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in Xew York city at the ( Mympic Theater in Mrs. .John 

 Wood's company as low comedian in " Your Life's 

 in Danger" in IStjii. In isii!) he was engaged by 

 Angn-tin Daly as leading conu'dian, and lie held 

 this [dace till his death. His repertory was large 

 and his acting showed remarkable versatility. 



Ke^is. Waller 0.. telegrapher, born in Suflield, 

 Conn., in 1S15: died in Philadelphia. Pa.. July 10. 

 is'.iti. He became a telegraph operator in Hartford. 

 Conn., and in is."}:! removed to Xew York city and 

 leaded the newly constructed telegraph line between 

 New York and Sandy Hook. lie then devised a 

 speedy method for obtaining the foreign news 

 brought over by steamships, and planned a syMein 

 of telegraphy for reporting to the city the arrival of 

 is in the lower bay. In IHiT the Sandy Hook 

 line was absorbed by the Western Union Telegraph 

 Company, and Mr. Lewis engaged in the collection 

 of marine news and followed it till about two years 

 l>e fore liis death. He established a ship news office 

 at the Battery and connected it with the hospital 

 ship at Quarantine by a wire. 



Littell. Robert, publisher, born in Philadelphia, 

 Pa.. May 5. 1831 ; died in Brookline, Mass., April 7. 

 1896. He was the son of Kliakim Littell. founder 

 of " Littell's Living Age " : removed to Boston with 

 his parents in 1844: was educated for the publish- 

 ing business : and since the death of his father, in 

 is;o. had had charge of the "Living Age." 



Lyon. Irving 1 Whitall. physician and author, 

 born in Bedford. N. Y.. Oct. 18.' 1S40; died in Hart- 

 ford. Conn.. March 4. 1896. He was educated at 

 Lawrenceville, N. J.. Academy, Vermont Medical 

 College, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons 

 of Xew York. He served on the staff of Bellevue 

 Hospital for two years ; removed to Hartford, Conn., 

 in 1866: and besides engaging in general practice 

 became medical director of a life insurance com- 

 pany and President of the Hartford County Med- 

 ical' Society. For thirty years he was a frequent 

 contributor to medical journals, and he published 

 numerous monographs on medical subjects. Dr. 

 Lyon made a careful study of old furniture, and 

 had become an expert on it. In 1891 he published 

 " Colonial Furniture of Xew England." and at the 

 time of his death he had nearly completed a work 

 of similar scope on "The Domestic Architecture of 

 New England during the Colonial Period." 



McCiillasrh, Joseph Burbridire. journalist, born 

 in Dublin, Ireland, in November, 1842: died in St. 

 Louis. Mo.. Dec. 31. 1896. When eleven years old 

 he worked his passage to Xew York on a sailing 

 ship, and soon afterward he was apprenticed to the 

 printer's trade in the office of the " Freemen's Jour- 

 nal." In 1855 he went to St. Louis, and there served 

 as a reporter on the Christian Advocate " for four 

 years, and afterward on the " Missouri Democrat." 

 subsequently going to the "Cincinnati Commercial," 

 on which he was employed at the beginning of the 

 civil war. In 1861 he entered the National army 

 as a lieutenant in the Benton Cadets under Gen. 

 Fremont. When the regiment to which he was at- 

 tached was assigned to duty with the army of the 

 Potomac he resigned his commission, but remained 

 in the field as a war correspondent. In this occupa- 

 tion he made a wide reputation by his letters to the 

 Cincinnati "Commercial" over the signature of 

 "Mack." After the war he was for some time 

 Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati "Com- 

 mercial." and was subsequently editor of the "En- 

 quirer" of that city, the " Republican " of Chicago. 

 and the "Times " and the "Democrat " of St. Louis. 

 On the consolidation of the two last newspapers 

 with the "Globe" he became editor-in-chief. 



MoCiuffey. Alexander Holmes, educator, born 

 in Youngstown. Ohio, in 1816: died in Cincinnati, 

 June 4, 1896. He was a brother of William H. 



McGuffey, a former president of Cincinnati Col- 

 ,ud of Ohio L'niver.-ity. and wa> .graduated at 

 Miami (/Diversity in Is:!:!. Soon alterward he was 

 appointed Pn>tVor f I'.elles-Lettres in Woodward 

 College. Cincinnati. While there he is .-aid to have; 

 prepared the series of school readers that was pub- 

 lished under his brother's name, though the brother 

 merely supervised the compilation. He al-o began 

 studying law and was admitted to the bar. The 

 Mcliuil'ry readers became so speedily and widely 

 popular that he applied himself wholly to the com- 

 pilation of schoolbooks. following the series of read- 

 ers with one of speller^. 



McKibbin, Joseph Chambers, military officer, 

 born in Chambersburg. Pa.. May 14. 18:24 : died 

 near Mount Vernon, Va., July i. IS'JIJ. He was 

 educated for a lawyer, was for some time collector 

 of customs for the District of Columbia, was one of 

 tlie earliest pioneers of California, and after engag- 

 ing in mining practiced law in San Francisco. In 

 1856 he was elected to Congress, and in 1861 was 

 appointed by President Lincoln one of the first six 

 officers selected for cavalry commands. He served 

 through the war. principally on the staffs of Gens. 

 Halleck and Thomas. Since the war lie had lived 

 in or near Washington. He was one of six brothers 

 who served with distinction in the National army. 



MacMullen. John, educator, born in New York 

 city. March 2. 1818; died there Sept. 12. 1896. He 

 was graduated at Columbia College in 1837: began 

 to teach while a student; made a tour of Europe, 

 chiefly on foot : and for some time after his return 

 held a professorship in a Western college. In the 

 early fifties he carried out his cherished design of 

 opening a school for boys on entirely new lines, and 

 he conducted it with success till 1893. During 

 this period he educated or fitted for Columbia Col- 

 lege many boys who subsequently became conspicu- 

 ous in the life of Xew York city. He introduced 

 in his school systems of self-government and arbi- 

 tration, military and gymnastic drills, and manual 

 and business training, and encouraged outdoor 

 sports and excursions for study and practical re- 

 search. After giving up his school he had charge 

 of the work of compiling and arranging the old 

 records of Columbia College. 



McVicker, James Hubert, theatrical manager, 

 born in Xew York city. Feb. 14. 1822: died in Chi- 

 cago. 111.. March 7. 1890. In 1837 he removed to 

 St. LI. uis. Mo., where he learned the printer's trade, 

 which he abandoned in 1843. when he made his first 

 appearance on the stage at Xew Orleans. From 

 1S45 till 1832 he was the principal comedian in J. 

 B. Rice's theater in Chicago, and while there had 

 his first experience as a stage manager. At this 

 period he excelled in the portrayal of Shakespearean 

 comedy roles, and was exceedingly popular in the 

 West. On leaving this house he starred for a while 

 in modern comedies, played a season at the Ameri- 

 can Theater in Xew York, and managed the Peo- 

 ple's Theater in St. Louis. In 1857 he erected his 

 first theater in Chicago at a cost of $100.000: in 

 1863 he remodeled it : in 1871, after the great fire, 

 he entirely rebuilt it. making it the handsomest 

 theater in the West ; in 1890 he was again e< m- 

 pletely burned out : and immediately afterward he 

 built "the present house. In 1895 he associated 

 with Henry C. Miner and Joseph Brooks in forming 

 the American Theatrical Syndicate. Ilis daughter 

 Mary became the wife of Edwin Booth in IM'.'.I. 



Main. Thomas, mechanical engineer, born in 

 Borgue. Scotland. Jan. 30. 1828 ; died in Arlington, 

 X. J.. May 27. 18!)t;. He served his apprenticeship 

 and worked in the machine shops of Robert Xapier, 

 the Glasgow shipbuilder, and his successor. John 

 Elder, and removed to Xew York city in 1854. His 

 first employment was in designing. In 1861 he en- 



