McFLIMSEY, male flim'zi, Flora, the heroine of the once famous poem 'Nothing to Wear,' by William Allen Butler (q.v.). It was published in 1857 and became immediately pop ular.
MacGAHAN, Januarius Alo ysius, American journalist and war correspond ent: b. near New Lexington, Ohio, 12 June 1844; d. Constantinople, 9 June 1878. He fol lowed different callings in Western States, then went to Europe and studied law in Brussels. Upon the outbreak of the Franco-German War in 1870 he went to the field as correspondent of the New York Herald, and was with Bourbaki's army. He visited Bordeaux and Lyons and his interviews with clerical, monarchical and repub lican leaders attracted wide attention. He was the only newspaper correspondent in Paris dur ing the whole period of the Commune and nar rowly escaped death. In 1873, after heroic ex ertions, with extreme hardships, he reached the Russian army before Khiva, and sent to the Herald reports of the campaign which won for him high admiration both here and in Europe, his account of the capitulation of the city being regarded as to masterpiece of military journal ism." Returning to America, he went to Cuba to report on the Virginius affair, then to Spain, upon the Carlist uprising, where he spent 10 months with the army of Don Carlos, was captured by the Republicans, mistaken for a Carlist, condemned to death and saved by the intervention of the United States Minister. He then went to England, and in 1875 accompanied the Arctic expedition on the Pandora. In 1876 he joined the Turkish army, in the service of the London Daily News, and did memorable work in his description of the Bulgarian atroci ties, bis accounts standing approved before the world in face of all attempts to discredit them. In behalf of Bulgaria he appealed to Russia, was at the front in the Russo-Turkish War that followed, and was hailed as a chief instrument of Bulgaria's resulting independence. While nursing a friend he contracted a fever which in a few days caused his death. In 1884 the Ohio legislature secured the removal of his body from its foreign grave to its final resting-place at New Lexington. He wrote 'Campaigning on the Oxus, and the Fall of Khiva' (1874) ; 'Under the Northern Lights' (1876), and 'Turkish Atrocities in Bulgaria' (1876).
McGEE, Anita Newcomb, Amer ican physician: b. Washington, D. C., 4 Dec. 1864. She is a daughter of Simon Newcomb (q.v.); was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, England, at the University of Geneva and at other institutions in Europe; also graduated in medicine at Columbian (now George Washington) University, 1892, and took a post-graduate course in gynecology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. From 1892 to 1896 she practised in Washington. In 1888 she mar ried W. J. McGee (q.v.). She has held prom inent positions in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and from April to September 1898 was director of its hospital corps, which selected women nurses for army and navy. In August 1898 to Decem ber 1899 she was acting assistant surgeon in the United States army, being the first woman to hold such a position, and was assigned to duty in the surgeon-general's office, where she organ ized the army nurse corps. When the Con gress approved this work by making the nurse corps of trained women a permanent part of the army the pioneer stage was passed, and she resigned 31 Dec. 1900. In 1904, acting as presi dent of the Society of Spanish-American War Nurses and as representative of Philadelphia Red Cross Society and by agreement with Japanese government, took a party of trained nurses formerly in United States army to serve in the Japanese army for six months gratuitously. Was appointed by the Japanese Minister of War as supervisor of nurses,Which placed her in the same rank with officers of the Japanese army, and inspected and reported on relative nursing conditions. She is a re cipient of the Japanese Imperial Order of the Sacred crown and of a special Japanese Red Cross decoration and two Russo-Japanese War medals. She is a member of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States and of the Spanish War Veterans, being the only woman eligible. She lectured on hygiene at the University of California in 1911, and has lectured throughout the United States and writ ten for various magazines.