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of a naturally singular character and eccentric 

 habits, suffered much unmerited contumely 

 both before and since her husband's death. 

 That catastrophe without doubt unsettled her 

 reason, for, with all her weaknesses, she was 

 attached to Mr. Lincoln by an affection that 

 was even greater than the ambition with which 

 it went hand-in-hand to seek his advancement. 

 For many years she suffered from a combina- 

 tion of real and imaginary ills, and that her 

 bodily ailments were not all chimerical is 

 proved by the closeness with which death fol- 

 lowed the paralytic shock received a few days 

 before. Those who for years have persisted 

 in maligning Mrs. Lincoln should cast a glance 

 at the sorrowful side of her life : her second 

 son died in childhood ; her third son, William, 

 a boy of unusual precocity, died during her 

 first year in the White House ; Thomas Todd 

 Lincoln, her fourth son, who was the life and 

 plaything of the Executive mansion, died eight 

 years ago, just as he was approaching man's 

 estate, and after he had become the staff and 

 solace of his stricken mother. Add to these 

 afflictions the great one of having a loving and 

 beloved husband killed by her side, during a 

 short season of pleasure, after his re-entry 

 upon a new and prosperous term of high office. 

 Her death leaves but one representative of the 

 family, which numbered five at the time of the 

 entrance of its head upon the duties of the 

 presidency the eldest son, Robert Todd Lin- 

 coln, the present Secretary of War. 



MAYNAED, HOEACE, born at Westboro, Mass., 

 August 13, 1814; died at Knoxville, Tenn., 

 May 3, 1882. He received an academic edu- 

 cation at Millbury, Mass., and entered Amherst 

 College in 1834, and graduated from it in 1838. 

 The following year he removed to Knoxville, 

 and was appointed Principal of flampden Sid- 

 ney Academy. The next year he was elected 

 instructor in East Tennessee College, which 

 became a university in 1842, and served in 

 that capacity for four years, when he was ap- 

 pointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural 

 Philosophy. He remained in that chair but one 

 year; at the end thereof he entered upon the 

 study of law, and after one year's preparation 

 was admitted to the bar. Mr. Maynard fol- 

 lowed his profession until 1857, when he was 

 elected to Congress as the candidate of the 

 Whig party ; two years after, he was re-elected, 

 and again in 1861. He returned to Knoxville 

 upon its occupation by General Burnside, in 

 the fall of 1863. The war having ended, he 

 was elected to Congress from Tennessee re- 

 peatedly, once from the State at large, and 

 other times from the Knoxville district, until 

 1875. Mr. Maynard was United States Minis- 

 ter to Turkey, by appointment of President 

 Hayes, for nearly four years, and Postmaster- 

 General for a few months before General Gar- 

 field's inauguration. He was a man of distin- 

 guished abilities, was a forcible and clear 

 speaker, and always entertaining. Having es- 

 poused with Andrew Johnson the principles of 



the Republican party, he remained faithful to 

 them. Just previous to his death lie had at- 

 tended the State Republican Convention at 

 Nashville. 



McCi. AY, WILLIAM B., died in New York 

 city, in 1882, aged seventy years. He began 

 his political career in 1840, and continued to 

 be a public man up to 1861, when he retired 

 to private life. He was elected to the Assem- 

 bly in 1840, 1841, and 1842, and was a mem- 

 ber of the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, Thir- 

 tieth, Thirty-fifth, and Thirty-sixth Congresses. 



MCCANDLESS, WILSON, born in Pittsburg, Pa., 

 June 19, 1810; died in the same town, June 

 30, 1882. His parents, although Scotch-Irish, 

 were born in the United States. Judge McCand- 

 less was a graduate of the Western University. 

 He studied law with W. W. Fetterman, and was 

 admitted to practice June 19, 1831. Being a 

 close student, he soon made a reputation at the 

 bar, and his powers of oratory won him a large 

 connection. After a successful practice for 

 more than twenty-five years, he was appointed 

 by President Buchanan, on the 8th of Febru- 

 ary, 1859, United States District Judge for the 

 W T estern District of Pennsylvania, embracing a 

 large jurisdiction. Long before his judicial ca- 

 reer commenced, Judge McCandless took an 

 active part in politics; he was a Democrat of 

 the most aggressive type, and most persistent 

 in maintaining the principles he espoused. His 

 manner was polite and agreeable, and, no mat- 

 ter how excited the discussion of political 

 points might grow, he was able to command 

 the respect and esteem of his most violent op- 

 ponents. He was three times elector for Pres- 

 ident and Vice-President of the United States, 

 in 1844, 1852, and 1856, and was twice presi- 

 dent of the electoral college of the State. In 

 1848 he was chairman of the Pennsylvania 

 delegation in the National Democratic Conven- 

 tion held in Baltimore. He was a member of 

 the Masonic fraternity, and was Past-Master of 

 Milner Lodge. On the occasion of the visit of 

 John Quincy Adams to Pittsburg, in 1833, he 

 delivered the address of welcome; also, the 

 oration on the death of General Jackson, in 

 1848. 



MORRISON, JOHN IRWIN, died in Knights- 

 town, Ind., July 17, 1882, aged seventy-seven 

 years. He was a Pennsylvanian by birth, but 

 was taken to Indiana when a child. His op- 

 portunities for an education were meager, but 

 his indefatigable energy and perseverance en- 

 abled him to overcome all difficulties, and he 

 finally " worked his way" through Miami Uni- 

 versity, O. He entered the teacher's profes- 

 sion, and soon became principal of what was 

 for many years known as the ''Washington 

 County Seminary," at Salem, Ind. He made 

 this one of the best-known schools in the State, 

 and its patronage was not limited to Indiana. 

 His force of character enabled him to impress 

 himself upon his students in an extraordinary 

 manner. Among his former students were 

 many who have risen to eminence. He was 



