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 MAGOUN

MAGRUDER

(Webb) Magoun and of Moses and Esther (Luf- kin) Littlefield. He attended school at Bath, 1862-61), and Worcester, Mass., 1869-74, and was graduated at Iowa college, A.B., 1879, A.M., 1882. He was assistant principal of the high school, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1879-80; principal of the grammar school, Bath, Maine, 1880-81; tutor at Iowa college, 1881-84; a student at Johns Hopkins university, 1885-87; fellow there, 1887- 88, fellow by courtesy, 1888-90, and received the degree of Ph.D. in 1890. He was acting professor of Greek at Colorado college, 1890-91; librarian of McKay library, Johns Hopkins university, 1891-92; acting professor of Greek, Oberlin col- lege, 1892-93, and acting professor of Latin there, 1893-95. He was in Maine settling an estate in the fall of 1886; was engaged in research, 1895- 96 and 1897-98, and was professor of Latin in Redfield college, S.D., 1898-99, and of Latin and Greek there from 1899. He was married, June 8. 1892, to Martha Roberts Mann (q.v.). He was elected a member of the American Oriental society in 1887, of the American Philological association in 1891, and of the Archaeological In- stitute of America in 1898. He is the author of various articles on Hindu witchcraft, etc., pub- lished in the American Journal of Philology (1889 and 1900), in the Proceedings of the Amer- ican Philological association (1894, et seq.), in the Proceedings of the American Oriental Society (1888 et seq.), articles on the " Early Religion of the Hindus" in the Bihliotlieca Sacra (1897-98), and others published elsewhere.

MAQOUN, Martha Roberts (Mann), educator, was born in Charlestown, Mass., June 26, 1861; daughter of Alexander and Sarah (Roberts) Mann; granddaughter of Jairus and Desire (IVhit- ing) Mann and of Dimon and Martha (Hemmen- way) Roberts, and a lineal descendant of Richard Man, a native of England, wl)o settled in Scituate, Mass., about 1644. She was graduated at Wellesley ' college, A.B., 1885; was a special student at Ziirich, Switzerland, 1886-87; teacher of botany at Wellesley, 1887-88; special studiant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1888-89, and acting professor of botany and biology, Colo- rado college, 1890-91. She was married, June 8, 1892, to Dr. Herbert W. Magoun (q.v.).

MAQRATH, Andrew Gordon, jurist, was born in Charleston, S.C, Feb. 8, 1813. He was gradu- ated from the South Carolina college in 1831; studied at the Harvard Law school, and was ad- mitted to the bar in 1835. He was a representa- tive in the South Carolina legislature, 1840-44; practised law in Charleston, 1844-56, and was U.S. judge of the district court of South Carolina, 1856-61. He was a delegate to t lie state secession convention, one of the Confederate States judges for Soutfi Carolina, 1861-64, and governorof the

state in 1864-65. In 1865 he was arrested by the Federal authorities and confined in Fort Pulaski. He resumed his law practice in December, 1865, and died in Charleston, S.C, April 9, 1893.

MAQRATH, William, artist, was born in Cork, Ireland, March 20, 1838. He studied in the Cork School of Art, and in 1855 came to the United States. He opened a studio in New York city in 1865; was in England, 1879-83; located his studio in Wash- ington for a short time; returned to England, and in 1893 settled in New York city. He was elected a member of the American Society of Painters in Water Color, an associate of the National Acad- emy of Design in 1874, and an acade- mician in 1877. He devoted himself to landscape and figure painting, chiefly of

Irish peasant life, and exhibited: Mussel-Gath- erers, Nora, Ati Irish Thatched Cottage and On the Hillside, at the Centennial exhibition of 1876. Among his paintings in oil are: Irish Peasantry Returning from the Fair (1869); The Road to Kenmair (1870); The Reveille (1871); The Empty Flagon (1873); Reveries (1874); FalteHng Foot- steps (1874); Rustic Courtship (1876); Girl Spin- ning (1877); Paddy's Pets (1877); On the Old Sod, owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1878); A Touch of the Blarney; Cabin Com- fort and Shule Aroon, (1880). About 1884 he turned his attention to Greco-Roman subjects and produced: A Bacchic Dance; Favors for the Fair; A Bacchante.

MAGRUDER, Allan Bowie, senator, was born in Kentucky in 1775. He was admitted to the bar in 1796 and settled in practice in Lexington, Ky. He was a representative in the Kentucky legislature and subsequently removed to Louisi- ana, where he practised law. He was elected, with John Neol Destrehan, U.S. senator from the newly admitted state of Louisiana in May, 1812, and he drew the term expiring March 3, 1813. De- strehan did not take the seat, which fell to Thomas Posey. He collected the material f or a " History of the North American Indians," which he left in MS., and is the author of: Reflections on the Cession of Louisiana (1803); Character of Mr. Jef- ferson. He died at Opelousas. La., April 16, 1822.

MAGRUDER, John Bankhead, soldier, was born near Port Royal, Va., Aug. 15, 1810; son of Thomas and Eliza (Bankhead) Magruder. Ho