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OBITUARIES, AMERICAN. (McKEE MARIGNY.) 



a Democrat in 1870, and had been a member of the 

 Democratic National Committee since 1876. 



McKee, George C,, lawyer, born in Joliet, 111., Oct. 

 2,1837; died in Jackson, Miss., Nov. 17, 1890. He 

 received a collegiate education, was admitted to the 

 bar on attaining his majority, served as city attorney 

 of Centra) ia, and practiced law till the beginning of 

 the civil war. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the 

 Eleventh Illinois infantry, served through the war, 

 was wounded at Fctrt Donelson, Shiloh, and Vicks- 

 burg, and was mustered out of the service with the 

 rank of brigadier - general, having defeated the Con- 

 federates in their assault on Yazoo City, March 5, 

 1864. After the war he settled in Vicksburg and re- 

 sumed law practice. He was appointed Eegister in 

 Bankruptcy in 1867, was a member of the Missis- 

 sippi Constitutional Convention, and was elected to 

 Congress from the 5th Mississippi District as a Ee- 

 publican in 1856, but the State was refused admission. 

 He was re-elected in 1868, 1870, and 1872. He also 

 served for four years as postmaster at Jackson. 



McKibbin, David B,, military oificer, born in Pitts- 

 burg, Pa., in 1831 ; died in Washington, D. C.. 

 Nov. 8, 1890. He was appointed a cadet in the United 

 States Military Academy in 1846, but was compelled 

 by failing health to withdraw soon afterward. At the 

 beginning of the Mexican War he enlisted as a volun- 

 teer aid to Gen. Bankhead. He took the Mexican 

 fever early in the campaign, and retired from the 

 army. On March 3, 1855, he was appointed 2d lieu- 

 tenant in the 9th United States Infantry. He was 

 promoted 1st lieutenant March 1, 1861, and captain in 

 the 14th Infantry May 14 ; transferred to the 32d In- 

 fantry Sept. 21, 1866 ; promoted major of the 10th 

 United States Infantry Sept. 15, 1867 ; and retired on 

 account of disability incurred in the line of duty May 

 31, 1875. In the civil war he was commissioned col- 

 onel of the 158th Pennsylvania Infantry Nov. 24, 

 1862 ; mustered out of the volunteer service Aug. 12, 

 1863; and brevetted colonel; brigadier-general, and 

 major-general of volunteers for gallant and merito- 

 rious services during the war, March 13, 1865. He 

 was wounded in action several times, was captured at 

 Bull Eun, and was frequently mentioned in general 

 orders and reports for gallantry. 



McLean, Washington, journalist, born in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, in 1816 ; died in Washington, D. C. ? Dec. 8, 

 1890. He was of Scottish descent, had limited edu- 

 cational advantages, and was apprenticed to the 

 boiler-making trade. After serving his time he as- 

 sociated with him a former shopmate and established 

 an independent boiler shop, the partners erecting the 

 building with their own hands after working hours. 

 He studied hard to overcome the deficiencies of his 

 early education, applying himself particularly to his- 

 tory and politics, and by the time he was thirty-five 

 years old he knew intimately every politician of note 

 in Ohio and many of the leaders in national affairs. 

 His business had prospered, and he had accumulated 

 a fortune for that period. About 1852^ in partnership 

 with James J. Faren, he bought the Cincinnati " En- 

 quirer," the principal organ of the Democratic party 

 west of the Alleghanies^ and, with his partner as 

 editor, he directed its business and policy for nearly 

 a quarter of a century, and then relinquished its active 

 management to his son, John E. McLean. About 

 1882 he removed to Washington, where he made large 

 investments in real estate. While managing the 

 " Enquirer" he was considered one of the shrewdest 

 politicians in the country, and was known in the 

 West as " the Warwick of the Democratic party." 



McManus, James T,, clergyman, born in the County 

 Cavan, Ireland, in 1811 ; died in Geneva, N. Y., June 

 28, 1890. He received his preparatory education in 

 Carlow College. Ireland, came to the United States in 

 1848, and completed his studies in St. John's College, 

 Fordbam, N. Y. In 1851 he was ordained a Boinan 

 Catholic priest, and assigned to parish work in Os- 

 wego, Waverly, and Ithaca ; and in 1858 he was trans- 

 ferred to the parish of St. Francis de Sales' s Church in 

 Geneva, with which he remained until his death. He 



was appointed vicar-general of the Eoman Catholic 

 diocese of Eochester, N. Y., in 1886, in succession to 

 the Eev. James M. Early, and in August, 18&9, Pope 

 Leo XIII created him a monsignor of the papal 

 household. His investiture was delayed till I >ec. 11 

 following, on account of his impaired health, and 

 after the ceremony he was prostrated till his death. 



McNary, William Henry, soldier, born in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., in 1832; died there, March 7, 1890. He was 

 for many years a member and captain in the 14th 

 Eegiment of militia, and, going to the front at the be- 

 ginning of the civil war as lieutenant-colonel of the 

 158th New York Volunteers, served continuously with 

 the regiment, and at the close of the war was bre- 

 vetted brigadier-general for gallantry. Pie was an 

 active member of the Grand Army of the Eepublic. 



Malcolm, William, inventor, born in Sullivan, Madison 

 County, N. Y., Oct. 13, 1823; died in Syracuse, N. 

 Y., July 12, 1890. He was educated for a professional 

 career, but turned his attention to the studjr of me- 

 chanics, and engaged in the manufacture of firearms. 

 Subsequently he became deeply engrossed with the 

 study of optics, as a diversion from business routine, 

 and, as he grew to be familiar with lenses, he set him- 

 self the task of improving on the best that could be 

 had. He made an instrument with which he could 

 discern the grain in the knots in a barn door four 

 miles from his experimenting station, and then sought 

 to perfect one that would not require adjustment for 

 varying distances, but, like the eye, would take in all 

 within itp range at one focus. In spite of the dis- 

 couragement of opticians and astronomers, he accom- 

 plished his purpose by using a combination of several 

 lenses (adjusted to each other on a plan the secret of 

 which died with him), and diaphragming them down 

 so that all the divergent rays were excluded, leaving 

 only the center ones as in the human eye. He de- 

 signed his telescopes for observatory and ordnance 

 usej and supplied them to the Lick 'Observatory, in 

 California ; the Eoyal Observatory, in Greenwich ; and 

 the United States, English, Eussian, and Italian gov- 

 ernments, for use with their heavy ordnance. 



Mallory, Charles Henry, merchant, born in Mystic, 

 Conn., about 1819; died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 

 21, 1890. He was a son of Charles Mallory, the well- 

 known ship builder and owner of a large fleet of 

 whaling and merchant vessels, was educated in his 

 native town, went to sea when sixteen years old, and 

 commanded a brig when twenty-one. He followed 

 the sea for eight years, then became associated with 

 his father in ship building at New London, Conn., 

 engaged in the coasting and California trade, and at 

 the beginning of the civil war built several war ves- 

 sels for the Federal Government. In 1862 he was 

 elected a State Senator as a Eepublican. In 1865 he 

 established the firm of C. H. Mallory & Co., in New 

 York, which for years controlled the trade with Brazil, 

 New Orleans. Galveston, and Key West. He was act- 

 ive in business till within nine months of his death. 



Marigny, Mandeville de, historical personage, born in 

 New Orleans, La., in 1810 ; died there, June 3, 1890. 

 He was a son of Bernard Marigny, a wealthy planter 

 of Louisiana, who, like his ancestors in France, was an 

 unwavering adherent of the royal family, and was one 

 of the first to extend hospitality to Louis Philippe 

 when he was driven to exile in the United States. 

 The dethroned King stood godfather to Mandeville at 

 the baptismal ceremony, and after his restoration 

 created the father a chevalier of France, and re- 

 quested him to send his son to Paris as a special ob- 

 ject of royal favor. When eighteen years old Man- 

 deville was an officer in the King's Guards, and after 

 returning to New Orleans and marrying the youngest 

 daughter of W. C. C. Claiborne, first Governor of 

 Louisiana, he resumed his residence in Paris, and his 

 wife was appointed one of the ladies of honor of the 

 court. Some time afterward the husband and wife be- 

 came estranged ; the former returned to New Orleans, 

 and the latter, with their daughter, remained in Paris. 

 During a part of the civil war Mandeville was colonel 

 of the 18th Louisiana Eegiment in the Confederate 



