McCLURE, Samuel Sidney, American ed itor and publisher : b. Frocess, County Antrim, Ireland, 17 Feb. 1857. He was graduated at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., in 1882. In 1882 83 he was editor and manager of the Wheel man for the Pope Manufacturing Company, and in the following year was connected with the De Vinne Press, New York. In 1884 he es tablished a newspaper syndicate which has grown to great proportions and assumed distinc tive importance in the publishing world. In 1893 he founded McClure's Magazine, which through his able administration soon stood in the front rank of American periodicals. In 1899 he established the publishing house of Mc Clure, Phillips and Company, New York, and was its president until the business was acquired by Doubleday, Page and Company. The maga zine was taken over by the McClure Publica tions, Incorporated. Since 1893 Mr. McClure has been president of the S. S. McClure Corn since 1894 he has been a trustee of Knox College. Consult Mr. McClure's very in teresting 'My Autobiography' (New York 1914).
McCLURG, ma-kloorg', Alexander Cald well, American publisher: b. Philadelphia, 1834; d. Saint Augustine, Fla., 15 April 1901. He was graduated at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853, engaged in business with S. C. Griggs and Company, publishers, in Chicago and in 1862 entered the Union army. He was captain in the 88th Illinois regiment of infantry, rose to the rank of colonel, was made brevet briga dier-general, and in the Atlanta campaign and during Sherman's great march served as chief of staff to the 14th corps. Returning from the war, he was admitted to partnership in the publishing house above mentioned, and some years later established the firm of Jansen, Mc Clurg and Company, afterward A. C. McClurg and Company. The business of the house pros pered, and in 1899 the company was reorganized, the co-operative principle adopted and the em ployees, among whom the stock was largely distributed, were granted easy terms for in creasing their investments.
McCLYMONT, mak-Idi'mOnt, James Alex ander, Scottish theologian: b. Girvan, Ayr shire, 26 May 1848. He was educated at the universities of Edinburgh and Tiibingen, en tered the ministry and in 1874-1913 he was in charge of Holburn Church, Aberdeen, when he retired. He was a member of the general committee of the Church of Scotland, and was a chaplain in the territorial force, retired with the rank of colonel. He collaborated in trans lating Beck's 'Pastoral Theology of the New Testament' and was author of 'The New Tes tament and its Writers' (1892; 2d ed., 1893): 'The Church of Scotland' (1893); 'New Testa ment Criticism' (1913), etc.
MacCOLL, ma-kor, Evan, Canadian poet: b. Kenmore, Argyleshire, Scotland, 21 Sept. 1808; d. Toronto, 1898. He emigrated to Can ada in his 42d year and became known as the poet of the Scottish colony at Kingston. He wrote with fluency in Gaelic and his (Clareach nam Beann' created much enthusiasm among his compatriots. He is also author of many English poems, such as 'My Rowan Tree' ; 'The Mountain Minstrel' (1887) ; and 'Poems and MacCOLL, Malcolm, British theologian and author: b. Glenfinan, Inverness-shire, Scot land, 27 March 1831; d. London, 5 April 1907. He studied at Trinity College, Glenalmond, and at the University of Naples and was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal tr' istry in 1857. He filled curacies at different London churches, was chaplain to the British Ambassador at Petrograd in 1862-63, in southern Italy in 1867-69, and at Addington, Bucks. His hearty support of Gladstone won for him in 1871 recognition in the form of the living of Saint George's, Botolplr Lane, and he was further rewarded with a canonry at Ripon in 1884. He was a keen controversialist in both ecclesi astical and political fields, and was actively en gaged in newspaper and pamphlet writing in support of High-Church doctrines and of Glad stone's Irish policy. He traveled extensively and was prominently concerned with the airing of Bulgarian and Armenian affairs after a visit in those countries in 1876. Author of 'Mr. Gladstone and Oxford) (1865) ; 'Lawless ness, Sacerdotalism and Ritualism' (1875) ; 'Reasons for Home Rule) (1886, nine eds.) ; 'The Reformation Settlement' (10th ed., 1901) ; 'The Royal Commission and the Ornaments Rubric) (1906), etc.
McCOMB, ma-kom, John, American engi neer and architect : b. New York, 17 Oct. 1763; d. there, 25 May 1853. He was of Scottish descent and became prominent for his designs for both public and private buildings in New York, Philadelphia and the Eastern States. He designed the front of the old government house in New York in 1790, Saint John's Church, the Murray and Bleecker Street churches in that city, and was supervising architect of the city of New York at the time of the erection of the city hall. He is supposed to have de signed the city hall with the assistance of a Frenchman named Mangin.
McCOMBS, William Frank, American lawyer: b. Hamburg, Ark., 26 Dec. 1875. He was graduated at Princeton in 1898 and at the Harvard Law School in 1901. He engaged in practice in New York City, and as chairman of the Democratic National committee in 1912 16 he managed the campaigns of Woodrow Wil son for President. He declined the ambassa dorship to France in March 1913.