Smith) Swan, came from the north of Ireland in 1720 and were staunch Scotch- Irish Presbyterians. He was matriculated at Lafayette college in the class of 1848 ; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1849, prac- tising in Mauch Chunk. He went to California in 1849 by w^ay of Cape Horn and returned to Pennsylvania in 1854, where he was married, Jan. 23, 1855, to Jane Wilson of Easton. He was dis- trict attorney of Carbon county, 1855-60; attor- ney-general of the provisional government of

Colorado in 186x and one of the founders and the first delegate from Montana Territory to congress, serving in the 38th and 39th congresses, 1863-67. He served as colonel of a border regi- ment against the Indians and was several times wounded. He named Helena, Mont., for his infant daughter Helen. He received the honor- ary degree of A.M. from Lafayette in 1857. He purchased a plantation in Nottoway countj', Va., in 1869, and removed his family to Burkeville, Va., where he died, July 16, 1877.

McLEAN, 5arah Pratt. See Greene, Sarah Pratt McLean.

McLEAN, William, representative, was born in Morris county, N.J., before 1789 ; son of Fer- gus and Sophia (Blackford) McLean. Hia father, a native of Ireland, immigrated to New Jersey, removed first to western Virginia in 1789, thence to Kentucky, and in 1799 to a farm in Warren count5% Ohio. William attended school and in 1818 settled in Piqua, Miami county, Ohio, where he held the office of receiver of public moneys. He was a representative in the 18th, 19th and 20th congresses, 1823-29, and it was through his efforts that a subsidy of 500,000 acres of land was procured for building the Ohio canal from Cincinnati to Cleveland. He subse- quently engaged in the mercantile business in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died, Oct. 12, 1839.

McLELLAN, Isaac, poet, was born in Port- land, Maine, May 21, 1806. He prepared for col- lege at Phillips Andover academy, was graduated from Bowdoin, A.B., 1826, A.M., 1829; was ad- mitted to the bar, and practised in Boston for a number of years. He was associate editor of the Boston Dai'Zi/ Pa^riof and published the Monthlif Pearl. He removed to New York city in 1851 and devoted himself to literary pursuits. He was an enthusiastic sportsman and was widely known as the " poet sportman." He is the author of : The Death of Napoleon (1822) ; Hie Fall of the Indian, icith other Poems (1830); TJie Year, with other Poems (1832); Journal of a Residence in Scotland and a Tour through England and France (1834): Mount Auburn (1843); Poems of the Bod and Gun (1886); New Poems {189S); Haunts of Wild Game ; The Trout Brook ; New England's Dead ; The Notes of the Birds, and War Poems. He died at Greenport, L.I., N.Y., Aug. 20, 1899.

McLENE, James, delegate, was born in N'ew London, Chester county. Pa., Oct. 14, 1730. He attended the academy at Thunder Hill, Md.; re- moved to Cumberland county. Pa., in 1753 ; wa» a member of tlie state constitutional convention in 1776; a member of the state assembly, 1776-78, and speaker in 1778 ; a member of the supreme executive council of Pennsylvania, 1778, and 1783-84 ; delegate to the Continental congress, 1778-80 ; a member of the council of censors^