

OHITt \1 MI M. LAWS.) 



Peabody I -r n time he was a 



truMee of tlu- lYatmdy Mil-em:. .;..u'\.and 



later was its president. 11> -. u-niiiir irocl was 



largely n the radiated animal*, un.l wa> : 

 |li*hed in tin- MtiJM-., 



. 1800 he wns made an assistant 

 in zoology. " II- 



_rue of tii- ophmnda- and \ 

 i the Museum of Comparat i\. KoologT" 

 (CambrAjm. Is 



p.Tt mi Ophiurida- and Iredged by 



ld and New Ophi- 



phytictoof th Rassler Expedition " 



(1875); - Dredging Operations of the l'nn.-l States 



:rome 



of the ophiuridio ana Astr.jihytid.-i- ..f the -chal- 

 lenger Y.*\*\i i 1878; Part II. I 



rt <>n tin- Ophfandsj dredged > II. M. 



jillenir.T* .l.irin- the years 1878- 



Bttk Ho also published "Papers relating to 



arrison Mob" (1870). For several years he 

 was a paralytic. By his will $10,000 was beaucathed 



rvanf. and a 'collection of scientific tx 

 the Museum of Comparative ZoOlogy in Cam! -ridge. 

 McDonald. Alexander, journalist, boni in 

 Lyiu-hhurg. \X about Iv27: died there, Dec. 14, 

 18W. He was editor ..f " The Lvnchburg Vir-ini- 

 an M from 1850 till 1898, was elected to the Virginia 



in 1801, and was appointed Tinted States 

 minister to Persia in iv.'-i. II- had previously 

 served as a commissioner to the Vienna and 



MHiiffln IMiilo Norton, naval officer, born in 

 Penn*ylvaiiia in ISH{; died in New York city, Feb. 

 11. 1 -.":. II.- was graduated at the United States 

 Academy in 1888 and sent to the China sta- 

 tion. He became greatly interested in the count ry, 

 and at the outbreak of the war between France and 

 China he resigni-d from the navy and. with the \ -r- 

 mission of the United States Government, entered 

 the service of China. During this war he captured 

 the only vessel the French lost, at Yantse. After 

 the war he went to England ntend the 



building of several gunboats for t lie Chinese navy, 

 one of which, the "Chen-Yuen." became the flag- 

 ship of the fleet in the battle of the Yalu river, in 

 ir between China and Japan, on Sept. 17, 1894. 

 'iflin was second in command of tnis 

 vessel, and on the death of his superior officer be- 

 came commander of the fleet His vessel was 

 struck over 400 times by Japanese missiles, and 

 narrowly escaped destruction. During the fight 

 one of the "Chen- Yuen's" heaviest guns was pre- 

 maturely discharged, and Capt. MoGlmO and many 

 crew were injured by the shock. In the fight 

 Capt. McOiffin received so many wounds that he 

 partly lost both his sight and hearing. He refused 

 to commit suicide after the battle, as is the Cl 

 custom with defeated officers, and was obliged to 

 leave the country. His mind became affected as a 

 result of hi- injuries, and shortly after his arrival 

 in N- w York city it was found necessary to send 

 him 10 the Post-Graduate Hospital. He succeeded 

 in rinding the vigilance of his attendants and shot 

 himself with a revolver which he had smuggled in 

 amoni: writ in- materials. 



MH.uuun. Siiniucl. inri*t. horn in Laurens 

 County. S.C., in 1819; died in Abbeville. 

 Aug. 9, 1897. He served throuph the M dean War. 

 an army as a private and n-- 

 ng promotion to the rank of captain. After 

 the war he was admitted to the bar, practiced at 

 Abbeville, and became active in politic-. Heserved 

 twelve vears in the lower house of the Legislature. 

 Upon the secession of the State he was app 

 brigadier general in the Confederate army. II 

 took part in the capture of Fort Su niter by Gen. 



i. and in the battle of Cold Harbor, the 

 d Manassas, ( wile, and >p..n-\i- 



kl a in. -mi 



the South Carolina Ileeoiixt met ion Convent ion. a in I 

 was elected to Congress, but adnnion was deninl 

 to him as tooth, -r Southern n-piventatives. When 

 the DeiniH-rats secured control of tl 

 inent in 1H71*. (, -.an \\a- el.-.-ted ju-; 



the Supreiu. Court, and he held this oflicu till he- 



oeml 



M< I h.iine .loxhu.i Hall : , p, b..rn in 



Lewi.v rch i. 1815; died in I'm,.-, ,. \..i.. 



He \\as -ra.liiatrd at I'm 

 i. and at the Theo!., 

 foj \va- i ,u chnieli. 



Liitl. md Koche,-, ,. N. Y.. 1,11 1800; 



and 1 ;. lle.s.lettre- at I'm. 



in l take a 



pastorate in Newark. N. .1.. where he remained four 

 years. He founded Kvelyn Collep- i 

 women at Princeton in 1887, and was its president 

 till his death. In ls,V. he delivered a QOUIM of six 

 lectures U-fore the Smithsonian Institution <>n 

 "Comj.arative Philology in Delation to Kthn.. 

 and in isij'.i a course on " Social Scimee " l>eforo 

 the I'niversit y of Pennsylvania. Hi- more promi- 

 nent publications embrace "The Tr- 

 ot Gfood ami Kvil" (1854); M Elocution: The 



S..nive< and Klein, 'iits of Power" (isTO); "The 

 Wi-dom of Holy Scriptures, with Inference to 

 Skeptical Objections" dss:{, : and -The Wi,,i,,mof 

 the A] 3W). Ib- r.c.ived the degree of 



D. I), from' the I'niversitvof Rochester in is 



McKinle\. Naiio Allison, mother of President. 

 McKinley. born near the present city of Lisbon. 

 Ohio, Aj.'ril 'Jl. iso:: died in Canton, Oh 

 isiiT. In 1829 she married William .McKiidey, a 

 yimnir iron manufacturer, who died in IMi'J. Nine 

 children were born of this marriage, of whom four 

 sun 



McLaWB, Lafayette, soldier, t>orn in Augusta, 

 Ga,,Jan. i:.. IS'JI; died in Savannah. (. 

 1897. He was graduated at the I'nited States Mili- 

 tary Academy and commissioned brevet 'Jd lieu- 

 tenant in the 6th Infantry in 1M42; svrveil in the 

 Indian Territory and in 

 M.-XK-O till after the cap- 

 ture of Vera Cruz; was 

 promoted captain Am:. 

 24, 1851; took part in the 

 Utah expedition in 

 and the Navajo Indian 

 campaign in 1859-'60 ; 

 and resigned his commis- 

 sion March 23, 1801. 

 I'pon the M-cessjoji of his 

 native State he was com- 

 rnis-ioned brigadier gen- 

 eral in the Con fed' 



army. His services in an 



act ion near Lee's Mill, in 



the battle of \Villiaiii-liurg. ami in the retreat of the 

 army to Kiehmond attracted the attention oj 

 .lohnston. on whose reeommendation he was pro- 

 moted to major -ei.eral. May 23, 1862. He was 

 placed in command of a division comnrisin- K r- 

 shaw's and Sem mes's brigades, with which he engaged 

 in the battles of Sava^-'* Station Jtll <l Malvern Hill. 

 At the leginriiny of t he Antietam campaign he was 

 placed in eommand of a eorp-. with orders to cap- 

 ture Maryland Height-. He constructed a road for 

 iimon uj t he side of the mountain overlooking 

 Harper's Ferry. .|>ened fire on that place, and 

 speedily see u rel it- surrender. He rested there a 

 raw boon, and then resuming the march reached 

 Sharpsburg in time to repel the attack on the Con- 

 federate left and restore the line, which ha-; 



