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Nevada, where he also engaged in mining. In 

 1872 he was one of the discoverers of the cele- 

 brated Bonanza mines, on a ledge in the Sierra 

 Nevada. He was one of the founders of the 

 Bank of Nevada, with headquarters in San Fran- 

 cisco, being also its president till his death. In 

 1884, in association with James Gordon Bennett, 

 he laid two cables across the Atlantic Ocean, 

 connecting the United States with England and 

 France under the system known as the Commer- 

 cial Cable Company. Mr. Mackay was a gener- 

 ous patron of religious and charitable institu- 

 tions, especially those of the Roman Catholic 

 Church. Among his notable benefactions is the 

 Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum in Virginia 

 City, Nev. 



McMillan, James, capitalist, born in Hamil- 

 ton, Ontario, May 12, 1838; died in Manchester, 

 Mass., Aug. 10, 1902. He removed in 1855 to De- 

 troit, Mich., where he entered the hardware busi- 

 ness. In 1857 he became a purchasing agent for 

 the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad Company; 

 and later, with John S. Newberry, organized the 

 Michigan Car Company; became interested in a 

 great number of enterprises, including the Detroit 

 Car-Wheel Company, the Baugh Steam-Forge 

 Company, and the Detroit Iron-Furnace Com- 

 pany, of which he was president, and which em- 

 ployed more than 3,000 men; was active in the 

 construction of the Duluth South Shore and 

 Atlantic Railway, which united the two Michi- 

 gan peninsulas; and also was connected with 

 steamboat, elevator, telephone, bank, and dry- 

 dock enterprises. He was elected a United States 

 Senator in 1889, 1895, and 1901 ; was a presiden- 

 tial elector in 1884; and was chairman of the 

 Republican State Convention in 1885 and 1896. 

 He gave the city of Detroit a thoroughly equipped 

 hospital, costing $250,000, and endowed it with 

 $300,000; to the University of Michigan, one of 

 the finest Shakespearian libraries in the country 

 and McMillan Hall; to the Agricultural College 

 of the State, the Tupper collection of insects; and 

 also a building for a seminary for colored girls 

 at Crockett, Texas, and a building for the Presby- 

 teria Club of Ann Arbor. (See GIFTS AND BE- 

 QUESTS.) 



Marquand, Henry Gurdon, capitalist, born 

 in New York city, April 11, 1819; died there, 

 Feb. 26, 1902. He was engaged for twenty years 

 in managing the estate of his brother, and then 

 became a banker. He observed the poor con- 

 struction and faulty design of city architecture, 

 was,, among the earliest to become interested in 

 its improvement, and was the first honorary 

 member of the American Institute of Architects. 

 He was one of the purchasers of the Iron Moun- 

 tain Railroad in 1868, of which he became vice- 

 president and later president, till its incorpora- 

 tion in the Missouri Pacific system, and was a 

 director in the latter company and many other 

 corporations. He devoted much time to the Met- 

 ropolitan Museum of Art, of which he was first 

 a trustee, then (1870-'90) treasurer, and after- 

 ward president, and made it numerous gifts and 

 loans. He presented a chapel and, with Robert 

 Bonner, a gymnasium to Princeton University; 

 with his brother, a pavilion to Bellevue Hospi- 

 tal; and individually founded and endowed the 

 Free Public Library at Little Rock, Ark. 



Marsh, Luther Rawson, lawyer, born in 

 Pompey Hill, N. Y., April 4, 1813; died in Mid- 

 dletown, N. Y., Aug. 15, 1902. He studied law 

 and was admitted to the bar in Albany, N. Y., 

 in 1838. He practised in New York city a year, 

 and then in Utica till 1844, when he returned to 



ew York city. He was for a time associated 



with Daniel Webster; in 1850-'51 carried on a 

 crusade against intramural burials, and drew the 

 bill of 1850 and the city ordinance of' February, 

 1851, which put an end to the custom. In 1883 

 he introduced a bill into the Legislature for en- 

 larging the park area, and later was made park 

 commissioner. In 1891 he gave up his law prac- 

 tise and devoted the remainder of his life to lec- 

 turing in defense of spiritualism. He came so 

 far under the influence of the notorious Ann 

 O'Delia Diss de Bar that the most influential of 

 his friends of the bar interfered and brought 

 about a separation. 



Martin, Augustus P., military officer, born 

 in Abbott, Me., Nov. 23, 1835; died in Dorchester, 

 Mass., March 12, 1902. He was a clerk till 1861, 

 when he went to the front with the Boston Light 

 Artillery, popularly known as Cobb's Battery, 

 and served three months. On his return he was 

 commissioned 1st lieutenant in the 3d Massachu- 

 setts Battery; was promoted captain in Novem- 

 ber; assigned to duty as chief of artillery of the 

 1st Division, 5th Corps, in 1862, and when the 

 artillery of the 5th Corps was organized into a 

 brigade in May, 1863, he was placed in command 

 of it. He took part in numerous engagements, 

 including the siege of Yorktown and the battles 

 of Hanover Court-House, Mechanicsville, Gaines's 

 Mill, Malvefn Hill, Manassas, Antietam, Fred- 

 ericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wil- 

 derness, Spottsylvania, and Petersburg. On his 

 return home he resumed mercantile business; was 

 elected mayor of Boston in 1883, and later was 

 appointed police commissioner. 



Mason, John L., inventor, born in Philadel- 

 phia, Pa., in 1826; died in New York city, Feb. 

 26, 1902. In 1857 he patented the screw-top glass 

 fruit-jar, on which invention he made an im- 

 provement in 1901. He was treasurer and di- 

 rector of the Colonial Bond and Guaranty Com- 

 pany of New York at the time of his death. 



Maxwell, Henry W., philanthropist, born in 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 7, 1850; died in Bay Shore, 

 Long Island, May 11, 1902. Early in life with his 

 brother, J. Rogers Maxwell, he became interested 

 in railroad enterprises. At the time of his death 

 he was a member of the stock-brokerage firm of 

 Maxwell & Graves. He was president of the 

 Board of Regents of Long Island College Hos- 

 pital, Trustee of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences, and treasurer of Polhemus Me- 

 morial Clinic. Mr. Maxwell built and equipped 

 three industrial schools for the Brooklyn In- 

 dustrial School Association; built the Maxwell 

 House and Kindergarten and presented it to the 

 Brooklyn Guild Association; erected a dormi- 

 tory and Nurses' Home for Long Island College 

 Hospital; and, among other benefactions, gave 

 $60,000 to Long Island College Hospital for the 

 establishment of an operating-room and $20,000 

 for the relief of the Johnstown-flood sufferers. 



Merrill, Moses, educator, born in Methuen, 

 Mass., in 1833; died in Boston, Mass., April 26, 

 1902. He was graduated at Harvard University 

 in 1856, and taught in Cambridge, Mass., 'till 

 1858, when he became a master in the Boston 

 Latin School. He was made head master in 1879, 

 and resigned on account of failing health in 1901. 



Miller, Alfred Brashear, educator, born in 

 Brownsville, Pa.. Oct. 16, 1829; died in Waynes- 

 burg, Pa., Jan. 30, 1902. He was graduated at 

 Waynesburg College in 1853, and was Professor 

 of Mathematics there in 1853-'58; president in 

 1858-'99; and later president emeritus and act- 

 ing professor of the philosophical sciences. He 

 was pastor of a Cumberland Presbyterian Church 

 in Waynesburg ten years, and lecturer before 



