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home of J. J. Milburn, president of the exposi- 

 tion company, and for a week eminent sur- 

 geons and doctors did their best to save his life. 

 On September 14, 1901, he passed away. His 

 last words were, "It is God's way; His will be 

 done, not ours." His death was mourned by 

 the whole civilized world, and memorial services 

 were held in England, France and other coun- 

 tries. Burial was at Canton, Ohio, which had 

 been his home since 1867. A statue of him, 

 by Hermon MacNeil, was unveiled at Colum- 

 bus, Ohio, in 1906 and the splendid mausoleum 

 at Canton was completed in 1908. W.F.Z. 

 Consult Olcott's The Life of William McKinley. 

 MACLAREN, -m'klair' en, IAN, the pen name 

 of JOHN WATSON (which see). 



MACLEOD, makloud', an important town 

 in the southwestern part of Alberta. It is the 

 junction point for the Crow's Nest Pass and 

 the Calgary-Macleod branches of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway, and will soon be served by a 

 branch of the Canadian Northern Railway. By 

 rail it is 108 miles south of Calgary, 132 miles 

 west of Medicine Hat and thirty-two miles 

 west of Lethbridge. It is one of the district 

 headquarters of the Royal Northwest Mounted 

 Police and the chief town of a provincial judi- 

 cial district. Old Man River, which is not 

 navigable, flows through the town. Population 

 in 1911, 1,844. 



The section surrounding Macleod is devoted 

 largely to farming and ranching, though some 

 attention is given to the coal deposits. Grain 

 elevators and flour mills are the most con- 

 spicuous industrial plants. Natural gas for the 

 city's industries is supplied from the Bow 

 Island field. The town owns and operates its 

 waterworks, electric light and sewerage systems. 

 The most prominent building in Macleod is the 

 courthouse. The town was founded about 1874, 

 and was incorporated in 1892. 



MACMAHON, makmaoN' , MARIE EDME PA- 

 TRICE MAURICE DE, Duke of Magenta (1808- 

 1893), marshal of the French army and the sec- 

 ond President of the third French republic. 

 He was of Irish descent and was educated at 

 the military college of Saint Cyr. His early 

 military career was brilliant. The defeat of 

 the Austrians at Magenta and Solferino in 

 1859 was mainly due to his leadership. During 

 the Franco-German War in 1870 he displayed 

 little ability, however, and was finally com- 

 pelled to surrender at Sedan, with 120,000 men. 

 As a statesman after the war, he showed him- 

 self without true political insight, and failed to 

 unite the conflicting elements by which he was 



surrounded. He relinquished the Presidency 

 after holding the office one term, from 1873 to 

 1879, and retired to private life. 



McMASTER, makmas'ter, JOHN BACH 

 (1852- ), an American historian and profes- 

 sor of American history. He was born in 

 Brooklyn, was graduated at the College of the 

 City of New York in 1872, subsequently be- 

 coming known as a writer on engineering sub- 

 jects. From 1877 to 1883 he was engineering 

 instructor at Princeton College, and was chosen 

 in the latter year as professor of American his- 

 tory at the University of Pennsylvania, which 

 position he still occupies. His flistory of the 

 People of the United States, which has become 

 a standard work, appeared in part in 1883, 

 and covered the period from 1783 to the War 

 of Secession; it was completed in 1913, in eight 

 volumes. In 1905 he became president of the 

 American Historical Association, and he is also 

 a member of the National Institute of Arts and 

 Letters. Among his published works are Origin, 

 Meaning and Application of the Monroe Doc- 

 trine; Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters 

 and High Masonry Dams. 



McMASTER, WILLIAM (1811-1887), a Cana- 

 dian banker and philanthropist, a liberal pa- 

 tron of literature and art, founder of McMas- 

 ter University, a coeducational school at 

 Toronto. McMaster was born at Tyrone, Ire- 

 land, and received a careful education in a 

 private school. At the age of twenty-two he 

 emigrated to Canada, where he worked for two 

 years as a clerk before engaging in business 

 for himself. He began his business career with 

 a capital of brains, energy and good habits. 

 In the management of his business affairs he 

 was always cautious, but whenever expansion 

 was necessary was never niggardly. After mak- 

 ing a large fortune in mercantile pursuits, he 

 became one of the founders of the Canadian 

 Bank of Commerce and as a banker added 

 greatly to his already large fortune. 



In 1862 McMaster entered public life as a 

 member of the legislative council, and later 

 became a senator. Public life was not particu- 

 larly to his liking, but he always had a keen 

 interest in educational matters and in 1865 be- 

 came a member of the council of public in- 

 struction. When the senate of the University 

 of Toronto was reorganized in 1873 he became 

 one of its members. He was well known for 

 his benefactions to the Baptist Church. 



MacMONNIES, mak mun' iz, FREDERICK 

 (1863- ), an American sculptor, the creator 

 of many portrait busts and statues and of im- 



