OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McQuEEN MARSH.) 



make way for the building of the cathedral, 

 Father McMahon was placed in charge of the 

 work on the new structure. In 1875 he became 

 pastor of St. Andrew's Church, in Duane Street. 

 In his early days he bought property in upper 

 New York city that afterward largely increased 

 in value. He gave liberally to all the churches 

 with which he was connected, and in 1891 pre- 

 .sented to the Catholic University in Washington 

 real estate, chiefly in Now York city and Long 

 Branch, N. J., valued at more than $500,000, 

 with a part of which gift was built McMahon 

 Hall. In consideration of his liberality and his 

 interest in the university, the Pope conferred 

 upon him the title of Monsignor. Father Mc- 

 Mahon retired from active duties in the early 

 nineties, and afterward made his home at the 

 university. In 1848 he published a translation 

 of the New Testament based on Challoner's re- 

 vision of the old Douay Bible, and while pastor 

 of St. John's he planned and superintended the 

 construction of a great pipe-organ. 



McQueen, Georgianna M., missionary, born 

 in Longmeadow, Mass., Jan. 6, 1827; died there, 

 Feb. 18, 1901. She was graduated at Mount Hoi- 

 yoke Seminary in 1847, and taught in West Liber- 

 ty, Va., Harmer, Ohio, Schenectady, N. Y., and 

 Easton, Pa. In 1855 she took passage in a sail- 

 ing ship for the island of Corisco, western Africa, 

 where, on July 22 of that year, she married the 

 Rev. George McQueen, a missionary. They came 

 to the United States for a short furlough in 1857, 

 and returned to Corisco the following year, leav- 

 ing their infant son with his grandparents in 

 Longmeadow. In 1859 Mr. McQueen died of coast 

 fever, and, although Mrs. McQueen came to this 

 country for a visit after her husband's death, she 

 returned to Africa and continued her labors till 

 1865. For many years she was secretary and 

 treasurer of the Longmeadow Historical Society. 



McVickar, William Bard, lawyer, born in 

 Irvington-on-Hudson, Oct. 14, 1858; died in Mor- 

 ristown, N. J., March 30, 1901. He was a son 

 of the Rev. William A. McVickar, who for many 

 years was in charge of the Protestant Episcopal 

 church in Nice, France. Mr. McVickar was grad- 

 uated at Columbia University in 1880, and at the 

 Columbia Law School, and was admitted to the 

 bar in 1882. He studied law in the office of the 

 late Stephen P. Nash, and for several years he 

 was associated with John E. Parsons in the prac- 

 tise of law. In 1897 he organized the firm of 

 Marshall, Moran, Williams & McVickar. Mr. 

 McVickar was a contributor to Life and other 

 periodicals, and had published a book of poems 

 entitled Lays of a Lawyer. 



Magee, Christopher Lyman, politician, born 

 in Pittsburg, Pa., April 14, 1848; died there, 

 March 8, 1901. He studied in the Western Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, but became a clerk in 

 the office of the comptroller of Pittsburg. His 

 genius for politics and efficiency in official duty 

 secured for him in 1869 the cashiership of the city 

 treasury. Two years later he was elected city 

 treasurer on the Republican ticket, receiving 2,600 

 more votes than the party's candidate for mayor. 

 He was reelected with three times the majority 

 given at his first election. In 1896 he was nom- 

 inated for State Senator by both parties, and 

 elected. He was one of the 306 in the convention 

 of 1880 in favor of Gen. Grant's nomination for 

 a third term. Mr. Magee early became interested 

 in the development of natural gas, from which 

 he reaped rich returns, and by employing the 

 money thus acquired laid the foundation of his 

 large fortune. He was largely concerned in the 

 ownership and management of street-railways in 



Pittsburg. In 1884 Mr. Magee purchased the 

 Pittsburg Times,' which he developed into an in- 

 fluential journal, and in 1896 he founded the 

 Daily News. He was a trustee or director of 

 many educational and public institutions, and 

 erected for the city of Pittsburg the buildings 

 for the zoological gardens in Highland Park at 

 a cost of $125,000. 



Manly, George E., diplomat, born in Franklin, 

 Tenn., in 1825; died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 9, 

 1901. After he was graduated at the University 

 of Tennessee, he served in the Mexican War, and 

 at the beginning of the civil war he became 1st 

 lieutenant in the 1st Tennessee Regiment. He 

 participated in the battles of Bull Run, Shiloh, 

 and Chickamauga, and retired at Appomattox 

 w r ith the rank of brigadier-general. When Gen. 

 Grant was nominated for the presidency, he 

 joined the Republican party, and was afterward 

 identified with nearly every campaign. He was 

 delegate-at-large from Tennessee to the national 

 conventions of 1880 and 1888, and he was ap- 

 pointed minister to Colombia by President Gar- 

 field and minister to Uruguay and Paraguay by 

 President Harrison. 



Markoe, Thomas Masters, surgeon, born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 13, 1819; died in East 

 Hampton, N. Y., Aug. 26, 1901. He was gradu- 

 ated at Princeton in 1836, and at the New York 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1841. In 

 1839 he became a junior assistant in the New 

 York Hospital, and, with the exception of a short 

 period immediately after his graduation, when 

 he served as Professor of Anatomy in Castleton 

 Medical College, Vermont, and from 1852 to 1854 

 as Professor of Pathological Anatomy in the 

 University of the City of New York, he was con- 

 nected with that hospital till his death. He be- 

 came assistant curator in the Pathological Mu- 

 seum and lecturer on pathological anatomy. 

 From 1852 to 1892 he was attending surgeon, 

 and thereafter consulting surgeon. From 1860 

 he was a professor in the College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, till 1870 adjunct Professor of Sur- 

 gery, from 1870 to 1879 full professor, and from 

 1879 to 1890 Professor of the Principles of Sur- 

 gery. At various times he served as attending 

 surgeon to the Nursery and Child's Hospital, the 

 Mount Sinai, Bellevue, and Roosevelt Hospitals, 

 and also as consulting surgeon at Mount Sinai, 

 Woman's, Roosevelt, Orthopedic, St. Mary's, 

 Vassar, and the Nursery and Child's Hospitals 

 and the Northern Dispensary. During the civil 

 war Dr. Markoe served as volunteer surgeon at 

 Fort Monroe, as one of the Board of Examiners 

 of Contract Physicians and Surgeons in 1862, and 

 as visiting surgeon to the New York soldiers' 

 depot, in Howard Street, in 1863. In 1864 he 

 was ordered to Fredericksburg, and later to Belle 

 Plain. 



Marsh, Mrs. Caroline Crane, author, born in 

 Berkley, Mass., Dec. 1, 1816; died in Scarsdale, 

 N. Y., Oct. 27, 1901. In 1838 she married George 

 Perkins Marsh, the first United States minister 

 to Italy, and prior to that minister to Turkey. 

 She published in 1857 The Halig, or The Sheepfold 

 in the Water, a tale of humble life on the Schles- 

 wig coast, from the German of Biernatzki, with 

 a biography of the author, and in 1860 Wolfe of 

 the Knoll, and Other Poems. 



Marsh, Lucius Bolles, merchant, born in 

 Danvers, Mass., April 18, 1818; died at North 

 Scituate Beach, Massachusetts, Aug. 14, 1901. He 

 entered a bookstore in Boston when fourteen 

 years old, and fifteen months later accepted em- 

 ployment with Cushing, White & Co., woolen im- 

 porters. He became a member of the firm in 



