MACDONALD, Sir Joim ALEXANDER, D.C.L. b. Ca_iada, 1813; was called to the bar in 1835, and was returned to parliament in 184:1 as conservative member for Kings ton, which city he has continued to represent. In 1847 he became a member of the executive council and receiver-general, and later in the same year commissioner of crown lands. Ile was in opposition 1850-54, and in the latter y-ear entered a coalitiom cabinet as attorney-general, holding office till 1862, when the ministry, upon the defeat of their militia bill, resigned. In 1864 lie entered the cabinet of sir E. P. Tache as attorney general. A coalition was now-formed between the leaders of the government and the opposition on the bill to unite all British America under a federal government. In 1865 sir John became minister of militia; in 1868, minister of justice and attorney-gen eral; and in 1869 premier in the Dominion cabinet, going out of office in 1873. Ile formed another cabinet in 1878, taking himself the post of minister of the interior.
McDONNELL, Sir RICHARD GRAVES, LL.D., b. Ireland, 1815; educated at Trinity college, Dublin, and called to the Irish and afterwards to the English bar. lie was made chief-justice of the Gambia district, Africa, in 1843, and governor of the British settlements on the Gambia in 1847. In the latter capacity he conquered a number of hostile native tribes. and explored a considerable portion of Africa from the Gambia to the Senegal. In 1852 he became trovernorof St. Vincent, and in 1855 governor-in chief of South Australia. He was appointed lieut.gov. of Nova Scotia in 1864, and was gov ernor of Hong-Kong. 1865-72.
McDONOUGH, w. co. in Illinois; 576 sq.m.; pop. '80, 27,985. The surface pre sents an undulating appearance, and is chiefly fertile prairie land. It is drained by Crooked creek, and intersected by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railroads. The productions are wheat, rye, Indian eorn. oats, wool, butter, and potatoes. There are a large number of flour and saw mills, and manufac tories of carriages and saddlery and harness. Co. seat, Macomb.
McDONOUGH, THOMAS, 1783-1825; b. Del.; became a midshipman in 1800, and three years later was on the frigate Philadelphia in Prehle's expedition against Tripoli; Ile was also attached to the schooner Enterprise under Decatur, and was one of the party which recaptured the Philadelphia from the Tripolitans in 1804. He was made a lieut. in 1807, and a master-coininandant in 1813. On lake Champlain, in 1814, he defeated the English fleet under commodore Downie. At the time of his death he com manded the Mediterranean tleet.
McDOUGAL, DAVID D., b. Ohio, 1809; entered the navy, 1828; made lieut. in 1841, and commander in 1857. While in command of the Wyoming in 1863, lie fought off the coast of Japan (with six Japanese batteries firing on him) three ships of the Japanese navy, and succeeded in defeating them. He was made comtnodore in 1860, and was retired in 1871.
MeDOUGALL, ALEXANDER, 1731-86: b. Scotland; a printer, and in 1770 sentenced. to imprisonment for libeling the provincial government of New York, where his father had settled in 1755. He served through the revolutionary war with distinction, becatne a maj.gen., and took an active part in the battles of Germantown and White Plains. From 1778 to 1780 he was in command of the forts along the Hudson, and in 1781 was elected to congress.
McDOUGALL, JAMES A., 1817-67; b. N. Y.; began the practice of law in Illinois in 1837, and was state attorney-general in 1842 and 1844; settled in San Francisco in 1849, and the next year WAS elected attorney-general of California. He was a demo cratic member of congress, 1853-55, and 13. S. senator, 1861-67; in the latter body acting as chairman of the Pacific railroad committee, and belonging to that section of the democratic party known as " war democrats." McDOWELL, a co. in w. North Carolina, bounded on the w. by the Black moun tains; 550 sq.m.; pop. '80, 9,836. The valleys are fertile, and produce wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, Irish and sweet potatoes, wool, and butter. Co. seat, Marion.