MACDONALD, Johii SandSeld, Canadian statesman: b. Saint Raphiters, Canada,' 12 Dec.
1812; d. Cornwall, Ontario, 1 June 1872. He was self-educated and admitted to the bar in 1840, practising successfully in Cornwall. In 1841 he was elected to the Canadian Parliament as member from Cornwall. Macdonald was solicitor-general in 1849-51; 1852-54 was speaker of Parliament; Attorney-General in the brief Brown-Dorion administration in 1858, and Premier in 1862-64. He was the first Premier of the province of Ontario, 1867-71., McDONALD, Joseph Ewing, American lawyer : b. Butler County, Ohio, 29 Aug. 1819; d. Indianapolis, Ind., 21 June 1891. He was educated at Ashbury (now De Pauw) Univer sity; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 18114, and established a practice in Crawfords ville, where he was county prosecuting attorney, 1845-47. In 1848 he was member of Congress and from 1856-60 attorney-general of Indiana. He then practised law in Indianapolis and in 1864 was an unsuccessful candidate for gov ernor being defeated by Oliver P. Morton. In 1872 he was chairman of the Democratic State Committee and in 1875 was elected to the United States Senate, serving until 1881, when he re turned to Indianapolis where he resumed the practice of law.
MacDONALD, William, American edu cator and historian : b. Providence, R. I., 31 July 1863. He was graduated at Harvard in 1892, and in 1892-93 was professor of history and economics at Worcester Polytechnic Insti tute. He was professor of history and political science at Bowdoin in 1893-1901 and since 1901 has been professor of history at Brown Uni versity. He edited 'Select Documents Illus
trative of the History of the United States' 1(1898) ; (Johnston's High School History of the United States> (1901) • 'Documentary Source Book of American History' (1908) ; Parkman's 'Oregon Trail> (1911). Author of 'History and Government of Maine' (1902) ; 'Jacksonian Democracy> (1905) ; 'From Jef ferson to Lincoln> (1913).
MacDONALD, Sut William Christopher, Canadian capitalist and philanthropist : b. Glenaladale, Prince Edward Island, 1831; d. Montreal, 11 June 1917. He early engaged in business in Montreal and achieved a large financial success as importer, merchant and tobacco manufacturer. He was a director of the Bank of Montreal, a governor of McGill University and of the Montreal General Hospi tal, and also served as president of the Legis lative Council of Prince Edward Island. His gifts to McGill University and the MacDonald Agricultural College connected with it amounted to more than $12,500,000. He also made large gifts to the normal school at Sainte-Anne de Bellevue, province of Quebec, the Ontario Agri cultural College and to different hospitals. He was knighted in 1898.
McDONALD, Pa., borough of Washington County, 18 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis Railroad. It is situated in a coal and oil district and there are flour mills, bottle works and tool factories. Pop. about 2,543.