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89; professor of the French language and literature there, 1889-1900, and emeritus professor and lec- turer on French literature from 1900. He re- ceived tlie honorary degree of LL.D. from Haver- ford college, Pa., in 1886. He is the author of : First Lessons in French ; French Grammar with a Key ( 186.'3) ; Introductory French Reader ; French Qrammar ; Co-education of the Sexes (1867) ; Methods of Teaching Modern Language (1871) ; and History of Education in the Religious Society of Friends (1884) ; and edited French Prose and Poetry (1867); and Modern French Series (1879).

riAQILL, Mary Tucker, author, was born in Winchester, Va., Aug. 21. 18533; daughter of Dr. Alfred Thurston and Ann Evelina Hunter (Tucker) Magill, granddaughter of Judge Henry St. George and Ann Evelina (Hunter) Tucker, and great granddaughter of St. George and Frances (Randolph) Tucker. She was educated at Richmond and in the University of Virginia, where her father was professor of medicine. Previous to the civil war she established with her mother Angerona college, a boarding school for girls in Winchester, Va., which she conducted for several years. She travelled extensively in Europe and was in Hamburg during the scourge of cholera which afflicted that city. Shortly before her death she removed to Staunton, Va. She contributed to periodicals, was a newspaper correspondent and is the author of : The Holcombcs (1868) ; Women, or Chronicles of the Late War (1870) ; School History of Vir- ginia (1877); Pantomimes, or Wordless Poems (1882) ; St07'ies from Virginia History for the Young ( 1897). She died at the residence of Joseph Bryan near Richmond, Va., April 29, 1899.

MAGINNIS, Martin, senator, was born in Wayne county, N.Y., Oct. 27, 1841; son of Patrick and Winifred (Devine) Maginnis. His parents, born in Ireland, immigrated to America, settled on a farm in Wayne county, N.Y., in 1836, and removed to Minnesota in 1852. Martin matriculated at Hamline university, St. Paul, Minn., in the class of 1862 and in 1861 with other members of his class he enlisted in the 1st Minnesota volunteers and served in twenty-two battles of the Army of the Potomac, 1862-64. He was one of the survivors of his regiment at the famous charge at Gettysburg where the regiment lost 82 per cent. of its men. His company lost thirty of the thirty-five men he led to the charge. He served in the Army of the Cumberland under General Thomas at Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., 1864; was provost-marshal-general of Tennessee on the staff of Governor Andrew Johnson, and was mustered out in June, 1865, having attained the rank of major. He organized an expedition and crossed the plains to Montana in 1866 where he engaged in mining and founded the Rocky Mountain Daily Gazette at Helena. He was married in 1868 to Louise E. Mann, of Pontiac, Mich. He was the delegate from Montana Territory to the 43d–48th congresses, 1873-85; a delegate to the convention of July 4, 1889, which framed the constitution under which it was admitted as a state, and he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for representative in the 51st congress. He was elected one of the first U.S. senators by the Democratic legislature convened by reason of the Silver Bow county election contest, but both he and his colleague, William A. Clark, were rejected by the senate in 1889. He was appointed by Governor Toole in 1891 a commissioner to look after the mineral-land interests of Montana and served two years. On the resignation of William A. Clark as U.S. senator in 1900, Major Maginnis was appointed, on May 18, by Governor Robert A. Smith, to fill the vacancy. He was orator of the day at the dedication of the Soldiers' Home, Washington, D.C.; at the reunion of Federal and Confederate officers on the battle-field of Gettysburg, and at a reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomac.

MAGNER, Thomas Francis, representative, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 8, 1860, son of Patrick and Ellen (Barry) Magner, natives of Cork, Ireland, who came to New York in their early youth. He attended the public schools; was graduated from St. Francis Xavier college, New York city, in 1880, and from the law department of Columbia college in 1882. He taught school in Brooklyn, 1880–82; took up the practice of his profession in Brooklyn in 1882; was a member of the New York assembly, 1888; and a Democratic representative from the sixth New York district in the 51st, 52d and 53d congresses, 1889-95.

MAGOFFIN, Beriah, governor of Kentucky, was born in Harrodsburg, Mercer count.v, Ky., April 18, 1815 ; son of Beriah and Jane (McAflFee) Magoffin. His father was a native of county Down, Ireland, and his mother was the grand- daughter of Samuel McAffee, a pioneer settler of central Kentucky. He was graduated at Centre college, Danville. Ky., in 1834, studied law with his brother-in-law, Charles M. Cunningham, and was gradu- ated from Transylvania uni- versity, Lexington, Ky., LL.B. in 1838. He prac- tised in Jackson, Miss., in 1838, in partnership with Judge Harney, and was elected reading clerk to the state senate. Returning to Harrodsburg in 1839 he practised law with Mr. Cunningham. He was appointed police judge by Governor