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two hundred times, turned the tide in his favor. After 

 this he controlled the productions at the Casino for 

 three years;, and held his opera company together till 

 within a few years of his death. 



McCosh, James, educator, born in Carskeoch, Ayr- 

 shire, Scotland, April 1, 1811 ; died in Princeton, 

 N. J., Nov. 6, 1894. He was the son of a farmer ; at- 

 tended a parochial school till he was thirteen years 

 old; then went to Glasgow College for five years; 

 and studied theology 

 in the University of 



Edinburgh, principal- 

 ly under Drs. Chal- 



mers and Welsh, in 

 1829-'34. While in 

 the latter institution 

 he received the de- 

 gree of M. A. for an 

 essay on the Stoic 

 philosophy. In 1834 

 he WHS licensed to 

 preach, and in the 

 following year was 

 ordained pastor of 

 Abbey Chapel, Ar- 

 broath, in the Church 

 of Scotland. Four 

 years afterward he 

 was presented by the Crown to the first charge in 

 the old cathedral city of Brechin, with 1,400 com- 

 municants. In 1843 -he united with other clergy- 

 men in forming the Free Church of Scotland, and 

 spent several years in establishing it securely. He 

 was appointed Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in 

 the newly opened Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland, 

 in 1851, and remained there for sixteen years, and 

 during a part of the time was also examiner in ethics, 

 under the system of competition for the civil offices 

 in India. In 1858 he visited the principal German 

 universities and became acquainted with the German 

 philosophy ; in 1866 he came to the United States to 

 visit the colleges and theological seminaries ; in May, 

 1868, he was unanimously elected President of the 

 College of New Jersey at Princeton, and on Oct. 27, 

 following, he was inaugurated. He held the office 

 till 1888, when his resignation was accepted, and he 

 was elected president emeritus. He retained the 

 Professorship of Philosophy till 1890. During his 

 administration the number of students in the college 

 increased from 264 to 604, and the instructors from 

 10 professors, 4 tutors, and 2 teachers, to 35 professors, 

 3 tutors, and several assistants and lecturers, and the 

 institution was raised financially to a higher rank 

 than it had ever had. He made many innovations in 

 the curriculum and management of the college, and 

 applied himself wholly to promoting its interests, his 

 sole relaxation seeming to be in authorship, particu- 

 larly of a controversial character. Both his addresses 

 and contributions to periodicals and his more elabo- 

 rate works are voluminous. His principal publica- 

 tions are : " The Method of the Divine Government, 

 Physical and Moral" (Edinburgh, 1850; 5th ed., re- 

 vised^ London, 1856) ; with George Dickie, M. D., 

 " Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation " 

 (1855) ; u The Intuitions of the Mind inductively in- 

 vestigated " (1860); "The Supernatural in Rela- 

 tion to the Natural " (1862) ; " Examination of Mill's 

 Philosophy: Being a Defense of Fundamental 

 Truth " (1866) ; " The Laws of Discursive Thought : 

 Being a Treatise on Formal Logic" (New York, 

 1869); "Christianity and Positivism" (1871) : "The 

 Scottish Philosophy " (1874) ; " The Emotions " 

 (1880); " The Philosophical Series" (1882-'86 ; com- 

 bined in 2 vols., under the titles of " Eealistic Phi- 

 losophy " and " Psychology of the Motive Powers," 

 1887] ; " The Religious Aspect of Evolution" (1888) ; 

 " The Prevailing Types of Philosophy : Can they 

 logically reach Reality ?" (1890); "The Tests of 

 Various Kinds of Truth" (1891) ; "Our Moral Na- 

 ture" (1893) ; and" Philosophy of Reality " (1894). He 

 received the degrees of S.T.D. from Brpwn Univer- 



sity m 1868- LL. D. from Aberdeen in 1850, and 

 Harvard and Washington and Jefferson colleges 

 in 1868; and D. Lit. from Queen's College, Belfast. 



McDill, James Wilson, jurist, born in Monroe, Ohio, 

 March 4, 1834 ; died in Creston, Iowa, Feb. 28, 1894. 

 He was graduated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 

 in 1853; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 

 1856. The same year he removed to Iowa to practice. 

 In 1859 he was elected Superintendent of Public 

 Education, and in 1860 county judge of Union 

 County; in 1861-'65 held clerkships in Washington, 

 D. C., chiefly in the Treasury Department; in "1868 

 was elected circuit judge of the 2d District, 3d Judi- 

 cial Circuit of Iowa; and in 1870-'74 was district 

 judge of the same circuit. He was elected to Con- 

 gress in 1874 and 1876 ; was a member of the State 

 Board of Railroad Commissioners in 1878-'81 ; and 

 from March, 1881, till March 4, 1883, he was a United 

 States Senator, succeeding Samuel J. Kirkwood, ap- 

 pointed Secretary of the Interior. In January, 1892, 

 he was appointed by President Harrison a member of 

 the Interstate Commerce Commission, and he held 

 the office till his death. 



McDougall, John Alexander, painter, born in Living- 

 ston, N. J., Feb. 12, 1812; died in Newark, N. J., 

 July 29, 1894. When seven years old he went to 

 Newark, where he was educated and apprenticed to 

 the coach-painting trade. He soon developed such 

 an aptitude for artistic painting that he was employed 

 almost exclusively in painting crests, coats of arms, 

 and pictures on coach panels and doors. Here he be- 

 gan painting portraits in miniature on ivory, and in 

 1844 he opened a studio in New York city, and be- 

 sides painting there made frequent journeys into 

 various States. He thus became widely known, and 

 in his travels made the acquaintance of many well- 

 known people. His studio in New York city was the 

 resort of Nathaniel P. Willis, Washington Irving, 

 Edgar Allan Poe, William Gilmore Simms, Edwin 

 Forrest, and other writers and actors. In 1854 he re- 

 moved his studio to Newark, N. J., and continued 

 painting portraits in oil and water color for many 

 years. He also developed a fine taste for landscape 

 painting, and produced a large amount of work in 

 th at line. 



McGarrahan, William, litigant, born in Enniskillen, 

 Ireland, in October, 1828 ; died in Washington, D. C., 

 April 24, 1894. After acquiring considerable wealth 

 as a grocer and wine dealer and being active in the 

 political life of Ireland for several years, he went to 

 California in October, 1849, invested his money in 

 his former business, and by 1853 became one of the 

 largest merchants on the Pacific coast. Subsequently 

 he bought a ranch in San Jose valley, which he stocked 

 with the first improved herd in the State. In De- 

 cember, 1857, he purchased from Gomez, for $11,000, 

 the Mexican title to the Rancho Panoche Grande, 

 and soon afterward discovered that there was quick- 

 silver on the property, and that squatters were in 

 possession and were making money out of it. From 

 that time till his death in poverty, and in a hospital, 

 he was engaged in litigation for his property. At 

 one time he refused an offer of $1,000,000 for the 

 rights covered by his claim. Five times his title to 

 the property was proved, and the counsel who began 

 the case for him and for the New Idria Company, 

 which gained possession of the property, are nearly 

 all dead. The case has been in the courts of Califor- 

 nia, the Supreme Court of the United States, the 

 Department of the Interior, and in Congress. Presi- 

 dent Lincoln signed the patent and ordered its de- 

 livery to McGarrahan, which was never done ; the 

 United States District Court for the Southern Dis- 

 trict of California confirmed the grant j two Secre- 

 taries of the Interior ordered the patent issued to the 

 claimant; and it is alleged that the United _ States 

 Supreme Court issued a mandate putting him in pos- 

 session, and that the records of the court were muti- 

 lated to conceal the mandate. At nearly every ses- 

 sion of Congress since 1857 bills have been intro- 

 duced for Mr. McGarrahan's relief. One was passed 



