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 McROBERTS

McTYEIRE

a delegate to the Democratic national conven- tion at Chicago, July 8, 1884, and was a member of the Democratic national committee, 1896- 1900. He was a representative from the third dis- trict of Arkansas in the40th-57th congresses, 1885- 1903, and for four years was chairman of the coinniitteo on public hinds.

McROBERTS, Samuel, senator, was born in Monroe county, 111., April 13, 1799 ; son of James McRoberts, a farmer. He received a good English education from a private tutor and in 1819 was appointed clerk of tlie circuit court of Monroe county. He entered the law department of Transylvania university, at Lexington, Ky., in 1821, and after attending three full courses of lectures he was admitted to the bar, and settled in practice at Danville, 111. He was elected by the Illinois legislature one of the five circuit judges of the state in 1824 ; was elected as a Democrat to the state senate in 1828 ; was U.S. district attorney for Illinois, 1830-42 ; receiver of the public moneys at the Danville land office, 1832-39 ; and solicitor of the general land office at Washington, III., 1839-41. He was elected to the U.S. senate, Dec. 16, 1840. for the term expir- ing March 3, 1847, and took his seat. May 31, 1841. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio, on his way home from Washington, D.C., March 27, 1843.

McSHERRY, James, author, was born in Frederick county, Md., July 29, 1819; son of James and AnneRidgely (Sappington) McSherry, and grandson of Patrick and Catharine (Gart- land) McSherry. Patrick McSherry came from Ireland in 1745, settled in Lancaster county. Pa., and during the Revolution was chairman of the committee of safety of York county, Pa. James McSherry, Sr., was a representative in the 17th congress from Petersburg, Pa., 1821-23. James McSherry, Jr., was graduated from Mount St. Mary's college,Emmitsburg, Md., in 1838 ; was admitted to the bar in 1840 and settled in practice in Gettysburg, Pa. He returned to Maryland in 1841, and practiced in Frederick City, 1841-69. He was a contributor to the United States Cath- olic Magazine, and author of : History of Mary- land, 1634-1S4S (1849); P^re Jean, or the Jesuit Missionary (1849); and Willitoft, or the Days of James the First, a Tale (1851). He died in Fred- erick county, Md., July 13, 1869.

McSHERRY, Richard, pliysician, was born in Martinsburg, Va., Nov. 21, 1817 ; son of Dr. Rich- ard McSherry, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical school, and a successful practitioner in Virginia for over fifty years. He was educated at Georgetown college, D.C., and the University of Maryland, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, M.D. in 1841. He was appointed assistant surgeon in the medical corps of the U.S. army, Aug. 21, 1838 ;

served under General Taylor in the Seminole war, and resigned his commission, April 30, 1840. He was married in 1842 to a daughter of Robert Wilson, a prominent Baltimore lawyer. He was assistant surgeon in the U.S. navy, 1843-56. He practised in Baltimore, Md., 1856-83; was pro- fessor of materia medica in the University of Maryland, 1862-65 ; and of the principles and prac- tice of medicine there, 1865-85. He was a mem- ber of the medico-chirurgical faculty of Maryland, vice-president of that body in 1870, and president in 1883 ; one of the founders and first president of the Baltimore Academy of Medicine, and president of the Maryland state board of health. He contributed to the leading medical journals and is the author of : El Piichero, or a Mixed Dish from Mexico (1850); Essays (1869); and Health and How to Pi'omote it (1883). He died in Baltimore, Md., Oct. 7, 1885.

McSWEENEY, Miles Benjamin, governor of South Carolina, was born in Charleston, S.C., April 18, 1855 ; son of Miles and Mary McSweeney. His father died of yellow fever in 1859 and he was obliged to work as a newsboy and later as a clerk in a book store. He attended evening school and was employed as a printer in news- paper and job printing offices in Charleston and Columbia. He won the scholarship of the Wash- ington and Lee university, to be awarded to the most deserving 3'oung man belonging to the Charleston Typographical union, but lack of means obliged him to discontinue the course after attending part of a session. He removed to Abbeville county, S.C., and published the Nine- ty-Six Guardian until 1879, when he established the Hampton County Guardian. He was presi- dent of the Columbia Typographical union ; chairman of the county Democracy, 1884-94 ; a representative in the state legislature in 1894 where he was chairman of the committee on mili- tary ; delegate to the Democratic national con- vention of 1888, 1896 and 1900 ; of the state Dem- ocratic executive committee for several years ; president of the South Carolina Press association for eight years ; trustee of South Carolina college and a member of the staffs of Generals Stokes and Moore of the South Carolina militia, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was elected lieutenant-governor of the state in 1896 and 1898, and upon the death of Gov. William H. Ellerbe in June, 1899, he succeeded to the governorship and was elected to the office in 1900 over four opponents.

McTYEIRE, Holland Nimmons, M.E. bishop was born in Barnwell district, S.C, July 28, 1824. His parents removed to Alabama where he was prepared for college. He was graduated from Randolph-Macon college, Va., in 1844; was tutor in mathematics and ancient languages there,