MACDONALD, SIR JOHN ALEXAN DER, a Canadian statesman; born in Glasgow, Scotland, Jan. 11, 1815. He was educated at Kingston, Canada; ad mitted to the bar in 1835; entered Parlia ment for Kingston in 1844; and became successively a member of the executive council, receiver-general, commissioner of crown lands, and attorney-general. He was premier in 1869-1873, when he re signed over the Pacific Railway charges, but resumed the office again in 1878, and retained it for the rest of his life. He was an active promoter of the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Canadian con federation movement, and was a recog nized leader of the Conservative party. He died in Earnscliffe Hall, near Ottawa, June 6, 1891.
MacDONOUGH, THOMAS, an Ameri can naval officer; born in New Castle co., Del., Dec. 23, 1783. In 1814 he com manded a squadron on Lake Champlain, and defeated the British under Comma dore George Downie. For this service he was promoted captain and was given a gold medal by Congress. He died at sea, Nov. 16, 1825.
MacDOWELL, EDWARD ALEXAN DER, American composer, born in 1861, in New York; was first instructed in music by Buitrago, Desvernine, and Teresa Carrefio. At 15 entered the Paris Conservatory, two years later studying at Wiesbaden and Frankfort. At 20 was
principal teacher of piano at Darmstadt. Through Liszt his First Modern Suite for, piano was given in 1882 before the All gemeiner Deutscher Musikverein. In 1888 he returned to the United States and settled at Boston, where he speedily won recognition. In 1896 he was offered the professorship of the newly founded music department of Columbia Univer sity and accepted. His later works in cluded "Hamlet and Ophelia," "Lancelot and Elaine," "Lamia," four sonatas for piano, and smaller compositions. The last three years of his life were clouded by insanity. He died in New York in 1908.
McDOWELL, IRVIN, an American military officer; born near Columbus, O., Oct. 15, 1818; was aid-de-camp to Gen eral Wool in the Mexican War (1845); commanded the Department of North eastern Virginia and the defenses of Washington (1861), and the Army of the Potomac at the battle of Bull Run; later commanded the Department of the Pa cific (1864); of California (1866); of the East (1868); of the South (1872). He died in San Francisco, Cal., May 5, 1885.