MACGREGOR, JOIIN, b. at Gravesend, England, 1825; graduated at Trinity col lege, Cambridge, and entered at the Middle Temple in 1847. In 1849-50 he made a tour of Europe, Egypt, and Palestine, and on his rcturn was called to the bar. He after wards visited every European country, as well as Algeria, Tunis, the United States, and Canada; was a writer for Punch and other periodicals; in 1865 made a canoe voyage. of which he afterwards gave an account in a book entitled A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe On Rivers and Lakes of Europe, Other voyages of the same kind followed, of which we have record in The Rob 1?oy on the Baltic, The Voyage Alone in the yawl Rob Roy, and The Rob Roy on the Jordan, all of which have been widely read.
McGUFFEY, WILLIAM HOLMES, D.D., LL.D., 1800-73; b. NMI.; removed in youth to Ohio; graduated at Washington college 1825; was a professor in Miami univer sity 1836-39; president of Ohio university 1839-45; and professor of moral philosophy in the university of Virginia from 1845 until his death. He was also the compiler of ri series of readers and other school books, of which immense numbers ?mere sold.
McGUIRE, Huon HowiEs, 1801-75; b. Winchester, Va.; graduated in medicine at the university of Pennsylvania, 1821. Was professor of surgery in the Winchester medical college from its organization to its destruction during the civil war. He operated fifteen times for stone in the bladder without losing a case. He was vice president of the American medical association in 1849.
McGUIRE, HuNTEI, HOLMES, b. Winchester, Va., 1835; son of Hugh Holmes; was made M.D. in 1855, and professor of anatomy in the Winchester medical college in 1858. Entering the confederate army as a private he soon became director of the 2d army corps of northern Virginia and medical surgeon to gen. " Stonewall" Jackson. Was made professor of surgery in Virginia medical college at Richmond. He has operated for stone in the bladder 47 times since the civil war, and contributed articles to inedical journals, and has performed the operation of ligating the abdominal aorta, the patient living 12 hours afterwards. See LIGATURE.