His father, DANIEL MCCOOK (1798-1863), killed at Buffington's island during Gen. John H. Morgan's raid in Ohio, and seven of his eight brothers (three of whom were killed in battle) all served in the Civil War; this family and that of John McCook (1806 1865), Daniel's brother, who served as a volunteer surgeon in the Civil War, are known as the "fighting McCooks"—four of John's sons served in the army and one in the navy.
His brother, HENRY CHRISTOPHER MCCOOK (1837-1911) , was a pastor, but he is best known as an entomologist. He wrote The Mound-making Ants of the Alleghanies (1877); The Natural History of the Agricultural Ants of Texas (1879) ; Tenants of an Old Farm (1884) ; American Spiders and their Spinning-work (1889-93) ; Nature's Craftsmen (19o7), Ant Communities (1909) McCOOK, a city of southern Nebraska, U.S.A., on the Republican river, Federal highway 38, and the Burlington (rail way) route, 28o m. W.S.W. of Omaha; the county seat of Red willow county, and the trade centre for the surrounding farming and stock-raising country. The population was 4,303 in 192o (91% native white) and was 6,688 in 1930 by the Federal census. The city was founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1886.
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), Irish surgeon, was born at Belfast on Jan. 17, 1836. He studied at Belfast, Dublin and Paris. After practice in Belfast and war service in France (1870) and Serbia (1876) he became (1881) assistant surgeon at St. Thomas's hospital, London. He was one of the first to apply Listerian methods in surgery and was a pioneer in operating for intraperitoneal rupture of the bladder (1886). He was president of the Royal College of Surgeons no less than five times. In 1897 he was surgeon-in-ordinary to the prince of Wales. In 1899 he was Hunterian orator. He died at Bath on Dec. 4, 1901.
), tenor, was born at
Athlone, Ireland, on June 14, 1884. At the age of nine he faced his first audience when he sang at the Marists Brothers school. He was educated at Summerhill college, Co. Sligo. He won the prize at the Irish music festival, Feis Ceoil, and went to America on a short singing tour, returning to Dublin to sing before going to Italy where he studied under Sabatini. At his second attempt Cleofonte Campanini gave him his opportunity at Covent Garden, where he made his debut in Cavalleria Rusticana, Oct. 15, 1907, his success the following year leading to presentation to King Edward and Queen Alexandra. Oscar Hammerstein engaged him for the Manhattan Opera House where he made his New York debut in Traviata, Nov 0, 1909. He afterwards sang with the Chicago-Philadelphia Opera company, the Chicago Grand Opera company and the Metropolitan Opera company. In 1911 he toured Australia with Melba in Italian opera. After two further operatic seasons in America, 1912, and Australia, roil, he turned to the concert stage where he achieved extraordinary popularity. During the war he was instrumental in raising nearly a million dollars for patriotic purposes. He became a citizen of the United States in 1919. In 1921 he was made Knight commander of the orders of St. Gregory the Great and of the Holy Sepulchre by Pope Benedict XV., and in 1928 he was made a count in the papal peerage. McCORMICK, CYRUS HALL (1809-1884), American inventor of grain-harvesting machinery, was born in Rockbridge Co. (Va.), U.S.A., on Feb. 15, 1809. His father was a farm
er who had invented numerous labour-saving devices for farm work, but after repeated efforts had failed in his attempts to construct a successful grain-cutting machine. In 1831, Cyrus, then 22 years old, took up the problem, and after careful study constructed a machine which was successfully employed in the late harvest of 1831 and patented in 1834. The McCormick reaper, of ter further improvements, proved a complete success; and in 1847 the inventor removed to Chicago, where he manu factured his machines. He died in Chicago on May 13,
See Herbert N. Casson, Cyrus Hall McCormick : his Life and Work (1909).
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), American editor, was born in Chicago (Ill.), July 3o, 1880. Graduating from Yale university in 1903, he studied law at Northwestern university and was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1907. He was active in Chicago civic circles from 1904 to 1910. In 1910 he became associated with his cousin, Joseph Medill Patterson, as co-editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, being president of the Chicago Tribune Company. Under their direction the Tribune enormously increased its circulation and advertising. The beautiful Tribune tower, built after extended architectural competition, symbolizes the paper's success. After service in the Great War, McCormick and his cousin, in 1921, started the illustrated Daily News in New York.
(181 1-1894), Scottish philosophical writer, born of a Covenanting family in Ayrshire, on April 1, 1811, became a minister, and took part in the Free Church move ment of 1843. He was professor at Queen's college, Belfast (1852— 68), and president of the college of New Jersey, Princeton (1868 88). He died on Nov. 16,
His chief works are: Method of Divine Government, Physical and Moral (Edinburgh, 1850, frequently republished in New York) ; The Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation (Edinburgh, 1855 ; new editions, New York,
; Intuitions of the Mind inductively investigated (186o; 3rd rev. ed., 1872) ; An Examination of Mr. J. S. Mill's Philosophy (1866 ; enlarged 1871, several eds.).
(1823-99), C.M.G. (1886), K.C.M.G. (1891), British palaeontologist, the son of Dr. Simon McCoy, was born in Dublin in 1823, and was educated for the medical profession. In collaboration with Sedgwick he prepared A Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks, with a Systematic Description of the British Palaeozoic Fossils in the Geological Museum of the University of Cambridge (1855). After four years in Belfast he became professor of natural science in the University of Melbourne, where he lectured for upwards of thirty years. He established the National museum of Natural His tory and Geology in Melbourne, of which he was director; and becoming associated with the geological survey of Victoria as palaeontologist, he issued a series of decades entitled Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria. He also issued the Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria. He was elected F.R.S. in 1880. He died in Melbourne on May 16, 1899.