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fas promoted major in 1862, and 



Md., in 1859; completed his theological course at 

 the seminary of St. Charles Borromeo, Overbrook ; 

 and was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman 

 Catholic Church, Dec. 12, 1861. For more than 

 twenty years he was rector of St. Joseph's Church, 

 Danville, Pa. On Jan. 15, 1888, he was chosen 

 bishop of llarrisburg, and he retained the office till 

 his death. He was noted for his zealous labors, 

 scholarly habits, and literary accomplishments. 



McKean, Thomas, benefactor, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Nov. 28, 1842; died there, March 16, 

 1898. He was a son of Henry Pratt McKean and 

 a great-grandson of Thomas McKean, one of the 

 signers of the Declaration of Independence. He 

 was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 

 1862, entered at once on a business career, and 

 became an officer in numerous railroad and finan- 

 cial corporations. He had a fortune of several 

 million dollars, was exceedingly liberal to edu- 

 cational and benevolent institutions, and was ever 

 ready to promote worthy enterprises. His gifts to 

 the University of Pennsylvania aggregated about 

 $300,000, the last of them being $100.000, given in 

 November, 1897, to aid in the erection of the new 

 law school building. 



n 1863 ; in February, 1864, was appointed chief of McLnne, Robert Milligan, diplomatist, born 



cavalry under Gen. Butler ; and later was placed in 

 charge of the construction of the Dutch Gap Canal. 

 In October, 1864, he was brevetted brigadier general 

 for services at Dutch Gap and Spring Hill, and was 

 detailed to command the defenses of James and 

 York rivers. He resigned his commission in 1865. 



MacArthur, Charles L.. journalist, born in Fre- 

 mont, N. H., Jan. 7, 1824 ; died in Troy, N. Y., Oct. 

 12, 1898. Early in life he learned the trade of a 

 printer in Watertown, N. Y., and he was graduated 

 at the Black River Institute of that place. About 

 1840 he established the " Carthaginian," in Car- 

 thage, N. Y. In 1843 he was sent with an expedition 

 to the head waters of the Platte, to make a treaty 

 with the Sioux Indians. Later in the same year he 

 established the Milwaukee " Sentinel," the first daily 

 paper in Wisconsin. In 1846 he became city editor 

 of the New York " Sun." In 1847 he purchased the 

 Troy " Budget." It was a Democratic organ, rep- 

 resenting the Free-Soil wing of the party. When 

 Lewis Cass was nominated for the presidency by 

 the Democratic National Convention in 1848 the 

 "Budget" was delayed in going to press till the 

 news had been received, and when the news came 

 Mr. MacArthur told the foreman to insert the name 

 of John A. Dix for President. This action was the 

 beginning of a widespread bolt from Cass. In 1859 

 he retired from the "Budget" to establish the 

 " Arena," which he sold two years later in order to 

 serve with the 2d Regiment of New York volunteers 

 in the civil war. In 1864 he founded the "Sunday 

 News," the first Sunday newspaper in the State 

 outside of New York city. In the meantime the 

 "Budget" had died as the result of its opposition 

 to the war. He revived that [taper in 1867, and 

 published it till the day of his death. In 1882 he 

 absorbed the Troy " Telegram " into the " Budget." 

 "le was a member of the State Senate in 1882-'83. 



McCormick, Thomas Francis, jurist, born in 

 Elizabeth, N. J., July 31, 1844; died there, Sept, 13, 

 1898. He was graduated in 1864 at St. John's Col- 

 lege, Fordham, and later at Seton Hall College. In 

 1871 he was admitted to the bar; in 1878 was ap- 

 pointed law judge in the Union County courts, and 

 In such capacity he served four successive terms of 

 Ive years each. 



Mcfrovern, Thomas, clergyman, born in Swan- 

 liber, Cavan County, Ireland, in 1832; died in llar- 

 risburg. Pa., July 25, 1898. He was brought to the 

 United States in' infancy by his parents ; was grad- 

 ated at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmittsburg, 



in Wilmington, Del., June 23, 1815 ; died in Paris. 

 France, April 16, 1898. He was a son of Louis 

 McLane, United States Senator and minister to 

 England. Robert was educated at St. Mary's Col- 

 lege, Baltimore, the Col- 

 lege Bourbon, Paris, and 

 the United States Military 

 Academy, where he was 

 graduated and assigned to 

 the 1st Artillery in 1837. 

 He served under Gen. Jesup 

 in the Everglades of Flor- 

 ida in 1837-38, under Gen. 

 Scott in the Cherokee coun- 

 try of Georgia in 1838, and 

 under Gen. Taylor in Flor- 

 ida ; was engaged in the 

 military survey of the Great 

 Lakes, under a transfer to 

 the corps of topographical 

 engineers, in 1839-'40 ; and 

 was sent to Europe to study the dike and drainage 

 systems of Italy and Holland in 1841. Two years 

 later he returned, resigned his commission in the 

 army, and, having been admitted to the bar before 

 going to Europe, began practicing law in Maryland. 

 He was a conspicuous speaker in the presidential 

 campaign of 1844. and was elected to Congress as a 

 Democrat in 1844, 1846, and 1848, having been in 

 the meantime an earnest supporter of President 

 Folk's Mexican War policy. After the expiration of 

 his third term in Congress he spent a year in prac- 

 tice in California. In 1852 he was one of the presi- 

 dential electors of Maryland, and in the following 

 year he was appointed by President Pierce United 

 States commissioner to China with plenipotentiary 

 functions, and at the same time was accredited to 

 Japan, Siam, Korea, and Cochin-China. He reached 

 Hong-Kong in the spring of 1854, had a strong 

 naval force subject to his authority, and, accom- 

 plishing the object of his mission, was recalled at 

 his own request, and arrived home early in 1856. 

 Soon afterward he was a delegate to the National 

 Democratic Convention that nominated James 

 Buchanan. In 1859 he was appointed United 

 States minister to Mexico, and while there he nego- 

 tiated a treaty for the protection of American citi- 

 zens. He resigned the mission directly after the 

 secession of the cotton States and became a mem- 

 ber of the legislative committee to confer with 

 President Lincoln on some State grievances against 



