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about his headquarters, with instructions to kill 

 any one, regardless of rank, who might try to 

 enter the house. When, therefore, Luna reap- 

 peared and demanded an interview he was re- 

 pelled. He drew a revolver, struck a guard, and 

 was trying to enter the house when he received 

 a bayonet thrust. His remains showed 20 bayo- 

 net and bullet wounds. On July 7, after a trial, 

 the guardsmen were acquitted of blame on the 

 ground of self-defense. 



McClannin, Robert, actor, born in Boston, 

 Mass., May 28, 1832; died in Hartford, Conn., 

 Sept. 18, 1899. He made his first appearance at 

 Forbes's Theater, Providence, Sept. 3, 1853, as 

 Lopez in Faint Heart ne'er Won Fair Lady. He 

 remained a member of the company at that house 

 until 1855, playing, among other parts, Uncle 

 Tom in the first production of Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin in that city, Dec. 3, 1854. He had become 

 identified with the parts of old men, and filled 

 engagements at Rice's Theater, Chicago, and at 

 the Gaiety and St. Charles, New Orleans. In 

 18G1 he was engaged by Maggie Mitchell for the 

 first production of Fanchon, in which he origi- 

 nated the part of Father Barbeaud. The same 

 year he went to the Boston Museum as first old 

 man, making his appearance there as Dr. Playfair 

 in Falconer's Men of the Day. He remained in 

 that theater, a great favorite of the public and 

 of his comrades in the theater, as well as of all 

 the great players that visited Boston, seventeen 

 years. He \vas especially successful as Sir Oliver 

 Surface in The School for Scandal, Old Dornton 

 in The Road to Ruin, Job Thornberry in John 

 Bull, Lord Duberly in The Heir at Law, Admiral 

 Franklin in Sweethearts and Wives, Hardcastle 

 in She Stoops to Conquer, and Cadwallader in 

 Big Bonanza. He next assumed a like position 

 in Maggie Mitchell's traveling company, where 

 he remained until her retirement in 1889. From 

 that year he played in many productions in New 

 York city and on the road, and for two seasons 

 before his death had been playing Colonel Sapt in 

 The Prisoner of Zenda. 



McCoy, Thomas F., soldier, born in 1819; 

 died in Lewiston, Pa., July 20, 1899. He en- 

 tered the Mexican War as first lieutenant of the 

 llth United States Infantry, and was brevetted 

 captain for gallant conduct. At Molino del Rey, 

 his superior officer having fallen, he commanded 

 the regiment and was accorded the highest praise 

 by the brigade commander. At the outbreak of 

 the civil war he was appointed deputy quarter- 

 master of Pennsylvania, and in 1862 he was made 

 colonel of the 107th Pennsylvania Volunteers. 

 For services at the battle of Five Forks he was 

 brevetted brigadier general. At the close of the 

 war he returned to the practice of law. 



Mace, Mrs. Frances (Laughton), poet, born 

 in Orono, Me., Jan. 15, 183Q; died in Los Gatos, 

 Cal., in August, 1899. She was educated at 

 Bangor High School, and in 1855 married Ben- 

 jamin H. Mace, a lawyer of that city. In 1885 

 she removed with her husband to San Jose, Cal., 

 w r hich continued to be their home. She was 

 widely known by the familiar poem Only Waiting, 

 written w r hen she was but eighteen years of age, 

 the authorship of which was for a time claimed 

 by several writers. It is included in her volume 

 Legends, Lyrics, and Sonnets (Boston, 1883). 

 Her later work is comprised in Under Pine and 

 Palm (1888) and Wild Roses of Maine (1896). 



McEnroe. William Hall, therapeutist, born 

 in Charlottesville. Va., Aug. 15, 1854; died in New 

 York city, May 17, 1899. He came to New York 

 with his parents when fifteen years old, and was 

 graduated at the University Medical College in 



1882. He became a member of the stan" of house 

 physicians at Belleviie Hospital, and for thirteen 

 years was Assistant Professor of .Materia Medina 

 in University Medical College. In 1HH"> he pub- 

 lished Notes of Materia Medica mid Therapeutics 

 as Delivered by Prof. William II. Thomson. At 

 the time of his death Dr. McEnroe was enlarging 

 this work. A few days before his death he was 

 selected for the chair of Materia Medica in the 

 new Cornell Medical College. 



McKane, John Young, politician, born in 

 County Antrim, Ireland, Aug. 10, 1H41 ; died in 

 Sheepshead Bay, N. Y., Sept. f>, 1899. His par- 

 ents emigrated to the United States in 1843 and 

 settled at Sheepshead Bay, where his life was 

 spent. He attended private school till the age 

 of sixteen, became a carpenter's apprentice, and 

 in 1866 began business for himself. The same 

 year he was elected a constable. In 1867, as a 

 Democrat, he was elected a commissioner of com- 

 mon lands, and in 1883 he became a supervisor. 

 He then left the Democratic party, and in 1887 

 became president pro tern, of the Board of Super- 

 visors. About this time he became known as the 

 '' autocrat of Gravesend," holding simultaneously 

 the following public offices: Commissioner and 

 president of the town Board of Health, president 

 of the Police Board, president of the Water Board, 

 and chief of police. He had such a hold upon 

 local affairs and such a reputation for political 

 sagacity that nearly the entire voting strength 

 of Gravesend was controlled by him. When the 

 ballot reform law went into effect in 1891 he in- 

 geniously contrived to have the six election dis- 

 tricts of Gravesend unite at the town hall, and 

 all the polling places were under his supervision 

 in that building. At the election held in Novem- 

 ber, 1893, the action of McKane and his follow- 

 ers was so infamous that ten indictments were 

 found against him. He was convicted and sen- 

 tenced to six years in Sing Sing prison. Ineffec- 

 tual efforts were made to secure his pardon, and 

 he served a term of four years and two months, 

 commutation being made for good behavior. He 

 was released April 30, 1898. 



McKee, Mary A., benefactor, born in Brook- 

 lyn, N. Y., March 2, 1833; died in Trenton, N. J., 

 Aug. 4, 1899. She was a widow at the outbreak 

 of the civil war, and was one of the first nurses 

 enlisted in the National service. She served 

 throughout the war, Avas one of the most trusted 

 aids of Dorothea L. Dix, and was the last nurse 

 to be mustered out, being retained after the war 

 to take charge of hospital supplies in Washing- 

 ton. Through the influence of Miss Dix the New 

 Jersey State Hospital for the Insane was estab- 

 lished, and she secured for Mrs. McKee the post 

 of housekeeper, which she held till her death, a 

 period of more than thirty years. 



Mackellar, Duncan A., illustrator, born in 

 Lobo, Ontario, Canada, in 1867; died in Penetan- 

 guishene, Ontario, Canada, June 4, 1899. He was 

 of Scottish origin, and till he was eleven years 

 old he could speak no language but Gaelic. His 

 education was principally acquired in Toronto, 

 and before he came to the United States he had 

 achieved distinction by his work on the Toronto 

 Saturday Night as an artist, dramatic critic, and 

 humorous writer. In 1892 he settled in New 

 York, and took a course in the Art Students' 

 League and later in the Brooklyn Art School. 

 He established himself as an illustrator in black 

 and white, and afterward did his chief work for 

 Life and Harper's Magazine. 



MacKellar, Thomas, type founder, born in 

 New York city, Aug. 12, 1812; died in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., Dec. 29, 1899. He was mainly self- 



