MACCORD, LOUISA. S. (CirKvEs), daughter of Langdon Cheves. b. Columbia. S.C., 1810; was married in 1840 to David J. Maccord; in 1848 translated Bastiat's Soph-dms the Protective Policy; in the same year published a volume of poems, Hy Dreame; and in 1851 Caius Gracchus, a tragedy. She wrote extensively for De Bcno's Review and the Southern Literary Messenger, and during the rebellion rendered valuable service in the confederate hospitals.
McCORMICK, CYRUS HALL, b. Va., 1809; removed to Cincinnati in 1845, and to Chicago in 1847. In 1816 his father invented a machine intended to supersede the sickle and scythe in the harvest field; and the son, having had his thoughts thus early directed to the object, in 1831 produced and afterwards patented the reaping machine which, subsequently greatly improved by him, has become celebrated in different lands, and has won for its inventor many gold medals and other distinctions, as well as great wealth. In 1839 with a portion of his wealth lie contributed largely to the establishment at Chicago of the Presbyterial) theological seminary' of the north-west; and has since endowed a professor's chair in Washington and Lee college, Lexington, Va., besides presenting to the institution a telescope, ordered from Alvan Clark on the stipulated condition that the object glass should be equal in size and finish to that of the similar instrument furnished by the stune maker for the naval observatory at Washington, D. C. Mr. McCormick is £1 zealous upholder of the strict form of Calvinistic doctrine.
MeCORMICK, RICHARD, C., Jr., b. N. Y.:1832; having received a classical and practical education, in 1830 he turned his attention to cotnmercial pursuits in Wall street, New York. On his return from a tour through Europe and Asia Minor, he pub lished a Visit to the Camp before Sebastopol (1855); St. Paul to St. Sophia, etc. From 1857 to '61 he was trustee of the New York public schools, becatne a journalist in 1859, and editor of the Young Men's Magazine. During the war of the rebellion he represented several New York journals as special correspondent. In 1862 he was appointed chief clerk of the department of agriculture, in 1863 secretary of Arizona, in 1866 governor of that territory, and was elected delegate to congress from Arizona for 6 years, 1869-75. At present, although residing in New York city, he is active in forwarding the mining interests of Arizona, and is president of' the Freeland mine in Colorado. On Dec. 17, 1877, he was appointed U. S. commissioncr-general to the Paris exposition, where his judicious conduct of affairs did full justice to the U. S. exhibits, and reflected credit
on his administrative qualities. On Mar. 3, 1877, he had been made assistant secretary of the U. S. treasury, became one of the national republican committee on July 2 of the same year, and retired from the treasury department Sept. 15, 1877, on account of fail ing health.
MeCOSH, JAMES, D.D., LL.D., b. in Ayrshire, Scotland, 1811 ; educated at the universi ties of Glasgow and Edinburgh; while at the latter he wrote an essay on the philosophy of the Stoics for which, on motion of sir William Hamilton, the honorary' degree of A.M. was conferred on him; in 1835 was ordained a minister of the church of Scotland at Arbroath; in 1839 became pastor at Brechin, where he was active ih the movement which, in 1843, resulted iu the organization of the Free church; where also he published in 1850 his book on the Methods of the Divine Government, Physkal and _Moral, which. laid the foundation of his fame as tt philosophical writer. In 18;31 was chosen professor of logic and metaphysics in Queen's college, Belfast, where he was distinguished as a lecturer; wrotc in 1856, jointly with prof. George Dickie, M.D., Typkal Forms and Special End,s in Creation; published, in 1866, Intuitions of the Mind Inductively investi gated, being a Defense of Fundamental Truth; in 1862, The Supernatural in Relatkn to the Natural; and in 1866, An Examination of Mill's Philosophy. In 1868, having been elected president of the college of New Jersey, he became a resident of Princeton, where he has, by his successful administration and wide reputation, contributed greatly to the remarkable prosperity which the institution now enjoys (see NEW JERSEY, COLLEGE OF). He has published .the Laws of Discursive Thought anti a Treatise on Logic (1869); Chris tianity and Positivism, a series of lectures delivered on the Ely foundation at the Union theological seminary in New York (1871); The Scottish Philosophy, Biographical, Exposi tory, and CI-Weal, froin _Hutcheson to Hamilton (1874); A Reply to Professor 7'yndall's Bel fast Address (1875); besides frequent contributions to the Princeton Review and other periodicals in this country and Great Britain. With a keen discriminative intellect he combines a broad mental scope; he has abundant philosophical learning, and holds stoutly to the ancient doctrinal system of his church in a spirit not averse to liberty and modern light. This liberality makes him an efficient critic of speculations that arc put forth as facts.