McCORMICK, CYRUS HALL, an American inventor; born in Walnut Grove, W. Va., Feb. 15, 1809. The reap McCORMACK, JOHN, a tenor singer; born in Athlone, Ireland. Almost all his early training he received from the choir ing machine invented by him won him many gold medals and distinctions. He established the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago, 1859. He died in Chicago, Ill., May 13, 1884.
McCORMICK, JOSEPH MEDILL, a U. S. Senator; born at Chicago May 16, 1877. Graduated from Yale University in 1900. He became Vice-President and publisher of the Chicago "Daily Tribune" and President of the City Press Associ ation. He identified himself with the Progressive party and, under the leader ship of Roosevelt, took an active part in organizing the new party. When most of the Progressives returned to the Re publican party he did the same, and was elected to the House of Representa tives on the Republican ticket in 1917 as Congressman-at-large for the State of Illinois. He was elected to the Senate in 1919.
McCORMICK, VANCE CRISWELL, American newspaper publisher; born in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1872. He graduated from Yale, then became publisher of the "Patriot" and the "Evening News" of his native city. He was mayor of the city in 1902-1905 and Democratic candi date for governor of the State in 1914. In 1916 he was chairman of the Demo cratic National Campaign Committee. In 1917 he was chairman of the War Trade Board, and was a member of the U. S. War Mission to Great Britain and France.
McCORMICK THEOLOGICAL SEMI NARY, a Presbyterian divinity school located at Chicago, Ill. Cyrus H. McCor mick endowed the school in 1859 and gave it its present location, and the Sem inary assumed its present name in 1886 after the death of McCormick. In 1905 Mrs. McCormick and her sons further increased the endowment by a million dollars, The Seminary has 13 buildings, among which is a library with upward of 40,000 volumes. These are valued, to gether with the grounds, at a million dollars, and the endowment fund has now reached two millions. The Semi nary charges no fees for tuition or lodging.
McCOSH, JAMES, a Scotch-American theologian; born in Carskeoch, Ayrshire, Scotland, April 1, 1811. In 1851, having joined the Free Church of Scotland, he became Professor of Logic in the college at Belfast, Ireland. In 1868, at the solici
tation of the faculty and trustees of Princeton College, N. J., he came to the United States and became president of that institution. Under his guidance and the influence of his name Princeton ad vanced to a higher place than ever before among the universities of the United States. He wrote: "Method of the Divine Government" (1850) ; "Intuitions of the Mind" (1860) ; "The Supernatural in Relation to the Natural" (1862) ; "Ex amination of Mill's Philosophy, etc." (1866) ; "Christianity and Positivism" (1871) ; "The Development Theory" (1876); "Psychology" (1887); "Reli gious Aspects of Evolution" (1888); etc. He resigned the presidency of Princeton in 1888. He died in Princeton, N. J., Nov. 16, 1894.
MacCRACKEN, HENRY MITCHELL, an American educator; born in Oxford, O., Sept. 28, 1840; was graduated at the Miami University in 1857; studied at the Princeton Theological Seminary and in Europe; was pastor of the First Pres byterian Church, Toledo, O., in 1868 1880; chancellor of Western University, Pittsburgh, in 1880-1884; accepted the chair of philosophy and the vice-chancel lorship of New York University in the latter year, He was chosen chancellor in 1891. Under his direction the univer sity developed in numbers and influence, and became one of the largest educational institutions in the world. He resigned in 1910, becoming chancellor emeritus. He died Dec. 24, 1918. His publications in clude "Tercentenary of Presbyterian ism"; "Kant and Lotze"; "A Metropoli tan University"; "Leaders of the Church Universal" (3 vols.); "Lives of Church Leaders: or, Heroes of the Cross" (1900); "Urgent Eastern Questions" (1912); etc.
MacCRACKEN, HENRY NOBLE, president of Vassar College; born in 1880, the son of the clergyman and edu cator Henry Mitchell MacCracken (q. v.). Graduated an A. B. from New York Uni versity in 1900 and Ph. D. from Harvard in 1907. Instructor in English at the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, and later also at Harvard. In 1913-1914 he was professor of English at Smith Col lege. In the latter year he was elected president of Vassar. He is the author of several textbooks in English and of "An Introduction to Shakespeare" (1910).